German language is easy.

The German language is relatively easy. Those who can speak Latin and are used to declinations, normally learn it very rapidly. At least that is what German teachers say in their first class. They start learning: der, die, das, des, dem, den and the rest just comes naturally. It’s amazingly easy! If this doesn’t convince you, let’s learn German with an example.

First of all, take a book in German. It’s a splendid leather-covered book published in Dortmund. It is about the customs and habits of the Hottentots (which in German is Hottentotten).

The book teaches that the opossums (Beutelratten) are captured and put in cages (Kotter) with wooden slats (Lattengitter) to protect them from the elements. Those cages, in German, are called “cages with wooden slats” (Lattengitterkotter) and, when they have inside a opossum, we call all the group as “cage with wooden slats with an opossum” (Beutelrattenlattengitterkotter).

One day, the Hottentots arrested a murderer (Attentäter), accused of having killed the Hottentot (Hottentotter) mother (Mutter) (a Hottentottermutter) of a boy who stuttered and was also a bit slow (Stottertrottel). That woman, in German, is called Hottentottenstottertrottelmutter and, her murderer, we call easily Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterattentäter.

In the book, the Hottentots caught him and, without having where to put him, they used a opossum cage (Beutelrattenlattengitterkotter). But, incidentally, the prisoner escaped. After they began the search, quickly came up a Hottentot warrior screaming:

> "We caught the murderer (Attentäter)!"

> "What?," asked the chief.

> "Lattengitterkotterbeutelrattenattentäter" answered the warrior.

> "Who? The murderer that was in the cage of opossums with wooden slats?" the chief of the Hottentots asked.

> "Yes," answers the native with great difficulty. "Hottentottenstottertrottelmutteratentäter (murderer of the Hottentot mother who had a slow and stuttering child)."

> "Ah," the chief says, "you could have said from the start that you had caught the Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterbeutelrattenlattengitterkotterattentäter!"

As it can be noticed, German is very easy. You only have to show a little willingness...