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Mark Twain claimed to speak French (he translated the "Jumping Frog" in and out of French) but disparaged German . Read his "A Tramp Abroad" or the link. It is summed up in quotes like "Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth."

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