as a german that tried teaching my brazillian friend some german grammar and made them quit learning german with it because, in their words: "its to hard", is the german language to hard? i mean my brazillian friend speaks portugese which is something i look at and think: "no thank you", and i am struggling with german myself so i would say valid criticism
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it is kinda hard remembering the grammar and how to say the words, i know abit of german and has learned german since 6th grade and still dont know shit
I have just started learning german and I am always surprised by common english words in german all the time. Grammar is the most difficult part of every language tbh.
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but german grammar seems to have alot more layers than others (ignoring languages like: Japanese, Mandarin, Korean,...)
I've had a brief exposure to some German and French. German is indeed very difficult to learn; the case system, word types, and word order can be really confusing.
true, im trying to learn mandarin and find myself struggling with the same things, but i also struggle with german grammar so idk
"Wir suken dik" is a good one too
A girl was "struggling" with "wir suchen dich"
Declinations are an awful thing to learn and shouldn't be a thing in the big of 2025
i think its the grammar
one of my friends told me theres like 10 words for 'the' alone
der, die, das, dem, den, umso, je ... Desto
Yeah thats all i can think of
the grammar is very difficult, having to think about the accusativ and genitiv and all those
Even my german friend thought german is too hard because of its grammar, i remember that a word can have 5 different spellings under different tenses or situations
Its definetely harder than portuguese and other western languages because of its grammar
As someone who learned "proper" German late (was in other countries for primary school years) the biggest issue I had was that its a language that doesnt want to be taught
The insistence on Latin terminology on top of an already outdated language results in an unnecessarily steep learning curve
(Being in Germany where the expectation is that you do just understand that stuff obviously didnt help either)
Once you get past the initial hurdle, I dont think theres anything that makes German noticeably harder than other languages.
But yea I think its way more of an artificial difficulty by the people teaching, rather than the language itself (though i wouldnt group it with the "easy" languages either)
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