My result for the second try:
Prima - Sie haben das Quiz erfolgreich abgeschlossen!
Für das Beantworten von 17 Fragen haben Sie 18 Versuche benötigt.
Der Experte meint dazu:
Klasse - wie es scheint, sind Sie ein echter Experte auf dem Gebiet! So schnell macht Ihnen in Sachen Kompetenz keiner etwas vor!
Wow, well done, Kano_Jim!! I dare not to try it the second time, not at 4 am anyway....;p
Btw, the OP has a grammartical error, it should be Testen Sie Ihr Wissen, my mistake....
Thanks, Orangutan.
>it should be Testen Sie Ihr Wissen, my mistake..
BTW, is it true that the polite form usage is declining in Deutschland?
Gern geschehen.
BTW, is it true that the polite form usage is declining in Deutschland?
I very much doubt so, though I am not a native speaker and the last time I was in Germany was Dec. 2009. ;) People have told me that in big cities like Berlin, they are more open to using the Du form.
I wonder how is it in Austria or German-speaking part of Switzerland, is it in decline etc?
I very much doubt so, though I am not a native speaker and the last time I was in Germany was Dec. 2009. ;) People have told me that in big cities like Berlin, they are more open to using the Du form.
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30 attempts.
It seemed that most of the time when I didn't know something, the right answer was my last guess.
shilgia, I thought it was the plural of Café that would catch up Netherlandophones. Anglophones are unlikely to put a comma in there.
Vinny, it's true that Dutch speakers are likely to put an apostrophe in there (as are German speakers, probably), but it's wrong in Dutch also: the apostrophe serves to preserve the long vowel, but in the case of Café, the accent renders that unnecessary. (Mama's, baby's, mini's, but: cafés, soufflés.)
30 is good for a non-Germanophone. (OK, semi-Germanophone, if English is semi-Germanic.)
Y'know what's annoying, shilgia? What's annoying is that I will probably remember that even though café ends in a long vowel, in Dutch you don't have an apostrophe in the plural because the accent will still show that the vowel is long.
It's just barely possible that someday someone will ask here on SiT why there is no apostrophe in Dutch cafés or soufflés, and that I'll be able to answer and will dance my little I-got-a-Dutch-question-right jig but the odds against it are pretty high. And it's even more unlikely I'll ever actually use that piece of knowledge in the non-virtual world.
But thanks.
My result:
Prima - Sie haben das Quiz erfolgreich abgeschlossen!
Für das Beantworten von 17 Fragen haben Sie 28 Versuche benötigt.
Der Experte meint dazu:
Nicht schlecht - Sie haben ziemlich viel gewusst! Das können Sie aber sicher noch besser, oder?
I am a native speaker - of English. I learned German in high school and university in the US 35 years ago and spent 3 years working in Munich some 25 years ago. So not too bad, I think. (That Bran-whatever-wein one killed me. It took me four tries!)