This says it all… No, English isn’t enough. If you live here, you should learn German.

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  1. It’s the only thing making sense anyway.
    If you plan to live somewhere, learn the language.
    Not doing so stops you from integrating into society, having access to many services, and it’s really rude and entitled to move somewhere and expect everyone to speak your language.

    I wouldn’t try moving to UK or US and expect everything to work with only knowing German/French/Kurdish or a different language, refusing to learn English etc.

  2. It’s not just the *able* part, it’s also the *willing*, which will be lower to start with and then declining with time. In general, people in Germany are not used to daily multilingual social interactions.

  3. The average in the country doesn’t represent the lived experience of people in places like Berlin or Munich though…

  4. Why is yellow not used to signify the middle, just like in any other map? The usual way is: dark blue = the best, yellow = the middle, dark red = the worst.

    Seems almost like someone wants to make a point here.

  5. Germans are not willing to keep a conversation with you even in German, if you are not close to native level… I can understand it though, conversation is a pleasure and what is the pleasure to talk to person, who talks funny and with limited set of words?

    So it is not enough to learn german, you must know it on very decent level.

  6. I don’t give af if you talk to me in english, its fine. The englishphobia of germans is appaling.

  7. Yeah sure.. Austria 73%..
    They cannot even speak proper german because they try too much as 99% of viennese population.

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