Why do germans speak such good English?

[Jason Voorhees]

Title. All the germans I've talked to speak really good English. They do have an accent sometimes but they are fluent. Like they could go up and talk in front of an english crowd no problem. That is not the case with French, Spanish, Italians who struggle with English. Even Swedish people speak English well.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@deadstock @Beastimmung @menas

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@renos

 

[sowzzz]

netherlands too

 

[kazama]

not the case with French, Spanish, Italians

Languages descended from Latin

All the germans I've talked to speak really good English

they’re both Germanic languages
I might be talking shit tbh, but I think thats it.

 

[psychomandible]

Germanic languages and English is the universal language so they learn since young and it's far easier for them to learn beacuse of the overlap between the languages

 

[superpsycho]

@Bitterschön

 

[Deleted member 176406]

They grow up bilingually

 

[Deleted member 155219]

 

[widdi]

autism

 

[Deleted member 135975]

cause english is the universal languahe

 

[Chadeep]

Global Exposure

 

[SubSigma]

Germanic language, and they have an autistic perfectionist culture where learning technical specifications and rules is a big deal. This is perfect for grammar. Big contrast compared to Poland. Most polish young people can barely speak proper English, but the second you step into germany even boomers have good English.

//SubSigma

 

[Saint Casanova]

Lots of similarity structurally to English

 

[Deleted member 42399]

autism

 

[renos]

Probably because of social media

 

[whiteegyptian]

They don't.

 

[Deleted member 155325]

no german speaks good english, source Im german

 

[soylovingdingdong]

Title. All the germans I've talked to speak really good English. They do have an accent sometimes but they are fluent. Like they could go up and talk in front of an english crowd no problem. That is not the case with French, Spanish, Italians who struggle with English. Even Swedish people speak English well.

what does this even mean

 

[Beastimmung]

Languages descended from Latin

they’re both Germanic languages
I might be talking shit tbh, but I think thats it.

English is half Romance language tough, it shares more words with Spanish then German