Re: Germany Vs Canada dilemma
I don’t get the learning German part. There are so many desis here who supposedly studied English back in the motherland, but their command of the English language is mediocre at best. I am supposed to believe that a person can just take a few lessons in German, and then take master’s level classes and do well? This includes highly technical discussions with your teachers and classmates, and speaking confidently in interviews. I have studied with students from China and Vietnam. They may know their class material, but they severely lacked in the spoken English department. Goras in class simply couldn’t understand them.
Learning German at that level seems like a 3 -4 year thing with complete immersion. That is how people learn proper Spanish in the US. You can learn conversational Spanish by hanging out with Spanish speakers. However, anyone serious about Spanish has to immerse themselves in an environment where proper Spanish is spoken (and not Spanglish), which often includes spending a year or so in Mexico or South America with an educated host family.