A highly entertaining, tongue-twisting example of German compounding. With the images, I think it’s fairly understandable even if you don’t speak much German (”Rhabarber” is rhubarb), but this version has an English translation in the description just in case.
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This is honestly the best piece of German literature which was ever written. Forget Goethe, Schiller, Wagner and Strauß,...
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We watched this on out 2nd day of German II. 12 people dropped the class.
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All I could make out was rhabababababababaeer
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