[dgellow]

I can confirm, that does make it pretty hard to learn if you’re in a large city where people generally speak fluent English

[nephihaha]

As I say above, I've used various tricks. Pretending to be Finnish. Putting on a very strong Scottish accent when they speak English to me. All that kind of thing.

[oytis]

You just continue speaking German to them until they give up.

[nephihaha]

You could be round all day trying to do that. Much easier to pretend you don't speak English.

[dgellow]

Yep!