Now a few years later I have passed the Goethe C1 exam for German. This is perhaps useful if I were a secretary or a salesperson for the German market, but as a developer it's pretty useless, right? Nobody will be impressed by that.
So C1 is minimum?
I actually thought that: First nobody in software engineering would even know what Goethe C1 was.
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No more Blub for me, thank you, Vicar.
Jan de Boer wrote:I think people would not expect to write documentation in German. Right?
Jan de Boer wrote:... in most software companies in the Netherlands, all people can speak reasonably good English too.
No more Blub for me, thank you, Vicar.
chris webster wrote:Great - maybe I should look for a job in the Netherlands!
We do use the subjunctive a lot in English, but people would never recognise a subjunctive if they saw one.Jan de Boer wrote: . . . no subjunctive verb forms, just like English, . . .
Campbell Ritchie wrote:
We do use the subjunctive a lot in English, but people would never recognise a subjunctive if they saw one.Jan de Boer wrote: . . . no subjunctive verb forms, just like English, . . .
Campbell Ritchie wrote:
We do use the subjunctive a lot in English, but people would never recognise a subjunctive if they saw one.Jan de Boer wrote: . . . no subjunctive verb forms, just like English, . . .
Paul Clapham wrote:If I were you, I wouldn't worry about subjunctives in English.
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