• randint
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    5 months ago

    I’ve had a few Germans ask me why I bothered learning their language when I could just use English.

    So, why? You can’t leave us hanging like this!

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      5 months ago

      Haha I’ve lived there for almost a year between two stints and had a lot of free time for one of them so seemed like a fun thing to learn.

      It very occasionally has been helpful traveling in more rural Germany speaking areas

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      5 months ago

      I took German in high school (in the US) and I was really disappointed to learn that most people in Germany know English.

      I have used some German on the odd airport layover but it was never terribly useful even then. It made me sad