u/Manchman67

So I am from Belfast, in Northern Ireland which is a part of the United Kingdom. I work in a major central cinema and so we get visitors from all over the world quite regularly. Just recently we had a German visitor who wasn’t very proficient in speaking English making orders and attempting to buy tickets and since my fellow staff weren’t quite capable of speaking German to this customer, I summoned my GCSE German knowledge after nearly 10 years of not even speaking German to amazing effect!! I felt as though as soon as I was pretty much forced into a conversation in German that I was able to both weirdly speak and understand German sentences fairly well. My German cinema customer was very happy with my honest attempt at communicating and her little daughter even gave me a hug for my struggles :’) Languages are so special and I feel it’s so much easier to even try than most around me think. It was such a privilege to speak the paltry German that I know but to see the smile on that little girl’s face made me want to become fluent in a single moment :’)