Awarness Today I tried to explain in English to a Polish client the fundamentals of the tax class system in Germany and the obligations and potential dangers coming with an application for changing his tax class to III. I struggled to find a word for „Zusammenveranlagung“. Joint statement maybe? I had to take and use it. My time was running short after a 982 word email (the second after about three phone and one face-to-face conversations) I never noticed how opaque this tax class system is for an outsider who does not accommodate with it during his work life, who depends on suggestions and information from co-workers. To explain the potential pitfalls which only emerge on my awareness while explaining in English  was kind of strange. I live with these issues and explain these issues normally unconsciously, behave like an amoebae, not consciously thinking with my cerebral cortex. My conscious mind is at stand-by, operating in anticipation like typing with 10 fingers. Thinking of the next move of the next finger would bring poor results.