@matigo Nobody ever believes me, but the easiest language I ever studied was Russian. Sure, the vocabulary is often unfamiliar, and you have to learn another alphabet, but once you do the spelling is largely phonetic and the sentence structure is close to that of English.
// @literary
@matigo I'm talking more about stuff like this: I am unable on vacation to go, because I at the office remain must.
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@matigo Word order in German is one of the hardest things to get used to. Such bloody-minded insistence on putting the damn verb at the very end. ?
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@literary Also, you might ask some native speakers like @schoeni and @blumenkraft.
@literary You mean other than "Because that's where it goes"? ?
Sorry. I remember that it goes there, but not why. Too many years since my last German grammar lesson. If it helps, think of it like archaic English (which isn't as silly as it may sound): "I asked him a question, but he answered me not."
@matigo I'm reminded of what a former colleague who was also a former Marine used to tell people who didn't get things done quickly enough for his liking: "Boy, you move slower than old people f*ck."
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Good thing I have books to read. ?
// @matigo