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You need to be a genius to master a weird language like German as an adult.
In terms of difficulty, German is only a level II language for English speakers. it takes 3 times the hours to learn Arabic, Chinese, Japanese or Korean. It is the same alphabets, similar grammar and sentence structures. Just a matter of efforts.
Merkel and the Refugees have made no difference in my day to day life and no visible change in the places I go. If not for TV and the internet I would not know that anything was going on. Maybe a few more brown people in the city.
German can't be too hard to learn, took me about a year to start be fluent- no formal lessons but total immersion.
Yep that's for sure, but for 12 days he went with the flow(LoL).
From what little description we got of that "flow", it seemed like he could have construed some of the help he was getting to be connected to his original complaint: lost wallet, lost money. They gave him some cash to get by with, and lodging. He may have thought they were providing for him while contacting police in Stuttgart where he lost his wallet, or something. All he did was sign a form and do as he was told, like a good pod in a more or less totalitarian regime learns to do from cradle to grave.
It's plausible. What isn't plausible is that the police never tried to get an interpreter to find out why he was trying to talk to them in the first place.
He doesn't sound very smart. Why would anybody visit a country without speaking their language or English? Which well traveled person nowadays doesn't speak any basic English at all?? Or take another Chinese person with him to fill out the police report?
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