German: To learn or not to learn

I was thinking on learning a foreign language in order to get by more in the world. I want to do German because of its economic usefulness, but I'm uncertain whether that apspect of the German countries is overhyped, as they have an increasing population of old people and Turks/Syrians/thirdworlders which will probably replace them during the next 50 years, which will potentially decrease their economic power. What should I do?

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Just stay the fuck away from Europe and learn Spanish. We are deporting “White” Americans too after we are retaking our Homelands

How would this help you "get by more in the world?" The Germans you are likely to meet in business probably speak better English than you do.

I never said I wanted to live there. It's a socialist paradise, which I will gladly stay away from. I'm just talking about the usefulness of learning the language.

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You don't want to live in the economic powerhouse of Europe because it's a "socialist paradise" but you think that learning the language of said socialists is going to give you a leg up? Where do you imagine using it? Switzerland?

There are many German companies in the U.S. which I could work at, Germans have the 3rd most popular domain name (.de), etc. Just because I'm not going to Europe doesn't mean I can't participate in the global economy.

You do understand that he's assuming a 1% real wage increase and a 2% real return on that over 40 years, to get there, right?
>what is a discount rate?
>what is time value of money?

And that's where my problem lies. Although articles I have scoured on the internet show that it's good to learn German because of the countries' economic power, I'm wondering in reality how useful is it for me in the U.S. with all the statistics given.

Because you have three words for "The." And the verbs conjugate based on gender and social class. All of this changes based on tense and other syntax rules
and You need a fucking spread sheet to have a conversation

Why bother, they'll all be speaking Arabic in about 2 years anyway.

Yes, mastering German grammar is pretty hard to say the least.

You memorize the genders of the nouns as you learn the language. There are a few tricks but yes the cases can be tricky for English speakers though we use them ourselves (accusative case, genitive case, etc.) I personally have a much, much harder time dealing with non Latin script than any of the Germanic or Romance languages.

Der des dem der die das aus ausser mit dem nach zu von. Fuck kraut talk.

That's what I want to know, do the benefits of German outweight the negatives? Didn't AFD win in 3rd place in their government, so they still have some hope?

This is what you're talking about I presume.

You would be much better learning skills that make you more effective at your day job before spending literally hundreds of hours on learning a language that you may never use in your professional life. What doors are closed to you because you don't know German today? Would your current company pay you 50k more if you learned German (and wouldn't move to Germany)? Are you aware of any potential employer that would?

Oh you have a much harder time? Really? Look at your door. Tell me the gender of all the parts of the door right off the top of your head. The hinges The handle, on and on. Multiply that times a million or billion different objects in existent. know all the genders for all of them? I'd fire bomb them too if I could.

Ha, are you missing the part where I am desperately trying to talk this guy out of wasting hundreds of hours to speak fumbling, halting German at work only to be replied to by Hans in perfect English?

Well, as of now I am in high school so I do have some time to work on it. I took 2 years of Spanish, although I didn't really have much interest in it since besides being a maid (lol aint gonna do that) or working at fast food, it doesn't seem to be economically viable.

Take Latin or Greek and translate a few works back to English. Will help you expand your vocabulary and will challenge you.

It really isn't that hard. A lot of it comes naturally as you get more experienced with reading/listening to/speaking German. And everything in the language is logical except for the articles

>Russian
>white

I can just imagine that...

>De-der b-b-brot is, ehem, ist gut.

>What the fuck do you want?

Better fucking learn chinese bro.

Based on current economic trends I would say that Mandarin is probably the best language to learn.

Yeah, the people who learned Japanese based on "current economic trends" in the 1980s after reading Japan as Number One didn't live to regret that...

I'm learning Swedish. My aunt is teaching me. (She still speaks Swedish 75% of the time. My dad ded)

I can speak fluent Cajun french which is about as useful as AIDS. Learned it from my grandmother on Mom's side as a child and still speak primarily in Cajun with her.

rese
nese
mrmn
srsr

not hard

How close is Cajun French to actual French?

I learned German as a teenager, lived in both Germany and Austria for a while and am now engaged to an Austrian.

Totally worth it if you ask me.

>How close is Cajun French to actual French?
Sounds like some kind of pidgin French with a THICK American English accent.

It's like ebonics compared to Parisian. I can read regular french just fine.

I'm also adept at nigger speak though.

>coonass sounding anything like American English.

Though those idiots on swamp people make me want to drill holes in my skull, it's not far from reality so far as the accent

That's what it sounded like to me in Louisiana when I talked to some older people in French. English pronunciations superimposed over French.

Admittedly though I speak a rural Eastern Ontario accent, so sound very Canadian/Québécois I guess so maybe that's my perception only

We are full

I guess I misinterpreted what you meant. To me American English accent is George W Bush.

Yeah Cajun accennt is definitely just a slightly frenchy slur to English with copious amounts of slang and over annunciated vowels. You go to places outside of Lafayette, or even closer to Lake Charles and you get a true Cajun accent. New Orleans/Baton Rouge is either creole, niggers, or practically generic American English.

I personally like places like New Iberia, Carencro, Jennings/Welsh, Mamou, and of course Lafayette simply to listen to the largely white population still sound like they did 50 years ago.

Nothing more aggravating than a forced Cajun accent though.

youtu.be/E21LWys0uqw I at one point was learning to play the accordian. Nothing more amazing.

Compare to:

youtu.be/cKCRHhmHvjg lot less slurring haha

Do Germans really hate guns and don't see any need for them? Do German people make fun of Americans for owning guns?

Seems bizarre to me

you don't want to go there burger-san.

Nah it was just part of the meme i would actually love to own a Rifle and allow the Citizens to be able to rebel against the Goverment like in the 30's a rifle is alright but it's a bit crazy when an American guy i know told me he can buy a Revolver without Background check or anything

Meant to post this as the first link: youtu.be/bM7GDuyYbz4 they both good though. I really like Take My Hand by Toups but it really sounds more country than Cajun but maybe that's just me. youtu.be/a-sBJVI6ZOg

>implying English doesn't have the same

>him/her/xe/they

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youtu.be/mWpVmlqJ-nw infamous.
Sheer sillyness. I'll leave this thread alone now

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German is pretty easy to learn from my experience