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German for dummies: how (not) to master a new language - New Statesman


German for dummies: how (not) to master a new language
New Statesman
In truth, I feel a greater kinship to a different American author, Mark Twain, who concluded his 1880 essay “Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache” (“The Awful German Language”) by arguing: “A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and ...


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