Difficulty of learning German

[Konstantinos]

Hi all. My native language is Greek and my English-Russian are between C1-C2. So i wonder how difficult it would be for me to learn German. Is it really a difficult language in my case, or i will reach B2 in a few months and then 6-12 more months for C1? I will relocate to Germany next week and i will start learning German from the scratch, but my work is 100% in English. After work i will try to talk 100% in German.

So, it will be difficult to learn German or easy? Can i reach C1 in 12-18 months or i will need 3 years? Is there something new in grammar i will meet?

Some people, comparing English German say that German grammar is more difficult because it has nominative, accusative, genitive and dative cases. But Greek has them plus vocative and Russian has the same ones plus prepositional and instrumental.

And of course, Greek, Russian and English are 3 completely different languages belonging to 3 completely different branches of Indoeuropean languages (Hellenic, Slavic and Germanic respectively), having 3 completely different scripts (Greek, Cyrillic and Latin respectively). I mean in these cases German will be absolutely near to English.

Thanks for your answers.

[linguaholic]

6 hours ago, Konstantinos said:

Hi all. My native language is Greek and my English-Russian are between C1-C2. So i wonder how difficult it would be for me to learn German. Is it really a difficult language in my case, or i will reach B2 in a few months and then 6-12 more months for C1? I will relocate to Germany next week and i will start learning German from the scratch, but my work is 100% in English. After work i will try to talk 100% in German.

So, it will be difficult to learn German or easy? Can i reach C1 in 12-18 months or i will need 3 years? Is there something new in grammar i will meet?

Some people, comparing English German say that German grammar is more difficult because it has nominative, accusative, genitive and dative cases. But Greek has them plus vocative and Russian has the same ones plus prepositional and instrumental.

And of course, Greek, Russian and English are 3 completely different languages belonging to 3 completely different branches of Indoeuropean languages (Hellenic, Slavic and Germanic respectively), having 3 completely different scripts (Greek, Cyrillic and Latin respectively). I mean in these cases German will be absolutely near to English.

Thanks for your answers.

Hey Konstantinos

I think the most important thing is that you are actually relocating to Germany next week. Therefore, you will be immersed in the German language, even though you don't use it at work. I am pretty sure that this will enable you to get a quick grasp of the language. My mother tongue is German, so it is pretty hard for me to forecast which level you might be able to achieve in a certain amount of time. But in any case, I wish you good luck! And thanks for joining linguaholic.com!

Best, 

Lingua