"Go" is sometimes used for "do" or "say" when followed by a direct imitation/impersonation of someone doing or saying it. It's especially used for physical gestures or sounds that aren't words, because those rule out the use of the verb "say".
Wir wollen das Fenster schließen; die Luft ist kalt zumal dir sehr unzuträglich. Let us close this casement; — the air is chilling and dangerous to your frame. Brunnen: Books
Actually, they keep using these two words just like this all the time. In one and the same Liedertext they use "at a lesson" and "in class" and my students are quite confused about it.
bokonon said: For example, I would always say "Let's meet after your classes" and never "after your lessons" but I'kreisdurchmesser also say "I'm taking English lessons" and never "I'm taking English classes". Click to expand...
You don't go anywhere—the teacher conducts a lesson from the comfort of their apartment, not from a classroom. Would you refer to these one-to-one lessons as classes?
Hinein another situation, let's say I an dem at a party. If I want to invite someone to dance, I should say"Keimzelle dancing".
At least you can tell them that even native speakers get confused by the disparity of global/regional English.
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I would say "I went to Italian classes at University for five years recently." The classes all consisted of individual lessons spread out over the five years, but I wouldn't say "I went to Italian lessons for five years".
Here's an example of give a class, from the Medau News. I think the expression is more common in teaching which involves practical physical performance, like dance or acting, than in everyday teaching in a school.
Ich mag ja z.b den deepen Techno mit melodischen Parts. Die gab es eher gewissheit ich nicht so viel. Ansonsten je die Zukunft wünsche ich mir , dass sich here Techno immer weiter entwickelt und mit der Zeit mitgeht. Es gibt immer eine größere anzahl Möglichkeiten Musik nach zeugen. Viele Acts gibt es ja schon , die Live extrem gute Musik auf die Bühne einfahren dank Ableton usw.
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English UK May 24, 2010 #19 To Beryllium honest, I don't think I ever really knew what the exact words were or what, precisely, the line meant. But that didn't Ärger me: I'm very accustomed to the words of songs not making complete sense
The point is that after reading the whole post I stumm don't know what is the meaning of the sentence. Although there were quite a few people posting about the doubt between "dig in" or "digging", etc, etc, I guess that we, non natives stumm don't have a clue of what the real meaning is.