Our Story

Moving to Germany changes everything — the food, the pace, the bureaucracy, and suddenly, the language too. Nobody hands you a manual. You find out what you needed to know the moment you needed it — usually standing at a checkout, a viewing, or an insurance counter, wishing someone had told you five minutes earlier.

A few of the moments that stuck with us: standing at a small bakery in Bavaria, card in hand, being told "nur Girocard" — no Visa, no Mastercard, cash preferred. Nobody had mentioned that plenty of small shops and restaurants in Germany, especially outside the big cities, still run mostly on cash or the local Girocard (what most people still call an EC-Karte) — not the international card everyone assumes will work everywhere.

Or arriving with no idea that finding an apartment could take months — and ending up searching from a hotel room for weeks longer than planned, simply because nobody said: start looking before you land, not after.

Or, years into living here, discovering — quite by accident — that not having filed a single car insurance claim actually earns you something: a no-claims bonus class (SF-Klasse) that lowers your premiums. Nobody mentions that either, until you're hunting for a service just to help you claim a discount you'd already earned.

None of these things are secrets. They're just the kind of thing every expat learns separately, the hard way, usually alone. FindEnglish exists so the next person doesn't have to. So we built a directory: doctors, banks, tax advisors, lawyers, insurance brokers, and more — all confirmed to work in English, currently covering Berlin, Munich, Hamburg and Frankfurt, plus services available nationwide and online across Germany.

From expats, for expats.
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