Introduction Hi from Germany!

[FraRa]

Hello everyone!
After a short break, I'm now focusing intensively on my saxophones again (tenor and alto) and am looking for exchange/inspiration/news on the topic. I'm currently trying out artificial intelligence for compositions, but I always play the saxophones myself!
I particularly enjoy playing jazz and bossa nova. Recordings are made in my own small recording studio at home in a village near Berlin.
I'm self-taught and an amateur and don't play in a band or sell music - it's all a pure hobby that's a lot of fun.

 

[Jeanette]

Welcome to the café looking forward to hearing more from you.

You might want to join in on our monthly recording thread 🙂

Jx

 

[Tenor Viol]

Hi welcome

 

[Digger2054]

Willkommen, mein Deutsch ist nicht gut.

All I can say in German is a handful of sentences I learnt to scrape through a GCSE exam. 😀 20+ years later I can still remember most of it.

 

[FraRa]

I can speak English fairly well, and have often been to the UK and the USA, but I often just use the fact that the browser here translates the entire forum into German in real time, for example. That also encourages me to look around internationally. The German saxophone forum is good (and there are good saxophones from Germany), but it is becoming increasingly easier to look around the world. I think that is good. I will, pardon me, read more than write here too, because that gives me input.

 

[Digger2054]

I'm quite embarrassed by my German, and more broadly by how poorly people can speak another language when leaving school.

When travelling abroad, I'm impressed by the amount of people who can speak English, at a level where they can converse. Not just people who work in tourism. I was chatting with a saxophone technician in the far east, about all things saxophones, vintage saxes.

I left school able tell you my name and that I lived in a semi detached house with my parents... We were taught to pass an exam.

 

[mizmar]

abroad, I'm impressed by the amount of people who can speak English, at a level where they can converse.

Here - in Norway - when the local kids knock on the door for something... They talk to me in English 😐

 

[FraRa]

That will probably not happen in Germany (according to my observations)... I fear that the willingness to learn other languages will decrease precisely because of the ever better and faster online translation.