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Is it worth learning German to be able to read Goethe, Nietzsche, Freud, Jung, Mann, Schiller, Hesse, Rilke, Heine, etc. in the original language? I hear German is one of the hardest languages to accurately translate into English (at least of the languages that have large literary canons)

Is it better to learn a simpler language (e.g. Spanish) first to get the hang of it?

>> No.15964439

shit thread

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>>15964396
>Is it worth learning German
Yes.

>> No.15964489

>>15964396
But do you like any of those writers in translation?

>> No.15964665

I doubt to translate a Germanic language to another Germanic language is that hard. Granted most of the words in Englando come from Latin

>> No.15964679

>>15964665
german isn't a germanic language

>> No.15964708

>>15964396
>Is it better to learn a simpler language (e.g. Spanish) first to get the hang of it?

no. you're gonna have to expose yourself to difficult and foreign grammar anyway, might as well be the harder stuff. it'll make other languages easier to learn too. thats why they used to teach latin

>> No.15964781

>>15964665
its difficult becasue german has a lot of grammatical elements not present in english, like declensions. german word order, because of their case system, is very flexible unlike in english. not only that but second verbs get shuffled to the end of a sentence.

>> No.15964799

>>15964665
English is barely Germanic. It's a tranny mutt.