• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    That’s one advantage of being German. You do just hear it when a German speaks English.

    A few weeks ago, we had a meeting at work and it was like 20 Germans, but one guy greeted in English, so I guess, this meeting is gonna be in English then. And like, us Germans were all doing extremely fine, but it was still just absolutely fucking comical when the native English speaker responded. In comparison, we all just sounded like shitty robots.

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      10 months ago

      German natives speaking English usually makes for one of my favourite accents, it’s very pleasant.

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        10 months ago

        I love Germans for a million reasons. there’s nothing I don’t like about them. Particularly impressive that most of them speak five languages fluently.

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          10 months ago

          Yeah, I think you are confusing the German with the Dutch. (Which happens a lot…)

          Dutch generally speak several languages. Germans in general speak only German and rudimentary English (if you’re lucky).

          (A common Dutch gripe with visiting German tourists is that Germans just assume the Dutch speak German (which they mostly do, so okay, they’ve got a point, but still) and just start speaking German without asking first)