My German isn't very good, but I got the drift of what she said.

我的德语不太好，但我大致明白她说的意思。

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I learned German from scratch in six months.

我从零学起，六个月学会了德语。

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I wouldn't call German an easy language.

我并不认为德语是一门容易学的语言。

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So I can only recommend from the German experience that it's good, that it's something to copy from."

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and they reply in German, "Yes, I'm French," that doesn't--language doesn't necessarily tell you how people feel about their identity. Some sage once said, I don't know who it was, but I love this expression, that a language is a dialect with a powerful army.

然后他们用德语回答,"我是法国人",不一定--语言不一定能代表,对自己的身份认同,有个哲人说过,我忘了是谁,但我特喜欢这句,说语言就是有强大军队撑腰的方言

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So I took, a German, like architecture and history class and we actually,

所以我选择了德国建筑学和历史课，实际上，

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At the same time I am a German, and I am a Rheinlander too.

BBC: Europeans on Europe

Finally a client of mine asked me in German if I was a "career woman or a family woman".

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For instance, my origins are Egyptian and German, I was born in the United States and now live in The Netherlands.

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