Good on you! how did you manage it? I have exactly the same problem when I have to speak German with native speakers - oddly, the problem only applies if I know the person in question - for some reason I don't normally panic if it is a complete stranger.
I panic indiscriminately. But for some reason only when talking face to face. Phone calls I can manage.
Manage what? Working without saying a word? It wasn't very difficult. (And it shames me to admit that it actually was a job in Germany. One of my more antisocial phases) Most of the things I needed to communicate, I wrote down. I'm good at helpless expressions and if everything else failed I did some variation of my "Sorry. How?"-and-pointing routine. But obviously this won't work for any job beyond Typing Stuff and Making Coffee level :)
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Manage what? Working without saying a word?
It wasn't very difficult. (And it shames me to admit that it actually was a job in Germany. One of my more antisocial phases)
Most of the things I needed to communicate, I wrote down. I'm good at helpless expressions and if everything else failed I did some variation of my "Sorry. How?"-and-pointing routine.
But obviously this won't work for any job beyond Typing Stuff and Making Coffee level :)