"Your pronunciation is too faultless.

You remember what the Scotsman said when for the first time in his life he tasted real whisky: 'It may be puir, but I canna drink it'; so it is with your German.

It strikes one less as a language than as an exhibition.

If I might offer advice, I should say: Mispronounce as much as possible, and throw in as many mistakes as you can think of." It is the same everywhere.

Each country keeps a special pronunciation exclusively for the use of foreigners--a pronunciation they never dream of using themselves, that they cannot understand when it is used.