Fun fact:
Bavarians also say “Servus” as a form of greeting (both for hello and good-bye). It is a word they learned from the Roman occupiers 2,000 years ago and literally means “servant.” Romans used to call out for “Servus” when they required service. At that time Bavarians thought it was a greeting, so it crept into the culture where it remains today.
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I know, no one uses that in Berlin, you’d be laughed at and mocked mercilessly.
And further North it becomes Moin Moin for some reason. I blame the Danes.
When I was in Schleswig they insisted it was, “Moin Moin”. I think they were trying to put one over the Hamburgers.
That was me yesterday.
Limie 4 - 0 Hamburgers
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Moinsen if you want to appear hipster
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Ey Alta!
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It’s not that hard as an English speaker. Try Polish, Tamil or Icelandic!
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About 26% of current English vocabulary is of Germanic origin.
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About 26% of the German vocabulary is variations of the word “the”.
It’s not a tough language to grasp a fair bit of it.
I’ve been learning it for about a year and I’m far further than I was than with Portugal and I had a partner who spoke it so would try and speak it more.
Considering how long that move has been protracted for he should have learnt at least the ability to order a coffee 
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To be fair I can imagine him struggling with “ein Kaffee bitte”.
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Your forgetting it is Harry Kane we are taking about. He can’t even soeak English yet.
How the hell do you expect him to learn to speak a 2nd language?
He might find German easier.
My mother-in-law saw him on the German news and couldn’t understand a word. It’s worth pointing out that she is quite adept at Scots, Scouse and Geordie.
But not Cockney? Did she get the ‘ump’?
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She actually lived in London for a while in the 1950s after she got out of the DDR so that she could learn English.
The problem was that she stayed with a German-Jewish family in Golders Green who insisted on speaking German at home. Most of the nurses she worked with were Irish so I think she ended up with a mangled Dublin accent to begin with.
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