diversity of Germany, in my opinion.

[Blondie]

Just wanted to chirp in to say that your English is nowhere near 'bad'. It's not one hundred percent perfect, but the mistakes you (seldom) make are very small and anyone who says they'd have trouble understanding you would be lying. If 10 is complete fluency, I'd say about an 8 would be accurate IMO. And as the others have all said above, essentially being trilingual is impressive and puts nearly all native English speakers to shame.


Learning English from an American is fine. Americans have a slightly higher incidence of confusing words like "their", "there" and "they're"; and "your" and "you're", in my experience though, but that's the only caveat. They also spell certain words slightly differently, but the languages are still the same at the end of the day - Americans, Canadians, Brits, Aussies and Kiwis should all have zero trouble conversing with one another.

Thanks As i know for example the "will" is mostly american and anglos use "shall" instead of it. Or americans say ain't instead of isn't, but the gonna, wanna, cannot etc are american words too

[farke1]

Thanks As i know for example the "will" is mostly american and anglos use "shall" instead of it. Or americans say ain't instead of isn't, but the gonna, wanna, cannot etc are american words too

"Will" and "shall" are used interchangeably in England, but I do find that "shall" is less used by Americans. Also, "ain't" exists in our vocabulary too, but it's mostly considered lower-class and/or London cockney slang rather than a real word. Other than that and what you just mentioned, the only real difference is a few spellings and then the accent - but I wouldn't worry about either of these too much.

[Tekken]

I find Germans to be a relatively homogeneous group, like other European nations.
Of course, there were different racial groups in Germany historically (baltid, nordid, etc), but since reunification and WW2 the populations have moved so much and mixed so much, that there are no clear racial distinctions anymore. For example, you regularly find Northern Germans in Bavaria because the economy there is great. Germans now move alot.

What you do find is small pockets of ethnic enclaves, in a very mixed and homogeneous Germany.
An example would be the odd pure alpine German in Southern Germany (small, swarthy, black haired) but the majority of Southern Germans are still sub-nordid.

Germany is really nowadays a homogeneous collection of sub nordid people. I'd venture to say some taller and more blonde in the north, and a little smaller, stockier, and dirty blonde in the south. But again at the outlier level as the main population is homogeneous.

Simply put, when you have an already closely related blood & races, mixing and homogeneization happens very quickly and any semblance of distinctive races disappear.

I observe the same phenomenon in most European countries like England, France, Belgium, etc.

I think the main remaining difference in Germany is more cultural than racial. And that is East/West and North/South.

[coolfrenchguy]

What do you think about my english? 10/?

i think than your english is good darling

[Swarthy_Syndicate]

About this comment "as they look no different from Danish people"
Give me a north german anyday and i will tell him apart from a dane. As long as your not asking to tell apart someone right on the border.

Lol bare facts. Mads Mikkelsen does NOT look like a German