In Germany, to what extent is it possible to get by with Turkish?

[Tooting Carmen]

This is a serious and non-trollish question, similar to the one I opened about Arabic in France. After all, Germany is by some distance home to the largest Turkish population outside Turkey, so surely at least in some towns and cities one can survive reasonably well with Turkish, whether as visitors or as immigrants, can't they?

[ta-priden]

Lived in Germany for 15 years, this country is seriously a fucked up soulless place. Germans don‘t give a shit about their culture, the number of non European immigrants probably already around 20% and will only get higher due to demographic development. Germany will be an European version of the USA 2.0 in the future.

[Tooting Carmen]

Lived in Germany for 15 years, this country is seriously a fucked up soulless place. Germans don‘t give a shit about their culture, the number of non European immigrants probably already around 20% and will only get higher due to demographic development. Germany will be an European version of the USA 2.0 in the future.

A government study from 2017 said that the proportion of non-Euro immigrants and their descendants is more like 10%, even with the big Syrian influx and everything. And it is noticeable how German politics and sports are still a lot 'whiter' than in Britain, France and the Netherlands.

[ta-priden]

I wouldn‘t trust in governement studies, yes Germany is slightly more European than France or England, but they hadn‘t much colonies it‘s kind of logical. I lived here it‘s only my personal estimation regarding the demographics, I don‘t know exact numbers, but Germany is a typical post-modern Western European country in every sense.

[Tooting Carmen]

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[Mortimer]

In austria not really possible. Maybe in döner shops etc.

[Mortimer]

In austria the biggest foreign language spoken is serbo-croatian-bosnian. Second Turkish. So it would be easier to pass with serbo-croatian.