American guys just need to know one word: Bier
A great, very modern country for learning the (hard) language - Japan.
Tokyo, meh, you can be lazy a little, but get just a little bit outside and people scurry away if you use too much Engrish.
Crops in Japan are picked by Japanese.
Hotel beds are turned over by Japanese hands.
Taxis and busses are driven by Japanese drivers.
There will be ROBOTS everywhere before there are illegals there.
Because Allahu Akbar.
I took 4 years of German in high school and 2 semesters in college and I can’t put two sentences together. German is tough.
There are more Ostis that don't speak Germany than those in the west, but anyone you are going to be dealing with will be able to communicate in English.
Unless, of course, he's talking about the Muzzis being left out. And since he's in Madam Merkel's party, that may well be his point.
LOL, when you have 4 ways to say “the, this, that, them, yours etc. etc. it doesn’t make it easy.
I learned very little Spanish when I was in Spain for three years. It wasn’t that I had never studied Spanish or that I was unwilling to learn, it was that the moment a Spaniard would figure out I’m American, he or she would immediately speak in English. Really bad English, in most cases, but still English.
When the native population of a country is so ready to switch to English, it can be very difficult to learn the host language. It is then bad form to blame the English speakers for not bothering to learn the language.
I only spent a year in France, but I learned to speak it fluently and can still get by over 30 years later. That’s because hardly anyone spoke English, and I had to learn. Total immersion is really the fastest and most effective way to learn a language.
That’s really funny, because most Americans can’t speak English.
I've actually had this happen to me. I talk in German and the German wants to talk to me in English. Strange.