German pronunciation has one rule that nobody puts in the title of their lesson.

But it changes everything. 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰. What that means: every letter makes the same sound every single time it appears. No exceptions hiding in plain sight the way English hides them. English: 𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩, 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩. Same four letters. Four different sounds. No rule. No logic. No mercy. German: what you see is what you say. Every time. Here are the sounds that trip beginners – solved in one post: 𝟭. 𝗲𝗶 sounds like English 𝘦𝘺𝘦 𝘦𝘪𝘯 (one) — sounds like "ine" 𝘉𝘦𝘪𝘯 (leg) — sounds like "bine" 𝟮. 𝗶𝗲 sounds like English 𝘦𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘦 (she/they) — sounds like "zee" 𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘣 (stayed) — sounds like "bleeb" 𝟯. 𝗮𝘂 sounds like English 𝘰𝘸 𝘒𝘢𝘶𝘧 (purchase) — sounds like "cowf" 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘯 (brown) — sounds like "brown" 𝟰. 𝗲𝘂 / 𝗮̈𝘂 sounds like English 𝘰𝘺 𝘏𝘦𝘶𝘵𝘦 (today) — sounds like "hoy-teh" 𝘓𝘢̈𝘶𝘧𝘦𝘳 (runner) — sounds like "loy-fer" 𝟱. 𝘀𝗽 / 𝘀𝘁 at the start of a word, pronounced 𝘴𝘩𝘱 / 𝘴𝘩𝘵 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦 (language) — "shpra-kheh" 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘥𝘵 (city) — "shtat" Five rules. Hundreds of words now readable. This has nothing to do with talent but purr pattern recognition. And patterns can be taught.

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Article by Judith Bleich

 https://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/bleich_rsrh.pdf

only as instruments for translating the Torah into living reality

 Israel should be one nation, an entire nation that should have no other foundation for its existence, survival, activity and significance other than this Torah. It is to see the realization and devoted observance of this God-given "fiery Law" as its one contribution in world history for the edifice of human salvation. What the Phoenicians sought to bring about with the keels of their ships, what the ancient Greeks sought to achieve with their chisels and what the ancient Romans sought to attain with their swords, Israel is to accomplish with its Torah. Nay more, Israel is a nation that became a nation only through and for the Torah, a nation that once owned a land and existed as a state only through and for the Torah, and which possessed that land and that statehood only as instruments for translating the Torah into living reality. This is why Israel was a people even before it possessed land and statehood; this, too, is why Israel survived as a people even after its land was destroyed and its statehood lost, and this is why it will survive as a nation as long as it does not lose this only מורשה, this sole foundation for its survival and significance. That is the kind of nation that Israel, that all of us, should be. 

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch "The Character of the Jewish Community," Collected Writings, Vol. VI, p. 35

2 Giants speak

 https://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/salanter_two_giants.pdf

I just read this and can relate

Germans don't do small talk.

They don't ask about your weekend

before a meeting.

They don't comment on the weather

to fill silence.

They just start.

One commenter wrote: In Germany we don't even have a real word for Smalltalk