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It's almost impossible to learn German

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white alcoholic elastic band
  01/26/18
I took reading German in grad school and it's not very hard....
Startled odious masturbator
  01/26/18
I did as well -- for Graduate Reading Knowledge. I liked it,...
milky coldplay fan factory reset button
  01/26/18
same. learning the grammar and whatever special vocabulary t...
federal ceo
  01/26/18
Speaking it is hard. Try spelling the words - jfc.
Impertinent Bawdyhouse
  01/26/18
Verkampfterbungenlingtaufhausen
Up-to-no-good University
  01/26/18
(anti-semite)
hateful pale jew
  01/26/18
Spelling isn't hard. It's a pretty phonetic language. Even t...
zippy field
  01/26/18
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Clear adventurous stage macaca
  01/26/18
The grammar is hard
irradiated native chad
  01/26/18
The grammar rules are complicated but can be mastered and me...
zippy field
  01/26/18
true but ljl at trying to do table lookups in real time
Marvelous ivory associate
  01/26/18
They write super long sentences that form an entire paragrap...
Very tactful avocado love of her life office
  07/06/25
All the "cases" and whatnot can be confusing, but ...
Up-to-no-good University
  01/26/18
I didn't think french was bad at all. What was harder about ...
vibrant personal credit line codepig
  01/26/18
Everything. Spelling, pronunciation etc.
Up-to-no-good University
  01/26/18
Regular-speed spoken casual french is hard as fuck to unders...
Cordovan point
  01/26/18
written French is a pleasure spoken French is an incompreh...
concupiscible cream hissy fit
  07/06/25
do you just mean phonetically? french grammar is ljl easy
federal ceo
  01/26/18
its like learning spanish, but with fucked up spelling/pronu...
vibrant personal credit line codepig
  01/26/18
French is easy as fuck. Grammar rules, etc make more sense t...
Sepia famous landscape painting
  01/26/18
(trilingual guy bagging groceries)
bistre range
  01/26/18
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Violet thriller party of the first part
  01/26/18
(Trilingual guy bagging groceries incapable of bagging cunni...
Violet thriller party of the first part
  01/26/18
He's not a bagger
irradiated native chad
  01/26/18
Lol he's the cart gatherer?
zippy field
  01/26/18
No, but the retarded kid he molests is.
House-broken swashbuckling tanning salon
  01/26/18
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Up-to-no-good University
  01/26/18
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Hyperventilating orchestra pit
  01/26/18
edit
Clear adventurous stage macaca
  01/26/18
I learned German as a hobby. Its not that hard. Can't spe...
rusted contagious theater
  01/26/18
What little German I've studied struck me as incredibly easy...
Learning disabled stead crotch
  01/26/18
That's ridiculous. I'm sure you've looked into French and It...
zippy field
  01/26/18
Italian is easy; French is fairly difficult. I speak native ...
Learning disabled stead crotch
  01/26/18
julia effortlessly identifying massive german compound verbs...
federal ceo
  01/26/18
I don't know what the fuck it is about French, but I've give...
Learning disabled stead crotch
  01/26/18
I don't understand why you find French so hard if you know I...
Cracking ticket booth
  01/26/18
Julia picking up languages and adding them to her trophy cas...
bat shit crazy histrionic center fanboi
  01/26/18
Arabic: I'm half Arab and have family in the Middle East Fr...
Learning disabled stead crotch
  01/26/18
I'm re-learning/brushing up and I 100% agree. The prepositio...
big-titted metal brunch
  01/26/18
The prepositions are difficult because many cognate with Eng...
rusted contagious theater
  01/26/18
yep
big-titted metal brunch
  01/26/18
3 genders in german v. 2 in french, and a more developed cas...
federal ceo
  01/26/18
it's really almost 4 because the plural is kind of a gender ...
big-titted metal brunch
  01/26/18
Which is still easier than Ukrainian (and I assume Russian i...
rusted contagious theater
  01/26/18
not saying German is the hardest language out there.
big-titted metal brunch
  01/26/18
this makes it a lot easier, actually. in latin all the plura...
federal ceo
  01/26/18
There's other shit that gets more advanced that no one bothe...
zippy field
  01/26/18
i agree, n-declension is annoying. knowing when certain v...
big-titted metal brunch
  01/26/18
N-nomen is a minor, minor grammatical point that hardly matt...
rusted contagious theater
  01/26/18
The point is that there is a declination of nouns in the Ger...
zippy field
  01/26/18
No. In German there are tiny vestigial traces of nominal dec...
rusted contagious theater
  01/26/18
How is this responsive? These things exist, and I'm not sure...
zippy field
  01/26/18
English possessive formation ('s) is technically nominal inf...
rusted contagious theater
  01/26/18
Very scholarly sub thread
Sinister messiness chapel
  06/09/21
How do you feel about RSF having confirmed sock puppets that...
Flirting shivering house karate
  01/26/18
LOL at German being "incredibly easy."
Cordovan point
  01/26/18
Some languages start out easy and then you fall off a cliff ...
Very tactful avocado love of her life office
  07/06/25
its the opposite. German starts off hard with having to know...
frozen hall
  07/06/25
I took German 1 my senior year of high school. It was pretty...
Sepia famous landscape painting
  01/26/18
No, its not. The orthography is highly regular and all the ...
rusted contagious theater
  01/26/18
I thought it was a pain in the ass. I took French for 3 year...
Sepia famous landscape painting
  01/26/18
it's much easier than french or english, both of which i had...
drab church building water buffalo
  01/26/18
Bullshit on French. French is much easier.
Charismatic jet-lagged box office sex offender
  01/26/18
Its depends on what your native language is. The weird word...
rusted contagious theater
  01/26/18
"La" and "le" is ways easier than die, d...
Charismatic jet-lagged box office sex offender
  01/26/18
Again, if your native language is inflectional learning a 4x...
rusted contagious theater
  01/26/18
now THIS is a low-iq thread if ever I've seen one
massive abusive set
  01/26/18
cr, especially after I've freely shared with the bort the 5 ...
Cracking ticket booth
  01/26/18
don't recall these, but the trick is immersion. Took me 6 mo...
massive abusive set
  01/26/18
which one?
Clear adventurous stage macaca
  01/26/18
Finngolian.
massive abusive set
  01/26/18
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excitant state sound barrier
  01/26/18
I rika Germoney, but a sperring Germoney is a harda. Guta T...
excitant state sound barrier
  01/26/18
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House-broken swashbuckling tanning salon
  01/26/18
OP must be a gook. German should be easy to pick up if y...
Ultramarine pocket flask
  01/26/18
you calling mark twain a gook? https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gba...
federal ceo
  01/26/18
Devestating
tripping twinkling theatre
  01/26/18
"I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in on...
big-titted metal brunch
  01/26/18
lol
frozen hall
  07/06/25
this was 180
Cordovan point
  01/26/18
The Germans have another kind of parenthesis, which they mak...
federal ceo
  01/26/18
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Dun bateful gas station
  06/09/21
LMAO
frozen hall
  07/06/25
nothing wrong with this tbqh it's poetic
concupiscible cream hissy fit
  07/07/25
English people still write convoluted bullshit like this. It...
Very tactful avocado love of her life office
  07/07/25
This is basically an XO-ism
onyx property
  07/07/25
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snowy mildly autistic den
  01/26/18
in casual conversation you can just say "duh" inst...
Curious bespoke azn
  01/26/18
No one thought to write anything good or important in German...
Very tactful avocado love of her life office
  07/06/25
Lmfao German is one of the easiest languages to learn. It's ...
onyx property
  07/07/25
Outed as a loser who never studied Japanese for one minute.
Very tactful avocado love of her life office
  07/07/25
(lex tp)
Crystalline spectacular library
  07/07/25


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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:28 AM
Author: white alcoholic elastic band



(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: Startled odious masturbator

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: milky coldplay fan factory reset button

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: federal ceo

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: Impertinent Bawdyhouse

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: Up-to-no-good University

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: hateful pale jew

(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: zippy field

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: Clear adventurous stage macaca



(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: irradiated native chad

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: zippy field

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: Marvelous ivory associate

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: Very tactful avocado love of her life office

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: Up-to-no-good University

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: vibrant personal credit line codepig

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: Up-to-no-good University

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: Cordovan point

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: concupiscible cream hissy fit

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: federal ceo

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: vibrant personal credit line codepig

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: Sepia famous landscape painting

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: bistre range

(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: Violet thriller party of the first part



(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: Violet thriller party of the first part

(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: irradiated native chad

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: zippy field

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: House-broken swashbuckling tanning salon

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: Up-to-no-good University

?

(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: Hyperventilating orchestra pit



(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: Clear adventurous stage macaca

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: rusted contagious theater

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: Learning disabled stead crotch

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: zippy field

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: Learning disabled stead crotch

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: federal ceo

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: Learning disabled stead crotch

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: Cracking ticket booth

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: bat shit crazy histrionic center fanboi

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: Learning disabled stead crotch

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: big-titted metal brunch

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: rusted contagious theater

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: big-titted metal brunch

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: federal ceo

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: big-titted metal brunch

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: rusted contagious theater

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: big-titted metal brunch

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: federal ceo

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: zippy field

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: big-titted metal brunch

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: rusted contagious theater

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: zippy field

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: rusted contagious theater

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: zippy field

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: rusted contagious theater

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: Sinister messiness chapel

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: Flirting shivering house karate

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: Cordovan point

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: Very tactful avocado love of her life office

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: frozen hall

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: Sepia famous landscape painting

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: rusted contagious theater

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: Sepia famous landscape painting

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: drab church building water buffalo

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: Charismatic jet-lagged box office sex offender

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: rusted contagious theater

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: Charismatic jet-lagged box office sex offender

"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: rusted contagious theater

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: massive abusive set

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: Cracking ticket booth

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: massive abusive set

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: Clear adventurous stage macaca

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: massive abusive set

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: excitant state sound barrier



(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: excitant state sound barrier

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: House-broken swashbuckling tanning salon



(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: Ultramarine pocket flask

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: federal ceo

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: tripping twinkling theatre

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: big-titted metal brunch

"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: frozen hall

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: Cordovan point

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: federal ceo

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: Dun bateful gas station



(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: frozen hall

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: concupiscible cream hissy fit

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: Very tactful avocado love of her life office

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: onyx property

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: snowy mildly autistic den



(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: Curious bespoke azn

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: Very tactful avocado love of her life office

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: onyx property

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: Very tactful avocado love of her life office

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 spectacular library

(lex tp)

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