"The Awful German Language" was published in the second volume of Twain's A Tramp Abroad, 1880, as appendix D. Some of these people may understand English." During this 1878 stay in Germany, Twain had a dream in which, according to his notebook, "all bad foreigners went to German Heaven-couldn't talk and wished they had gone to the other place." Upon his arrival in Germany, the fruit of this recent scholarship was attested to in the advice of a friend: "Speak in German, Mark. He resumed his study 28 years later in preparation for a trip to Europe. Twain made his first unsuccessful attempt to learn German in 1850 at age fifteen. The essay is a humorous exploration of the frustrations a native speaker of English has with learning German as a second language. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice." The Awful German Language" is an 1880 essay by Mark Twain published as Appendix D in A Tramp Abroad. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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