Einstein. Learn German - it's relatively easy.
German has a harder initial hurdle than English. But once you started, it has fewer landmines than English has which will trip you. For instance, how do we explain why we say "Belarus" but "the Ukraine", or "an egg" but "a European".
And logically why we use present perfect tense instead of past simple when the event happened completely in the past? Or why there seems to be no unified logic behind wehen to use in, on, at? In contrast, German seems to be far mroe uniform and mroe organized in grammar.
Although compound words like Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz are nightmares to memorize. ;-)
German has a harder initial hurdle than English. But once you started, it has fewer landmines than English has which will trip you. For instance, how do we explain why we say "Belarus" but "the Ukraine", or "an egg" but "a European".
And logically why we use present perfect tense instead of past simple when the event happened completely in the past? Or why there seems to be no unified logic behind wehen to use in, on, at? In contrast, German seems to be far mroe uniform and mroe organized in grammar.
Although it is a nightmare to remember how to spell compound words like Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz. ;-)