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“Her German language made my arteries harden- I've no annuity for the play we blew. I chartered an aluminum canoe, I had her six times in the English Garden.” quote by Robert Lowell — Download Open image

““Her German language made my arteries harden- I've no annuity for the play we blew. I chartered an aluminum canoe, I had her six times in the English Garden.””

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It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it…

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“Though unmusical, German is the most expressive of all languages,”

Arthur Conan Doyle

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It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run…

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I'm German! Actually, I love my countr, ;I love the language. The German language is very special because it is so precise. There is…

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A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

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Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

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