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Easiest language to learn as an adult? Considering German.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:00 pm
Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:00 pm
I started Italian on Duolingo over a year ago in preparation for a planned trip to Italy, which was canceled due to Covid. I actually was doing well with it but I stopped.
Been watching Babylon Berlin on Netflix and I think I could pick up German pretty easily. It has sentence structures that are very much like English and not a bunch of gender rules.
Anybody learned German on an app? Worth a shot?
Been watching Babylon Berlin on Netflix and I think I could pick up German pretty easily. It has sentence structures that are very much like English and not a bunch of gender rules.
Anybody learned German on an app? Worth a shot?
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Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:01 pm to Slippy
Portuguese
Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:02 pm to Slippy
English is a Germanic language.
Whatever you do, don't do french.
Whatever you do, don't do french.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:03 pm to Slippy
This would require you not to get drunk every night and complain about trivial shite on the internet.
Not sure you're up for it.
Not sure you're up for it.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:03 pm to Slippy
If you know already Italian well, Spanish will be insanely easy to learn.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:04 pm to heatom2
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English is a Germanic language
also why Russian isn’t as different from English as you’d think
Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:15 pm to Slippy
My son went to ASMSA in Arkansas and learned German, he won regional and state. LOL there were only 3 competitors.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:24 pm to Slippy
I can teach you 1,000 words in Portuguese in five seconds
Almost every word in English ending in "tion" can be changed to end in "cion" in Portuguese
You're welcome
Almost every word in English ending in "tion" can be changed to end in "cion" in Portuguese
You're welcome
Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:37 pm to Slippy
Generally speaking, any Romance language is up there.
While German is a relative of English, it has some godawful aspects to it. The two that st k out to me are all the long compound words and that half the words look like someone threw a bunch of consonants Scrabble on a table at random.
While German is a relative of English, it has some godawful aspects to it. The two that st k out to me are all the long compound words and that half the words look like someone threw a bunch of consonants Scrabble on a table at random.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:42 pm to scott8811
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If you know already Italian well, Spanish will be insanely easy to learn.
And vice versa
Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:43 pm to teke184
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While German is a relative of English, it has some godawful aspects to it.
And trying to remember what is masculine, what is feminine, and what is neuter.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:45 pm to Slippy
One of my oldest friends is one of those language savants that it just comes naturally to. Whether he is right or they are all so easy to him he swears Swedish is the easiest. It obviously has limited day-to-day use for most Americans though.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:46 pm to heatom2
quote:all European languages are descendants of latin. Guess where latin comes from?
English is a Germanic language.
Whatever you do, don't do french.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:46 pm to Slippy
Practice is the problem. I learned German in college and can sort of read it but not speak very well.
Never learned Spanish but by virtue of immigrants and bomb arse hole in the wall restaurants around here, I am picking up Spanish. You get a lot of practice opportunities that way
Never learned Spanish but by virtue of immigrants and bomb arse hole in the wall restaurants around here, I am picking up Spanish. You get a lot of practice opportunities that way
Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:47 pm to Slippy
Dutch seems a lot easier than German.
French is pretty difficult. Czech and Polish are extremely difficult.
The most difficult languages of all are the hillbilly gibberish ones that have sort of developed in a vacuum: Turkish, Albanian, Welsh, etc. You can look at them in print and pick up almost nothing as an English speaker. (ETA or island gibberish a la Japanese. It's a whole language developed by people trapped on an island together, rapidly mumbling 5-syllable words at each other.)
French is pretty difficult. Czech and Polish are extremely difficult.
The most difficult languages of all are the hillbilly gibberish ones that have sort of developed in a vacuum: Turkish, Albanian, Welsh, etc. You can look at them in print and pick up almost nothing as an English speaker. (ETA or island gibberish a la Japanese. It's a whole language developed by people trapped on an island together, rapidly mumbling 5-syllable words at each other.)
This post was edited on 4/8/21 at 5:49 pm
Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:48 pm to Slippy
What’s the point
Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:49 pm to Slippy
If you learn to speak German, you have to do it right.
You have to come off sounding like a pompous arse
You have to come off sounding like a pompous arse
Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:56 pm to Slippy
The Awful German Language by Mark Twain
You’re welcome. Even though this thing is 150 years old, it’s still hilarious.
I was in tears when he got to talking about genderizing nouns.
You’re welcome. Even though this thing is 150 years old, it’s still hilarious.
I was in tears when he got to talking about genderizing nouns.
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Now, by the above dissection, the reader will see that in Germany a man may THINK he is a man, but when he comes to look into the matter closely, he is bound to have his doubts;
This post was edited on 4/9/21 at 8:44 am
Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:56 pm to Slippy
I recently learned to speak Jive. Surprisingly hard.
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