Germany's State Distance-Learning University

Re:Germany's State Distance-Learning University by foepys on Sunday December 13, 2020 @10:38AM (#25407242)

> awful German language

Ich komm dir gleich rüber! /s

Speaking and writing German is a bit complicated but for rudimentary understanding of texts you do not need to know as many words as in English.

If you are looking for Computer Science there are many English lectures available.

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Re:Germany's State Distance-Learning University by philshem on Sunday December 13, 2020 @12:43PM (#25408364)

It’s a 19th century essay from Mark Twain about the difficulties learning German as an English speaker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Awful_German_Language

The title translated into German is "Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache" ("The Horrors of the German Language") which is more appropriate.

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Re:Germany's State Distance-Learning University by aitait on Sunday December 13, 2020 @06:03PM (#25411346)

I don't think German is really difficult. Some things are strange for an English speaker: declension, therefore flexible word order and gender is more elusive compared to Spanish.

There is a saying: "Hungarian... the only tongue in the world the devil respects."

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Re:Germany's State Distance-Learning University by wadkar on Sunday December 13, 2020 @02:20PM (#25409254)

Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache

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Re:Germany's State Distance-Learning University by ben_w on Monday December 14, 2020 @03:01AM (#25414594)

It was surprising to see that phrase in Duolingo, but far more surprising to hear a native German speaker using it in the workplace.

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Re:Germany's State Distance-Learning University by uoaei on Sunday December 13, 2020 @03:34PM (#25409968)

Specialist vocabulary for specific disciplines is also quite graspable.

(Disclaimer: I say this as a physicist, where all the German words for physics concepts are quite straightforward.)

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