Subject: No German language at our beer garden events. From: German_Speaker@ Sender: German_Speaker@ I append http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/std/no_german_bg.txt See also: http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/mail/no_german.html http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/std/no_german.txt http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/std/not_a_german_customer.txt http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/std/why_not_more_german.txt http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/grammar.html & more generaly: http://www.berklix.com Computer Consultancy http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/cv/ My Resume - English & German http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/contact/ Contact - German for business OK. http://www.berklix.com/free/ Free Software http://www.berklix.org Free Organisations & Clubs http://www.berklix.org/bg/ Please note the footer on all bg@mailman.berklix.org invitations. Fluent English speaking international lively young thinking non smokers. Please join us only those weeks when you want to speak English. Not to speak German. Most clubs in Munich speak German. Not us. Much German even from natives is bad in an English speaking group, let alone mangled by us Brits & Yanks etc. Steadily increasing German language was a mistake seen elsewhere in other groups, that we will not repeat: It defocused groups, encouraged people to bring progressively less fluent English speakers, & groups became swamped with German language, which deterred both Germans who fluent in English who wanted to use English, & those who either weren't fluent or didn't want to use German at the event. If eg you are a native English speaker & want to practice German, please do not join us that week, the rest of Munich speaks native German, we don't.