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Don’t memorize a language. Have a conversation in it.
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Two languages from different families, side by side.
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German marks four cases on articles and adjectives (der, den, dem, des). French has none outside the pronouns (il, le, lui).
French has two genders (le, la); German has three (der, die, das).
German puts the verb second in a main clause and last in a subordinate one, and splits separable verbs. French keeps subject-verb-object, with object pronouns before the verb: je le vois.
German is spelled almost as it sounds. French writes many letters it does not pronounce and links words in speech (les amis), so listening takes longer to catch up with reading.
| French | German | English |
|---|---|---|
| le | der | the (m. sg.) / the (m. sg., nom.) |
| la | die | the (f. sg.) / the (f. sg. / pl., nom.) |
| les | das | the (pl.) / the (n. sg., nom.) |
| un | den | a, an (m.) / the (m. sg., acc.) |
| une | dem | a, an (f.) / the (m./n. sg., dat.) |
| des | ein | some (pl.) / a, an (m./n.) |
| je | eine | I / a, an (f.) |
| tu | ich | you (informal sg.) / I |
