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The Awful German Language (1880)

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ayrtondesozzla ◴[] No.44003765[source]
My experience couldn't be further from this. As an English-speaker natively, French was the alien language which took yonks to get, German was 1. oh, these 5 things are pronounced like that, now you can read anything with confidence and people know what word you mean when you talk, and 2. oh, here's maybe 15h worth of grammar to learn and now you can make sentences up to upper intermediate level, and they feel pretty intuitiive as soon as you start flipping verbs to the end sometimes. French was ten times the struggle!
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1. dgan ◴[] No.44003809[source]
i spent like 10y studying German in school, and was pretty good at it. Then life happened, and we moved to France. I could speak good enough French after 1 year, and speak/understand basically everything after 2 years.

German was PITA, French was pretty easy but obviously I had a personal French teacher, and old lady who was amazing

I don't speak German at all anymore :/