Yes, I'm an American but back in the mid to late 90s I had a job that took me to Germany a lot. I think I wound up doing about 20 trips over about an 8 year per

Yes, I'm an American but back in the mid to late 90s I had a job that took me to Germany a lot. I think I wound up doing about 20 trips over about an 8 year period, one to two weeks each time. I didn't have any problems with the service, one I adjusted a bit to some different conventions: Germans tend to be blunter sometimes but they'd still help handle what I needed to get handled efficiently. I could struggle through basic conversations in German by the end of it, but we'd usually switch to English for anything nontrivial (or a language mix if the person I was talking to had limited or no English).