Cases are what kill you in Slavic languages. Articles are a breeze though 😉

confuses the hell out of me (and I'm German)

And rightfully so. I'm also German, I learned Sorbian (slavic minority in Lusatia), and I can very much feel your pain.

Russian has 6 cases. two more than german.

the added ones are instrumental and prepositional.

Yeah but I have you tagged as manosphere, so that is probably a you problem.

And they aren't clear when to use them either, it's kinda cute when they look at you questioningly if they did correctly after formulating a sentence.

Neither does Polish. I know at least one polaka who confuses the/a(n) 15% of the time.

it doesn't really use article at all.

it's highly cased, the cases and inflection do all the work.

I think it's the case with most Slavic languages. My wife's native tongue is Serbian, and knowinf when and how to use articles was one the hardest parts of learning English for her.

Elaborate.
I thought there wasn't a word for "the".

Quite the statement for an English comment. English spelling is nonsensical and in desperate need of a major reform. RobWords even made the case for using runes again as it would probably fix a lot of issues already. The language simply isn't made for Latin letters.

But I don't want to make this a sole whataboutism comment. Each language poses it's own challenges. I will say that changing how roughly 100 million speak is easier said than done and would destroy a lot of culture. It would be much easier to force everyone to speak a different language entirely.

Personally I don't think it should or could be done at all. Unlike a spelling reform that English needs desperately and German had plenty of recently. There is nothing wrong with a language being complicated but there's plenty wrong with arbitrary spelling if you ask me.

you'd have to have case endings for all the nouns instead.

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