Mark Twain's got it. The attached link is an essay he wrote entitled, "The Awful German Language" and how dumb it is.
We sit in class for almost four hours a day just drilling German grammar and it is just the nastiest and cruelest thing ever. Latin wasn't even this bad. Today we did passive...but not just passive which is really quite simple. We went on to präteritum passiv, und perfekt passiv, und dann plusquamperfekt passiv, und endlich enden wir mit passiv mit modalverben!
So instead of struggling for many more hours on this German grammar homework, I decided to take a break and empathize with Mark Twain. If he struggled with the language so much, then I guess I don't have too much to feel bad about.
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