Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 04:31:38 08/04/01
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On August 03, 2001 at 16:08:45, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >Contrary to what's been posted already, German is not especially similar to >English, Fully agreed! >nor easy to learn, Probably you are right but your choice of words is discouraging (: >and learning to read technical German is much easier >than striving for fluency. > I think that applies to any language. >There are a lot of German words that look/sound similar to English words (but >don't necessarily have the same meaning), but there are a vast number of words >that are completely different. On top of that, German grammar is radically >different True! The worst mistake while learning German is trying to compare the structure of the sentences to what you already know from your language. >and relatively difficult. >French vocabulary is much closer to English >vocabulary and Spanish is easy to learn because its grammar has a trivial number >of exceptions. According to the US military intelligence, Spanish is the easiest >language to learn and German is only slightly easier than Russian or Chinese. > >Learning to read a subset of a language (say, for computer chess) is always >easier than learning the entire language. True, you won't learn computer chess >words in the German classes you might take, but there aren't that many computer >chess words. > >If you do learn some German (which I reccomend), be sure to visit Germany to try >it out sometime. Even if you don't learn much, it's a pretty amazing experience >to have people understand you even though you feel like you're speaking >gibberish. Almost all the Germans are actually very polite, and they do not really mind to hear poor German by a foreigner. The worst thing that can happen is that you say something funny and they smile (: > >-Tom José.
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