Every time I mention wanting to learn German or Germany...

snowfoxofdeath

... somehow, everyone simaltaneously derails the conversation to Hetalia. And I don't even like Hetalia.

DonZabu

You want to learn Germany?

vacasama

You rather talk about Dschinghis Khan or Schnappi das kleine Krokodil?

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If you want to learn Germany, get a cooking textbook that exclusively deals with sausages.

Especially one with a title that sounds like a weapon.

Before doing so, get drunk off beer so it makes more sense.

Hard work now, playtime later.

nohaynicklibre

Liechtenstein is mein fraulein

IanExMachina

Drink smoked beer!

The best beer of Germany.

DYRE

Hetalia is reasonably funny, from what I saw of it.  Way too many characters for me to be able to keep track of them though.

Stormtroper

It helps that their characterization is a bunch of stereotypes you've probably already heard about.

Also, I happened to be downloading a bunch of German learning lessons when I saw this thread.

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I haven't heard of 90% of the stereotypes in Hetalia before reading it, to be honest.

Mainly because I don't care enough about a lot of the countries the characters represent.