German

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German Deutsch, language spoken in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Lichtenstein.

Contents 1 Phonology 2 Grammar 3 Orthography 4 Common difficulties 5 Courses and learning material

[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 and ö and evolved out of scribes writing a little e above a and o. 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] Courses and learning material

There is an FSI-course for German

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