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

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Camera: Carina Schmid / Janusz Hamerski
Edit: Janusz Hamerski / Carina Schmid
Translation: Ben Eve

[kanxi]

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

[kateheredia]

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

[magnusbrzenk]

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

[feurigerStern]

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.

[michaellabhard]

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.

[jonal]

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

[bellef]

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

[augustincalin]

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.

[petrvacha]

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

[plerpplerp]

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.

[jinnaralmo]

#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.

[be]

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

[pynchones]

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).

[nihatbekiroglu]

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

[WantedAdventure]

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

[frankb]

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

[aivnv]

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

[lukaslehmann]

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

[gauriroussin]

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

[CrazyBunnyGuy]

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 :)