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It's almost impossible to learn German

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Iridescent sticky public bath
  01/26/18
I took reading German in grad school and it's not very hard....
pearly death wish
  01/26/18
I did as well -- for Graduate Reading Knowledge. I liked it,...
comical learning disabled property
  01/26/18
same. learning the grammar and whatever special vocabulary t...
Red stirring gay wizard
  01/26/18
Speaking it is hard. Try spelling the words - jfc.
Cruel-hearted emerald theater idea he suggested
  01/26/18
Verkampfterbungenlingtaufhausen
Insecure church building
  01/26/18
(anti-semite)
cobalt laser beams
  01/26/18
Spelling isn't hard. It's a pretty phonetic language. Even t...
Ebony Stimulating International Law Enforcement Agency Elastic Band
  01/26/18
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Thirsty Indian Lodge Antidepressant Drug
  01/26/18
The grammar is hard
blue pisswyrm sandwich
  01/26/18
The grammar rules are complicated but can be mastered and me...
Ebony Stimulating International Law Enforcement Agency Elastic Band
  01/26/18
true but ljl at trying to do table lookups in real time
vivacious navy quadroon
  01/26/18
They write super long sentences that form an entire paragrap...
Scarlet Circlehead
  07/06/25
All the "cases" and whatnot can be confusing, but ...
Insecure church building
  01/26/18
I didn't think french was bad at all. What was harder about ...
duck-like corn cake
  01/26/18
Everything. Spelling, pronunciation etc.
Insecure church building
  01/26/18
Regular-speed spoken casual french is hard as fuck to unders...
wonderful striped hyena
  01/26/18
written French is a pleasure spoken French is an incompreh...
Glassy roommate
  07/06/25
do you just mean phonetically? french grammar is ljl easy
Red stirring gay wizard
  01/26/18
its like learning spanish, but with fucked up spelling/pronu...
duck-like corn cake
  01/26/18
French is easy as fuck. Grammar rules, etc make more sense t...
Sapphire Thriller Sanctuary Candlestick Maker
  01/26/18
(trilingual guy bagging groceries)
brilliant low-t bawdyhouse
  01/26/18
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Curious temple
  01/26/18
(Trilingual guy bagging groceries incapable of bagging cunni...
Curious temple
  01/26/18
He's not a bagger
blue pisswyrm sandwich
  01/26/18
Lol he's the cart gatherer?
Ebony Stimulating International Law Enforcement Agency Elastic Band
  01/26/18
No, but the retarded kid he molests is.
Magenta Base Genital Piercing
  01/26/18
?
Insecure church building
  01/26/18
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onyx party of the first part
  01/26/18
edit
Thirsty Indian Lodge Antidepressant Drug
  01/26/18
I learned German as a hobby. Its not that hard. Can't spe...
bat-shit-crazy trailer park
  01/26/18
What little German I've studied struck me as incredibly easy...
Big locale electric furnace
  01/26/18
That's ridiculous. I'm sure you've looked into French and It...
Ebony Stimulating International Law Enforcement Agency Elastic Band
  01/26/18
Italian is easy; French is fairly difficult. I speak native ...
Big locale electric furnace
  01/26/18
julia effortlessly identifying massive german compound verbs...
Red stirring gay wizard
  01/26/18
I don't know what the fuck it is about French, but I've give...
Big locale electric furnace
  01/26/18
I don't understand why you find French so hard if you know I...
razzle-dazzle orchestra pit
  01/26/18
Julia picking up languages and adding them to her trophy cas...
Territorial Pit Cuckold
  01/26/18
Arabic: I'm half Arab and have family in the Middle East Fr...
Big locale electric furnace
  01/26/18
I'm re-learning/brushing up and I 100% agree. The prepositio...
White crackhouse
  01/26/18
The prepositions are difficult because many cognate with Eng...
bat-shit-crazy trailer park
  01/26/18
yep
White crackhouse
  01/26/18
3 genders in german v. 2 in french, and a more developed cas...
Red stirring gay wizard
  01/26/18
it's really almost 4 because the plural is kind of a gender ...
White crackhouse
  01/26/18
Which is still easier than Ukrainian (and I assume Russian i...
bat-shit-crazy trailer park
  01/26/18
not saying German is the hardest language out there.
White crackhouse
  01/26/18
this makes it a lot easier, actually. in latin all the plura...
Red stirring gay wizard
  01/26/18
There's other shit that gets more advanced that no one bothe...
Ebony Stimulating International Law Enforcement Agency Elastic Band
  01/26/18
i agree, n-declension is annoying. knowing when certain v...
White crackhouse
  01/26/18
N-nomen is a minor, minor grammatical point that hardly matt...
bat-shit-crazy trailer park
  01/26/18
The point is that there is a declination of nouns in the Ger...
Ebony Stimulating International Law Enforcement Agency Elastic Band
  01/26/18
No. In German there are tiny vestigial traces of nominal dec...
bat-shit-crazy trailer park
  01/26/18
How is this responsive? These things exist, and I'm not sure...
Ebony Stimulating International Law Enforcement Agency Elastic Band
  01/26/18
English possessive formation ('s) is technically nominal inf...
bat-shit-crazy trailer park
  01/26/18
Very scholarly sub thread
Concupiscible boltzmann national
  06/09/21
How do you feel about RSF having confirmed sock puppets that...
titillating balding senate
  01/26/18
LOL at German being "incredibly easy."
wonderful striped hyena
  01/26/18
Some languages start out easy and then you fall off a cliff ...
Scarlet Circlehead
  07/06/25
its the opposite. German starts off hard with having to know...
Slap-happy range patrolman
  07/06/25
I took German 1 my senior year of high school. It was pretty...
Sapphire Thriller Sanctuary Candlestick Maker
  01/26/18
No, its not. The orthography is highly regular and all the ...
bat-shit-crazy trailer park
  01/26/18
I thought it was a pain in the ass. I took French for 3 year...
Sapphire Thriller Sanctuary Candlestick Maker
  01/26/18
it's much easier than french or english, both of which i had...
Provocative voyeur organic girlfriend
  01/26/18
Bullshit on French. French is much easier.
chrome charismatic field
  01/26/18
Its depends on what your native language is. The weird word...
bat-shit-crazy trailer park
  01/26/18
"La" and "le" is ways easier than die, d...
chrome charismatic field
  01/26/18
Again, if your native language is inflectional learning a 4x...
bat-shit-crazy trailer park
  01/26/18
now THIS is a low-iq thread if ever I've seen one
amethyst sinister house gunner
  01/26/18
cr, especially after I've freely shared with the bort the 5 ...
razzle-dazzle orchestra pit
  01/26/18
don't recall these, but the trick is immersion. Took me 6 mo...
amethyst sinister house gunner
  01/26/18
which one?
Thirsty Indian Lodge Antidepressant Drug
  01/26/18
Finngolian.
amethyst sinister house gunner
  01/26/18
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autistic background story
  01/26/18
I rika Germoney, but a sperring Germoney is a harda. Guta T...
autistic background story
  01/26/18
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Magenta Base Genital Piercing
  01/26/18
OP must be a gook. German should be easy to pick up if y...
Effete Floppy Cruise Ship Nibblets
  01/26/18
you calling mark twain a gook? https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gba...
Red stirring gay wizard
  01/26/18
Devestating
Histrionic heaven brethren
  01/26/18
"I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in on...
White crackhouse
  01/26/18
lol
Slap-happy range patrolman
  07/06/25
this was 180
wonderful striped hyena
  01/26/18
The Germans have another kind of parenthesis, which they mak...
Red stirring gay wizard
  01/26/18
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At-the-ready bat shit crazy market blood rage
  06/09/21
LMAO
Slap-happy range patrolman
  07/06/25
nothing wrong with this tbqh it's poetic
Glassy roommate
  07/07/25
English people still write convoluted bullshit like this. It...
Scarlet Circlehead
  07/07/25
This is basically an XO-ism
Adulterous Deranged Stag Film Ladyboy
  07/07/25
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Ivory Supple Black Woman Location
  01/26/18
in casual conversation you can just say "duh" inst...
Razzmatazz hall rigpig
  01/26/18
No one thought to write anything good or important in German...
Scarlet Circlehead
  07/06/25
Lmfao German is one of the easiest languages to learn. It's ...
Adulterous Deranged Stag Film Ladyboy
  07/07/25
Outed as a loser who never studied Japanese for one minute.
Scarlet Circlehead
  07/07/25
(lex tp)
Irradiated embarrassed to the bone gas station
  07/07/25


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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:28 AM
Author: Iridescent sticky public bath



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:28 AM
Author: pearly death wish

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=2Reputation#35243028)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:30 AM
Author: comical learning disabled property

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=2Reputation#35243047)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:31 AM
Author: Red stirring gay wizard

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=2Reputation#35243051)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:29 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted emerald theater idea he suggested

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

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:29 AM
Author: Insecure church building

Verkampfterbungenlingtaufhausen

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:06 AM
Author: cobalt laser beams

(anti-semite)

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:32 AM
Author: Ebony Stimulating International Law Enforcement Agency Elastic Band

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=2Reputation#35243058)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:33 AM
Author: Thirsty Indian Lodge Antidepressant Drug



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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:55 AM
Author: blue pisswyrm sandwich

The grammar is hard

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:05 AM
Author: Ebony Stimulating International Law Enforcement Agency Elastic Band

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=2Reputation#35243398)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:19 PM
Author: vivacious navy quadroon

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

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



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:44 PM
Author: Scarlet Circlehead

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=2Reputation#49076945)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:29 AM
Author: Insecure church building

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=2Reputation#35243034)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:33 AM
Author: duck-like corn cake

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=2Reputation#35243069)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:34 AM
Author: Insecure church building

Everything. Spelling, pronunciation etc.

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:45 PM
Author: wonderful striped hyena

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=2Reputation#35245895)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:41 PM
Author: Glassy roommate

written French is a pleasure

spoken French is an incomprehensible nightmare imo

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:34 AM
Author: Red stirring gay wizard

do you just mean phonetically? french grammar is ljl easy

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:36 AM
Author: duck-like corn cake

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

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:44 AM
Author: Sapphire Thriller Sanctuary Candlestick Maker

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

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:46 AM
Author: brilliant low-t bawdyhouse

(trilingual guy bagging groceries)

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:49 AM
Author: Curious temple



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:50 AM
Author: Curious temple

(Trilingual guy bagging groceries incapable of bagging cunnilingus)

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:54 AM
Author: blue pisswyrm sandwich

He's not a bagger

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:04 AM
Author: Ebony Stimulating International Law Enforcement Agency Elastic Band

Lol he's the cart gatherer?

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:50 AM
Author: Magenta Base Genital Piercing

No, but the retarded kid he molests is.

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:56 AM
Author: Insecure church building

?

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:13 PM
Author: onyx party of the first part



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:32 AM
Author: Thirsty Indian Lodge Antidepressant Drug

edit

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:35 AM
Author: bat-shit-crazy trailer park

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=2Reputation#35243082)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:36 AM
Author: Big locale electric furnace

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=2Reputation#35243103)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:41 AM
Author: Ebony Stimulating International Law Enforcement Agency Elastic Band

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=2Reputation#35243143)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:44 AM
Author: Big locale electric furnace

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=2Reputation#35243168)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:46 AM
Author: Red stirring gay wizard

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=2Reputation#35243201)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:48 AM
Author: Big locale electric furnace

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=2Reputation#35243209)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:52 AM
Author: razzle-dazzle orchestra pit

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=2Reputation#35243249)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:54 AM
Author: Territorial Pit Cuckold

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

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:12 AM
Author: Big locale electric furnace

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=2Reputation#35243450)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:47 AM
Author: White crackhouse

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=2Reputation#35243205)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:51 AM
Author: bat-shit-crazy trailer park

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=2Reputation#35243239)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:55 AM
Author: White crackhouse

yep

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:53 AM
Author: Red stirring gay wizard

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=2Reputation#35243261)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:56 AM
Author: White crackhouse

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=2Reputation#35243298)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:10 AM
Author: bat-shit-crazy trailer park

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=2Reputation#35243436)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:12 AM
Author: White crackhouse

not saying German is the hardest language out there.

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:20 AM
Author: Red stirring gay wizard

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=2Reputation#35243544)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:04 AM
Author: Ebony Stimulating International Law Enforcement Agency Elastic Band

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=2Reputation#35243385)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:12 AM
Author: White crackhouse

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=2Reputation#35243451)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:16 AM
Author: bat-shit-crazy trailer park

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=2Reputation#35243486)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:25 AM
Author: Ebony Stimulating International Law Enforcement Agency Elastic Band

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=2Reputation#35243581)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:31 AM
Author: bat-shit-crazy trailer park

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=2Reputation#35243643)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:49 AM
Author: Ebony Stimulating International Law Enforcement Agency Elastic Band

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=2Reputation#35243873)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:21 PM
Author: bat-shit-crazy trailer park

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=2Reputation#35244267)



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Date: June 9th, 2021 8:53 PM
Author: Concupiscible boltzmann national

Very scholarly sub thread

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:55 AM
Author: titillating balding senate

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=2Reputation#35243283)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:46 PM
Author: wonderful striped hyena

LOL at German being "incredibly easy."

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



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:48 PM
Author: Scarlet Circlehead

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=2Reputation#49076953)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:56 PM
Author: Slap-happy range patrolman

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=2Reputation#49076968)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:43 AM
Author: Sapphire Thriller Sanctuary Candlestick Maker

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=2Reputation#35243158)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:45 AM
Author: bat-shit-crazy trailer park

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=2Reputation#35243181)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: Sapphire Thriller Sanctuary Candlestick Maker

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=2Reputation#35243414)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:56 AM
Author: Provocative voyeur organic girlfriend

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=2Reputation#35243306)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:19 AM
Author: chrome charismatic field

Bullshit on French. French is much easier.

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:22 AM
Author: bat-shit-crazy trailer park

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=2Reputation#35243549)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:24 AM
Author: chrome charismatic field

"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=2Reputation#35243572)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:26 AM
Author: bat-shit-crazy trailer park

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=2Reputation#35243589)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:59 AM
Author: amethyst sinister house gunner

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

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:01 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle orchestra pit

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=2Reputation#35244035)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:03 PM
Author: amethyst sinister house gunner

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=2Reputation#35244066)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:23 PM
Author: Thirsty Indian Lodge Antidepressant Drug

which one?

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:25 PM
Author: amethyst sinister house gunner

Finngolian.

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:04 PM
Author: autistic background story



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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:08 PM
Author: autistic background story

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

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:22 PM
Author: Magenta Base Genital Piercing



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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:24 PM
Author: Effete Floppy Cruise Ship Nibblets

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=2Reputation#35244285)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:26 PM
Author: Red stirring gay wizard

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=2Reputation#35244307)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:16 PM
Author: Histrionic heaven brethren

Devestating

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:24 PM
Author: White crackhouse

"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=2Reputation#35245662)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:33 PM
Author: Slap-happy range patrolman

lol

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:49 PM
Author: wonderful striped hyena

this was 180

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 3:17 PM
Author: Red stirring gay wizard

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=2Reputation#35246162)



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Date: June 9th, 2021 9:07 PM
Author: At-the-ready bat shit crazy market blood rage



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



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:33 PM
Author: Slap-happy range patrolman

LMAO

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



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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:02 AM
Author: Glassy roommate

nothing wrong with this tbqh

it's poetic

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



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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:04 AM
Author: Scarlet Circlehead

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=2Reputation#49078054)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:06 AM
Author: Adulterous Deranged Stag Film Ladyboy

This is basically an XO-ism

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:14 PM
Author: Ivory Supple Black Woman Location



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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 3:16 PM
Author: Razzmatazz hall rigpig

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

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



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:54 PM
Author: Scarlet Circlehead

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=2Reputation#49076961)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:04 AM
Author: Adulterous Deranged Stag Film Ladyboy

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=2Reputation#49078055)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:08 AM
Author: Scarlet Circlehead

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

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



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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:20 AM
Author: Irradiated embarrassed to the bone gas station

(lex tp)

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