My friend from abroad is doing Masters here right now and does only have one German lesson a week in his schedule or something. He does take private lessons though apart form that - and it's helpful in everyday life here but literally like you will cope with English here outside of university so

But my other English friend says it IS hard according to her and attending lessons wouldn't be enough, she has to do the homework to learn it, which is a lot of work.

Depends. What is your native language?

Yeah it kinda is. The grammar is quite different to other languages and difficult to master.

It's supposed to be pretty close to English.

If your first language is English then it shouldn't be too hard since German is the parent of English

Depends on your native language and how similar the structures (i.e. grammar) are.

It is similar to english but way harder at the same time. But native english (or any other germanic language) speakers tend to learn it faster than everyone else.

Well, it's my language and I think when it comes to art it's one of the most beautiful languages. It's probably hard to learn though, you're right.

I know that english speaking people have problems with some simple things in our language.

It's easy for me as it's very similar to Dutch language, and I visit Germany often, but people think learning Dutch is hard so I don't know it that makes it any better

And Germans usually think French is a difficult language to learn so

German is an easy language to learn.

It depends if your native language is germanic.

My native language is from the Slavic group but I learnt German quickly, in less than a year or so. But maybe it was because of my age (8) at the time, it's when you learn the fastest.

Urdu is Indo-European - English is Indo-European - Deutsch is Indo-European, shouldn't be too difficult



Du schaffst das schon.

yes

I'm Czech and when I compare learning English and German, German is definitely waaay harder. The pronunciation is very easy compared to English for example, but the grammar is the pits sometimes.

It shouldn't be, but you will need to dedicate plenty of time (it is estimated that you can reach the level necessary to attend uni courses in German in approximately 18 months).

Keep in mind that, depending on your field of interest/research, there are many Masters and PhD programs in Germany which are offered in English. You would need to know basic German in order to enjoy life in Germany, but all your coursework and interactions with your academic supervisor could be done in English, which you know at a proficient level.

Here's a website that you can review and see if there's anything that applies to you:

International Programs in Germany, 2015 - DAAD.de


And just to correct a few responses: NO, the grammar in German and that of the English language are not the same or even similar in many instances

Exactly, many of our grammatical particles make no sense to an English speaker (i.e. schon, doch, noch, zu, etc.). It is not uncommon for Americans to make frequent mistakes in that regard. Also, some of the vowels are always butchered by native English speakers (especially ö and ü) as well as the ch sound, which some people annoying pronounce as either a "k" or a "sh".