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Klaudia🌏
Hungarian
Jan 8, 2023
I'm very glad that I cuold meet you and travel a little with you based on the experiences you told. You are a curious and very kind person, and your knowledge of Hungarian is impressive. Csak így tovább és még ezer csoda vár rád! :)
Klaudia🌏
Hungarian
Nov 19, 2022
Nagyon élveztem a beszélgetést, pozitív volt és ami döbbenetes, hogy bármilyen témában tökéletes könnyedséggel fejezed ki magad magyar nyelven. Gratulálok!
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  • Corrected
    Missverständnis bei der Arbeit

    In meinem ersten Arbeitsmonat in einem Restaurant hat mich ein Gast gefragt, ob wir "Salzstreuer" haben. Damals kannte ich dieses Wort nicht und habe "Salzsteuer" verstanden. Ich fand das sehr komisch und habe gesagt, dass ich meinen Chef fragen muss, ob wir diese Steuer haben oder nicht. Der Gast hat richtig gelacht und mir erklärt, was (für eine Sache) ein "Salzstreuer" ist.

    Gut geschrieben, was für eine lustige Geschichte! Zum Glück gibt es nur Salzstreuer und keine Salzsteuer :D
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    August 24, 2020
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  • Commented
    @Miriam
    I see what you mean about the Unkown's namelessness. I agree that he should technically have had a name, we're probably just being kept in the Dark about it.

    Thanks for the video suggestion, I'm not surprised that there are even more possible meanings of Winden :)

    The location of Winden is another good question. I agree that names, landscape, largely accent-free German etc. point towards Lower Saxony. However, considering that they actually filmed around Berlin (<a href="https://fotostrasse.com/locations-series-dark-berlin/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fotostrasse.com/locations-series-dark-berlin/</a>), inserted clear indications towards Hesse and made the effort to create a coat of arms for the license plates (<a href="https://i.imgur.com/zCLEtJk.png" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://i.imgur.com/zCLEtJk.png</a> - with a coat of arms of the city rather than the federal state, as would normally be the case), I think they just wanted to give it a generic German feel. Hesse is not too far from the centre of Germany, so it would make sense from that perspective.
    Still, I'm totally with your impression of it being in Lower Saxony. I've been there several times because my mum was born there and while watching Dark, I could easily imagine it in that area: flat, with plenty of forests and lakes, a nuclear reactor (there's one near my mum's hometown)...
    Here's another good discussion on the matter that I got some of the information from: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkTV/comments/7h9j8s/oh_winden_where_art_thou_a_collection_of_hints_to/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkTV/comments/7h9j8s/oh_winden_where_art_thou_a_collection_of_hints_to/</a>

    Btw: Did you know you can win props from Dark? The yellow raincoat and the St. Cristopher pendant are part of a charity raffle called Los für Lesbos. You can enter until noon tomorrow (August 21, 12:00 CEST).
    I hope this isn't considered advertising by italki, I just thought it was interesting.
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    August 20, 2020
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  • Commented
    Thanks for creating this thread, Miriam. There sure is plenty to talk about.

    As for the Unknown, I think his not having a name goes perfectly with the trio’s creepy vibe. They’re more like a force of nature, a function of the knot than a person to me. Still, maybe the series’ creators even came up with a name and are purposely not sharing it with us – I was similarly bugged by not knowing what happened to Wöller’s eye and read in an interview that they had already shot a scene that explained it but decided to cut it. Here are their explanations: according to Odar "we don't have an answer, because we do not know if there's a god or not" and according to Friese "There are some stories that live on when there are still questions left open. That's why we decided against showing it." (<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/dark-final-season-explained-baran-bo-odar-jantje-friese-interview-1302171" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/dark-final-season-explained-baran-bo-odar-jantje-friese-interview-1302171</a>)
    In that interview they also mention being strong believers in ambivalence and leaving things up to viewers, so feel free to invent names for the Unknown, I guess :)

    I have a question too, which I posted separately yesterday, but let’s move it here:
    Does the name Winden have a symbolic meaning for you? Especially when they mentioned "eine Welt ohne Winden" during the final dinner, these occurred to me:
    1. winden = ‘to wind’, like vines that grow around each other and get tangled (like the worlds and timelines)
    2. sich winden = ‘to squirm, to attempt to wriggle out of something’, maybe to escape one’s fate?

    Is it just me or did this occur to you too? Did you come up with other interpretations? (I haven't had the chance to ask someone with a sufficiently high level of German, so I'm curious.)
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    August 19, 2020
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  • Posted
    Dark (Netflix series): Does the town’s name 'Winden' have meaning?
    Edit: moved to the Dark thread at <a href="https://www.italki.com/discussion/251206" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.italki.com/discussion/251206</a>;
    August 18, 2020
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  • Commented
    Miriam, I completely agree, Dark is incredibly well thought through. It blew my mind too, also because for once the disappointing ending that part of me was dreading never came. They actually pulled it off.
    I love some of the other series you mentioned too, Breaking Bad, Sherlock, …
    Chernobyl is inherently distressing and depressing to watch, but really well made.

    I’m not sure anything else blew my mind as much as Dark with its complexity, but I enjoyed The Man in the High Castle, True Detective season 1, Mr Robot and Twin Peaks a lot (I’ve yet to finish the last two).

    Recently I watched Fleabag and What We Do in the Shadows. They're comedies and less mind-blowing in terms of plot, but amazing in terms of characters (especially Fleabag) and humour. What We Do in the Shadows combines vampires and other supernatural creatures with social awkwardness and accents, it's just brilliant.
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    August 18, 2020
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  • Posted
    Mothman – L’Uomo falena Una delle mie leggende preferite del West Virginia, il piccolo stato in cui vivo, e Mothman – l’Uomo falena. La storia di questa misteriosa creatura cominciò negli anni Sessanta in Point Pleasant, una piccola città nell’ovest del West Virginia. Nel 1966 alcuni abitanti dell’area raccontarono di aver visto una figura umana con grandi ali e occhi rossi luminosi. Gli avvistamenti notturni dell’Uomo falena continuavano, a volte venne comparato a un uccello, a volte era gigante, a volte di statura normale, però quasi sempre aveva gli occhi luminosi che facevano paura alla gente. Dopo un anno, il 15 dicembre 1967, Point Pleasant fu colpita di una tragedia: Il ponte che collegava Point Pleasant a Kanauga, il posto sull’altra riva del fiume Ohio, crollò e 46 persone morirono. L’avvenimento venne collegato agli avvistamenti dell’Uomo falena, siccome quello era apparso vicino al ponte due volte e gli avvistamenti cessano dopo la tragedia. L’esistenza dell’Uomo falena non è mai stata accertata e ci sono varie spiegazioni razionali, però alcuni credono che fosse una creatura sovrannaturale che voleva avvertire la popolazione dell’imminente disastro. Comunque, l’Uomo falena rese famosa Point Pleasant, una piccola città della quale altrimenti nessuno fuori degli Stati Uniti avrebbe mai sentito. Oggi c’è un un film con Richard Gere sull’Uomo falena, un museo a Point Pleasant e ogni anno a settembre si svolge un “Mothman Festival” con bancarelle, discorsi sui fenomeni sovrannaturali e una gara di 5 km, durante la quale alcuni si travestono da Mothman (ovviamente quest’anno hanno dovuto annullarlo, purtroppo).
    August 18, 2020
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  • Commented
    Kathy, I think there is no much better approach. Writing <em>good </em>texts always takes time.
    Like Tasneem, I also immediately use Word to take advantage of the spell check function. In case it's not already installed, you can add Italian as a language in Word. For some of my languages I also installed that language's keyboard on my PC (not with Italian, but e. g. with Hungarian) to have easier access to special characters. It takes some getting used to, but I often prefer getting used to a different keyboard over having to copy-paste letters from somewhere else. Just personal preference, though, Google Translate seems like a good alternative.

    When I want to find out whether a phrasing I’ve come up with is correct, or which one of two is more idiomatic, I use linguee.com (provides snippets of websites that exist in multiple languages so you can see how expressions were translated) or a Google search in quotes (e. g. "<em>posso immaginarlo</em>" vs. "<em>me lo immagino</em>" to see if they’re used at all, which one gets more results, how they’re used in context etc. – of course not all results are helpful or reliable, but it’s a start). This probably seems a bit overkill, considering that someone will correct your text anyway, but unfortunately, I’m a perfectionist…

    Regarding replies to those who correct your texts, I usually get a brief <em>thank you</em> from people whose texts I’ve corrected, or just a thumbs up. I think as long as you let them know that they didn’t do it in vain, it’s fine :)
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    August 17, 2020
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  • Answered
    Der Infinitiv von "würde" ist "werden". In diesem Satz wird "würde" als Hilfsverb benutzt, um den Konjunktiv II von "bestellen" zu bilden (= würde bestellen). Hier ist die Bildung des Konjunktivs erklärt: https://deutsch.lingolia.com/de/grammatik/verben/konjunktiv
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    August 17, 2020
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  • Answered
    Non sono madrelingua italiana, ma credo che sia un caso di 'pronomi combinati'. Vuol dire che il 'si' diventa 'se', perché è seguito da 'lo', un altro pronome. In una frase senza questo si userebbe 'si'. Qualcuno si ricorderà il nome. -> Qualcuno se lo ricorderà. Se non conoscevi questo fenomeno, è spiegato qua: http://onlineitalianclub.com/free-italian-exercises-and-resources/online-italian-course-intermediate-b1/italian-grammar-pronomi-combinati-combined-pronouns/ E su questo sito ci sono esempi con 'se lo' (che mancano sull'altro): https://aulalingue.scuola.zanichelli.it/benvenuti/2011/03/24/i-pronomi-combinati/
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    August 17, 2020
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  • Answered
    Hi Cristina, it's still impossible to message you. In case it's not just italki misbehaving, here's how to change it (sorry if I'm explaining the obvious): Go to "Settings", then "Privacy". Under "Who can send me a message or a chat" it has to say "Anyone", should look like this: https://imgur.com/a/r5QJrw0 The last setting in the screenshot, "Profile is visible on the language partner search page" will make your profile appear in the list under "Community" - "Find language partners", so people might find your profile there and contact you. Technology issues aside, I'm a German native speaker learning Italian. Send me a message if you want to have a chat :)
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    August 16, 2020
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