EWTN showed excerpts today from an (English) interview they did with Ratzinger a year or two ago.
He speaks English better than JPII, and with a German accent, of course. IOW, someone as linguistically challenged as I could understand what he was saying.
Germans love to speak English. I think because our langauges are very similar. Every time I have been to german speaking countries they always speak to me in Englihs even though I want to try to improve my (poor) German skills. heh.
Complete opposite of dirty France.