I wonder how much fun they are having out there that I will probably never get to experience...

Learning French in the US is such a let down. Spanish is the unofficial second national language and German has the best memes.

German jokes are the wurst.

In case you're learning French to be able to work at a bigger French company - don't. You will be very unhappy. The basic reason is, French companies, even those who think they're "modern", are still run like Louis XIV's is the CEO. Like an extremely rigid, top-down, feudalistic little empire full of screaming bosses and servile employees.

I took French in high school and barely scraped by. My wife took German and went on an exchange program for six weeks after high school and had a terrific time.

Close to 30 years later and I remember a lot of the French but she's forgotten most of the German.

So who's laughing now, huh?

Oh right, you got to have those six weeks in Germany. Merde.

Just wait until you see !i_itrl@feddit.org

Expanding your brain by 20% might not go well... that's extra 20% to worry about.

As a German who speaks french: French is probably the easier language since you don't need to declinate words and only really use 3 forms for time.

Tu peux apprendre les deux ! Or join us on !rance@jlai.lu. Sure we are not as active as !ich_iel@feddit.org but maybe with your help will improve (^_^)

Understanding the language is great but it's not enough. Unfortunately the majority of stuff posted are inside jokes which is why a lot of people perceive them as unfunny apparently

Fr fr these guys look like some top tier shit posters.

I always try to decipher their memes because they look funny.

I'm legit considering getting back to learning German to understand their memes, they look so juicy

That means you should start /c/moi_dlvv

You miss all of it. Learn German instead. Drop the French.

I studied German in high school but I don't remember any of it. I like to pretend that ich_iel is just using made up nonsense words, like the Swedish Chef muppet.

Comme by !rance@jlai.lu !

Je pense qu'on est moins nombreux mais on s'y amuse quand même.

For me it’s Dutch. The Dutch own late night Lemmy for me and I want to know what I’m missing.

I’ve picked up on Overleden though :(

What even is ich_iel?

Pro tip, you can use Google lens to translate (if you're like me and don't care as much about my privacy/have an android phone).

C'est la merde

Never too late to learn!

Es ist nie zu spät zu lernen!

Just learn both! But ich_iel has a lot more going on, so prioritise German.

French and German are similar but you just spit on people with different consonants

It takes like 3 seconds to screengrab and auto-translate? Gets the joke across like 99% of the time. Always worth it.

You don't miss that much. They are trying to do edgy dank memes in german. The "culture" they represent is quite white and cleasend from migrant humor.

Its the german version of these alt right pepe memes.

Seriously, you missed nothing.

French is so difficult to learn because of the pronunciation. Spanish is much easier to learn in comparison. I don't get why all school in Germany prefer French as third language before Spanish.

Je parle les deux et je te confirme tu ne manques rien

guys i can read that shit and trust me you're not missing out on anything. if you could read those lame jokes, you'd block the community like i did

I had a chat with them yesterday using google translate and apparently they think "From the river to the sea" is problematic. Not sure why, but it's probably their government lying to them and saying Palestine is an ethnostate.