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The Awful German Language

--by Mark Twain

[ANKE69]

Your first link is full of errors and made up nonsense. For example; ...he sticks on a foolish and unnecessary E and spells them HAUSE, PFERDE, HUNDE.... There is no such thing as a HAUSE.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

One of my favorite Twain pieces, especially when I was taking German back in college.

[Arlis]

A good Brazillian friend who is a PhD Nuclear Engineer was fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English. He was my translator when I spoke in Brazil. He is truly one of the smartest people I’ve ever known. A dear man of God too. Black BTW.

He got his PhD in Germany and before he could start his studies he had to spend a year learning German.

He told me that learning German was the most difficult challenge of his life. And he was tri-lingual prior to learning German.