Is German easy or difficult to learn? | 5-Minute Language

Is German easy or difficult to learn? I share with you my thoughts on what makes German relatively easy and relatively difficult. I hope you'll find this video useful if you're trying to decide whether or not to learn German!

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[johanngiesbrecht]

I never lived in Germany, but I have a German background, I live in Canada, I was born and raised in Paraguay in a German Colony, German is my language, I love German, I'm not correct in the German grammar, 1780 my ancestors had moved out of Germany, I love the country of my ancestors. I'm glad that you are an encouraging learning German, so many other Ladies are teaching German on line, thank God that Women are now this day's evolve in so many things. English is a good language, I find the English spelling sisdem is very difficult.
I love the German songs and music.

[jeejosahand]

I speak English and German little but soon I will study German because I live in Germany 🙂

[GigaDank]

I speak Spanish English and due to knowing Spanish I know some Italian I'm currently learning german

[thelavenderangel]

My highschool foreign language class teaching German. I need the credit, and this video helped me be less nervous for it. Thank you!

[hugofindenigg]

Fact is, that our German language has a grammar which is very close to English and there are many words which are equal or similar to English.
Something could be a bit difficult, that's the use of our three articles (der, die, das). But mixing up them isn't a great mistake.
Greetings from Austria and enjoy learning German!

[Yasin_]

I live in the UK and I did German in Year 7 and it was soo hard as German can have really long words and sometimes have different letters to English. I then chose French in Year 8 and it was much easier, especially forming a sentence, conjugation, tense etc. I did my GCSEs and got an 8 (A*). Although I don’t do languages anymore, I still find it interesting how other languages work aswell

[AzureSymbiote]

Thanks very much. I am currently learning Latin. I am hoping this will ease me into German cases.

[tylermacdonald]

I would be curious to see a documented experience of an english native learning english and how they did it

[moosehead]

Thanks for the video; however, I'm still on the fence about learning German. My aunt wanted me to learn it but I needed to see more relevance in learning German living in LA. However, now that I'm considering living in Germany or Austria, this is a major consideration.

[MDzmitry]

I'm a linguistic university student, and I want to pick German as my 2nd foreign language to have a "trio" of Russian, English and German. And judging by your video it actually feels like German is basically in the middle between English and Russian difficulty-wise, thanks for the video

[mac]

German is not SOV but V2 (main clause) and SOV (subordinate clause). Take any newspaper article or whatnot and you fill find more verbs at the end as elsewhere. Furthermore sentences are only starting with the subject in 50 % of the cases. Only foreigners / learners always start with the subject. The points you address are only issues you tackle after 5 minutes of learning. Would be cool if someone could make a video about real struggles that learners face (phrasal verbs, word order, prepositions, particles, synonyms, verbs with prepositions and cases).

[infochaser]

That's so nice explanation. Thanks a lot.

[martinneumann]

Das ist aber lieb von dir, dass du deine Zuschauer ermutigst, Deutsch zu lernen. (Wie man am Satzbau erkennen kann, ist selbst für Deutsche die eigene Sprache kaum zu beherrschen 😃)

[leokal]

Everybody gangster until 10 different dialects hit you in the face :D

[abdelmajidtiloulout]

Your remarks about learning German are very precise and concise. I have already started learning German, but speaking English even if Arabic is my mother tongue is helping me a lot in learning German. There are even some words in German which are similar to those in English with a slight difference at the level of pronunciation. For instance the verb "gebe, give/denke, think, Restaurant ....". Thanks for the clarification.

[Rainerjgs]

Vielen herzlichen Dank, liebe Anna,
für Deine so ansteckende Begeisterung für die so zauberhafte und praktische deutsche Sprache!
Aber bei der Erwähnung der Ausspracheschwierigkeiten hast Du das Wichtigste, nämliche die Umlaute ä, ü und ö vergessen zu erwähnen. Ich vermute, daß der Grund in Deiner eigenen Schwierigkeiten mit diesen Selbstlauten liegt. Habe ich recht oder stimmt's?

[juanorlandi]

Awesome video, thanks! (Actually I was surprised by the amazingly good like/vs/disllike ratio it has. Thanks again :)

[CristinaAllegra]

Could you make this kind of video about Polish and/or give advice or recommend resources for people trying to learn it? That would be awesome😊😍

[delisha]

Thankyou mam...how long did it take you to get a hold of German?

[buttergolem]

It´s s piece of cake. And that doesn´t have anything to do with me being a native JA!