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As they don't speak proper German here

and half my group is Chinese, I've not really bothered to learn much German...

I can speak a smattering of 'Co-op-deutsch', so I can get by at train stations and supermarkets, but conversation is a bit limited...

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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 23 May 2008, 23:36, archived)

You can survive here fine

with English, which is a pity because I'm too lazy to learn a language unless I'm forced to. I've started trying to bully friends into at least emailing in German by insisting on writing to them in German. That they tend to reply in English doesn't tell me that they think I suck at German. Oh no.

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boris the spider, Fri 23 May 2008, 23:42, archived)

I did give it a go.

but everyone wants to practice their English on the only native speaker in the department.
sometimes I feel more like a bloody secretary - I usually get five-ten documents to check a week for SPAG, etc.

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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 23 May 2008, 23:47, archived)

I don't get that as much as I thought

I think everyone (wrongly) believes that their English is perfect. Plus there's three native English speakers in my department here.

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boris the spider, Fri 23 May 2008, 23:54, archived)