Congratulations! You all did very well in the exam. It was amazing to hear some of you speak near-native English. You should do this in class more often, but then it seems to depend on the situation. Or perhaps I’m to blame for not giving you enough of a challenge. We may try to change that.

Anyway, here is someone who, unlike you, is still desperately struggling with the English language. I don’t normally poke fun at people, but this man deserves it because he said he was very competent at speaking English. (“Ich bin in Englisch, was das Gespräch angeht, sehr sicher.”) Indeed!

My favourite lines are

I’m glad to be here in this dossier

and

We have all chances to bring anarchy on a good way.

Do you think Mr Oettinger would have passed the exam? What mark would you give him?