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Languages and Linguistics

Grins

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3. I was talking languages with our German au-pair

Reply to 3catwoman3 (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 16, 2025, 04:47 PM

Jul 16

Me, describing how I avoided German in high school because it was complicated. She said not even native Germans understand German! The definitive rules were numerous, conflicting and varied around the nation.

And she spoke German, and English. Back in Germany and in college she spent a year attending a university in Norway, then a semester in Sweden, for fun learned French then Italian, and thought about Greek. Then married a Swede and now lives in Stockholm.