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by bulbar 21 days ago
That's basically why you should learn the language of the country you live in.

Blaming people for not speaking English in Germany is pretty weird. How about learning German instead?

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> Blaming people for not speaking English in Germany is pretty weird. How about learning German instead?

As the poster wrote:

>> At one point I ended up in the weirdest situation of my live were i translated the german instructions from the phone rep into english [..]

which implies that he does, in fact, speak German. The movers did not, though.

I speak german as a mothertongue and fluent english, and I had massive troubles communicating in my own home.
I see, that wasn't clear to me from what you wrote.