Ah the innocent naivety of a beginner speaker. You start off in A1 thinking „oh this isn’t so bad“ and then reality hits. Diplomats rate German as harder to learn for native English speakers than any of the Romance languages.
Seconded, context clues and a lot of what Tom Scott refers to as the rules of conversation make memes in general a lot less difficult to interpret than a standard conversation.
German has similar enough rules to English that I treat it as a puzzle and just try to decode the memes. It’s super fun!
Ah the innocent naivety of a beginner speaker. You start off in A1 thinking „oh this isn’t so bad“ and then reality hits. Diplomats rate German as harder to learn for native English speakers than any of the Romance languages.
If you just give up on gendered nouns it’s not so bad.
Yeah, getting to a decent, conversational level of German isn’t that bad, but I think getting properly fluent is really hard
Seconded, context clues and a lot of what Tom Scott refers to as the rules of conversation make memes in general a lot less difficult to interpret than a standard conversation.