englisch und deutsch sind "schwester sprachen"... und ich spreche beide Oomph zu verdanken! english and german are "sister languages"... and i speak both thanks to Oopmh!
The only reason English is considered truly harder than other languages is because it doesn't have a phonetic orthography. But considering just the spoken language or if the written form were phonetic, English has many things that are more simplified in comparison to other languages when considering grammatical cases, verb conjugations, etc. Many irregularities exist in all languages. The most commonly used verbs in many languages have irregular forms. Lang's have many idioms, dialects, etc.
Honestly, if it weren't for conflicting "noun genders" learning German would be pretty easy. I have always spoken English, and my mom and younger sister can only speak English (but my sister is trying to learn Japanese, which is pretty awesome). I've learned Spanish and can speak fluently, but I never really took interest in it because I had a hard time connecting to it. In my opinion, if you can speak English + another language, every language you learn after is much easier. I've started teaching myself German (because I LOVE the German rock scene) and Korean because Kpop and Kdramas are very interesting. And from there, if you work hard, it gets easier :))) If you want to learn another language, just submerge yourself in it! Want to learn Korean? Watch Kdramas! Want to learn Spanish? Try Telenovelas! Want to learn Japanese? HELLO!? ANIME!!! It's probably impossible to learn entirely that way, but the best way to get started is to be familiar with it. Just being able to distinguish one word from another (even if you don't know the meaning) is the first step!! Good luck :)
TheMightyKawama like I said, it's simply a way to become familiar with the language. It's impossible to learn entirely, but it is a great way to kinda take a "crash course"
I've been listening to German rock music since freshman year (over a decade lol) and I've been slowly teaching myself German. My ignorant ass (not fully bio) fam tried to ask if I was a Nazi for learning a language that's "not useful" instead of caring that its my heritage. I'm 90% German but was born raised 2nd generation American.
Warte, dass die zeit verrint Denn ich will dich wiedersehn Warte, dass die nacht beginnt Ich kann dir nicht widerstehn Ich weiss du bist allein Denn ich kann dich spürn Uns kann nichts entzwein Niemand ausser mir weiss was du fühlst Ich lass dich nie mehr... Niemand ausser mir weiss was du willst Ich lass dich nie mehr... Niemand ausser mir weiss wer du bist Ich lass dich nie mehr gehen Tauche in die sommernacht Nehme deine fährte auf Noch bevor der sturm erwacht Nimmt das schicksal seinen lauf Ich weiss du bist allein Denn ich kann dich spürn Uns kann nichts entzwein Niemand ausser mir weiss was du fühlst Ich lass dich nie mehr... Niemand ausser mir weiss was du willst Ich lass dich nie mehr... Niemand ausser mir weiss wer du bist Ich lass dich nie mehr gehen Ich weiss du willst es auch Endlich kannst du s spürn Nichts hält mich jetzt noch auf Niemand ausser mir weiss was du fühlst Ich lass dich nie mehr... Niemand ausser mir weiss was du willst Ich lass dich nie mehr... Niemand ausser mir weiss wer du bist Ich lass dich nie mehr gehen
Ich weiss du willst es auch (I know you want it too) Endlich kannst dus spürn (Finally you can feel it) Nichts hält mich jetzt noch auf (Nothing will stop me now)
@@HCLionheart still depressed and looking for security but at least I'm not living at an abusive home anymore. Now im just dealing with the mental trauma of it all. Hows life for you my dude. Tell me all about it. ♡ ps this comment made me laugh. Made my shitty day better.
@@Saturninemute Wow, you actually responded! Hi, I'm sorry you've been so unfortunate in the past, and glad a few things have improved for you despite your current feelings on it all. I'm sure you'll find the security you're looking for one way or another. And (as for myself) I'm actually just getting my life started, moved in with my brother, and I too had an abusive past to leave behind. I still have some PTSD to overcome, but (overall) I've never had more freedom and I actually love this song cause it reminds me of my bestfriend I met 5 years ago and only just now started dating. I'm very fortunate to have someone like him in my life, but I fear I may lose him to the military and my life has a pattern of giving me good things and then taking them away. So I can only hope we have something that can survive the odds.
English is a mix of Germanic and Romantic languages Which is why you'll find similarities from both german and spanish in english But you probably wont find many(if not none) similarities with words between say Italian and German
In English, the "GH" at the end of enough makes the "F" sound the "O" in women makes the short "i" sound and "TI" in nation makes the "SH" sound So GHOTI is pronounced like FISH. English is, by fay, the hardest language to learn.
Yeah but what makes learning English easy is that the language is everywhere and you keep hearing it everywhere. Where do you hear Finnish? Nowhere. Plus it is really hard language, we often get confused with the grammar. Helvetin vaikea kieli etten sanoisi. :DD
Para ti, cual es el mas dificil? Creo que hoy en dia la gente no va a pensar que sea el ingles porque es una obligacion aprenderlo desde muy temprano y eso cambia la perspectiva. En algunos sentidos, el ingles es una simplifacion del aleman (casos gramaticales, conjugacion, por ejemplo) pero en algunos sentidos el ingles es mas dificil (ortografia, por ejemplo).
i noticed that you messed up on the subject verb aggrement with "ich" and "gehen" when its ich,its gehe.letting you know. love the video and song so much :)
Thankfully, no. They did an album called Truth Or Dare that was mostly English translations(bad ones mostly) of some of their most popular ones. True Beauty Is So Painful is the only song I really recommend off that album though.
Here's the new solo-project of Dero. Listen to his first Demo-Snippets on UA-cam! ua-cam.com/users/sugarbabylobvevideos Hier ist das neue Solo-Projekt von Dero. Hört euch seine ersten Demo-Ausschnitte auf UA-cam an! ua-cam.com/users/sugarbabylobvevideos
@MistiBear101 Spanish is similar to German because of loan words in trade, the fact that Latin has a bit of influence on German as on all Western European languages, both of your countries at one point were ruled by Gothic tribes which helped shape both languages, and because of similarities in Indo-European languages overall.
As far as I know its German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish mostly a latin language but since it's structure is Germanic it is a Germanic language. Example: Adjective then noun(Fat cat)(Germanic) noun then adjective(Cat fat)(Latin).
you are correct english is the hardest language to learn. The proof is in our schools. Schools in america teach english for 12 years and in other schools around the world it takes (and i'm not sure on this but) 8 to 9 years in in school to master there language. (pardon my miss spells I have just woken up and cannot think straight)
@XrockerXmosherX Agreed. I'm actually learning my English grammar much better than before because I'm trying to apply the grammar from german to english. XD So far it's worked!
Maybe because they learned only English, for example Serbian have 7 grammatical cases, we only don't have ablative. This means that one noun in Serbian may have 14 forms.
@XrockerXmosherX English retains many archaic Germanic features which modern German lost. Our vowels are more similar to Dark Age German, and we still use the W consonant sound. On the other hand, we've almost entirely lost the declension of nouns, with "whom" being an ever-more-endangered remnant of the once rich system. Also, for the past five hundred years or so intellectual types have tried very hard to make English into a Latin Language. Show your Saxon Pride- split an infinitive today!
Pronunciation doesn't automatically make a language difficult to learn. You would think that French is extremely difficult with the difference between pronunciation and writing, but then comes the grammar and lowers the difficulty. Sure, pronunciation is very important, but so is grammar. Hearing a word once helps a lot when pronouncing it, but grammar takes "a little" more than that.
@lan33er that's not what I meant. But a lot of people'd love to learn a language because of the things you mentioned, but simply can't find anyone teaching them. (btw I never thought that you'd have to understand what they're singing even if they sound cool.. same with me and japanese rock ^^)
English has 70-92, plus several different words that mean the same thing and words that sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different things. As for the Tuyuca thing, it all depends on which list you're looking at. I looked at four charts, it was not listed on three and on the other it was ranked 3rd.
@MiracleofaSong The same thing happened to me. I tried for 3 years to learn spanish and all I could do is say silly sentences. At the time i was listening to Rammstein and then discovered Oomph! a few years ago and am now taking German in college and I've already learned more German from listening to those 2 bands then I did for 3 years of spanish class.
@TakiroChan well the thing is i am learning it cause if i want to know what they saying because they sound cool and if they sound cool imagin what they are saying
@XrockerXmosherX youre right the angel (cause of them england) and sachsen came to england and were its inhabitants the juten had something to do with it too
@nicklucy94 All European languages excluding Finnish, Estonia, Basque, Saami and Hungarian are Indo-European and English has twice as many Germanic words than it does Latin that are used by the average English speaker, excluding advanced scientific terminology, etc.. You can call English a Hybrid but most definitely not a Romantic language.
@XrockerXmosherX English isn't just a Germanic language its an Indo-Europe language that comes more from Latin. there are more Latin words in English than German.
Bem, eu sou brasileira. Português não é difícil para quem fala línguas latinas, mas para pessoas acostumadas com línguas germânicas e de outras origens etc. torna-se complicado não só por causa da gramática mas principalmente por causa da pronúncia e dos diversos sentidos que, às vezes, 1 só palavra pode apresentar. Eu sou boa em português, é uma das minhas matérias preferidas, mas noto que as regras gramaticais são bem complexa. Mas te admiro, pq eu sou PÉSSIMA em espanhol! Kkkkkkk
@XrockerXmosherX Saying English is derived from German is like saying humans are evolved from chimpanzees. English comes from a mixture of Old Low German, Old East Norse, Old Frisian, and old Norman French; all whilst German is derived from Old High German and shares much more similarities with the long extinct Eastern Germanic languages in comparison to the Western Germanic languages of English, Dutch, Frisian, etc...
I dumb things down for people so that the majority understands. I know how I say it can be seen as not fully true but then again it's dumbed down quite a bit. I explain enough for basic understanding, to avoid stupid questions.
We are the machines of our DNA, and I believe we walk the steps of our DNA also. With that said, German is very acceptable to me. Kind of thinking about it, we truly don't keep the same tastes and attitudes throughout our whole life. Sure we change based upon situation, but our reason is carried throughout.
The dots don't actually lengthen the letter, they... They're just a part of an individual letter. Like in German you have the double S and umlaut-U (Ü) letters. Also, A and Ä (+ O and Ö) sound quite different... So the dotted A doesn't have anything to do with the "dotless" A.
English has some of every language you can think of, we're a hybrid language, which makes our language sooooooo hard to learn, that and everything in our grammar breaks rules, it doesn't make any sense. IMO and alot of foreigns i know, say that english was the hardest language they have ever learned. :D
@germanmetalgurl16 I always loved how european languages have roots in each other. makes learning them alot easier, cus you can listen for more familiar words and get the gist of what's being said half the time ;D
Mandarin is its own language thought. In English you have German, Greek, french, just to name a few influences.. For example, does the "S" always make the "s" sound? No, and there is atlease one other sequence of letters that make the same sound ("ce"). In languages like mandarin, or Japanese (cause I know a little of the latter), words are spelt how they are said, English doesn't do that and that makes it more complicated to learn.
@DarkestItachi Why, sure, I'd love to =D I'm glad to help someone and, well, you can't get to learn a language that easy if not in school... btw, you're having german class or something? Also, you have any chat programs like MSN? That'd make it a lot easyer
@Terminatrix6 I am taking French in school and I'm pretty good at it, but I'd like to advance more. I'm interested in German too. Do you know any good websites or programs that can help you learn languages? Preferably free ones?
I;m with wolf, english is probably the hardest language to learn, everything breaks rules and we don't have those little lines above our letters to let you know if they're short or long vowel or whatever.
all of the Americans are saying how hard German is to learn and actually its not THAT hard most of the words sound like English i'm 12 and 3 months ago I started taking German and I understand most of this song btw im not trying to be mean to anyone :)
yeah, it's pretty damn easy...I'm a vocalist and even if I don't know the language primarily, I can still practice and translate it like the best...it also helps being raised in a German-American household because I already have a damn good accent... I can never roll my 'r's though...my tongue is too damn fat! Dx
MadYuu Well yeah, i know the roll may not be needed, but just for the sake of being through, y'know? Especially since I've heard of those with Spanish origins pull off rolls all the time for their accent, and I've always loved speaking in accent from time to time.
Right, right... But is it hard enough for English to be the hardest language? I saw an article on The Economist some years back. It was stated that "people tend to call their own native language the hardest in the world." The Economist is an English magazine, but English was said to be "simple." German was said to be harder because of its lack of logic at times. Like Mark Twain said: "Why a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has." Finno-Ugric languages were also mentioned.
@XrockerXmosherX Even if I'm a Finn I really can't agree with you comparing Finnish and English and saying that their grammar is equal... I'm 100% sure that our language is a lot harder than English... Dunno how far you've progressed in your studies but I'm sure it's gonna be real ''fun'' learning to speak Finnish once you're studying the harder parts :D
![OOMPH! - Niemand [HD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/hjgm8Gvi8Bg/mqdefault.jpg)
englisch und deutsch sind "schwester sprachen"... und ich spreche beide Oomph zu verdanken!
english and german are "sister languages"... and i speak both thanks to Oopmh!
my favorite OOMPH! song ImI
it's an absolute sin that this song isn't on Spotify
Right?!
Aye mate its on Spotify now so your wishes have been grantes
it is now but for some reason it's rated "explicit"
Its on spotify
loving it, OOMPH has such sweet songs, but badass at the same time. :)
Oomph! makes great romantic songs
this is such a beautiful song. it's one of my all-time favourites.
The only reason English is considered truly harder than other languages is because it doesn't have a phonetic orthography. But considering just the spoken language or if the written form were phonetic, English has many things that are more simplified in comparison to other languages when considering grammatical cases, verb conjugations, etc. Many irregularities exist in all languages. The most commonly used verbs in many languages have irregular forms. Lang's have many idioms, dialects, etc.
I can listen to this song everyday and to this lovely voice.
do you still feel the same?
Oomph! ist sehr gut!!!
Ja gut
deros voice is like velvet on your skin... love you dero ♥
Honestly, if it weren't for conflicting "noun genders" learning German would be pretty easy. I have always spoken English, and my mom and younger sister can only speak English (but my sister is trying to learn Japanese, which is pretty awesome). I've learned Spanish and can speak fluently, but I never really took interest in it because I had a hard time connecting to it. In my opinion, if you can speak English + another language, every language you learn after is much easier. I've started teaching myself German (because I LOVE the German rock scene) and Korean because Kpop and Kdramas are very interesting. And from there, if you work hard, it gets easier :)))
If you want to learn another language, just submerge yourself in it!
Want to learn Korean? Watch Kdramas!
Want to learn Spanish? Try Telenovelas!
Want to learn Japanese? HELLO!? ANIME!!!
It's probably impossible to learn entirely that way, but the best way to get started is to be familiar with it. Just being able to distinguish one word from another (even if you don't know the meaning) is the first step!! Good luck :)
This is just for me personally, but I've found watching anime has done sweet FA in actually helping me learn Japanese - only actively learning has.
TheMightyKawama like I said, it's simply a way to become familiar with the language. It's impossible to learn entirely, but it is a great way to kinda take a "crash course"
+James Jeroham Shaffer BF? Are you gay? Not that it is a problem..
Want to learn German. Note down basic words from German songs n practice. It helps.
I've been listening to German rock music since freshman year (over a decade lol) and I've been slowly teaching myself German. My ignorant ass (not fully bio) fam tried to ask if I was a Nazi for learning a language that's "not useful" instead of caring that its my heritage. I'm 90% German but was born raised 2nd generation American.
Warte, dass die zeit verrint
Denn ich will dich wiedersehn
Warte, dass die nacht beginnt
Ich kann dir nicht widerstehn
Ich weiss du bist allein
Denn ich kann dich spürn
Uns kann nichts entzwein
Niemand ausser mir weiss was du fühlst
Ich lass dich nie mehr...
Niemand ausser mir weiss was du willst
Ich lass dich nie mehr...
Niemand ausser mir weiss wer du bist
Ich lass dich nie mehr gehen
Tauche in die sommernacht
Nehme deine fährte auf
Noch bevor der sturm erwacht
Nimmt das schicksal seinen lauf
Ich weiss du bist allein
Denn ich kann dich spürn
Uns kann nichts entzwein
Niemand ausser mir weiss was du fühlst
Ich lass dich nie mehr...
Niemand ausser mir weiss was du willst
Ich lass dich nie mehr...
Niemand ausser mir weiss wer du bist
Ich lass dich nie mehr gehen
Ich weiss du willst es auch
Endlich kannst du s spürn
Nichts hält mich jetzt noch auf
Niemand ausser mir weiss was du fühlst
Ich lass dich nie mehr...
Niemand ausser mir weiss was du willst
Ich lass dich nie mehr...
Niemand ausser mir weiss wer du bist
Ich lass dich nie mehr gehen
Dankeschön =)
This is a lyrics video... The lyrics are IN the video. Try using your brain AND your eyes.
Dies ist ein Songtext-Video ... Der Songtext ist IM Video. Versuchen Sie, Ihr Gehirn UND Ihre Augen zu benutzen.
thank you for translating! :D
Ich weiss du willst es auch (I know you want it too)
Endlich kannst dus spürn (Finally you can feel it)
Nichts hält mich jetzt noch auf (Nothing will stop me now)
this song makes me feel safe
How does it feel to be 10 years older than you were when you posted this comment?
@@HCLionheart still depressed and looking for security but at least I'm not living at an abusive home anymore. Now im just dealing with the mental trauma of it all. Hows life for you my dude. Tell me all about it. ♡ ps this comment made me laugh. Made my shitty day better.
@@Saturninemute Wow, you actually responded! Hi, I'm sorry you've been so unfortunate in the past, and glad a few things have improved for you despite your current feelings on it all. I'm sure you'll find the security you're looking for one way or another.
And (as for myself) I'm actually just getting my life started, moved in with my brother, and I too had an abusive past to leave behind.
I still have some PTSD to overcome, but (overall) I've never had more freedom and I actually love this song cause it reminds me of my bestfriend I met 5 years ago and only just now started dating.
I'm very fortunate to have someone like him in my life, but I fear I may lose him to the military and my life has a pattern of giving me good things and then taking them away. So I can only hope we have something that can survive the odds.
thank you very much for putting up with my ignorance. i love this band.
Masterpiece
Just discovered this band today, and I already love their music! German music is just so awesome!
Einfach cool dieser Song^^
Gerade war ich noch schlecht drauf, aber jetzt kann ich wieder lächeln :)
Es ist einfach nur toll!
Durch das Lied fühl ich mich schon viel besser^^
That ending is always so beautiful
English is a mix of Germanic and Romantic languages
Which is why you'll find similarities from both german and spanish in english
But you probably wont find many(if not none) similarities with words between say Italian and German
I wanted to say, that "Ich weiß du willst es auch" means "I know you want it too".
In English, the "GH" at the end of enough makes the "F" sound
the "O" in women makes the short "i" sound
and "TI" in nation makes the "SH" sound
So GHOTI is pronounced like FISH. English is, by fay, the hardest language to learn.
Oh mein Gott jemand kennt den Unterschied zwischen "Wieder" und "Wider" !! Heirate mich xD
Cooles Video :3
I loved your tranlation!
Oomph ist eine der geilsten deutschen Bands
Wie Schön 👍🤩
This makes me think of girl I know who not only moved far away but is German and introduced me to oomph, oh and took my heart with her when she moved
Yeah but what makes learning English easy is that the language is everywhere and you keep hearing it everywhere. Where do you hear Finnish? Nowhere. Plus it is really hard language, we often get confused with the grammar. Helvetin vaikea kieli etten sanoisi. :DD
the chorus is super catchy
Loooooove this song !!
Thank you. I'll look him up.
one of my favs
Really disappointed I can't find this on Spotify.
not sure why its not on there, makes me rather sad :/
Arianna Davis if you fool Spotify into thinking your in Germany then it will be in German. Wish we didn't have to though
einfach geilllll
:)
This song is what helps me sleep. Oomph lullaby for the epic win! :3
wow this song's beautiful...
woow. great song , really great
Oomph ist einfach genial=)
Tuyuca from eastern Amazon was ranked the most difficult. German has three relative pronouns, tuyuca has 50-140. That's a lot of grammar to learn.
Oomph is einfach der Hammer, ich bedaure jeden der kein deutsch kann.
Oomph is really fantastic, I regret all people who don't understand german.
English is the hardest language to learn in the world because there is so much slang and different accents and ways to say words uwu;;
It's been so long since I've heard this song
wow this song truly is amazing
Para ti, cual es el mas dificil? Creo que hoy en dia la gente no va a pensar que sea el ingles porque es una obligacion aprenderlo desde muy temprano y eso cambia la perspectiva. En algunos sentidos, el ingles es una simplifacion del aleman (casos gramaticales, conjugacion, por ejemplo) pero en algunos sentidos el ingles es mas dificil (ortografia, por ejemplo).
i noticed that you messed up on the subject verb aggrement with "ich" and "gehen" when its ich,its gehe.letting you know.
love the video and song so much :)
Thankfully, no. They did an album called Truth Or Dare that was mostly English translations(bad ones mostly) of some of their most popular ones. True Beauty Is So Painful is the only song I really recommend off that album though.
My favourite song in life!
Here's the new solo-project of Dero. Listen to his first Demo-Snippets on UA-cam!
ua-cam.com/users/sugarbabylobvevideos
Hier ist das neue Solo-Projekt von Dero. Hört euch seine ersten Demo-Ausschnitte auf UA-cam an!
ua-cam.com/users/sugarbabylobvevideos
@MistiBear101
Spanish is similar to German because of loan words in trade, the fact that Latin has a bit of influence on German as on all Western European languages, both of your countries at one point were ruled by Gothic tribes which helped shape both languages, and because of similarities in Indo-European languages overall.
Das lied ist echt toll :)
oopmh is einfach hamma geil
Ich liebe diesen song wirklich voll *_*
Niemand außer mir weiß was du willst, ich lass dich nie mehr gehen
As far as I know its German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish mostly a latin language but since it's structure is Germanic it is a Germanic language. Example: Adjective then noun(Fat cat)(Germanic) noun then adjective(Cat fat)(Latin).
you are correct english is the hardest language to learn. The proof is in our schools. Schools in america teach english for 12 years and in other schools around the world it takes (and i'm not sure on this but) 8 to 9 years in in school to master there language. (pardon my miss spells I have just woken up and cannot think straight)
@XrockerXmosherX Agreed. I'm actually learning my English grammar much better than before because I'm trying to apply the grammar from german to english. XD So far it's worked!
Maybe because they learned only English, for example Serbian have 7 grammatical cases, we only don't have ablative. This means that one noun in Serbian may have 14 forms.
ya i love this song too.
THANKS
My favorite song by them! Oomph! rules!
i have this song as a ringtone
I am visitor # 110000 :-) great song by the way!!
Einfach nur geil...
Vielleicht geht mein WUnsch ja in Erfüllung...
Was ist denn dieser Wunsch? Und ist dieser noch aktuell?
@XrockerXmosherX English retains many archaic Germanic features which modern German lost. Our vowels are more similar to Dark Age German, and we still use the W consonant sound. On the other hand, we've almost entirely lost the declension of nouns, with "whom" being an ever-more-endangered remnant of the once rich system. Also, for the past five hundred years or so intellectual types have tried very hard to make English into a Latin Language. Show your Saxon Pride- split an infinitive today!
Good shit, Maynard.
jaydekonah Doesn't sound like Tool to me...
that song is art
Pronunciation doesn't automatically make a language difficult to learn. You would think that French is extremely difficult with the difference between pronunciation and writing, but then comes the grammar and lowers the difficulty. Sure, pronunciation is very important, but so is grammar. Hearing a word once helps a lot when pronouncing it, but grammar takes "a little" more than that.
this song reminds me of a Belarusian girl ( Natalia Arlovsakya ) and a Russian boy ( Ivan Briginski ) so much ~
love the song ~
@lan33er that's not what I meant. But a lot of people'd love to learn a language because of the things you mentioned, but simply can't find anyone teaching them. (btw I never thought that you'd have to understand what they're singing even if they sound cool.. same with me and japanese rock ^^)
English has 70-92, plus several different words that mean the same thing and words that sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different things.
As for the Tuyuca thing, it all depends on which list you're looking at. I looked at four charts, it was not listed on three and on the other it was ranked 3rd.
@MiracleofaSong The same thing happened to me. I tried for 3 years to learn spanish and all I could do is say silly sentences. At the time i was listening to Rammstein and then discovered Oomph! a few years ago and am now taking German in college and I've already learned more German from listening to those 2 bands then I did for 3 years of spanish class.
@TakiroChan well the thing is i am learning it cause if i want to know what they saying because they sound cool and if they sound cool imagin what they are saying
@XrockerXmosherX youre right the angel (cause of them england) and sachsen came to england and were its inhabitants the juten had something to do with it too
@nicklucy94
All European languages excluding Finnish, Estonia, Basque, Saami and Hungarian are Indo-European and English has twice as many Germanic words than it does Latin that are used by the average English speaker, excluding advanced scientific terminology, etc.. You can call English a Hybrid but most definitely not a Romantic language.
@XrockerXmosherX English isn't just a Germanic language its an Indo-Europe language that comes more from Latin. there are more Latin words in English than German.
this is good for my german we had an assigment about music guess who cheated and wrote oomph (it wasn't one oh the thingies)
Bem, eu sou brasileira. Português não é difícil para quem fala línguas latinas, mas para pessoas acostumadas com línguas germânicas e de outras origens etc. torna-se complicado não só por causa da gramática mas principalmente por causa da pronúncia e dos diversos sentidos que, às vezes, 1 só palavra pode apresentar. Eu sou boa em português, é uma das minhas matérias preferidas, mas noto que as regras gramaticais são bem complexa.
Mas te admiro, pq eu sou PÉSSIMA em espanhol! Kkkkkkk
@XrockerXmosherX
Saying English is derived from German is like saying humans are evolved from chimpanzees. English comes from a mixture of Old Low German, Old East Norse, Old Frisian, and old Norman French; all whilst German is derived from Old High German and shares much more similarities with the long extinct Eastern Germanic languages in comparison to the Western Germanic languages of English, Dutch, Frisian, etc...
I dumb things down for people so that the majority understands. I know how I say it can be seen as not fully true but then again it's dumbed down quite a bit. I explain enough for basic understanding, to avoid stupid questions.
We are the machines of our DNA, and I believe we walk the steps of our DNA also. With that said, German is very acceptable to me. Kind of thinking about it, we truly don't keep the same tastes and attitudes throughout our whole life. Sure we change based upon situation, but our reason is carried throughout.
The dots don't actually lengthen the letter, they... They're just a part of an individual letter. Like in German you have the double S and umlaut-U (Ü) letters. Also, A and Ä (+ O and Ö) sound quite different... So the dotted A doesn't have anything to do with the "dotless" A.
English has some of every language you can think of, we're a hybrid language, which makes our language sooooooo hard to learn, that and everything in our grammar breaks rules, it doesn't make any sense. IMO and alot of foreigns i know, say that english was the hardest language they have ever learned. :D
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I always loved how european languages have roots in each other. makes learning them alot easier, cus you can listen for more familiar words and get the gist of what's being said half the time ;D
Mandarin is its own language thought. In English you have German, Greek, french, just to name a few influences.. For example, does the "S" always make the "s" sound? No, and there is atlease one other sequence of letters that make the same sound ("ce"). In languages like mandarin, or Japanese (cause I know a little of the latter), words are spelt how they are said, English doesn't do that and that makes it more complicated to learn.
@DarkestItachi Why, sure, I'd love to =D
I'm glad to help someone and, well, you can't get to learn a language that easy if not in school... btw, you're having german class or something?
Also, you have any chat programs like MSN? That'd make it a lot easyer
@HojoOSanagi Im pretty sure that they meant it is one of the languages English derives from. I would be so hard on them.
@Terminatrix6 I am taking French in school and I'm pretty good at it, but I'd like to advance more. I'm interested in German too. Do you know any good websites or programs that can help you learn languages? Preferably free ones?
I;m with wolf, english is probably the hardest language to learn, everything breaks rules and we don't have those little lines above our letters to let you know if they're short or long vowel or whatever.
all of the Americans are saying how hard German is to learn and actually its not THAT hard most of the words sound like English i'm 12 and 3 months ago I started taking German and I understand most of this song btw im not trying to be mean to anyone :)
yeah, it's pretty damn easy...I'm a vocalist and even if I don't know the language primarily, I can still practice and translate it like the best...it also helps being raised in a German-American household because I already have a damn good accent...
I can never roll my 'r's though...my tongue is too damn fat! Dx
***** lol nice
+AHS Valor (Val) Roll your R? Doubt you will need that ability to speak german. The german R is pronounced different, but I wouldn't say it's rolled.
MadYuu Well yeah, i know the roll may not be needed, but just for the sake of being through, y'know? Especially since I've heard of those with Spanish origins pull off rolls all the time for their accent, and I've always loved speaking in accent from time to time.
In my German classes you have to roll the R because if you don't you cant pronounce words like Ratte (rat).
i want to learn German so bad!!!!! it's suck an amazing language!!!! it's so interesting!
@XrockerXmosherX yeah and German grammar is so different...so difficult...ich weiss nicht.
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Right, right... But is it hard enough for English to be the hardest language? I saw an article on The Economist some years back. It was stated that "people tend to call their own native language the hardest in the world." The Economist is an English magazine, but English was said to be "simple." German was said to be harder because of its lack of logic at times. Like Mark Twain said: "Why a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has." Finno-Ugric languages were also mentioned.
@MiracleofaSong You and me both. : )
Well romantic language is what you call a language that originated from Latin
Romantic doesn't necessarily have to be associated with love
i love the guy who sings this. how do you pronounce the funny, B-shaped thing?
@4everUSNavy They are from Axis Powers Hetalia, just watch the anime and (hopefully) you'll understand who am I talking about ^^".
@XrockerXmosherX Even if I'm a Finn I really can't agree with you comparing Finnish and English and saying that their grammar is equal... I'm 100% sure that our language is a lot harder than English... Dunno how far you've progressed in your studies but I'm sure it's gonna be real ''fun'' learning to speak Finnish once you're studying the harder parts :D