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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 627183" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>My experience overall has been that people are thrilled that you've made the effort to learn even a few words of their native language. They also love practicing your language and are eager to try it out.</p><p></p><p>Even France, which has a bad reputation, is cool with non-French speakers trying to learn (once you get out of Paris, anyway).</p><p></p><p>When I flew home from Germany for the last time, my seatmate on the plane was from Estonia and had taken English in high school. She spoke a little German as well, which was a good thing as I don't speak any Baltic languages.</p><p></p><p>The flight turned into a 10 hour English lesson in which we spoke in a polyglot of English, German, and hand signals.</p><p></p><p>We really had a good time and it took my mind off of how blasted uncomfortable I was crammed into a tiny coach seat on an older jet.</p><p></p><p>I speak and read smatterings of several European languages. I read a little French, but there are a couple of sounds in French that I just cannot figure out how to make, and I was very self-conscious in France.</p><p></p><p>Germany was easy. I spoke Yiddish which is related, and I started off with two phrases: "Was ist das auf Deutsch?" and "Wie viel kostet es?" Those were enough to start to learn names of things and to ask for prices when I went shopping.</p><p></p><p>I had no choice. husband and I were stationed in a smaller town and while he got 30 days leave when I arrived, immediately after that he deployed for 6 months. I was darned if I was going to restrict my shopping to the small base commissary and PX, and besides, there was all this neat history to explore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 627183, member: 1963"] My experience overall has been that people are thrilled that you've made the effort to learn even a few words of their native language. They also love practicing your language and are eager to try it out. Even France, which has a bad reputation, is cool with non-French speakers trying to learn (once you get out of Paris, anyway). When I flew home from Germany for the last time, my seatmate on the plane was from Estonia and had taken English in high school. She spoke a little German as well, which was a good thing as I don't speak any Baltic languages. The flight turned into a 10 hour English lesson in which we spoke in a polyglot of English, German, and hand signals. We really had a good time and it took my mind off of how blasted uncomfortable I was crammed into a tiny coach seat on an older jet. I speak and read smatterings of several European languages. I read a little French, but there are a couple of sounds in French that I just cannot figure out how to make, and I was very self-conscious in France. Germany was easy. I spoke Yiddish which is related, and I started off with two phrases: "Was ist das auf Deutsch?" and "Wie viel kostet es?" Those were enough to start to learn names of things and to ask for prices when I went shopping. I had no choice. husband and I were stationed in a smaller town and while he got 30 days leave when I arrived, immediately after that he deployed for 6 months. I was darned if I was going to restrict my shopping to the small base commissary and PX, and besides, there was all this neat history to explore. [/QUOTE]
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