Sophia Loren - Tu vuo fa LAmericano

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[LudwigPastorius]

1. I really wasn't ready for a German-speaking Clark Gable.

I thought I was having a stroke for a minute.

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2. "Ich nicht vergibst eine damn, meiner Schotze!"

[LudwigPastorius]

3. Ah, yes....

from the classic "Kaput mit der Wind".

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4. Ach zo, meiner liebfraumilch! Mit die Farfegnugen Damen! Und der verkakte rebels.

I hate the fact that I was forced into taking German and I've never gotten to use it except to read road signs in WWII movies. Since school some Yiddish has infiltrated the memory banks.

The four years of Latin served me better. Semper ubi sub ubi.

[LudwigPastorius]

5. I went through 12 grades of public schools and 4 years of college without ever having to take a foreign language.

Only in America, yeah?

Oh well, I did learn a few words of German when I was on tour there many years ago, but most can't be used in a polite conversation.

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6. Like my kitchen level Spanish, I can start a fight, flirt or order dinner ...

... my German is a little bit better that, I can form sentences and my vocabulary is still OK, and the German way of forming new words out gathering small words helps. I can read it a bit, follow it spoken a littler bit if they speak like I am developmentally stunted and partially deaf.