My first business meeting in a country where English was not the native tongue was in Germany. I was terribly nervous. I didn’t know German, and no one was with me that could speak it. I fell all over myself trying to make apologies for speaking in English and not knowing their language. They brushed it off as no big deal. It turns out that English is widely accepted in Germany as the language of business and most Germans are taught it as a second language throughout their early school …
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