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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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
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 ;-)
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!
you keep getting more adorable.💎
Good to see you back, Montana! Hope all is well!
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
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
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.
Thank you, Montana! It's just an innocent German "ch" leading Americans' thoughts astray😂.
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.
❤yes good luck thank you🎉
Good to hear from you 🙂 take care 😊
She is back \o/
Looking forward for more videos!!!
Nice update( found you from your Feli joint venture) have fun for the summer.
@MontanaShowalter
Жыл бұрын
thank you!
Moin Montana. Nice to hear again from u! 🙂🙃🙂
you had me with "EX-BF'S..." 👍🏼
Getting bread at the supermarket is blasphemous to me as a German. 😂
@harti88
Жыл бұрын
Genau. Ein richtiges Brot kauft man beim ansässigen Bäcker!
@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
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
Жыл бұрын
Yeh you sound like a snobby german, millions of Germans get their bread at Aldi and Lidl.
@jorgjorgsen7528
Жыл бұрын
@@quentinmunich9819 Das machen auch alte Menschen mit wenig Geld.
Jungs, die Hoffung besteht
@bene4577
Жыл бұрын
Hoffnung ballert
@philippciunis
Жыл бұрын
Ehre alla
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
7 ай бұрын
I believe it sounds like 'we suck dick' for an English speaker
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
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!
"Kinder"portion? You are getting more and more Germanized Montana! hehe
I think the Bavarian food was "Haxe" (schön, dich zu sehen!)
@MontanaShowalter
Жыл бұрын
yes! it was
@uliwehner
Жыл бұрын
@@MontanaShowalter no wonder he is the ex now :) he couldn't even handle a schweinshaxe, how embarrassing ;)
03:25 Most probably Schweinshaxe or Kalbshaxe. Very tasty, but not very healthy.
@quentinmunich9819
Жыл бұрын
For sure it was a Haxe and I can imagine they didn't like it.
@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
Жыл бұрын
yes! it was definitely haxe
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".
Wunderbar!
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
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.
Aldi and Edeka are my favourite Grocery Stores in Germany 🇩🇪
❤good luck montana good well thank bey
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
8 ай бұрын
ooh danke!!
Ich bin zu naiv, um zu verstehen, was an den Plakaten doppeldeutig ist. Kann mich jemand aufklären?
@axelbecker244
Жыл бұрын
"dick" (Schwanz) anstelle von "dich" …
@calvin9436
Жыл бұрын
suchen - sucken
@calvin9436
Жыл бұрын
@@MaxCouto you good?
❤see you tomorrow god willing thuss
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?
The traditional meal was probably a Haxe or Schweinshaxe, the leg of a pig.
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.
Have you been to the Oktoberfest in Richmond VA and if so, what are your thoughts on it?
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.
omg i just made a video about my reverse culture shocks!! i cant wait to go back to germany for my spring semester ahh ❤️
3:30 Haxen
_"Something with an X…"_ AKA (Schweins)Haxe.
+1 for Passau, great destination
@chrisMuc1966
Жыл бұрын
München > Passau
the word you were looking for is: Haxe^^
@potato-hunter5570
Жыл бұрын
Or Schweinshaxen, the longer Version of this word. It is more a Bavarian word than a German 👍
Hey Montana. Will you produce new videos? I would be interested in some stuff about DC or Shenandoah NP.
@MontanaShowalter
9 ай бұрын
I can definitely do a video about DC, do you like the videos in English or in German?
@hunter8383
9 ай бұрын
@@MontanaShowalter I am fine with both languages. So alternating is quite good. Greetings from Bad LA
the announcements on the trains are often in German, English and French
@quentinmunich9819
Жыл бұрын
French?`In which region are you using trains?
@bene4577
Жыл бұрын
@@quentinmunich9819 some are indeed in french, especially in the south-west, like close to the french border, you know?
@martinschulz326
10 ай бұрын
@@bene4577yes. Still. Usually they are in german and englisch.
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
Жыл бұрын
Second: maybe Schweinshaxe ? Third: maybe with your parents? Have a nice day, and keep fresh!
hello Montana. Ur looking very pretty!! Have a nice time!
I miss your videos
@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 :)
Which area will u vistit
Love to see your video lots of love from heaven earth nepal
Haxe! ;D
Meinst du die Hax‘n?
I don't get it. There's nothing raunchy or ambiguous about the poster at all.
@eviljared11
Жыл бұрын
Für Amerikaner die kein Deutsch können ließt sich das "ch" wie ein "ck"
@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
Жыл бұрын
@@bene4577 richtig, die kugeln sich immer ab über die Schokoküsse mit Namen: Dickmann
what cultural background did the ex have? is he 'murican?
I love you
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.
You look beautiful 😍
What are your thoughts on German men shaving their underarms on a regular basis?
"Wir sucken dich" likely...hmm, everyone reads what he wants to read, right ? 🙃
I think you were thinking about „Schweins-Haxe“(?) (maybe?)
@MontanaShowalter
Жыл бұрын
yes! that’s it
"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.
I'm from Germany and I agree, Schweinshaxe looks really delicious but the taste is weird. I don't like it.
@wncjan
Жыл бұрын
I must be grilled and coated in hot bbq sauce.
@wizardm
Жыл бұрын
@@wncjan Doesn't really make it better.
@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.
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! … .. . ;-)
Bavarian food was not his favorite? Thank god he is your ex now 😂😂😂
@quentinmunich9819
Жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure she liked the Kaiserschmarrn. Okay this is Austrian food, but this is also widespread in Bavaria.
@MontanaShowalter
Жыл бұрын
hahah this made me laugh!
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
Жыл бұрын
Yes, the butchers and farmers in Leipzig! lol
@riker1701D
Жыл бұрын
@@quentinmunich9819Kommentare lesen und Kommentare verstehen scheinen bei Dir offensichtlich zwei unterschiedliche Paar Schuhe zu sein.😁
@quentinmunich9819
Жыл бұрын
@@riker1701D Und was hast du jetzt nicht verstanden?
Ex? What happened? Did you cheat?
@Ltsyy
Жыл бұрын
wtf? 😂 Ever heard of something called boundaries or privacy?
@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
Жыл бұрын
Did you cheat? lol, let there be the gossips spread.
@bene4577
Жыл бұрын
He was a skater boy. She said, "See you later, boy". He wasn't good enough for her. 🤷
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.