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German is one of the easiest language to learn if you're White.

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internet g0y
  02/20/25
I thought it was one of the hardest
MASE
  02/20/25
No way. Easier than French or Spanish too. Half of the words...
internet g0y
  02/20/25
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barack hussein obama is a nigger
  02/20/25
Plenty of French and Spanish words are in English too&hellip...
Smoker
  02/20/25
cr as soon as you introduce more than one verb, or clauses, ...
Dunedain cowboy
  02/21/25
This is the english way of thinking about it. You can, gene...
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  02/21/25
the bed of nails = das Nagelbett
disco fries
  02/20/25
krankenwagen = ambulance kartoffel = potato etc. cognates...
lex
  02/20/25
Kartoffel is russian dumbass.
,.,,,.
  02/20/25
https://dict.leo.org/german-english/kartoffel
lex
  02/20/25
It was borrowed from Russian idiot
,.,,,.
  02/20/25
who gives a shit about etymology for this purposes of this t...
lex
  02/20/25
calm down boys. i think i have a way we can settle this...
Trump Did Nothing Wrong when he abandoned Ukraine
  02/21/25
Now try plugging those nouns into different dative, accusati...
,.,,.,.,,,,,,.....................
  02/20/25
I easily do so all the time. And anyone else can learn to do...
internet g0y
  02/21/25
The dative, accusative and genetive are all in French.
martin heidegger
  02/21/25
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Kenneth Play
  02/20/25
lol at this theory. Russian is super easy too you just have...
Slow Children Playing
  02/21/25
lol no it isn't. it's kind of retarded and the words have w...
.,..,.,.;,.,,:.,.,::,...,..,:,..;,..,
  02/20/25
(guy who can't spell ball, man, or book)
internet g0y
  02/20/25
I took both german and french in HS from the same teacher. ...
.,..,.,.;,.,,:.,.,::,...,..,:,..;,..,
  02/21/25
All Germanic languages are basically the same and share a ri...
barack hussein obama is a nigger
  02/20/25
English, Chinese, Arabic and Spanish will be the only langua...
Dickey Simpkins
  02/20/25
I would bet a lot of money that French is still spoke in fra...
Smoker
  02/20/25
agreed. they still have their own living art/media cultures,...
lex
  02/20/25
Right, and almost all English media is still dubbed in these...
Smoker
  02/20/25
Zero chance There will be at most two remaining human lan...
barack hussein obama is a nigger
  02/20/25
I’d bet on Arabic. France is already up to 4% Arabic ...
Dickey Simpkins
  02/21/25
(insect)
insightful commentator
  02/20/25
It's easy to PRONOUNCE, but that's about it. It's objectivel...
,.,,.,.,,,,,,.....................
  02/20/25
I’ve come to the conclusion that this thread is Nazi p...
MASE
  02/20/25
hot take, but german is very clear and precise (if you under...
lex
  02/20/25
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Awful_German_Language
,.,,.,.,,,,,,.....................
  02/20/25
So true: Surely there is not another language that is so ...
,.,,.,.,,,,,,.....................
  02/20/25
its 1000x harder than spanish
Prolemobiler
  02/20/25
It might be one of the easier languages to learn if you're a...
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  02/20/25
German is easier for English speakers than just about any la...
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  02/20/25
What's your Goethe Exam score?
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  02/20/25
177
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  02/20/25
LOL, it's graded A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2 with 1-100 scores...
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  02/20/25
rate this girl who took 5 c1/c2 exams in one year. https:...
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  02/21/25
I respect the youtube polyglots who can show objective test ...
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  02/21/25
I don't know if I would pay hundreds of dollars and spend ti...
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  02/21/25
No, I'm not one of those guys with some crazy talent for lan...
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  02/21/25
I'm not white, but my pronunciation of 'Aktiengeselschaft' i...
Heart of a woman, strength of a man.
  02/20/25
that's the same sound you make when you gag on my cock!
Trump Did Nothing Wrong when he abandoned Ukraine
  02/21/25
À propos of nothing 40% of English words come from Fr...
backroom poasting couch
  02/20/25
Now do any non European language
barack hussein obama is a nigger
  02/20/25
Don't know any lol. I'm White.
backroom poasting couch
  02/20/25
The vocabulary isn’t what makes French hard
martin heidegger
  02/21/25
What makes it hard? The grammar is simple. The words are eas...
backroom poasting couch
  02/21/25
Pronunciation. Kind of the opposite of German
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  02/21/25
It's a virtual tossup. They have the exact same R consonant....
backroom poasting couch
  02/21/25
Try saying écureuil. I find French nasal vowels fiend...
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  02/21/25
I grew up in France so idk bawss there was never a time when...
backroom poasting couch
  02/21/25
English speakers sound like sps when they attempt French. Do...
Slow Children Playing
  02/21/25
Have you ever seen a Frenchman try and say 'squirrel'? Holy ...
backroom poasting couch
  02/21/25
rate me stp
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  02/21/25
8.5/10 good enough no native would blink
backroom poasting couch
  02/21/25
ty friend
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  02/21/25
It's hard because we usually pronounce it with one syllable....
Slow Children Playing
  02/21/25
The cases and "declension" rules are almost imposs...
evan39
  02/20/25
They have some weird rules out of left field that will typic...
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  02/20/25
what is a declension ?
VoteRepublican
  02/20/25
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_declension
evan39
  02/20/25
The prepositions also take a long time to get used to, not 1...
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Lots of nonwhites itt arguing with OP about how hard it is t...
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Twist - OP just wishes he were white and doesn’t even ...
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internet g0y
  02/21/25
bix nood motherfucker
insightful commentator
  02/21/25
i can barely speak english good
Trump Did Nothing Wrong when he abandoned Ukraine
  02/21/25
cr this is really a testament to how elastic a child's brain...
Slow Children Playing
  02/21/25
All languages are equally easy to learn thats why a baby of ...
Henry Wadsworth Longbutt
  02/21/25
Category I: Languages closely related to English. Danish,...
CapTTTainFalcon
  02/21/25
is japanese hardest language of all time?
VoteRepublican
  02/21/25
it might be chink, even though japanese has the three script...
lex
  02/21/25
Japanese doesn't have an alphabetic script; it has two sylla...
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  02/21/25
Cr none of those are real languages though they're just jung...
barack hussein obama is a nigger
  02/21/25
Doesn't Japanese also have postpositions and some ridiculous...
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  02/21/25
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Kenneth Play
  02/21/25
"The DLPT-5 but it's answering a battery of comprehensi...
barack hussein obama is a nigger
  02/21/25


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Date: February 20th, 2025 4:54 PM
Author: internet g0y



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679655)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 4:55 PM
Author: MASE

I thought it was one of the hardest

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679656)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:00 PM
Author: internet g0y

No way. Easier than French or Spanish too. Half of the words are just learning the artikel in front of them.

the ball = der Ball

the man = der Mann

the book = das Buch

the Garden = das Garten

the milk = die Milch

the mother = die Mutter

to drink = trinken

to dance = tanzen

I mean lol.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679674)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:07 PM
Author: barack hussein obama is a nigger



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679691)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:08 PM
Author: Smoker

Plenty of French and Spanish words are in English too…. German is a lot harder because the sentence structure doesn’t flow the same, and that’s more difficult to get your brain used to than different nouns…

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679696)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:12 PM
Author: Dunedain cowboy (πŸΎπŸ‘£)

cr as soon as you introduce more than one verb, or clauses, etc German requires a lot more practice and patience.

"I want to go to the beach with my friend this Saturday" would go something like "I want this Saturday to the beach with my friend go" lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681929)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:07 PM
Author: .,.,.,.,.,...,.,,.,,.....,.,..,.,,...,.,.,,...,.


This is the english way of thinking about it.

You can, generally speaking, arrange the sentence how you want.

"Am Samstag, will ich mit meinen Freund zum Strand gehen." or something like that

"On Saturday what I with my friend to the beach go"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682412)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:14 PM
Author: disco fries (his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage)

the bed of nails = das Nagelbett

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679716)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:15 PM
Author: lex

krankenwagen = ambulance

kartoffel = potato

etc.

cognates only take you so far. good luck with compound verbs. god help you with the syntax.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679718)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 10:13 PM
Author: ,.,,,.

Kartoffel is russian dumbass.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48680607)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: lex

https://dict.leo.org/german-english/kartoffel

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48680614)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 10:26 PM
Author: ,.,,,.

It was borrowed from Russian idiot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48680627)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: lex

who gives a shit about etymology for this purposes of this thread. it's used in german now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48680637)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 9:24 AM
Author: Trump Did Nothing Wrong when he abandoned Ukraine (gunneratttt)

calm down boys. i think i have a way we can settle this...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681302)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:22 PM
Author: ,.,,.,.,,,,,,.....................


Now try plugging those nouns into different dative, accusative, genetive, etc verb sentences which don't exist in Spanish, French, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679735)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 7:06 AM
Author: internet g0y

I easily do so all the time. And anyone else can learn to do it too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681123)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 9:34 AM
Author: martin heidegger

The dative, accusative and genetive are all in French.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681333)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 10:41 PM
Author: Kenneth Play



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48680678)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 7:28 AM
Author: Slow Children Playing

lol at this theory. Russian is super easy too you just have to learn the alphabet!

Π“Ρ€ΡƒΠΏΠΏΠ°: (group)

Π›Π°ΠΌΠΏΠ°: (lamp)

ΠœΡƒΠ·Ρ‹ΠΊΠ°: (music)

Π“ΠΈΡ‚Π°Ρ€Π°: (guitar)

ΠŸΠ»Π°Π½Π΅Ρ‚Π°: (planet)

All done!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681149)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 4:56 PM
Author: .,..,.,.;,.,,:.,.,::,...,..,:,..;,..,


lol no it isn't. it's kind of retarded and the words have way too many letters.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679661)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:01 PM
Author: internet g0y

(guy who can't spell ball, man, or book)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679676)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 9:22 AM
Author: .,..,.,.;,.,,:.,.,::,...,..,:,..;,..,


I took both german and french in HS from the same teacher. French was way way easier

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681300)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:06 PM
Author: barack hussein obama is a nigger

All Germanic languages are basically the same and share a ridiculous amount of syntax

It's not even hard to learn them as an adult learner if you're like 120 IQ

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679689)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:09 PM
Author: Dickey Simpkins

English, Chinese, Arabic and Spanish will be the only languages left in 75 years. Maybe Hindi also.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679701)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: Smoker

I would bet a lot of money that French is still spoke in france and German in Germany and Italian and Italy in 75 years…

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679706)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:14 PM
Author: lex

agreed. they still have their own living art/media cultures, unlike, say, greece and balkan shitholes. their kids aren't growing up hearing english outside of some big cities. they'll be fine.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679713)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:21 PM
Author: Smoker

Right, and almost all English media is still dubbed in these countries, even Hollywood movies at most cinemas. Lots of people don’t even know what Brad pitts voice sounds like in English

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679733)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:20 PM
Author: barack hussein obama is a nigger

Zero chance

There will be at most two remaining human languages within 50 years

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679731)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 9:20 AM
Author: Dickey Simpkins

I’d bet on Arabic. France is already up to 4% Arabic and it’s growing exponentially. French could be a minority language in almost a century.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681296)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: insightful commentator

(insect)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679707)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:18 PM
Author: ,.,,.,.,,,,,,.....................


It's easy to PRONOUNCE, but that's about it. It's objectively a much harder language than Spanish, French or English just based on the complexity of its structure. For example, I've never been persuaded that there's any need to have separate dative and accusative verbs - English, French and Spanish get along just fine without them. And some of the dative verbs have very similar meanings to accusative verbs, e.g. "ich würde das widerlegen" instead of "ich würde dem widersprechen."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679726)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:22 PM
Author: MASE

I’ve come to the conclusion that this thread is Nazi propaganda

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679738)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:24 PM
Author: lex

hot take, but german is very clear and precise (if you understand the dense syntactical rules), which makes it great for philosophy. english is more grammatically fluid and allows more artistry in speech, which makes it better for poetry.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679740)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:32 PM
Author: ,.,,.,.,,,,,,.....................


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Awful_German_Language

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679753)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:38 PM
Author: ,.,,.,.,,,,,,.....................


So true:

Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp. One is washed about in it, hither and thither, in the most helpless way; and when at last he thinks he has captured a rule which offers firm ground to take a rest on amid the general rage and turmoil of the ten parts of speech, he turns over the page and reads, "Let the pupil make careful note of the following exceptions." He runs his eye down and finds that there are more exceptions to the rule than instances of it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679771)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:34 PM
Author: Prolemobiler

its 1000x harder than spanish

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679758)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 5:46 PM
Author: .,.,,...,...,..,....,...,...,...


It might be one of the easier languages to learn if you're autistic. German grammar has a million rules but relatively few exceptions to these rules. If you have an autistic brain that can remember rules plus a million different noun forms, you might find it easy. But non-autists (and many autists) will find languages like Spanish and Portuguese to be much easier because the grammar is simpler and there is much less to remember. Portuguese in particular is easy because it has like five irregular verbs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48679804)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 10:10 PM
Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,..,:::,.,.,:,.,.:.,: (retired)


German is easier for English speakers than just about any language except Dutch.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48680606)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 10:13 PM
Author: ,.,,.,.,,,,,,.....................


What's your Goethe Exam score?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48680611)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 10:17 PM
Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,..,:::,.,.,:,.,.:.,: (retired)


177

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48680613)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 10:55 PM
Author: ,.,,.,.,,,,,,.....................


LOL, it's graded A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2 with 1-100 scores within each. I got high C1, and it was by no means easy, even with a big head start by spending my summers there as a kid.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48680709)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 9:38 AM
Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,..,:::,.,.,:,.,.:.,: (retired)


rate this girl who took 5 c1/c2 exams in one year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvQjWYPnZhY

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681349)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 11:52 AM
Author: ,.,,.,.,,,,,,.....................


I respect the youtube polyglots who can show objective test data like that. A lot of them seem like frauds who just memorize some phrases in a bunch of different languages to give the appearance of fluency.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681851)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:04 PM
Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,..,:::,.,.,:,.,.:.,: (retired)


I don't know if I would pay hundreds of dollars and spend time preparing for an exam I don't need. Do you plan on learning any more languages?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681900)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:50 PM
Author: ,.,,.,.,,,,,,.....................


No, I'm not one of those guys with some crazy talent for languages, just had basic German gifted to me in my childhood and I worked hard to learn a lot of the more academic stuff. I have no real connection to any other country which would motivate me to put in the effort required to add another language.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682541)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 10:22 PM
Author: Heart of a woman, strength of a man.

I'm not white, but my pronunciation of 'Aktiengeselschaft' is very impressive afaict.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48680621)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 9:25 AM
Author: Trump Did Nothing Wrong when he abandoned Ukraine (gunneratttt)

that's the same sound you make when you gag on my cock!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681310)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 10:22 PM
Author: backroom poasting couch

À propos of nothing 40% of English words come from French and 10% come from Latin. If you can't learn French you are absolutely fucking retarded.

The German syntax thing is overblown if you have the opportunity for immersion and use it regularly it will eventually stick. Like anything you practice you get used to it. It is tough if you aren't regularly exposed to German every day to remember everything but native speakers don't go around actively thinking about noun cases.

But compared to French, far fewer German words share a root in English and the rote memorization is much more difficult. Here are some random German words: bezalhen, bekommen, beantworten, brechen, Beispiel, begleiten.

Ok tell me how without notecards and a study session you are ever going to fucking remember what any of these words mean?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48680622)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 10:26 PM
Author: barack hussein obama is a nigger

Now do any non European language

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48680628)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: backroom poasting couch

Don't know any lol. I'm White.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48680631)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 9:37 AM
Author: martin heidegger

The vocabulary isn’t what makes French hard

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681343)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 11:16 AM
Author: backroom poasting couch

What makes it hard? The grammar is simple. The words are easy to memorize for English speakers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681716)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:30 PM
Author: ,.,.,.,........,....,,,..


Pronunciation. Kind of the opposite of German

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682007)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: backroom poasting couch

It's a virtual tossup. They have the exact same R consonant. German has the two special ch noises plus the z noise. The semi silent r ending words in German is tough too. But I would say absolutely nailing German vowels is damn hard, especially diphthongs. They're substantially more over the top than most English speakers are capable of. Don't forget the tricky umlaut vowels. Not sure what's so hard about French, saying 'un, deux, trois'?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682060)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:49 PM
Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,..,:::,.,.,:,.,.:.,: (retired)


Try saying écureuil. I find French nasal vowels fiendishly evasive.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682093)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:04 PM
Author: backroom poasting couch

I grew up in France so idk bawss there was never a time when I couldn't say écureuil 🀷

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682144)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:07 PM
Author: Slow Children Playing

English speakers sound like sps when they attempt French. Don't be obtuse

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682153)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:10 PM
Author: backroom poasting couch

Have you ever seen a Frenchman try and say 'squirrel'? Holy shit. Goes both ways.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682178)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,..,:::,.,.,:,.,.:.,: (retired)


rate me stp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682230)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:26 PM
Author: backroom poasting couch

8.5/10 good enough no native would blink

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682236)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,..,:::,.,.,:,.,.:.,: (retired)


ty friend

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682253)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:36 PM
Author: Slow Children Playing

It's hard because we usually pronounce it with one syllable. Sqwirl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682279)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 10:57 PM
Author: evan39

The cases and "declension" rules are almost impossible to learn.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48680713)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 11:02 PM
Author: ,.,,.,.,,,,,,.....................


They have some weird rules out of left field that will typically apply to like 20 or 30 words that you just have to memorize. Such as the "n declension" nouns:

https://german.yabla.com/lesson-The-N-Declension-in-German-Part-II-2357

They tested this on the Goethe C1 exam- remember one of the questions required you to know that the genitive form of "Mensch" (human) was "des Menschen" instead of "des Menschens" which you would normally expect.

French, Spanish or English learners don't have to deal with this kind of weird crap.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48680723)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 11:02 PM
Author: VoteRepublican (A true Chad!! where's your gf/wifew?)

what is a declension ?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48680724)



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Date: February 20th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: evan39

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_declension

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48680726)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 6:55 AM
Author: ,.,.,.,........,....,,,..


The prepositions also take a long time to get used to, not 1:1 to English at all and they also play with the case system, not fun

Subordinate clauses moving verbs to ends of sentences, or model verbs moving the second verb to end of sentences. Btw it’s not always obvious when a subordinate clause begins - eg weil (because) starts a subordinate clause but denn (also because) connects two independent clauses and doesn’t affect word order. Oh, also casually you can just throw in a “da” for because.

The second word in a sentence is always a verb rule can also feel strange to English speakers. Like if you want to say “I’m going to the park today” it will be “Heute (today) gehe (go) ich (I) in den Park”. Btw notice the preposition for “to” here is “in”? If it were something like a store it would be “zu” and if it were the beach it would be “an”. Or how about your home? There the “to” is “nach.” In English it would always just be “to”.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681110)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 6:21 AM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,,..,,,;..,




(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681073)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 6:56 AM
Author: ...,,..:,..,,..,..,...,,,;..,


Lots of nonwhites itt arguing with OP about how hard it is to learn german, when his point is that it's easy *when you're white*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681111)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 7:01 AM
Author: ,.,.,.,........,....,,,..


Twist - OP just wishes he were white and doesn’t even know German

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681116)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 7:08 AM
Author: internet g0y



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681126)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 9:38 AM
Author: insightful commentator

bix nood motherfucker

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681348)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 9:39 AM
Author: Trump Did Nothing Wrong when he abandoned Ukraine (gunneratttt)

i can barely speak english good

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681353)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 9:45 AM
Author: Slow Children Playing

cr this is really a testament to how elastic a child's brain is vs an adults. If you think about how fucking stupid people you see at the DMV are it is really wild that people can natively speak any language at all and dont just grunt all day

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48681374)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:14 PM
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longbutt

All languages are equally easy to learn thats why a baby of any type airdropped into a random part of the world will learn the language spoken there, except parts of africa where it would be raped to death

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682196)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:32 PM
Author: CapTTTainFalcon

Category I: Languages closely related to English.

Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish

Category II: Languages that take a little longer to master than Category I languages.

German, Indonesian, Malay, Swahili

Category III: Languages with significant linguistic and/or cultural differences from English.

Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Czech, Dari, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kazakh, Khmer, Kurdish, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Nepali, Pashto, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Tagalog, Tajiki, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese

Category IV: Languages which are exceptionally difficult for native English speakers.

Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean

https://2009-2017.state.gov/m/fsi/sls/orgoverview/languages

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682261)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:11 PM
Author: VoteRepublican (A true Chad!! where's your gf/wifew?)

is japanese hardest language of all time?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682422)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:08 PM
Author: lex

it might be chink, even though japanese has the three scripts (two alphabetic and one chinese hieroglyphic). chinese is definitely harder phonetically. it has a tonal system that is utterly alien to most indo-european languages and many of the individual sounds are completely dissimilar from ours. japanese has a distinction between long and short vowels to an extent that english does not, but most of the phonemes are regular and pretty comprehensible to englishmos. i have no idea what chinese syntax is like, but japanese is not too daunting once you get used to the SOV word order.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682613)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:27 PM
Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,..,:::,.,.,:,.,.:.,: (retired)


Japanese doesn't have an alphabetic script; it has two syllabaries. Kanji are ideographs, not hieroglyphs.

Other Asian languages like Cantonese, Vietnamese, and Khmer are far more challenging phonetically than Mandarin.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682677)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:28 PM
Author: barack hussein obama is a nigger

Cr none of those are real languages though they're just jungle babble so it's a moot point

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682684)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 4:34 PM
Author: .,.,,...,...,..,....,...,...,...


Doesn't Japanese also have postpositions and some ridiculous shit like that? I think Finnish is famous for having some words that can be used as both prepositions and postpositions, which makes it massively confusing for non-native speakers. I'm surprised that Finnish is only a category 3 language.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682914)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:22 PM
Author: Kenneth Play



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682665)



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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:27 PM
Author: barack hussein obama is a nigger

"The DLPT-5 but it's answering a battery of comprehension questions about anime clips"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683637&forum_id=2...id.#48682678)