• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    That’s one advantage of being German. You do just hear it when a German speaks English.

    A few weeks ago, we had a meeting at work and it was like 20 Germans, but one guy greeted in English, so I guess, this meeting is gonna be in English then. And like, us Germans were all doing extremely fine, but it was still just absolutely fucking comical when the native English speaker responded. In comparison, we all just sounded like shitty robots.

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      1 year ago

      German natives speaking English usually makes for one of my favourite accents, it’s very pleasant.

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      1 year ago

      It goes both ways - when I speak German I have an obvious English-speaker accent and many Germans will just answer me in English 😄