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ICH SPRECHE KEIN DEUTSCH!!
this is a list of GERMAN words used in english that are either hard to translate or sound BESSER AUF DEUTSCH!!!
ANGST—fear, dread
DOPPELGANGER—“double goer”-one’s other half?
ERSATZ— fake
GESTALT—the whole idea from the parts
HINTERLAND-you know this, i hope!
LEBENSRAUM- “living space”-what hitler wanted!!
LEITMOTIV-the quest of richard wagner
POLTERGEIST—as in the movie
SCHADENFREUDE— “shameful joy”..as used by lisa simpson
STURM UND DRANG—sounds cool but don’t pronounce it like a girly man!!
UBER—means over and above in german—uberjock, ubernerd
WELTANSCHAUUNG-political or philosophic “world view”
WELTSCHMERZ— “world pain”
WUNDERKIND— mozart
ZEITGEIST—the spirit of the times
