This weekend I was strawberry picking in Austria with my family and I was humbled. I thought “hey, I’m kinda good at German, I can communicate without problems, I’ll talk to the lady who works there.” Well I understood about one word out of 30. I was completely lost. I know I’ve never focused on the German spoken in Austria and I know she probably spoke a dialect, since we were in a small village, but damn, I thought I’d understand more.














