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It's almost impossible to learn German

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Charismatic black windowlicker patrolman
  01/26/18
I took reading German in grad school and it's not very hard....
spectacular mad cow disease school cafeteria
  01/26/18
I did as well -- for Graduate Reading Knowledge. I liked it,...
pink office
  01/26/18
same. learning the grammar and whatever special vocabulary t...
flickering thriller factory reset button
  01/26/18
Speaking it is hard. Try spelling the words - jfc.
canary shrine
  01/26/18
Verkampfterbungenlingtaufhausen
Violet fragrant library
  01/26/18
(anti-semite)
180 Tripping Piazza
  01/26/18
Spelling isn't hard. It's a pretty phonetic language. Even t...
translucent heady base
  01/26/18
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Sooty metal sound barrier
  01/26/18
The grammar is hard
Turquoise self-centered jap
  01/26/18
The grammar rules are complicated but can be mastered and me...
translucent heady base
  01/26/18
true but ljl at trying to do table lookups in real time
claret violent parlour cuck
  01/26/18
They write super long sentences that form an entire paragrap...
Maize Hall Personal Credit Line
  07/06/25
All the "cases" and whatnot can be confusing, but ...
Violet fragrant library
  01/26/18
I didn't think french was bad at all. What was harder about ...
Smoky Locale Prole
  01/26/18
Everything. Spelling, pronunciation etc.
Violet fragrant library
  01/26/18
Regular-speed spoken casual french is hard as fuck to unders...
Confused business firm regret
  01/26/18
written French is a pleasure spoken French is an incompreh...
alcoholic awkward site double fault
  07/06/25
do you just mean phonetically? french grammar is ljl easy
flickering thriller factory reset button
  01/26/18
its like learning spanish, but with fucked up spelling/pronu...
Smoky Locale Prole
  01/26/18
French is easy as fuck. Grammar rules, etc make more sense t...
Navy hairraiser hissy fit
  01/26/18
(trilingual guy bagging groceries)
bat-shit-crazy stead
  01/26/18
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arousing toaster quadroon
  01/26/18
(Trilingual guy bagging groceries incapable of bagging cunni...
arousing toaster quadroon
  01/26/18
He's not a bagger
Turquoise self-centered jap
  01/26/18
Lol he's the cart gatherer?
translucent heady base
  01/26/18
No, but the retarded kid he molests is.
free-loading turdskin
  01/26/18
?
Violet fragrant library
  01/26/18
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costumed hell
  01/26/18
edit
Sooty metal sound barrier
  01/26/18
I learned German as a hobby. Its not that hard. Can't spe...
Appetizing embarrassed to the bone telephone
  01/26/18
What little German I've studied struck me as incredibly easy...
Onyx haunting station weed whacker
  01/26/18
That's ridiculous. I'm sure you've looked into French and It...
translucent heady base
  01/26/18
Italian is easy; French is fairly difficult. I speak native ...
Onyx haunting station weed whacker
  01/26/18
julia effortlessly identifying massive german compound verbs...
flickering thriller factory reset button
  01/26/18
I don't know what the fuck it is about French, but I've give...
Onyx haunting station weed whacker
  01/26/18
I don't understand why you find French so hard if you know I...
aqua doctorate area
  01/26/18
Julia picking up languages and adding them to her trophy cas...
Dun Gaped Cruise Ship
  01/26/18
Arabic: I'm half Arab and have family in the Middle East Fr...
Onyx haunting station weed whacker
  01/26/18
I'm re-learning/brushing up and I 100% agree. The prepositio...
red comical public bath
  01/26/18
The prepositions are difficult because many cognate with Eng...
Appetizing embarrassed to the bone telephone
  01/26/18
yep
red comical public bath
  01/26/18
3 genders in german v. 2 in french, and a more developed cas...
flickering thriller factory reset button
  01/26/18
it's really almost 4 because the plural is kind of a gender ...
red comical public bath
  01/26/18
Which is still easier than Ukrainian (and I assume Russian i...
Appetizing embarrassed to the bone telephone
  01/26/18
not saying German is the hardest language out there.
red comical public bath
  01/26/18
this makes it a lot easier, actually. in latin all the plura...
flickering thriller factory reset button
  01/26/18
There's other shit that gets more advanced that no one bothe...
translucent heady base
  01/26/18
i agree, n-declension is annoying. knowing when certain v...
red comical public bath
  01/26/18
N-nomen is a minor, minor grammatical point that hardly matt...
Appetizing embarrassed to the bone telephone
  01/26/18
The point is that there is a declination of nouns in the Ger...
translucent heady base
  01/26/18
No. In German there are tiny vestigial traces of nominal dec...
Appetizing embarrassed to the bone telephone
  01/26/18
How is this responsive? These things exist, and I'm not sure...
translucent heady base
  01/26/18
English possessive formation ('s) is technically nominal inf...
Appetizing embarrassed to the bone telephone
  01/26/18
Very scholarly sub thread
Cream house-broken stock car native
  06/09/21
How do you feel about RSF having confirmed sock puppets that...
frozen gas station foreskin
  01/26/18
LOL at German being "incredibly easy."
Confused business firm regret
  01/26/18
Some languages start out easy and then you fall off a cliff ...
Maize Hall Personal Credit Line
  07/06/25
its the opposite. German starts off hard with having to know...
Chrome contagious location hunting ground
  07/06/25
I took German 1 my senior year of high school. It was pretty...
Navy hairraiser hissy fit
  01/26/18
No, its not. The orthography is highly regular and all the ...
Appetizing embarrassed to the bone telephone
  01/26/18
I thought it was a pain in the ass. I took French for 3 year...
Navy hairraiser hissy fit
  01/26/18
it's much easier than french or english, both of which i had...
Rambunctious affirmative action
  01/26/18
Bullshit on French. French is much easier.
frum brunch mexican
  01/26/18
Its depends on what your native language is. The weird word...
Appetizing embarrassed to the bone telephone
  01/26/18
"La" and "le" is ways easier than die, d...
frum brunch mexican
  01/26/18
Again, if your native language is inflectional learning a 4x...
Appetizing embarrassed to the bone telephone
  01/26/18
now THIS is a low-iq thread if ever I've seen one
Laughsome slate dilemma sneaky criminal
  01/26/18
cr, especially after I've freely shared with the bort the 5 ...
aqua doctorate area
  01/26/18
don't recall these, but the trick is immersion. Took me 6 mo...
Laughsome slate dilemma sneaky criminal
  01/26/18
which one?
Sooty metal sound barrier
  01/26/18
Finngolian.
Laughsome slate dilemma sneaky criminal
  01/26/18
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rusted cuckold
  01/26/18
I rika Germoney, but a sperring Germoney is a harda. Guta T...
rusted cuckold
  01/26/18
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free-loading turdskin
  01/26/18
OP must be a gook. German should be easy to pick up if y...
talented charcoal sandwich national
  01/26/18
you calling mark twain a gook? https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gba...
flickering thriller factory reset button
  01/26/18
Devestating
bistre chapel
  01/26/18
"I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in on...
red comical public bath
  01/26/18
lol
Chrome contagious location hunting ground
  07/06/25
this was 180
Confused business firm regret
  01/26/18
The Germans have another kind of parenthesis, which they mak...
flickering thriller factory reset button
  01/26/18
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cyan cracking plaza old irish cottage
  06/09/21
LMAO
Chrome contagious location hunting ground
  07/06/25
nothing wrong with this tbqh it's poetic
alcoholic awkward site double fault
  07/07/25
English people still write convoluted bullshit like this. It...
Maize Hall Personal Credit Line
  07/07/25
This is basically an XO-ism
learning disabled pisswyrm
  07/07/25
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marvelous roommate ape
  01/26/18
in casual conversation you can just say "duh" inst...
Burgundy glittery locus
  01/26/18
No one thought to write anything good or important in German...
Maize Hall Personal Credit Line
  07/06/25
Lmfao German is one of the easiest languages to learn. It's ...
learning disabled pisswyrm
  07/07/25
Outed as a loser who never studied Japanese for one minute.
Maize Hall Personal Credit Line
  07/07/25
(lex tp)
Seedy Legal Warrant Institution
  07/07/25
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animeboi
  09/08/25
young German women are friendly and attractive, so your ling...
Brussels Sprout: Brussels,Helsinki,Stockholm,Kyiv
  09/09/25


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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:28 AM
Author: Charismatic black windowlicker patrolman



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2!#35243024)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:28 AM
Author: spectacular mad cow disease school cafeteria

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!#35243028)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:30 AM
Author: pink office

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!#35243047)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:31 AM
Author: flickering thriller factory reset button

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!#35243051)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:29 AM
Author: canary shrine

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

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:29 AM
Author: Violet fragrant library

Verkampfterbungenlingtaufhausen

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:06 AM
Author: 180 Tripping Piazza

(anti-semite)

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:32 AM
Author: translucent heady base

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!#35243058)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:33 AM
Author: Sooty metal sound barrier



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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:55 AM
Author: Turquoise self-centered jap

The grammar is hard

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:05 AM
Author: translucent heady base

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!#35243398)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:19 PM
Author: claret violent parlour cuck

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

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



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:44 PM
Author: Maize Hall Personal Credit Line

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!#49076945)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:29 AM
Author: Violet fragrant library

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!#35243034)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:33 AM
Author: Smoky Locale Prole

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!#35243069)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:34 AM
Author: Violet fragrant library

Everything. Spelling, pronunciation etc.

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:45 PM
Author: Confused business firm regret

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!#35245895)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:41 PM
Author: alcoholic awkward site double fault

written French is a pleasure

spoken French is an incomprehensible nightmare imo

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:34 AM
Author: flickering thriller factory reset button

do you just mean phonetically? french grammar is ljl easy

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:36 AM
Author: Smoky Locale Prole

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

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:44 AM
Author: Navy hairraiser hissy fit

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!#35243165)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:46 AM
Author: bat-shit-crazy stead

(trilingual guy bagging groceries)

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:49 AM
Author: arousing toaster quadroon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2!#35243214)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:50 AM
Author: arousing toaster quadroon

(Trilingual guy bagging groceries incapable of bagging cunnilingus)

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:54 AM
Author: Turquoise self-centered jap

He's not a bagger

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:04 AM
Author: translucent heady base

Lol he's the cart gatherer?

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:50 AM
Author: free-loading turdskin

No, but the retarded kid he molests is.

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:56 AM
Author: Violet fragrant library

?

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:13 PM
Author: costumed hell



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2!#35245524)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:32 AM
Author: Sooty metal sound barrier

edit

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:35 AM
Author: Appetizing embarrassed to the bone telephone

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!#35243082)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:36 AM
Author: Onyx haunting station weed whacker

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!#35243103)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:41 AM
Author: translucent heady base

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!#35243143)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:44 AM
Author: Onyx haunting station weed whacker

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!#35243168)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:46 AM
Author: flickering thriller factory reset button

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!#35243201)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:48 AM
Author: Onyx haunting station weed whacker

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!#35243209)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:52 AM
Author: aqua doctorate area

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!#35243249)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:54 AM
Author: Dun Gaped Cruise Ship

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

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:12 AM
Author: Onyx haunting station weed whacker

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!#35243450)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:47 AM
Author: red comical public bath

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!#35243205)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:51 AM
Author: Appetizing embarrassed to the bone telephone

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!#35243239)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:55 AM
Author: red comical public bath

yep

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:53 AM
Author: flickering thriller factory reset button

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!#35243261)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:56 AM
Author: red comical public bath

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!#35243298)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:10 AM
Author: Appetizing embarrassed to the bone telephone

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!#35243436)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:12 AM
Author: red comical public bath

not saying German is the hardest language out there.

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:20 AM
Author: flickering thriller factory reset button

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!#35243544)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:04 AM
Author: translucent heady base

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!#35243385)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:12 AM
Author: red comical public bath

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!#35243451)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:16 AM
Author: Appetizing embarrassed to the bone telephone

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!#35243486)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:25 AM
Author: translucent heady base

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!#35243581)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:31 AM
Author: Appetizing embarrassed to the bone telephone

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!#35243643)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:49 AM
Author: translucent heady base

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!#35243873)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:21 PM
Author: Appetizing embarrassed to the bone telephone

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!#35244267)



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Date: June 9th, 2021 8:53 PM
Author: Cream house-broken stock car native

Very scholarly sub thread

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:55 AM
Author: frozen gas station foreskin

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!#35243283)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:46 PM
Author: Confused business firm regret

LOL at German being "incredibly easy."

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



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:48 PM
Author: Maize Hall Personal Credit Line

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!#49076953)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:56 PM
Author: Chrome contagious location hunting ground

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.

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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:43 AM
Author: Navy hairraiser hissy fit

I took German 1 my senior year of high school. It was pretty hard. Spelling all the crap correctly is a pain

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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:45 AM
Author: Appetizing embarrassed to the bone telephone

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!#35243181)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: Navy hairraiser hissy fit

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!#35243414)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:56 AM
Author: Rambunctious affirmative action

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!#35243306)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:19 AM
Author: frum brunch mexican

Bullshit on French. French is much easier.

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:22 AM
Author: Appetizing embarrassed to the bone telephone

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!#35243549)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:24 AM
Author: frum brunch mexican

"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!#35243572)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:26 AM
Author: Appetizing embarrassed to the bone telephone

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!#35243589)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 11:59 AM
Author: Laughsome slate dilemma sneaky criminal

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!#35244009)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:01 PM
Author: aqua doctorate area

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!#35244035)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:03 PM
Author: Laughsome slate dilemma sneaky criminal

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!#35244066)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:23 PM
Author: Sooty metal sound barrier

which one?

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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:25 PM
Author: Laughsome slate dilemma sneaky criminal

Finngolian.

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:04 PM
Author: rusted cuckold



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:08 PM
Author: rusted cuckold

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

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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:22 PM
Author: free-loading turdskin



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:24 PM
Author: talented charcoal sandwich national

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.

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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:26 PM
Author: flickering thriller factory reset button

you calling mark twain a gook?

https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html

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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:16 PM
Author: bistre chapel

Devestating

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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:24 PM
Author: red comical public bath

"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!#35245662)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:33 PM
Author: Chrome contagious location hunting ground

lol

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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:49 PM
Author: Confused business firm regret

this was 180

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 3:17 PM
Author: flickering thriller factory reset button

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."

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Date: June 9th, 2021 9:07 PM
Author: cyan cracking plaza old irish cottage



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:33 PM
Author: Chrome contagious location hunting ground

LMAO

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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:02 AM
Author: alcoholic awkward site double fault

nothing wrong with this tbqh

it's poetic

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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:04 AM
Author: Maize Hall Personal Credit Line

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!#49078054)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:06 AM
Author: learning disabled pisswyrm

This is basically an XO-ism

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:14 PM
Author: marvelous roommate ape



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Date: January 26th, 2018 3:16 PM
Author: Burgundy glittery locus

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

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:54 PM
Author: Maize Hall Personal Credit Line

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.

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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:04 AM
Author: learning disabled pisswyrm

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: Maize Hall Personal Credit Line

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

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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:20 AM
Author: Seedy Legal Warrant Institution

(lex tp)

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Date: September 8th, 2025 3:26 PM
Author: animeboi (.)

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Date: September 9th, 2025 5:42 AM
Author: Brussels Sprout: Brussels,Helsinki,Stockholm,Kyiv


young German women are friendly and attractive, so your linguistic labors will be rewarded--learn the language

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