Germans.
More specifically, German.
A most annoying language. Did you know that, like Old Norse/Icelandic, it has four cases? Nominative/accusative/dative/genitive? And noun conjugation? And noun gender? And verb conjugation? And adjective conjugation based on noun gender? And this wunderlich method of saying numbers which really isn’t that bad but will still be ranted about?
Honestly. Es ist zweiundzwanzig vor twölf. I think. ("It’s twenty-two to twelve," or "it’s eleven thirty-eight.")
And then there are the compound nouns. Like siebentausendzweihundertvierundfünfzig. Seven thousand two hundred four and fifty. Or - I looked this one up - rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz. The law for the delegation of monitoring beef labeling. I can’t pronounce it. Sixty-three letters!
And, also, fahrt. It means journey or he/she/it drives. If I was to say, “he drives to the supermarket,” that would be “Er fahrt am Supermarkt,” assuming that I remembered all the grammar right. I can’t say this with a straight face.
Argh. Ich spreche nicht Deutsch gut, weil ich nicht wie kenne.
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