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Thanks for understanding! By and large I agree with you. It's valuable to be able to communicate with 1st/2nd/3rd gen immigrants in their native language or that of their ancestors. And it's just fact that immigration from Turkey is a part of German culture so it's worth building up a friendship between the two countries. (As long as we don't get into politics...) I tried to say that I know a bit of Turkish but I don't get to use it much in my daily life ^^

biji kurdistan

thank you <3

Of course it should be optional, no one said it should be mandatory

I made the distinction because English and French were mandatory at my school in Germany. Many more languages were offered though if they had a teacher available. I remember Spanish, Italian and Chinese, I just can't remember if Turkish was one of them.

I feel like the defensiveness of that argument is not entirely accidental.

My family is Kurdish, so I admit that maybe there's a subconscious bias when learning Turkish comes up, if you know anything about the situation in Turkey and Kurdistan 🙂

as if learning french in school would be relevant to the migration of germans to france.

French skills are extremely valuable to Germans who want to work in Switzerland or Luxembourg

Btw, ben de biraz türkçe biliyorum, ama çok konuşmiyorum.. in my daily life 😅 Dunno how to say that last part

English and French are world languages and open up job opportunities. Turkish is only spoken in Turkey, it isn't interesting economically and immigration from Turkey to Germany is a one-way street. If you want to learn Turkish that's cool, but it is and should be optional at school.

Je parle les deux et je te confirme tu ne manques rien

That is a beautiful observation. Kids are so pure. Sounds like your acquaintance has it made for himself!

I hate that I understand this sentence

what if we 😳 held hands 🤲 at train conductor school 👉👈

I'm surrounded by dilapidated mining facilities that were once the heart and soul of this region. Some of the villages around here look like ghost towns. Jobs go in and out of demand and IT isn't immune to this. Already, things are changing. The job market is oversaturated with far more applicants than jobs. Work that would have paid 80k in the last decade now pays 60k in today's money. I really don't see any improvement to this trend on the horizon.

As a kid, I always wanted to be a trash truck driver. The way they stand on the grid platform and hang on to a handle at the back of the truck was the coolest thing ever to me. My other dream job was to be a train conductor. Maybe once IT bleeds out and dies I'll switch to one of those.

Is it viable for you to get your own apartment and turn off yor phone?

Maybe once you experience isolation, you'll find that you miss human interaction after all, or you are happy living alone.

Thank you so much for the advice!! This is outside my comfort zone but I've been looking up videos on YouTube, it seems doable!