As another season goes by, we provide Dennis Seidenberg's Jahreszeugnis (report card) and sum up the 15/16 season through the medium of ten words in his native language.
German is a wonderful language. Intricate, logical, often bewildering to those who try to study it. It's also full of wonderful things called compound words - words that can express an idea or meaning by combining two other concepts, often idiomatically. And since it's Dennis Seidenberg's native language, what better medium to sum up and relive a year that the German would rather forget? After all, as Germany's foremost rapper Bushido once told us, "Vergessen ist einfach, aber verzeihen ist schwerer" ("to forget is simple.