Does this sound strange?

Question

My wife's cousin in Germany (they are both from the Philippines)lives in Germany and e-mails my wife in German...mostly cards and send them to my wife (we both don't speak German) my wife can't read the computer as she is legal blind and when I get an e-mail from her cousin and tell her its in German she get annoyed but does not tell her cousin..i just send a reply saying :"sorry we don't speak German" but they (in Germany_) think i should i guess as my relatives all came from Germany...yeah about a hundred years ago! but i never learned this language as its hard enough for me in English///whats a good response to them besides sorry we don't understand German? thanks for any good advice.

p.s. we have both been to germany a few years ago and they have both been here together in the us and they know we don't know any german words//??

Answer 1

Send them e-mail and tell them in "English" you don't understand any words in German. Translating this e-mails cost so much money, don't do that.

If they don't understand any English they can go to the Trans later.

Answer 2

I would tell them you don't understand and if they can't send in language you do understand that you will not answer anymore e-mails.  It may sound harsh, but maybe it is the only way to make them understand.  Hey I lived there 3 years and I haven't got a clue about that language.

Answer 3

es tut mir leid, ich verstehe kein Deutsch! "I am sorry, I do not understand German."

Answer 4

Use babelfish translator, you should get the gist of it.

Answer 5

okay.

Answer 6

take the cards to translater :)

Answer 7

maybe  they  can  not speak  englsih  ..if  they  do  then  be  straight and  tell  them  that you  find it rude

Answer 8

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Answer 9

Oh well...Yeah, It sounds too strange!

They must be out of their mind.

Just hope & pray that one day those people will stop being a coward & realize that they are being ridiculous since they all know you don't speak that language. Good luck! (- -,)

Answer 10

reply every time by starting with 'bitte, schreiben sie nur in englisch' -pls write only in english- then bombard them in english. not few and short comments but really a novel so if they do not get the message then they are simply dumbkopfs

Answer 11

go to www.freetranslations.com and copy/paste the text in the box provided. Click "from German to English" and it will translate for you.

However, some words have different meanings, but it will be close enough that you can figure out what they're trying to tell you.

Answer 12

Leider kann meine Frau den PC nicht lesen, und ich verstehe nur ein wenig Deutsch, aber kann nicht spechen oder schreiben.

Koennen Sie uns bitte auf Englisch schreiben?  Vielen Dank.

Translates to:

Unfortunatly, my wife can't read the PC and I understand only a bit of German, but can't read or speak it.

Could you please write to us in English?  Thank you.