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It's almost impossible to learn German

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impressive shivering stead jew
  01/26/18
I took reading German in grad school and it's not very hard....
Sinister aqua whorehouse
  01/26/18
I did as well -- for Graduate Reading Knowledge. I liked it,...
Stimulating Background Story
  01/26/18
same. learning the grammar and whatever special vocabulary t...
mauve comical bawdyhouse
  01/26/18
Speaking it is hard. Try spelling the words - jfc.
Amber rigor theater stage
  01/26/18
Verkampfterbungenlingtaufhausen
bisexual cruel-hearted gunner box office
  01/26/18
(anti-semite)
Flatulent black woman ticket booth
  01/26/18
Spelling isn't hard. It's a pretty phonetic language. Even t...
Mind-boggling house crotch
  01/26/18
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self-centered genital piercing
  01/26/18
The grammar is hard
galvanic native windowlicker
  01/26/18
The grammar rules are complicated but can be mastered and me...
Mind-boggling house crotch
  01/26/18
true but ljl at trying to do table lookups in real time
lilac legend
  01/26/18
They write super long sentences that form an entire paragrap...
Cerise Alcoholic Nursing Home Deer Antler
  07/06/25
All the "cases" and whatnot can be confusing, but ...
bisexual cruel-hearted gunner box office
  01/26/18
I didn't think french was bad at all. What was harder about ...
dead slimy dilemma
  01/26/18
Everything. Spelling, pronunciation etc.
bisexual cruel-hearted gunner box office
  01/26/18
Regular-speed spoken casual french is hard as fuck to unders...
buff cerebral giraffe sanctuary
  01/26/18
written French is a pleasure spoken French is an incompreh...
garnet insanely creepy dog poop
  07/06/25
do you just mean phonetically? french grammar is ljl easy
mauve comical bawdyhouse
  01/26/18
its like learning spanish, but with fucked up spelling/pronu...
dead slimy dilemma
  01/26/18
French is easy as fuck. Grammar rules, etc make more sense t...
Scarlet provocative preventive strike sweet tailpipe
  01/26/18
(trilingual guy bagging groceries)
Talented disturbing menage digit ratio
  01/26/18
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brass razzle quadroon
  01/26/18
(Trilingual guy bagging groceries incapable of bagging cunni...
brass razzle quadroon
  01/26/18
He's not a bagger
galvanic native windowlicker
  01/26/18
Lol he's the cart gatherer?
Mind-boggling house crotch
  01/26/18
No, but the retarded kid he molests is.
Boyish dragon stock car
  01/26/18
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bisexual cruel-hearted gunner box office
  01/26/18
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electric casino famous landscape painting
  01/26/18
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self-centered genital piercing
  01/26/18
I learned German as a hobby. Its not that hard. Can't spe...
Histrionic Pea-brained Degenerate Twinkling Uncleanness
  01/26/18
What little German I've studied struck me as incredibly easy...
dashing church building
  01/26/18
That's ridiculous. I'm sure you've looked into French and It...
Mind-boggling house crotch
  01/26/18
Italian is easy; French is fairly difficult. I speak native ...
dashing church building
  01/26/18
julia effortlessly identifying massive german compound verbs...
mauve comical bawdyhouse
  01/26/18
I don't know what the fuck it is about French, but I've give...
dashing church building
  01/26/18
I don't understand why you find French so hard if you know I...
pontificating area
  01/26/18
Julia picking up languages and adding them to her trophy cas...
glittery sienna den partner
  01/26/18
Arabic: I'm half Arab and have family in the Middle East Fr...
dashing church building
  01/26/18
I'm re-learning/brushing up and I 100% agree. The prepositio...
irate mental disorder address
  01/26/18
The prepositions are difficult because many cognate with Eng...
Histrionic Pea-brained Degenerate Twinkling Uncleanness
  01/26/18
yep
irate mental disorder address
  01/26/18
3 genders in german v. 2 in french, and a more developed cas...
mauve comical bawdyhouse
  01/26/18
it's really almost 4 because the plural is kind of a gender ...
irate mental disorder address
  01/26/18
Which is still easier than Ukrainian (and I assume Russian i...
Histrionic Pea-brained Degenerate Twinkling Uncleanness
  01/26/18
not saying German is the hardest language out there.
irate mental disorder address
  01/26/18
this makes it a lot easier, actually. in latin all the plura...
mauve comical bawdyhouse
  01/26/18
There's other shit that gets more advanced that no one bothe...
Mind-boggling house crotch
  01/26/18
i agree, n-declension is annoying. knowing when certain v...
irate mental disorder address
  01/26/18
N-nomen is a minor, minor grammatical point that hardly matt...
Histrionic Pea-brained Degenerate Twinkling Uncleanness
  01/26/18
The point is that there is a declination of nouns in the Ger...
Mind-boggling house crotch
  01/26/18
No. In German there are tiny vestigial traces of nominal dec...
Histrionic Pea-brained Degenerate Twinkling Uncleanness
  01/26/18
How is this responsive? These things exist, and I'm not sure...
Mind-boggling house crotch
  01/26/18
English possessive formation ('s) is technically nominal inf...
Histrionic Pea-brained Degenerate Twinkling Uncleanness
  01/26/18
Very scholarly sub thread
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  06/09/21
How do you feel about RSF having confirmed sock puppets that...
big idea he suggested locus
  01/26/18
LOL at German being "incredibly easy."
buff cerebral giraffe sanctuary
  01/26/18
Some languages start out easy and then you fall off a cliff ...
Cerise Alcoholic Nursing Home Deer Antler
  07/06/25
its the opposite. German starts off hard with having to know...
Disrespectful bistre wagecucks
  07/06/25
I took German 1 my senior year of high school. It was pretty...
Scarlet provocative preventive strike sweet tailpipe
  01/26/18
No, its not. The orthography is highly regular and all the ...
Histrionic Pea-brained Degenerate Twinkling Uncleanness
  01/26/18
I thought it was a pain in the ass. I took French for 3 year...
Scarlet provocative preventive strike sweet tailpipe
  01/26/18
it's much easier than french or english, both of which i had...
doobsian filthy center
  01/26/18
Bullshit on French. French is much easier.
Slate weed whacker
  01/26/18
Its depends on what your native language is. The weird word...
Histrionic Pea-brained Degenerate Twinkling Uncleanness
  01/26/18
"La" and "le" is ways easier than die, d...
Slate weed whacker
  01/26/18
Again, if your native language is inflectional learning a 4x...
Histrionic Pea-brained Degenerate Twinkling Uncleanness
  01/26/18
now THIS is a low-iq thread if ever I've seen one
clear zombie-like double fault
  01/26/18
cr, especially after I've freely shared with the bort the 5 ...
pontificating area
  01/26/18
don't recall these, but the trick is immersion. Took me 6 mo...
clear zombie-like double fault
  01/26/18
which one?
self-centered genital piercing
  01/26/18
Finngolian.
clear zombie-like double fault
  01/26/18
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Frozen Organic Girlfriend Property
  01/26/18
I rika Germoney, but a sperring Germoney is a harda. Guta T...
Frozen Organic Girlfriend Property
  01/26/18
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Boyish dragon stock car
  01/26/18
OP must be a gook. German should be easy to pick up if y...
contagious institution
  01/26/18
you calling mark twain a gook? https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gba...
mauve comical bawdyhouse
  01/26/18
Devestating
razzle-dazzle bronze mad cow disease
  01/26/18
"I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in on...
irate mental disorder address
  01/26/18
lol
Disrespectful bistre wagecucks
  07/06/25
this was 180
buff cerebral giraffe sanctuary
  01/26/18
The Germans have another kind of parenthesis, which they mak...
mauve comical bawdyhouse
  01/26/18
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poppy appetizing messiness
  06/09/21
LMAO
Disrespectful bistre wagecucks
  07/06/25
nothing wrong with this tbqh it's poetic
garnet insanely creepy dog poop
  07/07/25
English people still write convoluted bullshit like this. It...
Cerise Alcoholic Nursing Home Deer Antler
  07/07/25
This is basically an XO-ism
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  07/07/25
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fragrant ocher clown
  01/26/18
in casual conversation you can just say "duh" inst...
at-the-ready rigpig
  01/26/18
No one thought to write anything good or important in German...
Cerise Alcoholic Nursing Home Deer Antler
  07/06/25
Lmfao German is one of the easiest languages to learn. It's ...
Opaque newt factory reset button
  07/07/25
Outed as a loser who never studied Japanese for one minute.
Cerise Alcoholic Nursing Home Deer Antler
  07/07/25
(lex tp)
crystalline senate international law enforcement agency
  07/07/25


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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:28 AM
Author: impressive shivering stead jew



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243024)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:28 AM
Author: Sinister aqua whorehouse

I took reading German in grad school and it's not very hard. But speaking? Gadzooks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243028)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:30 AM
Author: Stimulating Background Story

I did as well -- for Graduate Reading Knowledge. I liked it, very structured and the rules were easier to follow than Spanish, with all the exceptions etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243047)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:31 AM
Author: mauve comical bawdyhouse

same. learning the grammar and whatever special vocabulary there is for a couple of academic fields is pretty easy. no idea how to learn to produce it with any speed.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243051)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:29 AM
Author: Amber rigor theater stage

Speaking it is hard. Try spelling the words - jfc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243033)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:29 AM
Author: bisexual cruel-hearted gunner box office

Verkampfterbungenlingtaufhausen

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243038)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:06 AM
Author: Flatulent black woman ticket booth

(anti-semite)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243407)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:32 AM
Author: Mind-boggling house crotch

Spelling isn't hard. It's a pretty phonetic language. Even the grammar isn't hard, it's pretty mathematical

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243058)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:33 AM
Author: self-centered genital piercing



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243068)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:55 AM
Author: galvanic native windowlicker

The grammar is hard

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243282)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:05 AM
Author: Mind-boggling house crotch

The grammar rules are complicated but can be mastered and memorized like a multiplication table

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243398)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:19 PM
Author: lilac legend

true but ljl at trying to do table lookups in real time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35245598)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:44 PM
Author: Cerise Alcoholic Nursing Home Deer Antler

They write super long sentences that form an entire paragraph, forcing you to go back and reverse engineer the whole thing to understand it. A lot of English people do this too. It's one reason medieval scholars forced Germans to write in Latin.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#49076945)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:29 AM
Author: bisexual cruel-hearted gunner box office

All the "cases" and whatnot can be confusing, but it's easier than French.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243034)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:33 AM
Author: dead slimy dilemma

I didn't think french was bad at all. What was harder about french?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243069)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:34 AM
Author: bisexual cruel-hearted gunner box office

Everything. Spelling, pronunciation etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243080)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:45 PM
Author: buff cerebral giraffe sanctuary

Regular-speed spoken casual french is hard as fuck to understand without years of tuning your ear due to the way words are blended together.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35245895)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:41 PM
Author: garnet insanely creepy dog poop

written French is a pleasure

spoken French is an incomprehensible nightmare imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#49076938)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:34 AM
Author: mauve comical bawdyhouse

do you just mean phonetically? french grammar is ljl easy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243076)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:36 AM
Author: dead slimy dilemma

its like learning spanish, but with fucked up spelling/pronunciation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243098)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:44 AM
Author: Scarlet provocative preventive strike sweet tailpipe

French is easy as fuck. Grammar rules, etc make more sense than english

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243165)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:46 AM
Author: Talented disturbing menage digit ratio

(trilingual guy bagging groceries)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243195)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:49 AM
Author: brass razzle quadroon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243214)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:50 AM
Author: brass razzle quadroon

(Trilingual guy bagging groceries incapable of bagging cunnilingus)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243223)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:54 AM
Author: galvanic native windowlicker

He's not a bagger

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243274)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:04 AM
Author: Mind-boggling house crotch

Lol he's the cart gatherer?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243389)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:50 AM
Author: Boyish dragon stock car

No, but the retarded kid he molests is.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243892)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:56 AM
Author: bisexual cruel-hearted gunner box office

?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243970)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:13 PM
Author: electric casino famous landscape painting



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35245524)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:32 AM
Author: self-centered genital piercing

edit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243064)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:35 AM
Author: Histrionic Pea-brained Degenerate Twinkling Uncleanness

I learned German as a hobby. Its not that hard. Can't speak it well because I have no one to speak it with.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243082)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:36 AM
Author: dashing church building

What little German I've studied struck me as incredibly easy - easier than any other language I've tried to learn.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243103)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:41 AM
Author: Mind-boggling house crotch

That's ridiculous. I'm sure you've looked into French and Italian.

I think the hardest thing about German is the prepositions. Here the rules don't really make any fucking sense, especially in combination with the trennbar verbs. You end up repeating prepositions twice in a sentence and it feels and looks ridiculous

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243143)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:44 AM
Author: dashing church building

Italian is easy; French is fairly difficult. I speak native Spanish, a smidge of Arabic, low-intermediate French, and high-intermediate/low advanced Italian. Introductory German was easier to me than any of these. I'll grant that the pronunciation is cumbersome, but French is arguably worse. I took a few years of French, and still don't understand a fucking word of it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243168)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:46 AM
Author: mauve comical bawdyhouse

julia effortlessly identifying massive german compound verbs and pleasurably navigating 6 line sentences with fucked up werden constructions, blown the fuck out by "difficult" french.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243201)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:48 AM
Author: dashing church building

I don't know what the fuck it is about French, but I've given up on that language. I'd rather dedicate my efforts where I see reasonable results - i.e.- picking up a little more Arabic and becoming more advanced in Italian. I may try Japanese in a few years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243209)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:52 AM
Author: pontificating area

I don't understand why you find French so hard if you know Italian. French people visiting Italy will order in French at restaurants and be understood.

My French is pretty good, and I was able to get to a lower intermediate level in Italian in less than 2 wks of intense study. They'are lexicons have a 90% concordance rate.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243249)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:54 AM
Author: glittery sienna den partner

Julia picking up languages and adding them to her trophy case. Why?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243271)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:12 AM
Author: dashing church building

Arabic: I'm half Arab and have family in the Middle East

French: Learning a language was a mandatory elective in MS/HS

Italian: Basically a free language when you speak Spanish, and I enjoy Italian culture & visiting

Japanese: Seems a fun challenge

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243450)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:47 AM
Author: irate mental disorder address

I'm re-learning/brushing up and I 100% agree. The prepositions are really hard.

The other hard part is of course all the endings for the genders and cases. No individual one is hard obviously, but you really have to know your genders and cases for every noun, and you have to apply it quickly especially when speaking.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243205)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:51 AM
Author: Histrionic Pea-brained Degenerate Twinkling Uncleanness

The prepositions are difficult because many cognate with English prepositions but used differently. Also, verbs with prepositions have altered meanings that can't be guessed from the preposition+verb.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243239)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:55 AM
Author: irate mental disorder address

yep

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243285)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:53 AM
Author: mauve comical bawdyhouse

3 genders in german v. 2 in french, and a more developed case system (although not at god awful as russian, from what people tell me). i don't get this argument at all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243261)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:56 AM
Author: irate mental disorder address

it's really almost 4 because the plural is kind of a gender as well in certain cases, particularly the dative

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243298)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:10 AM
Author: Histrionic Pea-brained Degenerate Twinkling Uncleanness

Which is still easier than Ukrainian (and I assume Russian is pretty similar) where the genders have their own plural forms (although masculine and neuter plural are very similar). So the German gender x case grid is 4x4=16 things to learn versus Ukrainian (3x2)x7 = 42 things to learn, and that's not even considering that there are multiple forms of nominative declensions....

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243436)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:12 AM
Author: irate mental disorder address

not saying German is the hardest language out there.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243455)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:20 AM
Author: mauve comical bawdyhouse

this makes it a lot easier, actually. in latin all the plurals are different, for instance, although there's sometimes a gendered/neuter split.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243544)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:04 AM
Author: Mind-boggling house crotch

There's other shit that gets more advanced that no one bothers to tell you about early on, with weak and strong verbs and N-Nomen (why do you say Mein Name ist, but then you say ich habe keinen Namen) and some verbs must be separated and some can't, even when the preposition part is the same.

English is very nuanced with prepositions as well, so that part is hard to understand for learners, but English is goddamn stupidly easy to get started and make yourself understood.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243385)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:12 AM
Author: irate mental disorder address

i agree, n-declension is annoying.

knowing when certain verbs are reflexive also drives me crazy. as does using sein for certain verbs in the perfekt.

i honestly wish i could just live over there for 6 months to a year. i'd come back fluent.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243451)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:16 AM
Author: Histrionic Pea-brained Degenerate Twinkling Uncleanness

N-nomen is a minor, minor grammatical point that hardly matters is everyday German.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243486)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:25 AM
Author: Mind-boggling house crotch

The point is that there is a declination of nouns in the German language. And like the gender of a noun, there's basically no way to ascertain what applies.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243581)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:31 AM
Author: Histrionic Pea-brained Degenerate Twinkling Uncleanness

No. In German there are tiny vestigial traces of nominal declension that are practically irrelevant for communication. Its not like Latin or Russian where not only are nouns fully declined, but each gender has multiple different declension schemes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243643)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:49 AM
Author: Mind-boggling house crotch

How is this responsive? These things exist, and I'm not sure how the fact that they exist more frequently in other languages means they must not be learned.

Now please, remove your quivering boistinker from my line of sight. I have no interest in pleasuring you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243873)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:21 PM
Author: Histrionic Pea-brained Degenerate Twinkling Uncleanness

English possessive formation ('s) is technically nominal inflection for the genitive case, but no one says English is nominally inflected, and neither is German in any meaningful way, faggit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35244267)



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Date: June 9th, 2021 8:53 PM
Author: fuchsia therapy site

Very scholarly sub thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#42601416)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:55 AM
Author: big idea he suggested locus

How do you feel about RSF having confirmed sock puppets that outed people and mocked all Asians as clitdicks? Do you still feel RSF is super chill?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243283)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:46 PM
Author: buff cerebral giraffe sanctuary

LOL at German being "incredibly easy."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35245918)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:48 PM
Author: Cerise Alcoholic Nursing Home Deer Antler

Some languages start out easy and then you fall off a cliff when you get to the grammar shit, other languages are the reverse. I'm told Tagalog has a steep initial learning curve, even though it seems like it would be easy to get started, whereas German starts off easy and then leads you in circles.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#49076953)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:56 PM
Author: Disrespectful bistre wagecucks

its the opposite. German starts off hard with having to know the artikeln and proper declension in akkusativ, dativ, genetiv, Konjunktive I & II, regelmassig u. unregelmassig verben, and so forth, but gets easier once you have those fundamentals down.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#49076968)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:43 AM
Author: Scarlet provocative preventive strike sweet tailpipe

I took German 1 my senior year of high school. It was pretty hard. Spelling all the crap correctly is a pain

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243158)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:45 AM
Author: Histrionic Pea-brained Degenerate Twinkling Uncleanness

No, its not. The orthography is highly regular and all the vowels are quite distinct (well except for u and u-umlaut)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243181)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: Scarlet provocative preventive strike sweet tailpipe

I thought it was a pain in the ass. I took French for 3 years with the same teacher and aced it with no effort which is why I took German. Romance languages make more sense imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243414)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:56 AM
Author: doobsian filthy center

it's much easier than french or english, both of which i had to learn.

the reason is because both german pronouciation and german grammar follow more regular rules.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243306)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:19 AM
Author: Slate weed whacker

Bullshit on French. French is much easier.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243519)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:22 AM
Author: Histrionic Pea-brained Degenerate Twinkling Uncleanness

Its depends on what your native language is. The weird word order in German which trips up English speakers may not be as big a deal for a non-English speakers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243549)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:24 AM
Author: Slate weed whacker

"La" and "le" is ways easier than die, das, der with all the tenses.

E.g.

Die Heimat is schoen.

Ich wohne in der Heimat.

All kinds of that stuff in German. It's tough.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243572)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:26 AM
Author: Histrionic Pea-brained Degenerate Twinkling Uncleanness

Again, if your native language is inflectional learning a 4x4 grid of inflections is not a big deal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35243589)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:59 AM
Author: clear zombie-like double fault

now THIS is a low-iq thread if ever I've seen one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35244009)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:01 PM
Author: pontificating area

cr, especially after I've freely shared with the bort the 5 SECRETS of SUCCESSFUL language learners that will surprise you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35244035)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:03 PM
Author: clear zombie-like double fault

don't recall these, but the trick is immersion. Took me 6 months to learn (up to a usable level) what's considered the hardest language using the Latin alphabet without any formal training, just full immersion.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35244066)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:23 PM
Author: self-centered genital piercing

which one?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35244279)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:25 PM
Author: clear zombie-like double fault

Finngolian.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35244299)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:04 PM
Author: Frozen Organic Girlfriend Property



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:08 PM
Author: Frozen Organic Girlfriend Property

I rika Germoney, but a sperring Germoney is a harda. Guta Taga!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35244120)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:22 PM
Author: Boyish dragon stock car



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35244270)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:24 PM
Author: contagious institution

OP must be a gook.

German should be easy to pick up if you're a native English speaker. After Frisian and Dutch/Afrikaans, it's the closest language to English.

I was able to pick up basic German very quickly by just memorizing the most common 100 words and putting it to use with english grammer and from there learning the grammer from actual use.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35244285)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:26 PM
Author: mauve comical bawdyhouse

you calling mark twain a gook?

https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35244307)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:16 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle bronze mad cow disease

Devestating

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35245564)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:24 PM
Author: irate mental disorder address

"I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective."

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35245662)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:33 PM
Author: Disrespectful bistre wagecucks

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#49076916)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:49 PM
Author: buff cerebral giraffe sanctuary

this was 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35245946)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 3:17 PM
Author: mauve comical bawdyhouse

The Germans have another kind of parenthesis, which they make by splitting a verb in two and putting half of it at the beginning of an exciting chapter and the other half at the end of it. Can any one conceive of anything more confusing than that? These things are called "separable verbs." The German grammar is blistered all over with separable verbs; and the wider the two portions of one of them are spread apart, the better the author of the crime is pleased with his performance. A favorite one is reiste ab -- which means departed. Here is an example which I culled from a novel and reduced to English:

"The trunks being now ready, he DE- after kissing his mother and sisters, and once more pressing to his bosom his adored Gretchen, who, dressed in simple white muslin, with a single tuberose in the ample folds of her rich brown hair, had tottered feebly down the stairs, still pale from the terror and excitement of the past evening, but longing to lay her poor aching head yet once again upon the breast of him whom she loved more dearly than life itself, PARTED."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35246162)



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Date: June 9th, 2021 9:07 PM
Author: poppy appetizing messiness



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#42601487)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:33 PM
Author: Disrespectful bistre wagecucks

LMAO

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#49076914)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:02 AM
Author: garnet insanely creepy dog poop

nothing wrong with this tbqh

it's poetic

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#49078051)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:04 AM
Author: Cerise Alcoholic Nursing Home Deer Antler

English people still write convoluted bullshit like this. It's not strictly a "german" thing. I read some study released by the UK government, and it read exactly like a translation of something written in German. You wouldn't last a day in the US Govt if you wrote like that. It made me realize I'd picked up all my bad writing habits from English authors.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#49078054)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:06 AM
Author: Opaque newt factory reset button

This is basically an XO-ism

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#49078056)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:14 PM
Author: fragrant ocher clown



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Date: January 26th, 2018 3:16 PM
Author: at-the-ready rigpig

in casual conversation you can just say "duh" instead of the proper der/das/den whatever and people will get it. once you get over the hump of feeling like a dumbass, speaking it conversationally is fun

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#35246158)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:54 PM
Author: Cerise Alcoholic Nursing Home Deer Antler

No one thought to write anything good or important in German until the late 19th century. There were no epic works of German literature or philosophy written in German until the late 19th century. It was always considered a total shit language even by native speakers, not appropriate for writing books on academic topics. Even Nietzsche trashed it while writing in German.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#49076961)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:04 AM
Author: Opaque newt factory reset button

Lmfao German is one of the easiest languages to learn. It's almost as easy as any of the romance languages. Extremely consistent rules and syntax, and spelling once you understand the system.

Vastly easier than any of the Asian languages or anything in Cyrillic

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#49078055)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:08 AM
Author: Cerise Alcoholic Nursing Home Deer Antler

Outed as a loser who never studied Japanese for one minute.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#49078057)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:20 AM
Author: crystalline senate international law enforcement agency

(lex tp)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id#49078076)