Amy's speech: better, yet worse

[pne]

Amy's speech is quite a bit more intelligible now (even to untrained outsiders); at the same time, she seems to be more self-conscious about her speech and will occasionally refuse to say something she can't say "properly", rather than simply giving it her best attempt.

It's occasionally possible to trick her, though :)

Sample exchange from today:

Stella: Sag mal „Benjamin“.
Amy (who finds this name difficult to pronounce, tries to avoid saying it): Das darf ich nicht sagen!
Stella: Was darfst du nicht sagen?
Amy: „Nemmin“ darf ich nicht sagen!

Comments

[otana.livejournal.com]

AWWWWWW! That is so adorable!

[pthalo]

what does "nemmin" mean? i got the rest with my rusty german.

[pthalo]

(for honesty sake, i don't know darf either, but it didn't seem as important as nemmin)

[pne.livejournal.com]

"Nemmin" is simply her mispronunciation of "Benjamin".

And "dürfen" is "to be allowed to", so "ich darf nicht ..." is "I may not .../I'm not allowed to ....": she's claiming not to be allowed to say "Benjamin", as an explanation of why she's refusing to say it.

[pthalo]

oh that is really cute :)

I think I was seeing nemmin and thinking nehmen, which sounded like a german word i learned a long to go. and it's either giving or taking. :)

[pne.livejournal.com]

Yep, "nehmen" is "take".

[pne.livejournal.com]

(And "geben" is "give".)