How difficult is it to learn German?
I am in 9th grade (freshman) and I have to take 3 years of language in High School. I really want to take German and I was wondering if it’s a fun and not too difficult language to learn. By the way I’m not a slacker and I dont mind a challenge, I just dont want it to be impossible. Thanks.
go for it 
don’t settle for another language if german is what you want to take!!
this is my 7th year of german (i’m a senior) and it’s the best class i’ve ever taken 
the language is not as hard as most people think - it’s actually easier than french and spanish.
english and german are germanic languages, whereas french and spanish are romance languages (not because they sound pretty, but because they come from Rome - latin)
it is much easier for a native english speaker to learn german than to learn spanish/french/italian etc.
and don’t let the long words scare you… all long words in german are just shorter words put together.
for example, "anrufbeantworter" is "answering machine"
anruf = call
beantworter = answerer
in english, we separate "answering machine", but it german, they just combine the two words… kind of like us writing "answeringmachine"
i love german and i hope i helped!!! definitely try it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u_b-tNCboE that’s a video from my favorite german band… maybe you will like it
i take german and its hard sometimes, but easy also.
sometimes i can b difficult if you are also studying another language (french, spainish)
i have lost marks before in exams because i’ve written german in place of french by total accident.
orally german is spoken very quickly so, that can be difficult to, and the words are REALLY long.
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Comment by ash_ryan93 — August 19, 2009 @ 3:03 am
German’s challenging but utterly do-able. I’m pretty much an idiot and I was able to pick it up at a passable level.
I highly recommend it by the way - Germany’s a fantastic country to visit, even more so if you can converse with the locals at any level.
I’ll get you started:
"Ich schag vor, das wir ein puppenspiel haben." ("I suggest we have a puppet-play.")
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Hey, how tough can German be? David Hasselhof picked it up…
Comment by edthespartan — August 19, 2009 @ 3:36 am
I’ve been learning German for six years now it is very fun and rewarding. If you are not a slacker and up for a challenge, then German is great for you. Grammatically it might be a bit harder than French and Spanish. However, you’ll be able to communicate it in from a surprisingly early point because it shares so much with English. I wouldn’t say German is necessarily a fast language as someone said earlier… It’s spoken with about the same speed as English. As for the long words, those do exist but not as much as people always claim they do. They aren’t the common, everyday words and they aren’t indecipherable (really, they are just a bunch of smaller words combined together in a logical manner). German is not impossible! I saw go for it.
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Comment by carmenism — August 19, 2009 @ 4:07 am
go for it
don’t settle for another language if german is what you want to take!!
this is my 7th year of german (i’m a senior) and it’s the best class i’ve ever taken
the language is not as hard as most people think - it’s actually easier than french and spanish.
english and german are germanic languages, whereas french and spanish are romance languages (not because they sound pretty, but because they come from Rome - latin)
it is much easier for a native english speaker to learn german than to learn spanish/french/italian etc.
and don’t let the long words scare you… all long words in german are just shorter words put together.
for example, "anrufbeantworter" is "answering machine"
anruf = call
beantworter = answerer
in english, we separate "answering machine", but it german, they just combine the two words… kind of like us writing "answeringmachine"
i love german and i hope i helped!!! definitely try it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u_b-tNCboE that’s a video from my favorite german band… maybe you will like it
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Comment by alanna — August 19, 2009 @ 4:42 am