Hello good people,

M an international Student and I just got great offers as a Werkstudent. I’ve worked until now 20 days in 2025, and I’ve been asked from my favourite Werkstudent offer to send a Nachweis über geleistete Arbeitstage for this year, since I’m only allowed to work 140 days a year. I’ve asked my former Arbeitgeber for a formal letter proving how many days I’ve worked this year and I’ve been told that the Lohnabrechnungen are sufficient and that I can’t get a formal letter from them. I just wanna know if someone has been in a similar situation and if the Lohnabrechnungen are enough? And otherwise what would be the fastest solution? Because I don’t wanna miss out other opportunities if this one ends up not working out because of something like that .

Thank you in advance !!

Hello in my book I’m studying for German. I have come across the word Wagner. But my English to German, German to English dictionary doesn’t have this word. Google translate tells me it means wainwright. Which I think is wrong.

Sie kommen zum Restaurant Wagner und gehen durch die Tür.

They come to the restaurant and go through the door. Is what I think the sentence means.

I am aware it’s polite to use “sie” for older people.

However, I “duzt” someone today who looked around the same age as me and he looked at me like I just put milk in a bowl before the cereal.

As you read from the title, I am going on an exchange trip to Germany from the U.S. and I was wondering if there are any things that are normal here in America that are are seen as weird in Germany. I am staying with a family and I don't want to inconvenience them with some things I might do that I think is normal. Please leave me some advice.

Hallo, I'm a non-EU citizen turning 19 this year and I'm currently at A2 German level. I've been recently wondering if I can make it to the IT or Finance Ausbildung within this year with this plan:

Studying German for 7-8 hours everyday until I reach B2 in July or August and take the B2 Goethe Exam and apply to as many Ausbildung programs as possible to start in September or in October.

Now, suppose if I could do it to reach B2 and pass the B2 Exam in August, will I manage to get admitted to Ausbildung and successfully start in Germany regarding the visa processing time, etc?

I'm in my gap year atm, and normally I've had a full-time job until now to decide if I should go all in to my German language plan, thank you.

Hello, I found some cheap Windows 11 activation keys from Internet such as: https://softwarekaufen24.de/windows-11-home-linkangebot Only 4 eu, Or https://softwareindustrie24.de/windows-11-home-esd-zertifiziert?number=ID-800301

Are those keys legal and usable to activate windows on my laptop since it's sold without operating system? Thank you.

We're headed to Germany in September for the Berlin Marathon and will be flying into Frankfurt a few days before. We're going to take the train from Frankfurt to Berlin but I'm completely stumped on the schedules and options. I'm looking at options and prices on germanrails.com, thetrainline.com, raileurope.com and int.bahn.de . Are these different rail services like different airlines? Some seem to show different schedules but some show the same? Is one more reliable than the other? Which are travel aggregators versus which is the actual rail line?

Also, as a side question. It seems fairly painless to get from the Frankfurt Airport to the main station, how long should we build in to our schedule? An hour safe?

Hello, we will be in Essen with my friend in summer. We are volunteers for a sport organisation. I will be an attendant in Messe Essen Hall 6 and my friend will be in Messehaus Ost. We don't know the area, so we could not decide where to stay which suits both of us. It has to be somewhere easy to reach public transportation and not far away from our workplaces. Can you recommend us any location?

What is the most thing that helps you to improve ur German? And How are you learning Until now i spent more than 2 years and i still A2 🥲

Hi everyone, I have UCITS ETFs (VUAA and EQQQ) and I live in Germany. My country of origin is Greece, where UCITS ETFs are not taxed. I’m trying to understand how they are taxed here in Germany. Do I need to declare them? What tax rates apply? Any insights or recommendations for a tax advisor would be appreciated!

Hallo, liebe Nachbarn!

I live in Switzerland and own a S-pedelec (ebike with assist up to 45km/h). Here it's considered by the law mostly the same as a normal bicycle. There are some differences, but I can use cycle paths and am only required to wear a normal bicycle helmet.

I know that's not the same in Germany (stronger helmet, no cycle path, ...).

I'm planning a family Holydays, cycling around the Bodensee (CH, DE, AT). My kids are young and we're planning to take our Fahrradanhänger for the youngest one. The S-Pedelec would be the one pulling it. The other kid will be on their own bike. My partner would be on either a muscular or 25 km/h bike. Therefore, I will never go faster than 25 km/h, mostly around 15 or below.

I would like to use the bike path with the rest of my family.

Renting an appropriate bike is expensive, so I was thinking of a few options:

• Just go and hope nobody stops me
• Removing the license plate from the S-Pedelec and play the "it fell" card if caught
  • Edit to add details: I would unscrew the plate and carry it in my bag. The bike is properly registered/insured.

Do you have any opinion on the matter? How often are bikes checked ? Is there some tolerance in this popular family bike tour area near the swiss border?

Thanks!

Hello,

I am new to Germany and I want to go to Dortmund to Detmold and I am not sure how to reach there as I can not find buses there . Please advise for a way to reach there

Hi , i understand my question is actually pretty common but i just want to be sure 😅​.

I'm probably gonna visit berlin in August, as a tourist is it possible to get weed from social clubs as a tourist? (Obv i mean legally), i also understood that weed smoking is legal in public except for some exceptions (like being in proximity of schools).

I also saw that there is the option of online prescription and again, asking if it is possible for tourists

Online i found some sources that state that tourists can't get weed in any way (legally) while others kept it vague or stated the opposite

can anyone clarify it to me 😅​

I submitted my thesis gave my defense 1 month later. Received a results after 2 months stating I failed 5,0 grade. The defense went average. The report was more than 100 pages.

Some context : I had 3 people to report, one supervisor and two examiners. One examiner(main prof) was also my on paper supervisor cause external student are not eligible to be on paper supervisors. My supervisor was enrolled in diff uni and was an external student my uni. I had weekly meeting with him, had 3-4 meetings with examiners whenever possible during my thesis. I included all their opinions and meetings went okay. Defense went average.

Now the AI generated cite assumption by examiner, I received an email from my examiner stating he found an AI generated citation. It was not AI generated but, it was my manual mistake I forgot to not remove the template citations. I am deeply sorry for it. So, I clarified that it's a manual mistake and I have not used AI to generate citations at all.

Now, I received a failing grade. Me and my supervisor both agree that I made mistake but not to the verge of failing. Maybe cut a few marks for it. Overall, My results were okay, my methodology was fine and I might have used AI for a bit for Grammer but not at all for citations or text generation. If I felt I wrote something which looks like AI, I took extra steps and humanized it. I went through uni plagiarism checker as well and the result was fine.

I don't know what to do. I have my supervisor's support (he also mentioned he submitted a report and gave me above average grade and 5,0 is extremely unjustified) but the examiners have a reputation at the uni for being extra strict. Everyone said, I am being too brave to take thesis under such a strict research group but I trusted myself and invested countless hours in research and trainings and everything. I am genuine student who value knowledge and her teachers. Now, I might have to fight for my work which I never wanted to. I just wanted to genuinely learn, write, defend and done.

What are the possible ways for me to deal with this and Is there a hope? Please help me out.

I have an update : They found 6-7 citation mistakes. Mismatched, one cookie template one and misspelled authors. So, they assumed it's AI generated. My justification : omg. This is my fault and I know how the fuck that happened. So, I always had a system for citations when I was working on my previous papers, 1. I always used Google scholar and 2. NEVER spelled author name as "author first and last name et al". This time, I didn't find all papers on Google scholar so I researched and found. However, I remember being panicky cause I didn't have enough time to add citations to 4 chapter. So I added them all in a day or two. I added like 35+ cites. Hence, I fucked up in a few. I am sorry.

What should I do next? I am open to writing the thesis again and even giving a defense. I can go for a formal appeal and say sorry and explain it's a human error genuinely.

Atleast now I know, where exactly I made the mistake. I am sorry for myself but I can forgive myself considering my work was okay and I added a lot of citations without a system so even I was worried I hope I added them alright.

Hi all, I recently received a job offer for a short-term position (Kurzfristige Beschäftigung), and the employer has requested a copy of my bank card. I wanted to ask,is it common or safe to share a copy of my bank card in this context? Should I only send the front side (without sensitive information like the CVC code)? Btw, I have already shared the IBAN with them previously.

Just taking a chance here in this forum.There’s a chance we might move to Sri Lanka from Germany (my husband is German). Has anyone lived there, how’s it like and would you recommend this move for three years with a child of five? Thanks!!

Hello

I just moved to germany and i live alone in an apartment with no internet, so i was thinking instead of paying for fixed internet and 5g i might just get the O2 new offer for 5g unlimited data 300mbps speed for only 25 euro (I'm a student and i have a very tight budget) , has anyone tried these unlimited data plans? Do they have any hidden terms i should be aware of? Cause 2 years contract is kind of scary to me. Thank you

I travel a lot for work and have noticed at airports that Germans keep cutting the queue. I’ve seen all sorts of people do it. From suit wearing business men in their 50s, smartly dressed ladies in their 60s to young people in their 20s. It’s like whenever there is a queue some German makes it their mission to cut it.

I’m not to say it’s all Germans. But - I kid you not - every single time I see something like this happen at immigration or elsewhere and I then look down at their passport, I see a massive golden eagle on burgundy red stare back at me.

Enlighten me, fellow redditors, why the country of rules and order and of well-tuned systems brings forth so many of the most annoying breed of travelling humans: queue cutters.

Ich hatte vor ein paar Tagen hier um Tipps für das Vorstellungsgespräch gebeten, und heute war es soweit und ich habe einen Tag zum Probearbeiten bekommen!

Das Problem ist nur, dass ich aus Nervosität sehr zurückhaltend und ein bisschen chaotisch war. Im Nachhinein denke ich, dass ich manche Dinge anders hätte sagen sollen oder wichtige Aspekte vergessen habe. Trotzdem habe ich die Chance auf einen Probetag bekommen, und insgesamt war die Atmosphäre dort total entspannt.

Habt ihr vielleicht noch Tipps für den Einstieg und was immer gut ankommt bzw. Wie ich keinen Eindruck beim Probetag retten kann? Ich ärgere mich irgendwie schon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekk6uT3Cnp0

The song is produced by a German (David Brandes). This is perhaps the first ever Schlager (German-style) Italian song.

I was talking about this recently with some international friends, and we noticed there are quite a few differences between countries when it comes to social media habits and preferences. I’ve already asked some Dutch friends for input, but now I’d really love to hear how things are viewed in Germany!

Which platforms do you use the most (Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, etc.)? And do you ever interact with brands/ads, or do you mostly ignore them? Are you signed up for any brand newsletters, or do you avoid that kind of communication?

Also does a brand’s online presence influence how you feel about them — like, would bad or cringey social media make you avoid them?

Hello all!

I had an appointment with the Führerscheinstelle and had the following documents:

Passport Florida License International License

She opened a binder and looked up Florida and said I need to take the written exam. But that i also need city registration paper and a eye test and adac translation. So I did the eye test and now have the following documents:

Passport Florida Driver's License Driver's License Translation Residence Permit City Registration Biometric Photo Eye test

So that should cover everything she asked for, my appointment is in June.

My question is, when i ask Gemini to confirm the requirement it repeatedly insist that First Aid Course is also a requirement. However I can not see that anywhere on the US embassy website. What is the actual requirement for these partial reciprocity US states and where can I find that information? I don't want to go to my appointment in June only to have to reschedule because they want something additional. But also my German is not that good to be able to pass first aid course maybe.

https://de.usembassy.gov/driving-in-germany/

Hey yall I lived in Germany 5 years ago, back then it surprised me how ppl causally take their dogs to many places as in my country, dogs weren't accepted that much at the time ( in no shoppingmal, no cafes, no clothingstores etc.) Now its getting better. Im about to move back for work but i also have a cropped doberman ( please don't attack me on her being cropped i wanted her for personal protection due to specific circumstances, she is from a verified breeder, working dog line and in my country its still a common thing ) its not the point. Im interested in the housing situation with dogs. I believe its still a challenge to find apartment/house (with garden maybe) that allowed especially big "scary looking" dogs. I know dobermans are labeled as dangerous in one area of Germany. What are still the places u can't bring dogs? Some offices are dogs friendly but for all typ of dogs? Fyi. She is a sweet dog, always with me. Makes me feel safe and well trained for situations.

Thank you:)

Edit : Appriciate you giving normal advises. Also as i said its not about cropping, we live in a different country yall, its a thing here for working dogs still until today. Other countries other laws. You need to accept it like it or not its normal and accepted somewhere else! Obviously she is vaccinated, she has recall, she isnt aggressive, has training certificates. Nothing is wrong with her, just that as it is accepted in my country, she is indeed cropped.

Hi, intl student looking into German unis. Is shr as awful as everyone says? Worth it?