Just had to post this...HILARIOUS!!

[sheldor]

[moyer777]

awesome.

[Meds]

Waiting for Katrins reply ;)

[cosmonaut]

You're sure you really want Germans to learn English? :D
I know a creepy learn English ad from the Netherlands (beware, song used is NSFW, mature content)

I wanna frak you in the ass! Warum Englisch lernen? Darum!

[cosmonaut]

Waiting for Katrins reply ;)

Was already typing while you posted! I hope I don't disappoint? ;)

[Bryancd]

 :roflmao :roflmao :roflmao :roflmao :roflmao THAT was so wrong!!!!!

[Bromptonboy]

Waiting for Katrins reply ;)

Was already typing while you posted! I hope I don't disappoint? ;)

LOL, I can just imagine what would happen if an advertisement like that was played here in the US.  We would choke on our Apple pie....   ;)

[cosmonaut]

Waiting for Katrins reply ;)

Was already typing while you posted! I hope I don't disappoint? ;)

LOL, I can just imagine what would happen if an advertisement like that was played here in the US.  We would choke on our Apple pie....   ;)

I think I've seen that spot on TV on an "funniest advertisements of the world show".
Hearing someone swear in a foreign somehow isn't that effective (and we don't bleep music anyway, even the German explicit words).
You remember Picard saying "Shit!"? No? Well, he actually said "Merde!", sounds a lot nicer, doesn't it? :)

[Rico]

Pretty darn funny.  The interesting thing for me is when I visited Germany most of the people I met spoke very good English.  I think everyone learns it in school there these days, don't they Katrin?  But I know unless they use it, you will lose it.

[cosmonaut]

*lol*
I had googled for picard+merde to be sure, but before I closed the tab I clicked a link.
The European version of the box set has several languages, very cool. Guess in which language version Picard just says "That can't be true!"

Captain Jean-Luc Picard saying "merde" in several languages - Captain Jean-Luc Picards "merde" in verschiedenen Sprachen

[cosmonaut]

Pretty darn funny.  The interesting thing for me is when I visited Germany most of the people I met spoke very good English.  I think everyone learns it in school there these days, don't they Katrin?  But I know unless they use it, you will lose it.

Everyone learns English in school, but it's like math, not everyone is good at it and you'll forget soon when you don't practice.

I guess the people you met had a medium to higher education, I think most understand the value of speaking a world language and practiced it when they have the chance. I have to guess, but that might be a fourth of the population (but I'd expect at least three quarters to catch the meaning of the song).
I wouldn't rely on every waitress and every janitor speaking it, also in east Germany they taught Russian for obvious reasons.

[Bromptonboy]

How would someone in the DDR say "I would like some Spreewald pickles" in Russian?

:)  "Ya Ha'choo...."

[cosmonaut]

How would someone in the DDR say "I would like some Spreewald pickles" in Russian?

:)  "Ya Ha'choo...."

*lol*
That's an awesome translation of the phrase! :D
(Though I needed some help by google to translate it.)

Now that I've learned Russian I should use it more often, but I'm afraid that might prove Freud and his envy theory right! ;)