If you go to Germany and use Ich, and pronouce it ICK, then you're basically flashing a fucking banner over your head that your american. It's hard to explain it in text.
You know the 'h' sound in humongous? Use that hard 'h' sound... So it's like... Ihhh, almost.
what was the word on indiana jones the last crusade the german officer used in the tank? schnell? wtf does that mean
"Hurry"
I took German last year, will take German this year, and probably will all through highschool, considering it's a trades-language useful in most of Europe.