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yeah, I think that (the above post) is what is so hard about learning german (and you know, learning a new language in general) to me. It seems like a lot of the words can translate several different ways into English, and since I don't really talk to a lot of German people, its hard to tell which ways actually make sense in German, and which ways sound strange. I have been studying for almost three years, so all the stilted schooly stuff is starting to sound pretty dumb to me. You know, like, "Wie geht es dir heute?" "Es geht mir gut, und dir?" I mean, normal people don't really speak that way, do they? Now that I am reading more literature and watching movies and stuff I am starting to pick up on how German speakers actually speak, which is vastly different from how German textbooks speak, and I have to say that, hey, much like kendo, the more I learn, the less I feel I know !