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Anonymous Mon 27 Oct 2008 23:18:00 No.73267 View View Reply Original Report

My university is offering a $1,500 travel grant to one of three cities. The choices are Paris, Berlin, and London.

I don't speak/am not taking classes for French, or German, but it seems like both Berlin and Paris would be a little cooler than London.

Can I get by with just English in those two cities? Also, any advice/pros-and-cons between the three choices?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 27 Oct 2008 23:21:00 No.73269 Report

Quoted By: >>73270

One of my friends here is a German expat. He strongly recommends young people go visit and live in Berlin for a little bit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 27 Oct 2008 23:25:00 No.73270 Report

Quoted By: >>73271 >>73326

>>73269
Even with little to no German skills?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 27 Oct 2008 23:29:00 No.73271 Report

Quoted By: >>74722

>>73270
Berlin was occupied for 50+ years by the Allies. Half of the people here speak Russian, the other half French and English. Same goes for most tourist attractions, restaurants, stores etc.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2008 02:00:00 No.73321 Report

Quoted By: >>73333

>>73315
Tell us how you liked both cities.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2008 02:17:00 No.73326 Report

Quoted By:

>>73270
He said like a lot of people speak English there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2008 02:42:00 No.73333 Report

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>>73321
Will do. It's like 10 or so days over winter break, so it'll be a while.

Thanks for the help, /trv/lrs

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2008 03:01:00 No.73337 Report

Quoted By: >>73346

>>73267
>
Can I get by with just English in those two cities?

Berlin: yes
Paris: no, fuckers don't answer you in english. They know exactly what you're talking about, but they are to butthurt to answer you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2008 03:07:00 No.73341 Report

Quoted By: >>73346

>>73267
if your an american i suggest going to Berlin and london, fuck paris. when you get to paris there is bugger all to see there, i would recomend a weekend but nothing more. more history in Berlin where the people are very clean and most speak great english. Even with the slight bias of being british london has a truckload more places to go and see than paris.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2008 03:46:00 No.73346 Report

Quoted By: >>73349

>>73337
>>73341
Bullshit and bullshit. Parisians tend to speak very decent English nowadays. Also half of Berlin speaks little to no English for obvious historical reasons.
There is less history to see in Berlin because a good part of the historic city was detroyed during the war. Berlin has the advantage of being cheaper and the nightlife is, in my opinion, superior to Paris'.
>>73341is obviously a bigotted British chav. London is extremely expensive and there is (slightly) less to see than in Paris overall.

In the end i suggest Berlin for the fun and Paris for the culture and the food. London is nice but you really need to be rich to properly enjoy it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2008 04:06:00 No.73349 Report

Quoted By: >>73529

>>73346
OP here, I'm definitely far from rich. I'm going to have to carefully plan my budget, and stretch out the $1500 grant money as much as I can, as I don't expect that'll be enough to cover all expenses (including airfare).

I need to start looking for some cheap tickets soon. I can't remember if my university has a deal with some travel agency or not...I should really look into this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2008 04:46:00 No.73351 Report

Quoted By: >>73530

FRENCH PUT KETCHUP IN THEIR DUNERS

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2008 05:52:00 No.73362 Report

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go to berlin
all of england sucks
france is nice... except paris

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2008 00:27:00 No.73529 Report

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>>73349
Then your only choice is Berlin. Paris and London are too expensive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2008 00:30:00 No.73530 Report

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>>73351
That's fucking disgusting, dude...

Skimo

Skimo Sun 02 Nov 2008 17:05:00 No.74720 Report

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in paris you can get by with just english =)

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2008 17:34:00 No.74722 Report

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>>73271

The French didn't occupy Berlin, why speak their dirty surrender monkey language, you beat them.

Funfact, the English gave a small part of their territory to France so they would still be allies and not go commie, the French figured that Germany's problem was their lack of culture so they built a million theater companies instead of building up their economy and infrastructure

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2008 23:32:00 No.74760 Report

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I have links to some quality german lesson downloads over at 99chans /speak/ library. It's a foriegn language board. They're in the sticky at the top of the board. There's also french, russian, spanish, italian, some japanese, and dutch.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Nov 2008 13:39:00 No.74923 Report

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If you can speak clear english, alot of people will understand you.

i'd go go Berlin.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Nov 2008 14:20:00 No.74928 Report

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lolol paris cooler than London.

Paris is a hole.

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