My 13-year-old daughter has just discovered noun cases in German. What had previously seemed a friendly language (“the man” is der Mann) suddenly pulls off the mask to reveal an insanely involved grammar: den Mann, dem Mann, des Mannes. And because schools are perverse, she is starting this journey exactly at the age when a child’s inborn language-learning ability nosedives. Years of pain lie ahead.
我13岁的女儿刚刚接触了德语的名词变格。这门之前看似友好的语言（比如英语的男人“the man”在德语里是“der Mann”）突然扯下面具，露出狰狞的复杂语法：den Mann, dem Mann, des Mannes（男人一词的各种变格，译者注）。而且由于学校课程设置不合理，她展开这段旅程的年龄，正是一个小孩先天语言学习能力急剧下降的时候，等待她的将是多年的痛苦学习。
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