The Awful German Language
non-tech german nonfiction linguistics
Um ensaio humorístico sobre as frustrações de um nativo do inglês ao tentar aprender alemão.
My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.
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