Interesting conversation here. I was just nosy whats going on here. I am German but lived 17 years in Texas, USA
I just found this site here because I am concerned that I loose my English, cuz I havent had the chance to speak it very often. Alot of people have no English experience at all or are refused to speak it because of embarassment that they wouldnt be good enough or understandable. When I moved back to Germany, I spoke more English then German because the switch wasnt totally flipped yet. Lots of my German was in the back drawer and it took qiet a while to get it back out. At that time I always had problems with the coworkers because they didnt believe me and thought I am snobby cuz I dont wanna speak German and I just pretend the words wont come to me.
Well now I am selfemployed and dont have that problem anymore but wished I had more people I could talk English to. I had a customer from Great Britain. She was happy that she has me to talk to and I was happy I got her. But she moved back to England couple weeks ago.
Unfortunately I am not from the area most of you guys are from. So we cant meet but we can talk