/ot/ - off-topic

I'm french and the german accent on women sound like they love eating pussy and men sound like they could be good doms.

The men sound hot.

>>34880
I do love the way German men sound.

It sounds like they're stumbling on their english all the time, even when they aren't.

It also makes the men sound smug as shit.

German men sound hot. I don't care about German women.

Also on the German men sound hot train here. I think because it sounds a bit harsher it tends to work better with men than women.

German people sound like they are angry all the time. I'm sorry but they do.

it's alright. till lindemann is the bae tho

hitler

As a native English-speaker, "ch" and "ü" stand out to me when listening to someone speak German because we don't have those sounds in our language. Loanwords from Scots and Scottish Gaelic use "ch", but many people (at least here in the US) substitute it with "k". You also use a lot of "sch", "ei" and "tz" sounds.

It doesn't have that sing-song-y rhythm that a lot of Germanic accents have, including many English-language ones (Scottish, some Canadian country people, etc). It's also different from most other Germanic accents because you don't trill your "r's" as clearly.

The only similar languages are ones that a German-speaker might be able to understand somewhat, so they wouldn't really give you much insight into what you sound like. You might even consider them dialects of German. At least I'm assuming. Upper Franconian and Bavarian are similar. Swabian has what to me seems like all the same sounds, but I can definitely detect that it has a different accent. I've heard that German and Dutch are somewhat mutually intelligible, but they sound very different and look very different to me. Luxembourgish sounds like it's somewhere between German and French. I can't tell the difference between spoken German and Low German, so I'm guessing there aren't many differences.

Oh, and then there's the whole stereotype about German sounding like angry shouting. It's not entirely just because of the Nazis either. You people sound tense all the time.

>>34873
I don't like it. Most people's accents sound like shit to me except for certain ones, such as English, Spanish and a few Latino ones.

I once went to fantasialand in Germany. At one point they sort of locked us up for an atraction….as a Belgian I felt very afraid…and tried not to mention the war.

Anyways, you guys sound angry even to us and our language (dutch part) is very similar to yours.
Angry but hot somehow…

I have a kind of a silly question but I can't find a decent answer for it elsewhere so …

In certain words where "ch" is medial, is it ever pronounced like "sch"?
Like, Maerchen for example, is it pronounced "Maerschen" or "Maerkhen"? Because I swear I've heard that pronunciation being used (for Maerchen and other words) and it kind of throws me a little.
Or is it a dialect thing?

>>35206

Oh, and your accent is incredibly sexy, but it's not even comparable to when speaking native German
The other day i was out and heard a German girl speaking on the phone and just ugh ;o;

I like the accent on both men and women. I like harshness and the times the women sound gentle its cute.

>>35206
Neither nor. It's spoken in a whole another way. There are tons of words ending on "-chen". Most of the time, the purpose for this syllabe is to express the word in a cute, innocent way, like for the term squirrel ("Eichhörnchen") or "Märchen" ("Mär" would be the actual word but that's old language anyway).
TL;DR, listen to this: http://dict.leo.org/ende/index_de.html#/search=fairy-tale&searchLoc=-1&resultOrder=basic&multiwordShowSingle=on

>>35262

Wow that's really helpful, thank you.
Yeah I knew about "-chen" being diminutive, like with the Dutch "-tje" or English "-y"

>>34873
I have a german friend, she's cool and awesome, but her husband does cocaine.