Re:Why migrants come to Germany for work and then leave again
by bulbar on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @12:42AM
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That's basically why you should learn the language of the country you live in.
Blaming people for not speaking English in Germany is pretty weird. How about learning German instead?
Re:Why migrants come to Germany for work and then leave again
by fransje26 on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @04:49AM
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> Blaming people for not speaking English in Germany is pretty weird. How about learning German instead?
As the poster wrote:
>> At one point I ended up in the weirdest situation of my live were i translated the german instructions from the phone rep into english [..]
which implies that he does, in fact, speak German. The movers did not, though.
Re:Why migrants come to Germany for work and then leave again
by stnikolauswagne on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @01:16PM
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I speak german as a mothertongue and fluent english, and I had massive troubles communicating in my own home.
While there is a big chunk of the native german population speaking great english there is a subset of (often) service workers who... dont. Had multiple furniture movers come through my house the last few weeks, the only way to communicate with them was broken german, since they had no english skills and my (croatian? serbian?) skills were zero.
At one point I ended up in the weirdest situation of my live were i translated the german instructions from the phone rep into english to the shift lead of the moving company so he could then give them in the native language to the movers.