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It's almost impossible to learn German

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Impressive mother famous landscape painting
  01/26/18
I took reading German in grad school and it's not very hard....
boyish heaven jap
  01/26/18
I did as well -- for Graduate Reading Knowledge. I liked it,...
hairless marvelous cuckold gaming laptop
  01/26/18
same. learning the grammar and whatever special vocabulary t...
Cerebral flesh dragon karate
  01/26/18
Speaking it is hard. Try spelling the words - jfc.
kink-friendly dead church building
  01/26/18
Verkampfterbungenlingtaufhausen
jet-lagged old irish cottage
  01/26/18
(anti-semite)
twinkling 180 coffee pot
  01/26/18
Spelling isn't hard. It's a pretty phonetic language. Even t...
Diverse sapphire piazza wrinkle
  01/26/18
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Razzle-dazzle unholy plaza dopamine
  01/26/18
The grammar is hard
odious shrine yarmulke
  01/26/18
The grammar rules are complicated but can be mastered and me...
Diverse sapphire piazza wrinkle
  01/26/18
true but ljl at trying to do table lookups in real time
light market blood rage
  01/26/18
They write super long sentences that form an entire paragrap...
azure bearded brunch haunted graveyard
  07/06/25
All the "cases" and whatnot can be confusing, but ...
jet-lagged old irish cottage
  01/26/18
I didn't think french was bad at all. What was harder about ...
dun big-titted stag film cuckoldry
  01/26/18
Everything. Spelling, pronunciation etc.
jet-lagged old irish cottage
  01/26/18
Regular-speed spoken casual french is hard as fuck to unders...
racy lettuce fanboi
  01/26/18
written French is a pleasure spoken French is an incompreh...
Floppy rehab
  07/06/25
do you just mean phonetically? french grammar is ljl easy
Cerebral flesh dragon karate
  01/26/18
its like learning spanish, but with fucked up spelling/pronu...
dun big-titted stag film cuckoldry
  01/26/18
French is easy as fuck. Grammar rules, etc make more sense t...
glassy tanning salon rigor
  01/26/18
(trilingual guy bagging groceries)
Fragrant Elite Sanctuary
  01/26/18
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Aromatic foreskin abode
  01/26/18
(Trilingual guy bagging groceries incapable of bagging cunni...
Aromatic foreskin abode
  01/26/18
He's not a bagger
odious shrine yarmulke
  01/26/18
Lol he's the cart gatherer?
Diverse sapphire piazza wrinkle
  01/26/18
No, but the retarded kid he molests is.
Charcoal legal warrant indian lodge
  01/26/18
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jet-lagged old irish cottage
  01/26/18
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Talented striped hyena
  01/26/18
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Razzle-dazzle unholy plaza dopamine
  01/26/18
I learned German as a hobby. Its not that hard. Can't spe...
shimmering cracking national rigpig
  01/26/18
What little German I've studied struck me as incredibly easy...
fishy site
  01/26/18
That's ridiculous. I'm sure you've looked into French and It...
Diverse sapphire piazza wrinkle
  01/26/18
Italian is easy; French is fairly difficult. I speak native ...
fishy site
  01/26/18
julia effortlessly identifying massive german compound verbs...
Cerebral flesh dragon karate
  01/26/18
I don't know what the fuck it is about French, but I've give...
fishy site
  01/26/18
I don't understand why you find French so hard if you know I...
Sable quadroon
  01/26/18
Julia picking up languages and adding them to her trophy cas...
Coral stage twinkling uncleanness
  01/26/18
Arabic: I'm half Arab and have family in the Middle East Fr...
fishy site
  01/26/18
I'm re-learning/brushing up and I 100% agree. The prepositio...
hairraiser navy mood
  01/26/18
The prepositions are difficult because many cognate with Eng...
shimmering cracking national rigpig
  01/26/18
yep
hairraiser navy mood
  01/26/18
3 genders in german v. 2 in french, and a more developed cas...
Cerebral flesh dragon karate
  01/26/18
it's really almost 4 because the plural is kind of a gender ...
hairraiser navy mood
  01/26/18
Which is still easier than Ukrainian (and I assume Russian i...
shimmering cracking national rigpig
  01/26/18
not saying German is the hardest language out there.
hairraiser navy mood
  01/26/18
this makes it a lot easier, actually. in latin all the plura...
Cerebral flesh dragon karate
  01/26/18
There's other shit that gets more advanced that no one bothe...
Diverse sapphire piazza wrinkle
  01/26/18
i agree, n-declension is annoying. knowing when certain v...
hairraiser navy mood
  01/26/18
N-nomen is a minor, minor grammatical point that hardly matt...
shimmering cracking national rigpig
  01/26/18
The point is that there is a declination of nouns in the Ger...
Diverse sapphire piazza wrinkle
  01/26/18
No. In German there are tiny vestigial traces of nominal dec...
shimmering cracking national rigpig
  01/26/18
How is this responsive? These things exist, and I'm not sure...
Diverse sapphire piazza wrinkle
  01/26/18
English possessive formation ('s) is technically nominal inf...
shimmering cracking national rigpig
  01/26/18
Very scholarly sub thread
irradiated resort
  06/09/21
How do you feel about RSF having confirmed sock puppets that...
Tan irate chad idea he suggested
  01/26/18
LOL at German being "incredibly easy."
racy lettuce fanboi
  01/26/18
Some languages start out easy and then you fall off a cliff ...
azure bearded brunch haunted graveyard
  07/06/25
its the opposite. German starts off hard with having to know...
orange exciting preventive strike area
  07/06/25
I took German 1 my senior year of high school. It was pretty...
glassy tanning salon rigor
  01/26/18
No, its not. The orthography is highly regular and all the ...
shimmering cracking national rigpig
  01/26/18
I thought it was a pain in the ass. I took French for 3 year...
glassy tanning salon rigor
  01/26/18
it's much easier than french or english, both of which i had...
opaque clown dingle berry
  01/26/18
Bullshit on French. French is much easier.
Exhilarant Address Newt
  01/26/18
Its depends on what your native language is. The weird word...
shimmering cracking national rigpig
  01/26/18
"La" and "le" is ways easier than die, d...
Exhilarant Address Newt
  01/26/18
Again, if your native language is inflectional learning a 4x...
shimmering cracking national rigpig
  01/26/18
now THIS is a low-iq thread if ever I've seen one
Onyx adventurous love of her life
  01/26/18
cr, especially after I've freely shared with the bort the 5 ...
Sable quadroon
  01/26/18
don't recall these, but the trick is immersion. Took me 6 mo...
Onyx adventurous love of her life
  01/26/18
which one?
Razzle-dazzle unholy plaza dopamine
  01/26/18
Finngolian.
Onyx adventurous love of her life
  01/26/18
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swashbuckling home pervert
  01/26/18
I rika Germoney, but a sperring Germoney is a harda. Guta T...
swashbuckling home pervert
  01/26/18
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Charcoal legal warrant indian lodge
  01/26/18
OP must be a gook. German should be easy to pick up if y...
violet psychic institution
  01/26/18
you calling mark twain a gook? https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gba...
Cerebral flesh dragon karate
  01/26/18
Devestating
Underhanded dysfunction
  01/26/18
"I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in on...
hairraiser navy mood
  01/26/18
lol
orange exciting preventive strike area
  07/06/25
this was 180
racy lettuce fanboi
  01/26/18
The Germans have another kind of parenthesis, which they mak...
Cerebral flesh dragon karate
  01/26/18
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soul-stirring fear-inspiring voyeur school cafeteria
  06/09/21
LMAO
orange exciting preventive strike area
  07/06/25
nothing wrong with this tbqh it's poetic
Floppy rehab
  07/07/25
English people still write convoluted bullshit like this. It...
azure bearded brunch haunted graveyard
  07/07/25
This is basically an XO-ism
concupiscible gaped friendly grandma stage
  07/07/25
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laughsome avocado feces station
  01/26/18
in casual conversation you can just say "duh" inst...
Gold lascivious gaping
  01/26/18
No one thought to write anything good or important in German...
azure bearded brunch haunted graveyard
  07/06/25
Lmfao German is one of the easiest languages to learn. It's ...
concupiscible gaped friendly grandma stage
  07/07/25
Outed as a loser who never studied Japanese for one minute.
azure bearded brunch haunted graveyard
  07/07/25
(lex tp)
vivacious telephone
  07/07/25


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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:28 AM
Author: Impressive mother famous landscape painting



(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: boyish heaven jap

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: hairless marvelous cuckold gaming laptop

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: Cerebral flesh dragon karate

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: kink-friendly dead church building

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: jet-lagged old irish cottage

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: twinkling 180 coffee pot

(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: Diverse sapphire piazza wrinkle

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: Razzle-dazzle unholy plaza dopamine



(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: odious shrine yarmulke

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: Diverse sapphire piazza wrinkle

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: light market blood rage

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: azure bearded brunch haunted graveyard

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: jet-lagged old irish cottage

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: dun big-titted stag film cuckoldry

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: jet-lagged old irish cottage

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: racy lettuce fanboi

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: Floppy rehab

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: Cerebral flesh dragon karate

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: dun big-titted stag film cuckoldry

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: glassy tanning salon rigor

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: Fragrant Elite Sanctuary

(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: Aromatic foreskin abode



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:50 AM
Author: Aromatic foreskin abode

(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: odious shrine yarmulke

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: Diverse sapphire piazza wrinkle

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: Charcoal legal warrant indian lodge

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: jet-lagged old irish cottage

?

(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: Talented striped hyena



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:32 AM
Author: Razzle-dazzle unholy plaza dopamine

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: shimmering cracking national rigpig

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: fishy site

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: Diverse sapphire piazza wrinkle

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: fishy site

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: Cerebral flesh dragon karate

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: fishy site

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: Sable quadroon

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: Coral stage twinkling uncleanness

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: fishy site

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: hairraiser navy mood

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: shimmering cracking national rigpig

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: hairraiser navy mood

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: Cerebral flesh dragon karate

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: hairraiser navy mood

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: shimmering cracking national rigpig

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: hairraiser navy mood

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: Cerebral flesh dragon karate

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: Diverse sapphire piazza wrinkle

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: hairraiser navy mood

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: shimmering cracking national rigpig

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: Diverse sapphire piazza wrinkle

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: shimmering cracking national rigpig

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: Diverse sapphire piazza wrinkle

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: shimmering cracking national rigpig

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: irradiated resort

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: Tan irate chad idea he suggested

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: racy lettuce fanboi

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: azure bearded brunch haunted graveyard

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: orange exciting preventive strike area

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: glassy tanning salon rigor

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: shimmering cracking national rigpig

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: glassy tanning salon rigor

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: opaque clown dingle berry

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: Exhilarant Address Newt

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: shimmering cracking national rigpig

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: Exhilarant Address Newt

"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: shimmering cracking national rigpig

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: Onyx adventurous love of her life

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: Sable quadroon

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: Onyx adventurous love of her life

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: Razzle-dazzle unholy plaza dopamine

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: Onyx adventurous love of her life

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: swashbuckling home pervert



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id.#35244082)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:08 PM
Author: swashbuckling home pervert

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: Charcoal legal warrant indian lodge



(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: violet psychic 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: Cerebral flesh dragon karate

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: Underhanded dysfunction

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: hairraiser navy mood

"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: orange exciting preventive strike area

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: racy lettuce fanboi

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: Cerebral flesh dragon karate

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: soul-stirring fear-inspiring voyeur school cafeteria



(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: orange exciting preventive strike area

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: Floppy rehab

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: azure bearded brunch haunted graveyard

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: concupiscible gaped friendly grandma stage

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: laughsome avocado feces station



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2...id.#35245540)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 3:16 PM
Author: Gold lascivious gaping

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: azure bearded brunch haunted graveyard

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: concupiscible gaped friendly grandma stage

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: azure bearded brunch haunted graveyard

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: vivacious telephone

(lex tp)

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