Nov 29, 2015 · I live in Australia and I had a big family gathering over the weekend. We know that our ancestors moved to Australia from Germany in the late 1800s. There was a big argument over how to properly pronounce our surname Ruhle. Most people say it like the English word rule but some insisted that it is pronounced like the English word really.

For those of you who don’t know the difference between the three German languages: Germany, Austria and Switzerland, just listen to Arnold from Austria, very similar to Germany, however Switzerland accent is different, they all understand each other, like American English, British English, Australia, Scotland and Ireland, all English but ...

Jun 15, 2011 · I've enrolled at the institute of language to learn German (my family is mostly German, but I've grown up in Australia). I lived in Germany for about 2 years when I was a kid and picked up enough to have a conversation, but that was about 14 years ago now. Two things I've come across that confuse me a little: The use of euch and du.

Aug 16, 2024 · I read a couple of blog posts regarding cover letter format in Germany where they mention the German national standard DIN 5008 but all blog posts provided different examples regarding the sender and recipient information. From the following examples, which one is more recommended to use when sending a cover letter electronically? Example 1

Aug 12, 2017 · West Germany says Mama, East Germany says Mutti: A recent survey has shown that the most popular form of address for mothers is not uniform - and regionally dependent. Explaining this is not easy. There is evidence that "Mutti" was …

Jun 29, 2017 · In Germany we are not that picky about tenses. Both sentences mean nearly the same although the first one would somehow be connected to a specific point in time. For example a police officer questioning about an incident 2 weeks ago would ask: Sie haben [zu dem Zeitpunkt] seit zehn Jahren in Australien gewohnt

Jun 22, 2018 · Yeah, and bonus feature: German teachers in Germany are - of course - very good in German, but not so in teaching! This is because teaching German (as native speaker + language teacher diplom) is a quite different skill than teaching German, as native speaker of language X, to native speakers of language X!

Apr 21, 2020 · In the past, this was "Sirs:" but we now recognize that the person who sees the letter may be of either gender. The equivalent in German, of course, is "Damen und Herren:". If I were sending an formal email to a company in Germany to try to establish a business relationship, I would use that. The "Very honored" part may be required in Germany.

Nov 22, 2024 · Regardless of whether the pronunciation is adopted from English, it's pretty inevitable to have a /k/ sound in it, seeing as "Zyklus", "zyklisch" etc. are also established German words.

Dec 12, 2017 · Note also that for this use of "das" the German might in principle refer to an unidentifiable smudge in the background, in which case the "that" is totally right ;) In general "das" is simply referring to a shape/area/thing - it might be a single object or multiple ones, but since the asker isn't sure about the identification at the time of …