I am posting this today because we´re driving back home tomorrow all day, so welcome to the party! 🎉

GERMAN LANGUAGE PARTY

[/b] Spoken by 95 million people worldwide, German is the native language of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. It´s the 6th most widely spoken language in the world! Complicated also, I am very happy being a native speaker and never had to learn it after toddler time! :-) German and English are sister languages nevertheless, both are part of the West Germanic languages. It is the language of writers and thinkers like Goethe, Schiller, Brecht, Nietzsche…… (hard stuff sometimes, LOL). Unlike English, German has three genders for nouns: feminine, masculine and neuter.

Challenge:

Please don´t post HAs already created for another challenge in Subeta. Party ends Monday 10th of September, midnight Subeta time.

🏆 PRIZES 🎁

Have fun! [/b]

To achieve a neat arrangement here, please post any questions in the chat thread CHAT THREAD LINK and ping me there, thank youuuuu! ^-^

I will never forget, my sister was good friends with a German Exchange student in high school and I will always know Ich heisse or my name is :) Outfit Not Found Based my ha around pics I found on the internet <--- I looked up STANDARD german garb and this came up XD didn't want it to look to beer festy but its what I got

1. to be honest.... Only Deutsch... LOL 2. Outfit Not Found She's more like a shepherdess in the fields, as that's the first image that comes to mind when saying German outfits lol

I know titles like... Frau, Fraulein, Herr. And I know a little about pronouncing German names. It's kind of sad since I have substantial German ancestry but I know other languages much better...

I didn't really have a concept of a German Language HA so I made one based on the colors of the German flag. (Like the prizes are! :D)

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the first (and almost only) german word i leared is Dankeschön from the movie Die Hard

for my HA I couldn't resist inspiring to the stereotypical of a german tourist :D

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Ooh, I should participate in this! :) I'd love to be fluent in German someday and have been studying it (on my own and in a very lazy manner) since 2002. So I know a lot of words and phrases (most of which I've learned from songs...I can sing along with my favorite bands and I think my pronunciation is passable but my singing voice is terrible haha) and can stumble my way through simple stories like Grimm's fairy tales. But I couldn't carry on a conversation or anything, sadly. I name a lot of my DC dragons with German words to help myself learn vocabulary. But it's been a while since I studied the grammar so whatever I did know is pretty rusty right now. =X

Well, anyway, I was going to try not to do something stereotypical and old-fashioned, but I don't know how to make a "German HA" without using the Lederhosen stuff so here we are then. x') Private Outfit

I really don't know much in German - Most of what I know are musical terms - I'm much better at reading, translating, and singing rather than actual speaking and conversing. Words I know include: nicht, schnell, klavier, klaviersonaten, Franzosische, vorwort, geschwind, langsam, lebhaft, leicht, traurig, etc. There are probably more that I know if I see them.

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My first boyfriend used to say "ich liebe dich" to me all of the time. I think it's the only German phrase I really know.
My HA is at a romantic German restaurant wondering where her boyfriend is. :-)
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I hope you have a safe drive home.

I feel like my word order is going to be wrong but: Ich spreche nur ein bisschen Deutsch.

I took two years of German in high school and two semesters in college; but I've forgotten 98% of what I learned. The very first thing we learned to say in high school was "Wie gehen Sie?" (How are you?) but I only remember how to ask it in the formal manner. I still use "na klar" (of course) and "wie immer" (as always). I also remember my high school German teacher telling us to say "Es tut mir heisse"/"Es tut mir kalt" if we wanted to say we were hot/cold and NOT to say "Ich bin heisse"/"Ich bin kalt" which as English as a first langue seems like the obvious way to say it, but she said that "Ich bin heisse/kalt" were actually slang for something dirty but she never told us what.

She also told us that if we ever went to Germany and ordered food or anything else, if we showed how many we wanted with our fingers that the Germans consider the thumb as number 1 and the pointer finger as 2, so as Americans who start counting with our pointer fingers we needed to be careful about that or we might wind up with more than we wanted lol

I'm sure there are other bits and pieces I still remember but off the top of my head those are the highlights. I know there are some random nouns I still know (minus their genders) and of course I still know how to count.

Now that it's September I thought I'd try making an Octoberfest HA:

the only german words i really know are gesundheit, deutschland/deutsch, danke, and willkommen.

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I grew up with my family always saying gazuntite when someone sneezed. I learned a few words from a racing game my hubby and I were in from some german friends. They were always so awesome. I really cant remember that many now its been so long. I know Hallo.. guten morgen.. danke..and then the gazuntite. Cant think of any more right now

Here is my German Bar Maid or Octoberfest bar maid:

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Thank you so much for all your wonderful entries, my friends! ^-^ It´s totally interesting how Germany is seen from the world outside! I appreciate your dirndl and lederhosen outfits yet I have to tell you, I never owned a dirndl or a traditional Trachten Blouse in all my life and we don´t drink this light beer here in my area. :-) I never attended the Oktoberfest in Munich and don´t plan to ever do so. :-) So you all are much better with these stereotypical outfits then I would ever be in real life! Well done, it was a delight to look at them! <3

Why is it like this? Because most of your gorgeous outfits belong to Bayern, one of the states of Germany. Bayern has a picturesque and beautiful countryside with hills and lakes and mountains and all this old traditions and your outfits would have made every Bavarian very proud! <3

These traditions bear no releations to the rest of us here in Germany, though, LOL. Look, that´s Germany:

I give you that, the big pink blotch below which is Bayern IS huge. Yet all other states together are much more big. I live in Nordrhein-Westfalen, the big purple state in the mid-west, bordering the Netherlands and Belgium. For us, Bavaria is like the Mars. :-)

That´s my area and you can see, it´s much more industrial here.

Whereas Bavaria has its farms and mountains, it´s flat here and we have steel and coal industry traditionally yet also very much new companies working in energy projects for the future. Its a melting pod of people from all over the world, you always hear foreign languages around, smell delicious foods out of an array of countries, hear interesting ideas.

We speak some kind of dialect when born here, a little drawl compared to standard German, yet you would always understand what was said when you have some German. In Bavaria, I wouldn´t understand a word, and you would have equal problems. They speak a heavy dialect, sometimes even more difficult to understand than an Austrian dialect. I would be lost there. :-) Yet it´s a nice state for vacations!

I loved to look at the German words you know! Many of you know a bunch of them, wow! ^-^

🎉 Congrats to

🏆 1st place goes to for his gorgeous traditional Bayern outfit, congrats, my friend! <3

🏆 2cd place goes to for her beautiful country HA, congrats, sweetie! <3

🏆 3th place goes to and for their beautiful maidens, congrats, lovelies! <3

A wish list item goes out to for her idea of a HA clothed in German flag colors, very cute, love! <3

Sending your prizes shortly, enjoy! <3

thank you! congratulations to the winners!

Your explanation of the map is very interesting. I hope someday I can visit Europe and see your part of Germany. I think I most want to see the area that has the vacation place you take your cats to.

I realized after reading over it that I knew more German words than I'd realized. Also when I was a child, my grandmother (my father's mother, who I think her parents or grandparents came to the US from Germany; she at least had a German sounding maiden surname, Strauss) had a dachshund named Liebe. Which (the dog and her name) also some German words ;)

(and happy birthday :D )

Ah, that´s Sylt and that would be the upper pink tip there! Formed like the shape of the island:

You would always be welcome there and here should you visit Europe one time! ^-^

And yes, both are German names. We would say Liebes like you say love when adressing somebody in English.

And thank youuuu! :-)

Atomic has choosen the black boots, please tell me if you want the red blouse or the gold medal! ^-^

Wow, thank you! :D And I loved hearing your perspective on traditional German outfits. It's a lot like how, if I was tasked with creating an "American outfit", I might do something involving a cowboy hat and blue jeans, but I would never ordinarily wear those things myself. XD (Jeans, yes, but not blue...only black for me.) Lots of people do wear cowboy hats here but to me it's like a costume.

Congrats to the other winners too!

And here I thought you would only wear cowboy hats in Texas anymore, LOL! :-)

I live in Washington State and I know people who wear them here. XD It's not as common as I'm sure it is in Texas though.

Ah, see, learning never stops! I also can truely state that not all Hwaiians run around in banana skirts, LOL

I'm not surprised, that doesn't sound very practical for everyday wear XD

I'm from Thuringia/Thüringen, the orange dot in the middle of the map 😊 :heart_green: The area is called "the green heart" because we have beautiful, really old forests and so much green stuff. Also castles!

By the way, congrats to the winners~ Even if mostly bavarian, they all looked so cute!