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The Awful German Language

By Mark TwainNarrated by Kirsten Wever
Length59m

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I went often to look at the collection of curiosities in Heidelberg Castle, and one day I surprised the keeper of it with my German. I spoke entirely in that language. He was greatly interested; and after I had talked a while he said my German was very rare, possibly a "unique"; and wanted to add it to his museum. If he had known what it had cost me to acquire my art, he would also have known that it would break any collector to buy it. Harris and I had been hard at work on our German during several weeks at that time, and although we had made good progress, it had been accomplished under great difficulty and annoyance, for three of our teachers had died in the mean time. A person who has not studied German can form no idea of what a perplexing language it is.

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Rating★★★★ 4.1 (2.7K)
Includes Goodreads, StoryGraph, LibraryThing, Amazon
GenreOther, Travel
Length59 mins
Narrated byKirsten Wever
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMay 31, 2026
LanguageEnglish
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