berlinersinstitute
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Jan 05, 2026
12:33 AM
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Okay so this is kind of embarrassing but my boyfriend’s entire family is German. Like, he’s lived in Mumbai his whole life but his parents still speak German at home, his cousins visit from Berlin, and I basically spent five years nodding along at family gatherings pretending I understood what anyone was saying.
Last year his mom asked me—totally casually, which made it worse—”when are you going to learn German?” And I just… felt like an idiot. Like I’d been dating her son for five years and couldn’t even say hello in her language.
That’s literally the only reason I looked into an online German language course with certificate . Not for a job. Not for immigration. Just because I was tired of feeling stupid in front of my boyfriend’s family.
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