Timeline for Speaking German abroad and feeling condescended to when people speak English back to me
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| Nov 9, 2019 at 21:07 | comment | added | cbeleites | "avoiding Sie/Du" is in the vast majority of situations not a difficulty to native German speakers - we're proficient in knowing or finding out which is appropriate ;-). Have a look at Volker Siegel's answer above: you may just have discovered a cultural difference: answering in English* is considered polite by the German native speakers. *a language that both are sufficiently familiar with and that the asker is thought to be more familiar with than German | |
| Nov 9, 2019 at 2:23 | history | answered | Wortspiel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |