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Re:Almost All Research on the Mind Is in English. That’s a P... by jamil7 on Friday July 21, 2023 @12:58PM (#36816330)
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.
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Re:Almost All Research on the Mind Is in English. That’s a P... by ben_w on Friday July 21, 2023 @01:02PM (#36816405)
Mmm.

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.

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