The school has already given us a schedule for what we can do. We’re going to museums, factory tours, that sort. So no suggestions for any activities to do or places to go to.

I would like some tips on some things I should know about Germany, perhaps some German phrases I should understand, cultural differences, or laws I need to know. Anything important that I should be aware of?

It will be about a weeklong trip

  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Grüß Gott is also literally “greet God”, I.e., may God greet you, if I remember correctly, which I think is a pretty cool bit of trivia for when you’re in Southern Germany.

    • Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      14 days ago

      Yes. It does.

      But i must correct you, its not in all south germany or south german cultures/dialects. Swabians and swiss and badner dont say that. Only austrians and bavarians (which are the same. Yes austrians fuck off you are the same as bavarians and are germans get over it)

      • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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        14 days ago

        As an Austrian I have to insist that Bavarians are a failed attempt at making Germans out of Austrians lol

        • Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          14 days ago

          Historia and science disagrees with you mein freund. The idea of austrians not being german arose in the 1950s at the same time as austria tried to put itself as “hitlers first victim” and not as a perpetrator with the nazis.