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breakingthrunow in deutsche_kultur

Why learn German?

Aug 29, 2007 01:43

10 GOOD REASONS FOR LEARNING GERMAN

~ Germany is the world's largest exporter.

~ German is the most commonly spoken first language in the European Union.

~ 18% of the world's books are published in German.

~ Germany is home to countless international corporations.

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

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claudee September 8 2007, 20:06:00 UTC

I think it depends on your mothertongue how hard (or not) German is to learn. Let's take me, I had no real problems learning dutch (which is very, very close to German) but French sometimes gave me a real hard time because it's different. So I think it might be the other way round, too.