Talk:German/Level I/Volk und Familie

Grammatical Mistake
Is this correct? "Now even though many of these are common phrases you and me would say in everyday life..."

I believe it should be "Now even though many of these are common phrases you and I would say in everyday life..."
 * Correct and fixed. TheSun (talk) 23:05, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Section: Using Formal and Informal Pronouns in the Family
Using "Sie" with grandparents or parents is outdated.

Sorry, I changed the paragraph about using "Sie" with family. To me, this is ridiculous. So far, I only have once actually met somebody who did that, and his family only came back to Germany after the Iron Curtain came down, having lived in a German settlement in Hungary for a long time. Maybe this is also the case in German communities in the US (Pennsylvania German etc.), if they emigrated at least 100 years ago. But I think this is rather an interesting factoid than something somebody new to the language has to know. If you insist, change it back, but I really don't think this should be portrayed as current usage... Thamane 22:25, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Better German

 * Never call your parents Mutter or Vater, it's normal to say "That's my mother", if you talk to someone else, and there are very few
 * people who say "Mutti" or "Vati", but "Hallo Mutter und Vater" sounds really strange and it's really bad German


 * In the text was the name of the grandmother "Lieschen" that means "small Liesa". I think that would even strange in english to call your grandmother such a childsname. I have corrected it. --SvonHalenbach 12:24, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Section: Nationality
You are switching order German/English during the list

HolgiDE

Yes, I know, and I'll get to those problem, thanks for informing me. --German Men92 22:54, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Noun or Adjective Nationality
"Ich bin schwedisch" is bad German - better would be "Ich bin ein Schwede" (I am a Swede.) or "Seine Nationalität ist die Schwedische" (His nationality is the swedish.)--HolgiDE 14:45, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I know, but I'm giving an example, I will note about the bad German part though.--German Men92 20:10, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Banks
If Bank of issue means the Deutsche Bank issues the currency, this is wrong. They are a bank like any other, just very very rich ;-) Coins and notes use to be issued by the Bundesbank, which was also in Frankfurt, and was a completly different institution. They did not have accounts or ATM. This institution has been replaced by the European Central Bank / Europäische Zentralbank (EZB), which is in Frankfurt, too.Thamane 21:44, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

There are other banks in Frankfurt, too, and I think theire headquarters are in Frankfurt, because Frankfurt is the centre of Banks and economics in Europe (without the British Isles). Just throw a look at the Frankfurt skyline at www.frankfurt.de, Frankfurt is the onla European city, where such a skaline is allowed, almost all the towers belong to banks.

Volk vs. Nationalität
Bitte ersetzt Volk durch Nationalität. Das Wort Volk wird meist von einer politischen Diskussion gefolgt und bietet eine große Anzahl von Fettnäpfchen. Grundsätzlich gilt, dass die Zugehörigkeit zu Volk, Nation und Staat in Deutschland nicht deckungsgleich sind. Hierbei sind nur Staat und Staatsangehörigkeit sauber definiert. Nationalität wird meist als Staatsanghörigkeit verstanden, da Staatsangehörigkeit sperrig und formal klingt. MfG Mgloede (talk) 15:19, 23 October 2009 (UTC)