Dutch is worse.
The Klingon of Humanity...
Hysterical! I took German in high school. I really liked it, too. Maybe I was getting out my teen frustrations by speaking it!
Dank! Das war sehr lustig!
On a related note. A loooooong tie ago, I listened to Dr. Dimintia play an old record of people laughing hysterically for several minutes. He asked the listeners to tell him what language they were laughing in.
Arabic is incredibly harsh sounding too.
My favorite for years: Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung
First time I saw that work my mind gear-jammed.
Later
I think it was Mark Twain who observed that if you want to verbally ‘ream’ someone with something more than just journeyman competence German was your ticket.
English is a Germanic language.
And Brazillian Portuguese is the most beautiful sounding language I’ve ever heard - been all over the world, and it’s the only language that captured me enough to learn it - in Brazil.......when there, the Brazillians think I am a native - at least for the first 15 min.!
Wonderful language, but very different from the Portuguese of Portugal......
I studied German in college, primarily due to some German-speaking ancestry. I wanted to be able to read the records of early family in the Moravian archives. Enjoyed it, did a summer in Trier. German is guttural when non-native speakers speak it. The language can be beautiful in the right circumstance, spoken by the right voice. We have a stereotype arising from WWII movies, with actors barking orders. That sounds guttural. But, there’s another language that sounds even worse when barking orders. It’s gotten less notoriety due to the comparative difficulty in learning it, I suppose. That would be Japanese.
Italian is for music.
French is for diplomacy.
English is for commerce.
Latin is for medicine.
Spanish is for love.
Dutch is for hydrology.
Russian is for literature.
Greek is for philosophy.
German is for speaking to your horse.
It depends on how you speak it. German can be quite beautiful when spoken properly. Many language teachers say Hitler ruined the German language because of his harsh enunciation. And unfortunately, many people’s conception of German comes from their experience listening to speakers from East Germany.
I beg to differ:
Exhibit A:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ktjdyy2xOk
Exhibit B:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtOzJJjtf14
"nuclear bomb" =
Das Eargashplitten loudenboomer./
“Ze drem vil finali kum tru.”
When in east Africa I thought the locals spoke German at first... then realized it was Somali.