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  2. The Awful German Language - Wikipedia

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    The Awful German Language" is an 1880 essay by Mark Twain published as Appendix D in A Tramp Abroad. [1] The essay is a humorous exploration of the frustrations a native speaker of English has with learning German as a second language .

  3. Category:Essays by Mark Twain - Wikipedia

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    The Awful German Language; C. Christian Science (book) Concerning the Jews; D. A Defence of General Funston; E. Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany; F.

  4. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg - Wikipedia

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    The fishwife tale is from Appendix D in A Tramp Abroad, subtitled "The Awful German Language." Vienna connection. Twain lived in Austria from 1897 to 1899.

  5. Mother tongue mirroring - Wikipedia

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    In foreign language teaching, this basic human capacity is captured by the generative principle. In “The awful German language” Mark Twain humorously explained the difficulties of German syntax and morphology by mirroring long sentences in English. Although the main intent is satirical rather than didactic, Twain provides interesting ...

  6. Talk:The Awful German Language - Wikipedia

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    A fact from The Awful German Language appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 July 2009 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Mark Twain wrote the essay "The Awful German Language" to express his frustrations when learning German?

  7. Category:German language - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "German language" The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total. ... The Awful German Language; B. Bannwald; Belgranodeutsch;

  8. Schadenfreude - Wikipedia

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    Schadenfreude (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː d ən f r ɔɪ d ə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. Tooltip literal translation "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another. It is a loanword from German.

  9. List of German dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    This list includes notable historic, standardized and common-use dictionaries of the German language. The beginnings of German dictionaries date back to a series of glossaries from the 8th century CE. The first comprehensive German dictionary, the Deutsches Wörterbuch (DWB), was begun by the Brothers Grimm in 1838. The Duden dictionary, begun ...