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The four cases. Nominative, Genitive, Dative, and Akkusative with their accompanying articles. It makes learning German as a second language a nightmare and even native speakers struggle with it a lot.
Ah man, I think cases are great! I learned Russian in college, which has six cases, and they can be used to express so much with so little. English used to have them, you can see remnants in the apostrophe ‘s’ when denoting possession, and I’m bummed they went away.
I’ll give it to you that they’re a pain in the ass to learn, but once you get the hang of them I think they’re super neat!
Edit: they also allow for variable sentence structure which can be super fun and, again, express a lot of meaning just through text (at least in Russian, not sure if that’s the case in German).
Then don't even try squirrel.
My native English speaker partner always makes fun of how I pronounce squirrel!
If the R is giving you trouble, you might try starting with a CH like in "Buch."
Start with "Brot" but add an extra vowel, so it's like Bo-chot. Try to reduce the air flow to almost zero when you say the CH. You should end up with an R sound.
You could do a trilled R too if that's easier. People will understand you fine. The vowels are way more important to get right.
"Lærerinne" in norwegian, but only if you're extremely old. Gendered language to is not that much used any more. "Teacher" is used for both male and female
Ha! We got 7 cases. The poor expats struggle learning Czech is real. I know only a few that speak on a decent level. Great respect for them.