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I've met Germans who said they wished they had only ever learned English and not German.

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German is better for philosophy and technical use, except in the edge cases of much longer words IMO. (I'm English.)

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This is a discredited line of thinking among professional/academic linguists.

In the modern understanding, languages become able to express ideas when their speech communities need to express those ideas.