I was sitting in a cafe in Prague with my friend from Austria and her friend she just introduced me to from Russia. Isabella spoke German, English, and Spanish and Dmitrii spoke Russian, Czech, and English. And here I was an American who just spent the last few months living in Germany and didn’t have much to prove it beyond danke, bitte, tschüss, and schloss… I was pretty down on myself because I had hoped that even though I was a complete beginner in German I would at least have a strong[...]