Thread: What have you earned by learning the local language ?
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Old 11.02.2010, 10:25
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Re: What have you earned by learning the local language ?
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KangarooBen
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For a beginner, it is a VERY difficult language to learn. "Ich rufen mein Freund an".. chopping words up? jezus give me a break!!
I hear you. For me what helps is to try and think of a situation where we do the same thing in English. (e.g. "take on", "trade in", "look around")

What's really weird though is that in some grammatical circumstances you then put the two halves back together!
Ich rufe ihn an / "I ring him up"
Ich rief ihn an / "I rang him up"
but Ich habe ihn schon angerufen - "I have already uprung him"?!
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