Aibu to be German and to LOVE it?

[AmaliaJw]

I love being German, it makes me feel unique, I know after Brexit there is anti EU sentiment but I LOVE being from Germany!

To me (neither German or brit) there is a difference, German is more concise and harder in tone.

But for romance none of us can compete with the Latin languages .

I love the English language, but few speak it so that it sounds pretty. This after having spend a day on a beach with the holidaying Sybil from Fawlty Towers going 'Aaaadrey... I'm building a caaastle ' on repeat. My love for your language took a hit that day .

It's an industrial level of hypocrisy when the Biffers deny the right of people to be other nationaliaities.

Nothing that special about being English. Shit food and rain

January resolution: learn to shout in French.

At the moment, I always find that my diabolical French accent just slips completely if I even approach a dull roar. If I'm to have any hope of keeping my elisions, I have to stay at strictly conversational volume.

Congratulations
My DH and DC have dual British/German nationality and I’m very jealous
DS in particular is very proud and tells everyone he is German as well as British. He absolutely loves going and says he intends to move there when he’s older

And as for the German language sounding harsh we like to pronounce the following things in French, Spanish, English and German to (over)emphasise it
Ambulance
Butterfly
I love you

If you want proper hysteria try the Latin languages - DD was petrified age 5 or 6 in a Spanish supermarket as she thought a mass brawl was about to breakout, it was just lots of people greeting eachother!!

I have a couple of lovely German friends but I have noticed that they can both be very puritanical. Never go for something luxurious when functional will do, look for less fancy options constantly, have a strong preference for plain things. One is organising a big party for her DD and she's trying to make it as down to earth as possible. The girl wants something glamorous, they are minted and can well afford it but just have to try to hold back. These two both have this tendency and they are totally separate, not related or even friends.

YANBU to feel that way. YABU to make a thread about it!

I'm not convinced that you can be proud of something you have no control over. So I'm saying YABU.

Unless you migrated, but I find it all a bit strange.

Everyone should be proud of where they're from.

I'm London born of Irish descent....and proud to be both British and Irish.

But may I point out to any passing Germans that lots of non-Germans also speak pretty good German? So your apparent assumption that you can speak it in company to comment on someone else present without anybody else understanding you is mistaken.

I live in a very touristy part of Scotland and I love evesdropping on German (and other German-speaking) tourists. I do make them aware that I understood them if they say something offensive. I even started to put a slight English accent on my German because they are usually a lot more embarrassed if they think they were caught out by a local rather than a fellow German.
I bet that happens with tourists speaking other languages too though.

Wanting to know if you’re unreasonable for being German is like me wanting to know if I’m unreasonable for having blue eyes.

As for whether you’re unreasonable to love being German, well, no, fair enough. But it’s a bit of a weird choice for a thread really.

everyone I speak to saying "I was so sorry to hear about your Brexit".
We go on holiday to Austria every year and the first time after the referendum we had so many Austrians congratulating us! We go to the same place so I think they feel they know us well enough to be honest

Crack on, dear

It's lovely that you're so patriotic, I would only correct you that there is 300000 Germans living in the uk and a further 82 million in Germany alone.

Do you really not know any other Germans? Have you never met any? Is this why you feel you're unique?

I'm German born and live in England and there's literally gazillions of us here.

There literally aren't.

Davros

We go on holiday to Austria every year and the first time after the referendum we had so many Austrians congratulating us! We go to the same place so I think they feel they know us well enough to be honest

Er.

Austria is actually a different country to Germany, you realise? Same language, different political climate.

(Totally off-piste, but I wonder how Eurosceptic Austrians are in 2020. I can well believe they were congratulating Britons in 2017. Do they maybe think we deserve sympathy instead now, after the total and utter chaos that has followed? )

What an odd thread.............good for you?

Unique though?

Austria is actually a different country to Germany, you realise? Same language, different political climate.
Yes I know dear but the point is that not all other Europeans are horrified at Brexit. We've been every year since the referendum and, if the subject comes up which it doesn't as much, many still seem to feel the same

I can't believe anyone is taking this post seriously! Nothing to do with the topic, but it's a bit random and seems intentionally goady.

I teach German and love it. Also, whenever I've been to Germany and spoken German, I've universally had delighted and complimentary reactions from German people, unlike the French when I speak French (even though my French is considerably better than my German).

YANBU to be happy to be German, but YABU to feel unique about it!

No-one ever said all Europeans were horrified at Brexit. AFAIK, everyone else on the thread knows that the EU is made of different countries.

Someone related that many Germans had given her polite condolences. You brought up Austria. I mean, whaaa? It looks like you were trying to imply that the Germans weren't expressing their true feelings about Brexit because they didn't know the poster well enough.

Or, could it be, that different viewpoints predominate in different countries? Nah, surely not. It's not like Scotland voted to Remain and England next door voted to Leave. Oh wait.

Here, have a screenshot from the EU's survey of views on the EU in 2017.