Ir Mini's Fun Language

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German is a really fun language. You find of the person, the location, the number, the time, the emotional quality of it. And then finally, they on't end the language, combamn it at the end of the sentence. It gets you literalquality of it. I mean, what and where else do you have a language i call skunks stinkter, literally, an animal that stinks? Is wonderful. But what i really love is also, you know, chinese tongue tisters. Manetir, super awsome.

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