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German would definitely be problematic but it's still likely to be one of the least affected, especially in the English -> German direction, and nearly every wo
by vinay427 6y ago
German would definitely be problematic but it's still likely to be one of the least affected, especially in the English -> German direction, and nearly every word would at least has a clear translation. Virtually any sentence in an SOV (or less common, OSV) language would be essentially unworkable while maintaining word order.
- bobthepanda 6y agoGerman SV2O is still very jarring to me as a language learner; I just can‘t get used to looking forward in the sentence to decipher the verb, as compared to English.
- vinay427 6y agoDefinitely, as a fellow German learner. The "flexibility" or unpredictability of word order, largely due to the greater inflection based on grammatical case, makes it much more challenging unless one is a native speaker who can probably more intuitively decipher the roles of each word.
- herbst 6y agoAlso one sentence order might sound right in the one region and totally awkward in another. As a native speaker its mainly intuitive