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Learning German has many benefits for young people β and itβs not as hard as its reputation suggests
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As someone learning German right now, I guess it's hard to argue with relative terms but I find the German language to be built with a ton of traps and abnormalities for seemingly no explicable reason.
For instance we conjugate every verb but we maintain the subject, unlike in Spanish where we would conjugate and drop the subject. I don't see any reason why we would do that except to make the language less efficient and more obtuse.
That being said, it hasn't been too hard and I agree with the general sentiment that learning any language is a good hobby to have so I don't want to discourage anyone.
Don't worry about the formalities too much. Read lots of German, listen to lots of German, try to find people to speak German with, and it'll come to you naturally. Especially don't try to be too perfect. Spoken German is way more lax than the rules for written German. High German, as it is written and taught, barely exists out there as a spoken language in its pure form. The German language area has a plethora of different regional dialects, which will sneak into the spoken German of even the most fervent formal high German speaker.
I recommend Sachgeschichten from "Sendung mit der Maus". It's a kids show that explanes the world and how stuff is made. The advantage here is that you can see what is happening while it's being explaned in simple vocabulary. Also it's really interesting.
Oh yes, definitely. Die Sendung mit der Maus is a national treasure.
Oh! Vielen Dank! This is exactly the kind of content I'm looking for.