Learn German with Stories: Momente in Munchen - 10 Short Stories for Beginners | 
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julesG You're learning about culture, too. How everything(!) has to be spick 'n' spam before visitors arrive. 6y
Sace @julesG picobello! 😁 6y
LaLecture Picobello xD. I‘ve never heard anyone besides my grandma use that word ^^. It‘s one of these weird words that exist in German and sound like they come from another language even though they don‘t. (Although my dictionary tells me it exists in Italian but means something very different.) Pretty cool that you‘re learning German :). 6y
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julesG @LaLecture I might accidentally use 'picobello' when I want my kids to clean their rooms and want them to do more than just pick a few random items off the floor. 6y
Sace @LaLecture I cut it off in the picture, but the text goes on to say that the boss thinks it's an Italian word but it only exists in German. I took 2 years of German in high school decades ago and spent 4 weeks in Germany (when there were still 2 of them) but I've lost a lot. 6y
Sace @julesG ? "pick a few random items off the floor" That's soooo kid like! 6y
LaLecture @RestlessFickleBookHoarder Curiously we have many of these words. A classic example is “Regisseur” for director (of a movie). It sounds French but the French word is “réalisateur”. I have the same problem with French. I‘ve learned it in school for six years but I‘ve forgotten so much :/. 6y
LaLecture @julesG You can also say it approvingly once your kids have finally managed to clean their room 😂. („Wow, das ist ja wirklich picobello hier.“) It‘s actually a cute word, even if it isn‘t really Italian :D. 6y
Sace @LaLecture oh! Regisseur was a wort in the reading! 6y
Sace @LaLecture are the Ls pronounced? My Spanish brain wants to say pi-co-be-yo 6y
LaLecture @RestlessFickleBookHoarder Yes, they are. I feel like Germans pronounce most of the things as they are written but then again that might only seem so to me as I‘m a native :D. 6y
Sace @LaLecture thanks for the tip! I recall feeling like German pronunciation wasn't very complicated. French scares me though. 6y
LaLecture @RestlessFickleBookHoarder There are a few sounds that don‘t exist in English (like the ch in “ich”) and some are pronounced differently from English (the W for example) but other than that I‘d agree. I definitely prefer German pronunciation over French 😂. Though the French has at least rules for pronunciation. Not like in English with words like “though” “tough” “through” ^^. 6y
Sace @LaLecture and cough and dough! 6y
julesG @LaLecture Yep, German has a lot of words that you just pronounce according to spelling and a few where this rule does not apply - just thinking about alle the nouns ending in "-tion", like Reaktion, Revolution, Kondition,... 6y
Sace @julesG those would be borrowed from...Latin? Or would it be considered a borrowing from English (because of the "tion")? 6y
julesG Latin loan words, I think. Just like in English. Pronunciation-wise you'd not say 'Re-vo-lu-ti-on' but 'Re-vo-lu-zjohn' (long O sound and not really a T but fricative that is somewhere between a Z followed by a J, or a TS followed by J. 6y
julesG All -tion suffixes are pronounced like that. 6y
Sace @julesG where in English it's "shun". I'm gonna have to practice a TS followed by a J ? 6y
julesG Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache. (German language, difficult language) 6y
Sace @julesG I don't know if I could do this learn on my own method if I hadn't had two years in high school and one 200 level course in college! 6y
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