" I first learned German from the TV, I started watching animated movies when I was 9/10 years old,and I started learning quick like all the kids would do in my age, then I started buying books and then I kind of taught myself... I noticed that I really liked German and I was learning it quick . At the same time I was also learning English. When i just started to understand English I watched english channels with German subtitles, that way I was learning English and German at the same time. Then in high school I had a lot of language subjects and one of my professors, he was german and he held extra classes for those who were interested because the school offered, so I learned a lot from him including writing in German. Then I decided to study German in university and after I graduated I started working in Britannica, and I love it here because there's a lot of interested people who want to learn German that have different reasons and are different ages, and that makes it a lot funnier... a lot of my pupils know English and this makes it a lot easier for them to learn German because as we all know English is a German language. One of the perks of knowing German is that this language it's considered like one of the most difficult languages in the world so not everyone can speak it fluently, so you're kind of more privileged than the others. If I would have to convince anyone to learn German I would only say this to them: German is a language not only spoken in Germany but in a lot other countries in Europe so you have your doors open to any of those countries whenever you want to go there....I'm not saying it's not hard, I mean a lot of people joke about the Einstein question '' To be or not to be?'' they say it was '' Der, die or das?'' but if you love it enough I'm sure that you can also learn it. "
Yllkë Hoxha,Britannica German teacher
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