I mean I was planning to visit in the next couple of years anyway I guess…
I lived in Germany from '83 to '94, but I never did learn to speak much of it since I went to American schools. Apparently most Germans speak decent English now? That would have been nice back in the day!
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please be advised that speaking german properly is super fucking hard compared to learning many other languages, and you don’t need german in germany for the most part.
when I’m in germany I speak my shitty, broken german and they respond to me in english
That’s when you double down and tell them in German that you don’t speak English. That’ll confuse 'em.
I, a white man, would love to learn to speak German with an Indian accent just to really fuck with 'em
I was thinking about it for a while. The posts encouraged me. The prospect of possibly wanting to leave the US in the next year or two depending on things also makes me want to learn a second language.
Viel Spaß dabei!
I’ve been learning German for a few years (very slowly) now with Duolingo. I see a lot of Spanish posts too (especially on masto) and have been enjoying how the fediverse encourages me to work on my languages.
Don’t learn german. As a german I always feel sorry for people who learn this language just for 80 million old people ^^
Mark Twain wrote an essay about The awful German language
Deutsch ist gar nicht so schwierig. Versuch es doch einfach mal!
A better reason to learn it is that anything you say in German sounds like swearing.
Mein Hovercraft ist voll von Aalen!
Holy heck that is an oooooold MAD-Magazine reference. xD Kudos my good sir!
An old Monty Python reference. 😀
Huh? Wo sind die posts? Where are they?
I just blocked the communities 😅
du kannst rennen, aber du kannst dich nicht verstecken!
God bless you?
Gott segne dich? Nein…
Deutschland vereinig dich gegen den unhöflichen Angelsachsen!
I was learning it (super slowly, thanks ADHD) anyway, but it was when I finally read a 3-sentence long post and could read 90% of it without really thinking about it that I felt I was progressing at all
So of course I haven’t practiced in weeks now, fuuck