In German, how do you tell someone at a store "I'm just looking"?
A dreaded situation - not speaking the language, I walk into a store to buy something, hoping that I will be ignored by the store employees. Then, one comes up to me and asks me if there is anything they can help me with...and then I watch their faces drop as I struggle to respond to them using a very limited vocabulary.

What is a polite way of saying to a store clerk "I'm just looking, thanks"?

Question

In German, how do you tell someone at a store "I'm just looking"?
A dreaded situation - not speaking the language, I walk into a store to buy something, hoping that I will be ignored by the store employees.  Then, one comes up to me and asks me if there is anything they can help me with...and then I watch their faces drop as I struggle to respond to them using a very limited vocabulary.

What is a polite way of saying to a store clerk "I'm just looking, thanks"?

Answer

You could say "Ich sehe mich nur um, danke."

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