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Levi
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 Message 73 of 119
05 February 2010 at 11:11pm | IP Logged 
Because it's fun.
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zooplah
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 Message 74 of 119
06 February 2010 at 4:01am | IP Logged 
Nephilim wrote:
Here are 10 possible reasons for learning German.


http://www.goethe.de/ins/de/ler/deu/enindex.htm


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5.      German is no harder to learn to speak and write than other languages.

I'm trying not to laugh too hard about that one.
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zooplah
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 Message 75 of 119
06 February 2010 at 4:05am | IP Logged 
morprussell wrote:

I'm not learning German, but it wouldn't take much to convince me to learn it. I just love the sound of it.


Yeah, the sound is what attracted me to it. Too bad about it being virtually unlearnable.
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06 February 2010 at 4:05am | IP Logged 
Qbe wrote:

And Islam is still popular...even after 9/11.
And Atheism is still popular...even after Stalin.


Stalin didn't kill in the name of atheism. Just saying.
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zooplah
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 Message 77 of 119
06 February 2010 at 4:11am | IP Logged 
Bignicky wrote:

I have fooled around with the thought of studying Czech and Dutch one day, but I'll probably settle on learning German.

You can learn more than one other language, you know. I'd assume that Dutch would be easy once you've learned German, but the opposite wouldn't be true (as I understand it, Dutch's grammar is much easier than German's). About Czech, I'm pretty sure all the Slavic languages are difficult.
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zooplah
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 Message 78 of 119
06 February 2010 at 4:15am | IP Logged 
timinstl wrote:
Strange question. Why learn any language? Why isn't everyone learning Mandarin?


In China, Mandarin speaks you.
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 Message 79 of 119
06 February 2010 at 4:16am | IP Logged 
orion wrote:
my Russian friend says to him it sounds like dogs barking

Oddly, I've always had a hard time disginguishing between the German and Russian accents.

A few weeks ago, my father said all you have to do to speak German is "sound mean." I then started to explain how difficult the grammar is and he was like, "So, you basically have to be raised in it?". Yeah, basically.
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 Message 80 of 119
06 February 2010 at 4:23am | IP Logged 
tuffy wrote:
Since I have started to learn Spanish I'm getting more interested in the very concept of knowing and learning other languages.

If you've learned German and English, Spanish should be a walk in the park.


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