何解德語很難 Why learning German is so hard

雖然以前拍片大概說過學德文的難處，但我會再拍過一條新的影片詳述，在那之前畫個圖吧。

正所謂『一個The都玩死你』：

德語文法基本上有章可循、有規可依，但住在德國數年還是覺得始終需要更多時間去習慣使用。

除了字很長、變化多，其中一個麻煩的地方是所有英語的 「The」都有不同「性別」。（Der=陽/Die=陰/Das =中，經常的變化：Den / Dem / Des…)

就算你知道答案是der/die/das或是其他變化，說的時候有時也會因為仍在想哪個答案而口吃。

你要記住大概什麼人或物件要用哪個「性別」（所謂的「詞性」）之餘，它們又會因為在四個主要不同的「語格」之下會有改變；然後這個「詞性」如果選錯，就全句都變成錯句，因為名詞的性別也決定形容詞的字尾等。

學習德語初期（頭幾個月），我覺得其實一開口幾乎一定說錯，那不如先不去理會是什麼「性別」，索性照說錯好了，最緊要是說到要表達的內容。然後就慢慢變成所謂的「Fließend-Falsch-Sprecher」（流利會話卻文法多誤者）。後來才來改變慣性的錯處聽上去好像是拿苦來辛，可是一開始時，若每句話都要細想才開口，很多時別人以為你根本不明白、不能溝通，就不跟你說了，也是沒法進步。

我絕不會說自己的英語很好，但比起德語，我覺得日常生活及工作如果可以只用英文溝通真的輕鬆多了。這也大概是為什麼很多人可以選擇的話都會移民到英語國家，而不是德語/瑞典語/波蘭語/烏克蘭語國家吧（多數去非英語國家都因為工作或伴侶，不過不少來德國的也可能因為升大學或難民等）。

個人認為相比起很多歐洲語言，英語結構真的簡易得多了⋯⋯

所以我的建議是什麼？

繼續多學多聽多講，錯了要知自己說錯，下次再說錯了，那再再再下次不要錯，要從學習中找到自己的方法，其實也不是那麼難。大家會在學習中找到最適合自己的方法。

German grammar is considered to be very clear and has rules and regulations that can be followed. But after living in Germany for a few years, I feel like it’s going to take a lot longer than I expected to master the language.

Aside from the vocabularies being long and varied, one of the fundamental problems is that in German, ‘the’ have different ‘genders’: (der) masculine, (die) feminine, (das) neuter, and they would be den, dem, des in some variations.

I have a feeling that even you know which one to use, you would say them wrong when you have to think about ‘genders’ and talk at the same time.

The “Gender” of the nouns has to be roughly remembered, they essentially alternate under four different “cases”; if the gender of the nouns is wrong, the whole sentence would also be wrong, because the gender of the noun determines the ending of the adjective, and many other things as well.

In the first few months learning German, I felt like no matter how careful I was, I would have grammatical errors as soon as I spoke, so it would be better to ignore whether the “gender” is correct – and just leave it wrong! The important thing is able to express what I wanted to say.

Then I gradually became the so-called “Fließend-Falsch-Sprecher”. (Fluent-false-Speaker)

However, if I want to speak correctly from just the very beginning, I would have to think over every sentence before I open my mouth, and people would think I don’t understand German and leave the conversation, that way I also won’t get any further.

My English is far from perfect, but compared to German, I think if I could only communicate in English in everyday life and at work, life would be much easier hahahahahh.

So what’s my advice?

Keep learning – If you’re wrong, you need to know you’re wrong. And next time you can get it wrong again, again and again – but you will find your own way of learning.

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