>>>>>>>Really? We're actually very friendly in person. ...
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>>>>Most germans be all in fluster about american friends. Somehow the signals are the same - but not the messages.
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>>>Do you have an example?
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>>Hard to to.
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>>Lets try.
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>>If one met an american the first time he will express itself in a way that we would understand as very close friendship. (We feel it to fast and after we figured out that it wasn't meant the way we read it, we are confused.)
>>We now of some germans that have bewildered americans in accepting an invitation to stay for a visit during there holidays.
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>>Agnes
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>Do you mean, that the Americans visiting Germany said something to someone they met like, "Hey you will have to come stay with us next time you are in the States!" and then acted differently when, a year later, they get a call from the Germans saying, "Hey we're at the airport, how do we get to your house?"

No, we use Navstar to find the house and knock the door ...

Something close to that. We would normaly ask before we enter the airplane, but it could be somebody you will met at a camping site put out an invitation like that and is confused if one knocks his door 14 days later just to give a hallo. It's hard to describe rational.

All the expression and the style the american acts gives us the feeling of very close friends. We, on the opposite, might be understand as reserved and cold.

Agnes