*learn!

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I'm sure it does help a lot to be in a country that speaks the language.

Pretty amazing project he undertook. What a great experience to be able to look back on.

love the kickstarter ribbing at the end!

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Adding video to channels (Travel) - requested by Trancecoach.

By the time I finished watching this video, I was able to speak German.

I lived in Germany for about 3 months for work and went back fairly regularly on business. I had a bit of German before I left, but I found it really difficult to speak while over there, primarily because everyone had such good English.

You would go to a shop or a meeting and people would just switch to English on the basis that their English was better than your German. You really had to ask to please use German if you wanted to learn.

And German is hard. There are 16 words for "the" or "a" in German (male, female, neutral and plural multiplied by 4 "cases")! And the gender assignments make no sense at all. Why is "wife" not feminine?

That said, they seemed to really appreciate the effort, even if they were very picky about grammar, as evidenced by that lady at the 1 minute mark.

Wife (die/eine Ehefrau) is feminine.

German as a language just went through too damn many evolutionary steps over the centuries. It's convoluted and bloated to a point where many people just ignore some of the rules, particularly regarding the "cases" you mentioned.

Guck mal, that seems super hilarious!

You gotta love the way Deutschlanders string fifteen words together in what looks like repeated attempts to break syllabicate records...like this one, "Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften," which means, "insurance companies providing legal protection." Always makes me giggle to hear these

Wacky frikkin' Germans!