German
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German Deutsch, language spoken in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Lichtenstein.
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Grammar
German is a highly inflected language and nouns are conjugated in gender (3), number, and case. German has four cases: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive.
[edit] Orthography
Looking at a German text one cannot but notice the special characters of German: the umlauts and the eszet. Both of these are old ligiatures who've come to be letters of them own. The umlauts are ä, ö and ü and evolved out of scribes writing a little e above a, o and u. The eszet ß evolved out of the sharp (or long) s and the normal s were written together.
[edit] Common difficulties
German is, as stated above, very inflected which means it can take a long time to master the spoken language.
[edit] Resources
There is an FSI-course for German.
