>Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s most northern state, is starting its switch from
Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux
on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions. >Concerns over data
security are also front and center in the Minister-President’s statement,
especially data that may make its way to other countries. Back in 2021, when the
transition plans were first being drawn up, the hardware requirements for
Windows 11 were also mentioned as a reason to move away from Microsoft.
>Saunders noted that “the reasons for switching to Linux and LibreOffice are
different today. Back when LiMux started, it was mostly seen as a way to save
money. Now the focus is far more on data protection, privacy and security.
Consider that the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) recently found that
the European Commission’s use of Microsoft 365 breaches data protection law for
EU institutions and bodies.”
This makes me want to learn German
If you know English, you know a good bit of German. The sentence structure gets a bit weird (monolingual American here, but I’m trying). Pick up Duolingo and get at it.
And don’t stop or the owl will kill you.
I mean, halt nicht an oder sonst bringt dich die Eule an.
The owl takes you around the corner to shoot you.
“Um die Ecke bringen” also equals killing in german.
Aber sonst komplett richtig.
Vielen dank. Ich habe 600 tage mit Duolingo aber kein geleigenheit zum ueben.
Google uebersetzen hilfen.
Hi fellow Ami learning German!
It took me a number of years to get to fluency but the biggest things that helped me were the following:
uses classes/tools to learn the basic grammar so that you can recognize more or less what is going on (even if you don’t always understand the individual words)
switch as much media consumption as possible to be exclusively German. I spent 6 months watch exclusively German shows/TV, reading German news, listening to German music. Eventually I kind of trained myself to switch my inner-monologue to German whenever I wanted.
After that it’s just practice practice practice. Also it helped me a ton to stop worrying about getting everything “right” when speaking. Better to speak fluently while occasionally fucking up the der/die/das than to stumble because I’m stressing over every sentence!