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Originally Posted by ChibiDusk
I'm told learning Latin prior helps immensly since you can recognize the root word since many laguages are derived from latin.
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Well, I'd say the similarities are not that great compared to Roman languages (obviously, duh
) or English (about ~50% of the vocabulary). And what is the point in learning Latin vocabulary (ugh!) just to be able to learn German vocabulary better if you could just learn the actual German words?
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ato already said German isn't that hard if you've mastered (memorized) the namefalls (takes some time), the genders (quite easy since they are all categorized, i.e. all noun ending on -heit are feminine gender (i.e. "
die Gesundheit")) and some other random stuff
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The sentence structure is not that different from English either.