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I'd be interested in learning, because German is the biggest contributor to modern English along with French. Of course the split happened long, long ago, but still...
It would have to be a couple years though, after I (knock on wood) am done getting to about B2/C1 on French.
I use catodon.social and it's got a ton of German speaking people, and while Catodon is very very well designed it doesn't have a translation option yet.
I find it hard to imagine learning a language that I don't foresee myself using at least once a week IRL
I've tried learning French and German but honestly I very rarely encounter speakers of those languages and can count on one hand the number that didn't also speak English.
I've been learning Spanish though for nearly a year to great success.
Du muss nicht unbedingt sprechen um eine Sprache zu benutzen. Du kannst auch z.b. Medien anschauen auf der Sprache, oder lesen. Das letzte Mal, dass ich jemanden zum Englisch sprechen hatte war auf einer Hochzeit, ist also auch eigentlich sehr selten.
Viel Spaß dabei!
I know some German (B1), but it's been a few years since I had classes and those posts help me brush up my German (though they are a bit advanced for my level).
Trouble with ich_iel is that they usually translate English words literally into German. Even names or English words that exist in German. The worse the translation the better.
So, uh, don't learn everything from them.
... What German posts?
Lemmy tags all posts with the language they are written in. Most clients filter any posts not of your selected languages by default. Hence, there is a good chance you never notice German posts.
Oh, yeah, I forgot about that setting. Since that specific setting says, "If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content," I just assumed most people didn't select a language when they post. Since I still have "Undetermined" selected, I'd assumed I'd still see some foreign language posts.
I just blocked the communities 😅
Deutschland vereinig dich gegen den unhöflichen Angelsachsen!
I took spanish in school but if I had to do over would have likely done french but german is second choice.
