Why learn German? I worked for German companies for a total of 28 years. At the second company I didn’t tell them I spoke and understood German. It came in handy until I was caught talking to a pretty German wife at a party when her husband came up and heard us.
My favorite German word is doch. Turns a false statement around.
Those familiar with SAP software can experience the rigor of the language. The German writers made the software just as unforgiving.
“until I was caught talking to a pretty German wife at a party when her husband came up and heard us”
I worked for Siemens for nearly 20 years and spend 2 of those years in Germany, so I know how this works. When he heard you taking to his wife, the first thing to cross his mind was what he might have said that he thought you would not understand. :-)