I swear, sometimes walking around my neighborhood in Berlin it seems the only language I hear is English. Everywhere. Even in the grocery store.
Even the Germans (instantly recognizable by their cute but distinctive accent!) are speaking English, because, of course, they're there shopping with an American girlfriend or boyfriend.
This evening I was back at my new favorite quiet-working-on-my-laptop café and didn't realize until the very end that the server I'd been speaking German with all evening was actually...American. D'oh!
(In my defense, Americans generally have an instantly recognizable accent too, and this guy didn't, so there we went, blithely speaking German to each other.)
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