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I though English was difficult until I had to learn German

• bryanrasmussen 7y ago
  They're closely related - like your two uncles, the German is a strict disciplinarian that it is hard not to find offputting, the English is quite enjoyable and chummy, but erratic, whimsical, and so apt to go off on flights of fancy that after an enjoyable conversation you are not sure what was really said. There has never been an enjoyable conversation with the German uncle. on edit: damn these English typos!
  • japanoise 7y ago
    That's a cute analogy. Sounds like my maternal and paternal grandfathers :)
  • sajithdilshan 7y ago
    German might be a strict disciplinarian, but mostly illogical when it comes to * Articles (Der, Die, Das) which you need to know correctly in order to form a correct sentence with nominative, akkusative and dative objects. * Plural of the nouns (maybe after a while you would get a feeling of it, but not as easy as adding an 's' to the end of the noun like English) You just have to remember a lot of stuff :-(
• forinti 7y ago
  What's great about German is the spelling is consistent. I know that, because I could ace my dictation tests without understanding a good deal of what I was writing.
  • Wildgoose 7y ago
    That's because they regularised the spelling. Many languages have undergone spelling reforms, e.g. Irish Gaelic in 1948, (if I remember correctly). English is now a World Language rather than a property of the English, and so this no longer appears possible.
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