Exchange student life (German guy in France)

Feb 18, 2018 4:14 PM

MrsPoopyguthole

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This is a series by my brother Hannes.
He went to France in 2015 as an exchange student, lived with a host family, went to high school and made a lot of friends.

Edit: due to the latest hack or whatever, unfortunately all comments and votes are lost. Thanks for the ongoing support tho!

Check out his Instagram if you like: _ultracreative_

Edit: unexpectedly made it to fp! Thank you! My brother is amazed and thankful for all the new followers.
Convinced him to create an own account. Here is the part 2: https://imgur.com/gallery/Pgled

i love the concept but hate the art

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Too*

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I logged in just to upvote this.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I can't get over how those chins look like pimples.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

#10 too* ... sorry!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Your art style reminds me a lot of Butch Hartman's

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

bratwurst

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ausgezeichnet!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#8 must be how Germany got Greece in the UN undetected

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Of course you are on the front page! If the world has learned one thing it is never to reject an aspiring German artist.

8 years ago | Likes 87 Dislikes 1

I cant get ze fucking trees! DAMN I WILL KILL EVERYONE IN ZE WORLD!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

ouch !

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

at least they weren't yelling Nazi things... Hmm maybe Volkswagen counts

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I hope your brother didn't have any trouble with La Résistance while he was there.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

One of my best friends in high school was a German exchange student (in USA) he needed a friend! I taught him the ways of my people ha! 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

2/2 mostly just spoke too fast for him and said things that made no sense.

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

As a Frenchie, 1. That's on point and funny 2. I think in English way too often

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#17 can confirm. I work in a Mexican restaurant and at times catch myself thinking in Spanish.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The mother tongue is good. German's sound made when they talk which makes the face expressions mo hilarious

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

sacrebleu indeed, glad you liked it there

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This isn't funny

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 13

I've seen this 5 times in the last 2 days...

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

Had a guy from Michigan come study in Scotland, he then wrote about it for his school paper, his reactions do everyday things was amazing

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

When we went on an exchange in 1998 from GER to FRA they yelled „'eil 'itleeer“ at us at a bus stop. This was pre-Internet so we didn’t...

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

...know yet being German meant to be stereotyped as a Nazi. Man, we grew up that day! But the rest was cool, school exchanges are awesome.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

When visiting Paris, I found it somewhat hilarious that just about everyone DID have a baguette when going home in the evening.

8 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 1

Yes! My favorite memory was seeing a cyclist stop in front of me just to take a bite off the loaf then go on his merry way.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Frencg People are the proof that Stereotypes can be real

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

Dinner time requires it. Probably cheaper at the end of the too

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Gotta buy them everyday. You ever try to eat a day old baguette? Might as well be a baseball bat.

8 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Day-old baguette? Enjoy that two-foot-long crouton.

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

This post seems to have been recreated after the spammer attack last night, in reality it's around 20 hours old instead of just 3 hours.

8 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 0

dafuq happened last night? spammer attack???

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Someone found a way to insert data into the database running imgur and front page was quickly filled with Russian and Chinese randomness.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

holy cow! is there a screenshot of that somewhere?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah I took it out of my Gallery because the pictures in it were really nsfw.. Lost all comments and votes when I put it back :/

8 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

It's a shame it didn't end up back on the front page. Well, you might still have a chance.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

My brother put up a 2nd part which went straight to fp, and he got a lot of new follower and a huge push, so I'm glad about that!

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Ask him to link back to this posting, and people might also upvote this.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

It's already linked :)

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I remember when the last one happened to me when exchanging 13 years ago. Sat in the library and suddenly people talking around me just spok

8 years ago | Likes 133 Dislikes 0

It is happening to me right now in France ...

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Spok

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I speak Arabic and Hebrew. My grammar in English (first language) is a fucking train wreck at this point.

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

E language and not English, and I was thinking in English. It was an amazing realisation.

8 years ago | Likes 81 Dislikes 0

Did you tell them in their native language that they should shut the fuck up in a library?

8 years ago | Likes 47 Dislikes 0

Lol. It was in an area designated for group work, so it was fine :)

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

For me it was an awesome realization when I began to dream in my non native language.

8 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

did you make all the grammatical errors in your dream too?

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 19

I'm very fluent in my non native language, so no. I'm only bad with writing because I'm lazy, but I can still do it properly.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I'm fluent in 3 foreign languages (including English), I dream in all these languages and sometimes make obvious mistakes in my dreams:)

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I went to Holland for exchange, all the Asians learnt the language fluently, but the Americans.. not really. Except one kid. She was cool.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

How many of the Asians were already multilingual versus the Americans? Growing up monolingual makes learning much more difficult.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It simply isn't a necessity to learn a second language considering communication is rarely a difficulty for Americans.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I understand that it isn't a necessity, but I do find it kind of rude to live in another culture to learn from it but not the language

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well considering that their opportunities to practice the language will have been limited, you can't expect them to be fluent.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Literally all the other nations learned the language, even the Brits..

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

North America is a continent the size of Europe that is dominated by just two languages, one of them the lingua franca. 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The "lingua franca" (French language), of course, being English, which is quickly becoming the new world Lingua Franca.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And America del Norte includes US, Canada, and Mexico, so really three dominant languages. Canada is bilingual, though, so you could defend.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Eh French being a dominant language is debatable. It exerts influence only in Canada.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And only in the Eastern half, but it's still a pretty large number, IMO.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0