Improve your German with Heidegger and Wittgenstein
I've been enjoying a bit of Heidegger recently, and wanted to draw attention to this Youtube video of the man himself - in it he speaks slowly and deliberately, plus there are captions if you need help. Useful to dust off your German - alternatively, marry a German wife....
The second resource is the Blackwell 50th Anniversary edition of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, containing the German text on one page, and a revised English translation on the facing.
When I started to learn German, a slightly mislead colleague suggested, with utter seriousness, that I watch 'Allo 'allo, and try to sound like the acted Germans! So, for ‘correct’ pronunciation carefully study the following:
posted by Chris Tilling @ 12:02 AM
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4 Comments:
I learned all my German word order by watching Toytown as a youngster.
Your scholarship is of the highest standard Chris! ;-)
I wish Heidegger had watched more Toytown. Might have made his German easier to read!
Heidegger would more Toytown watched have, if YouTube then available were.
I never found the German accents in Hello, Hello especially convincing. Perhaps because I had been in Bavaria?
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