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Stefan and I often speak a kind of Denglish together and I haven't
really sat down and like analyzed my Denglish speaking pattern, but I have noticed some
German words that I find myself
repeatedly and quite often
slipping into my English sentences over and over again, instead of using the English words
for these things, I often find myself
just using the German word. One example of that is the German word Amt.
I don't even, now that I think about it, I don't even know what the English word for Amt is.
No, I don't know what it is!
Okay, I have to look it up.
I would want to say that "Amt" is an office, but it's not just an office. That's Büro.
Amt is like a governmental office? Hold on.
The dictionary gives me "office".
But it's not just an office, an "Amt" is a different kind of office. Like I have to go to the Amt
to do visa stuff, you know, paperwork.
Or I have to go to the Amt to file paperwork if I move apartments.
So.. yeah, I just used the German word Amt to talk about that. It becomes a problem
like if I call my parents and then I'm like
"Yeah, we went to the Amt last week..." and they're like: " The WHAT?" "Huh?" "You went WHERE?" So yeah,
then it can be kind of a problem.
Another German word, that I find popping into my English sentences quite often is, hold on, paprika for a bell pepper.
Yeah, when talking with Stefan,
I rarely... say bell pepper.
It's usually "paprika".
"We need to get some paprika from the store" "I want a green paprika" "I want a red paprika"
You know, how many paprikas do we have at home?
Paprika. Another food which I don't have to show but another one I often say in German is Frühlings-Zwiebeln,
which are, I believe,
green onions?
...in the US. And I think they are actually called- so "Frühling"
means spring in German, and I believe they're actually called spring onions in the UK.
So yeah, it's "We need Frühlingszwiebeln for this recipe"
"We need to get some Frühlingszwiebeln from the store" While we're in the kitchen, another one is, again, hold on,
Sieb.
And once again, my brain
does not know... What is the English for this thing?!
It's not a grater.
It's not a grater. It's a
sifter? Is it a ... I know you sift flour with it. What is this thing called??
Okay, I have to look it up. Sieve?
This is a "sieve"? Mmm. And yet another one in the kitchen is Milchschäumer. And again
I don't even know what this is in English. I have a Milchschäumer. Milch... That's hard to say! I have a Milchschäumer
here in Germany, but I never had a Milchschäumer in the US, so I don't know what it's called, like,
a milk frother, you know, I'm curious about this too. What is Milchschäumer in English? Milk frother. Another one that I've noticed
Another one that I've noticed
is actually kind of a new one for me. I feel like this has only
started to crop up quite often in my English
recently and that is geeinigt,
instead of saying that we're in agreement on something.
I've noticed myself saying things like: "Oh, I thought we were geein.. gee..
It's hard for me to say, but for some reason, recently it's been the first word that's popped into my head
instead of that we're in agreement. Even if I, like, stumble over it, so I'll try to say often
I've noticed, like, I thought we were "geeinigt" about this.
I thought we were in agreement on this, but I'll say geeinig... Geeinig... It is really hard for me to say!
And yet, it is still,
recently, I've noticed, the first word that pops into my head.
Why? Why not just in agreement on? I like it. And last example for this video:
schleudern. So sometimes with the washing machine, we'll put the clothes on a quick Schleudern cycle and
again,
I don't even know what the English word for this is.
We just say often, like, "Please put the clothes on a quick Schleudern cycle again" or "Do you want me to schleudern the clothes?"
But yeah
What is the English?
I have to look again. Spin cycle! Yes, that's what it is! Okay, it's the spin cycle.
Yes. So my question for you is, if you speak multiple languages and you sometimes find yourself
combining those languages, are there any words in one language, that you have noticed yourself, often,
slipping into or just, yeah, happening to use in the other language? Please
let me know in the comments below.
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