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English is considerably easier to pick up reasonable fluency than German is. One of the factors is that if you mispronounce an English word to an English person, there's a fair chance they'll understand what they mean. But get your ie/ei the wrong way round, or bungle your umlauts, and they'll look at you blankly. When I said I was having a ski holiday at Davos (standard English pronunciation) they had no idea where I was going - until I say dah-v[oh]s, with the emphasis on the second syllable. Personally I think they do it to annoy.
English is considerably easier to pick up reasonable fluency than German is. One of the factors is that if you mispronounce an English word to an English person, there's a fair chance they'll understand what they mean. But get your ie/ei the wrong way round, or bungle your umlauts, and they'll look at you blankly. When I said I was having a ski holiday at Davos (standard English pronunciation) they had no idea where I was going - until I say dah-v[oh]s, with the emphasis on the second syllable. Personally I think they do it to annoy.
English is considerably easier to pick up reasonable fluency than German is. One of the factors is that if you mispronounce an English word to an English person, there's a fair chance they'll understand what they mean. But get your ie/ei the wrong way round, or bungle your umlauts, and they'll look at you blankly. When I said I was having a ski holiday at Davos (standard English pronunciation) they had no idea where I was going - until I say dah-v[oh]s, with the emphasis on the second syllable. Personally I think they do it to annoy.
The french are the same.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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