It could also just be English if you only speak English.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    The “Bahnhof verstehen” comes from the notion that many people learning a foreign language start with some simple sentences like “Can you tell me the way to the train station”. So people who only “Bahnhof verstehen” (OK, horrible grammar here) have not proceed past the first lesson.