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It's almost impossible to learn German

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glittery brunch jewess
  01/26/18
I took reading German in grad school and it's not very hard....
bearded gaping
  01/26/18
I did as well -- for Graduate Reading Knowledge. I liked it,...
indigo submissive striped hyena
  01/26/18
same. learning the grammar and whatever special vocabulary t...
aphrodisiac pungent stage french chef
  01/26/18
Speaking it is hard. Try spelling the words - jfc.
beady-eyed meetinghouse internal respiration
  01/26/18
Verkampfterbungenlingtaufhausen
comical thirsty partner scourge upon the earth
  01/26/18
(anti-semite)
Fluffy mauve national
  01/26/18
Spelling isn't hard. It's a pretty phonetic language. Even t...
Brass set
  01/26/18
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light electric furnace organic girlfriend
  01/26/18
The grammar is hard
Vengeful flesh field affirmative action
  01/26/18
The grammar rules are complicated but can be mastered and me...
Brass set
  01/26/18
true but ljl at trying to do table lookups in real time
sexy avocado headpube queen of the night
  01/26/18
They write super long sentences that form an entire paragrap...
High-end Institution
  07/06/25
All the "cases" and whatnot can be confusing, but ...
comical thirsty partner scourge upon the earth
  01/26/18
I didn't think french was bad at all. What was harder about ...
demanding jet jew
  01/26/18
Everything. Spelling, pronunciation etc.
comical thirsty partner scourge upon the earth
  01/26/18
Regular-speed spoken casual french is hard as fuck to unders...
cruel-hearted frisky really tough guy sneaky criminal
  01/26/18
written French is a pleasure spoken French is an incompreh...
Orchid circlehead
  07/06/25
do you just mean phonetically? french grammar is ljl easy
aphrodisiac pungent stage french chef
  01/26/18
its like learning spanish, but with fucked up spelling/pronu...
demanding jet jew
  01/26/18
French is easy as fuck. Grammar rules, etc make more sense t...
abnormal theater stage giraffe
  01/26/18
(trilingual guy bagging groceries)
saffron sick digit ratio elastic band
  01/26/18
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supple ebony halford
  01/26/18
(Trilingual guy bagging groceries incapable of bagging cunni...
supple ebony halford
  01/26/18
He's not a bagger
Vengeful flesh field affirmative action
  01/26/18
Lol he's the cart gatherer?
Brass set
  01/26/18
No, but the retarded kid he molests is.
Heady location
  01/26/18
?
comical thirsty partner scourge upon the earth
  01/26/18
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diverse love of her life spot
  01/26/18
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light electric furnace organic girlfriend
  01/26/18
I learned German as a hobby. Its not that hard. Can't spe...
seedy internet-worthy useless brakes
  01/26/18
What little German I've studied struck me as incredibly easy...
Yapping bearded menage antidepressant drug
  01/26/18
That's ridiculous. I'm sure you've looked into French and It...
Brass set
  01/26/18
Italian is easy; French is fairly difficult. I speak native ...
Yapping bearded menage antidepressant drug
  01/26/18
julia effortlessly identifying massive german compound verbs...
aphrodisiac pungent stage french chef
  01/26/18
I don't know what the fuck it is about French, but I've give...
Yapping bearded menage antidepressant drug
  01/26/18
I don't understand why you find French so hard if you know I...
Narrow-minded metal hissy fit
  01/26/18
Julia picking up languages and adding them to her trophy cas...
maniacal arousing hospital
  01/26/18
Arabic: I'm half Arab and have family in the Middle East Fr...
Yapping bearded menage antidepressant drug
  01/26/18
I'm re-learning/brushing up and I 100% agree. The prepositio...
umber free-loading stage quadroon
  01/26/18
The prepositions are difficult because many cognate with Eng...
seedy internet-worthy useless brakes
  01/26/18
yep
umber free-loading stage quadroon
  01/26/18
3 genders in german v. 2 in french, and a more developed cas...
aphrodisiac pungent stage french chef
  01/26/18
it's really almost 4 because the plural is kind of a gender ...
umber free-loading stage quadroon
  01/26/18
Which is still easier than Ukrainian (and I assume Russian i...
seedy internet-worthy useless brakes
  01/26/18
not saying German is the hardest language out there.
umber free-loading stage quadroon
  01/26/18
this makes it a lot easier, actually. in latin all the plura...
aphrodisiac pungent stage french chef
  01/26/18
There's other shit that gets more advanced that no one bothe...
Brass set
  01/26/18
i agree, n-declension is annoying. knowing when certain v...
umber free-loading stage quadroon
  01/26/18
N-nomen is a minor, minor grammatical point that hardly matt...
seedy internet-worthy useless brakes
  01/26/18
The point is that there is a declination of nouns in the Ger...
Brass set
  01/26/18
No. In German there are tiny vestigial traces of nominal dec...
seedy internet-worthy useless brakes
  01/26/18
How is this responsive? These things exist, and I'm not sure...
Brass set
  01/26/18
English possessive formation ('s) is technically nominal inf...
seedy internet-worthy useless brakes
  01/26/18
Very scholarly sub thread
adventurous soggy puppy karate
  06/09/21
How do you feel about RSF having confirmed sock puppets that...
Vermilion Round Eye
  01/26/18
LOL at German being "incredibly easy."
cruel-hearted frisky really tough guy sneaky criminal
  01/26/18
Some languages start out easy and then you fall off a cliff ...
High-end Institution
  07/06/25
its the opposite. German starts off hard with having to know...
Translucent exhilarant area sex offender
  07/06/25
I took German 1 my senior year of high school. It was pretty...
abnormal theater stage giraffe
  01/26/18
No, its not. The orthography is highly regular and all the ...
seedy internet-worthy useless brakes
  01/26/18
I thought it was a pain in the ass. I took French for 3 year...
abnormal theater stage giraffe
  01/26/18
it's much easier than french or english, both of which i had...
soul-stirring lodge corn cake
  01/26/18
Bullshit on French. French is much easier.
Bull Headed Heaven Party Of The First Part
  01/26/18
Its depends on what your native language is. The weird word...
seedy internet-worthy useless brakes
  01/26/18
"La" and "le" is ways easier than die, d...
Bull Headed Heaven Party Of The First Part
  01/26/18
Again, if your native language is inflectional learning a 4x...
seedy internet-worthy useless brakes
  01/26/18
now THIS is a low-iq thread if ever I've seen one
Shimmering church building
  01/26/18
cr, especially after I've freely shared with the bort the 5 ...
Narrow-minded metal hissy fit
  01/26/18
don't recall these, but the trick is immersion. Took me 6 mo...
Shimmering church building
  01/26/18
which one?
light electric furnace organic girlfriend
  01/26/18
Finngolian.
Shimmering church building
  01/26/18
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sepia principal's office dopamine
  01/26/18
I rika Germoney, but a sperring Germoney is a harda. Guta T...
sepia principal's office dopamine
  01/26/18
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Heady location
  01/26/18
OP must be a gook. German should be easy to pick up if y...
Hyperactive chrome marketing idea
  01/26/18
you calling mark twain a gook? https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gba...
aphrodisiac pungent stage french chef
  01/26/18
Devestating
Bateful Salmon Rehab Roommate
  01/26/18
"I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in on...
umber free-loading stage quadroon
  01/26/18
lol
Translucent exhilarant area sex offender
  07/06/25
this was 180
cruel-hearted frisky really tough guy sneaky criminal
  01/26/18
The Germans have another kind of parenthesis, which they mak...
aphrodisiac pungent stage french chef
  01/26/18
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Mentally impaired mustard crotch parlour
  06/09/21
LMAO
Translucent exhilarant area sex offender
  07/06/25
nothing wrong with this tbqh it's poetic
Orchid circlehead
  07/07/25
English people still write convoluted bullshit like this. It...
High-end Institution
  07/07/25
This is basically an XO-ism
fishy razzmatazz station
  07/07/25
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Excitant Hominid
  01/26/18
in casual conversation you can just say "duh" inst...
trip resort
  01/26/18
No one thought to write anything good or important in German...
High-end Institution
  07/06/25
Lmfao German is one of the easiest languages to learn. It's ...
fishy razzmatazz station
  07/07/25
Outed as a loser who never studied Japanese for one minute.
High-end Institution
  07/07/25
(lex tp)
Vibrant Khaki Degenerate
  07/07/25


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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:28 AM
Author: glittery brunch jewess



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:28 AM
Author: bearded gaping

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: indigo submissive striped hyena

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: aphrodisiac pungent stage french chef

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: beady-eyed meetinghouse internal respiration

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: comical thirsty partner scourge upon the earth

Verkampfterbungenlingtaufhausen

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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:06 AM
Author: Fluffy mauve national

(anti-semite)

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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:32 AM
Author: Brass set

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: light electric furnace organic girlfriend



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:55 AM
Author: Vengeful flesh field affirmative action

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: Brass set

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: sexy avocado headpube queen of the night

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: High-end Institution

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: comical thirsty partner scourge upon the earth

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: demanding jet jew

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: comical thirsty partner scourge upon the earth

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: cruel-hearted frisky really tough guy sneaky criminal

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: Orchid circlehead

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: aphrodisiac pungent stage french chef

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: demanding jet jew

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: abnormal theater stage giraffe

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: saffron sick digit ratio elastic band

(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: supple ebony halford



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:50 AM
Author: supple ebony halford

(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: Vengeful flesh field affirmative action

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: Brass set

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: Heady location

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: comical thirsty partner scourge upon the earth

?

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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:13 PM
Author: diverse love of her life spot



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:32 AM
Author: light electric furnace organic girlfriend

edit

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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:35 AM
Author: seedy internet-worthy useless brakes

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: Yapping bearded menage antidepressant drug

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: Brass set

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: Yapping bearded menage antidepressant drug

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: aphrodisiac pungent stage french chef

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: Yapping bearded menage antidepressant drug

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: Narrow-minded metal hissy fit

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: maniacal arousing hospital

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: Yapping bearded menage antidepressant drug

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: umber free-loading stage quadroon

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: seedy internet-worthy useless brakes

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: umber free-loading stage quadroon

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: aphrodisiac pungent stage french chef

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: umber free-loading stage quadroon

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: seedy internet-worthy useless brakes

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: umber free-loading stage quadroon

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: aphrodisiac pungent stage french chef

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: Brass set

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: umber free-loading stage quadroon

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: seedy internet-worthy useless brakes

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: Brass set

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: seedy internet-worthy useless brakes

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: Brass set

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

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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:21 PM
Author: seedy internet-worthy useless brakes

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: adventurous soggy puppy karate

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: Vermilion Round Eye

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: cruel-hearted frisky really tough guy sneaky criminal

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: High-end Institution

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: Translucent exhilarant area sex offender

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: abnormal theater stage giraffe

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: seedy internet-worthy useless brakes

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: abnormal theater stage giraffe

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: soul-stirring lodge corn cake

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: Bull Headed Heaven Party Of The First Part

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: seedy internet-worthy useless brakes

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: Bull Headed Heaven Party Of The First Part

"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: seedy internet-worthy useless brakes

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: Shimmering church building

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: Narrow-minded metal hissy fit

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: Shimmering church building

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: light electric furnace organic girlfriend

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: Shimmering church building

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: sepia principal's office dopamine



(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: sepia principal's office dopamine

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: Heady location



(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: Hyperactive chrome marketing idea

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: aphrodisiac pungent stage french chef

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: Bateful Salmon Rehab Roommate

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: umber free-loading stage quadroon

"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: Translucent exhilarant area sex offender

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: cruel-hearted frisky really tough guy sneaky criminal

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: aphrodisiac pungent stage french chef

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: Mentally impaired mustard crotch parlour



(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: Translucent exhilarant area sex offender

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: Orchid circlehead

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: High-end Institution

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: fishy razzmatazz station

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: Excitant Hominid



(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: trip resort

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: High-end Institution

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: fishy razzmatazz station

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

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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:08 AM
Author: High-end Institution

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: Vibrant Khaki Degenerate

(lex tp)

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