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Rxq
2009-01-04, 06:28
Scenario:
I'm an engineering student, who has failed several courses and need to take a few more courses to make up for lost credits.

Options:

Take a course of pure memorizing cases of natural disasters with pop quizzes

-OR-

Take a German 100 course with one spot left with an old lady reported to very nice. I do not know about the difficulty.

Should I take German 100? I have given learning German by myself an attempt in the past and stopped, not because it got too hard but I was lazy. I dont know how I'll find the learning German since my previous attempt was small.
I do find learning a language in a classroom setting greatly ineffective compared to learning a language myself.
Does anyone who has taken German as a second language have any comments?

el_caballo_oscuro
2009-01-04, 15:00
I took German in high school and found it to be fairly straight forward esspecially compared to french. However I feel that advanced German is much more complicated. I will point out that German is a good language for an engeneer to learn (even if only the basics) as in europe they are a large manafacturing country.

All the best
-S

Social Junker
2009-01-04, 23:46
I did four years of German in high school, and I thought that it was very similar to English in some respects; so in that way, it might be easy to learn. However, I found the rules surrounding the articles and conjugation pretty tiring and cumbersome after a while, so I gave it up. The language I'm learning right now, Japanese, is so much easier in that respect.

I always thought Mark Twain did a good job of summing up the difficulties with German in his diatribe, The Awful German Language (http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html). Funny stuff!

WritingANovel
2009-01-05, 17:31
^what he said.

There are too many fucking rules with German.

Rxq
2009-01-07, 17:46
Aw fuck

Did not get the prof i thought i was going to get. The one i got still seems pretty nice but i guess he's new. Dont know how hard he marks.

Should i just give up now and take economics? THe prof in that is a good lecturer but his exams are fucken hard.
If i dropped german, i would have to wake up at 6:30 too.