a little help with a little translation?

sorry for speaking English, but i know only about two words of German.

Eine kleine nachtmusik means "a little night music" or something like that, but would someone mind telling me what "a little night walk" or "a little night stroll" or some other equivalent would be?

it's for a story i want to right, if you're interested.

any help is much appreciated.

 

"A little night walk" would be "ein kleiner Nachtspaziergang" in German

 

Yes, I'm interested.

Maybe you could tell us your story, when you're finished?!

 

Oh that would be very nice

 

"ein kleiner Nachtspaziergang"?


thanks for the help guys. if i do get around to finishing it, i'll be sure to share.

ein kleiner Nachtspaziergang doesn't sound terribly catchy though, is there a shorter alternative we can use? maybe instead of "walk" we could use something else? just wondering.

thanks very much.

 

I think "Spaziergang" is the most poetic expression... but I'll think of it.

 

thanks for the help, mate.

 

No prob

 

would you mind giving me a bit of a hand with the pronounciation?
would it be:

ein klein-uh nacht-spazz-eer-gang ????

 

Eagle and I discuss this via ICQ at the moment... just wait 5 minutes and we give you the perfect pronounciation

 

An attempt:

Pronounce the "er" of "kleiner" rather like the ones in 'mother' or 'smaller'.
The "a" in gang is pronounced like the one in 'arm', "klein" like 'kline'.

Ich hope it's not too confusing.


Flowerian, any suggestions?

 

Hmm so far so good... but he should care for not pronouncing the "ch" in "nacht" as a "k"

 

thanks for all the help.

this sure is complicated.

i'm looking to travel next year. france first, but i may end up in germany some how. is it going to be this hard to make myself understood, or is it just perfecting...?

thanks. how come you germans are so friendly?

 

This would be just perfecting Nearly _everybody_ here speaks English, so it should be no prob for you to communicate.

You wonder why we are so friendly? Did you have any negative experiences concenrnig this with Germans?

 

I think so, too. Even with your first version, you could communicate. It's really alright.

 

do a lot of people speak english? wow. why exactly is that?

without perfect pronounciation, are foreigners generally understood?

do your people think travellers not speaking the language are dumbasses?

all the experiences i have with german people are amazing. i can't understand why you're all such nice guys. it really is amazing to me. i suppose that says a lot about england, i guess. germany obviously hasn't become "Americanized" yet...


for your sake, i hope it never does.

thanks.

 

We hope so too





Well foreigners are generally understood, yes. All the people here know that German is a difficult language and so no one thinks you're a dumbass



Edit: Everybody here learns English at school. Really everybody.

 

Unfortunately, our society is pretty much americanized...
Not only the media, also the people, but rather among each other.

But you can call us hospitable, because every german wants to represent a cosmopolitan country, they think that they have to do it because of our history. That could be an explanation. But of course there are exceptions, too.

 

Hmm that's right unfortunately. Our society is already americanized, but I think this trend is stopping at the moment, also due to the unpopular global policy of Bush. However, I wouldn't say the friendlieness (correct word? ) of Germans is based on their history... I'd say its's just a fact

 

yeah, some people seem to think Germans are all Nazis. i know it's terrible for them to think that, but they are stupid bastards anyway. I've never thought it, by the way.

go Germany!