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It's almost impossible to learn German

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House-broken khaki shrine water buffalo
  01/26/18
I took reading German in grad school and it's not very hard....
excitant peach clown
  01/26/18
I did as well -- for Graduate Reading Knowledge. I liked it,...
Nighttime Useless Brakes
  01/26/18
same. learning the grammar and whatever special vocabulary t...
out-of-control famous landscape painting house
  01/26/18
Speaking it is hard. Try spelling the words - jfc.
Spruce Pocket Flask Senate
  01/26/18
Verkampfterbungenlingtaufhausen
Black Painfully Honest Bbw
  01/26/18
(anti-semite)
abusive tantric affirmative action
  01/26/18
Spelling isn't hard. It's a pretty phonetic language. Even t...
Heady ticket booth juggernaut
  01/26/18
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exhilarant cruise ship
  01/26/18
The grammar is hard
Hairraiser Gold Corner
  01/26/18
The grammar rules are complicated but can be mastered and me...
Heady ticket booth juggernaut
  01/26/18
true but ljl at trying to do table lookups in real time
Cobalt rehab
  01/26/18
They write super long sentences that form an entire paragrap...
Jet-lagged pistol lodge
  07/06/25
All the "cases" and whatnot can be confusing, but ...
Black Painfully Honest Bbw
  01/26/18
I didn't think french was bad at all. What was harder about ...
hyperactive confused university really tough guy
  01/26/18
Everything. Spelling, pronunciation etc.
Black Painfully Honest Bbw
  01/26/18
Regular-speed spoken casual french is hard as fuck to unders...
diverse frisky international law enforcement agency national security agency
  01/26/18
written French is a pleasure spoken French is an incompreh...
boyish topaz filthpig resort
  07/06/25
do you just mean phonetically? french grammar is ljl easy
out-of-control famous landscape painting house
  01/26/18
its like learning spanish, but with fucked up spelling/pronu...
hyperactive confused university really tough guy
  01/26/18
French is easy as fuck. Grammar rules, etc make more sense t...
Pearly jewess
  01/26/18
(trilingual guy bagging groceries)
henna titillating newt
  01/26/18
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electric locus
  01/26/18
(Trilingual guy bagging groceries incapable of bagging cunni...
electric locus
  01/26/18
He's not a bagger
Hairraiser Gold Corner
  01/26/18
Lol he's the cart gatherer?
Heady ticket booth juggernaut
  01/26/18
No, but the retarded kid he molests is.
180 anal space
  01/26/18
?
Black Painfully Honest Bbw
  01/26/18
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white at-the-ready cuck range
  01/26/18
edit
exhilarant cruise ship
  01/26/18
I learned German as a hobby. Its not that hard. Can't spe...
Trip dilemma
  01/26/18
What little German I've studied struck me as incredibly easy...
Violet Hell Place Of Business
  01/26/18
That's ridiculous. I'm sure you've looked into French and It...
Heady ticket booth juggernaut
  01/26/18
Italian is easy; French is fairly difficult. I speak native ...
Violet Hell Place Of Business
  01/26/18
julia effortlessly identifying massive german compound verbs...
out-of-control famous landscape painting house
  01/26/18
I don't know what the fuck it is about French, but I've give...
Violet Hell Place Of Business
  01/26/18
I don't understand why you find French so hard if you know I...
thirsty gaping faggot firefighter
  01/26/18
Julia picking up languages and adding them to her trophy cas...
Laughsome athletic conference
  01/26/18
Arabic: I'm half Arab and have family in the Middle East Fr...
Violet Hell Place Of Business
  01/26/18
I'm re-learning/brushing up and I 100% agree. The prepositio...
doobsian vivacious library
  01/26/18
The prepositions are difficult because many cognate with Eng...
Trip dilemma
  01/26/18
yep
doobsian vivacious library
  01/26/18
3 genders in german v. 2 in french, and a more developed cas...
out-of-control famous landscape painting house
  01/26/18
it's really almost 4 because the plural is kind of a gender ...
doobsian vivacious library
  01/26/18
Which is still easier than Ukrainian (and I assume Russian i...
Trip dilemma
  01/26/18
not saying German is the hardest language out there.
doobsian vivacious library
  01/26/18
this makes it a lot easier, actually. in latin all the plura...
out-of-control famous landscape painting house
  01/26/18
There's other shit that gets more advanced that no one bothe...
Heady ticket booth juggernaut
  01/26/18
i agree, n-declension is annoying. knowing when certain v...
doobsian vivacious library
  01/26/18
N-nomen is a minor, minor grammatical point that hardly matt...
Trip dilemma
  01/26/18
The point is that there is a declination of nouns in the Ger...
Heady ticket booth juggernaut
  01/26/18
No. In German there are tiny vestigial traces of nominal dec...
Trip dilemma
  01/26/18
How is this responsive? These things exist, and I'm not sure...
Heady ticket booth juggernaut
  01/26/18
English possessive formation ('s) is technically nominal inf...
Trip dilemma
  01/26/18
Very scholarly sub thread
mint orchestra pit background story
  06/09/21
How do you feel about RSF having confirmed sock puppets that...
Honey-headed mother
  01/26/18
LOL at German being "incredibly easy."
diverse frisky international law enforcement agency national security agency
  01/26/18
Some languages start out easy and then you fall off a cliff ...
Jet-lagged pistol lodge
  07/06/25
its the opposite. German starts off hard with having to know...
Mentally impaired scarlet legal warrant set
  07/06/25
I took German 1 my senior year of high school. It was pretty...
Pearly jewess
  01/26/18
No, its not. The orthography is highly regular and all the ...
Trip dilemma
  01/26/18
I thought it was a pain in the ass. I took French for 3 year...
Pearly jewess
  01/26/18
it's much easier than french or english, both of which i had...
vigorous effete pervert
  01/26/18
Bullshit on French. French is much easier.
Garnet weed whacker
  01/26/18
Its depends on what your native language is. The weird word...
Trip dilemma
  01/26/18
"La" and "le" is ways easier than die, d...
Garnet weed whacker
  01/26/18
Again, if your native language is inflectional learning a 4x...
Trip dilemma
  01/26/18
now THIS is a low-iq thread if ever I've seen one
crusty selfie coldplay fan
  01/26/18
cr, especially after I've freely shared with the bort the 5 ...
thirsty gaping faggot firefighter
  01/26/18
don't recall these, but the trick is immersion. Took me 6 mo...
crusty selfie coldplay fan
  01/26/18
which one?
exhilarant cruise ship
  01/26/18
Finngolian.
crusty selfie coldplay fan
  01/26/18
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passionate french chef address
  01/26/18
I rika Germoney, but a sperring Germoney is a harda. Guta T...
passionate french chef address
  01/26/18
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180 anal space
  01/26/18
OP must be a gook. German should be easy to pick up if y...
mind-boggling box office double fault
  01/26/18
you calling mark twain a gook? https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gba...
out-of-control famous landscape painting house
  01/26/18
Devestating
indigo gay wizard
  01/26/18
"I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in on...
doobsian vivacious library
  01/26/18
lol
Mentally impaired scarlet legal warrant set
  07/06/25
this was 180
diverse frisky international law enforcement agency national security agency
  01/26/18
The Germans have another kind of parenthesis, which they mak...
out-of-control famous landscape painting house
  01/26/18
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razzle internal respiration
  06/09/21
LMAO
Mentally impaired scarlet legal warrant set
  07/06/25
nothing wrong with this tbqh it's poetic
boyish topaz filthpig resort
  07/07/25
English people still write convoluted bullshit like this. It...
Jet-lagged pistol lodge
  07/07/25
This is basically an XO-ism
Translucent cowardly mediation
  07/07/25
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Glassy idiotic immigrant
  01/26/18
in casual conversation you can just say "duh" inst...
amber milk tanning salon
  01/26/18
No one thought to write anything good or important in German...
Jet-lagged pistol lodge
  07/06/25
Lmfao German is one of the easiest languages to learn. It's ...
Translucent cowardly mediation
  07/07/25
Outed as a loser who never studied Japanese for one minute.
Jet-lagged pistol lodge
  07/07/25
(lex tp)
turquoise kitchen
  07/07/25
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Trip dilemma
  09/08/25
young German women are friendly and attractive, so your ling...
Motley sandwich hall
  09/09/25
This is an English translation of a French translation of a ...
https://i.imgur.com/ovcBe0z.png
  01/13/26


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Date: January 26th, 2018 10:28 AM
Author: House-broken khaki shrine water buffalo



(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: excitant peach clown

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: Nighttime Useless Brakes

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: out-of-control famous landscape painting house

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: Spruce Pocket Flask Senate

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: Black Painfully Honest Bbw

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: abusive tantric affirmative action

(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: Heady ticket booth juggernaut

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: exhilarant cruise ship



(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: Hairraiser Gold Corner

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: Heady ticket booth juggernaut

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: Cobalt rehab

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: Jet-lagged pistol lodge

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: Black Painfully Honest Bbw

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: hyperactive confused university really tough guy

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: Black Painfully Honest Bbw

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: diverse frisky international law enforcement agency national security agency

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: boyish topaz filthpig resort

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: out-of-control famous landscape painting house

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: hyperactive confused university really tough guy

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: Pearly jewess

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: henna titillating newt

(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: electric locus



(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: electric locus

(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: Hairraiser Gold Corner

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: Heady ticket booth juggernaut

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: 180 anal space

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: Black Painfully Honest Bbw

?

(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: white at-the-ready cuck range



(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: exhilarant cruise ship

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: Trip dilemma

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: Violet Hell Place Of Business

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: Heady ticket booth juggernaut

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: Violet Hell Place Of Business

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: out-of-control famous landscape painting house

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: Violet Hell Place Of Business

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: thirsty gaping faggot firefighter

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: Laughsome athletic conference

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: Violet Hell Place Of Business

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: doobsian vivacious library

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: Trip dilemma

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: doobsian vivacious library

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: out-of-control famous landscape painting house

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: doobsian vivacious library

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: Trip dilemma

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: doobsian vivacious library

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: out-of-control famous landscape painting house

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: Heady ticket booth juggernaut

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: doobsian vivacious library

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: Trip dilemma

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: Heady ticket booth juggernaut

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: Trip dilemma

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: Heady ticket booth juggernaut

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: Trip dilemma

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: mint orchestra pit background story

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: Honey-headed mother

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: diverse frisky international law enforcement agency national security agency

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: Jet-lagged pistol lodge

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: Mentally impaired scarlet legal warrant set

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: Pearly jewess

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: Trip dilemma

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: Pearly jewess

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: vigorous effete pervert

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: Garnet weed whacker

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: Trip dilemma

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: Garnet weed whacker

"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: Trip dilemma

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: crusty selfie coldplay fan

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: thirsty gaping faggot firefighter

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: crusty selfie coldplay fan

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: exhilarant cruise ship

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: crusty selfie coldplay fan

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: passionate french chef address



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:08 PM
Author: passionate french chef address

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: 180 anal space



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Date: January 26th, 2018 12:24 PM
Author: mind-boggling box office double fault

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: out-of-control famous landscape painting house

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: indigo gay wizard

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: doobsian vivacious library

"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: Mentally impaired scarlet legal warrant set

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: diverse frisky international law enforcement agency national security agency

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: out-of-control famous landscape painting house

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: razzle internal respiration



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:33 PM
Author: Mentally impaired scarlet legal warrant set

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: boyish topaz filthpig resort

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: Jet-lagged pistol lodge

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: Translucent cowardly mediation

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: Glassy idiotic immigrant



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Date: January 26th, 2018 3:16 PM
Author: amber milk tanning salon

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: Jet-lagged pistol lodge

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: Translucent cowardly mediation

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: Jet-lagged pistol lodge

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: turquoise kitchen

(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: Trip dilemma

.

(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: Motley sandwich hall

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)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: https://i.imgur.com/ovcBe0z.png


This is an English translation of a French translation of a work that was originally written in Latin by a German LAWYER. The point being it doesn't matter how many times you translate a German, he's always going to sound German.

https://i.imgur.com/ovcBe0z.png

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3871700&forum_id=2,#49587070)