Ok it's official! The germans I've met today are really bad in English. I mean, I'm not that good but I will never, ever complain about my English again!
I was at the hair dresser today. I'm really happy with the result tho, but that's not my point here. I waited for my turn and when it finally was my turn I asked the hair dresser if she speaks English. I got an "Ehmmm" + a really weird look from her.... "Ok, I guess not... How will I be able to explain this in german?!". My sister jumps in and "schwisch, schweisch" I got a hair dresser who speaks English. Great! I started to speak to her and asked her if she's gonna dye my hair aswell. She answered "Yes" and then sent me to another person to dye my hair... "Uhm, maybe she wasn't that good in English after all. Or maybe it's my accent...". Now, my "new" hair dresser didn't understand English at all. They placed my sister on my side, telling her that it's more fun for her to sit there instead, but I know they placed her there so that she could help with the translation if needed. My sis sat down for a while but then she needed to run some errands, so there I was with a hair dresser that only could communicate with me by smiling. Ok, so I started to slowly speak english to her. I have to give her 10 point for trying but she didn't understand me. Ok, I guess I need to use my big-barra-broken german instead.
Åsa is trying to construct german sentences in her head:
"Maybe I should tell her that she's good in what she's doing, because she is very good. Ok, Du bist... uhm what is good in german? Gut? You can't say Du bist gut. She's gonna think I'm crazy! Ok, let's skip the you're-good-part. But I should say something, she's working like crazy with my thick hair. Ich habe viel haar... That sounds strange... what's straws in german? Maybe that would be more clear. Donno. Ok, let's skip that part. Say something, Åsa! Uhm, Entschuldigung, mein Deutch ist nicht so gut. Ich kommer aus Schweden, ich bin eine touristin, leben mit meine schwestern. Ich habe Deutch studiere für sechs jahre aber ich habe alles vergessen." Probably 100% grammar faults but I told her. She smiles, laugths and then says "Das ist ok" or something. Ah, well I tried...
I sat there waiting for her to be finished and thought to myself "Swedish is my native language. I tried English and now I'm really bending over backwards for her to understand me in German and all I got was Das ist ok. I mean, I'm using my third language (if we ignore the scandinavian languages) and she leans on just one language, German. God I'm glad that I'm educated, even though my german is really bad (well, still compared to my own standards)!"
Anyway... I'm really happy with the result! And it was cheap! Happy, happy happy!
Later on this evening I was out for a smoke. Because it was snowing outside I was standing close to the door, under the roof. A woman walks by with her dog and the dog starts to sniff around in the snow on the ground. The woman waited for the dog to continue walking and then the woman makes the loudest fart. I'm guessing the woman didn't see me or perhaps this is German hospitality? Ah well, I guess those Germans are humans after all...
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I am a tiny bit insulted by your view of Germans... You people in Sweden wouldn't speak English so well if your movies were dubbed to Swedish... And believe it or not, there are quite a few Germans who speak English. Though perhaps not so many hair dressers... But I can assure you we are humans after all!!! ;)
Oh hi Sabine! I can perhaps comfort you by telling that you're english is really good tho. Feel better? :)
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