Quiz
Test your skill in German language
While traveling in Europe in 1878, American author Mark Twain attempted to learn German. He later described his exasperation with German grammar and its endless oddities and absurdities in his essay „The Awful German Language“.
Twain particularly despised the German habit of combining words. „They are not words but alphabetic professions“, he grumbles.
Is he correct? Judge for yourself. Here are four examples: First, read the word out aloud (which is a challenge in itself). Then guess its meaning.
