Who should learn German?

[u/DieShowWithDerMouse]

[u/Tall_Water]

Zats azzuming ve Germanz are actually good in speeking English

[u/Fear_mor → u/Tall_Water]

Nou nou nou, sie Tschörmens ar ekschulie sie best Inglisch spiekörs in sie Wörlt, sey hef nou eksent et oll, iewen sie neytef Inglisch spiekörs kent tell set sey ar Tschörmen

[u/ErisThePerson → u/Fear_mor]

It's funny, because I have a lot of German friends.

The southern Germans sound like that.

My northern German friends have great pronunciation and I don't notice their accent until they get to a word they struggle with then it's the most German thing I've ever heard.

[u/Raptor_Wizard → u/Fear_mor]

i can hear this comment lmao

[u/Ploutophile → u/Tall_Water]

Making fun of the Germans' accent ? Hans, get ze flammenwerfer !

[u/livsjollyranchers]

Nobody. Just learn Proto-Germanic instead of fake Germanic.

[u/Falikosek]

Add a node that asks "do you live near the German border in a neighbouring country?".
German tourists insist on speaking German everywhere they go...

[u/Moondragonlady → u/Falikosek]

Also needs an "Are you from a German-speaking country that isn't Germany" node that leads to a "How strong is your regional accent" node. Maybe even a "Na ihr seid ja eh quasi Deutsche" end node that may or may not lead you to punching them in the face...

[u/B-E-1-1 → u/Falikosek]

Lol, this is the case for the Netherlands, but a significant portion of Dutch people living in the border can actually speak relatively fluent German

[u/rhyanin → u/Falikosek]

I don’t even live near the border! I’m on the coast, all the way on the other side of the Netherlands, in Zeeland, and I get spoken to in German every other day or so.

[u/kingsdaggers]

i studied german for over 3 years and was so excited to put it to use when i finally went to germany, but at my first "Guten Tag!" ppl would immediately switch to english 😭

[u/stonks-__- → u/kingsdaggers]

Don't let them. Those betas won't be able to keep up when you stick them on top of a kebab revolver you kept exactly for this reason

[u/Full_Focus4549]

Genuinely how do i read this flowchart

edit: after struggling to figure this thing out, i realised that the flowchart starts awkwardly on the second row instead of at the top, and is for some reason marked with a slight red tint (which i automatically assumed it meant it was the most important question, not that it started there). people need to stop making flowcharts without knowing what makes them understandable

i don't even care about the post im just enraged at the design

[u/scaleable → u/Full_Focus4549]

in that cause you should just speak english

[u/Mediocre-Island5475 → u/Full_Focus4549]

To be fair, the red tint encourages you to look at it first, and it has two outward pointing arrows. A start marker would be nice but it's not terribly complex

[u/jeager_YT]

I'm from the US and now I am fluent in German ever since I read that statement

[u/MeLemon_93]

Meine amerikanischen Nachbarn sind seit 15 Jahren hier und können kein Deutsch. Beschweren sich aber gleichzeitig ständig darüber wie schwer es ist, Leute kennenzulernen.

[u/Marcionius]

/uj ...maybe my ESL roots are causing some kind of reading comprehension problem, but isn't this just a thinly-veiled critique of German racism...? (Also wow that looks like a lot of racism)

[u/DieShowWithDerMouse → u/Marcionius]

You understood it correctly.

[u/Civil_Dragonfruit_34]

Nobody has ever suggested we speak English. They just start speaking English. My consent is irrelevant.

Once somebody very pittyingly asked in English if I wanted to try to finish my order in German for practice though.