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yes, please interview him :P I studied German for five years and still can’t speak/understand it, why is it so hard?! Maybe it’s a bit better if your first lanuage is english?

Probably! Everyone says the grammar isn’t…

I don’t really know about grammar, I almost never had problems with english grammar, maybe because I studied it for a long time and have more chances of using it (unfortunately I never have a chance to speak english), but I always found German grammar difficult, maybe it’s not that difficult per se but it’s really hard for me to put it in practice, sometimes it looks easy because you have very fixed rules: the verb is always in the second place, if it’s a subordinate clause the verb goes at the end, with this verb you use this case etc but then you have practically no idea of knowing how to make a plural or if a noun is masculine or feminine (except for a few exceptions) so I usually go with “what sounds better” especially when it comes to articles/prepositions.

I’ve had a good teacher the first year, then a terrible one and then another good one, but with the last one we did a lot of history and literature so at the end of high school I could talk about German art and history and all that but couldn’t say “where’s the bus stop” LOL now I’ve forgotten all of that too…

Having studied Latin, I never had so may problems with remembering the cases, German even looks easy because Latin has 6 of them (then there’s like Hungarian that has 15 or more)…

I don’t think Italian grammar is that easy, especially for a native English speaker, I think English grammar is a lot easier than French or Spanish that are very similar to Italian, just the verbs are a nightmare. 

I hope you’re right about learing German by living in Germany, as soon as I can I want to apply for Erasmus (1 or 2 semesters in another european university) and I really want to go to Berlin, but the language kinda scares me, one thing is to go there as a tourist and order a sandwich in German (but everyone speaks English and last time a I was there and they heard me speaking italian, they would ask me where I was from and then started to try and speak to me in Spanish and I would get really confused and didn’t know which language to speak anymore) live and study there looks more difficult…