/lit/ - Literature

>>19175695
I'm learning German, I'm a strong intermediate but I'm far from mastery. What I can tell you about the perspective of a learner is that there are a lot of rules and a lot of them are about seemingly pointless things, but once you learn the rules earnestly you'll run into very few surprises. Its an orderly language you can count on to behave the way you expect it to. But... you gotta memorize the rules. All of them.
I've never learned French, but I know some people who have. Its indisputable that French has a more broad aesthetic appeal but lord have mercy on anybody trying to wrap their head around it. It has lots of rules too, but with little rhyme or reason (from what I've heard, never tried it myself) compared to German's reliability