What Germans think is hard about learning German | Easy German 287

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Hosts of this episode: Dana Newman ( / wantedadventure ) and Carina Schmid (www.carisafari.de)
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Translation: Ben Eve

[@kanxi2915]

when that man said "Das Leben ist zu Kurz, Um Deutsche zu lernen." I cried.

[@jimbopaw]

Nee, dass Leben ist zu Kurz, um nicht zu machen was du machen willst :)

[@finsternis1986]

Es ist eigentlich nicht SO schwierig! Jeder hat genug Zeit ;)

[@faditemeiza2675]

hahahahhahahaha

[@immyshah1]

Legend says that people are crying over it everyday still.. lol

[@liliannogueira4086]

Mark Twain said something like this about learning German and the meaning of eternity.

[@kateheredia910]

A bit discouraging when Germans say they would not want to learn german as a foreign language... ouch lol

[@IndiaHeathIRL]

I'd say the same thing about English though. Would NOT want to have to learn how to read English as a second language, it's awful.

[@driss3946]

@@IndiaHeathIRL Nah not really, English is pretty easy once you are immersed in the language and culture.

[@lena8619]

@@IndiaHeathIRL English is so easy wdym 😂

[@feurigerStern]

@@IndiaHeathIRL I agree!. English is my native language. So glad I learned it first.

[@feurigerStern]

@@driss3946 I think words such as rain, reign and rein, along with the correct pronunciation of though, trough, through, etc make it a language with almost no rules.

[@michaellabhard9091]

Certainly, the most difficult thing about learning German is finding someone who speaks German well and will speak with you in German for more than a one or two sentences. These videos are extremely valuable in that sense because they can be used vicariously for conversational practice.

[@ebereezike3448]

I find this really difficult, having someone I can practice with in German

[@beckysberries4441]

@@ebereezike3448 Same, no one else I know is learning German so I just kinda talk to myself all the time lmao

[@ebereezike3448]

@@beckysberries4441 Lol, I do that too. It would just be nice to have someone to talk to.😃

[@simplymudblood4370]

Okay so I just started out and I cant really speak out sentences buuuut theres discord servers you can join, and you can vc with natives or other learners, im just hoping to get bette so i can do that! But you should totally check that out

[@shannimonet]

Same, I don't have any real life practice so I use KZbin videos and German music as an alternative. But I want to visit Germany one day 🙂

[@magnusbrzenk447]

As an English speaker, the only part of German I found really hard was the word order, in particular getting used to sending the verb to the back of the sentence really strains my short-term memory

[@feurigerStern]

I had a Spanish professor who said the same thing about Spanish. It is true that one will never know a foreign language completely. That makes sense. Even in our own native tongues, we learn new words.

[@sauloncall]

Pfft! Spanish is much easier than German for having a good fluency. I've learned both! If I had put as much effort in learning Spanish as I have already in learning German, I would have had a native level Spanish fluency. In German, I'm still beginner.

[@avzarathustra6164]

@@sauloncall Yep

[@leonardofabem2626]

@@sauloncall I think its depends of your native language like the woman said. As portuguese native speaker it's further easy to me learn Spanish than german.

[@anapulido507]

English native speakers say that Spanish is easy but when they come to a country where Spanish is the native language most of the time they cannot pronounce or communicate correctly.

[@marian8878]

Hace un año que estudio Alemán a diario y la verdad, es que recién en este momento puedo entender estos videos. Estoy de acuerdo con lo que dices...... a seguir estudiando. Saludos.

[@jonal2852]

Es ist unglaublich wie gut die spanierin deutsch spricht! Akzentlos und so gute betonung. Perfekt!

[@ReisReisReis34]

hallo ich lebe in istanbul aber ich liebe, wie deutschland denkst du, ich kann dich dazu bringen, dort zu bleiben

[@DJTrancenergy]

Ganz genau! Sie ist sehr gut, und spricht sogar mehr Sprachen!

[@03raq]

Really I also thought that considering I am spanish speaking myself, the only spanish speaking people I know who speaks perfect german they were either raised in Germany or are half German... for us is REALLY hard to learn it THAT perfect! I wonder how she learned it.

[@yourTuBaer]

Kein Akzent, aber man könnte meinen einen Dialekt rauszuhören.

[@ritahunt4003]

@@03raq ok

[@petrvacha9549]

'It's "the, the, the", you just need to learn it by heart.'

[@zarakikenpachi7359]

And then you have to know if it's in Akkusativ, Dativ or Genitv and change it accordingly

[@Lioness99a]

@@zarakikenpachi7359 That's what gets me the most - I'm fairly good at remembering the gender of an item, but using the right case is so hard!

[@hanswurst2355]

@@Lioness99a practise, practise, practise 😅👐🏻

[@GuillinCorp]

@@Lioness99a when I speak it's like my brain is a buffering video. I need to think about every article and the cases for a few seconds to form a sentence

[@clairejakubowski4805]

@@Lioness99a Same...well your comment was two months ago, hopefully you've gotten the hang of it now and can offer me some advice! Lol :)

[@bellef7687]

I’m a native English speaker learning German in school and the hardest part for me is remembering how “der, die, das” change words like ein, dein, and mein. Depending on the other words in the sentence it could be ein, eine, einen, einem, etc. In English we just say “a” no matter what words are in the sentence. So it’s difficult in German to remember how different words change

[@karankr7]

You'll just slowly get used to it, don't worry about that trust me... It'll become second nature

[@augustincalin]

The most difficult for me is that it's like a puzzle. First you realize some tiles are missing; so you learn some words. Then you realize the tiles are dynamic -- you learn conjugate them. This is easy or, at least, doable. But then, supposed you have all the words, you have to arrange them before laying them on the table -- and this is the most difficult because you have to change your mindset.

[@salvadorbarrios2507]

I always realize I have to take those tiles back when I want to change my mind in the middle of a sentence

[@xdxdxdxd4575]

Das Stimmt so!

[@cindysiekonic561]

Great video!! I LOVE learning German! It's challenging, but so satisfying when you're able to put everything you have learned together in a sentence. It's like a math equation!

[@jimbopaw]

That's what one of the interviewees said - don't stress yourself too much. I find it intimidating and then I am afraid to talk german from fear of making a mistake. I think most languages are like this, it can happen in english as well - because they are human languages there is a bit of gray area. Anyway good luck with German, it is satisfying indeed, when I realize that I am making progress. There is a lot to learn and that is the nice thing about it, whereas with English I feel like I have reached a plateau and am not doing much progress.

[@ReisReisReis34]

hallo ich lebe in istanbul aber ich liebe, wie deutschland denkst du, ich kann dich dazu bringen, dort zu bleiben

[@ReisReisReis34]

Hallo

[@jimbopaw]

@@ReisReisReis34 Hallo, ich habe es nicht alles verstanden, was du geschreibt hast.

[@ReisReisReis34]

@@jimbopaw Ich möchte in Deutschland leben Ich bin derzeit in der Türkei

[@be6715]

I like that you translate the laughing as well. Sehr lustig!

[@plerpplerp5599]

There is nothing difficult about German. The German teachers teach it in such a painfully complicated way that you lose the will to live. Deutsch ist eigentlich nichts Schwieriges. Nur die Deutschlehrer unterrichten es auf so eine schmerzhaft komplizierte Art und Weise, dass man den Lebenswillen verliert.

[@soledadferrer1325]

Thanks for the chuckle!

[@Greek_guy7]

I can't relate. My German teacher is very energetic and makes us get involved in activities to learn, makes us watch videos over the weekend that have German so we can learn German, and also do journaling in German to improve our German and to make us get better at it. The second German teacher in my school is quieter, but still teaches it well enough to have the words stick in our heads.

[@elllieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

Das ist sehr lustig...

[@plerpplerp5599]

@@Greek_guy7 Good for you!👍 I haven't met a German teacher yet that can explain the grammar without you getting a brain hemorrhage. By the way, are they native speakers of German, your teachers?

[@luciifer666]

whats the easy way according to you

[@WantedAdventure]

Es war super mal wieder in einem Easy German Video zu sein!!! Danke schön🤩🥳 Es hat sehr viel Spaß gemacht!🌟

[@EasyGerman]

Komm bald wieder nach Berlin Dana 😃

[@mr.thelanguage9993]

Hallo Dana! Mein Name is Prem. Ich bin vielsprachig. Ich spreche Tamilisch, das ist meine Muttersprache und ich spreche auch noch English, Deutsch, Französisch, und Japanisch. Bist du eine Sprachliebhaberin?

[@09ashcraft]

Dana's smile is so beautiful ;)

[@myrcellabaratheon8701]

ohhh i was surprised to know that you aren't native in German! you're amazing

[@Mawnt]

I thought you Said ”super mal” as in “super bad” haha! I’m Swedish and think German is an interesting language! Also my granpas grandpas mother (haha) was from Germany (her family name was Müller).

[@aivnv]

"...wollen lernen würden" yep, that's enough German for today 😂 #cookie

[@lucax8934]

Would wanna learn

[@finsternis1986]

@Mario Yeah, you just have to get used to the SOV sentence order. It takes time, but it gets easier :)

[@metalpoe8687]

ich wurde wollen deutsch zu lernen .(i would want to learn german ) ich will duetsch learnen (i want to learn german) ich wurde deutsch learnen (i would learn german) ich werde deutsch learnen (i will learn german) es freut mich sehr deutsch zu lernen ( it pleases me very much to learn german ) btw i'm egyptian and i'm learning duetsch too :).. bitte schon (you're welcome) ( schon O with umlaute) :)

[@finsternis1986]

@@metalpoe8687 Both "wurde"s in your example should be "würde"s also, like you said with "schön". It sucks trying to do Umlauts when your keyboard doesn't have it, but they are important, because they change the pronunciation and meaning of the word. I usually just add an "e" after the vowel, except when I'm teaching someone. Then, I usually just copy one from text and paste it. There is a Unicode shortcut for it, but that's also a hassle.

[@metalpoe8687]

@@finsternis1986 ich sehe danke schön :)

[@pynchones]

For me personally, the hardest thing is the German sentence structure, especially the placement of verbs. It is easy to learn the rules on where the verb goes, but when it comes to speaking it, it can be hard to follow if you don't know a V2 language (like Dutch).

[@alidabaxter5849]

Somebody said that when speaking German you take a deep breath, dive under water and only come back to the surface at the end of a sentence to utter the verb!

[@gauriroussin6719]

What I find the most difficult in learning german is when you have to choose the correct preposition.😫

[@christophermillikan5257]

Prepositions are nuts...especially the Wechselpräpositionen. Ich hasse sie.

[@valeriobertoncello1809]

That's pretty hard to do in English as well, maybe moreso than in Gesman in fact! Set in set out set off put off give in give up give off etc... Each of these expressions has a different, meaning that is not always intuitive (e.g. give up = surrender????). At first, they are pretty frustrating to learn as non-native.

[@ByForschle]

The thing with German are the combined words Like Tafelkreide - chalkboard chalk Eiswürfel - ICE Cube Rasiermesserklingenscharf - as sharp as the blade of your razor

[@jetmirahajdari4686]

Omg yes, im having difficulty learning lokative and time prepositions

[@joaopauloteixeiramaciel2844]

True

[@jinnaralmo]

#cookie As a native Mandarin speaker I absolutely love German compound word formation because that is how we form new words in Mandarin as well! It slightly reduces the mental power to memorise new words. But the separable verb prefixes are a pain, it's English compound verb memorisation all over again.

[@jsabri6324]

Your English is better than most native speakers!

[@lou_entertainment]

I'm a natif german speaker learning mandarin a I totally agree. That's why I have no trouble whatsoever learning mandarin.

[@Science_Democracy]

@@lou_entertainment Native mandarin speaker here struggling with ''r" sound lol

[@saltychin]

Julie Sabri not better than most natives he complicated the sentence like crazy which is something at least Americans in English never do lmao

[@xalpacazeu1332]

Ali K. The millions in poverty living in huts

[@TurboLingaLanguages]

Love this video! Great approach to teaching the language in a real way. Danke schön!

[@frankb1]

I think this one of my favorites. Dana has such an American accent.

[@nihatbekiroglu8004]

0:57 pronouncen ??? What happened to " aussprechen " :) ??

[@Mullkaw]

gone. reduced to atoms

[@viertouchdownsineinemspiel]

Sie sind einfach zu hip, sieht man schon am Fräskantenpony der Beiden. Wie peiiiinlich...

[@vishalranaut6838]

Du muss jeden tag so viel lernen .

[@Misao.]

Vier Touchdowns in einem Spiel. Mein Gott lass sie doch 🙄

[@RacTac]

@@viertouchdownsineinemspiel Wenn man sehr viel in Englisch konsumiert, kann man auch manchmal die deutschen Wörter vergessen. Passiert mir auch manchmal

[@sjoyce100]

Impressed with that dude's hair 0:54 #cookie

[@camillomancini5619]

I got surprised that he has a girl and I don’t 😭🔫

[@gasperkosmac7672]

Bundesliga haircut

[@adyingdream4585]

He came from the past.

[@jenmu7870]

The 80ies are modern again in Germany and especially Berlin.

[@GOPUBLICIDADEstudioCreativo]

oh boi

[@lukaslehmann9708]

habe die freundliche und immer lächelte Dana echt vermisst. Wo sind Klaus, Martin, Tobias und Mattias....sie sind auch seit lange nicht mehr in Easy German aufgetaucht...vermisse sie ebenso sehr. Hoffe, dass sie auch wieder Videos mit ihnen machen werden, weil sie echt sympathisch und lieb sind

[@jennifermutesi7880]

"das Leben ist zu kurz, um Deutsch zu lernen ". As a German learner, i am heartbroken

[@hanswurst2355]

Don't worry, u just need passion for it!

[@airotkiv]

my mum started learning german at 24 and she speaks fluently without any accent. she makes mistakes very very rarely, mostly with der, die, das, but that doesn't matter, nobody cares about that!

[@banana53358]

@@airotkiv so life isn t too short to learn german.

[@ebereezike3448]

I find the word order pretty challenging too. It's like everything is all mixed up but I know there is a pattern. I found that reading helps me connect the dots and familiarise myself with the word order. Someday it's all going to make sense. One step at a time

[@user-vt1st1iq6j]

#cookie I’m from Russia and the most difficult aspects for me are “der,die,das”, sentence construction and long words :)

[@Tammym44]

I agree! I cannot get the sentence structure.

[@DanielEBM98]

@@Tammym44 jaaa, ich denke das auch. Wenn ich ein Wort schreiben will, muss ich über "der, die, das" viel denken

[@robertoppenheimer6493]

Ich bin ruski und es ist sehr schwer Teil für mich.

[@KikonSketches]

YES "der, die, das" whenever im reviewing and studying my words i almost never get it right, i have no clue what they're based off of to tell other then it must just be something you have to get used too 🤔

[@meatmoneymilkmonogamyequal5583]

I've studied German, Russian and Czech. The Slavic languages are harder than German for English speakers and Romance speakers. The declination is crazy and the 2 verbs for everything is madness.I love the sound of Russian though.

[@bryankeidel7864]

“Life’s too short to learn German.” #cookie

[@arnolt2590]

You always bring joy with you Dana

[@dlh149]

Thanks to the video, today i,ve learned the word "schwierig" !

[@mydayswithoutyou]

As an Italian native speaker struggling with German, I'd mention two things that drive me crazy: 1) die Umlaute, in particular ü and ö (ä is not a problem); 2) definitely the articles! - I would also say that speaking, in general, is very difficult for me (in contrast to reading and understanding when others are speaking). (vielleicht ist es zu spät, aber das werde ich versuchen: #cookie)

[@janaaj1an889]

The two languages I have had to attempt to learn in my life were German and Japanese. Both stack all the verbs and conjugations at the end of the utterance. Also, it was interesting to hear Dana speak so much German (she's good!). I could do German (I think), Japanese and Russian I'm not so sure about.

[@sprachinstitutberlindeutsc8985]

It's very interesting to hear German opinions on the challenging aspects of the language! Thanks for sharing :)

[@henrik_xiii]

Ich spreche Finnisch als Muttersprache und einfach LIEBE Deutsch zu lernen. Ich werde mich eine Übersetzerin bilden und Deutsch als Hauptfach lernen. Am schwerigsten beim Deutschlernen finde ich die Rektionen, wie z.B. jemandem glauben oder auf jemanden böse sein. Ich freue mich sehr, dass ich diesen Kanal gefunden habe!

[@jakeruff7428]

Honestly I love just about every aspect of the German language and just love how beautiful and jubilant it sounds. Though I often mess up the genders, I still have a ton of fun using German whenever I can. I’m an extreme beginner and can’t wait to get to a fluent level. Love these videos so much and #cookie

[@sunkindreaxm7332]

Hello your comment was 2 years ago, are you fluent now or not?

[@gulnazqurbanova4921]

ich bekomme viele positive Emotion, wenn eure Video schaue. Danke)))

[@HMB367]

New subscriber here from Dana’s channel. Going to try to freshen up my German. I showed up to the wrong foreign language class in junior high and found German so interesting & fun to learn. Minored in college & haven’t had any chance to keep it up since. Looking forward it. 😀 #cookie 🍪🍪🍪

[@TheExpert8204]

I really like the double subs. It's rare to see double subs, but it is a really good idea.

[@Mario-dr8gm]

Ich will an Easy German bedanken weil sie immer uns geholfen haben damit wir die deutsche Sprache zu lernen und mögen. Easy German ist fantastisch!!! #cookie

[@craigistheman101]

I just started learning but Dana’s accent grinds my gears

[@ReisReisReis34]

Hallo

[@ReisReisReis34]

Kann ich eine Frage stellen?

[@johndavolta3124]

I know....typical American trying other languages....but behold, when you have slight accent in American English they make sure to let you know

[@sk8rdman]

You're in good company. I was fortunate enough to have a native German speaker as my first teacher, and now I listen to native speakers online (such as in these videos). Trying to listen to Dana in contrast to that is offensive to my ears. Sure, she knows her stuff, but her accent is terrible.

[@tekros8481]

It really is awful, like a parody.

[@genesicastro3126]

This is awesome. Thank you guys.

[@yujitsuzuki5439]

I just love this channel so much. Just let you know

[@hj_lostintheinternet3754]

For me, the hardest part of learning German is the grammar. The vocabulary and pronunciation don't seem too difficult, but the grammar, the word order and everything about it is hard! Initially I had thought I would get more fluent in German than in French when I started learning both of them, but I'm more confident about French than I am about German now! But it's an interesting, clear language, and someday I hope to be fluent in it. Your videos certainly help :) Also, #cookie! I wonder if I'm late...

[@CrazyBunnyGuy]

My partner and I just started with German (our exam for A1 is in a month) and, honestly, everyone was so shocked when we told them we wanted to learn German! "Oh, my God, German, WHY? Why would you do that to yourselves?!" After spending a few months learning it we find it so easy, I honestly don't know what all the fuss is about. At A1 level the most difficult thing is to remember to use correct gender and use the correct article. Concept of cases is not at all foreign to me (I'm from Croatia, and Croatian has 7 cases, but we do not have articles, so trust me, German is easier, much easier - try learning all the different endings for any of the Slavic languages). The second most difficult thing is understanding trennbare verben. I understand how to conjugate them, that's easy, remembering which prefix to use for which situation is most difficult. Aus, auf, an, ein, statt, mein Gott, anyway. Best part is, when our group has dialouge exercises, we can already spot when someone's using the wrong article for dative, for example, but we can still understand eachother perfectly, in broken German. This led to a question asked by someone: why, on Earth, do they even do these cases and different forms for verbs, look, we can understand eachother perfectly well without using dative or correct person while conjugating verbs!" Ah, well, I don't know, ask ancient Germans why they thought it would be great to use der for masc. N, but also for fem. D, it made sense to them :)

[@evidenceincreation9520]

Ich liebe diese Videos! Sie sind so hilfreich, besonders bei den Untertiteln!

[@abrahambankhead359]

Yay We love you Dunnah! One of the major Language "Krankenschwestern" teaching on youtube! You and Trixie are my favorite

[@stephaniedalporto4691]

Love these videos! It helps me learn German. It's so fun to watch Easy German collab with many vloggers - such as Dana Newman. I will definitely buy this book and share it with my German class an der Uni :) #cookie

[@wayne455002]

#cookie Ich bin Taiwanisch. Ich habe Deutsch für ein Jahr gelernt und ich habe ganz viel Videos von Easy German geguckt. Mir gefällt jede Episode von deinem KZbin-Kanal. Es ist mir sehr helfen. VIelen Dank!! Dana, who as German learner, has so much energy and passion in learning this amazing language, and she has been an inspiration for me. Ich will für jeden Fall das neue Buch geschriebt von Dana kaufen.

[@ReisReisReis34]

merhaba ben istanbulda yasiyorum fakat almanyaya aşığım orada kalmak istiyorum nasıl yapabilirim sizce?

[@androphobe]

@@ReisReisReis34 o türkce anlamiyor...

[@jacobroe5193]

Oh my gosh! I’d love to read your #cookie book. Love the channel, Dana.

[@LeoDomitrix]

I'm glad I am not the only one to view the articles as difficult! Die/der/das to der/dem... *weeping in frustration*

[@lidziyatarasenka4140]

#cookie sentence structure - THE most difficult thing, I completely fail to comprehend how should one choose words to form a meaningful sentence consisting of more than three words) For native Russian speaker German grammar is not so intimidating, because there are a lot of similarities... which however one do not comprehend sometimes.... When I learned, that "mit mir" and "ohne mich" - is of different cases (Fall) I was confused and thought that probably it is too difficult to learn German, but after a couple of days realized, that in Russian we also use different cases to say that)

[@kathyoneill4011]

The word order in a sentence, especially when you are reading a long paragraph. Used to drive me crazy before learning the ''connector words'' Other than that, I love German. It is a beautiful language. A pleasure to learn it. A life time experience!

[@TM-wt5qh]

how long did it take you to learn it

[@LarryDillon]

i watch both of your channels all the time. They both help me learn German and the book would be interesting to read.

[@Wilruf]

Ein Super Video !! Danke vielmals !

[@happynikki1000]

6:43 Life is too short to learn German I like this guy Lol

[@efallai1]

well i started learning German when i was 11 years old and now 56 years later I still love German and I'm pretty good a it ! The German teacher unfortunately left our school after only a year and then we had to learn French ( also super). I went to night school and I think that was the best thing, learning German in a structured way because you learn the grammar correctly and don'r have to back track. I speak German quite often with native Germans on Zoom language exchanges and often meet some on holiday here in UK. For me the language is perfect and beautiful

[@tedpabst5997]

Though I've only recently started German, I have to say it's not so bad for native English speakers really. The vocabulary is the main thing in worried about getting, and the prefixes

[@anaserrachedy]

Das ist ein Wunderbar Video , Aufwiederhoren 🙂👏👏🤩

[@emmajensen8062]

#cookie !!! :) I am studying abroad in Germany in April and would love this book!!

[@sweiland75]

I'm just learning German now and I think the hardest thing to learn is the cases.

[@user-hf2lj9qz6u]

How Is ir going after a year? I started recently

[@stardust5161]

@@user-hf2lj9qz6u what about your lang now? i would like to know

[@selvianaumang677]

I'm new subscriber and I love your video and the contents of your video.btw I'm Indonesian and currently living in Hongkong.

[@kimhans4896]

항상 좋은 영상 감사합니다~^^ Always, thank you for your good videos. 너무 좋아요~~❤️

[@Viktorvelat95]

1:42 sehr witzig und ironisch! Der Kerl sagte, dass Deutsch ganz leicht für ihn ist und dann sofort macht er einen Fehler („weil Deutsch IST für mich ganz leicht“)

[@sandravt2168]

Das ist kein Fehler. Du musst es so sehen: der Muttersprachler fängt an mit 'weil', aber wechselt dann nach 'denn' ohne 'denn' noch zu sagen. Cari selbst macht es auch in fast jedem Video.

[@ashankagrawal1777]

Das ist total interessant :P

[@singingstars5006]

Wow, people are so relaxed in the video about being addressed using Du! Not so here in Erzgebirge. Accidental misuse has earned me a correction (a nice one, but an obvious one) and the German was younger than me, not even older. My husband told me that people in the East are more prone to use Du than some other regions of Germany and I have noted that a Netto cashier our age who likes us switched to Du without mutual agreement (which was cool). Last week while on vacation, a rural waitress outside of Berlin who misunderstood my order (making it my fault since my German isn't good) was so relieved that I made no big deal out of the significant misunderstanding that she switched to Du. My husband later said, "Did you notice she switched to Du when we didn't make a big deal out of it?" Businesses based here often use Du in the workplace. My husband's boss switched to Du in the interview. Businesses based in the West stick with Sie. Then co-workers of the East use Du with each other and Sie with the others. Strangers on the street always use Sie though.

[@ophtalmologe]

Super Video! Danke sehr!

[@whitneywaltergallardo8001]

“How come”! ? Niemand sagte, dass die Deklinationen am Schwierigsten sind 😅😂

[@khukhu23]

Deklinationen sind relativ einfach, wenn du ganz viel auf Deutsch schreiben musst!

[@totodepatas]

Ich dachte dass auch!

[@emteemte3985]

weil die deklinationen man einfach lernen kann,aber die Artikel sind am schwierigsten

[@murachiakamau9810]

Das stimmt. Ich finde dass ganz schwierig

[@jamesmule]

"wenn man ganz penibel sein will und jede(n) Artikel wissen will, kann man sich stressen" der einzige Fehler und das genau an der Stelle :D

[@daylightmoon7285]

Dana and Cari...what a good team. Everybody likes them.

[@chasesutherland1168]

5:14 I have never heard a more true statement in my life

[@PavlaVankova]

#cookie "...wollen lernen würden..." The best part of learning German! :D

[@alielattar6767]

deutsch lernen macht spaß😉

[@artirobja5109]

3 Verbs in the End .. Oh man 😒😭

[@vikneswarisundaram2691]

😀

[@MyMohamed65]

ich habe zeit 6 monaten deutschsprache gelernt, am anfang es war ein bisschen leicht. Jetzt die situation ist aber schwieriger geworden und Ich fange die Motivation zu verlieren an, die ich brauche um weiter zu gehen.

[@johnny19817]

As a Greek bative speaker I loved learning German in high school. The most difficult part is "der die das" words of course but also the verbs like kennenlernen, spazierengehen and of course the tenses. What is similar to greek is the Nominativ, Akkusativ and Dativ(ancient greek) and this is an easy part.

[@mohamedkheirshaaban1532]

Was ich persönlich schwierig an der Deutschschprache gefonden have,war Präfix,die Artikel,und die deklination der Adiektive

[@kristina4492]

#cookie Today I start German language course, wish me luck! :) Thank you for your channel!

[@johnhunter3828]

Hi Kristina, how's it so far! Did you improve your German? What did you achieve in the past nine months?

[@22dolxxxphin22]

I'm curious too :)

[@alexae6358]

my dad lives in Germany for like 6 years and hasn't learned German but my mom learned German in 3 months, haha

[@magpie913]

Oooh, the "would you like to have to learn" was quite something for me haha

[@edt8535]

For some reason I can understand some people better than others, especially if I can read the German subtitles at the same time. Cari is much easier for me to understand, as are certain people with clear pronunciation. Ironically some people who are speaking fast are actually easier to understand for me. I took German in high school and college, all pre-internet. Book learning only is NO way to learn a foreign language, but the internet and you tube have been a fantastic boon for me, in order to listen to the spoken word. Gotta train that ear, ya know? German is very difficult in some ways, but I absolutely would not give up my background in learning grammar-absolutely indispensable because German grammar is difficult and very different from English. Thank you, Easy German!! Thank you so so much! Excellent and very fun videos!

[@mostafasultan3049]

#cookie You both are awesome I really like learning Deutsch From Egypt ❤❤

[@stevenmartin6870]

#cookie los gehts!

[@robparkinson9850]

One of them is awesome!

[@JuanJoseR]

#cookie Ich finde am schwiergisten, auf Deutsch zu denken. Ich meine, wenn ich mit jemandem spreche, manchmal (nicht immer) muss ich auf meiner Muttersprache denken und dann übersetze. Für mich ist es auch schwierig, Hören verstehen und Vokabeln.

[@lou_entertainment]

Juan José Rodríguez das ist ganz normal. Die Muttersprache bleibt auf ewig die Denksprache. Es sei denn du wohnst lange in einem anderen Land und sprichst die Sprache nach einer Weile denkst und träumst du auch in der Sprache da dein Hirn mit der Sprache Dank täglicher Kommunikation sich anpasst. Lustiger wird wenn du auf deiner Sprache denkst und dir manche Wörter und Ausdrücke nur in der Fremdsprache einfallen 😂👌

[@jimbopaw]

@@lou_entertainment Es braucht nicht sein, meine Muttersprache ist Französisch, aber ich denke meistens auf English. Ich könnte auch auf Deutsch denken, aber Englisch ist mir Fliessend.

[@ingasp-l2873]

Es kommt mit der Zeit. Wenn ich mich auf Deutsch unterhalte, denke ich auch auf Deutsch, obwohl meine Muttersprache anders ist.

[@mugdhapatwardhan8545]

#cookie ..vielen Dank für das neue Video ...es ist merkwürdig dass sie jede Woche eine interessante Thema entdecken...

[@redaasaad9481]

Viel Dank für ihnen

[@charlottec.6023]

#cookie Am schwierigsten finde ich die Grammatik... Danke schön für das Video!

[@kecleonboi]

2:55 lady is like...stop smiling at my man

[@TwiggyNeXT]

Danke! ❤

[@quyentran616]

Am schwierigsten für mich ist neue Wörter und gibt es viele verschiedene Bedeutung des Wortes, zum Beispiel begreifen, eingreifen oder halten, erhalten usw. Besonders habe ich große Problem mit mündlichen Sprache, weil ich niemanden habe, um jeden Tag Deutsch zu reden. Ich hoffe, dass Easy German mir beim Deutschlernen hilf.

[@cooki1365]

#cookie I find it very interesting and funny that the Germans would have no interest in learning German as a second language.

[@erichschl]

Yep, it makes me be sad at learning it; I had started learning it a few days ago and wonder if deserves the amounts of time for acquiring that knowledge after germans saying they won't learnt it as a foreign language :/

[@animalfriend6413]

@@erichschl We wont learn it as second language because we know about the difficulties. Don't give up! Even a lot of Germans have problems with the grammar ,especially when it comes to the correct usage of Genitive and Dative or Conjunctive 1 and 2.

[@kuek1986]

I find it interesting too but at the same time i feel discouraged

[@csengei2914]

#cookie Ich bin ein grosser Fan von Easy German und Dana ich interessiere mich sehr für das Buch! Was das schwierigste in Deutsch ist, die Satzstruktur die Artikel und die Fälle.

[@jesseharper4792]

i was in Germany (kaiserslautern, kleber kaserne) 1970-72. I learned German there, but never got very good at it. I'm enjoying easy German.

[@jaisvikt]

Dana has that distinct American/Canadian accent. Charming.

[@zfan2591]

“Leben ist zu Kurz Deutsch zu lernen” very funny, but also how good looking is that guy?!

[@nerdiloo9863]

I've learned to greet my co-workers from this channel with a hearty "Hello Loiterers!"

[@chasesutherland1168]

Honestly, with how difficult even Germans think German is it kind of gives me motivation to get really good with German

[@FlamingCockatiel]

I studied Latin before German. The five declensions had their difficulties, including the ablative case, but I somehow feel it is simpler in many regards than German, chiefly due to the lack of articles. German has three different articles that must be declined, as well as the adjectives they proceed, and there is a difference in declension between der words and ein words. I still struggle with them and have to look at charts to refresh my memory.

[@FreakHarryPotter]

Als ich angefangen habe, Deutsch an dem Universität zu lernen, fand ich einem Ding äußerst schwierig zu lernen: die Deutsche Wortstellung. Am Anfang fand ich es sehr sehr SEHR SEHR schwierig, die Deutsche Wortstellung zu lernen und ich hatte immer großen Probleme damit. Aber danach habe ich mich entschieden, die Harry Potter Hörbücher einer nach dem anderen auf Deutsch zuzuhören um mein Deutsch zu verbessern weil ich Harry Potter schon sehr gut kannte und jetzt ist meine Worstellung viel, viel, viel, viel besser als es am Anfang war, glaub' ich. Ich liebe diese Sprache einfach. Jetzt habe ich kein Problem mit die Wortstellung obwohl es am Anfang schwierig und verwirrend war. Jeder kann Deutsch lernen.

[@zeina6016]

ich weiß, dass ich spät bin, aber wo haben sie die hp hörbücher gefunden? ich glaube dass ihre methode sehr helfreich sein wird, um mein deutsch zu verbessern!

[@FreakHarryPotter]

@@zeina6016 mein Vater hat sie mir online gekauft. Seien Sie aber vorsichtig da sie ganz teuer sind wann sie neuen sind.

[@zeina6016]

@@FreakHarryPotter ahhh okay trotzdem danke!!

[@FreakHarryPotter]

@@zeina6016 kein Problem. Mir ist doch gerade eingefallen, dass sie hier auf KZbin kostenlos sind.

[@zeina6016]

@@FreakHarryPotter mhmm das stimmt auch, ich habe jetzt ein paar videos auf youtube gefunden

[@EasyGerman]

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[@user-qr3fd1gb8o]

For me i think the hochdeutsch the formalities of the language Cus it's different from standard German in Germany than in Austria than in Switzerland too Plus the pronunciation of the words that's why when my mama ask me to learn foreign language if German or French I choose french Now I'm specialising with Quebecois French

[@Sabina-ws8rt]

Interesting hearing all their sentiments about learning german/foreign languages! I couldn't believe that man learnt Chinese. I wondered what level he reached! And un po sorpressa was when you said ciao instead of bye in german.. when concluding the vlog.

[@alexandrashafira275]

Ich habe japanisch, koreanisch,englisch,malaysisch gelernt aber ich finde, dass Deutsch es immer am schwierigsten ist #cookie

[@shahirayhan645]

Sie sind die echte Sprachheldin

[@_soulemories]

#cookie Danke für ein wie immer schönes und nützliches Video :)

[@joseabraham3221]

Diese Leute finde ich sehr frolich und es macht mir viel Spass dieses Videos zu sehen.

[@rossellagiovanardi9154]

Ich denke, daß es am Schwierigsten beim Lernen der deutschen Sprache Folgendes ist: - die Grammatik am Anfang: Verben, Substantive, Präpositionen. Verben mit trennbaren/untrennbaren Präpositionen und Präfixen. - die drei Geschlechter und die vier Kasi der Deklination. - einige komplexe Satzkonstruktionen - sich an alle Substantive mit dem richtigen Geschlecht - männlich weiblich oder Neutrum - korrekt zu erinnern.