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I don’t expect people even in border villages of Czechia, Slovakia or Hungary to speak German

German is actually a fairly popular foreign language in countries east of Germany: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Foreign_language_learning_statistics#Upper_secondary_education

Though learning a second or third language in school is probably not quite what OP envisions here, and there’s a big difference between getting language lessons in school and actually being able to speak that language (shoutout to my Spanish lessons in school, I should probably have picked French instead).

Naja …

Am 29. Juni 2022 hatte die Polizei Michael Ballweg verhaftet. Bei einer Durchsuchung hatten sich laut Behörden-Angaben konkrete Anhaltspunkte dafür ergeben, dass Ballweg sich ins Ausland absetzen wollte. Insgesamt neun Monate saß Ballweg in Untersuchungshaft. Die Gerichte sahen eine mögliche Fluchtgefahr, Ballweg und seine Verteidiger warfen den Gerichten Unverhältnismäßigkeit vor.

Or is it more if you lived even like 500 meters of a border do you learn the language of the country your in?

That tends to be how it’s done. States tend to be rather protective of their official language, and it’s generally impractical to send your children to school in a different country. Being somewhat proficient in the other country’s language is quite common, but to truly be bilingual you pretty much need to be some kind of ethnic or religious minority.

Also depends a lot on the relationship between the countries and languages; some borders are easier to cross, and some languages easier to learn.

Possibly, but the distinction here is that the differentiation of Dutch and German didn’t happen that long ago, and this would be a lot more obvious if the German dialects that are closest to Dutch weren’t nearly dead.

But they can still produce offspring with humans (e.g. Elrond is half-elven), which is usually what defines a species.

Oder Prostituierte wurde einfach nicht als vollwertige Personen betrachtet (aber auf andere Art als Ehefrauen).

Oder halt “es ist nur Sex”, im Gegensatz zu einer emotionalen Beziehung - diese Ansicht ist ja heute auch nicht so selten.

You mean something that sounds dumb in English also sounds dumb in Dutch? Wow!

A few hundred years ago, their language was a German dialect!

NSFL (Nicht sicher für Leben)!

Er kann sich dort genausogut von der rechten Grünen-Bevölkerung wählen lassen.