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[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 75 points 4 days ago (3 children)

This meme couldn't have been made by a German. Nobody in their right mind would say something so outlandish as Germany having a great education system. I literally got taught with a smashed blackboard, next to a cabinet that collapsed during class and with "books" that began identifying as a stack of papers (still had to wrap them though for protection! …somehow!).

On the upside, my school didn't have mold… that we knew off. And we constantly had classes canceled since there weren't enough teachers once a single one was missing.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago (3 children)

And you still learned more than most Americans. Except maybe Cheerleading, American Football, how to behave during a school shooting, and bullying (or how survive it).

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago

We had plenty of bullying, but you are correct about the rest.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I learned English because in 2006-2010 most video games were poorly localized and when youtube became a thing most of the popular German gaming youtubers were absolute cringe so i watched English channels instead.

Compared to my German friends my English is above average despite my English teacher in highschool being sick most of the time and the classes not being substituted with English classes. This solely lies in my interest/necessity to engage with English content online. We had French as a second language and despite the teachers actually being there and being good teachers for this educational system, i remember almost nothing.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

I started with French as a second language as well (Saarland reportiert ein). My French is terrible, I never really tried. English on the other hand was useful for playing vidya.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A self made man. I respect that

[–] datalowe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

But it's still thanks to the context, just a context outside of school. It's not like s/he suddenly out of the blue started looking for study material in Tagalog and did that. Games are the best motivator (and great due to how interactive they are) No man is an island yada yada. Auf eigener Faust kommt man nicht weit wenn die Faust völlig leer ist oder insert was klugeres here. Btw personally I was helped a lot by both school, emotionally as well as language-wise, and pop media. Yay for nice teachers and peers!

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 days ago

and bullying (or how survive it).

My over a decade long therapeutic history, scars and damage to sensory organs say differently. You're right about the shootings though. Since the bullying at my schools was so bad I can guarantee there would have been at least one shooting if it was in the US. Back then I would've probably celebrated the idea even, I was saddened when an actual shooting happened somewhere because it wasn't at my school, but specifically not because it was a shooting (just to give you an idea how bad the bullying was).

Heard the US schools got a really weird sports team thingy going. Never fully got that; there's no comparable culture over here. Of course schools love to work with Sports Clubs whenever possible, they're not "the same" though (and it's about the sport itself, very rarely the Clubs' identity). There definitely aren't state- or nationwide sport tournaments organized around school teams in the same fashion the US celebrates it.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 30 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It could be worse but "hervorragend" is pushing it.

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Schlimmer geht immer. Der Fotzenfritz und sein Gruselkabinett arbeiten schon dran

[–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

Auch beim Kabinett, schlimmer geht immer...

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

It can both be bad and hervorragend. All the other ones just have to be worse.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

That, and OP quoted Rammstein

[–] ZonenRanslite@feddit.org 43 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

French people could claim the same.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

Icelanders too

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

He spilled the blood of the Saxon Men!

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Every Indo European language is just a very thick Proto-Indo-European dialect after all

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago

Debatable.

There are a total of 0 records and the whole thing has been reconstructed by comparing similarities among existing languages. PIE likely never existed as a language, neither spoken nor written.

[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] ZonenRanslite@feddit.org 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Duh nuh nuh, duh nuh nuh!

[–] Head@lemmings.world 3 points 4 days ago

laughs in American living in Germany

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I just block it. No big deal. There's no point in having it show up on my feed when I can't fucking read it lol

Weird downvote people.

I agree with you - just block and move on. This is Lemmy, a land without capitalist social media algorithms filtering our newsfeeds for us. Nobody's monitoring your preferences and automatically curating your main page to ~~manipulate~~ "entertain" you. The block feature is one way we can take control over the information presented to us, and using it to filter for language simply makes sense.

And before anyone chimes in with "jUsT cHaNgE YoUr sEtTiNgS tO eNgLiSh," some of us are multi-lingual in other languages and don't want to be limited to only English content - we just don't speak German, specifically.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago

I had an idea to make a Lenmy fork that autotranslates, but it’d probably need a paid API and I’m too lazy.