Learning English versus learning German 😅

[ivymarimo]

"How can you guys do thisss!!" *knows how to write in chinese*

[donuts]

actually you gotta capitalize the "s" in "Sie", the formal version of the singular "you", otherwise it means "she"

[jasonjames]

Once you have learnt German you realise how precisely you can communicate with it

[ToastedSeagul]

As a German speaker, they all apply to different grammar rules.

[trueblueclue]

Me as a Spanish speaker. "Oh they got genders in German... oh hell naw they got 3 genders!".

[snikli]

Even we natives have problems with the grammar. I don't understand why it has to be so hard

[davidh]

A german can talk about you all day, and never say the same thing twice!

[michaelterry]

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.

[takeofftales]

As a Southern American, Ihr means Ya'll if that helps.

[raminrouchi]

Its shouldnt be "How can you guys do this" it should be "why does English cut corners"

[simonshim]

In my opinion it's been quite easy so far it just depends on the context in which the word is being said

[lifegoeson_]

You should capitalize sie because sie means she and Sie means you and I know this because I am learning German.

[victor]

That seems difficult, but rarely someone will confuse "du" "ihnen" oder "sie"

[ysbel]

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.

[Giova]

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!

[evet]

They = sie
She = sie
You (formel) = Sie
You (plural/formel) = sie

EnGlİsH iS sOo fUkİn hArD

[poland-ballgeography]

As a polish speaker : Wasz, Wasze, Wasza and more just to say your

[memevel]

She can master chinese but not German, applaudable 👏🏻

[CountryHumansForever]

Well……… I‘m german but learning English in school can also be painfull

[Tapo]

its all for different grammar reasons, you cant just use them all the same way