Even for dogs from English speaking countries?
I don't have a dog, so I'm curious.
> Even for dogs from English speaking countries?
Yup, absolutely — or more accurately, *especially*. As I mentioned in above, a different language is a great audio cue for your German Shepherd that you are talking to *her* and that you’d like her to do something. Words like “sit” and “drop” and “down” occur all the time in day-to-day English, and the poor GSD has to somehow figure out the difference between hearing Master say those words in conversation and carrying out a request from Master.
Imagine using the word “dump!” for the command used to tell your GSD that you would like her to immediately evacuate her bowels (a great thing to be able to do, if say you are about to go on a long car trip)...
...you could probably imagine the havoc and carpet-cleaning bills that could easily result!
Same principle applies.