>>21674318the thing is, I remember very vividly that the USA wasn't more prominent in our English courses than other English-speaking nations. After you learned the absolute basics, it was years of: the UK drives on the left side, red busses, they have a monarchy etc. and later we went through all the English-speaking countries: A few months on Canada, on Australia, on South Africa, on New Zealand, on USA, on Ireland. All our school books were always very UK focused, with pictures from the UK, the Union Jack everywhere, British spelling of words. It was never presented as the "American language" because they were the hegemon. It was presented as the language we new use to communicate with non-German speakers because it's so insanely easy: The tenses are easy, the grammar is (among the) most simple of all Indo-European languages, the vocabulary is easy to remember for both Germanic and Romance language speakers because it was influenced by both.
