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.' challenge or dispute the premise '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.