Do You Know These German-English Speakers?

I meet them every week — and they always make me smile. ✌

There’s Present Perfect Peter:

“I have written the report yesterday.”

Freeze-Up Fiona:
C1 certificate… but silent in meetings.

Dictionary Diana:
Fluent — as long as DeepL is running.

Polite Petra:
Starts every team email with “Dear Sir or Madam.”

And then…

• Overthinking Olga – rehearses every sentence three times
• Accent-Anxious Anni – apologises before every English word
• Culture-Worried Klaus – terrified of sounding rude
• Direct Dieter – allergic to small talk
• Grammar-Obsessed Greg – lives by the rulebook
• Shy Simon – barely heard in meetings
• Chitchat-Challenged Christina – freezes at “How was your weekend?”
• Idiom-Confused Ingo – takes them all literally
• Perfectionist Peter – rewrites everything three times

Hand on heart:
Which one are you?
The perfectionist?
The cautious one?
The formal one?

(It’s okay to be a mix. Most of us are. 😉)

PS Not sure. Do the fun quiz to find out!