Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32823535-20181004072724/@comment-36732883-20181004193828

DystopianMe wrote: NatanielMonach wrote: The only place I really wanna visit is Germany (as I am trying to learn the language). I am happy that you had great experiences in your travels. it's good to have pleasurable memories. So much of life is frenetic, work, study etc that that maybe we forget abt the beautiful things in the world, both people and places. I will stop wondering now,😅😅

😘😘 I would never discourage anyone from studying German. With its logic, reverse syntax and on the fly noun creation my three semesters (plus family history)  locked in an understanding of English (and it's sloppiness) that I didn't get from earlier study in Spanish. However when 2 friend and i spent a post-college summer in central Europe we all agreed that Germany was the one place we went that we didn't need the language. Consistent international signage and everywhere we went some English speaker was willing to stop and help. Even in places that you would not expect like the evening trainmaster in Oberammeragau who let us sleep in an otherwise locked waiting room of the terminal when we had no place to go at midnight. Many other countries had English speakers who hung around rail stations to "help" tourists but Germany didn't seem to have such predators. I understand that Switzerland would have near universal English speakers but in our experience Germany was filled with people proud of their own language but willing to work in ours. I am still at beginners level. Now, if I could just make sense of the declensions and cases etx... I find it is inspiring. Mostly I started learning to read authors without depending completely on translations. It's nice that in Germany they are willing to help foreigners using English, some places I hear, people feel offended somehow abt one not knowing their language.