Re: Thought You'd Like to Know

Joe Bruno wrote on 09 aug 2009 in soc.culture.jewish.moderated:

Kennen Sie Deutsch?

[Should be "Sprechen Sie ..."]

Nearly fluently,
but I don't want to speak it,
if there is no vital reason to do so.
Why do you ask?

[please do not quote signatures on usenet]

I asked it because you said you don't speak Russian.I am familiar
with both, moreso with German as I took it in school. I'm learning
Russian on my own.

But that does not make it on topic for Jewish culture.

Many Jews and others overhere do not like to speak German because of the
connection to the Sjoa. This goes for me too, however seeing an
occasional "krimi" on German TV does not hurt me. The movie "Holocaust"
lip synchronized in German even felt far more authentic than the original
English.

Now if you wanted to know the about 8 languages I am more, somtimes less,
familiar with, 6 of them being in my regular secondary school curriculum,
perhaps we could continue this converstion on regular email.

Actually, the custom in High German is to use the verb"kennen" when
referring to the complete knowledge of a language.
"Kennen" encompasses the ability to read and write and speak German,
while "sprechen" refers only to speaking it.

I repeat my question: Why would you want to know that, given that usenet
conversation does not fall under the utter complete knowledge
encompasssed by "kennen", just "sprechen" would do fine, even while this
is "Sprechen" by keyboard.

Do you want to employ me by chance for scientific language research of
the German language?

Now if it were about Jiddisj, it would at least be more on topic
than the dayly habits of a certain American president. ;-)

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)
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