11 Reasons You Should Learn German Now

🇩🇪 Ready for creepy fairy tales, tasty chocolate, and a whole lot more? If you’re looking for a reason to learn German, look no further. I’ve got 11 fascinating reasons you should start learning now!

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0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Reason #1
1:41 - Reason #2
2:56 - Reason #3
4:23 - Reason #4
5:18 - Reason #5
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[balkanmadnessmadeinaustria]

*German is not the easiest language, but learning German is like going on a Journey with sometimes seemingly unbeatable quests. The further you go, the bigger the rewards and the easier the way ahead of you. Only to see at the end of the journey and look back that everything was a huge logical system from the start. I really hope more people start to get more interested in German. It's just a beautiful language with so much history, fairy tales and more behind it.*

[Maymaysmaymays]

I found that German was the most useful language for me as I was studying for my minor in history. Loads of sources are in German and there's a lot of stuff to read about, from the Holy Roman Empire, all the way up until today!

[komi]

I am German and I was surprised by the positive comments hear :D it's quite flattering, that so many people are interested in learning german, which I never thought was a big thing, as german gets often seen as such a harsh and not very nice sounding language. Anyway, I wish everybody here good luck with learning amd have a nice day ^^
Addit: I dont know why this video got recommended to me, but I found it entertaining :D

[CouchPolyglot]

I have lived in Germany for over 10 years and speak German at a C1 level, but it is indeed true that you can live in big German cities without speaking it and you will "be fine". It of course also depends on your job, the specific city you live in, etc. I feel like you are missing out though if you do not speak the local language and it is almost a lack of respect (specially if you are staying for many years)

[mimaanimations]

German is theoretically an infinite language as you can smash as many words together as you want.

[Luis-ueei]

Another big reason one should learn german is the vast amount of great literature you can enjoy in the german language. German authors have produced so many exciting novels and, nowadays considered, classic literature that you just have an abundance of choice. The thing is you can only really enjoy books by great authors like Thomas Mann, Goethe, Hesse etc. once you reach a really high level in german, but I promise that it is worth it.

[MDobri-syce]

I love Kari and Janusz on Easy German!

[jdmoncada]

I really love German as a language. For me, it has a lot of sticking power, and I miss it sometimes. Just recently I read a book in which there were German characters, and they way they bantered with each other and dropped short German phrases into the text made me want to get back to it.
I appreciate very much the two examples at the beginning of the video of how NOT to speak German. I have found that too many people think it is an ugly-sounding language. I suspect those people have heard too many Hitler impressions.

[AhmedFathy-ltwl]

As an Arabic native speaker, learning German was not as hard for me. Many of its sounds exist in Arabic as well ( sch, ach, r in Rat, ss and so forth). Grammatical declension and gendered nouns were not new to me either.

[dutchreagan]

I was in Gruene, Texas once where they showed me an old book (in German handwriting) they couldn't read any longer. Helped them translate some stuff. People from Maastricht, Netherlands can go to South-Tyrol, Italy and get by speaking their local dialect. Both German-based.

[hotrodjones]

Radical Living is my favorite German YouTuber. Plus the channel Easy German has like a million and a half good videos for learning. German is not lacking in interesting learning materials or general media. I might try my hand at German again. I've been learning Norwegian, which has made me appreciate the Germanic language family more. It also helps I'm Scandinavian by descent. It just feels right!

[AzerAmatarp-iecp]

I just started to learn German for one month and not gonna lie I’m so in love with this language. It’s really fun! Hopefully I could speak more fluently in the future

[tizgerard_]

I love Germany and I'm at my second year of German class at university, I look forward to find new german friends to practice a bit the language!

[beady]

One of my favorite features of German are modal particles. They are some small words that can change the meaning of a sentence by a lot. That often makes them very difficult to translate. On top of that, they are used very frequently in informal speech. And it's also something that I miss a lot when speaking English.

[danielmeier]

Im bavarian. So standard german is basically a foreign language for me too. The conjugations of the cases are actually different.

[RagingGoblin]

Books ...
There are so many great books in German, and many of them don't at all translate well to English: centuries of world-class literature, ground-breaking philosophical works -- or even the contemporary book market in Germany ... which is stupendously huge if you consider the size of the population. It produces just a couple books fewer than China ... with one 1/17th of China's population.
And if you're into historical texts of any kind: fairy tales, the history of science, modern or classical European history ... I think German is definitely the best option after English and in some of those areas still far ahead of English.

[crypticnomad]

I read a research study a few years ago that said people show higher levels of wisdom when reasoning about their own life in a second, or non-native, language over their native language. After reading that I started doing logical types of reasoning in German when I can and started doing interpersonal reasoning in Spanish.

[siriusle]

I started to learn German three weeks ago. I was impressed by Nietzsche's philosophy. I hope one day I can read his books in the German language.🇩🇪

[rockysalgado]

Jawohl! German is actually my favorite language. 🙌🏻 🇩🇪

[ralfbraun]

2:00 "Zeug" =/= "Thing"
"Zeug" is a medieval word referring to arms, tools and later artillery. This meaning is also reflected in the word "Zeughaus" which was the storage for military equipment, nowadays "Arsenal".
There's also the word "erzeugen" or "Erzeugnis", which is a product that was manufactured (by using "Zeug"). As a suffix its meaning is something along the lines of "for the purpose of".
So "tool" (Fly-Tool, Fire-Tool, Drive-Tool) would be a better translation in this case.