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please be advised that speaking german properly is super fucking hard compared to learning many other languages, and you don't need german in germany for the most part.
when I'm in germany I speak my shitty, broken german and they respond to me in english
That's when you double down and tell them in German that you don't speak English. That'll confuse 'em.
I, a white man, would love to learn to speak German with an Indian accent just to really fuck with 'em
Fuck it i'll just speak spanish or french then.
My favorite phrase to use in all foreign countries is "Please forgive me, I am American." It gets a laugh out of almost everyone even when terribly butchered in any language and most people will then attempt English for you.
Except Parisians, who do not care. I think they would prefer I point and grunt to trying either English or my awful French.
Thank you for differentiating between french and parisians.
They probably speak English with you because your German is not sufficiently efficient.
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Compared to other languages... If those other languages are Romantic, North Germanic, Dutch, Afrikaans, or Frisian. A majority of other languages are typically considered more difficult for people who only speak English.
That being said, I found Russian way easier than German at first, but that quickly stops being the case... German shares a lot of semantic/syntactic similarities with English so you can reasonably assume that a lot of German constructions will easily translate to English, for Russian though it's more unfamiliar and you have to put more effort into thinking Russian-y. The main thing that made German way harder at first is German declensions... ugh... Russian has a complex declension system but it's extremely regular, while German declensions are pretty irregular and the declension of articles is especially bad because their forms overlap a lot. Adjective declension is similarly bad. German word order also fucked with me a lot but it's decently rigid so you get it quickly.
just remember that ich_iel has a lot of fun with literal translations of english words which can lead to very weird german.
Nur erinnere, dass ich_iel ein Los des Spaßes mit literarischen Übersetzungen von englischen Wörtern hat, was zu seltsamen Deutsch bleien kann.
lmao bleien
This will all just lead to an increase in suffering 😢
Dies wird alles gerecht bleien zu einem innenschmalz in Leiderei 😢
Don't learn german. As a german I always feel sorry for people who learn this language just for 80 million old people ^^
As a german I have to say learn whatever language you want, even if nobody speaks it.
I was learning it (super slowly, thanks ADHD) anyway, but it was when I finally read a 3-sentence long post and could read 90% of it without really thinking about it that I felt I was progressing at all
So of course I haven't practiced in weeks now, fuuck
Huh? Wo sind die posts? Where are they?
Wie Sie sehen, sehen Sie nichts.
Schau in die Kommentare, ALLES Vollpfosten!
Obligatorisch: Dieser Kommentarbereich ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Oder ist das nur so ein Reddit-Ding?
A better reason to learn it is that anything you say in German sounds like swearing.
Mein Hovercraft ist voll von Aalen!
Holy heck that is an oooooold MAD-Magazine reference. xD Kudos my good sir!
An old Monty Python reference. 😀
I copy that and will increase production, if you ask I translate, you're welcome.
Sincerely, RatherMaybe.
I lived in Germany from '83 to '94, but I never did learn to speak much of it since I went to American schools. Apparently most Germans speak decent English now? That would have been nice back in the day!
English is on the curriculum of all schools as a mandatory subject, but learning it in school =/= speaking proficiency. That usually comes with a ton of practice, and not all that many of us are exposed to English on a daily basis, even less so in lower income strata.
Deutsch ist gar nicht so schwierig. Versuch es doch einfach mal!
Bloß nicht c/ich_iel besuchen. Zangendeutsch kann Einen verrückt machen.
I haven't seen a single one, so nicht ich.
I was thinking about it for a while. The posts encouraged me. The prospect of possibly wanting to leave the US in the next year or two depending on things also makes me want to learn a second language.
1933: Moving to the US to escape Nazi Germany.
2025: Moving to Germany to escape Nazi US.
SPRICH
