Discuss the Article : 10 German Idiomatic Expressions With Animals
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Idiomatic expressions can often be considered “the icing on the cake” when you are learning a foreign language. However, in order to avoid embarrassing situations, you need to be very sure about their meaning and about which contexts they can be used in. Many idiomatic expressions are only used in an informal setting, and some may be impolite or even rude. Then again, some may be unexpectedly neutral or complimentary. Let's take a look at the many ways you can compare people to animals in German, negatively and positively.

I may be a bit stupid as far as statistics are concerned but this leader board doesn't make sense to me. Angola first? How can that be? I checked some of the Angolan member profiles and didn't even find one person who ever took paid lessons. And the USA after Mauritius or Vietnam? Same with the language ranking. At least 3 people have to learn the language or it won't appear on the leader board. Here we have first Tagalog, first Romanian and Slovak in the 4th place. Why do there have to be at least 3 participants? And why list average numbers? I'd find it much more interesting to see a member ranking and a ranking of total hours per country/language. Of course, I'm selfish because I'm likely to be the only with Hungarian but do so many hours that I find it a pity they're nowhere included. What does anyone else think?
