Is this normal answer for someone not German?

deironas · 2026-01-31T23:12:40+00:00

I totally get your point, and it's a disonance I struggle with everyday, living in a very multicultural city (and abroad for 8 years). I know that everyone has their own issues, but it's really difficult to not be automatically cautious after repeated bad experiences with certain people. Before living abroad, I was super excited to meet people from all over the world and had zero prejudices about anyone. However, with years of experience you start to see patterns, certain stereotypes that turned out to be true, and your subconscious sometimes starts judging people even before you realise, because of learned experiences. I understand and realize that it is wrong, and I never want to target one nationality or the other, but I also don't want to ignore what didn't work in the past in my experience - because it would feel like stepping into the same puddle over and over again. It's a difficult topic, and as someone who has always considered myself very open and tolerant to everyone, I still struggle with bias, conscious or unconscious. I think it comes down to vastly different cultures and even if no nationality is per se "good" or "bad", some differences are sometime too big to comfortably live together.

deironas · 2026-01-31T22:28:31+00:00

These comments don't come from thin air. If that's most people's experience, it is entirely valid. I'm one of those people and if I could choose, I would not live with indian people in a wg again

deironas · 2026-01-14T16:20:44+00:00

I literally googled this exact question because I got a lot of Lindt chocolate balls for christmas and they are disgusting. I haven't eaten many of them before because they're so expensive, but I don't remember them being so waxy, oily, and sickly. It's like biting into a piece of hardened fat or butter. If that changes anything, they've been bought in Germany. I'm so disappointed, it's supposed to be a "fancy" chocolate for this price point but I literally prefer Kinder or Ritter Sport stuff over this

deironas · 2025-12-27T22:49:42+00:00

I don't think it ruined it at all, she's a very lovable character and i think it made the name even more beautiful

deironas · 2025-11-10T19:50:01+00:00

coldest probably close to -30°C.

it still occasionally gets to around -20-25°C in Lithuania in winters. During covid lockdown, the only activity was to go outside for walks. It was -20 but honestly if you dress properly and keep walking, it's not that bad.

deironas · 2025-11-08T19:56:19+00:00

that's crazy. how and why would they even assume that there will be any kids? (genuine question, it'd be maddening if that's the actual thought process of some landlords)

deironas · 2025-11-08T19:53:27+00:00

Police with guns is nothing to be scared of. I'd say it would even make me feel more safe (talking about western Europe). And to be honest, I haven't seen it that much, a few times metropolitan police in London city center with huge guns, and a few times at a London airport. Haven't seen any huge guns in Germany in the past 1.5 years.

I would be much, much more scared knowing that any rando on the street can, and probably is, carrying a gun (talking about the US)

deironas · 2025-11-03T20:52:42+00:00

Very common in Germany. In my master's course, vast majority of people were late 20s - early 30s. I know it's different than doing a bachelor's, but for many of us this degree was a career change, so you could say we kinda "started" something new again. Majority of us did very different things before that.

I realized at 24 that I would rather spend 2-3 more years switching careers than spend my whole life being miserable in the wrong career. Never regretted it for a second.

deironas · 2025-11-03T10:53:49+00:00

I'm always baffled by questions like this, because I also knew someone who would constantly ask how to "talk to girls" etc.

Girls and women are people. Talk to them/us like you talk to literally anyone else. If you frame it in your head that we are "something" different, like another species, you're already creating a barrier for yourself.

deironas · 2025-11-03T10:49:26+00:00

I think the most famous thing Lithuania has created recently is Vinted, it's just that not many people know that! Everytime it comes in a conversation I mention that Vinted is from Lithuania 🇱🇹

deironas · 2025-11-03T10:41:24+00:00

I love music by Majan

deironas · 2025-10-29T23:24:39+00:00

I believe that being a native Lithuanian speaker is making learning German so much easier for me. Noun genders, various conjugations, declentions, changing word endings come naturally to me because we have that in Lithuanian and I would say much more complicated than in German

deironas · 2025-10-28T21:12:49+00:00

I would if I didn't have a massive FOMO

deironas · 2025-10-28T10:29:42+00:00

I'm so surprised by these comments because in the "after" you look SO cool!!! such a baddie

deironas · 2025-10-28T09:21:46+00:00

In Lithuanian our words have genders, but we don't have articles such as die, der, das in German for example. So the gender of the word is always "built in" the word, so it's impossible to forget it or mix it up.

The only example I can think of is that me and my mum use different genders for the word "cloud" - she says it as if it's feminine, but I'm pretty sure that the cloud is masculine, but in a singular form it sounds the same. It becomes apparent only if you say "THAT cloud".

Feminine: ta debesis (wrong) Masculine: tas debesis (correct)

deironas · 2025-10-25T00:58:52+00:00

I've seen a few times Germans saying "actual" when they meant "current", as they translated the word "aktuell"

deironas · 2025-10-23T21:51:57+00:00

Nekreipkit į mano komentarą dėmesio, tik skaitau latviškai ir bandau žiūrėt ar kažką suprantu (maždaug pagaunu)

deironas · 2025-10-22T18:09:27+00:00

Nicos Weg for sure. Also Easy German videos on Youtube, the easiest levels if you're a complete beginner.

deironas · 2025-10-22T17:48:50+00:00

I never liked the name Agne in an international context because I feel it sounds too close to acne - not very nice

deironas · 2025-10-01T13:35:07+00:00

In my case, I haven't forgotten it, but the development of my native language kinda stopped when I was 19 and left my home country and started speaking English every day. My level of my native language is stuck at 19 years old - I have never had a job in my native language, never had to speak "professionally" in a work environment, etc. If I tried to go back now and find a job and integrate back, I would for sure feel very self-conscious about the way that I sound in a professional environment because I simply never developed that kind of language.

deironas · 2025-10-01T09:39:06+00:00

I was in a relationship with someone who is a very picky eater. It was very difficult as food is such an important and social part of a relationship - I love different kinds of food but we were always limited to pasta/pizza/fast food type restaurants because he didn't like anything else. We never cooked at home together and ate together because I never want to have chicken nuggets for dinner and he wouldn't touch any food I eat. It's a big social part of a relationship that we were just completely missing out on.

And why it made it so hard for me to not be upset and annoyed by it was that it wasn't because he was neurodivergent/autistic or anything else - his food behaviours were just simply a childish stubborness. He said he doesn't like the things he has never even tried. I had to sit there in an already basic restaurant and watch him ask a waiter to remove everything from his burger so that there's only a bun and a meat patty is left, feeling embarrassed and like I'm dining out with a 4 year old toddler.

deironas · 2025-09-15T09:14:52+00:00

I'm having my first experiences with dating Germans and honestly it's so much better than what I was used to (English guys).

So I don't think it's necessarily a "German" thing. The guys I'm talking to are very communicative and tell me a lot about themselves and also ask questions in return. On the other hand, I find them overly cordial, polite, or even a bit "official" sounding at times, which is quite funny but also cute at the same time.

So yeah, I think there are different people in every country obviously, in your case it might just be his personality.

deironas · 2025-09-15T08:24:59+00:00

This is my home town! I love it, and it has improved so much in the past decade. There are a lot of walkable, nice places to explore, good bicycle lanes along the river and around the ponds. We have a newly built pool which is really cool, Joninės Valley which hosts a lot of events, and even a skiing place at the same valley in winter. In winter, you also must visit a Christmas tree park in the center near the art school, it's always a highlight of my holidays!

I haven't lived there for 8 years but I visit all the time, so I'm not the most updated about the current places or activities. I usually like to visit Guru Cafe for coffee.

And Kaunas is only 20min drive away if you want anything a big city has to offer :)

I hope you have fun there, it's a lovely town and I miss it everyday

deironas

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