Today I watched an episode of the Simpsons, where Bart was extremely fat and he was shown how his parents had to earn money to finance his stay at a health-camp on order to cause him a guilty conscience.

Well, they had to accommodate Rucksackdeutsche. Bart was really shocked, when he saw those guys - backpackers from Germany. I had to laugh so much, they were drawn and animated so typically Those people are really hard to bear

Well, is it a commonly used term, Rucksackdeutsche? I watched the episode in german language, so I can't know But I would not wonder about it

This post was last modified: 22.12.2007 01:31 by Malone.

I'm an Australian, though we speak English, we get the Simpsons in American

No, I've never heard of it before. In that ep the German backpackers are referred to as German Backpackers....what actual part of it did you hear that phrase?

Sorry, I do not understand this sentence

Can you remember when in the episode did you hear the word "Rucksackdeutsche"?

I an NZer, but I bet you it would have meant German Backpackers - as rucksack is another name for a backpack, oh and by the way - I love that episode!

Yes, just in the moment when Bart saw those people in the garden

This episode really well. In english language a lot better than german, because homer sings the song 99 luftballons in german...

And Homer sings the song in perfect German with no accent. It's great! Dan Castellaneta, who does the voice of Homer must speak German.

Unfortunately my English is not good enough, to understand everything in English movies :hm:

It's difficult to reach native-level fluency in English. So many sayings, double meanings, slang, regional differences, and that's just American English. British English can be hard for me to understand sometimes!

High German seems to be easier to reach native fluency, but hard to get started with. Well, I've had a hard time with it over the past few years. At least people say my pronunciation is perfect!