Thats no fair! You live in germany! Of course you can speak german!
My last name is german, apparently it means "Hot" lol i guess its descriptive of me!
:tongueout: Yeah, I was lucky - learned German as my first language and "only" had to deal with English in school, which is a lot easier in terms of grammar.
I'm wondering though if there are people with the last name "Ugly". I guess at the time when people got last names, your ancestors must have been either really good looking, or they continuously burned down their property. Sounds more exciting than my ancestors - they were just a mayor!
Haha... around here if you learned your french through school, that's the only place you'll ever be able to use it. The dialect taught is a Parisian textbook one while the one I use on an everyday basis is the Quebecois "Joile" one.
Is proper French and Québécois similar to British and Amercan English, or is the difference between French/Québécois significantly larger than between British/American English?
I seriously wonder what people would speak in America if they had decided to adopt German as their primary language. It would probably differ tremendously from proper German and be another accent, like Bavarian, Austrian or Swiss German...or Dutch :tongueout:
Peachy