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Originally Posted by jackie_w
W-e-l-l ... yes and no  The average Brit (and I'm 100% Brit) feels guilty complaining. |
Germans love to complain, on the other hand
The most helpful review on Amazon.de is one star and complains about constant freezes and restarts. Many other complaints about freezes and restarts there as well. At this moment, the device has 3.5/5 stars.
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Originally Posted by jackie_w
If we have a problem and someone who could fix it says 'How is everything?' we smile brightly and say 'Fine, thanks.
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This totally threw me off during my semester abroad in Nottingham. Everybody would say fine and continue walking. Americans do that a lot as well. See, nobody ever explained the cultural difference to me in English class, not one of my many teachers, that "How are you" is mostly a greeting and not to be taken at face value! I had been in the US for a summer during highschool and when I got back to Germany, I told everyone how eveybody was so nice and really cared about how I was doing: you know, people in stores, baggers, etc. I kind of figured that one out for myself when i started teaching German, and the fact that I had to teach my students to really stop and answer, as well as teach them various answers other than fine