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It's almost impossible to learn German

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Sick principal's office
  01/26/18
I took reading German in grad school and it's not very hard....
Big famous landscape painting center
  01/26/18
I did as well -- for Graduate Reading Knowledge. I liked it,...
Metal splenetic depressive
  01/26/18
same. learning the grammar and whatever special vocabulary t...
harsh twinkling uncleanness plaza
  01/26/18
Speaking it is hard. Try spelling the words - jfc.
Mischievous Psychic Cuckold
  01/26/18
Verkampfterbungenlingtaufhausen
vermilion beady-eyed lay turdskin
  01/26/18
(anti-semite)
Hilarious Tanning Salon
  01/26/18
Spelling isn't hard. It's a pretty phonetic language. Even t...
laughsome kitchen windowlicker
  01/26/18
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anal hall
  01/26/18
The grammar is hard
Overrated bronze round eye brunch
  01/26/18
The grammar rules are complicated but can be mastered and me...
laughsome kitchen windowlicker
  01/26/18
true but ljl at trying to do table lookups in real time
Lemon telephone
  01/26/18
They write super long sentences that form an entire paragrap...
Submissive gaping sneaky criminal
  07/06/25
All the "cases" and whatnot can be confusing, but ...
vermilion beady-eyed lay turdskin
  01/26/18
I didn't think french was bad at all. What was harder about ...
Appetizing New Version Mother
  01/26/18
Everything. Spelling, pronunciation etc.
vermilion beady-eyed lay turdskin
  01/26/18
Regular-speed spoken casual french is hard as fuck to unders...
copper unholy messiness spot
  01/26/18
written French is a pleasure spoken French is an incompreh...
light fluffy stock car
  07/06/25
do you just mean phonetically? french grammar is ljl easy
harsh twinkling uncleanness plaza
  01/26/18
its like learning spanish, but with fucked up spelling/pronu...
Appetizing New Version Mother
  01/26/18
French is easy as fuck. Grammar rules, etc make more sense t...
Ebony theatre organic girlfriend
  01/26/18
(trilingual guy bagging groceries)
electric emerald sandwich foreskin
  01/26/18
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french learning disabled heaven regret
  01/26/18
(Trilingual guy bagging groceries incapable of bagging cunni...
french learning disabled heaven regret
  01/26/18
He's not a bagger
Overrated bronze round eye brunch
  01/26/18
Lol he's the cart gatherer?
laughsome kitchen windowlicker
  01/26/18
No, but the retarded kid he molests is.
Odious Obsidian Internal Respiration Locus
  01/26/18
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vermilion beady-eyed lay turdskin
  01/26/18
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soggy hospital
  01/26/18
edit
anal hall
  01/26/18
I learned German as a hobby. Its not that hard. Can't spe...
shivering translucent police squad philosopher-king
  01/26/18
What little German I've studied struck me as incredibly easy...
Swashbuckling underhanded prole
  01/26/18
That's ridiculous. I'm sure you've looked into French and It...
laughsome kitchen windowlicker
  01/26/18
Italian is easy; French is fairly difficult. I speak native ...
Swashbuckling underhanded prole
  01/26/18
julia effortlessly identifying massive german compound verbs...
harsh twinkling uncleanness plaza
  01/26/18
I don't know what the fuck it is about French, but I've give...
Swashbuckling underhanded prole
  01/26/18
I don't understand why you find French so hard if you know I...
brilliant cruise ship
  01/26/18
Julia picking up languages and adding them to her trophy cas...
razzle-dazzle jew dilemma
  01/26/18
Arabic: I'm half Arab and have family in the Middle East Fr...
Swashbuckling underhanded prole
  01/26/18
I'm re-learning/brushing up and I 100% agree. The prepositio...
frum territorial ratface
  01/26/18
The prepositions are difficult because many cognate with Eng...
shivering translucent police squad philosopher-king
  01/26/18
yep
frum territorial ratface
  01/26/18
3 genders in german v. 2 in french, and a more developed cas...
harsh twinkling uncleanness plaza
  01/26/18
it's really almost 4 because the plural is kind of a gender ...
frum territorial ratface
  01/26/18
Which is still easier than Ukrainian (and I assume Russian i...
shivering translucent police squad philosopher-king
  01/26/18
not saying German is the hardest language out there.
frum territorial ratface
  01/26/18
this makes it a lot easier, actually. in latin all the plura...
harsh twinkling uncleanness plaza
  01/26/18
There's other shit that gets more advanced that no one bothe...
laughsome kitchen windowlicker
  01/26/18
i agree, n-declension is annoying. knowing when certain v...
frum territorial ratface
  01/26/18
N-nomen is a minor, minor grammatical point that hardly matt...
shivering translucent police squad philosopher-king
  01/26/18
The point is that there is a declination of nouns in the Ger...
laughsome kitchen windowlicker
  01/26/18
No. In German there are tiny vestigial traces of nominal dec...
shivering translucent police squad philosopher-king
  01/26/18
How is this responsive? These things exist, and I'm not sure...
laughsome kitchen windowlicker
  01/26/18
English possessive formation ('s) is technically nominal inf...
shivering translucent police squad philosopher-king
  01/26/18
Very scholarly sub thread
Cheese-eating Excitant Personal Credit Line Patrolman
  06/09/21
How do you feel about RSF having confirmed sock puppets that...
galvanic bat shit crazy chad
  01/26/18
LOL at German being "incredibly easy."
copper unholy messiness spot
  01/26/18
Some languages start out easy and then you fall off a cliff ...
Submissive gaping sneaky criminal
  07/06/25
its the opposite. German starts off hard with having to know...
Self-centered Federal Hunting Ground
  07/06/25
I took German 1 my senior year of high school. It was pretty...
Ebony theatre organic girlfriend
  01/26/18
No, its not. The orthography is highly regular and all the ...
shivering translucent police squad philosopher-king
  01/26/18
I thought it was a pain in the ass. I took French for 3 year...
Ebony theatre organic girlfriend
  01/26/18
it's much easier than french or english, both of which i had...
mind-boggling insane pozpig stage
  01/26/18
Bullshit on French. French is much easier.
apoplectic temple jap
  01/26/18
Its depends on what your native language is. The weird word...
shivering translucent police squad philosopher-king
  01/26/18
"La" and "le" is ways easier than die, d...
apoplectic temple jap
  01/26/18
Again, if your native language is inflectional learning a 4x...
shivering translucent police squad philosopher-king
  01/26/18
now THIS is a low-iq thread if ever I've seen one
Crimson Kink-friendly Death Wish Pocket Flask
  01/26/18
cr, especially after I've freely shared with the bort the 5 ...
brilliant cruise ship
  01/26/18
don't recall these, but the trick is immersion. Took me 6 mo...
Crimson Kink-friendly Death Wish Pocket Flask
  01/26/18
which one?
anal hall
  01/26/18
Finngolian.
Crimson Kink-friendly Death Wish Pocket Flask
  01/26/18
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Insecure Market Kitty Cat
  01/26/18
I rika Germoney, but a sperring Germoney is a harda. Guta T...
Insecure Market Kitty Cat
  01/26/18
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Odious Obsidian Internal Respiration Locus
  01/26/18
OP must be a gook. German should be easy to pick up if y...
judgmental wonderful stead private investor
  01/26/18
you calling mark twain a gook? https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gba...
harsh twinkling uncleanness plaza
  01/26/18
Devestating
Motley mad cow disease
  01/26/18
"I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in on...
frum territorial ratface
  01/26/18
lol
Self-centered Federal Hunting Ground
  07/06/25
this was 180
copper unholy messiness spot
  01/26/18
The Germans have another kind of parenthesis, which they mak...
harsh twinkling uncleanness plaza
  01/26/18
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concupiscible seedy ticket booth
  06/09/21
LMAO
Self-centered Federal Hunting Ground
  07/06/25
nothing wrong with this tbqh it's poetic
light fluffy stock car
  07/07/25
English people still write convoluted bullshit like this. It...
Submissive gaping sneaky criminal
  07/07/25
This is basically an XO-ism
Azure bearded rehab really tough guy
  07/07/25
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contagious navy double fault
  01/26/18
in casual conversation you can just say "duh" inst...
Aromatic trailer park
  01/26/18
No one thought to write anything good or important in German...
Submissive gaping sneaky criminal
  07/06/25
Lmfao German is one of the easiest languages to learn. It's ...
Azure bearded rehab really tough guy
  07/07/25
Outed as a loser who never studied Japanese for one minute.
Submissive gaping sneaky criminal
  07/07/25
(lex tp)
lavender painfully honest corner
  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: Sick principal's office



(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: Big famous landscape painting center

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: Metal splenetic depressive

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: harsh twinkling uncleanness plaza

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: Mischievous Psychic Cuckold

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: vermilion beady-eyed lay turdskin

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: Hilarious Tanning Salon

(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: laughsome kitchen windowlicker

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: anal hall



(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: Overrated bronze round eye brunch

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: laughsome kitchen windowlicker

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: Lemon telephone

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: Submissive gaping sneaky criminal

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: vermilion beady-eyed lay turdskin

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: Appetizing New Version Mother

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: vermilion beady-eyed lay turdskin

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: copper unholy messiness spot

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: light fluffy stock car

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: harsh twinkling uncleanness plaza

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: Appetizing New Version Mother

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: Ebony theatre organic girlfriend

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: electric emerald sandwich foreskin

(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: french learning disabled heaven regret



(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: french learning disabled heaven regret

(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: Overrated bronze round eye brunch

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: laughsome kitchen windowlicker

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: Odious Obsidian Internal Respiration Locus

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: vermilion beady-eyed lay turdskin

?

(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: soggy hospital



(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: anal hall

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: shivering translucent police squad philosopher-king

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: Swashbuckling underhanded prole

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: laughsome kitchen windowlicker

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: Swashbuckling underhanded prole

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: harsh twinkling uncleanness plaza

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: Swashbuckling underhanded prole

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: brilliant cruise ship

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: razzle-dazzle jew dilemma

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: Swashbuckling underhanded prole

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: frum territorial ratface

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: shivering translucent police squad philosopher-king

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: frum territorial ratface

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: harsh twinkling uncleanness plaza

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: frum territorial ratface

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: shivering translucent police squad philosopher-king

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: frum territorial ratface

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: harsh twinkling uncleanness plaza

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: laughsome kitchen windowlicker

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: frum territorial ratface

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: shivering translucent police squad philosopher-king

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: laughsome kitchen windowlicker

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: shivering translucent police squad philosopher-king

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: laughsome kitchen windowlicker

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: shivering translucent police squad philosopher-king

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: Cheese-eating Excitant Personal Credit Line Patrolman

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: galvanic bat shit crazy chad

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: copper unholy messiness spot

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: Submissive gaping sneaky criminal

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: Self-centered Federal 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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2"#49076968)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:43 AM
Author: Ebony theatre organic girlfriend

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2"#35243158)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:45 AM
Author: shivering translucent police squad philosopher-king

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: Ebony theatre organic girlfriend

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: mind-boggling insane pozpig stage

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: apoplectic temple jap

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: shivering translucent police squad philosopher-king

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: apoplectic temple jap

"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: shivering translucent police squad philosopher-king

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: Crimson Kink-friendly Death Wish Pocket Flask

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: brilliant cruise ship

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: Crimson Kink-friendly Death Wish Pocket Flask

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: anal hall

which one?

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:25 PM
Author: Crimson Kink-friendly Death Wish Pocket Flask

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: Insecure Market Kitty Cat



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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:08 PM
Author: Insecure Market Kitty Cat

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

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:22 PM
Author: Odious Obsidian Internal Respiration Locus



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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:24 PM
Author: judgmental wonderful stead private investor

OP must be a gook.

German should be easy to pick up if you're a native English speaker. After Frisian and Dutch/Afrikaans, it's the closest language to English.

I was able to pick up basic German very quickly by just memorizing the most common 100 words and putting it to use with english grammer and from there learning the grammer from actual use.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2"#35244285)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:26 PM
Author: harsh twinkling uncleanness plaza

you calling mark twain a gook?

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2"#35244307)



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:16 PM
Author: Motley mad cow disease

Devestating

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:24 PM
Author: frum territorial ratface

"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: Self-centered Federal Hunting Ground

lol

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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 2:49 PM
Author: copper unholy messiness spot

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: harsh twinkling uncleanness plaza

The Germans have another kind of parenthesis, which they make by splitting a verb in two and putting half of it at the beginning of an exciting chapter and the other half at the end of it. Can any one conceive of anything more confusing than that? These things are called "separable verbs." The German grammar is blistered all over with separable verbs; and the wider the two portions of one of them are spread apart, the better the author of the crime is pleased with his performance. A favorite one is reiste ab -- which means departed. Here is an example which I culled from a novel and reduced to English:

"The trunks being now ready, he DE- after kissing his mother and sisters, and once more pressing to his bosom his adored Gretchen, who, dressed in simple white muslin, with a single tuberose in the ample folds of her rich brown hair, had tottered feebly down the stairs, still pale from the terror and excitement of the past evening, but longing to lay her poor aching head yet once again upon the breast of him whom she loved more dearly than life itself, PARTED."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2"#35246162)



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Date: June 9th, 2021 9:07 PM
Author: concupiscible seedy ticket booth



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



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:33 PM
Author: Self-centered Federal Hunting Ground

LMAO

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



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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:02 AM
Author: light fluffy stock car

nothing wrong with this tbqh

it's poetic

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



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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:04 AM
Author: Submissive gaping sneaky criminal

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: Azure bearded rehab really tough guy

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: contagious navy double fault



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



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Date: January 26th, 2018 3:16 PM
Author: Aromatic trailer park

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

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



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:54 PM
Author: Submissive gaping sneaky criminal

No one thought to write anything good or important in German until the late 19th century. There were no epic works of German literature or philosophy written in German until the late 19th century. It was always considered a total shit language even by native speakers, not appropriate for writing books on academic topics. Even Nietzsche trashed it while writing in German.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2"#49076961)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:04 AM
Author: Azure bearded rehab really tough guy

Lmfao German is one of the easiest languages to learn. It's almost as easy as any of the romance languages. Extremely consistent rules and syntax, and spelling once you understand the system.

Vastly easier than any of the Asian languages or anything in Cyrillic

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2"#49078055)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:08 AM
Author: Submissive gaping sneaky criminal

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

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



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Date: July 7th, 2025 2:20 AM
Author: lavender painfully honest corner

(lex tp)

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



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

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2"#49245721)



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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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2"#49246926)