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04 September 2006

Are you German and Don't think you need to learn English? Hysterical German TV advert for an english school. Warning - NSFW soundtrack. My labor day gift to you.

post by: funmonkey1 at: 11:17 | 9 comments

Looks like Swedish or some other Scandinavian language to me.

posted by matildaben 04 September | 12:41

The commercial was Dutch. The website that hosted this particular version of it is Swedish.

posted by kmellis 04 September | 12:50

Yes the service hosting it is Swedish, but I didn't realise it was Dutch! Silly me. That's what I get for being Norwegian :)

Still funny though.

posted by funmonkey1 04 September | 14:11

I'm only 1/4 Norwegian so my disdain of the Swedes was not enough to blind me. :)

posted by kmellis 04 September | 14:15

isn't 'tysk' Swedish for German? So the hosting site got it wrong as well?

posted by altolinguistic 04 September | 16:37

tysk is indeed svensk for german. So they got it wrong as well.

I was too busy laughing and just took the headline at face value "Reklam för tysk språkskola" as it translates exactly to "Advertisement for German language school".

posted by funmonkey1 04 September | 16:47

That was HILARIOUS!!!!!

posted by recovering iowan 04 September | 21:16

That had me laughing out loud. Thanks, funmonkey1!

posted by sveskemus 05 September | 04:50

Scandinavia represent!

posted by sveskemus 05 September | 04:52

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