Speaking German

Now this may seem like a weird thing to be angry about, but really as a non-native speaker of the language it's as hard as the dorky kid trying to be cool. The issue I have is that there's a lot to think about. Is it regular or irregular, what tense is it in, is there a modal verb, what type is the preposition, is the person i'm speaking to higher in rank and position to me. How the hell am I supposed to spell/say that word.





German as a language is spoken by over 100 million people. The Standard German is spoken by educated people everywhere, but on top of that you have several different dialect regions with their own words, contractions and other expressions. Added to this Germans have a penchant for not only changing the spelling of their words, but joining words together such as this beauty Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz which means beef labelling oversight transfer law.

You just can't win when it comes to learning German.