I live in Penzing near Landsberg and it'd be great to meet people, my Germans good but not great, I've been here 2 weeks so far.

I'm pretty lonely at the moment here in Germany. I have been an au pair in a little village in Germany for about 5 weeks or so. I have met other au pairs from abroad but I'd really like to meet some English speakers, I do not mind travelling one bit. The other au pairs often talk to one another in their native languages and I find myself getting ever more lonely.

Please post up if you'd like to meet. I can speak ok German, not perfect due to lack of time but it's coming on.

Also, can anyone give me any advice on how to meet German people? This may sound strange but I am finding it much harder than I imagined. It doesn't seem like to easiest country to make random friends in and when I am just friends with foreighners I can feel my German getting worse.

Hiya. It's I think socially it is a wee bit trickier out here in the sticks. Must admit I have struggled to make German mates and I have been here 4 years and have family here!! That said we have a Swedish lady that works for us, and she just knows EVERYONE in the whole area. So of course down to the individual, how social you are (or not in my case).

I was at a 40th party on Saturday night (I think 5th one I have been to here) and you realise lots of these people have been mates since kindergarden. I was just the shadow wandering around.

Hey Kritzykins, i live in augsburg. I have met some other au pairs here, if you want to head out in Augsburg let me know and we can organise something

Frequent advice is to "join a club (Verein)". Depends what your interests are. I used to fly model aircraft in UK, was introduced to a German gliding club (full-sized!), joined, learnt to fly gliders, learnt some sort of German and 26 years later have been club's PR guy for 20+ years etc etc etc. Girls DO fly! Flying season starts Easter/April. GREAT FUN!

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This thread has been dead for ages but I just thought I'd be put that I chnaged families and I now live just north of Munich.