Which should I learn? I love them both, but have enough time only for one.
German or Portuguese?
Learn Spanish, it's basically the same thing as Portuguese, but more useful than both Portuguese and German.
German (Marlene Dietrich, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Martin Heidegger, Immanuel Kant, Gottfried Leibniz, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Otto von Bismarck, Angela Merkel, Heinrich Böll, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Hermann Hesse, Erich Maria Remarque, Friedrich Schiller, Albert Schweitzer)
Also, if you learn German, you will find your way in Dutch and Swedish.
<<you will find your way in Dutch and Swedish. >>
No more so than speaking English.
No more so than speaking English.
<<you will find your way in Dutch and Swedish. >>
"No more so than speaking English."
A thousand times more, actually.
"No more so than speaking English."
A thousand times more, actually.
Speaking German in Holland helps you a lot if you want to get a good beating.
<<Speaking German in Holland helps you a lot if you want to get a good beating. >>
Lol, a beating from the Dutch? Those pussies couldn't beat their way out of a wet paper bag.
Lol, a beating from the Dutch? Those pussies couldn't beat their way out of a wet paper bag.
<<A thousand times more, actually. >>
Nonsense. A knowledge of German will help you a bit more with Dutch vocabulary, but in terms of grammar knowing English is adiquate preparation as none of the complex aspects of German are present in Dutch.
As for Swedish, that is even further removed from German than Dutch is, and I would say is more closely related to English than High German. It is even more grammatically simplified than English.
Nonsense. A knowledge of German will help you a bit more with Dutch vocabulary, but in terms of grammar knowing English is adiquate preparation as none of the complex aspects of German are present in Dutch.
As for Swedish, that is even further removed from German than Dutch is, and I would say is more closely related to English than High German. It is even more grammatically simplified than English.