How come all the Germans on here know fluent English, but visiting Germany in person, barely anyone could speak it correctly?
I thought 2/3rds of Germany could hold a conversation in fluent English
How come all the Germans on here know fluent English, but visiting Germany in person...
Caleb Bennett
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Kevin Taylor
If they can’t speak English, why would they bother posting here?
Gabriel Ramirez
Because this is an english speaking imageboard?
Jayden Edwards
Maybe they just didn't want to speak to you
Wyatt Gonzalez
I'm guessing the posters here are younger than average plus this
Colton Gomez
Yes, this is the reason.
There are also a lot of Mexicans on this imageboard, but if you were to go to Mexico 5% would barely speak English.
Alexander Perez
I don't speak english to anyone outside work either and I'm fluent in it. I simply refuse to do that in the only small corner of the world where I can speak finnish.
William Powell
Invade my country
Invade my image board
Whats next?
Gavin Cook
It works liek this: you visit my country and TRY to blurb at least 2 words in my language and then we can skip to yours OR you stay home and talk english all you want.
James Ramirez
>hold a conversation in fluent English
What does "hold a conversation" mean? Like ask how the weather is? or full on conversation about the meaning of life and all that?
Sebastian Cooper
your women
Justin Cox
Germans can speak English, they just elect not to whenever they please. And to be honest, talking to Yanks... I can hardly blame them.
Ian Scott
The Germans who cannot speak English well have no idea about this platform.
Adam Powell
I speak English like my native language, and many of my Mexican friends ask me to speak English, but I too refuse to do so.
Noah Taylor
It's not a necessary skill.
Business people know English but why would the average german worker learn English. He isn't ever going to migrate.
Carter Thomas
>how come people on a website whose content is in English speak English
Are you retarded
Parker Rivera
only the elite visits Jow Forums
this applies for every country btw
Jeremiah Anderson
Depends on where you were visiting and their age group. Also, they might not have many opportunities to speak English, so it sounds off or they aren't comfortable with it.
Aiden Barnes
It's more prelavant in the West and younger Germans but I even had trouble with high school aged kids who worked at gas stations in Bavaria as far as being fluent.
Carter Flores
You’re making me blush, Germanbro.
Adam Nguyen
>and many of my Mexican friends ask me to speak English, but I too refuse to do so.
What as a party trick?
Jonathan Scott
When I am approached by what I suspect are Americans I pretend I can't speak English too.
Wyatt Davis
also
>why aren't these results indicative of real life germany
Cooper Martin
>the average Joe is on Jow Forums
Hudson Reed
There's a bunch of Latin Americans on here too. But if you see the average illegal on the street (who are usually the best and brightest), they barely speak English
Jack Ross
Me too.
Ryan Ramirez
>It's more prelavant in the West
bullshit, you probably also think people in eastern Germany voluntarily chose to be part of the Warsaw pact and socialist and learn Russian as first foreign language
Christian Fisher
Average people don't visit Jow Forums.org/int/. Hell, I'd argue that average people are largely unaware of the English speaking internet.
Charles Moore
Well, Tyrone, I would like to excuse on behalf of my Nordic neighbours who we also call the "Schwaben". They, indeed, are not very articulate in English. Even their German is more than substandard. I remember when the teacher in school told us we should not copy the German's Mickey Mouse German. They do have the annoying habit to shorten a lot of words, which is something you would expect rather the deplorables (or as Joe would call them: the dreg) to do. So, quite unironically, we, the Swiss masterrace, write a much more sophisticated German than our Northern underlings.
As far as the English is concerned: Yea, when the huns speak English it sounds quite terrible. Like a night air raid on Dresden, may I add.
Elijah Fisher
>only the elite visits Jow Forums
Definitely, Krautfren. That's why we got the Cambridge Proficiency in English.
Joseph Howard
Alexander Campbell
How do all the Romance countries have such shitty English profiency when English is more Latin than Germanic?
Brandon Williams
Benjamin Turner
>English is more Latin than Germanic
Tyler Cook
>Singapore
>South Africa (Rep. of Sth Africa)
>Malaysia
In those countries, English is the national language or one of the national languages.
In addition, let's not forget that we in Switzerland got a lot of foreigners aka Abschaum who cannot speak English but have received Swiss citizenship.
*statistics*
*rankings*
Nathan Rivera
>The ruined city of Jow Forums Jow Forums board is a social indicator
Americans don't ever stop showing how dumb they are huh?
Brandon Lopez
>in Switzerland got a lot of foreigners aka Abschaum who cannot speak English
in stark contrast to Germany I suppose
Asher Brown
Why don’t brits know a second language?
Jose Stewart
Because we know english. Learning something on top of that is a luxury and not a necessity
David Morris
how is swabia nordic
Christopher Howard
>Poland rank 11
Nicholas Richardson
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Classic fuck America post. CLASSIC. Please, post more, it's a joke that never gets old!
Carson Long
Swiss don't know how to speak foreign languages other than Intelligible German
William Carter
It's funny because it- *realizes who he is responding to*
Brody Scott
>how is swabia nordic
We call all Germans "Schwaben" or
>Sauschwaben
Doesn't matter where they come from.
>Germans: Schwaben
>Shitalians: Sautschinggen or just Tschinggen
Grayson Foster
How come Swiss German is different than standard German? Swiss French and Swiss Italian aren’t that different from what the standard is
Adam Ward
>he thinks we're joking
Levi Nguyen
>but visiting Germany in person, barely anyone could speak it correctly?
I didn't have this experience when I was there whether it was a bank, supermarket, pharmacy or a shop. Most people knew.