What Germans think is hard about learning German | Easy German 287 

when that man said "Das Leben ist zu Kurz, Um Deutsche zu lernen." I cried.

A bit discouraging when Germans say they would not want to learn german as a foreign language... ouch lol

As an English speaker, the only part of German I found really hard was the word order, in particular getting used to sending the verb to the back of the sentence really strains my short-term memory

Certainly, the most difficult thing about learning German is finding someone who speaks German well and will speak with you in German for more than a one or two sentences. These videos are extremely valuable in that sense because they can be used vicariously for conversational practice.

'It's "the, the, the", you just need to learn it by heart.'

Es ist unglaublich wie gut die spanierin deutsch spricht! Akzentlos und so gute betonung. Perfekt!

I had a Spanish professor who said the same thing about Spanish. It is true that one will never know a foreign language completely. That makes sense. Even in our own native tongues, we learn new words.

I’m a native English speaker learning German in school and the hardest part for me is remembering how “der, die, das” change words like ein, dein, and mein. Depending on the other words in the sentence it could be ein, eine, einen, einem, etc. In English we just say “a” no matter what words are in the sentence. So it’s difficult in German to remember how different words change

The most difficult for me is that it's like a puzzle. First you realize some tiles are missing; so you learn some words. Then you realize the tiles are dynamic -- you learn conjugate them. This is easy or, at least, doable. But then, supposed you have all the words, you have to arrange them before laying them on the table -- and this is the most difficult because you have to change your mindset.

Great video!! I LOVE learning German! It's challenging, but so satisfying when you're able to put everything you have learned together in a sentence. It's like a math equation!

Es war super mal wieder in einem Easy German Video zu sein!!! Danke schön🤩🥳 Es hat sehr viel Spaß gemacht!🌟

I like that you translate the laughing as well. Sehr lustig!

There is nothing difficult about German. The German teachers teach it in such a painfully complicated way that you lose the will to live. Deutsch ist eigentlich nichts Schwieriges. Nur die Deutschlehrer unterrichten es auf so eine schmerzhaft komplizierte Art und Weise, dass man den Lebenswillen verliert.

What I find the most difficult in learning german is when you have to choose the correct preposition.😫

0:57 pronouncen ??? What happened to " aussprechen " :) ??

For me personally, the hardest thing is the German sentence structure, especially the placement of verbs. It is easy to learn the rules on where the verb goes, but when it comes to speaking it, it can be hard to follow if you don't know a V2 language (like Dutch).

#cookie As a native Mandarin speaker I absolutely love German compound word formation because that is how we form new words in Mandarin as well! It slightly reduces the mental power to memorise new words. But the separable verb prefixes are a pain, it's English compound verb memorisation all over again.

"...wollen lernen würden" yep, that's enough German for today 😂 #cookie

I think this one of my favorites. Dana has such an American accent.

I just started learning but Dana’s accent grinds my gears

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"das Leben ist zu kurz, um Deutsch zu lernen ". As a German learner, i am heartbroken

Love this video! Great approach to teaching the language in a real way. Danke schön!

Ich spreche Finnisch als Muttersprache und einfach LIEBE Deutsch zu lernen. Ich werde mich eine Übersetzerin bilden und Deutsch als Hauptfach lernen. Am schwerigsten beim Deutschlernen finde ich die Rektionen, wie z.B. jemandem glauben oder auf jemanden böse sein. Ich freue mich sehr, dass ich diesen Kanal gefunden habe!

Impressed with that dude's hair 0:54 #cookie

habe die freundliche und immer lächelte Dana echt vermisst. Wo sind Klaus, Martin, Tobias und Mattias....sie sind auch seit lange nicht mehr in Easy German aufgetaucht...vermisse sie ebenso sehr. Hoffe, dass sie auch wieder Videos mit ihnen machen werden, weil sie echt sympathisch und lieb sind

You always bring joy with you Dana

New subscriber here from Dana’s channel. Going to try to freshen up my German. I showed up to the wrong foreign language class in junior high and found German so interesting & fun to learn. Minored in college & haven’t had any chance to keep it up since. Looking forward it. 😀 #cookie 🍪🍪🍪

#cookie I’m from Russia and the most difficult aspects for me are “der,die,das”, sentence construction and long words :)

Honestly I love just about every aspect of the German language and just love how beautiful and jubilant it sounds. Though I often mess up the genders, I still have a ton of fun using German whenever I can. I’m an extreme beginner and can’t wait to get to a fluent level. Love these videos so much and #cookie

I really like the double subs. It's rare to see double subs, but it is a really good idea.

It's very interesting to hear German opinions on the challenging aspects of the language! Thanks for sharing :)

“Life’s too short to learn German.” #cookie

My partner and I just started with German (our exam for A1 is in a month) and, honestly, everyone was so shocked when we told them we wanted to learn German! "Oh, my God, German, WHY? Why would you do that to yourselves?!" After spending a few months learning it we find it so easy, I honestly don't know what all the fuss is about. At A1 level the most difficult thing is to remember to use correct gender and use the correct article. Concept of cases is not at all foreign to me (I'm from Croatia, and Croatian has 7 cases, but we do not have articles, so trust me, German is easier, much easier - try learning all the different endings for any of the Slavic languages). The second most difficult thing is understanding trennbare verben. I understand how to conjugate them, that's easy, remembering which prefix to use for which situation is most difficult. Aus, auf, an, ein, statt, mein Gott, anyway. Best part is, when our group has dialouge exercises, we can already spot when someone's using the wrong article for dative, for example, but we can still understand eachother perfectly, in broken German. This led to a question asked by someone: why, on Earth, do they even do these cases and different forms for verbs, look, we can understand eachother perfectly well without using dative or correct person while conjugating verbs!" Ah, well, I don't know, ask ancient Germans why they thought it would be great to use der for masc. N, but also for fem. D, it made sense to them :)

This is awesome. Thank you guys.

5:14 I have never heard a more true statement in my life

I'm just learning German now and I think the hardest thing to learn is the cases.

Ich will an Easy German bedanken weil sie immer uns geholfen haben damit wir die deutsche Sprache zu lernen und mögen. Easy German ist fantastisch!!! #cookie

Yay We love you Dunnah! One of the major Language "Krankenschwestern" teaching on youtube! You and Trixie are my favorite

I'm glad I am not the only one to view the articles as difficult! Die/der/das to der/dem... *weeping in frustration*

“How come”! ? Niemand sagte, dass die Deklinationen am Schwierigsten sind 😅😂

Love these videos! It helps me learn German. It's so fun to watch Easy German collab with many vloggers - such as Dana Newman. I will definitely buy this book and share it with my German class an der Uni :) #cookie

Ein Super Video !! Danke vielmals !

i watch both of your channels all the time. They both help me learn German and the book would be interesting to read.

Thanks to the video, today i,ve learned the word "schwierig" !

6:43 Life is too short to learn German I like this guy Lol

Ich liebe diese Videos! Sie sind so hilfreich, besonders bei den Untertiteln!

Super Video! Danke sehr!

well i started learning German when i was 11 years old and now 56 years later I still love German and I'm pretty good a it ! The German teacher unfortunately left our school after only a year and then we had to learn French ( also super). I went to night school and I think that was the best thing, learning German in a structured way because you learn the grammar correctly and don'r have to back track. I speak German quite often with native Germans on Zoom language exchanges and often meet some on holiday here in UK. For me the language is perfect and beautiful

ich bekomme viele positive Emotion, wenn eure Video schaue. Danke)))

Dana and Cari...what a good team. Everybody likes them.

Oh my gosh! I’d love to read your #cookie book. Love the channel, Dana.

#cookie sentence structure - THE most difficult thing, I completely fail to comprehend how should one choose words to form a meaningful sentence consisting of more than three words) For native Russian speaker German grammar is not so intimidating, because there are a lot of similarities... which however one do not comprehend sometimes.... When I learned, that "mit mir" and "ohne mich" - is of different cases (Fall) I was confused and thought that probably it is too difficult to learn German, but after a couple of days realized, that in Russian we also use different cases to say that)

ich habe zeit 6 monaten deutschsprache gelernt, am anfang es war ein bisschen leicht. Jetzt die situation ist aber schwieriger geworden und Ich fange die Motivation zu verlieren an, die ich brauche um weiter zu gehen.

I just love this channel so much. Just let you know

Though I've only recently started German, I have to say it's not so bad for native English speakers really. The vocabulary is the main thing in worried about getting, and the prefixes

The word order in a sentence, especially when you are reading a long paragraph. Used to drive me crazy before learning the ''connector words'' Other than that, I love German. It is a beautiful language. A pleasure to learn it. A life time experience!

#cookie I find it very interesting and funny that the Germans would have no interest in learning German as a second language.

Das ist ein Wunderbar Video , Aufwiederhoren 🙂👏👏🤩

I'm new subscriber and I love your video and the contents of your video.btw I'm Indonesian and currently living in Hongkong.

Das ist total interessant :P

1:42 sehr witzig und ironisch! Der Kerl sagte, dass Deutsch ganz leicht für ihn ist und dann sofort macht er einen Fehler („weil Deutsch IST für mich ganz leicht“)

Am schwierigsten für mich ist neue Wörter und gibt es viele verschiedene Bedeutung des Wortes, zum Beispiel begreifen, eingreifen oder halten, erhalten usw. Besonders habe ich große Problem mit mündlichen Sprache, weil ich niemanden habe, um jeden Tag Deutsch zu reden. Ich hoffe, dass Easy German mir beim Deutschlernen hilf.

0:53 Look! Time traveller from 80’s

"wenn man ganz penibel sein will und jede(n) Artikel wissen will, kann man sich stressen" der einzige Fehler und das genau an der Stelle :D

#cookie !!! :) I am studying abroad in Germany in April and would love this book!!

Wow, people are so relaxed in the video about being addressed using Du! Not so here in Erzgebirge. Accidental misuse has earned me a correction (a nice one, but an obvious one) and the German was younger than me, not even older. My husband told me that people in the East are more prone to use Du than some other regions of Germany and I have noted that a Netto cashier our age who likes us switched to Du without mutual agreement (which was cool). Last week while on vacation, a rural waitress outside of Berlin who misunderstood my order (making it my fault since my German isn't good) was so relieved that I made no big deal out of the significant misunderstanding that she switched to Du. My husband later said, "Did you notice she switched to Du when we didn't make a big deal out of it?" Businesses based here often use Du in the workplace. My husband's boss switched to Du in the interview. Businesses based in the West stick with Sie. Then co-workers of the East use Du with each other and Sie with the others. Strangers on the street always use Sie though.

Viel Dank für ihnen

my dad lives in Germany for like 6 years and hasn't learned German but my mom learned German in 3 months, haha

2:55 lady is like...stop smiling at my man

Danke fur dieses video

Oooh, the "would you like to have to learn" was quite something for me haha

#cookie "...wollen lernen würden..." The best part of learning German! :D

As an Italian native speaker struggling with German, I'd mention two things that drive me crazy: 1) die Umlaute, in particular ü and ö (ä is not a problem); 2) definitely the articles! - I would also say that speaking, in general, is very difficult for me (in contrast to reading and understanding when others are speaking). (vielleicht ist es zu spät, aber das werde ich versuchen: #cookie)

항상 좋은 영상 감사합니다~^^ Always, thank you for your good videos. 너무 좋아요~~❤️

Interesting hearing all their sentiments about learning german/foreign languages! I couldn't believe that man learnt Chinese. I wondered what level he reached! And un po sorpressa was when you said ciao instead of bye in german.. when concluding the vlog.

#cookie Today I start German language course, wish me luck! :) Thank you for your channel!

The two languages I have had to attempt to learn in my life were German and Japanese. Both stack all the verbs and conjugations at the end of the utterance. Also, it was interesting to hear Dana speak so much German (she's good!). I could do German (I think), Japanese and Russian I'm not so sure about.

i was in Germany (kaiserslautern, kleber kaserne) 1970-72. I learned German there, but never got very good at it. I'm enjoying easy German.

Thank you very much

#cookie Ich finde am schwiergisten, auf Deutsch zu denken. Ich meine, wenn ich mit jemandem spreche, manchmal (nicht immer) muss ich auf meiner Muttersprache denken und dann übersetze. Für mich ist es auch schwierig, Hören verstehen und Vokabeln.

Ich habe japanisch, koreanisch,englisch,malaysisch gelernt aber ich finde, dass Deutsch es immer am schwierigsten ist #cookie

As a Greek bative speaker I loved learning German in high school. The most difficult part is "der die das" words of course but also the verbs like kennenlernen, spazierengehen and of course the tenses. What is similar to greek is the Nominativ, Akkusativ and Dativ(ancient greek) and this is an easy part.

Good video!

#cookie Am schwierigsten finde ich die Grammatik... Danke schön für das Video!

I've learned to greet my co-workers from this channel with a hearty "Hello Loiterers!"

#cookie ..vielen Dank für das neue Video ...es ist merkwürdig dass sie jede Woche eine interessante Thema entdecken...

I studied Latin before German. The five declensions had their difficulties, including the ablative case, but I somehow feel it is simpler in many regards than German, chiefly due to the lack of articles. German has three different articles that must be declined, as well as the adjectives they proceed, and there is a difference in declension between der words and ein words. I still struggle with them and have to look at charts to refresh my memory.

"Life is too short to learn German" but it's also so great to met German in my life. 😁

“Leben ist zu Kurz Deutsch zu lernen” very funny, but also how good looking is that guy?!

Was ich persönlich schwierig an der Deutschschprache gefonden have,war Präfix,die Artikel,und die deklination der Adiektive

Super Video!

Ich glaub ich bin zu spät #cookie 😂 Kann ich mir das Buch auch irgendwo kaufen? Möchte es gerne mal lesen 🙂

Als ich angefangen habe, Deutsch an dem Universität zu lernen, fand ich einem Ding äußerst schwierig zu lernen: die Deutsche Wortstellung. Am Anfang fand ich es sehr sehr SEHR SEHR schwierig, die Deutsche Wortstellung zu lernen und ich hatte immer großen Probleme damit. Aber danach habe ich mich entschieden, die Harry Potter Hörbücher einer nach dem anderen auf Deutsch zuzuhören um mein Deutsch zu verbessern weil ich Harry Potter schon sehr gut kannte und jetzt ist meine Worstellung viel, viel, viel, viel besser als es am Anfang war, glaub' ich. Ich liebe diese Sprache einfach. Jetzt habe ich kein Problem mit die Wortstellung obwohl es am Anfang schwierig und verwirrend war. Jeder kann Deutsch lernen.

Diese Leute finde ich sehr frolich und es macht mir viel Spass dieses Videos zu sehen.

Honestly, with how difficult even Germans think German is it kind of gives me motivation to get really good with German

#cookie Ich bin ein grosser Fan von Easy German und Dana ich interessiere mich sehr für das Buch! Was das schwierigste in Deutsch ist, die Satzstruktur die Artikel und die Fälle.

#cookie You both are awesome I really like learning Deutsch From Egypt ❤❤

Dana ist toll, sie strahlt immer so!

Cases, articles, conjugations, word order, tenses and cases