I will write about this at more length eventually, but yes, definitely. As nervous as you may feel knowing that you'll be screwing up frequently, from the other side, the easy side, the native speaker's side, all that matters is understanding. I frequently thought that English is ridiculously complicated and confusing, I never thought the person speaking it was ridiculously confused.

Arne and I had a few conversations alone, without your help, and while it was slow, of course, we got our points across just fine. Perfectly satisfactory conversation. Maybe next time we'll be able to try it in German, too.