Having spent much of the past year listening to Germans shouting "that is unnaceptable" (German engineers can be fun to deal with) and Dutch people saying "That is not possible" (do a search on that term on the KLM forum
) I can assure you that much gets lost in the translation (including an awful lot of humour until you get to know them a bit better). I've been lucky to spend a lot of time in Bavaria this year where the people seem a little warmer than those further north.
Regards
I