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Ex BF's German CULTURE SHOCKS!

I hope this is an interesting one! Last summer while living in Leipzig my boyfriend at the time came to visit and we traveled to more than 8 cities with the 9-Euro Ticket. I kept notes of all the crazy things he thought were weird along the way, and just now got to compiling them into this video. From strange foods, especially in Bayern, to signs and going out, I think his German culture shocks made it a really fun trip because it was like coming to Germany for the first time again!
(he approved this video :)
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My name is Montana Showalter, and I was a participant in the Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange program in 2019-2020. I started my KZread channel while living in Germany and continue to make videos on German vs American culture. I love finding aspects of German culture in the US as well as producing videos in German as practice! In the future, I hope to live abroad again :)

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  • @howierfs5471
    @howierfs5471 Жыл бұрын

    Hallo Montana, schön dich zu sehen und zu hören. Es freut mich, dass ihr beiden eine gute Zeit in Deutschland hattet. Dein Freund hatte sicherlich einen guten Guide. 😀 Tschüss

  • @adventureawaits3646
    @adventureawaits36468 ай бұрын

    I am from Germany but in CA for some 30 years, your videos always bring back forgotten memories about all kinds of things! I'm glad those things still exist. And that most delicious piece of meat on the planet with an x? That's a Haxn and it's one of the best things on the planet, should be on the Bavarian flag ;-)

  • @peterdoe2617
    @peterdoe2617 Жыл бұрын

    Schön, Dich mal wieder zu sehen, Montana! Flüge sind selbst jetzt brutal teuer (mein Bruder kommt in ein paar Wochen). Hauptsache, Du kommst im Studium gut voran. Gruß aus Tangstedt!

  • @thomassaint6775
    @thomassaint6775 Жыл бұрын

    you keep getting more adorable.💎

  • @pendragon2012
    @pendragon2012 Жыл бұрын

    Good to see you back, Montana! Hope all is well!

  • @kplasa.online
    @kplasa.online Жыл бұрын

    Hi Montana, you are talking about how organized German public transport is in comparison to other countries you visited. I think viewers from Germany (like myself) would be interested if you would find some time to make a little video and show us virtually around how public transport works in your area and how it differs from your experience abroad

  • @quentinmunich9819

    @quentinmunich9819

    Жыл бұрын

    You can find a lot of those and you will not be disappointed. Even in big cities the public transport network has huge holes. I recently read one of the trains had 24 hours delay. There is a reason behind, why US-citizens use their car.

  • @schulzi3652

    @schulzi3652

    Жыл бұрын

    Please let me give you an example. Back in 2019 I visited Boston and tought it would be good to use puplic transport to come from the Airport to the hotel. I had to leave at the bus stop "Ipswich @ Boylston Str". After some time, the stop was announced suddenly, I was a bit surrprised and hasted out of the bus. I knew that at this stop should be a gas station, but there was no, instead there was a church. I checked it 2-3 times while it was raining, to understand what went wrong. After some research and time I finally got it: on this bus line there are 2 stops having the identical name (spelling and naming order), but there are on different location (by feet they were like 10 min away)... never ever had someting similar in Germany nor somewhere else. That day I understood, why Americans use their cars.

  • @michaelburggraf2822
    @michaelburggraf2822 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Montana! It's just an innocent German "ch" leading Americans' thoughts astray😂.

  • @simply-the-max
    @simply-the-max Жыл бұрын

    Always funny when Non-Germans call pizza or toast "bread". For a German this isn't bread. Even 90 percent of the stuff in bakeries (like Brezel, Brötchen, Nussschnecke) isn't bread. Bread is really just this big piece that you have to cut first.

  • @salahguidoum9306
    @salahguidoum93065 ай бұрын

    ❤yes good luck thank you🎉

  • @sigmagic2874
    @sigmagic2874 Жыл бұрын

    Good to hear from you 🙂 take care 😊

  • @Inf0H3ld
    @Inf0H3ld Жыл бұрын

    She is back \o/

  • @Peter_Cetera
    @Peter_Cetera Жыл бұрын

    Looking forward for more videos!!!

  • @davesaunders7080
    @davesaunders7080 Жыл бұрын

    Nice update( found you from your Feli joint venture) have fun for the summer.

  • @MontanaShowalter

    @MontanaShowalter

    Жыл бұрын

    thank you!

  • @rahax010
    @rahax010 Жыл бұрын

    Moin Montana. Nice to hear again from u! 🙂🙃🙂

  • @kwirkkwirksn1090
    @kwirkkwirksn1090 Жыл бұрын

    you had me with "EX-BF'S..." 👍🏼

  • @TheSkinnyZ
    @TheSkinnyZ Жыл бұрын

    Getting bread at the supermarket is blasphemous to me as a German. 😂

  • @harti88

    @harti88

    Жыл бұрын

    Genau. Ein richtiges Brot kauft man beim ansässigen Bäcker!

  • @peterreimerMannaufderBank

    @peterreimerMannaufderBank

    Жыл бұрын

    So isses :-) Supermarktbrot ist zwar schon mal besser als das üble Matschbrot, wie man es in den USA oder auch z.B. in Holland bekommt, aber immer noch "schlechtes" Brot, vor allem auf dem Land. Brot kauft man am besten beim Bäcker oder man backt es, weil leider auch bei uns die klassischen Bäcker nach und nach wegsterben, selbst. Mein "busy people bread" dauert vom ersten Mehl in die Schüssel bis raus aus dem Backofen eine Stunde 🙂

  • @quentinmunich9819

    @quentinmunich9819

    Жыл бұрын

    Wie sie schon sagte, sie hatte nicht richtig viel Geld für diese Reise. Wer hat das nicht gemacht als junger Mensch mit wenig Geld!

  • @jorgjorgsen7528

    @jorgjorgsen7528

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeh you sound like a snobby german, millions of Germans get their bread at Aldi and Lidl.

  • @jorgjorgsen7528

    @jorgjorgsen7528

    Жыл бұрын

    @@quentinmunich9819 Das machen auch alte Menschen mit wenig Geld.

  • @screenhd4288
    @screenhd4288 Жыл бұрын

    Jungs, die Hoffung besteht

  • @bene4577

    @bene4577

    Жыл бұрын

    Hoffnung ballert

  • @philippciunis

    @philippciunis

    Жыл бұрын

    Ehre alla

  • @thebrokebuttryinghardguy1611
    @thebrokebuttryinghardguy1611 Жыл бұрын

    this was fun and entertaining, thanks btw no idea what "wir suchen dich" means in a dirty way lol greetings from a German exchange student, who stayed in lousiana for one year

  • @schnuffelchen223

    @schnuffelchen223

    7 ай бұрын

    I believe it sounds like 'we suck dick' for an English speaker

  • @edwil111
    @edwil1119 ай бұрын

    No more KZread? I visited UVA campus for the first time today and thought of you as you are/were an undergrad there. Pretty college town!

  • @MontanaShowalter

    @MontanaShowalter

    9 ай бұрын

    I know I haven't posted in so long! I definitely need to. I'm still studying at UVA so glad you liked Charlottesville!

  • @raygoro3446
    @raygoro3446 Жыл бұрын

    "Kinder"portion? You are getting more and more Germanized Montana! hehe

  • @christiangruenwied3780
    @christiangruenwied3780 Жыл бұрын

    I think the Bavarian food was "Haxe" (schön, dich zu sehen!)

  • @MontanaShowalter

    @MontanaShowalter

    Жыл бұрын

    yes! it was

  • @uliwehner

    @uliwehner

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MontanaShowalter no wonder he is the ex now :) he couldn't even handle a schweinshaxe, how embarrassing ;)

  • @chrisMuc1966
    @chrisMuc1966 Жыл бұрын

    03:25 Most probably Schweinshaxe or Kalbshaxe. Very tasty, but not very healthy.

  • @quentinmunich9819

    @quentinmunich9819

    Жыл бұрын

    For sure it was a Haxe and I can imagine they didn't like it.

  • @chrisMuc1966

    @chrisMuc1966

    Жыл бұрын

    @@quentinmunich9819 Food is always a matter of taste. From German TV, I learnt that people in Texas enjoy to eat fried rattle snakes. I guess I will never eat this.

  • @MontanaShowalter

    @MontanaShowalter

    Жыл бұрын

    yes! it was definitely haxe

  • @walkir2662
    @walkir2662 Жыл бұрын

    The drinking under 21 is funny... until you realize many exchange students have a mixture of having no idea what they can stomach, feel the need to drink as much a possible and german beer not being "light".

  • @edwil111
    @edwil111 Жыл бұрын

    Wunderbar!

  • @peterreimerMannaufderBank
    @peterreimerMannaufderBank Жыл бұрын

    Essen in Deutschland ist schon ziemlich speziell, obwohl das Land im Vergleich zu den USA so klein ist. 1871 bestand Deutschland aus 25 verschiedenen Fürstentümern mit stark unterschiedlichen Dialekten und erheblichen regionalen Unterschieden. So gibt es auch auf unserer kleinen Fläche eine sehr große Vielfalt an unterschiedlichen regionalen Küchen. Die ewige Verkürzung von Deutschland = Bayern ist für mich eher genau umgekehrt. Bayern hat für mich mit "typisch Deutschsein" ziemlich wenig zu tun, sowohl was Sprache, Brauchtum und Küche angeht. G Am Rande: das gilt übrigens auch für die zumindest bei amerikanischen productionmusic-libraries ziemlich verengte Wahrnehmung, wie deutsche Volksmusik klingt. Die klingt nämlich im Allgemeinen ebenfalls nicht so, wie in einem bayrischen Bierzelt...

  • @reichsritter8955

    @reichsritter8955

    Жыл бұрын

    Was können wir Bayern dafür, daß wir amerikanische Besatzungszone sind und diese ungebildeten Amis nicht fähig sind zu differenzieren, obwohl sie auch in Hessen sind. Für mich ist Köln z. B. fremder als Wien. In Wien hat mir noch nie jemand auf englisch geantwortet, wenn ich was gefragt habe. Es gibt kein typisch deutsch. Deutsch ist die Vielfalt. Die Vielfalt der Dialekte, des Brauchtums und der Küche. Jeder Stamm und die Unterstämme bilden nur einen Teil des Deutschsein ab. Für Italien gilt dasselbe. Für einen Mailänder ist südlich von Rom schon Afrika.

  • @Steven91637
    @Steven91637 Жыл бұрын

    Aldi and Edeka are my favourite Grocery Stores in Germany 🇩🇪

  • @salahguidoum9306
    @salahguidoum93065 ай бұрын

    ❤good luck montana good well thank bey

  • @benjaminheitzmann5331
    @benjaminheitzmann53318 ай бұрын

    Wenn du das nächste mal nach Deutschland kommst musst du Schwäbische oder Badische Küche probieren in Baden Württemberg! Spätzle oder Maultaschen würde ich dir empfehlen! Ein muss für einen Ausländer! Mach weiter mit deinen VIdeos Montana danke dir!

  • @MontanaShowalter

    @MontanaShowalter

    8 ай бұрын

    ooh danke!!

  • @emsitri7053
    @emsitri7053 Жыл бұрын

    Ich bin zu naiv, um zu verstehen, was an den Plakaten doppeldeutig ist. Kann mich jemand aufklären?

  • @axelbecker244

    @axelbecker244

    Жыл бұрын

    "dick" (Schwanz) anstelle von "dich" …

  • @calvin9436

    @calvin9436

    Жыл бұрын

    suchen - sucken

  • @calvin9436

    @calvin9436

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MaxCouto you good?

  • @salahguidoum9306
    @salahguidoum93065 ай бұрын

    ❤see you tomorrow god willing thuss

  • @stefanwiechmann4808
    @stefanwiechmann4808 Жыл бұрын

    Nice and informative as always 😊 The north of Germany is even more different from south and east. If you travel back to Germany next year, you should try the northern region 😊 Are you now back in the USA? Or do you still in spain? And does your community understood it right, that you are a single now?

  • @Why-D
    @Why-D Жыл бұрын

    The traditional meal was probably a Haxe or Schweinshaxe, the leg of a pig.

  • @datteldiskussion4992
    @datteldiskussion4992 Жыл бұрын

    I love how bread must have been a topic of conversation in Germany so much that you even transferred some German errors into your English. "We bought a bread." is such a typical thing a German would say, not knowing that bread, in English, is an uncountable substance noun like air or water. So, "We bought some bread/some pieces of bread" would be correct English.

  • @RM01116
    @RM01116 Жыл бұрын

    Have you been to the Oktoberfest in Richmond VA and if so, what are your thoughts on it?

  • @MrHaggyy
    @MrHaggyy Жыл бұрын

    Yes getting something from the supermarkt is pretty convinient, but even a bakery or a butcher is not that expensive. At my go to bakery near my university a sandwich, a cup of coffee and a small sweet where 5€ pre covid. Might be a bit more now but not much for sure. Your friend definetly had Schweinshaxe mit Sauerkraut. It's a big leg with sour cabbage and while i love it i can understand that it tastes odd the first time. It has a strong natural meat taste, a lot of salt and not sweet at all. ^^ funny that you like german public transport. It's quite a meme how bad the timing of the Deutsche Bahn is compared to german standards and expectations. And german companies make a fortune building the most advanced train systems in the world, the stuff on our rails seems like from a past centuary in comparison. I'm glad you liked germany. You should definetly visit other areas as well. Leipzig, Chemnitz, Dresden do have a destinct east-german vibe. The south, middle and north especially at the coast of "west"germany can be quite different.

  • @julsjourneys
    @julsjourneys Жыл бұрын

    omg i just made a video about my reverse culture shocks!! i cant wait to go back to germany for my spring semester ahh ❤️

  • @ReneBold
    @ReneBold Жыл бұрын

    3:30 Haxen

  • @agn855
    @agn855 Жыл бұрын

    _"Something with an X…"_ AKA (Schweins)Haxe.

  • @larifari_das
    @larifari_das Жыл бұрын

    +1 for Passau, great destination

  • @chrisMuc1966

    @chrisMuc1966

    Жыл бұрын

    München > Passau

  • @sirbouncealot7457
    @sirbouncealot7457 Жыл бұрын

    the word you were looking for is: Haxe^^

  • @potato-hunter5570

    @potato-hunter5570

    Жыл бұрын

    Or Schweinshaxen, the longer Version of this word. It is more a Bavarian word than a German 👍

  • @hunter8383
    @hunter838310 ай бұрын

    Hey Montana. Will you produce new videos? I would be interested in some stuff about DC or Shenandoah NP.

  • @MontanaShowalter

    @MontanaShowalter

    9 ай бұрын

    I can definitely do a video about DC, do you like the videos in English or in German?

  • @hunter8383

    @hunter8383

    9 ай бұрын

    @@MontanaShowalter I am fine with both languages. So alternating is quite good. Greetings from Bad LA

  • @jensschroder8214
    @jensschroder8214 Жыл бұрын

    the announcements on the trains are often in German, English and French

  • @quentinmunich9819

    @quentinmunich9819

    Жыл бұрын

    French?`In which region are you using trains?

  • @bene4577

    @bene4577

    Жыл бұрын

    @@quentinmunich9819 some are indeed in french, especially in the south-west, like close to the french border, you know?

  • @martinschulz326

    @martinschulz326

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@bene4577yes. Still. Usually they are in german and englisch.

  • @MachsEinfach
    @MachsEinfach Жыл бұрын

    First, ich love your Videos. Second, 3:28 Schweishaxe Third, 5:20 You know that it is legal to drink beer with 16. And with Our Patents at 14. I know. Thats an typical german comment. 😂

  • @carldenig2500

    @carldenig2500

    Жыл бұрын

    Second: maybe Schweinshaxe ? Third: maybe with your parents? Have a nice day, and keep fresh!

  • @rahax010
    @rahax010 Жыл бұрын

    hello Montana. Ur looking very pretty!! Have a nice time!

  • @tinilove4919
    @tinilove491910 ай бұрын

    I miss your videos

  • @MontanaShowalter

    @MontanaShowalter

    9 ай бұрын

    thank you! I'm sorry I haven't posted in so long it's been a crazy year, but I'm hoping to do an update video soon :)

  • @robinho_7722
    @robinho_7722 Жыл бұрын

    Which area will u vistit

  • @jaygorakht5135
    @jaygorakht5135 Жыл бұрын

    Love to see your video lots of love from heaven earth nepal

  • @AK-cp8rq
    @AK-cp8rq Жыл бұрын

    Haxe! ;D

  • @Einfach_Rene
    @Einfach_Rene Жыл бұрын

    Meinst du die Hax‘n?

  • @ChrisTian-rm7zm
    @ChrisTian-rm7zm Жыл бұрын

    I don't get it. There's nothing raunchy or ambiguous about the poster at all.

  • @eviljared11

    @eviljared11

    Жыл бұрын

    Für Amerikaner die kein Deutsch können ließt sich das "ch" wie ein "ck"

  • @bene4577

    @bene4577

    Жыл бұрын

    doch, wenn man bedenkt, dass (viele) amis meinen, dass man "ch" als "ck" ausspricht, dann schon... :D gute Werbeagentur hätte das wahrscheinlich bedacht

  • @quentinmunich9819

    @quentinmunich9819

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bene4577 richtig, die kugeln sich immer ab über die Schokoküsse mit Namen: Dickmann

  • @whattheflyingfuck...
    @whattheflyingfuck... Жыл бұрын

    what cultural background did the ex have? is he 'murican?

  • @fashionforlifeanne3243
    @fashionforlifeanne324310 ай бұрын

    I love you

  • @newYorkStories
    @newYorkStories Жыл бұрын

    I love your videos, but after all those years, being and living in Germany a couple of times, you're still come across at the typical American girl. Nothing wrong about it, but I grew up in both cultures, German and American, and it fascinates me how oblivious and "oberflächlich" most Americans are.

  • @Steven91637
    @Steven91637 Жыл бұрын

    You look beautiful 😍

  • @raccoon-wq3gv
    @raccoon-wq3gv9 ай бұрын

    What are your thoughts on German men shaving their underarms on a regular basis?

  • @cehape2719
    @cehape2719 Жыл бұрын

    "Wir sucken dich" likely...hmm, everyone reads what he wants to read, right ? 🙃

  • @philipkudrna5643
    @philipkudrna5643 Жыл бұрын

    I think you were thinking about „Schweins-Haxe“(?) (maybe?)

  • @MontanaShowalter

    @MontanaShowalter

    Жыл бұрын

    yes! that’s it

  • @grimmbartrides
    @grimmbartrides Жыл бұрын

    "Bavarian food was not his favourite" -- well I'm glad you got rid of him, you don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

  • @wizardm
    @wizardm Жыл бұрын

    I'm from Germany and I agree, Schweinshaxe looks really delicious but the taste is weird. I don't like it.

  • @wncjan

    @wncjan

    Жыл бұрын

    I must be grilled and coated in hot bbq sauce.

  • @wizardm

    @wizardm

    Жыл бұрын

    @@wncjan Doesn't really make it better.

  • @wncjan

    @wncjan

    Жыл бұрын

    @@wizardm Makes it great. Eaten quite a lot of grilled schweinhaxe in the Baden-Würtenberg area. And also a Belgian version in Brussels.

  • @halmati2288
    @halmati2288 Жыл бұрын

    Ich finde es nicht gut dass Du unsere Supermärkte auf die Idee bringst die Preise zu erhöhen z.B. von 58 oder 75 ct auf 5 Euro für ein kaltes Kaffeegetränk! … .. . ;-)

  • @clash8181
    @clash8181 Жыл бұрын

    Bavarian food was not his favorite? Thank god he is your ex now 😂😂😂

  • @quentinmunich9819

    @quentinmunich9819

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm pretty sure she liked the Kaiserschmarrn. Okay this is Austrian food, but this is also widespread in Bavaria.

  • @MontanaShowalter

    @MontanaShowalter

    Жыл бұрын

    hahah this made me laugh!

  • @riker1701D
    @riker1701D Жыл бұрын

    No normal German buys bread, eggs or even meat in the supermarket! What are bakeries, butchers and farmers for? Well. Maybe city people, they do that, but they're city people, they do other weird things.😂

  • @quentinmunich9819

    @quentinmunich9819

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, the butchers and farmers in Leipzig! lol

  • @riker1701D

    @riker1701D

    Жыл бұрын

    @@quentinmunich9819Kommentare lesen und Kommentare verstehen scheinen bei Dir offensichtlich zwei unterschiedliche Paar Schuhe zu sein.😁

  • @quentinmunich9819

    @quentinmunich9819

    Жыл бұрын

    @@riker1701D Und was hast du jetzt nicht verstanden?

  • @steffenbaden-baden1274
    @steffenbaden-baden1274 Жыл бұрын

    Ex? What happened? Did you cheat?

  • @Ltsyy

    @Ltsyy

    Жыл бұрын

    wtf? 😂 Ever heard of something called boundaries or privacy?

  • @martin1042

    @martin1042

    Жыл бұрын

    Couples break up for so many different reasons. What makes you assume it's that particular one? I'd also say that this is a private matter between Montana and her ex.

  • @quentinmunich9819

    @quentinmunich9819

    Жыл бұрын

    Did you cheat? lol, let there be the gossips spread.

  • @bene4577

    @bene4577

    Жыл бұрын

    He was a skater boy. She said, "See you later, boy". He wasn't good enough for her. 🤷

  • @reesofraft4166
    @reesofraft41662 ай бұрын

    super market bread? the worst there is. there are sooo many bakeries where you get much better bread. and fresher. did you get Haxe? h > k. come on! they are looking for you, not for a certain body part.