| Crystalchild said: japanese (to be able to play JP only games) or german (To gain the ability to yell "NEIN" like a native).
edit: Like some people already said, due to the similarities, german might be quite simple to learn. the only pain might be learning the german articles ~
The definite articles in German refer to specific persons, objects, ideas…etc. and they are : der, die, das, die (plural) they all mean the expression “the” in English, der is used for masculine nouns, die is used for feminine nouns, das is used for neuter nouns, and finally die used also for plural nouns. ( http://german.speak7.com/german_articles.htm ) funfact: pretty much every game console except for the Gamecube, N64, NES and SNES (if i recall correctly that is) do have the feminine article, "die". (Yes, its written as "to die") while the 4 Nintendo consoles mentioned have the masculine "der". (except for if you spell it out, the word "system" turns the nes and snes into neutral words, and are therefore not masculine anymore. :P) But yeah, in a nutshell nintendo is DA MAN (except for the wii, she's a her :P), while sony and microsoft only have girly machines. |
German is not the only language with 3 articles. French also has three they are different tho the third one is not neuter/neutral it is for words that begin with A E I O U or H l'ordinateur (the computer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_%28grammar%29
P.S. (off topic)
Your console article thing is incorrect. "Die Wii" is not the correct term "Die" was never officially said it was carried over by the new players and some console switchers whose consoles were always female like "Die Xbox" "Die Playstation" etc. and by people who just believe Wikipedia without knowing whats going on.
The German Wikipedia is a bunch of Idiots that refuse to remove this false statement that Wii is female. They think its good to add inofficial information and remove everyones attempt to correct it. And in other parts of Wikipedia they do it the exact other way around. They wont add anything if you cant prove it how stupid.....
IMHO We should go by what the Manual says. The manual implies that Wii in German has a special status like GOOGLE etc. You cant use "the google" you just use "google".
If you still have the manual of a day1 console. The whole manual does not name the Wii with any kind of article. All articles that are mentioned there refer to the second part of the compound words (words made up by adding more than 1 word. Example: Die Wii-konsole/Die Wiimote ) in this case "die" refers to Konsole or Fernbedienung which is remote.
Another big problem here is that alot of people who have no Idea that the Wikipedia entry is false see it and also spread wrong information. The same thing happend with WiiU WiiU was not even mentioned by any German Nintendo representaative and everyone already calls it "Die WiiU" Thiis happend minutes after the name was made public. And "die WiiU" can already be seen on Wikipedia . totally stupid.
SORRY for going off-topic. Wont happen again.
