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Speculating on what OP meant, but it might be generational, in Germany often older people won't speak English that well. Younger people will generally have done
by jamil7 3y ago
Speculating on what OP meant, but it might be generational, in Germany often older people won't speak English that well. Younger people will generally have done a lot more English in school, however, and tend to be better. This is generalizing a fair bit, though.
- ben_w 3y agoMmm. From what I've been told, the older generation around these parts (east Berlin) would've been forced to learn Russian at school as their second language, and then been completely unable to practice it with anyone as all of the native speakers were soldiers from the USSR who would've been banned from fraternising with the locals.