German is going to be easy because it sounds like English? No, it’s actually hard because it sounds like English.

Just putting it out there, German share a lot of similar sounding words with English. Yes many languages do with one another, but I think German is the most.

I’m having a lot of trouble with German because my brain is still thinking I’m speaking English, just in a funky way.

First, the words.

“Das is noch gut” (That is still good)

Sounds a lot like “That is not good”. This sort of thing really hampers the learning process. There are a lot others like “Denn” means “Because” but it sounds like “Then”.

Some words like Hund (Dog) can be remembered as Hound, a synonym in English. But then there are also words like Rock (Skirt) that means completely different in English that really throws you off. With other languages you just have a block of gibberish and know it’s something you haven’t learnt, but with German you get tricked into assuming you know the new word they just said.

The most frustrating thing is the sentence structure. I thought German was playing difficult until I realised there are similarities with Japanese sentence structures which came to me easily and naturally without any effort.

And why? Because Japanese sounds nothing like English so my brain could split it into another space that can be activated when switched to.

While German is still being cramped into the English space and thus adding another layer of decoding. And at the same time, the advantage you thought you had with vocabulary is quickly overwhelmed by the fact you still have to learn the mostly lengthy and alien hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia inducing German words that’s much shorter in English. (Release = veröffentlicht)

Heed caution, for those who thought the same as I did, this isn’t like Spanish and Portuguese. It’s NOT an easy road ahead.

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