I have admired german language a lot and have a lot of respect for Germans just because of their language. I just dont know why.  Having learned many languages i have felt that German stands apart from other languages.

Please keep in mind that German is not best explained by English as reference language. In my opinion as a learner, there is languages belonging to south India (especially `Tamil`)  which best explains German much much better than any other language i have seen. Because of the grammatical complexity involved,  both languages go hand in hand with each other.

This is what i understood about German when i learnt the language for the first time.  I am writing this as a complete stranger and despite coming from other side of globe. German language is …

1. Case sensitive language.

German people place a lot of importance for case sensitivity in german. For example, all nouns/names or starting after fullstop must start with capital letter. Nouns or names irrespective of where they occure must have a capital starting. For example, take this personal pronoun “sie” written with or without case senstive format. See how its meaning changes for the same pronoun. Further, its meaning can still change whether or not it is placed at start or middle of sentence. That is why many people who find german grammar real difficult or confusing.

2. German is 3D Language

German is 3D (3 dimensional language) which means all the objects/nouns are made up of 3 genders (masculine, feminine, neutral) unlike other languages which have only 2 genders (masculine and feminine)

Notice the underlined last letter to differentiate the gender. This is the easiest way to remember in case you confused with.

German is almost same in context to english language. If somebody says “das ist” in german, the same an english man will say “that is” in english. Practically the variations with these two languages is because historically these languages originated from the same ethnic western european language.

There are so many terms, just in small differences in spellings.

Tip: Notice the case sensitivity in writing ‘Langue’ in german against ‘language’ in english.

3.  Fusion of  Words in German

The admirable property in learning german is concatenating or joining different nouns into one single one. Germans exploit this in their writings. For example.

Word of thought:

Ever wondered what Lufthansa means? You must have travelled many times with this world class german airliner.

Lufthansa = Luft + Hansa

Luft means “air” in german and “Hansa” means for now lets keep in mind that its a bird in  german. (i really need to lookup the actual meaning for hansa. Will post later!)