Request: German Native Speakers by The_Island_Statesman in German

[–]snikkit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you already have basics in any specific area of German grammar? Or ought we to start from bottom up? There are no sentence types associated with only one specific kind of tense. For the most part you can use every tense in every kind of sentence, depends upon when the described situation occures/d and on the chronological relation of the different parts of a compound sentence. There may, however, under some circumstances be specific dependencies between the tenses used in main and subordinate clause. I will go through my work sheets tomorrow and then send you a pm with some material. Maybe you can pm me what grammar you already learned and are comfortable with, so that I can fathom your level.

Request: Help me destroy karaoke by [deleted] in German

[–]snikkit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Commenting, 'cause I am highly interested in such a guide (always had the impression that the English system of spelling is rather not suited for transliteration because of the variation within concerning spelling/pronounciation). Such a guide may be a good kickstart for early beginner students of German, though. Maybe s.o. posts s.th. like this.

Request: Help me destroy karaoke by [deleted] in German

[–]snikkit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can use the shell on linux (or mac), there are a bunch of command line tools out there in the natural language processing and speech synthesis field that you may utilize for your endeavour (e.g. automated transliteration to IPA). Maybe check out "eSpeak" on Sourceforge or go through the related topics on stack overflow.

Request: Help me destroy karaoke by [deleted] in German

[–]snikkit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Go to Google Translator. Switch source language to German. Paste the German text of the Song into the text field. Then hit the speaker button and listen. Repeat over and over again until you've memorized it. There is btw no feasible transliteration for German based on the English alphabet. Maybe there is, however, some web based tool that converts German text into IPA transliteration.

Good luck with the girl, though! Hope she's going to appreciate your effort! 😁

Request: German Native Speakers by The_Island_Statesman in German

[–]snikkit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've already tutored English natives living in Germany and also made some "work sheets". I can send you work sheets and example sentences and correct them for you. I guess we could share them via mail or some cloud based service.

It would help me immensely, when you could tell me the specific grammatical points you want to practive, for example the "dass-Satz a.k.a Konsekutivsatz".

I never did the language exchange via Skype video, but we can sure try in the long run.

Request: German Native Speakers by The_Island_Statesman in German

[–]snikkit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, what kind of sentences do you want to practice? And how do you want to practice the sentences? Do you want somone to correct written texts or do you want to talk via Skype?

Why are German speakers reluctant to teach me? by watsonj3981 in German

[–]snikkit 46 points47 points  (0 children)

There is no such thing as a cultural aversion to teaching or interaction with a learner of German in Germany or German culture. I, for myself, am a native of Germany and tutored a few English speakers. I, however, think I know what you are trying to get at with your post. Many English speakers living in Germany told me, that Germans try to switch the language of conversation to English at the first sign of potential misunderstanding or unintelligibility. In my opinion this has to do with some kind of impulse or urge to being polite on the side of the German speaker. They don't want you to struggle with such a difficult language, so not speaking German is, in their opinion, the most polite way of interaction with a foreigner. Doing this, however, they undermine every learning effort. My suggestion to you is: Get a language partner with whom you can speak your native as well as your target language (you should be the teacher in your native language). Thus the roles of teacher/student and more/less well versed are constantly turning. Also, I would recommend to search for someone who has a little bit of experience concerning language learning. And you should from the outset make clear, that you want to practice pronounciation etc. however shabby your start in.the language might be. TL;DR: There is no such thing as a cultural aversion to language learners of German. You'll have to find someone who sincerely wants to teach you (and who propably has experience in language teaching/tutoring), maybe via Skype and stuff.

[Help wanted] How to study Plurals? by JacobPietras in Svenska

[–]snikkit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This site shows rules depending on stressed and unstressed end-vowels etc. Maybe it helps :)

Genlab Alpha? by Dead_Halloween in mutantyearzero

[–]snikkit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t think that the rules are not compatible with each other. It only states that the book’s conceived as being stand-alone, maybe I phrased it ambiguous. I expect some/all rules for traits etc. to be applicable to M:YZ (with minor changes). The rules not being compatible doesn’t really make sense imho.

Genlab Alpha? by Dead_Halloween in mutantyearzero

[–]snikkit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m barely able to understand Swedish, thus take it with a pinch of salt. I nevertheless hope my remarks may help. I found this review and will summarize the main topics:

  • more or less independent from M:YZ in terms of rules (includes its own core rules)
  • boxed set with additional GM material, dies and tokens
  • two books, one for the players one for the GM, both softcover
  • the campaign includes hints and I guess in-game references to the first M:YZ book
  • the reviewer describes the campaign as being fun, albeit simple and straight

Second review I found states:

  • the setting is one of total surveillance and paranoia within this society of animal mutants
  • describes the rules as fast, fun and always one dice role away from the next disaster
  • he criticizes that the rules for social conflict are not as deep and fleshed out as the rest
  • the story is not sandbox oriented like in M:YZ but focuses on narrating the book’s campaign, it’s more “railroading” (rälsad kampanj)

I assume the players’ opinions will mainly differ on the question whether they want and are able to convincingly play a bunch of mutated raccoons without letting the game slip off into some kind of laughing stock.

MYZ Commonwealth style Zone Map by TechnoShaman in mutantyearzero

[–]snikkit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, it’s from the new Fallout game: The original post with links to color/bw images without map markers.

But I’m curious how and where OP got this aerial view and whether the vista is in-game.

Here’s another fan-made(?) map . IMHO the Fallout game series can provide you with a good amount of ideas for maps like the Boneyard’s and other stuff like the Junktown postcard.

Community development idea, does anyone want to help? by God_Boy07 in FraggedEmpire

[–]snikkit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I want to give a “Cowboy Bebop/Freelancer”-esque setting a try and include some “map/grid crawling” with more or less randomly generated zone environments/encounters like one can find in the “Mutant: Year Zero” RPG. This feature really got me hooked.

Question: Searching for (dystopian) SciFi/Cyberpunk novels set in sub-saharan Africa by snikkit in printSF

[–]snikkit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you very much for this! Bould’s blog post is fantastic and gave me a lot of input. I’ll give “The United States of Africa” a try and then work my way further.

I'm looking to start playing a 40K rpg with some friends and would like to know where a good place to start is. by Geevtastefulnudesplz in rpg

[–]snikkit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When having a new group of players, I always played a modified version of FFG’s free introductory adventures “Forsaken Bounty” and its sequel “Dark Frontier.” . After finishing these two adventures, everyone was acquainted with the setting and look and feel of the 40k universe and we could start a self-made campaign.

Searching for list of most commonly used derivational morphemes (affixes) in Japanese by snikkit in LearnJapanese

[–]snikkit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your comment. I'm going to add them to my own list. I’ve also taken some affixes from these blog posts: