Why Americans are so disliked

Well, 3/4 of our relatives are Austrians. Usually, I understand anyone's English better than their "German".

Swiss German always sounds very fast to me (and is even less understandable than Austrian German [most Swiss German tv programs have German sub-titles] ... besides, it's spoken by someone from Bern.

There's no way around it Walter.

German just isn't one of the pretty-sounding languages.

I notice it when I hear recordings of myself speaking German vs speaking French or English.

Hamburgboy's teacher was right 80 years ago when he said spoken German sounded like dogs barking.

This lady was a schoolgirl right up until the last months of the war, when she was drafted into an anti aircraft battery which was sited in her school grounds.
She received a uniform of sorts and a helmet twice the size of her head, but never received training as to how to use the gun.
They hung around for a few weeks, watching planes going overhead and not knowing whether they were friend or foe, until her Grandfather came one night and kidnapped her, taking her up the mountain with the rest of the family until the Allies had pushed through.
He had a small cabin up there and had stocked it with tinned food over the years.
An English sargeant caught her eye and she came to live here. She now speaks Cockstrian, a sort of mix between Cockney and her native tongue.

80 or so years old and she still does a full day in the garden. Tough, these mountain girls.

I do not know as we have lost contact - due to that we are not in facebook

Maybe that is the reason I feel home in Maine - the slow way.

Hier und gemütlich are spoken so much faster than the Swedish
Här och trivsamt (written)
Häär åå triivsaamt (spoken at least in certain areas. People from Stockholm speak very fast)

Then Lee there's "persuade," abandoned for "convince," which of course doesn't mean the same thing

…to make principle payments

would largely be left alone

she was laying beside the road

pick-up truck

as a principle and district superintendent

wildfire beared down on them

Now I know where he teaches - Kyungpook

Ah, that's a pretty good university, I think. Pretty well ranked locally, if I'm not mistaken.

Good to know - he has been in Korea for a few years now.
My question if we are related was not so far fetched.

Metaphorically related? Because I sure haven't married no dood.

My husbond was kind of sceptical to what he did in Korea.

Well, whatever he did or is doing, it's not me.

Kyungpook U.
Their teams are the "fighting...?"

Cocks?

What I have always liked about English is the many ways you can tell someone to go to hell and have him look forward to the trip.

The American language sometimes was good, but most of the time wasn't. Imagine, sometimes they change the spelling and even the meaning too. How children become more knowledgeable if they will not learn proper?

If they will not learn proper . . . What?

If they will not learn proper like, and all that, and everything.

If children will not learn proper, there are ways of making the little perishers' lives a burden to them . . .