I call myself lucky that I never had to really understand German grammar but simply learnt it more or less automagically growing up :)
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Growing up with it is by far the easiest way of learning German. But even many native speakers don't get the grammar right. German grammer is honestly a big mess. English is soooo much easier imo. And it also reads in a smoother way. German just doesn't have the same kind of flow to it (no idea how to properly put it into words). It's inconvenient to the point that I actually prefer reading stuff in English by now.
> that I actually prefer reading stuff in English
dunno, I think it's more caused by translations: it is impossible to not lose some details and deeper meaning when rewriting a text in a different language. my preferred genres are scifi and fantasy and there are simple not a lot of good German-speaking authors around, so reading the English sources is simply better (I would *love* to read, say, Stanisław Lem in the original language. don't understand one word Polish, alas)
> German grammer is honestly a big mess
heh, true. the part I most dislike i English is the more or less random way (to exaggerate _slightly_) how words are pronounced, never found for me a good way to map letters to sounds, with all the exceptions
About pronunciation, a lot of English's vocabulary (about 29%) comes from French, which, on top of being from an entirely different language group, has even worse pronunciation rules than English, which is why a lot of words have illogical pronunciation (there are six ways of pronouncing 'ough' and I fucking hate it).