Introduction: Deutschland, 10 months in
When you move into a country that doesn't speak your language natively in every day kind of manner, the most important thing is to learn it. Take it from academic whose most friends are constantly moving, because that's how you post-doc, no matter how fluent the locals might be in English in general, it makes a huge difference to your long-term life quality to be fluent enough, to understand what others are speaking and what signs and texts are saying. Of course, if you, like most of us, are only allowed to stay in one country few years at a time ("researcher mobility"), it may not be worth the effort, but on the other hand, learning new stuff is fun and keeps your mind working. Even though Indo-European languages are not very high in my academic interest, learning German is fun and enlightening at times.
