In the meantime, I've finally figured out to how to order coffee at a Starbucks in Vienna without a) revealing my Americanity by ordering in English and making the server think they should speak English to me, and b) confusing the staff by using the German translation of a thing they only talk about in English themselves. Speak English with a fake German accent. Then you sound like a German ordering something with an English name, but they don't automatically switch to English to ask what size/ if you want milk. It's so corny, yet so right.

Have you begun introducing yourself to Germans using a fake German accent on your name? I found it was the only way I could get French people to even remotely understand my name or say it right. I always have a really difficult time swtiching accents midsentence, so ended up saying obviously American words in an American context with a French accent and felt...very weird. Actually, most mixing of English and French felt and still feels very weird to me. Like, I should be speaking one or the other, not both. Can you mix German with English?