Comments on: Mark Twain’s Aweful German Language Audiobook http://fredericiana.com/2007/12/15/mark-twains-aweful-german-language-audiobook/ the english sententia fredericiana Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:04:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: aris http://fredericiana.com/2007/12/15/mark-twains-aweful-german-language-audiobook/#comment-177776 aris Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:27:55 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/12/15/mark-twains-aweful-german-language-audiobook/#comment-177776 to mr. Keith: no pain. no glory. rome wasn't built in a day. to mr. Keith: no pain. no glory. rome wasn’t built in a day.

]]> By: Keith http://fredericiana.com/2007/12/15/mark-twains-aweful-german-language-audiobook/#comment-103133 Keith Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:46:01 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/12/15/mark-twains-aweful-german-language-audiobook/#comment-103133 LOL. I have read his essay online and it's funny because most of it is true. I think for us Americans, German is next to impossible to learn unless you're exceptionally gifted with languages. I'm pretty much the opposite: I don't do well with languages at all to put it mildly. I have tried German and yikes! The language really doesn't make much sense at all. You have the whole gender/case thing to confuse us, word combinations that don't make sense when analyzed, undecipherable verb placement that seems to change based on the most minute difference in wording, etc. LOL. I have read his essay online and it’s funny because most of it is true. I think for us Americans, German is next to impossible to learn unless you’re exceptionally gifted with languages. I’m pretty much the opposite: I don’t do well with languages at all to put it mildly.

I have tried German and yikes! The language really doesn’t make much sense at all. You have the whole gender/case thing to confuse us, word combinations that don’t make sense when analyzed, undecipherable verb placement that seems to change based on the most minute difference in wording, etc.

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