Does 'When I first began to study German it took a while to learn that Gift was not something one wanted for Christmas, and that Mist was not cool and dewy, but warm and smelly.' hold a position of neutrality in relation to 'It was not easy studying German at the beginning.'
When I first began to study German it took a while to learn that Gift was not something one wanted for Christmas, and that Mist was not cool and dewy, but warm and smelly.###It was not easy studying German at the beginning.