The NLG Blog
Empowering English speakers to live, work, and connect confidently in Germany.
Staying in English is comfortable right up until you get cut off: socially, emotionally and functionally. That is the real price of comfort, and it is higher than it looks.
The comfort is real
Nobod...
"All Germans speak English" is a myth. Many Germans like to say that most of them do, and it's a friendly thing to say. But it ignores everyone who gets left out of English-language conversations, and...
If you live in Wiesbaden, you probably know the feeling: you want to stop translating your life and start living it, and you've tried the apps and the evening class, and you're still bracing every tim...
If you've ever concluded that you're bad at languages, read this first. You're not bad at German. You're overextended.
A very full life
You moved countries. You're doing your job in a second languag...
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