The lazy ones go back to the excuse that ‘everyone speaks English in Germany anyway’. Well, not all Germans can speak English, and even if they do, you might miss out on a lot of new experiences and opportunities. You will even find natives who are ready to help you out, if you speak it out wrong. So for someone seeking out opportunities and careers in Germany, it is integral to be able to effectively communicate in German at least at the B2 level.
When one associates language with the tone and sound, non-German speakers usually describe the German language as harsh, angry or rude. Truth be told, German is not the gentlest-sounding language. And just because of the tone in which it is spoken, German often gets classified as a hard language to learn. The only reason it sounds harsh is because it uses a lot of guttural sounds and this may be because Germans do not sugar coat or beat around the bush, which does not sound like a bad thing at all.
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