![]() Gunnar Magnusson describes the work as "Twain's most famous philological essay". "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. ![]() ![]() " The Awful German Language" is an 1880 essay by Mark Twain published as Appendix D in A Tramp Abroad. ![]()
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