Whenever I try to speak German

[Christian-idis]

“ it’s broken because you guys don’t speak German with me“ 😭 never heard a truer sentence for language learners LMFAOO

[poorvisewtohul.]

The waiter is there like, "This bitch-"

[Stray]

1) Hallo
2) das da (*pointing finger*)
3) Danke
works every time

[zareien]

Trilingual english teacher here. If someone is earnestly trying to speak a language, it's really rewarding for them if you slow down and try and speak clearly in their target language. Confidence is super important in language learning, so having a good language experience can help them learn the language faster

[ikaru]

The woman: Is my German that bad?? ;_;
The cashier: Is my English that bad?? ;_;

[angrymario]

I don't get the chance to speak English often, so I take every chance I take

[kimmaried.]

Living in Baden Baden, I had a group of german kids come to the door and ask for my daughter. I politely told them she was in a shoe 😂😂😂. I thought I said school.

[Titihoki]

The cashier wants to practice her English 😂

[trickytrilobite]

This happened when I was in France, as soon as they’d hear me say “bonjour” with the most obvious accent I’d get a “hello” back 😭

[thezaher]

In Berlin a waiter once came to our table and we thought he greeted us in English, so we ordered in English and proceeded to talk to each other infront of him in German.
The look on his face was priceless 😂

[waterlily]

My greatest accomplishment in life was talking French at the Montreal store lady and her talking back at me in French 😭

[greystorms]

Her: “I just want to practice my German with someone who speaks German! Why can’t she just speak German 😩”
Waitress: “I just want to practice my English with someone who speaks English! Why can’t she just speak English 😩”

[Leelz]

This is my experience with French. I want to improve, but half the time I'm told to just speak English. Please, please just humor me and tolerate my mistakes and sleak slowly, I improve with every conversation. I can understand at least part of each sentence and then piece together the rest from context.

[Afurolypse]

learning english as a german is extremely easy compared to the other way around ngl

[TheNiczolai]

This is actually amazing. The JD team has really upped themselves and I’m so proud of them all. Well done guys! <3

[Spacebaron]

Is no one going to mention how they communicated to each other telepathically?

[firerinart]

THIS BROUGHT BACK A REPRESSED MEMORY. I was in Italy on vacation as a teen and was so proud I had learned some basic Italian words. In a store I asked the lady at the counter “how much does this cost?” With perfect pronunciation… but when she responded I realized I hadn’t learned numbers and couldn’t understand her response. 😂😂😂

Edit: to the people asking how I responded, I eloquently continued to show off my Italian by asking "Could you say that in English?" ALSO IN ITALIAN (it was a very old cash only store so there was no till display to read).

[TheMagicalPotato.]

The word “Verschlimmbesserung” is so relatable

[lamonstudystereo]

An old German man told me to never admit that I can speak English coz most ppl want to practice their English so it'll take me longer to learn German. I followed his advice and kept saying No Englisch now my german is really good without accent and I forgot my English hihi👏🤣

[prisoner_of_hope]

No one spoke to me in English when I was in Germany and I loved it!!! My German got really good very quickly. My best teachers were little kids. They were so sweet and would give me quizzes with the wrong answers to see if I really got it🥰🥰