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NonEUCitizen on June 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: English is no longer the language of the web

The workers at the German tourist offices (e.g. those near a Hauptbahnhof) speak 5 languages fluently: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German.

mtts on June 23, 2013 | [–]

In theory, maybe. In practice I've been to a number of them where they only spoke German. :-)

Dewie on June 22, 2013 | [–]

Well that's a biased sample if I ever saw one.

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