@danielli1753 the only hard part of the basic A2 - B1 german level is using the dative and akkusativ but aside from that and the confusing verbs its kind of easy
True. German has the exact Word for each situation each immortions each mood Just the right Word.i am living in germany since 35 years.launauage is veryrich
fr and this exactly is my problem with mandarin chinese😭 like its so general, most time of my chinese classes is not translating but somehow putting the words in a way so i understand what’s meant..
@@anohacharlesschlosser9305I learn Latin and I can relate. It's an eye opener from my Native Language (Indonesian) that has practically straightforward grammar compared to most other languages
@@davidh7799 oh I thought you meant "you" as in the imaginary person you're talking to, for example me. You can't use ihr and euch for when you're only talking to me.
30 years ago I began learning German through language tapes. I concluded very quickly to throw all of the grammar rules out the window because all that I wanted to do was just to speak to average Germans in Germany. Now I am fluent (it took many years). Since a lot of what I say are phrases that I heard on german television shows or news reports, my grammar is a lot better than what I would have expected. I know that many language teachers would be appalled at suggesting to learn German this way, but if I had to do it all over again, I would do it the same way.
Meanwhile me who is on the verge to making perfect German sentences with prepositions, adverbs, adjectives, Possessive Pronouns and articles, Tenses, and auxiliaries still left. Learning german is easy. The problem is you need to know what to use at the right time since they can be quite confusing at times. For example: You have 3 'The' for different Genders; Der, Die and Das. But there are 16 'The' you can use depending on the cases that includes Den, Des, and Dem. The same applies to indefinite articles (a, an). Overall, I enjoy learning this language even though it may seem hard. My only obstacle is audial comprehension. Why did I write this? Idk. Was bored...
@@sir_albaxious1909yes the grammar is logic so it’s not hard to learn and understand. But building sentences by speaking after just finishing B1 course…. Katastrophe
@@sir_albaxious1909 definitely. I currently speak B2 fluent german and it took me 2 years after receiving B1 certificate. The language is not easy but it’s learnable, one just have to be strong 😅 My mother tongue is Chinese by the way, perhaps that’s why it took longer.
They’re called cases and German isn’t the only language that has them. In junior high school, I took Latin which is a good language to start learning cases because you don’t have to speak it. Now I’m learning Greek which also has cases but they don’t have any word order rules which paradoxically makes Greek harder than German, at least for me. Also native English speakers usually learn some Shakespeare in high school and it’s more similar to German than modern English. So we have that too.
@@pepsiman7711 I said Shakespearean English is more similar to German than modern English is similar to German. I was thinking about the conjugations and some of the word order.
@@ysbel not really, it is still pretty much the same as modern English. I think you are confusing Early Modern English with Middle English which is similar to German. Just to clarify why, it’s because the Modern English language still isn’t that different from any other Germanic Language, what distinguishes it the most is the pronunciation of our vowels. Look up the Great Vowel Shift.
@@pepsiman7711 I’m aware of the Great Vowel Shift but I still maintain than Shakespearean conjugations are closer to German than modern English conjugations. Shakespearean English still had the ‘hast’ ‘hath’ present in modern German which modern English has lost. Shakespeare also followed a word order where the past participle came at the end of the sentence.
@@ysbel it’s not really lost just antiquated, also Shakespeare was famous for not caring too much about syntax. SOV was not common at that time, he did it purposely, he broke rules all the time.
xD I am mexican And I can speak mandarin and japanese better than German lol Since In Mexico there is a lot of Chinese people When I communicate with them they understand me but german is a different story
That is why I preferred german. It has Genders, good sentence structure flexibility and it is similar to english in some way. I love the way German speak and I want to talk like that. In a way no one understands except one who speaks it.
Those are part of what's called a declension! Basically German is still following the steps of older languages, where instead of just using "you" normally and then determine by the context it's function, declension applies to that word some basic functions (most likely Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Vocative and Ablative) and then use the right variation of the word based on what function you want to give it in the sentence. I think Russian has declension system aswell! - Nominative is used when the word has the function of a subject - Genitive when it has the function of explaining of whom something is - Dative when it has the function of explaining to whom you want to attribute something or to whom you want to give a gift for example - Accusative when it has the function of a direct object - Vocative (not used alot) when it has the function of praising someone or even the opposite. The first of the two is mostly used on religious texts - Ablative is sort of a jolly, it can be used to make other stuff in the sentence Hope this was helpful even with the little knowledge I currently have by studying Latin and Ancient Greek at school!
Honestly I would say this makes German the easier language to use. It's a lot more precise this way than always having to guess from context which you is meant. An example I can think of where it's the other way around would be bitte. Because it can mean please, you're welcome, what did you say, there you go, fine, suit yourself, and probably more that I can't think of rn xD
I've been learning german since 3 years. I'm in 8th standard now, we need to either choose german and hindi as our 2nd language. Honestly, german is not that hard. I scored above 85% in german this year and 98.5% in Hindi. But german, i think, is lot more easy
@@jonathanlange1339 it has long words which are sometimes hard to pronounce. Also, Hindi is an extremely wordy language and there are different dialects of it spoken all across India. It also doesn’t help that it has grammatical gender.
I'm sorry but the German taught in India is most likely trash. I'd like to see your german scores if your Indian school taught all your subjects in German. Foreign languages are treated as fluff in many parts of the world. Except English and even that is taught shittily in so many places lol. I know plenty of people who had Spanish for 3+ years in school and can't even speak it nor understand it.
I am german and because of our Grammatik we change our articles and subject when it is about an action like in English he/him or they/them but we have it a little bit more complicated
@@overill1187 Dude what is wrong with you of course when you speak native as a german it is easy but people first need it to understand it and it is said to be harder than all of the languages that come from the west like French Italian and Spanish and so on. And I am also tired people saying that german is an ugly language. I mean compared to French and Italian for example they are more beautiful but it is not like these idiots watched a full movie in german
@@carlohinz1952 Zu aller erst, ich bin kein muttersprachler ich kam mit 21 nach Österreich und sprach drei vier Monate später okays deutsch. Deutsch ist einfach nicht schwer.
I am in the second month of learning german and I can tell you this is a piece of cake besides what the level I have reached now. The adjective+noun and how to use correctly the article by every case in the sentence, that's you should complain about it 😂
Flipping between sentences with different verb conjugations that activate the accusative or dative gets the cogs spinning. Then put something at the start of the sentence like 'Heute' or 'Gestern' to put the verb in the second position. FUN, FUN, FUN !!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
Es ist nicht so schwer wenn man schon 5 jahren in einem deutsch sprechenden land wohnt Translation It isn't that hard if you lived 5 years of your life in an german speaking country
Sie is easy, because it's just you in plural. It's used in many languages such as french, german, finnish etc. It can also describe formality in a conversation when speaking to an elder or someone you respect, you call them in plural instead of singular.
I am Indian and currently learning German. yes its kinda difficult but they are used in different place like du= you but informal way and sie=you but formal way... sometimes i am also confused but i think if i try these in my normal conversation then it will be easy to use
As a Spanish native speaker and English speaker I find German quite easy in both grammatical structure and pronunciation as well as vocabulary. It may look hard but it actually gives you way more options to communicate more clearly in comparison to English.
I’m no expert but according to rammstein “dich” means bend over as shown in the song title “büch dich” which means “bend over”. Don’t ask what the song is about…😭
'dich' means 'you' in the Akkusativ case. 'bücken' itself can be translated to 'bend down/over'. 'Bück dich' ist an an imperative and could be translated to 'you, bend over!'
I speak 4 languages English Spanish German Japanese In a order from easiest to hardest (in my opinion) English (born into it) Spanish (very easy Thank you to my babysitter who taught me Spanish) German (my 4th language but it’s really simple if you get the grasp of it Japanese (I lived there for 3 years)
That’s why I love speaking English more than speaking German. Because in English I just can say "you" while in Germany there are so many different translations for that word. Also if I’m speaking to persons and I don’t know wether to say "Sie" or "Du“ and in English I can just say "you" 😂
You cannot translate dich, dir, Ihnen, ihr and euch with just you, it's more complex as it seems. dir (dative) is "to you" or "of you" dich is accusative case. Sie (not sie) is formal version of du. euch/Ihnen is basically "you all" where euch is informal (duzen) and Ihnen is formal speech (Siezen). Fun fact: Siezen is basically addressing single people by plural, yes the thing the English speaking world calls "they/them pronouns". It's so funny, that Germans do this for a 1000 years already and nobody cares as it feels natural to do so.
You've got this. German isn't that hard, it's way easier for an English speaker than most other languages. Same language family and all that. Every language has its quirks. I'm learning French, and French verb conjugation can be a lot. It's still a lot easier than Mandarin or Russian would be for me.
I’m German and ihr is you but plural like we use it when we talk to more than one person for example : ihr bist sehr nett. Meaning you are very nice but we use ihr for more than one person so it’s like I’m talking to a group of 3 people . Hope this helps 🎉
We do this to show the world how smart we are xD not even every german speaker is able to use those correctly. But if you cant to that correctly its totally fine cuz your sentence still makes sense and we understand what you're saying
Don’t forget, for when you’re talking about masculine nouns it’s ‘der’ as ‘the’ and for objects and stuff it’s ‘das’ which is still ‘the’ and for feminine nouns it’s ‘die’ which is still ‘the’!
