memes

At first it annoyed me slightly but I've noticed that I can understand most of them without having to use a translator, so now it's just free language practice. And deciphering memes is decidedly more fun than taking a course.

I still can't figure out what "ich eil" means or even what language it is

Back when this meme format was making the rounds on 4chan, I always saw it as a guy with a really long Fu Manchu moustache and to this day I still can't unsee it.

I saw this one and was like "oh shit i guess i speak german."

Also non-Americans trying to browse Lemmy during work...

I really wish I could understand German humour

Haha I wake up pretty early in the US and see a lot of the German content. I have learned a lot about tables recently.

I speak spanish and I feel like I'm fouble dipping in the fun. But once I tried diving into a german thread with the help of translators. Boy they were SAVAGE some shit was like "He got another dick surgery probaly wants to suck it himself at this point." Idk who says german have no sense of humor but man that's wrong AF.

I blocked all the German instances because I couldn't understand them anyway.

Edit:

Apparently a solution to the problem offends them lmao, didn't realize me seeing posts I can't comprehend was so important to these goofballs.

Also learn everything about Linux so I can get all these Linux memes that keep popping up. And learn to program so I can get all the programmer memes.

I use Google translate to bridge the language barrier and I'm happy to do so. Some of their memes are top class.

Swede here dealing with the same realization. Although continental Scandinavian is a Germanic language and share the same ancestry as German, eg proto-Germanic, and thereby shares a lot of similarities, it’s not mutually intelligible. I can how ever often times pick out some words and with some bending and shuffling around get a gist of what’s going on. But only if it’s presented in a meme format.

Ja genau.

I had a two year streak on Duolingo and I still get maybe 40% with context clues help.

Ich habe vier Jahre auf Deutsch gelernt, aber mein Deutsch ist sehr schlecht.

Honestly, I couldn't even remember if Deutsch was feminine, masculine, or neuter... but my pronunciation has always been spot on at least. I should just pick it back up, it'd be mostly vocab grind for me at this point. But I last learned years and years ago... dang, almost 18 years now.

I've been doing German on Duolingo for over a year and I can get about 20% of the content they post, so I'm pretty happy to have an actual use for the work I put in.

Good choice. Nobody who speaks German could be an evil man.

As a side benefit, you will also be able to converse with Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin, and Robert Terwilliger.

jokes on you, I have been learning german before lemmy

As a german Ive seen this meme alot now, but Im completly confused what your experience is actually like.

besides the german c/communities like c/dach and c/deuschland I dont see where youre seeing german everywhere and these dont show in the popular feeds for me

EDIT: As described below, I blocked the whole instance (instead of only the meme community) by accident LOL

I ended up blocking a bunch of German instances, I don't dislike it or anything I just get nothing out of it lol.