Anyone who worked and lived in Frankfurt with no fluency in German?

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How long did you live in Frankfurt with no fluent German? If you learnt the language whilst living there, how long did you take to get to a medium level?

I heard that is easier to learn German if you know English, because there are some similarities in the grammar.

I know in a corporate or finance environment in Frankfurt, English is widely spoken. But how is it when you need to go to a doctor/GP, deal with an electrician or a plumber, for example? Or buy medicines or goods in a supermarket. How difficult those things are?

How patient are the frankfurters with foreigners who do not domain the language?

Thank you.

Fear of the Dark · Accepted Answer

Well the people may speak english (even to a perfect level)
in a corporate or finance environment in Frankfurt.
But this does not mean that they will start to talk in english to each
other so you can follow them too ;)
Everyone will  talk german (and everything will be written in german only)
Btw. how do you plan to pay your bills?
Because without speaking german how do you know what 
lets say the electricity company wants from you when they write you a letter (in german) ? ;)
Well shopping and talking to locals will not be a big problem.
Usually people will help you out and try to talk to you in english.
But again living and working in germany without german?
Hardly possible!
You have to remember EVERYTHING will be in german only.
So all your bills, all the letters  you recieve from the city or
government are written in german only,
So how do plan to know if a letter is important (like "This is the last warning before we cut off your electricity" ;) or not if you
can´t read it?

GFX · Answer

I agreed with Dark you must copped some German!

Anyone who worked and lived in Frankfurt with no fluency in German?

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