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First night in Germany, opened a hotel window for ventilation, and it started falling downwards...Thought I'd broken an expensive window in my very first hour here! Called hotel staff, turns out there something called tilt-and-turn window.. 😭
#CultureShock
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One of my dreams is to write an article about German sex tourists in the red light districts of the Philippines. There are hundreds (maybe thousands) of half-German children with unreachable, sex tourist fathers. If not sex tourists, grimy old men who prey on poor Filipinas.
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Did you know that Hamburg has the second busiest train station in Europe, and that this is actually a problem?
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Since I am nearing the end of my rotation, I wanted to mention the things I like about Germany:
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13. And the best of all, a wonderfully inclusive vocabulary that contains words like Ohrwurm, Fernweh, Dumpfbacke, and my favourite - Backpfeifengesicht! 📑
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Going to mention something negative about Germany that I'm genuinely curious about. Having been in many countries in the world, Germany is in my experience, by a huge margin, the society where so many people are seemingly one second away from a moment of anger with a stranger.
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Today I saw this “I Am” thing in Düsseldorf in front of the Kö-Bogen. It says “I am the master of my fate”.
It turns out it’s not an ad for the FDP, but for the Invictus Games, which will be held in the city in September.
That means Harry and Meghan are coming to town!
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I think about the getränke section of this currywurst imbiss a lot
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Apropos Schleswig-Holstein, if you ever find yourself in the city of Schleswig, you should visit this Edeka. The workers wear t-shirts that say "Der beste Fick im Norden"
There’s also a pretty decent café inside
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1. How ready everyone is for a hike always - whether bummeln/ spazierengehen/ wandern/ klettern/ laufen. 🚶🏻♀️
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6. Windows that are huge and seem to open in all possible directions. 🪟
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7. The public transport - I’m in no hurry to get a Führerschein here. The Deutschlandticket is a cherry on the cake. 🚉🚎
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12. Trust system - Very common to see unmanned stalls selling eggs, milk, or homemade jams in the countryside, and people dutifully pay for them. Likewise, tying up pets outside shops without worrying anyone will harm them. 🥚🫙🐶
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11. Schengen Visa - For Indians like me, who can’t travel anywhere on a whim, it provides a choice to travel in 26 countries on our resident permit. It’s just beautiful. 🗺️
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3. The non-judgement when I eat everything with Pommes and it’s totally normal. 🍟
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4. How nice everyone is despite your broken, stuttering, and grammatically wrong speech. 🤗
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8. The stark dichotomy between German discipline and the German party mode when everyone just lets loose. ⏲️🥳
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2. How there is vegetarian and vegan food available everywhere - already covered that. 🍲
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5. The showers - they’re flexible, unlike the fixed ones in the US. In India, we traditionally just have bucket baths. The ones here are just great. 🚿🪣
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10. Work culture - No forced overtime, amazing work-life balance, lots of vacation days AND no disputing the vacations you choose. 👩🏻💼🧑🏻💻
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9. Student life - There is time as well as freedom to choose your courses, a very research oriented approach, semester tickets and discounts, access to HiWis and mini-jobs, no tuition fees, and also many English courses. 👩🏻🎓🏫
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Children of sex tourists end up stuck in a cycle of prostitution, since their mothers can’t afford a better quality of life for them. Sex tourists create more poverty in already impoverished areas. I’ve always wondered why the EU has never addressed children born from sex tourism
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I was just looking up a table for the German cases and came across this on Wiki. What?
By Touhidur Rahman - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
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This can’t be the S-Bahn?! Where’s the graffiti, the olfactory cuvée of piss, sweat and illness? The gentle background clink of bottles rolling around? the resident carriage weirdo (I’m sure they’re on the S-Bahn payroll)? Oh, I’m on the Munich S-Bahn 🚈 , not Berlin.
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Gare du Nord in Paris has 245 million passengers per year, Hamburg Hauptbahnhof 196 million. Problem is, Gare du Nord has 32 platforms but Hamburg only 12. That creates an incredible train traffic and if you have to get your train there, you'll need some good nerves.
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P.S. I don't know how I forgot to add the garbage disposal system - So much better compared to the US and India with the waste segregation, old clothes and glass disposal bins, and the Pfand system!
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In another world, he’d be taking over this account instead of me (I’m not even German), but he can’t do that. He should be able to, though, because he /is/ German. I’d really like to know if DE/the EU ever plans on doing something about half-German kids born out of sex tourism :(
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Does anyone of you know this cake? It's called Butterkuchen. This is the one my partner can eat all day long
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A clear sign I'm getting closer to Lübeck: Marzipan is being sold from a roadside vending machine.
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I'm not a conspiracy theorists, but I know for a fact that there is a C3 level of German.
The test for it requires you to hold a substantive 15 minute conversation with a middle aged German exclusively using grunts, inhales and meaningful looks.
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This used to be the river Rhine. This photo was taken north of Ingelheim near Bacharach. I've been following the weather forecast yesterday. No rain at all
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So, I‘ll start with My Favorite German Towns
The beauty of Germany is in the small towns and not the big cities because they were mostly destroyed in the war. So here’s my list of the towns worth visiting (especially now with the Deutschlandticket!):
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first appointment at a doctor’s office in germany today.
me: hallo ich habe ein termin-
receptionist: JUST A MOMENT
me: 😔 ok
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On top of that rail network planning forces you to go to central station. In Berlin the rail network is decentralized. In Hamburg all trains go through central station. There is no Ringbahn like in Berlin.
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If you aren’t in Germany, you might think our comments about sending faxes are jokes. They aren’t.
How many of you have sent, received, or been asked to send a fax in the past year?
Me - last year when I had to send something to local government office.
Just sent a fax (yes, you read that right) in 2023. Thanks Germany for this!
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My favourite things
#5
: Bread
Living in Germany will RUIN you for other bread. There’s a proper bakery culture here: fresh bread rolls in the morning and scores of bread types, mostly sourdough with whole grain for high fibre.
Sliced white bread from supermarkets? Begone Satan!
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Good evening, good evening. I’m Eoghan. Pronounced Oh-En. I’m from Ireland and have been residing in Germany for the past 13 years. I’m currently living in Konstanz on the wonderful Bodensee. Looking forward to posting all week and getting to know some of ye!
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So we all agreed that German bread is good and that chained bakery’s are shit but I’m calling a spade a spade here guys.. Germany does NOT do sandwiches. Belegte Brötchen mit ein Stuck Käse und Salami that looks like it came from Ed Geins mantelpiece. Learn.
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One thing I like about Berlin is the superb public transportation system.
And each station has its own style and charm. Visited this one for the first time today 🚋
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There are times when 🇩🇪 language brings me to the brink of despair. Then I seek solace from M. Twain.
"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth."
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Quick intro about me: I’m Duygu from Turkey, currently living in Berlin (yeah, I know, *sigh*). I’m 36, married, and a new mom to a 7-month-old. I lived, studied, and worked in Turkey until 2016, when I decided to shake things up and moved to Barcelona for an MBA.
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And I promise not to post anymore pictures of food now. But this is what I made my visiting family last time for Abendbrot. I like food guys. I like German cheeses and meats. All this produce was bought in Aldi btw very cheap
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Germany: We take data privacy very seriously!
Also Germany: Please upload your picture of your passport to use this bike rental app.
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Its a couple (or more) of scoops of vanilla eis. Topped with more vanilla eis pushed through a potato masher. On top of that, a generous helping of strawberry sauce.
Enjoy.
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hello friends,
@potatoslav
here! i’ll be taking over this week.
i’m originally from New Jersey, USA and have been living in Göttingen for the past year. I’ve been spending my time here exploring, drinking beer, going to any festival i can find, and speaking terrible German.
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My unpopular opinion is that rail transport in Germany is not *that* bad! Certainly not worth how much people complain about it. I commute once a week to Erfurt and genuinely enjoy it. Outside of East Asia and Switzerland, is there anywhere significantly better?
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Hello! I'm
@aventuraobscura
I'll be your own personal Germany for the next week. From the UK/lived in Berlin for 14yrs! I host/write radio documentaries for the BBC + lead historical walking tours of Berlin. Expect football, art, history, and possibly controversial posting ✨️❤️
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Namaste and Hello! 🇩🇪🇮🇳
I'm
@abhinavr8
from Koblenz and originally from New Delhi, India. I came to the big Rheinland Pfalz to study for a Masters course.
You can expect tweets from me about life as a student in DE, Germany vs India, my love for football and the Bundesliga.
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All new planned lines (U4-U5-S4) use the central station as well. I see no easy solution for the central station but every year there are 15.000 more Hamburgians. We will need a Ringbahn very soon.
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Saw an old German Nun (in Nun attire), in Lidl, passing really harsh judgemental looks to a young Muslim girl wearing a burqa (entirely covered).
Ma'am, you both are two sides of the same coin i.e. hardcore religious representation.
Try being kind. It doesn't hurt.
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So it‘s a Sunday. Once again, I forgot to get groceries yesterday, so I had to get creative.
There‘s no supermarket in the train station, so hello from the Landesairport Stuttgart-Echterdingen-Manfred Rommel!
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The city planners want you to visit the city centre which is not per se a bad thing. Almost all European cities have a similar concept but not the metropols. It creates overcapacity problems at intersection points.
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My time on this account is coming to an end so I thought I’d share some memories of my life in Germany.
From an au-pair who come over for a year to the decision to stay, becoming a ‘Mama’, through to getting German citizenship. It’s been quite a journey.
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Germany is full of riddles, this one was one of my favorites when I came here, it took me years to know what this was, because I didn't want to take a pic of some strangers door and I failed miserably trying to ask germans what I was seeing in some doors in casual conversations
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Tell a German that there is no good bread in Germany and watch them turn into a turbo patriot in 2 seconds.
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What happened to this kind of toilet with observation deck? From my point of view one on the highs of German culture. No kidding
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I'm saying this with the caveat that I also love Germany/Germans and have chosen to live here for 12+ years. But I'm quite sure you all know what I'm talking about. Where do you think this comes from? There is a culture here of 'commentary' on strangers activities, so maybe...
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You know what I love abt Germany? That people prioritise functional clothing over uncomfortable pretty stuff. The vanity quotient in this country isn't as high as several other countries. Especially Dubai, so it's even more contrasting to my mind.
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How I frequently spend my Friday and/or Saturday nights: in the volunteer, English language used bookstore my friend helps to run in Berlin Kreuzberg. It’s called Another Country and you can find it on Riemannstr. 7
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To all the Germans who haven’t been very nice to me.. the next time I’m in Spain I’m gonna get up at 1am and put my towels on every single deckchair in the hotel before you even get to smell Them. I like fighting fire with fire.
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German learners have often learned to deploy a genau when the situation calls for it, but personally I've come to getting joy from a well placed wunderbar.
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My apartment is three blocks outside the Lioness danger zone 🦁 never a dull day in Berlin
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A tiny little bit about my experience with Germany: I don't have any, I live in Berlin.
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I need to talk about my Tschibo addiction. If you don’t know it, it’s a shop that originally sold coffee and is now basically the ALDI middle aisle.
Every week, a new world.
If my family can’t find me in a supermarket, they look for the Tschibo section.
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A long thread about Schleswig and Holstein:
As a person who is very interested in history, I love all that Holy Roman Empire inner drama and its borders. Just look at this monster. What a madness. If I was the map maker who had to make this, I would look for another job 😂
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What is your favourite restaurant in Berlin? Not necessarily like objectively "the best", your wee little spot that you love to go back to
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Something I find equally silly and very endearing in Germany is how it’s common to greet all the other patients sitting in the doctor’s waiting room
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Another advantage to living in East Germany is all the good Vietnamese restaurants that exist even in small towns like mine.
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I've been working for companies in both the US and Poland for more than 25 years. Germany is the first place I've been peer pressured into working less.
The look of pity on some people's faces when I tell them I work full time is not something I'd expected to see.
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Learnt yesterday that these plaques in the streets of Frankfurt are homage to those who died or fled due to Nazi oppression during the war!
I never even noticed them until my friend pointed it out!
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Pesto Mazesoba (Japanese style saucy noodles with no broth, almost like pasta) at Kuma Ramen, Berlin.
This place never fails to surprise me.
A thread of the ramen places I like in Berlin (and I have high standards) 🧵
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Brace yourselves, there is a whole part of Germany that is neither Berlin nor Bavaria. It's true
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..It's a branch of this? I do feel like the anger is a different topic though. To be walking down the road, minding your own business to angrily shouting at someone you don't know within a second is so much more unusual in other cultures. I dunno, what do you think?
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How did We Get Here?!!!
Good evening. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin...
My name's Jacquie, and having turned 50 last Friday, I have now spent almost exactly half of my life here in Baden Württemberg, which is terrifying.
It feels very apt to be publishing on this...
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At a Doner kebab place, the guy taking my order spoke in German. Curious about his accent, I asked "Woher kommst du?" He said India. I replied in Hindi, "Why the hell we talking in German?" And trust me when language, accent changes the person changes 😂 We both had a good laugh!
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Hello Twitter! My name is MJ, taking over from Berlin!
I was born and raised in Hawai’i, spent the last 15 years living all over the place, and settled in Germany seven years ago. Just got my Daueraufenthaltstitel last Monday! 🎉
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Confession: Germany has gotten me hooked on sparkling water. My Wassersprudler is an essential part of my kitchen. I drink Weißweinschorle so often that plain wine tastes too strong for me now. 🤷🏻♀️ How about you?
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We moved out of DE in 2008 and moved back in 2016. One of the biggest changes was the shift from Sie to Du.
I recall going into a Lush store in 2016, and the young saleswoman said ‘Du’ to me. That wouldn’t have happened in 2008.
I reckon 'Sie' will disappear within 10 yrs.
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The german language doesn't exist without
#denglish
words. Such as handy for cellphone or base cap for baseball cap. I use these words as well, because they seem german. Which denglish words did you come across. Let's have a little fun
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I gave up dating completely a year ago when I realized I would rather be spending my time with my lovely friends rather than listening to men talk about themselves. I feel like the app thing is over.
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“Anmeldung online möglich”
Berliners can now register their addresses online, and other federal states will be able to from 2024.
Good news.
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Anyone else got bilingual kids? My fav moment was walking on to the ubahn and my then-4 year old announcing loudly "mummy, look at all the Germans!"
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Migrating to Germany totally shattered the myth of efficiency and hard work I had of this land. Especially coming from a land which is often portrayed as the stereotypical lazy mediterran messy land.
Not all of it for bad, I appreciate the work/life balance better. Strange tho
@germany_iam
The biggest benefit of consciously living abroad, of course, is learning the difference between
🅰️ 💩 be done like this because it makes sense and
🅱️ 💩 be done like this because of some insane tradition.
It still amazes me how many 🅱️ cases supposedly efficient 🇩🇪 has.
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I recently learned that InterNations ranked Germany the HARDEST country to start a new life in. Bahrain came in first.
I was surprised! Sure, my early years were tough. But I thought moving to another country was always tough.
What do you think?
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Those double rows of bricks you see around the place here in Berlin are where the wall used to be.
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One thing I love about Berlin is how hyperlocalized it is. A lot of people don't have metro passes not because they own cars, but because they can function just fine within their kiez.
I have something like 20 supermarkets within a 15 minute walk, even Warsaw can't compete.
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Thanks for the fun guys. IM STAYING ANOTHER WEEK!!!!
Joking.
I’d like to hand ye over to the lovely
@bwboi1
Be nice to him!
Good luck man and enjoy!
Peace homies
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It's been interesting posting on an account with the level of engagement, and it reminds me of one thing I've observed for some time now:
No matter what opinion you have on Germany, if you post it online a German will soon come along to tell you you're wrong.
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The iconic Salzspeicher (Salt Storehouses) of Lübeck. These stored salt that was mined around Lüneburg before it was shipped out. Since salt was important for the preservation of food, it's one of the reasons Lübeck became such a wealthy town.
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Hola! After 12 years in Germany I am preparing to move to Spain. I thought it's good to compare my experiences arriving here and there - and I hope to hear your stories too.
I also changed my career: From finance to being a full time artist. Scary! ) I share some pics too.
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Germans are never offended when you try to speak to them in your broken German. I like this about them.
Also, Easy German is the best YouTube channel to learn German. I love those guys.
@germany_iam
I’m struggling to learn with Duolingo. When I go to Germany next year, I want to use what I’ve learned to improve it.
I just hope I don’t offend the locals
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Sometimes, Berlin is prettier on pictures than in reality, I don't know why.
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Classism in Immigration: A Thread
I came to Germany after the big refugee migration in 2015 on a student visa. A lot of Germans, EU/EEA citizens who I count as my friends have a very skewed notion of who I am or where I come from.
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Surely this is a completely fringe view? Just basic politeness to ask if you should take off your shoes, no?
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Hi, guys – My name is Evgenia, I am an artist on the move and this week I write about the difference between arriving in Germany twelve years ago – and starting a new life in Spain, which is what I slowly do now. I also might draw a quick sketch of your profile pictures,.. 1/2
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