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Originally Posted by OctobersBlackRose
My book is basically for basic things, it's not too in dept (though it has over 300 pages), but it's good for beginning things. Right now I'm on the telling time lesson, and we here in the U.S. only use the 12hr time system, and we break that up into am/pm to avoid misunderstanding, but (and I don't knpw if it's like this for other European countries as well), Germany hses both the 12hr and 24hr time systems, so the book will teach how to tell/ask the time in both systems. I just started the lesson though so I don't know how long it is or anything.
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I suppose there's some nuances. Although the time-related topic I find the most vexing in foreign languages is telling the year. I mean, yesterday I think I spent at least half an hour on that, with the single Welsh sentence I managed to figure out... It's less dire with German since at least it uses a single numbering system (as opposed to, you could say, 3 different ones in Welsh). And is, indeed, relatively similar to English. Especially with words for "thousand" and "hundred", of which it similarly tends to avoid the "thousand", as I've come to think simply a cumbersome word to pronounce.