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> employees would just yell at people at German, so once I had to yell back at them to speak English. That seems odd. Would a German do the same in the US?
by cheerlessbog 7y ago
> employees would just yell at people at German, so once I had to yell back at them to speak English.
That seems odd. Would a German do the same in the US?
- majewsky 7y agoThere is a high chance that a random traveler will understand English. The same chance for German is way lower, including in Germany.
- wozer 7y agoNot in the US, but we like to do that in Spain.
- nkrisc 7y agoGiven that most European countries all speak different native languages but also speak widespread English as a common, second language, it seems a reasonable thing to request in an airport in a European capital where there are likely travelers from many different, non-German speaking countries.
- dgoodell 7y agoI am traveling in Eastern Europe right now and I have definitely seen instances in airports where both the airport personnel and the the traveler were obviously not native English speakers however English was the only way they could communicate. It seems that English is the international language of air travel. At least for now.
- icebraining 7y agoIs German the most-spoken second language across the whole continent where the US is located?
- nemetroid 7y agoIs German the most commonly spoken language in North America?