Mxsmanic wrote:
El Maximo writes:

Not obvious to me. Every german I know speaks perfect english, although
with
an accent.

I hardly know any Germans who speak perfect English.

You live in France.

I live in a third country, neither Germany nor France, but with a large
number of expats from both.

Most of the Germans I know arrived here with decent or fluent English
and within a few years were perfectly fluent.

Most of the French I know arrived here with almost no usable English and
had to spend evenings doing tuition in order to catch up. All but one
have thick accents and use very strange constructions on a very regular
basis.

On the other hand, they are much more interested in the language and its
eccentricities than the Germans, who seem to just regard English as a
basic skill to be mastered and then taken for granted.

miguel
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