I made another little film with Xtranormal today, and this one’s in German and English.
If there are any mistakes in the German, please let me know.
I suppose the aim of these films is the demonstrate how to use some basic phrases in various languages. It should be possible to work out what the non-English parts mean from the English parts, though I do provide full transcripts on YouTube. I usually slip in a reference or two to hovercrafts and eels and use other ‘useful’ phrases to make them amusing and memorable.
Xtranormal supports 10 different languages at the moment, plus a number of language varieties like American, British and Australian English, French of France and Quebec, Spanish of Spain and Mexico, etc, and I plan to make films using all of them. The free version of the site only lets you have two characters per film and each one can speak a different language.
there are some mistakes in the german:
it’s “fahrzeuge” not “fahrzeugen” (0:22 from the end)
and “es war nett mit ihnen zu sprechen” not “es war nett mit sie zu sprechen” (about 0:15 from the end).
apart from that it was perfect. very nice!
Another tiny quibble: the same problem exists in the title of this post—the nominative plural is Luftkissenfahrzeuge.
Luftkissenfahrzeugen can only be the dative plural.
Other than that it’s wunderbar.
@ Luise:
Your name suggests that you’re a native speaker, so I run a serious risk of saying something stupid here, but doesn’t mit always go with the 3rd case; i.e., Ihnen?
Whoops, sorry Luise: I see now that’s exactly what you were saying. Entschuldigung, es wird nicht wieder passieren.