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overdoing_it t1_j9jg6nq wrote

There's a persistent myth that people in Berlin speak French but its not true, not within my lifetime at least. The main language of communication in all of NH is English, even in parts with the most French ancestry.

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hermansupreme t1_j9k4h6o wrote

I worked at St Vincent DePauls nursing home and many of the residents there spike french.

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northerner33 t1_j9rlmfg wrote

The main language is definitely English, but when I lived in Berlin in the early 2000s you could still hear French a fair bit among the older people. We even had a neighbour who was a younger guy and who insisted on speaking to my dad in French when he found out he was from France.

That said, Berlin French is atrocious.

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