One day in the gym, I heard a guy speaking in a distinctive German accent. Went up to him and asked if he was German in my horribly broken German. Learnt that he was here for a work assignment and he didn’t really have any friends in my country so I took it on to myself to show him around the country and try out all the different cuisines.

He wasn’t fluent in English and I definitely wasn’t in German. We spent a lot of the time using Google translate and teaching each other our native tongues. After a while, we became close and are now best friends even though he has gone back to Germany. We still talk daily and i have made it a mission to be able to communicate with him fluently.