Source: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 34#p124331Lawyer&Mom wrote:I associate French with Paris, a city I have loved since I first visited as a kid. French is shiny, bright, and escapist or at least I want it to be. I associate German with my immigrant ancestors. They left farms in Europe and found new farms in Wisconsin and Minnesota. German is cold and dark and deeply familiar.
Really interesting how the associations of different people are. As a native speaker of German, I of course call it deeply familiar, but it isn't cold and dark to me. Just thought of toddlers' first (speaking) steps... sooo funny . They tend to make up so many things, German is a very big playground for them. Especially about treating irregular verbs regular. Comparable to a Spanish toddler saying "yo sabo" instead of "yo sé" (--> saber). And French... nowadays it is shiny to me, too. Before, it used to be sort of a mystery to me that I didn't decipher yet.
[*] Any natural language I don't love? "Das sprengt meine Vorstellungskraft" (i.e. trying to even imagine that is beyond me).
I disagree, except for 100% of what you just said. Same here, too.Obviously these are generalizations, but I do think we can have different emotional attachments to different languages, even though these languages are both used everyday in every possible genre, they speak *to me* in specific ways.
Source: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 34#p124329cjareck wrote:I remember reading in German official history of the Great War that Germans managed to fight off a major British attack. So I wanted to check it in British official history of the war, and it was not even mentioned there. In many other cases, I had to analyse both texts carefully and look at the maps to figure out how it REALLY looked like. Because both descriptions were sometimes far from the truth. That was my point. Hope you are satisfied with the answer
This was a complete answer, no doubt. But it contained a new question mark .
Was it maybe like both of them (UK and Germany) saying many true things about their opponents mistakes/shortcomings/etc., but not about their own ones?