> It is way too easy to start using German words where Russian translations are cumbersome or unusual. (Prime example is "Termin" - "appointment". In Russian th

> It is way too easy to start using German words where Russian translations are cumbersome or unusual. (Prime example is "Termin" - "appointment". In Russian there's just no good translation for this word.) I've noticed that the Taiwanese community in Germany will generally speak Mandarin, except for a handful of words that they borrow from German. "Termin" is one of them :) I'd never have expected that such a little word could be so useful.