Dialects for Cindy

Colette,
Have you heard of the Rosetta Stone tapes , where you learn another
language? I wondered about getting this to learn German. With so many
dialects, i wondered if this would work.
As i see your from France i wondered if you could answer another question
my family Feustel came from Germany but i have heard that this is actually
a French name. So you know?
Thanks
Cindy
Greetings from USA

Sorry that I interuppted this discussion. What I know as a member of the Ost-Friesland Genealogie in Germany (I'm not German but from the Netherlands) I know that in North-West Germany the people are still speaking platt-German= platt Deutsch. Some time ago there was a discussion on that list about platt German. They say Duutsch instead off Deutsch. (i think whith umlaut) D�utsch is the platt word of Deutch.
Anyone who is interested can ask them what they mean by platt-Deutch.

ostfriesen@rootsweb.com

Colette,
Have you heard of the Rosetta Stone tapes , where you learn another
language? I wondered about getting this to learn German. With so many
dialects, i wondered if this would work.
As i see your from France i wondered if you could answer another question
my family Feustel came from Germany but i have heard that this is actually
a French name. So you know?
Thanks
Cindy
Greetings from USA

Marian, have you ever heard of Ronnie Tober and his wife/husband Jan? I
know Ronnie had cancer. Is he still alive? Heide

The only German that is ever taught is high German except if you are
unfortunate enough to get a teacher who speaks a dialect. You would have to
handle it just the way I did. If you run into someone you don't understand,
aske them to speak high German. I would say everyone in Germany speaks high
German. On another note, we had foreign exchange students the last few
years from Germany. I'm always happy when I have them in class and I can do
a little catching up. There English was excellent. I was so surprised. I
learned that they have to take it in school and for many years. Tell people
you are from the US (don't say America) and you be surprised how many do
understand and speak very good English. Heide

Colette,
Have you heard of the Rosetta Stone tapes , where you learn another
language? I wondered about getting this to learn German. With so many
dialects, i wondered if this would work.
As i see your from France i wondered if you could answer another question
my family Feustel came from Germany but i have heard that this is actually
a French name. So you know?
Thanks
Cindy
Greetings from USA

Hello Heide,

Yes shore I've heard of them. Ronnie is still alive! Here's a impression. (sorry other list-members)

Ronnie moved back to the Netherlands in 1963. He took part in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1968 with his song titled, "Morgen" and finished 16th. He won the Sopot International Song Festival in 1966 with his medley "Showtime on Broadway". For many years Ronnie had his own TV shows for KRO Television and for AVRO Television. During that time Ronnie's guests included, Vicky Carr, Nancy Wilson, and Roger Whittaker to name a few.

Ronnie and his lifetime partner Jan Jochems have been together since 1968, and married on February 24, 1998. Ronnie was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 1999 and underwent chemotherapy. Ronnie is a cancer survivor which has strengthened his convictions to do more for those less fortunate.

Hi,

This is a pretty interesting article. English and German are the largest of the Germanic languages. Even though I took German so long ago, (but could read the old style lettering as a young child, but usually not understanding it), I can see common similarities in them, and when I try to learn other Germanic languages from friends online, such as Dutch, I pick them up pretty easily. I was conjugating verbs the first night I started learning Dutch from a friend online.

good night in English is translated as: goede nacht in Holland and gute Nacht in German and god natt in Norwegian.

I know there is a lot more to it, such as the nomitive, accusative, dative, and genitive cases, the past, present, and future tenses, plus all the plural endings to learn. But it's a fun personal challenge for me to learn German, but of course difficult to learn, since my grandmother is no longer living.

Lots of things just have to be memorized such as guten Tag but gute Nacht. That's easy to remember if you know the hymn Stille Nacht in German. Well, sorry to be boring, but there are lots of good websites out there.

Take care,
susan voth
(stier, busse, kirchhoff, behr, behrens)

My Stier relatives were from eastern Germany (near Plauen-Chemnitz), and the rest are from near Hannover.
ok one more addition: "The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer. It's about a German soldier, coincidentally from Chemnitz, who fought in Russia. It's amazing what they went through there, and with the weather there, etc. I love to read autobiographies also from soldiers on both sides of our Civil War. "The Forgotten Soldier" is very interesting if you enjoy history and autobiographies, which I do.

Hi Cindy:

Tapes-what in the world are tapes?

I have seen Rosetta Stone at work. My Nephew uses it, but then he has money. About $350 (per language) on DVDs at your favorite electronics store.

It requires a microphone and speakers. It is interactive in that it responds to your speech. It uses pictures depicting the word being spoken. It has vertical lined graphics (kind of like those heart monitors you see on TV ER shows). The graph shows what the word should look like and then it shows what came out of your mouth. This helps you to determine which part of the word you need to work on. It has play backs of your speech and the real thing spoken by native (whatever language you want) speakers.

My nephew states that it is one of the best programs he has used. When you do work in other countries, one is much more effective if he speaks the language, thus, my nephew has a work incentive to learn languages.

Woops!

I forgot to sign off!

Gale