It's a pity that Germany isn't used much otherwise you could have built on what you know already.
Having the rest of the world speak English certainly makes us lazy, and uncompetitive. Everyone else can speak at least two and many even three or four languages
I've spoken some German at some Hive events :) I'm just a bit rusty on that.
I am in favour of Hive being more multilingual. It doesn't have to all be in English and we have tools to do the translation anyway.