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- From: me@dude.pcs.com (Michael Elbel)
- Subject: Re: Germany?
- Organization: PCS Computer Systeme GmbH
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:40:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <me.727692007@dude>
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- In <C16pMu.2n0@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au> ajl@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (Alexandre Lefebvre) writes:
-
- >In general, staff in shops are very unfriendly in Germany (this is
- >for everyone, and a bit more unfriendly to tourists), and when you
- >go shopping you have the weird impression that you are annoying them,
- >and that they don't have any sense of service. Get used to it!
-
- But then I had the very same feeling when I came to New York
- after a 5 Week stay in California :-)
-
-
- >Apart from that, the Germans in general speak pretty good English, and
- >are willing to use it, so it's not a problem not speaking the language
- >there, as soon as you're not too aggressive (try introducing and excusing
- >yourself in German first).
-
- This can even be a problem, if you're trying to use your German and
- all the Germans want to show off their English ;-)
-
- Michael
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