The Picard ManeuverPeople's Reaction When You Start Speaking Their Language.
Colour_me_triggeredSomeone’s never been to Germany. The only people I met who spoke English were a guy working in burger king who sounded like the terminator, and a baked teenager.
Sounds like you visted a rural area maybe in the former GDR?
Yeah in my experience pretty much everyone under the age of around 40 in any major city speaks English there. Cities like Berlin sometimes it seems like half the people there don’t speak German haha
samus12345When I lived there in the 80s to mid-90s most people I encountered didn’t speak much English. I’ve heard it’s different nowadays.
Yeah that makes sense, that’s right about when they started teaching English in schools from grade school on. That’s why everyone under 40 tends to speak great English but over 40 and it’s hit or miss.