Is german language hard?

Question

if so what is the hardest part??

Answer 1

quit now. learn spanish. fa reall

Answer 2

no not harder den spanisch

Answer 3

Hardest part is the german part, duh

Answer 4

listen to this german band, and they have american lyrics also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rammstein

Answer 5

Hitler learned it, so ask a monkey.

Answer 6

I studied 2yrs of german in high school. Most of the language isn't difficult. It has a lot of similarities to english. example- The dog = der (like there, but with a 'd' instead of 'th') hund. Some words however are pronounced where-(you have to do this weird sound like your trying to cough up something stuck in your throat). I personally found this part extremely difficult.

Answer 7

Any language is "hard" once you first start learning it... but if you want to learn... then it will come easier...

German is quite similar to English, and has many similar roots, so if you speak English, you should find German much easier to learn than say... Chinese...  

Answer 8

Not really.  Their grammar is somewhat similar to English and actually, it's one of the two major root languages for modern English.

The hardest part is that instead of making new words for things, they just add a bunch of words together into larger, more complicated words.  If you fear big words, it's definitely not a good language for you.

If you can say kindergarten, then you can speak German.  

Answer 9

Well I personally know 1 language -- English. I'm only 15 years old (Well, actually I know Spanish from school if that counts...), anf I don't know German, but my Grandma came from Germany and so did her parents and when talking to them I learn bits and pieces of German.

For example, "Ich Liebe Dich" which means I love you. I know how it's spelt, I know what it means, and I've heard other people say it. I just can't do those strange sounds you make with your tongue while talking. Every language has their annoying sounds. Chinese is annoying to speak in just about every way, Spanish has those weird tongue rolls, and German has some very strange times when you must make a weird CHKAA noise as if were getting up a wad of plegm =\

Yea... well, you know English and everyone says that's the hardest language, so you shouldn't have too much trouble learning German...

Good luck, I hope I helped!

Answer 10

yes. take Italian it's sexier and less scary.

Answer 11

really hard, i took german class and got C-

hardest part is when u trying to pronounce the language  

Answer 12

yes it is unfortunately for u. From past experience i suggest italian, french or spanish. spanish being the easiest. i was able to have a decent conversation in spanish in about 6 months. German is hard. especially when it comes to accents and how meaning and accents  coincide.

good luck anyways  

Answer 13

the hardest part is pleasing hitler  

Answer 14

The hardest part is learning the articles that go to the nouns, but really german is like insanely easy. a lot of german words are similar to english words because the english language is directly derived from the german language. For example, "Here" in English is pronounced the same as "hier" in german, and mean the same too.

oo and germans have wicked bands, like Wir Sind Helden, Rammstein, and freakin Tokio hotel. yess ^^

edit: as for the phlemy sounds that guy seems to think you have to make in order to speak german, that's a little inaccurate. you do make a noise from the back of your throat, but you def. don't have to cough up phlem in the process. it's really not that bad, and when you hear it you don't notice it. some germans speak that way, but not all.

Answer 15

Hoch Deutsch (High German) can be difficult, primarily because of its structure. For an English speaker, it's the stupid gender and capitalization of every noun, which accomplishes nothing, but is a pain to learn.

Grammar is crucial, because one word out of order renders your sentence meaningless.

(In English, you can say "Up the stairs I go," or "Up the stairs go I," or "I am going up the stairs," or "Up I go stairs," and other people can figure it out.)

Not that English spelling is an award winner, by the way...

(I also believe German can be a very beautiful language when spoken by a beautiful voice. And it excels in precision regarding philosophy, since it has more precise words for English's conditional "but" and "however," and many other concepts, and has proved itself to be more useful for existentialism, as a result. But I'm old and I'd rather learn Dutch for my next adventure in linguistics.)

Hasta la auf weidersehen...and have a blast. I learned more about English from studying Spanish and German than from any other educational experience.