Re: AW: off topic: anyone form Amsterdam, Holland / other major e

Vo ist der bahnhof :)

Stephane Faroult wrote:

>Lyuda Hoska wrote:
>
>>Do Germans mind to speak English to an English speaking programmer? How
>>would one communicate if he/she doesn't speak German?
>>
>
>Most northern Europeans speak decent English (I remember getting
>information from a chap storing crates in a Norwegian supermarket), and
>are quite happy to practice it; even in France or Italy communicating in
>English is relatively easy in the IT environment (less so outside it).
>German and Dutch share enough roots with English to make written matters
>guessable. Trouble starts when you are waiting for a train on some
>platform and cannot understand what comes out of loudspeakers ...
>

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