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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is contemplating between taking Spanish 2 and German 1 at TJ. They heard that Spanish was quite difficult, but they took spanish 1 last year. Is it better to take Spanish 2 or German 1 at TJ if dc doesn't like learning languages very much? [/quote]

Anecdotal reports on DCUM suggest the Spanish teacher at TJ goes out of her way to make Spanish unexpectedly hard, with lower grades than some other languages.  Not sure if that is really the case or a DCUM legend.  Spanish has lots of cognates with English and honestly is much more practical/useful than German.

Objectively, German is harder than Spanish for an English speaker, mainly because the grammar is fiendishly arcane and difficult.  For example, for some sentence types the verbs go in the middle, but for other sentence types the verbs come last in the sentence.  Also, German has 3 genders, rather than 2, and many different verb tenses.

Not sure which would be best given these trade offs.

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