I have to say, I always liked how strict German is about how to say things, at least when learning it as a second language. It made it a whole lot easier to lea

I have to say, I always liked how strict German is about how to say things, at least when learning it as a second language. It made it a whole lot easier to learn, rather than a language where there are 10 different ways to say the same thing. I'm also a big fan of how few tenses are used colloquially--for instance, very few people actually use the future tense. You just have to add a time ("tomorrow", "in 2 years", etc.) to qualify a sentence as referring to the future.