German is much harder language to get a hang off

[Jason Voorhees]

The biggest thing that puzzles me in german is cases. In English as long as there is subject verb agreement it doesn't matter how you arrange it. Like I eat the apple or apple eaten by me. Same damn thing but in german it doesn't work like that. It has to be precise.

Der Hund beißt den Mann vs. Den Mann beißt der Hund and also there are special cases for certain words and to this day I confuse der/die/das, den/dem/des, and then stacking adjective endings on top. This is why german doesn't come naturally to me. I can speak it fine but I need to think before I speak every time. I don't think it will ever become a natural language for me.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@Beastimmung @elkkk @renos @Corleone

 

[OxyFanNigga]

NEIN NEIN NEIN ACH TUNG

 

[Jason Voorhees]

NEIN NEIN NEIN ACH TUNG

@Debetro

 

[Debetro]

german is useless

start learning russian and chinese

 

[Jason Voorhees]

I actually think English is among the easiest European languages to learn tbh. Yes it has its complexities too but they are nowhere close to as many as in german @Magnus Ironblood

 

[Sprinkles]

Learn mandarin

 

[Jason Voorhees]

german is useless

start learning russian and chinese

It took me almost a year to get to B2 german. Russian takes around 1800-2000 hours to reach that level or around 2 years. And even then it's sometimes not enough. Among the hardest languages to learn as a foreigner

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Learn mandarin

Same thing as russian. Around 2100 hours apparently. 2-2.5 years

 

[Debetro]

It took me almost a year to get to B2 german. Russian takes around 1800-2000 hours to reach that level or around 2 years. And even then it's sometimes not enough. Among the hardest languages to learn as a foreigner

Do you do it for fun?

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Do you do it for fun?

If I want fail my degree no need to learn. If I need my degree then yes I have to learn

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Do you do it for fun?

Basically to get a degree you have to compulsorily learn one foreign language of your choice which was in my case german-1 but I took the initiative to also enroll myself for german-2

 

[optimisticzoomer]

german is useless

start learning russian and chinese

Russian is also useless
Chinese mogs tho

 

[Debetro]

Russian is also useless
Chinese mogs tho

Russia is #1 country rn
Moscow is the best city in the world

 

[optimisticzoomer]

Russia is #1 country rn
Moscow is the best city in the world

Russia is cold and full of thugs

 

[Debetro]

Russia is cold and full of thugs

You don't know how bad it is in Europe compared to there

 

[pajjeetslayer]

Russia is #1 country rn
Moscow is the best city in the world

shiii I didn’t know we had Russian feds on .org

 

[GenerationalAutism]

The biggest thing that puzzles me in german is cases. In English as long as there is subject verb agreement it doesn't matter how you arrange it. Like I eat the apple or apple eaten by me. Same damn thing but in german it doesn't work like that. It has to be precise.

Der Hund beißt den Mann vs. Den Mann beißt der Hund and also there are special cases for certain words and to this day I confuse der/die/das, den/dem/des, and then stacking adjective endings on top. This is why german doesn't come naturally to me. I can speak it fine but I need to think before I speak every time. I don't think it will ever become a natural language for me.

"me" in "eaten by me" is literally another case lol

also that's the passive voice. the german equivalent would be "Der Apfel wurde von mir gegessen" which is quite similar

Der Hund beißt den Mann and den Mann beißt der Hund mean the same thing lol. that's just German allowing more flexible word order.

as for der vs den, that's like I vs me

 

[optimisticzoomer]

You don't know how bad it is in Europe compared to there

West Africa mogs tbh

 

[GenerationalAutism]

I actually think English is among the easiest European languages to learn tbh. Yes it has its complexities too but they are nowhere close to as many as in german @Magnus Ironblood

English grammar is way more complicated than G*rman

I go to the shop -> ich gehe zum Laden
I am going to the shop -> ich gehe zum Laden
I have been going to the shop -> ich gehe zum Laden

and that's not even to get into how they mangle the perfect "when i have been 18 years old i have went to the shop" lmao

they barely even have tenses because they're apes who can't understand anything but the present

 

[GenerationalAutism]

every time i see German i feel an intense disgust and aversion and wish i couldnt understand it

 

[sub5outsider]

german is hard in the beginning in the middle and in the end

 

[Tyler1]

 

[Jason Voorhees]

"me" in "eaten by me" is literally another case lol

also that's the passive voice. the german equivalent would be "Der Apfel wurde von mir gegessen" which is quite similar

Der Hund beißt den Mann and den Mann beißt der Hund mean the same thing lol. that's just German allowing more flexible word order.

as for der vs den, that's like I vs me

English grammar is way more complicated than G*rman

I go to the shop -> ich gehe zum Laden
I am going to the shop -> ich gehe zum Laden
I have been going to the shop -> ich gehe zum Laden

and that's not even to get into how they mangle the perfect "when i have been 18 years old i have went to the shop" lmao

they barely even have tenses because they're apes who can't understand anything but the present

In German you've got four cases affecting every noun, pronoun, and adjective plus gender It's not just I vs me, it's der/den/dem/ des for every gender and number - and then you have to stack adjective endings on top. Also passive voice in German (Der Apfel wurde von mir gegessen) is basically verb final and requires auxiliary + past participle. More complex than English

 

[GenerationalAutism]

In German you've got four cases affecting every noun, pronoun, and adjective plus gender It's not just I vs me, it's der/den/dem/ des for every gender and number - and then you have to stack adjective endings on top. Also passive voice in German (Der Apfel wurde von mir gegessen) is basically verb final and requires auxiliary + past participle. More complex than English

English passive requires auxillary and past participle too lol. "The apple  was eaten by me". The only difference is word order.

 

[GenerationalAutism]

Gendered words are gay but it's not really complexity - just a chore to memorise them.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

English passive requires auxillary and past participle too lol. "The apple  was eaten by me". The only difference is word order.

The difference is scale. In German you're juggling case endings, gender agreement verb-final word order and adjective all at once. English passive is just be + V-ed.

The apple was eaten by the hungry boy

Vs

Der Apfel wurde von dem hungrigen Jungen gegessen.

Idk doesn't come naturally to me.

 

[Beastimmung]

I wouldn't say its a very hard language, english is just extremly easy, German is average when it comes to difficulty.