I can't say krankenwagen without smiling.
Anyway I don't think it's much more guttural than English, really. It is a west Germanic language after all. Also, I've always loved the German language's ability to express very specific or hard-to-communicate things.

I love your new avatar's ability to express very specific or hard-to-communicate things.

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I can't look at your avatar without laughing my ass off.
Well people who are used to the english tongue can't really pronounce our ch,
like in the word "lachen" or when you say "gute nacht", which is kind of an indicator for the german language to be more guttural.. they always pronounce it like "gute nackt", which means "good naked" ...

Well, I have a pretty good knowledge of Lieder, like Schubert's "Gretchen am Spinnrade"

süß <3



Well at least there are more and more people confessing that they don't find the german language too edgy 'n hard 'n ugly :/

lol, I'm not absolutely sure, if you have to be too guttural, but it must feel like it. almost every word contains a ch, ck, k or g and our r is spoken much more in the back of our mouth than in any other language, i guess..
still, when you're talkin bavarian, as it's a completely different language, it gets kinda easier to talk. it's not that guttural, but you will never be able to remember the words if you werent born here :D ...for example: when I want to say squirrel, and i talk german, then i say "eichhörnchen", which kinda means "oakcroissant", but when I say it in bavarian, i say "oachkatzal", which means "oakcat". And there are so many words, that nobody can really..memorize. You're born with it, or you forget it. When i find somebody ugly, then i can say in bavarian "du gsichtskrapfen!", which kinda means "you facebismarck!"..

There is also this sentence, which shows the might and beauty of the bavarian language, lol :D

"Sie schaugt aba oba oba a obat"
"But she looks down, to see if he's working"

I had to take some basic German when I was there almost 30 years ago, and from what I remember is that vowels, or was it consonants... I forget... were placed a bit off kilter, or backwards in comparison to English. Once you wrapped your head around that, things got easier.

I'll always remember Einfahrt, and Ausfahrt though.

Yeah, who could forget the fahrts.