Three Things I Learned From Moving to a Country Where I Didn’t Speak the Language

Throw yourself into the abyss and find that you can catch yourself.

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When I was sixteen, I moved to Germany for a year, without my family and without any friends.

I knew how to say “bathroom” (damentoilette), grapes (weintrauben) and “Hello, my name is…”…