Aibu to be German and to LOVE it?

[AmaliaJw]

I love being German, it makes me feel unique, I know after Brexit there is anti EU sentiment but I LOVE being from Germany!

Call me shallow, but we have a lot of foreign students in our city every year, all seasons, and the German students all look incredible- tall and absolutely impeccably dressed. I think they're generally just richer and more (so I've heard) culturally and politically aware.

Patriotism is a bit gross (even if you’re from super special Germany). Sorry

I don’t speak German but I can if you like

Yeah, there's nothing unique there I'm afraid. There are many Germans out there. Yawn.

I’ve taken German citizenship. Very happy about it, and we live in a lovely area. Our friends just can’t fathom the Brexit thing.

Love Germany (well Munich and Berlin I've not been anywhere else) great beer and friendly people! Also Black Forest gateaux and Christmas markets 😃

I've lived in Germany for 5 years. Getting used to it slowly. I was asked to teach an English conversation course at the VHS and I'm enjoying it.

Is that you, Angie?

If the German government wants to offer British remain voters German citizenship, I'll be first in the queue

What hopes do you have for Eurovision this year?

In fact, what did you think of the German Eurovision entry last year?

I love Germany and it's the only foreign country my kids want to go back to (excellent and plentiful icecream, cake, chips, sausages, salads, bread, efficient food delivery, practically empty playgrounds and swimming pools all over, lots of clean public toilets, and lots of elderly people who tell the kids to behave but then make clear it's OK by giving them sweets and apologising for their bad English).

I also like all of the above plus the booze, card and board games, neighbours to our holiday apartment offering lifts to the supermarket and carrying cases for us, and everyone I speak to saying "I was so sorry to hear about your Brexit".

Not so good with special schooling I understand, but I would be very tempted to get a German holiday home in a few years.

I'd quite like to be German but I think I'd rather be Icelandic.

IGotchaBaby I've always thought that to an alien from Mars, German and English sweet nothings would sound very alike.

What baffles me is how one can properly shout at one's kids in French.

Your country does the best cakes and chocolate, and has very cute dogs. Rotties, GSDs, dachshunds...

@IGotchaBaby German is the kind of language that wouldn't sound out of place in a sex dungeon.

Even if you're English, if you get yourself really tired and generally not with it, there's not much difference between being shouted at by Du Hast by Rammstein and Firestarter by Prodigy.

English's harshness is softened to us because we hear the meaning. But to the poor Martian, an English man shouting I can't and a German man shouting ich kann nicht would both signal that it was time to hide behind the settee.

I am German-born and love it so much that I've lived in the UK for the past 20+ years. Maybe it's because I'm short...

People from the islands at the far north of Germany sound very English, they have the same intonation. I remember getting very confused once thinking someone sounded like me, but her German was absolutely perfect and in the end I'd decided she must have been brought up bilingually. Anyway it turned out that she was from Westerland on the island of Sylt and wasn't (to her knowledge) English at all.

The accent around the western areas of Germany is less harsh eg if you come from Aachen or Muenster. They sound recognisably German when they speak English, but there is something much softer about it.

I am German-born and love it so much that I've lived in the UK for the past 20+ years. Maybe it's because I'm short

My husband isn't very tall and feels a bit out of place when we visit Hamburg (one day we need to go to the Netherlands). Southern Germany isn't so bad. But he prefers Italy as he feels less short there :)

What baffles me is how one can properly shout at one's kids in French.

I can assure you that it's more than possible to sound like an enraged fishwife in French.

Being German is great. But may I point out to any passing Germans that lots of non-Germans also speak pretty good German? So your apparent assumption that you can speak it in company to comment on someone else present without anybody else understanding you is mistaken. I've experienced this on three separate occasions and find it both extremely rude and completely mystifying. Being German may be unique (1 in 80-odd million, but hey who is quibbling), but being German-speaking is really quite common.

"What baffles me is how one can properly shout at one's kids in French."

omg I grew up in France and I can assure you that the French beat the English hands down when it comes to yelling at kids. Teachers in particular have it down to a fine art. It's the added withering contempt that does it

There is no excuse for the complexity of the German language. Why you would keep the Ancient Greek mess when even the modern Greeks have dropped many of its rules, baffles me.

Points for the N-Deklination though, it is the most eccentric grammar rule ever.