![]() ![]() You can't really practice solo as effectively. With English or German, there are tons of exceptions you need to look out for - so practicing on your own becomes a lot more dangerous - you need constant native feedback on your speech to learn the correct patterns, or to constantly be looking things up. When I was learning Turkish, I would drill vocab by just conjugating every new verb I learned for every tense, and I would get it right 100% only knowing the infinitive form. This makes learning the grammar much more possible systematically - like you can sit down and work through the same conjugation or sentence structure without outside guidance and practice, and do it correctly. Kullanmak (to use) -> Kullaniyorum (I'm using) -> Kullanacaksa (if he/she/it will use) Uyumak (to sleep) -> Uyuyorum (I'm sleeping) -> Uyuyacaksa (if he/she/it will sleep) IEGitmek (to go)- > Gidiyorum (I'm going) -> Gidecekse (if he/she/it will go) Also, vowel harmony means that you can make an informed guess on how to say something based on what takes the least effort to voice. If you can conjugate one verb, you can conjugate any verb. Turkish vocab is difficult simply because it's formed from Turkic roots, but one can learn the grammar rules in a couple of weeks because they are applied uniformly. Swiss German also has some differences in spelling, for example, the letter ß, which is used only in German, is replaced by ss.Compared to Italian, I think German is more consistent, but compared to Turkish for example, it's completely inscrutable. One reason that the dialects are still so different today is that even if Switzerland adopted Standard German, mostly as a written standard, German Swiss in World War II wanted to separate themselves from the Nazis by choosing to speak dialect over the Standard German. Standard German is an official language in Switzerland, but the Swiss dialect of German is difficult to understand for native speakers from Germany and even for Swiss who are not native to speaking German. German is the only language that still has that rule, but Danish and English did so a long time ago. ![]() In writing, every noun must start with a capital letter. For example, "Someone has stolen my car" is Jemand hat mein Auto gestohlen ("Someone has my car stolen"), and "Someone called me last night" is Jemand hat mich letzte Nacht angerufen ("Someone has me last night called"). German has a system of cases, and when helping verbs are used, the main part of the verb must be moved to the end of the sentence. Much of the vocabulary in German is related to English, but the grammar is more complicated. German is a part of the West Germanic language family and is much like English and Dutch. It is also spoken in Eastern Europe, Bulgaria, Romania, and Russia. There are people who speak German in many countries, including the United States and Canada, where many people emigrated from Germany. This reputation is not totally undeserved, but the challenges are not insurmountable. There are some people who speak German in Belgium, The Netherlands, France and Northern Italy. Compared with other European languages, German grammar has a reputation for being, lets say, challenging. It is the most widely spoken mother tongue in the first language. It is spoken in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg natively by around 100 million people. German (German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. (German orthography regulated by the Council for German Orthography ). Brazil ( Espírito Santo, Rio Grande do Sul & Santa Catarina). ![]()
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