who's been to Germany?

[Patronus]

Oh, and if you can't find the John ask for the WC, pronounced VC. The guide books always say to use toiletten but I can tell you first hand that is pure horses***!

Entshuldegen zie bitte, Vo ist dee toilettah? Spelled for pronunciation NOT correct German.

 

[Patronus]

Vo ist die...

Where is the....

Ich muerchtan...

I want..

Canne ich haben

Can I have...

Hilfe = help
Kranken haus = hospital)literally sick house)
Polezei - police
Banhoff - train station(but train is zug)
ummm...

 

[Patronus]

Guten morgen-good morning (Greeting)
Guten tag - good day(from noon till evening)(greeting or departing)
Guten abend - good evening(greeting or departing)
Gute nacht - Good night(greeting or departing)

Halo - hello
Auf Viedersehen - See you later
Chuss(friendly) bye

Guten morgen. Ich heisse Patronus - Good morning I am called Patronus.

 

[YOTESHOOTER]

If you go to a restaurant expect to be there at least 2 3 hours it is considered a family time of gathering and conversation,

DO NOT, ask them to make you a hamburger, it will be served brown outside, and completely "RAW" inside, we like our burgers
cooked, not just run the cow in the kitchen knock off the hoves and horns, run it over the flame 10 seconds each side and serve it.

Most meats are served with gravy over them, however that's a another story and reason. They serve a lot of meats it can and will
cause some problems, vegetables however not so much.

BELCHING, out loud and how long is a sign that you enjoyed your meal, nothing to be ashamed as here in the USA. So let it roll after meals.

 

[AirOpsMgr]

Oh yeah...because if you ask the waitress to call you a cab she may well have no idea what you want. Now a TAXI she will understand. lol.

Depends on who you ask; some of the older waitresses would give bad info intentionally (may have been just a local thing) while the younger ones were much lessy bitchy and hag-like.

YMMV

 

[VanillaGuerrilla]

I've been there 8 times. Seen the gate and smoking area of 2 airports. Always raining.

 

[Patronus]

Depends on who you ask; some of the older waitresses would give bad info intentionally (may have been just a local thing) while the younger ones were much lessy *****y and hag-like.

YMMV

When I was there they didn't use the word cab.

 

[Patronus]

I've been there 8 times. Seen the gate and smoking area of 2 airports. Always raining.

next flight schedule a 24 hour layover and go to town.

 

[AirOpsMgr]

When I was there they didn't use the word cab.

Didn't mean the exact wording (I believe we used Taxi as well), just meant the overall attitude. Seemed like older waitresses were notably more abrupt with Americans

 

[Patronus]

Didn't mean the exact wording (I believe we used Taxi as well), just meant the overall attitude. Seemed like older waitresses were notably more abrupt with Americans

My German head start teacher gave us the impression it was just their nature as they got older to be bitchy. In German, you call a waitress "bedingung" or (in the case of young ones "freulein" (girl). I called the waitress freulein the first time now knowing the age specific rule and he laughed at me and made a rather rude comment about her achieving some heightened sexual state at having been called "girl".