Not OP, but I recently had a manager in Germany (I'm in the US) say something like that.
Not that he was bad at German, necessarily, but that it was overly complex vs English, so he and his significant other even used English at home when they both didn't have to.
This is just one example, of course.
I was actually surprised to hear him say that (though it may have been to thwart my attempts at speaking some German when we had a meeting. I don't know any German,lol).
Not that he was bad at German, necessarily, but that it was overly complex vs English, so he and his significant other even used English at home when they both didn't have to.
This is just one example, of course.
I was actually surprised to hear him say that (though it may have been to thwart my attempts at speaking some German when we had a meeting. I don't know any German,lol).