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I strongly recommend learning German if living in Berlin, but I also know a bunch of Americans living there who get by fine on ten words of German for the groce
by biztos 10y ago
I strongly recommend learning German if living in Berlin, but I also know a bunch of Americans living there who get by fine on ten words of German for the grocery store, and the rest all happens in English.
- bogomipz 10y agoAre you a native German speaker or did you also learn? Any recommendations? I have heard the Goethe Institute is great but its very expensive.
- ianhowson 10y agoI studied with the Goethe Institute in Sydney and highly recommend it.
- biztos 10y agoI learned but I learned quite early, being an exchange student twice (high school and university, one year each). So I've been pretty much fluent since I was 17, which I realize is much easier than moving there in your 20's/30's. But if you're in Germany I recommend immersion -- try hard to make friends who don't speak English or at least won't automatically switch into English all the time. That and the Volkshochschule. Out of country yeah, I think Goethe Institute is the way to go if it's available where you are. Just based on reputation, but it's also a path into the German university system if you're interested in that.
- stevekemp 10y agoI think that goes for _any_ country you move to. Yes, in many places you can get by just learning "please", "thank-you", and basic numbers. But learning a language will let you fit in much more easily, and will make people more willing to help you. (Recently moved from Scotland to Finland. Great country. Horrible language!)