[pawelwentpawel]

I've spent 8 precious years of my childhood taking compulsory classes in german language. As it turned out later, most of young germans speak excellent english. I should have taken french. If you end up in a big collaborative space with loads of people from different countries, they will all end up speaking english anyway.

[ff7f00]

How difficult would it be for a developer from the states to try and get a job out there? It's been a dream of mine for a while to venture out to Berlin/Germany and work out there for a year or two. I was born in Germany but do not have a passport (parents moved to the states when I was a year old).

I've visited once before and the sentiment is right, everyone out there spoke english (at least the younger crowd). I've been following the Berlin Ruby User Group but have been struggling to find good resources beyond that. Any recommendations?

[doc4t]

While it is true that most younger Germans speak fairly good English I can not recommend enough to learn the language.

Once you venture outside work and start to socialize you will eventually want to speak German as it is much more fun to be able to understand everything.

Further German actually have roughly 35% more words than English. Because of this and the way it is grammatically structured a lot of fine detail is often lost in translation as the words simply do not exist in English.