I took a year of German in graduate school so I could read German philosophical texts. On thing that really struck me about the language is that the main verb in a sentence goes at the end. So a German sentence translated word-for-word into English would be something like "I to the store in my car went."
Also I remember learning that German philosophy students prefer to read the English translation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason because it broke up the impossibly long sentences of the original.