Seconded, context clues and a lot of what Tom Scott refers to as the rules of conversation make memes in general a lot less difficult to interpret than a standard conversation.
Ah the innocent naivety of a beginner speaker. You start off in A1 thinking „oh this isn’t so bad“ and then reality hits. Diplomats rate German as harder to learn for native English speakers than any of the Romance languages.
German has similar enough rules to English that I treat it as a puzzle and just try to decode the memes. It’s super fun!
Seconded, context clues and a lot of what Tom Scott refers to as the rules of conversation make memes in general a lot less difficult to interpret than a standard conversation.
Here’s a good Rob Words Video about reading German as a (native) English speaker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebSZrHmsI4
Ah the innocent naivety of a beginner speaker. You start off in A1 thinking „oh this isn’t so bad“ and then reality hits. Diplomats rate German as harder to learn for native English speakers than any of the Romance languages.
The learning curve is quite steep, but it’s like a reverse ski jump in that it’s suuuper easy at first followed by a “well, shit”