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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
yep. also a few words which *are* taught in german courses.  one evening we were invited to dinner at a russian friend's house who also spoke german (she had studied in germany i believe, or maybe she was half german, i forget), but she had only heard me speaking french. you should have seen the shocked and amazed expression on her face when i asked her " kannst-du mir das schwartz brot geben bitte ?" (but, sorry, i don't know how to spell in german !!)  but really i only know about 15 words in german. and sadly i've forgotten quite a lot of what i used to know. |
Some guy named Kannst bit some guy named Schwartz?
And I'm not sure what the gerbil has to do with it.
