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> awful German language Ich komm dir gleich rüber! /s Speaking and writing German is a bit complicated but for rudimentary understanding of texts you do not n
by foepys 6y ago
> awful German language
Ich komm dir gleich rüber! /s
Speaking and writing German is a bit complicated but for rudimentary understanding of texts you do not need to know as many words as in English.
If you are looking for Computer Science there are many English lectures available.
- philshem 6y agoIt’s a 19th century essay from Mark Twain about the difficulties learning German as an English speaker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Awful_German_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Awful_German_Language The title translated into German is "Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache" ("The Horrors of the German Language") which is more appropriate.
- wadkar 6y agoDeutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache
- ben_w 6y agoIt was surprising to see that phrase in Duolingo, but far more surprising to hear a native German speaker using it in the workplace.
- aitait 6y agoI don't think German is really difficult. Some things are strange for an English speaker: declension, therefore flexible word order and gender is more elusive compared to Spanish. There is a saying: "Hungarian... the only tongue in the world the devil respects."
- uoaei 6y agoSpecialist vocabulary for specific disciplines is also quite graspable. (Disclaimer: I say this as a physicist, where all the German words for physics concepts are quite straightforward.)