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Originally Posted by HarryT
I have a friend who teaches both English and German as a foreign language, and he tells me that his experience is that people find it easier to learn the basics of English, because it's a largely uninflected language (ie word endings don't change [much] with the role that a word plays in a sentence), but it's an extremely difficult language to gain "fluency" in. German, on the other hand, is much more difficult for beginners, because you have to learn far more grammar than you do with English, but once you're past the basics, it's easier than English to get fluent in.
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Well, my experience is similar - I am much more fluent (and I cant remember problems with it) in German then with English ^^