Is English easier to learn then German?
I don’t have enough time to visit language courses, so I try to learn foreign languages all by myself.
I started learning German a few years after I had seriously started learning English. At first I thought German was much more difficult to learn than English. I wasn’t able to remember new German words, to understand German grammar and my spoken German was of a zero level. I didn’t feel any progress.
Last year I bought an educational programme on CD ROM called Sprachkurs Deutsch. It consists of 168 German lessons. I haven’t finished too many of them so far, but I have to say that I like a German grammar now. The Sprachkurs Deutsch helps me not only to understand German grammar, but to improve my vocabulary and to make my spoken German better, too.
I believe that with a continuous practice I’ll be able to speak German quite well.
That’s the reason that I have changed my former idea. Nowadays I think that German is easier to learn than English, because English seems to me as difficult as before, but German less difficult.
I’d like to know how other people, who learned both English and German sooner, look at these two languages and which of them they consider more difficult to learn and why.
March 23rd, 2005 at 7:08 pm
English seems to me as difficult as before, but German less difficult.
Yeah, I think this is called the psychological theory of relativity. ;-)
Personally, I find German grammar more difficult than that of English and I think it’s wrong when language lessons at school put so much emphasis on it and not on learning to speak actual spoken language instead of the artificial language of the classroom. I’ve no doubt the program you have is much superior in this respect.
As I’ve already mentioned elsewhere, I’m now a huge fan of Romance languages (French in particular) because 1) the culture(s) inspire me and 2) they are so easy! I only regret that I was so young and stupid to see it ten years ago. :-)