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The Awful German Language (1880)

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187 points nalinidash | 1 comments | 16 May 25 04:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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krige ◴[16 May 25 07:17 UTC] No.44002596[source]▶
As someone who's learned a few (natural) languages over the years, German remains the only one that just instills me with a sense of dread, or maybe some sort of internal animosity. Russian? Sure. French? Yeah. English? Obviously. Japanese? Still in the kanji mines but making progress. Spanish? Sweet.

But German is a blood-and-tears uphill battle for me and I just can't get over it. It's really fascinating on some level.

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1. Wilder7977 ◴[16 May 25 09:34 UTC] No.44003406[source]▶
For what is worth, I find the ugro-finnic trinity (Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian) a step down towards hell, compared to German, Russian and many other languages traditionally considered hard.