The German Language.

“There are ten parts of speech, and they are all troublesome”

– Mark Twain, ‘The Awful German Language’

Many people dislike German as a guttural, harsh-sounding and overly complex language.

These people are wrong.

The German language is a thing of precise and subtle beauty, with a word for every possible aspect of the human condition. And, where not words do not exist, you get the wonderfully Teutonic creations of compound nouns – where Germans basically keep adding words together until they have the one they want.

Mark Twain was definitely wrong.