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To be fair, there are a number of memes on the topic of 'the vs. all the different articles the German language has'. And I can well imagine that this can be very challenging for non-native speakers, especially when I see that native speakers already have problems in some cases.I find it always interesting hearing about the struggles native people have with learning their own language.
Our country teaches English as a secondary language in elementary school and children usually adopt it quite effortlessly.
I myself studied it for some time besides actual hard to master languages like German and Russian, and even if I compared old versions of literature like Shakespeare's works to say Goethe, it always felt way easier than any other language, both in understanding and reproducing.
Of course I am old now and maybe just the guy at the fence barking at the useless youth