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[–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

Im German and i can tell you: learning this language must be a bitch. Here is a example: We have Articles: "der, die, das" Usually, "der" is masculine, "die" is feminine and "das" is for objects Lets try to use that knowledge for "Bus" (same word as in english), should be "das Bus", right? It is a Object but it is called "der Bus" for some reason and that is not an exception. Every other Word is like "oops, we have rules for our articles but lets not follow them" and then some Germans get mad when you make mistakes like that

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I speak 5 languages and have some basics in others but German, no.
    While I speak Flemish/Dutch (also a notoriously difficult, illogical and unnecessarily complicated language) which is Germanic and closely related I had zero affinity with it.
    I immediately said no, this isn't going to work.

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