Is German Hard to Learn? 

Can you plz do a video about icelandic.

It makes no sense to use flags of nations for languages. German is not only speaken in Germany.

(greek+stavrOS)(german+kreUZ)(latin+crOCe)(english+crOSs)(french+crOIX)++OZ+rune is100% türkisch...slaw ethnic called haplogroup R1b=is5000yo indogerman language origin=haplogroup R=40k yo central asian türk..türks are dad of putin/german. 1*ben-2*men-3*menim-4*senin=1*bin-1*ME-2*MY-3*MINE-3*MEIN-4*SEIN... tittrer=zitter..kel=kahl..=ochse=öküz..bar-var=war...kert/ket/kes=cut..KERT=KERT-schneiden..KIRT/SIRT/ŞIRT/ŞORT=SHORT..TO MAK"e=MAK..cakMAK=to slap..yapMAK=to MAK"e=english german and many more are 100% türkisch. türkish languages and their ethnic belongs to central asian people who are türkish, türk is a culture, not ethnic++WOLFGANG MEANS;THE ROAD OF THE WOLVE... benim onur= my honour O.o kaç=much..tepe=top..bil-bilen-bilan=plan--bil=know..john=çan who?hu-MEN=MENsch Mannheim ist die hauptstadt der deutschen sprache; vATA=ata=father=vater=atatürk^^..native american languages türkish; KENTUCKY=KANTOK=BLUT-SATT=FULL OF BLOOD :^(-european genocid to native american..

^^ there exist 5 different ways to pronounce the letter R so what is the problem when not all 5 forms were used... 🤷

Try Georgian language bro :)

So it's about intuition?🤔🤔🤔

@Tom Waldgeist That’s the part I’ve yet to figure out.

@@iwanttolearngerman yes. It's like speaking your Mother tongue. You only think about the content you want to transmit and not the form. You learn your Mother tongue differently than a foreign language. Most Germans dont even know about the conplex grammar of german. They Cant even explain the rules. Im sure that many Germans for example dont know that we seperate words. It's just so naturel abd you dont reflect it. But I think using the right cases and endings can also come intuitively to foreigners with enough practice. At some point you speak what feels right without having to think about it.

No it is about listening to a lot of German nouns, use of prepositions, etc and then using the same for your sentences consciously first till you can speak the nouns without thinking that much. After 4 years, even you wouldn't know why it is die Woche and das Mädchen

„Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod“😂

I have never lived in an English speaking country, but am kind of a perfectionist. However, it just isn't necessary to lose every single hint of an accent imo. Language serves communication, and if people understand each other, there's no point in getting stressed out anymore. 😄 Just one thing maybe: I watch many expat videos about Germany to improve my listening skills, and the one thing that makes me lose a little bit of respect isn't accent, but when someone pronounces things wrong, again, and again, and again over months and years. The r is difficult, I know that, but English has "sch", "ch" (one version afaik) and "k" sounds for example in its words, and it would only take a few minutes of research to improve significantly. But some people obviously aren't interested at all and keep making mistakes on purpose. That's both sad and frustrating. 🙈 If someone forgets a word or a gender, that's something else and way more understandable imo.

German with a British or American or even better an Australian or Kiwi accent sounds amazing. We just love hearing that :D It's German but with a fun twist. Italian accent, also nice. French... depends on your view on the French, I guess :D

I think the problem is that in English you have your teeth on your tongue, which you don't do in German

Thanks for advice

@@MaskedBishop , try not to take it personally. I have worked long and hard with my Austrian husband to try to say certain words and my mouth just won't form properly to say the words to his satisfaction. If the mouth can't do it, it won't ever happen.

Hm yes, painfully precise to the point even we're overwhelmed by it. 😁 All I say is INTERPUNKTIOOOON. How's that for encouragement?

@@asaris_ Don't pander to stereotypes. As if English punctuation were any better. Ask any British or American person; they're as clueless about it as the next German.

@@RagingGoblin The difference is: if we do it wrong it can change the entire meaning. If you do it wrong, it's just odd. One of our English teachers once told us "yeah sure, there's rules for interpunction in English and they can be quite as confusing, but don't worry about it. If you're doing it wrong it (meaning) usually doesn't make that much of a difference."

@@asaris_ Let's eat mum. Let's eat, mum. Seems like a change in meaning if you ask me.

@@RagingGoblin Lass uns Mama essen. Lass uns essen, Mama.

I am so happy to hear that

I feel you, the adjective declination system is so much more complex when compared to Dutch or English

Me too.

So happy to read this, I hope you will enjoy your trip! Greetings from Berlin :) Und viel Erfolg beim Lernen!

I watch lots of German RU-vid videos (gaming mostly) and listen to how things are said in context and that makes things way easier for my brain to link together.

English is a Germanic language, fun fact, that may be why you understand English better while learning German.

Thanks 😿

Ich find es tatsächlich faszinierend, wie schwer meine Sprache für Lernende sein muss, bei mir bilden sich die richtigen Fälle ganz automatisch, ohne, dass ich darüber nachdenken muss. Allerdings würde ich es wahrscheinlich aber auch schon äußerst schwer finden, überhaupt erst einmal die Artikel zu lernen...

@@OHana-mo5xw Ja da hast du vollkommen recht....bin froh Deutsch von meinen Eltern gelernt zu haben! Was mich verwundert dass verniedlichungen wie das Kätzchen und das Messerchen wie das Mädchen von Magt abgeleitet...für anders Sprecher so schwer ist zu verstehen wie auch Marc Tvayn?

@@TheDombaumeister magd oder nicht?

Thank you kind German person

Long words , cases , word orders ,adjective declension you forgot them

Just wait until you get to complex constructions and subordinate clauses.

As a German I call cap

The language doesn't get any flak or criticism at all, I don't know why people need to have seizures over it and defend it

Hey happy to hear this. Are you teaching yourself daily or taking a course?

Yes people says life is too short to learn German or deutsch sprache , schwere sprache . I was very afraid of german because of it .yes it is hard but not so much

@@watermelon3679 nicht so schwer wie viele Leuten glauben

Also, the long words are quite easy to decipher once you realize that it's literally just a concatenation of shorter words, each narrowing down the meaning of the next part. The tricky part is having enough vocabulary to identify the different words - and yes, sometimes it can be ambiguous even for native speakers, especially when the compound contains foreign words. A classic example is "Altbaucharme". The untrained eye might see "Alt-Bauch-Arme" ("old belly arms"), which makes no sense. But it's actually "Alt-Bau-Charme" ("old building charm", using the French 'charme').

@@watermelon3679 that's actually more meant as an idiom aimed at those Germans who make dumb mistakes. It's quite shocking how many Germans don't know how to speak proper German. So I guess it's true that German is a hard language to learn if even those who grew up speaking it make a bunch of mistakes on a daily basis.

@@barbarusbloodshed6347 yes I am myself learning German and I can frankly say German is difficult language but not the one of the hardest of course when there are languages like Chinese Arabic Russian etc.

And you can say hello and sound like the Gestapo

Not hard to learn are u joking articles long words word order cases are crazy

@@watermelon3679 I think I said it in my comment.If you think German is hard,try Latin ! Seriously, German is quite easy in my own opinion.If you find it hard then, you can always learn another language

@@zikoraifenneli bro you re right Latin is harder it has 7 cases compared to German (4 cases) but german is also super hard .the long words and the word order drive me crazy but I like german despite its difficulty

The hardest thing about German is understanding people from Switzerland, Austria and Bavaria.

Not at all, quite good actually! The first sentence seems a bit odd - but not really wrong - for a native speaker. I would rather write it as "Ich lerne (jetzt schon) seit ein paar Jahren Deutsch". The bracketed "jetzt schon" as a kind of emphasis to this point in time, which seems optional in the context.

@@tobiasabt8398 Ah-ha, I knew something was a little off there. Thank you!

@@frigginjerk And it's "Ich sage MIR immer,..." WEM sagst du etwas? - Mir. Dativ. I think I have never heard sagen in combination with Akkusativ (in the sense of telling someone (something)). Saying something of course needs the Akkusativ.

For you to learn: Ich lerne seit ein paar Jahren Deutsch. Manchmal ist es schwierig, aber Olly hat recht, den die Regeln sind schwierig doch sie machen Sinn, wenn man sie versteht. Ich "denke" (think) mir immer Deutsch ist nicht wie Englisch, es ist anders aufgebaut. (is built diffrently) I Hope i could help you:) regards from Swizzerlan

@@wisi4044 Vielen dank, das ist besser. Deutsch ist so interessant.

And am learning your fking complex languange with a hell f conjugaison systems, the grammar is killing me.Even tho is much easier than the allemand

@@ThanhTran-ks8rd Ne t’inquiète pas la conjugaison traumatise chaque génération d'enfants français.

​@@ThanhTran-ks8rdI’m learning French rn too since I moved to France

you dont hear that often about the german language. especially from a french guy 😀 greetings to my neighbor country france 🇫🇷🇩🇪

Eh idk. Cases have rules to them and what case you use can affect what you are saying (some words are spelt the same but different genders), and I don't know how your brain could naturally pick up on all the rules for the cases. Even with the rules, I swear there are some exceptions that don't really make sense and natives don't know either

@@wolfzmusic9706 Just my experience. Kids learn to speak the language before anyone shows them a declension table. Also English has plenty of homonyms, and they aren't a source of confusion very often. The brain is very good at filling in blanks and correcting mistakes without even noticing it. If I said for example out loud: "Er ist ein Apfel." I can pretty much guarantee that nobody would think I actually said that. They will hear "Er isst einen Apfel." even though it technically has a completely different meaning. And most of the words that differ only in gender are fairly clear from context. If you were to say: "Ich steige auf einen Leiter", while it may be a source of amusement, I don't think anyone would actually think you weren't talking about a ladder. In my experience people understand with mistakes well enough, that it is impossible to make jokes or puns if your German sounds too foreign or if you make too many mistakes, because people will "helpfully" correct the joke out of the sentence for you.

@@timseguine2 kids learn to speak the language before anyone shows them a declension table, but they also get years of input with their family members helping them, not to mention the fact that young children's brains can absorb information more easily. As adults it is much harder to do that, which is why many opt for a mixture of traditional study & immersion.

@@wolfzmusic9706 That's just folk wisdom you are repeating.

@@timseguine2 wdym folk wisdom? Kids' brains being more spongy than adult ones is a scientific fact

Yep, had the same thought. Funny that he brought that up, because, well Germany is one of the very few countries that dub every other movie or series. The dubbing culture is insane. Immersion is still something that only few people, or people who are interested in foreign language get to enjoy. It surely isn't something you'd get exposed to naturally in Germany. On the other hand, a country like Sweden for example will always have the media in English or whatever the original language is. I guess this is with most other countries except Germany.

Thank you for saying this. As soon as he mentioned Germans learning English from American television, I thought, "Well, only if they are really good at reading lips, because all the shows are dubbed!"

There should be no comma between "Haus" and "steht" in your example. Otherwise amazing comment.

@@BlaBla-hq1bu Yeah sorry, it was late last night... 😅

Why is capitalisation torture? You only need to capitalise the nouns.

@@wolfzmusic9706 Sometimes knowing what's a noun and what not can be harder than you think. Ah the joy of compound verbs and not knowing if you have to write them together or apart and if one part is or is used as a noun or not. Like: "Ich geh ne Runde radfahren" or "Ich geh ne Runde Rad fahren" If you grew up with Alte Rechtschreibung and didn't spend any or a lot of time learning Neue Rechtschreibung or the latest Revision, it's a f*cking pain in the ARSE. EDIT: and did you notice in my example that there's cases where adjectives, which are clearly not nouns are written capitalized? Happens in cases when you omit the noun they're attached to and they take up their spot in the sentence. And of course something similar can happen to verbs. 🤷‍♀️ Or to use an example: "Die anderen Personen (... whatever)" "Die Anderen (...)" Might be straightforward for native speakers, but I'm pretty sure mighty confusing for non-native speakers.

@@asaris_ I guess so but personally I find it very easy to know what a noun and what isn't. We got taught all about nouns at school when I was younger, so it's not really a challenge I face. And I've come across plenty of compound verbs but I haven't faced that yet.

Immer wann ein Englischmuttersprachlicher über die Deutschesprache geredet, oder darüber ein Video macht, wird es fast immer interessant.

@@Teri_Berk I believe you meant to write: 'redet'; 'geredet' is perfect past. Also, your choice of words is a little funky to me 😅

Your command gave me hope haha it's so true now that I compard the sentences in English and German.

You are kidding, aren't you? It might be, that there are many people in Germany, that use only these two tenses, but usually most of them will use the right tenses in formal speech and writing. I try to (Yes, the emphasis is on trying) do it right.

That's the A1/A2 level. After that, you'll need "trinken, trank" "schwimmen, schwamm".

When I was learning German, way back when, we discussed the tenses, and one interesting thing we were taught is that the future perfect tense (or at least what we would call the future perfect tense in English) exists in German only as a formality, but that it is never used in practice. Is that correct?

My problem when I took German as a teenager was remembering which case went with which preposition (I just got too behind and ended up failing). I learned Esperanto in my early twenties and then went back to German in my 30s, and was surprised about how much more of German (including the cases used with prepositions) just clicked.

unless they meet a labertasche 🙂

I've been to Germany and Austria quite a few times and on the whole have had no problem speaking German. Most people respected my attempts to speak their language, and only spoke English when I failed to understand their German. I remain convinced that if you speak with reasonable grammatical accuracy and without too much of an English accent they'll respond positively

As a native German (speaker), I'd totaly agree on when f.ex. Americans start learning 'German' to the time - or better age - compared to when/since Germans start learning 'English'. Me, born in '88, has started back in the 5th grade (at 11 years) of elementary school (it was/is just a regular lesson in the schooling system) until I'd finished the 13th class on high school - so 8 years straigth. Today they begin even earlier by starting to bring it to the students (very mildly of cause^^) right from the 1st grade. For sure that's a major difference compared to the U.S., were they don't start until 9th grade and than only for one year. (mostly I think) At the age in 9th grade you've far more other things in your head to think off, than learning a (difficult) foreign language like German.😅😆 I'd saw that by myself, when we have had to take our 2nd foreign language that started in 7th grade...🤣🤣 I can speak English, fully fluently and completely negotiable on C2 level BUT on my "2nd foreign language" - or French - I'm not more as a stumbling, one legged blind man, who can't act to advices, because he's deaf...😂😂😁 That's because it was introduced to late, too - not because of the language itself - I swear.😊😋😇

I feel stupid to ask since im born in Germany but der Artikel is all that Matters ? Cant i say "Die Messer messen jetzt gemeinsam "?

"Tests have shown that Germans often can anticipate the second bracket part correctly before even hearing it." Could you post the link(s)? I´m German so it´s not surprising but yeah, that´d be an interesting read :)

@@derpauleglot9772 Sorry, I don't have a link. I have this information from the book "Historische Sprachwissenschaft des Deutschen" by Nübling et al. Unfortunately there isn't even a name mentioned about these tests.

@@htsppme7526 What do you mean by this? Text you personally or just discuss in this thread?

@@Komet212 That's a scammer. They want you to answer them on WhatsApp and will then try to either pish you or just use your phone number for further scams. A real account would never have a name like "whatsappme ...".

@@BlaBla-hq1bu Exactly. Just checked that guy's profile, and he's not the actual uploader. It's a scam. Be careful

Fact

Rolling your Rs also makes you sound more like Rammstein.

@@Rosi_in_space which is the reason why most people learn German right?

Portuguese uses various R sounds. Depending on the dialect, and position in the word, written r in portugues can be any of [ʁ], [r], [ɾ], [ɹ~ɻ], [χ], [x], [h], [ɦ] or silent

Are you talking about glutural r?

As a German student, I consider its grammar to be fair simple despite having a complex morfology. German is the only language in which 'man' reads a text, finds new words and can discern what words are nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs 'und so wieder'.

My biggest objections to how foreign languages are taught in the USA is that the approach to them is stupid. (I'm not attacking you personally--I'm attacking the system at large.) First, we wait too long to start foreign language pedagogy--it should start in the early grades, not in high school. Second, we don't teach English grammar very well (if at all) in the earlier grades. When kids get to foreign language class, it's assumed they know English grammar, when they usually don't. I almost flunked out of my first foreign language because I didn't know what a direct object is. Oh, my English teachers in earlier grades had introduced the concept--and confused me so badly that I said, "Screw this--I don't need to know it anyhow"--and then I did need to know it after all! You better believe I learned after that experience! Third, there is blind obedience to some set of rules that some educational theorist laid down a long time ago--rules that don't work. For example, I had great difficulty pronouncing the rounded front vowels because I couldn't figure out what is being done with the mouth in order to produce them. Then I ran across two books from the first decade of the 20th century--one a basic German textbook and the other for basic French. Both explained how to do it correctly. I presented this idea to both my German and my French teachers, both of whom rejected it. "But why?" I asked them. "We just don't do it that way," was the response from both of them. Talk about programming! The introduction of a little basic linguistics in the foreign language classroom could go a long way to facilitating language learning.

Yeah, it's not so hard

It's interesting you put French on the same level as German. Even though the German verb tenses are a walk in the park compared to those in French, the cases in German put it just a notch above.

​@@meropale As for the nominal morphology and the syntax, German is more complex than French. As for the verbal morphology, spelling and pronunciation, French is definitely more complex than German. All in all, I would say we have a draw when it comes to comparing the level of difficulty of both languages.

🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 I'm half Polish, half Turkish but i was born in Germany, i speak fluently German but no Polish sadly '-' Polskaa Powerr

professional accent? like for dubbing?

German starts out very easy it’s pretty much plug and play at first if you know English but overtime you’re going to get increasingly weirder grammatical instructions that will completely rearrange sentences and sometimes even seem to be the opposite of what they actually are. So starting German is very easy because of how simple the basic stuff is but mastering German is very difficult. This is contrary to language is like Russian which have a very high initial learning curve before you can actually say anything meaningful but then the rules stay very consistent so by the time you have reached the intermediate level all you really need to do is just continue to expand your vocabulary and polish your grammatical skills.

@@Mortablunt I found English easy in the beginning but advanced English was tough while german was vice versa for me. Once youre done with the cases and word order, everything else becomes easy

@@Mortablunt and don't forget to polish your Polish! 🙂

gl bro you have no idea about german language yet then. after 1 month you propably didnt pass through " Ich bin Aby und ich komme aus Dubai" thats why you find german " not hard".

Diminutive is the word you‘re looking for.

@@iZeb0x Which is the first important clue to make sense of Manu‘s otherwise correct explanation. The other thing one has to know is that diminuitives are always neuter, no matter the gender of the original word.

The word 'Magd' that we used in earlier times did not have the same meaning as the word 'Mädchen' has today. The 'Magd' was more like a job, like a housemaid. The only thing Magd and Mädchen have in common is that the word root for Mädchen stems from Magd.

Könnte auch vom Wort Maid kommen das Maidchen - Mädchen. Eventuell eine Lautverschiebung.

@@birgittnlilli9726 Beide Wörter stammen definitiv vom Wort "Magd" ab. Die "Maid" wie z.B. im Ausdruck "holde Maid" hat folgende Herkunft: "mittelhochdeutsch meit, zu: maget, Magd" Sind aber beides veraltete Wörter, selbst die Engländer benutzen "maiden" fast nur noch im poetischen Sinne.

The indoneian thing is like this cause it is quite easy in the beginning but getting it up to an advanced level should be hard (he said that somewhere in another video)

I honestly would prefer Germans correct me when I get an article wrong. I cant learn the correct way otherwise. Tho I can see why other german learners might not like it.

Yeah, an OVS sentence structure is the linguistic equivalent of pointing your finger at something.

What resources did you learn German with? And how long did it take you to get to the level you're in now?

@@iamnonso_ I took German as a second foreign language in high school, so that gave me a headstart; which was A1 and a bit of A2. I then studied by myself the book Menschen- the book used by Goethe- for A1,A2 and B1. I watched a series of videos by an Arabic teacher explaining each lesson all the way till the end of B1. After listening to a lesson, I would solve the practice questions in the workbook. For B2 and C1, I studied from Aspekte neu-also used by Goethe- but when I had trouble understanding a concept or a grammar rule, I would watch RU-vid videos both in Arabic and German, and fortunately there's no shortage of videos explaining German rules. Naturally studying independently had its downsides; no one graded my writing, and I wasn't used to speaking until B2. What did I do? For conversation, I attended a Sprachcafé; a language cafe where people speak foreign languages on an agreed topic. I couldn't speak at first, but bit by bit I started to get better, be more confident and use more complex grammar. I also recorded my self daily speaking German. I would speak for at least 5 minutes on a certain topic after I had laid the bullet points and necessary vocab. I wouldn't stop until I talked about all the points, even if I wasn't 100% correct. Then, I would listen again, and this time I'm able to recognise my mistakes: a bit of pronunciation errors here, vocab not suitable, grammar mistakes, etc. Recording again with those in mind will help you get better. As for writing, I prepared with a private tutor for the exam, and she helped me improve my writing, which was important, as writing will get you the most points should you do bad in the other parts. Time: I steamrolled through A1 and A2, seeing I already knew most of it before. Maybe 2 months. B1 took 2 months. B2 6 months. C1 took me 8 months, but to be honest I wasn't very consistent and was busy with work, so it took much longer than needed. Preparing for the C1 Goethe exam took two months and half. I used the books Station and Projekt.. very very important books, you're in a grave disadvantage should you enter the enter without solving these two books. I also used Mit Erfolg, but its questions are very challenging. But on the bright side, all answers are explained in detail. There were also two other books; fit für Goethe and Prüfungstraining: very weak and easy exercises, and I wouldn't recommend them if you don't have time, as they will give you a false impression of your readiness for the exam. That was all, wheew! If you have any other questions, I'm happy to help.

Thanks a lot for the info.. I appreciate it 🙏🏼

Lots of hard work

Switzerland largely uses the alveolar trill [r] for r in all positions, if you find that easier to pronounce. Similar for multiple other dialects [or [r] syllable initially, and vocalized syllable-finally].

@@1Cr0w It took me forever to learn how to properly trill the R, but I can finally do it consistently for the most part, so maybe for now I'll just go with that. I'll probably still practice the other sound, though. 😅

Yes, I just wrote it in a comment. I think German probably gets the most maybe hateful? prejudices in western media. Even if they want to be just funny there is never a positive way in which German is displayed especially in American talk shows. It's always how beautiful French is or Italian and with German it's always how hard and ugly it sounds or how long the words are or how obscure like in there is a German word for everything type of "quizzes". I think the only way I have ever seen a big number of foreigners talk positive about German is that it's the best language for metal music. But that's a joke compared to all the rest.

Sometimes even Germans can't agree on the gender of some words Der, die or das Nutella can start language wars among native speakers

@@mirathy5836 Being a proper name, Nutella actually doesn't require an article at all. ;-) But I guess the "gender wars" surrounding Nutella mostly originate in how the product is perceived in a region. When it's mainly seen as a cream/mousse then it would be feminine ("die Nutella-Creme"), if it is seen as a fantasy product name then it would be neuter, but when you think of it as a spread it would bei masculine ("der Nutella-Aufstrich").

Yes German is difficult language but with practice it is manageable

Learning a language is never easy but it is less time consuming compared to other languages. When I entered a German university I had to learn a second foreign language. So I picked Japanese and suddenly German and English appeared to me as something like dialects of the same Germanic language. I know it's hard to believe at first glance, but both languages share similar tenses, syntax and vocabulary. There are even proverbs and expressions that can be translated literally from one language into the other.

Thanks for the words of encouragement. I'll keep at it.

One thing that often helps me is to think of "old-timey" English phrasings, like something you might hear in a fairy tale or a fantasy story or an old King James version of the Bible. As a really simple example, it's not "I don't know," but rather "I know not." A lot of those sort of phrasings that currently sound archaic in English stuck around in German and are the normal way that people talk.

Bekommen in German means to get. People who are not proof in English use this word wrong. Become and Bekomm das sound very Simulation

What resources are you using to learn it? It's such an incredible language but its complexity and low amount of learning material makes it a challenge.

@@Caine61 From a German-speaking perspective, the number of useful ressources is very limited. The BUSKE Verlag offers "Isländisch. Ein Lehrbuch für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene." From the Schmetterling Verlag is the book "Isländisch für absolute Anfänger". The Kauderwelsch series of languages exists too; also some dated online ressources (The 20 videos from _Viltu læra íslensku ?_ ) For english speakers: Maybe visit (Dr.) Jackson Crawford's youtube channel, and his videos about the icelandic language; I am very sure that he gave some recommendations for modern icelandic learning material.

@@Rosi_in_space Thank you!

Isländische ist faszinierend aber vermutlich gibts nur wenige Ressourcen.. ich bräuchte vor allem Hör- und Lesematerial, gibts da viel (wenn man nicht nach Island fahren will um sich Bücher zu kaufen x.x). Ich lerne grad Italienisch, da gibts massig Material

German's got the advantage of being the superset (Übermenge) of the English, which makes it easy (and usually fun) for a German to learn English :) English on the other hand, however popular and massive it is, is basically the subset (Untermenge) of the German, that's why many English natives have hard time trying to learn German.

And don't forget to capitalize nounified verbs! 😅 "Die auf dem Parkett Tanzenden waren elegant gekleidet." Complete sentence. "Die auf dem Parkett tanzenden waren elegant gekleidet." Uh, the dancing what or who? It's missing something!

Sehr richtig! "Ich habe liebe Genossen " vs. "Ich habe Liebe genossen".

The same thing happens in Greek. Η κορη is the girl, but it's usually used in the diminutive, το κορασιον (ancient) / κοριτσι (modern), which is neuter because it's diminutive. In Latin and its descendants, though, diminutives keep the gender of the big noun.

As someone who never learnt german, can confirm, it's hard

Lol, I was impressed you got fluent in 4 years until I read to the end. Awesome, BUT it sounds like you learned how to write at the age of four. Hard to believe, even though I saw my nephew becoming a fluent reader in that time. The ting, that I would find hard to believe is, that your writing has been anywhere near readable that early on. Someone would have needed to work very hard with you to make that happen.

@@Haexxchen i believe he was five when he learnt how to read and write, which is not that big of an achievement, unless you're parentless

@@deepderp8483 I'm fine with being able to read, but being able to write (which includes writing complete sentences not only drawing letters) with the age of 5?

I disagree. Ze Germans have ze säm problem lörning sounds from ozer languijes zat are not part of ze German language. Seriously: I know so many people, who are not able to pronounce th properly. or who would always prononce water like vater, because they actually cannot make sense of the English letter w. The actual name double-U gives the hint, it is much closer to a u than to a v. And ask a German to pronounce the French nasal vowels. There are four of them and they are all in this sentence: „un bon vin blanc“ (a good white wine). And let us not even start to talk about plosive stop sounds. We have a few in German, e.g. T, K, P. Look for a video spoken in isiXhosa from South Africa, the native language of Nelson Mandela, and you will hear so many plosive stops. Stops we cannot even hear properly, so we only call them Clicks. It certainly is not easier for us to learn the pronunciation of other languages, because we, just like every other language, use only a reduced section of the sounds the human vocal system is capable of producing. Those that are not part of our language must be learned and this is really difficult for many. Zats vai Comicbook-Supervillän ahr so offen Jörmans. Vee Jörmäns rili sound funny venn vee speek Englisch, unläss vee häff lörnt to pronaunz ze sounds properly. By ze wai: Ze vezer vos very nice today.

That is to say, most German prepositions govern only one case rather than two. Of the ones that govern two, the difference is that if there's motion towards something, it's the accusative case that's governed. It's exactly the same as in Latin. This is not nearly as difficult as in Greek or the Slavic languages, where most prepositions govern more than two cases, and the difference in meaning caused by the different cases governed usually is totally unpredictable.

Lmao everyone just speaks German to me.

I'm learning Polish and the case system makes German look a doddle. For example, in 'I have an apple' and 'I don't have an apple', German uses the accusative in both positive and negative statements, while Polish has one case for 'I have an apple', and a different case for 'I don't have an apple'.

You hit the nail right on the head by saying that German grammar is a joke compared to Slavic languages. A crucial factor here is that in German only the articles and demonstrative adjectives are routinely declined. Other adjectives undergo weak declension when used with the definite article (which really is a joke), a mixed declension when used with the indefinite article, or strong declension when used without articles but this happens relatively seldom. Nouns themselves also undergo minimal declension - plural, genetive singular, dative plural and occasionally the dative singular - unlike the Slavic languages which have no articles so that nouns and adjectives have to take the burden of declension.

I don’t know, but I like them odds!

Ich gratuliere. Aber bitte Substantive mit großem Anfangsbuchstaben (Lehrer, Lage)! Was ist Ihre Muttersprache?

@@MarsOhr meine muttersprache ist lurisch und kurdisch . Ich finde Deutsche sprache wirklich schön und süß

@@MarsOhr bist du Deutscher? Ich gratuliere dir, sie haben eine achöne sprache, es ist wie Musik für mich ,wenn ich Deutsch spreche, ich finde auch französich sehr sexy und schön , ab nächste woche möchte ich französich lernen ,

@@MarsOhr weenn ich nächste jahr in Deutschland sein,kann ich firtschritte machen und meine Deutsche verbessern

I agree!!!!

Es handelt sich hier um den Diminutiv, also eine Verkleinerungsform. Man kann aus fast jedem Substantiv eine Verkleinerungsform machen. Und der Artikel ändert sich entsprechend mit und aus einem maskulin/ feminin wird ein neuter. die Katze -> das Kätzchen (cute little cat) der Hund -> das Hündchen (cute little dog) Oder wie in deinem Beispiel: die Magd (-> das Mägdchen) -> das Mädchen.

It's diminutized, not trivialized.