Quote Originally Posted by InsaneApache
Is it safe?
Sure. "Coni" (Conrad) and I stay silent until we've both had 2 beers first. Those formalities out of the way, we start in English (his is from Austrian Uni, with an imitation hi-Brit accent; he sounds, to my ear, like David Niven portraying Colonel Klink - he says my German sounds like a drunken Swabian kindergartener with a deep voice, which makes sense). At 3 beers he starts dropping german terms and phrases into the conversation, and by 4 beers, I'm right there with him - though with incorrect sentence structure and mangled 'die, der, das' usage, which (maybe because of the beers, as Uesugi Kenshin suggests) he forgives.

We talk sport, weather, politics, gardening, fishing - guy stuff. If we have a 5th beer, my German usually disappears, and we go back to English. :)