I mean, yes that’s absolutely true, but many Americans really do prefer to drive even short distances. When I lived in North Carolina people regularly drove to the other side of the parking lot to eat, shop at different stores, meet up with friends, etc. I asked several people why they didn’t walk, and every single one said they hated walking and would drive or re-park if it was further than a few seconds walk.

I managed to get an appointment for a consultation on the 14th. But they contacted me to say that they were required to only speak to me in German. So I either had to cancel or bring an interpreter. Machine translating is fine for written, but problematic for real time.

I did contact them actually, but they explicitly state that they do not offer advice in English. My German is not good enough to understand legal advice, and I don’t know any one well enough that I can ask to help with it.

Are you trying to sound condescending? Because this reads as extremely condescending.

Sorry to hear, but thanks for considering! Yeah, the time is likely a bit of an issue for a lot of people, I’d imagine. I’m in Germany, another player is in the UK, and the other 3 people are night-owls from the US lol.

Thanks! I’ll give them a look right now.

Actually, that’s not true at all. Adults regularly have multiple roommates that speak multiple languages.

Interesting. I had always been of the belief that children learned easier than adults. Although, this seems to be classroom based.

Personally, when I imagine children learning languages it is because they are immersed in it.

Additionally, this doesn’t seem to cover multi-lingual households raising children. I knew several kids growing up that had 2 or 3 mother tongues, because they grew up in a house where all were spoken. I can’t imagine an adult would be able to learn 3 languages at a time.

That seems like the best option imo. Just decide on the spot which gender you want the word to be and go with it! I really don’t think it matters if my refrigerator is a man or woman lol.

Yeah, it’s the same in German. You don’t say Seven-thirty. You say Half-eight. A bit tricky. And german is the same qith sentence structure. The second verb always comes at the end of the sentence. Makes it so you literally can’t know the purpose of the sentence until you hear the whole thing. Which, is kinda ingenious actually. Means you can’t interrupt people.

As a German, do you have a difficult time remembering the genders of new words? Or does it come naturally?

That’s a really good point. I’ll give it a shot, thanks!

Really? I was trying to say both with every word to help with association, something along the lines of “I want to say the word Cat, but can’t remember the name for it.” I figured constantly saying Cat and Die Katze together would help associate the two together.

Really good points. I do something like this. I have 2 or 3 sentences in my mind that I use as the blueprints to make more. And for the non-regular conjugations, I have a spreadsheet.

And yeah, speaking out-loud is non-negotiable. Something I like to do, is speak the translation while reading the English word, and speak the English word while reading the translation.

Luckily for me, I have several short conversations in German every time I go to the grocery store, or want to buy a Döner.

Nice! My wife is from Argentina, so she actually has the exact same languages as you. She’s been learning German for about 4 years now. A good channel for German is EasyGerman on Youtube.

I’m struggling enough with German, and they’re in the same language family. I honestly cannot imagine trying to learn a language that shared literally no roots or similarities.

That’s awesome! What level do you think you’ve reached in your years of casual practice?

That makes sense. What language are you learning?

That’s fair. Though it seems like the existing communities are struggling, with mostly the owner posting weekly. And the one on Lemmy.World is dead, with the last post being 6 months ago. I’m going to keep this one going, it seems to be a bit more visible than the others.