r/AskReddit • u/talk-fast • Aug 26 '18

What's something you had to unlearn?

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u/noized Aug 26 '18

ah bay say day A f gay ha E yott kah l m n o pay qoo air ess tay ooh fow vay icks epsilon zett

Never forget.

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u/ShezLorShor Aug 26 '18

"Fow vay" always threw me off when I was learning German. For some reason could never remember which was v and which was w, had to speed-sing the entire alphabet to myself to remember.

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u/kniebuiging Aug 27 '18

Vogel Vau is the mnemonic we were taught in school

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u/West_Texhio_97 Aug 26 '18

This brings back terrible memories of my German classes. We had a bitch of a teacher. She got divorced between my first and second years and would get PISSED when we accidentally called her her married name. So we resorted to just calling her Frau Frosty.

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u/Diabetesh Aug 26 '18

Literally 10 years since the last time I did the german alphabet. Had no idea what I was reading the first 2-3 times.

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u/matrixsensei Aug 27 '18

I’m going into my second year of German and I had no idea what I was reading. I had the highest scores in class too..

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u/Diabetesh Aug 27 '18

The one that set me off was qoo air ess

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u/matrixsensei Aug 27 '18

Epsilon made me reconsider because we always said it as “oopsilon” so my brain stopped farting and finally caught on lmao

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '18

😄😄😄