Do WW2 reenactors speak their respective languages?

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Postby m3chanized » Fri May 07, 2010 2:21 pm

most of the germans i've fought at both JTD's spoke allot of german on the battlefield
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Postby Jester316 » Fri May 07, 2010 2:39 pm

Estoy aquí para España.
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Postby dosSantos » Fri May 07, 2010 4:00 pm

Yo para la Republica de la Nacion de Argentina...vamos todavia!
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Postby k3gn3123512 » Fri May 07, 2010 6:24 pm

I am fluent in German.
Now this is a question to our OP, erm what exactly do you mean by "terrorist"? Anything wrong with Arabic?
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Postby Shiloh » Fri May 07, 2010 8:17 pm

I'm taking German classes at my school, and will continue to do so next year.

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Postby Cap n pickles » Sat May 08, 2010 12:03 am

KingNikan wrote:I am fluent in German.
Now this is a question to our OP, erm what exactly do you mean by "terrorist"? Anything wrong with Arabic?


Nope.

Dan (Daruis137) has a game sometime in the future where we get to have a class in basic language of Arabic (Afghan culture, and language, Traditional cook, and other neat stuff) so we can learn culture stuff and take the Americans lack of proper body signs and language as a excuse to attack them during the game.

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Postby PanzerFaust » Sat May 08, 2010 9:05 am

In the PNWHG if you weren't fluent in german (a few of our guys were, myself not so much) you learned it. We drilled in german, sang in german, and during kamradenschaft we drank in german (RUMPLEMINTZ!!!). On the battlefield the Oscha and Uscha could often be overheard strategizing back and forth in deutsch. It's often called living history, so it's as historically immersive and accurate as they can possibly make it.
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Postby malik » Sat May 08, 2010 2:07 pm

LiquidSnak wrote:So you aren't really learning German, you just know how to use Google language tools?


I don't need Google translator, I actually learn languages. Learning meaningless phrases is, as I already said, meaningless. I hate it when idiotic kids and wannabe skinheads at school think they are speaking German. They have horrible pronunciation and no verb conjugation. Accent isn't expected though.
We want 'em to know if they're gonna leave a bomb on the side of the road, first, we're just gonna blow up their little f**kin road.
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Postby malik » Sat May 08, 2010 2:12 pm

Currently I am taking Spanish in school and learning German on my own. My main problem is word placement, where an adverb or adjective goes.. I find German music to help a lot in where/how to put words in a sentence. Rammstein's Du Hast song taught me the basics of the mich, dich idea. However not all that thoroughly. I find Oomph! to be pretty good as they speak in a easier to understand way.
We want 'em to know if they're gonna leave a bomb on the side of the road, first, we're just gonna blow up their little f**kin road.
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Postby k3gn3123512 » Sat May 08, 2010 4:41 pm

If you guys need help with any German ya'll can just PM me. I am a native speaker.
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Postby Colosseum » Mon May 10, 2010 12:51 pm

malik wrote:
LiquidSnak wrote:So you aren't really learning German, you just know how to use Google language tools?


I don't need Google translator, I actually learn languages. Learning meaningless phrases is, as I already said, meaningless. I hate it when idiotic kids and wannabe skinheads at school think they are speaking German. They have horrible pronunciation and no verb conjugation. Accent isn't expected though.


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Postby Atown » Mon May 10, 2010 2:55 pm

Although I was born in Germany, I don't speak a lick of German. Dad does but I have no desire to learn it, Spanish is far more useful hence my major.

But, I do agree with all the OP's that said hearing the language is far more immersive and realistic than any gun, grenade, or explosion on the battlefield.


ps I lol'd at the thought of German reenacters walking around reciting lyrics from Rammstein...
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Postby TexanKraut » Mon May 10, 2010 4:57 pm

I'm still learning any phrases or words needed at an event. I am planning to learn and speak fluent German and Russian to cover all my bases, maybe even French for a partisan impression. But I'm not sure if an event organizer should make you speak in a different language, or you're about to add loads of troops to the American side. lol. It does add to the realism however.
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Postby Atown » Tue May 11, 2010 12:25 pm

Being fluent in a language is very hard, it's cool that you have aspirations of being fluent but it is very difficult unless you are fully immersed in the language for long periods of time...
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Postby TMiller » Tue May 11, 2010 7:47 pm

Variable wrote:The real question is: do YOU speak enough German to realize that when I'm re-enacting a Nazi, I'm actually just reciting Rammstein lyrics?
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