What do you think about the German language

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I am a Polish , i learned English as a foreign language at school., as I went to the University late for enrolling into English, so i enlisted to German language A1 course.

I failed this course, I moved to English which finished at the B2-1 level

Now for the master's degree continuing education of English.

I could never understand German.

As for the difficulty, I think English is easier to learn than my native Polish, and billions of simpler than German

German words are fun to say. You'll get carpal tunnel syndrome writing a sentence, though.

i think it would be great....if only they spoke it in plain english

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I agree. They're so consonanty.

"Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp. "

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oh I love German. took 3 years in high school and I would've continued if my teacher was any good. I'm going to take it in college if I need to fulfill a language requirement. I'll have a basic foundation and can then learn the language properly, as my teacher was (from the mouths of exchange students) teaching us "bootleg Hungarian German"
it is an ugly sounding language, though.

I couldn't learn Spanish, when I started high school they told me I was too dumb to learn another language. so I couldn't take it my first year, but I took German the last 3 years, I could learn and speak it, though by hearing it, not reading it from a book. Writing it was hard though cause I do have grammar problems with English, so mastering a 2nd was impossible. if I won the lottery i'd learn it again and Russian.

My grandma was born in Heidelberg. But I don't know German.

I took German for two years in high school, and I found that it was a little easy because some of the words are similar to their English translations.

Everything in German sounds angry.

what do you mean "plain english"?

i mean un-embellished english.

i am reminded of a time when i asked a chinaman what his name was and he said what sounded like "hei yu". i asked him what his name was in english and he said it had no english translation. i reasoned that if it had no english translation, then due to the fact that i could not speak chinese, i would never know what his name was, so i resorted to calling him "hey you", to which he responded adequately. thank goodness he could speak english.

I have studied German, French, and Spanish (I natively speak American English). By far German is my favorite language, despite there being something like 16 ways to say "the" and "a".

I learned German for 6 years in my middle and high school but I still can't tell I understand it more than poorly. There is just too many different words and grammar rules. English is WAY easier (I am Polish btw). Currently the only full sentence in German I remember is "Ich verstahe nicht" which means "I don't understand". Altrough I might still be able to for example make an order in a cafe with some help of the menu book.

I've never had the chance to learn German. Only French or Spanish. As I'm failing French pretty badly, I can assume I'm not gonna be any better at German. Though I do have a trainee teaching us History at the moment, who is German and pretty funny, and enjoys bursting out in full German to shut us up when we talk too much.

Plus the fact he has a full moustache, which as I've heard, is a pretty interesting topic of conversation from some of the girls.