When it comes to Germans speaking English, I actually enjoy the German accent. It is quite pleasant to my ears. Perhaps it's because I miss my old German (and Scandinavian) relatives that have long passed. I miss them all.

@abinashmishra329

2 жыл бұрын

Yea, but many Germans in this generation (like Feli) are learning how to speak English with a US accent. I have noticed it not only in Feli but also some of my Goethe Institut instructors who hail from the German-speaking world.

@TheGamermouse

2 жыл бұрын

Very touching, thank you!

@pauljonkers4359

2 жыл бұрын

Sure, I like the German accent from Thomas from Autogefühl.

@TrashskillsRS

2 жыл бұрын

@@wasao3448 It is like that in most of Europe. People learn British English but most media is American English so you adopt it.

@germancheck9138

2 жыл бұрын

@@TrashskillsRS Yes, that's the case! And I have to admit a strong German accent in English is kinda disturbing 😅 - actually southern German dialects are pretty close to American sound system 😉✌️

"Wie heißt du? -- Ich liebe dich! -- Du stinkst so wie scheiße!" That escalated quickly!!! XD

@keti.rg.editzzz

2 жыл бұрын

Yes hahahah

@marcelwannieck

2 жыл бұрын

Eine Beziehung in drei Akten

@danielmeyer847

2 жыл бұрын

Hello, how are you??

@jl4548

Ай бұрын

Wie heisst du? Ich sehr heiss. A little dad joke in german

We too also have a word in Chinese that has a exactly same meaning as die Schadenfreude it’s 幸灾乐祸 xìng zāi lè huò literally mean Take joy from others misfortune it’s fascinating to see two different languages both has a word describing a same feeling

@Jpeg13759

Жыл бұрын

Well, besides from Language Differences, we are all from the same tribe. If you eat Rice Noodles, Potatoes, or French Fries from MacDonald, it all ends up in the same Belly, and our Shit don´t look so different at all... This is so obvious, that i kind of despair, telling it, over and over, and over again.... Our Planet is so wunderfull, a real gem in Space, and the only one we got.... Does Greed help, when its gone ? I don´t think so....

@keeptaiwanfree

Жыл бұрын

that’s not a word though it’s a chinese idiom. we have many chinese idioms but an idiom is made up of many words

I had a Swiss colleague who got her doctoral degree from a German university, and she had to have someone go through her thesis to catch and correct any Schweizerdeutsch before she submitted it.

A lot of non-American English speakers have said that they benefited from the access to a wide variety of American shows and movies growing up which made it easier to emulate American accents. Unrelated to this, my goal in life is to find a woman who looks at me the way Jennifer Lawrence looks at Chris Pratt when he speaks German!

@Jpeg13759

Жыл бұрын

Over here in Germany, all Shows from America are translated, so you don´t hear the Original anymore...

@Winona493

10 ай бұрын

I think that is what every human being wishes from his*her partner. I'd wish so badly as well.😢

What you say about Germans switching to English when they hear a foreign speaker, I experienced quite differently in Sweden. I was learning Swedish and went to Gothenburg with a friend. When we arrived, we went to the tourist information office and I tried to buy a ticket for public transportation. I was really struggling with my Swedish and translated it into German for my friend and then switched back to my bad Swedish, which took forever... the service person was very patient and talked to me in Swedish until we had everything for my bus ticket. When it was my friend's turn to pay for his bus ticket, the lady from the tourist information changed to a perfect German and spoke German with my friend...

@DieAlteistwiederda

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah some Swedes can definitely speak German, it's actually not that hard to learn at least conversational levels of either language if you already know one of them. I'm German myself and learning Swedish was surprisingly easy. I'm not fluent but I can at least get around and if Swedish fails I still have English or German. Doubt I would need to use Spanish in Sweden but I can also speak that.

@Winona493

10 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

My grandma moved to America from Berlin in 1961. She's absolutely fluent in English but she has an extremely thick accent still. I find it fascinating how some people maintain thick accents and others seem to fade and while I am sure sometime it's intentional, but other times it's completely subconscious.

As an Austrian who also has some relatives in both Germany & Switzerland, I'd like to add that there's also a difference in Standard German in those three countries. E.g., in Austria or Switzerland, the vocabulary used in Standard Swiss/Austrian German partly differs from words common in Germany. Also, in Switzerland there are some grammatical structures they use in Standard Swiss German which aren't used in Austria or Germany. Sometimes, the spelling differs, e.g. in Switzerland they don't use the letter "ß", they spell "hot" not "heiß" but "heiss", for example. I just wanted to add this bc I find it important to consider that there are not only various dialects in German, but also differing kinds of Standard German (namely the one used in Germany, Swiss German & Austrian German).

@radio_marco

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, in Switzerland is a debate if it is calling "das Bleistift" or "der Bleistift". Of course is it "der Bleistift"

@rupert2061

2 жыл бұрын

@@radio_marco Jo, mir händ au immer es Problem mit Genera... Nöd war?

@volldillo

2 жыл бұрын

In Österreich haben wir das Sprichwort: Österreich und Deutschland werden durch die gemeinsame Sprache getrennt.

@DMartinov

Жыл бұрын

That’s why they’re Swiss and not Swiß

@Aklyps

Жыл бұрын

@@radio_marco für mich wird es immer der bleistift bleiben :) schöne grüße aus deutschland 😀

Yup, the widespread English proficiency of native Germans is a real barrier to our learning/improving our German skills via immersion as visitors, but I never took the switching as an insult. It's just the most efficient approach, and what's more German than that?

@Jpeg13759

Жыл бұрын

Nice choice of Name.... I´m a SciFi-Fan.... Still hunting my Worm ;-)

You identified my “problem” in my college German. I have a pretty good ear for accents, so I sounded like I knew what I was talking about. And I very much didn’t. When we were reading krimis, the German phrase I used most was „Darf ich etwas auf Englisch fragen?“

Honestly the one actor that really threw me for a loop when I found out they were from the UK was Christian Bale. I had no flipping idea he was from Wales until 2010. His American accent is excellent.

@bccabernet

2 жыл бұрын

I was speaking to someone who had a similar reaction to Hugh Laurie. In the miniseries Night Manager, he spoke with his natural English accent. They were commenting on how good his English accent and I said he is from England. I guess so many young people assumed he was american from House.

@christiangwenner6384

Жыл бұрын

@@bccabernet And that despite the fact that he so often speaks in House with an obvious English accent.

Feli, you are a great representative for Germany. You have a very pleasant personality.

It is my opinion, and I know I'm not alone, that *schadenfreude* is one of the greatest words in any of the world's languages. Perhaps *the* greatest of them all. Simply brilliant.

You've convinced me that knowing German is very useful! Your videos always bring smiles and sunshine. Awesome personality!

I could be wrong but I the American "comical German" accent comes from Dr. Strangelove. You have Peter Sellers to thank for that. He was kinder to the Germans than the French.

@histrion2

2 жыл бұрын

I dunno, I think you can pin some of it on "Hogan's Heroes."

@TheJFGB93

2 жыл бұрын

That actually makes sense. It also reminded me of Peter Lorre, for some reason.

@RebSike

2 жыл бұрын

I think it comes from the stereotypical Augustus Gloop / Uter Zorker-like characters in shows that speak with high pitched voices as well

@NathanMN

2 жыл бұрын

He sounds like he's channeling the Swedish chef in German to me.

@troyschulz2318

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheJFGB93 Which is funny, because Lorre was Hungarian. Spoke German tho.

On the topic of accents vs. fluency: I worked with a woman who used to live in Cincinnati who had a German mother and American father. Her parents broke up when she was young and she lived with her father. Having spent her early years with a German speaker, she said when she talked to Germans, they assumed she was German, but very stupid, because she only had the vocabulary of a very young child.

@annarita333

2 жыл бұрын

I have the same fear when I speak Portuguese, I learned it working in a kindergarden. So when I speak with adults I can manage a pretty good pronunciation but my vocabulary is basically babytalk...

@salbuda6957

2 жыл бұрын

@Richard Todd. She should have then broken into English, and tell them where they could stick it!

@revilo178

2 жыл бұрын

@@salbuda6957 LOL Or she could have studied the language so as to learn wore words. That would ahve been a win-win for her.

Trevor Noah's dad is Swiss. If I remember correctly from Trevor's book, his dad moved to SA when he was like 20ish

@huawafabe

2 жыл бұрын

yep, looked for this comment. And I think he went back to Switzerland again?

@tomrogue13

2 жыл бұрын

@@huawafabe maybe after Trevor grew up. But there was a 10 or 15 year period where Trevor lost contact with his dad iirc

It’s kinda annoying when people say, a bit like Mark Wahlberg did, “I’m picking up the language,“ like they’ll be fluent given a small bit of time. The interviewers tend to agree, because they have to. Learning a few phrases and parroting them back is not speaking a language.

@scipioafricanus5871

2 жыл бұрын

Well, that's, especially, Mark Wahlberg for ya.

Hearing the Beatles sing in german reminded me of Phil Collins' absolutely iconic songs in the german version of Disney's Tarzan (oh, and he also sang german text again for Brother Bear a few years later). Hearing those german songs with Collins' obviously heavy accent and his beautiful voice always makes me so nostalgic. Would you maybe want to react to those songs in your next video of this kind? :) btw, i'm german as one can probably tell by reading all this, so, sorry for the mistakes i might have made, feel free to correct my mistakes ♡

@RichardDCook

2 жыл бұрын

The Beatles also sometimes sung using a fake American Southern accent, or rather a blend between that and an English accent.

@Bernard-Shakey

2 жыл бұрын

Françoise Hardy is a French singer who has done albums in French, English, German and Italian! I can't comment on what her German sounds like but her English songs are sung with a strong French accent & thats part of the charm.

Thanks, Feli! Totally worth staying up late for! :-) Always love your reaction videos! Have a great week!

I found it funny that while you were talking about your accent your German accent started coming out. It barely did but I definitely noticed.

The first and most important rule of learning another language is to know how to swear in this language😂 In Hellenic we also have a word for this situation when you are secretly happy when another has bad luck or something bad happened to him. Χαιρέκακος/herékakos is the person that feels joy when he sees other people suffer!😒

As an austrian Beatles Fan I didn't even know that they recorded two of their songs in german, I'm obsessed.

My dad was stationed in Germany during the Korean War and I’m always astonished with these videos at how much I understand what’s being said guess my dad taught me more German than I thought

I absolutely love your voice so soft and kind

Switzerdeutsch: I am from the "Ruhrgebiet" (Ruhrarea) - where "Krupp" is from - and the language has a lot of influence from immigrants, who came there to work in the steel- and coalindustrie, from all of europe. So the daylylanguage is very versatile. When someone talks to me in Switzerdeutsch i don´t even umderstand a s*** 🤣 It´s like a completely different language. LG D 🙂

I love this dear. My father spent a little over a year in a little over a year and a half in Stuttgart when he was training to be a certified technician for Mercedes Benz in the late 60's dear and I love the way that Germams say some words as well as the German language.

Not letting practice your language knowledge is not only a German habit but I experienced the same when living as a German in Sweden. Whenever I tried to practice my Swedish anyone switched to English except in one case. I went to an old shoemaker in order to let him repair my shows. Since the task was beyond my language skills, I wanted to explain it in English but he didn’t know any English. However, when I tried to explain it in Sweden, he interrupted me and asked me with only a light Swedish accent „Sie sprechen Deutsch?“ It turned out that he learned German instead of Englishat school at school and never forgot it. I could everything explain him and he taught me the respective Swedish words I missed in my first attempt.

The Beatles played clubs in Hamburg in 1960 -62. They may have gone back and forth to England but they spent considerable time in Germany and sang in German as well.

When I started learning German when I was 14 I immersed myself in TV shows, CDs, etc, and one of the things my mother got me to help was the Vienna cast recording of the musical "Cats" which featured a multi-mational cast who either knew German or learned the show in German (when musical theatre boomed in the German-speaking countries it became easier for performers from all walks of talent to come over work there if they could learn their lines phonetically. I guess the best example would be either Pie Douwes from the Netherlands or Helen Schneider from New York)

Love these vids, Feli! Just for info, Trevor Noah did a full stand up sketch about his dad and learning German and he goes into more depth about his "Hitler-ish" accent. He then proceeds to do a longer bit with the inflection. Really funny!

@buffymcmuffin5361

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip - I'll search for it.

Hey ich bin vor ein paar Wochen auf deinen Kanal gestoßen und habe mir fast alle Videos reingezogen. Auch wenn ich Deutsche bin ist es so cool sich das anzugucken und deine Meinung zu hören. Meistens hab ich dieselbe bevor ich deine höre echt lustig^^ Du lebst meinen Traum ich würde auch so gerne irgendwann mal in den USA leben. Danke für deine coolen Videos ! :))

Zwar ist das ein älteres Video, aber ich bin voll erwischt worden😂. Jedes Mal ( ich arbeite im Verkauf ) wenn ein Kunde eine Beratung möchte, und ich merke er hat Schwierigkeiten mit der deutschen Sprache, gehe ich zum englischen über. Im englischen bin ich ganz gut, bei weitem nicht perfekt, aber es reicht. Ich dachte immer es wäre ein Entgegenkommen, hab aber nie darüber nachgedacht ob es dem jeweiligen Recht ist. Deine Videos hatten also einen Lerneffekt 😂. Und sie sind super unterhaltsam, auch für eine Deutsche!

Nice video as always! Dachte kurz schon das wäre ein Reupload 😅 Kannst du vielleicht Part 2 in den Titel packen? 😇

hI dein Channel ist echt cool. Ich mag reactors aus den USA und auch Leute die dorthin ausgewandert sind und uns hier in Deutschland die Kultur usw etwas näher bringen. Deine Videos sind nice. Schon krass wie viele Top Promis aus den USA deutsch sprechen. Vor allem, wie gut sie das zum teil können. Sandra Bullock zb oder Sarah Chalke. Mach weiter so. Hast einen neuen Abonnenten 🙂 Gruß aus Unna nähe Dortmund

In Dutch 'Shadenfreude' is 'leedvermaak' ('leed' is suffering/sorrow, and 'vermaak' is entertainment), so basically getting a laugh through someone else's misfortune (like a skater landing on his family jewels trying to slide on a handrail and stuff like that).

There's a series on Netflix called "The Defeated" which might be something for you to comment on. It's set in Berlin in 1946. Some American actors speaking German, German ones speaking English, and what sounds to me like some Berlin dialect.

"Bei dir piept's" is derived from another idiom - "Du hast einen Vogel". In, like, mediaeval times, people used to fear a person who didn't seem quite right in the head might have birds nesting in their skull, which was making them silly and dumb (could be compared to calling someone 'cuckoo' in English). So, it wouldn't be 'something beeping' but rather 'tweeting'. :)

Eigentlich wollte ich ja schlafen, aber das gebe ich mir jetzt noch ^^ Wird bestimmt wieder sehr unterhaltsam!

29:26 Swiss here... Swiss German is classified as a dialect of German, not its own proper language. But yes, it is very different from Standard German (Hochdeutsch), in terms of Grammar, Vocabulary, and of course Pronunciation. And since it's not a proper language, there is also no official spelling for it. Formal/important things, or when we write to somebody we don't know well, we write in Standard German. But with close friends and family, it's more comfortable to write/text the same way we would also speak to them. And then we literally just spell things however we want. This then can make it quite challenging to read and understand, if the other person speaks a different dialect. Official school language in the German part of the country is also Standard German, so that's always a bit of a shock to the system when kids start going to school, because suddenly they're expected to communicate in this language they maybe hear occasionally on TV, but never use themselves in their daily life.

"I'm full of bug bites." I'm definitely learning that one just to be silly haha

What she said about good pronounciation not always equaling fluency is so true when it comes to me speaking French. Because I'm pretty good at the pronounciation all my teachers assumed I was really good at speaking French when in reality I didn't know what I was saying half of the time.

I knew someone who was born in Brazil, moved to the USA at the age of 5, and later learned Spanish. His English sounds perfectly North American (to me whose own accent has a Romance twang), but his Spanish, though fluent (which is easy for a Portuguese speaker), has a strong Brazilian accent.

Man, I can't believe it's been a year. It feels like it's just a few months old at most.

Schadenfreude has entered the US lexicon, most often used when discussing sports rivals. As for your sponsor app, it will probably be like Siri and not understand my southern accent half of the time.

Love the videos! Its one of the things I look forward to during these ridiculously chaotic times to keep me in as sane as possible. Thank you for all that you do. Off topic, have you made it up to Frankenmuth yet? You could stop in Lansing and visit a huge fan lol. You have to eat at Zehnders in Frankenmuth if you’ve never been. Enormous portions but its worth it

I just discovered your channel today and I've watched a few videos, so I don't know if you've done this already or not, but I'd really love to see your reaction to people speaking Texasdeutsch! Anyway, love your content so far!

One of your best!

In Norwegian we have a translation of «die Schadenfreude» as «Skadefryd», and it means to have the joy/pleasure of seeing someone’s misfortune or faliures

9:37 - Totally correct. I have a Dutch friend in which when they say a Dutch word or name and I repeat it back, I pronounce it perfect and I'm the only that does. I speak a tonal language in Cantonese so that gives an advantage in pronunciation as it places emphasis on that vs non-tonal based languages. That said, I work with people from many cultures who speak English perfectly, but with an accent from where they are from. You have a mixed German/Midwest accent I've noticed. Some words you speak in English in a Midwest accent (e.g. the rhoticity of your 'R' sounds) while others have that classic back-of-the-throat 'sharp' German pronunciation e.g. when you say 'to be'. Your 'o' sounds switch between both depending on word too! e.g the open 'o' in 'or' is very open sounding like a Midwest accent, while the closed 'o' when you say 'lose' is quite German.

@poneal666

2 жыл бұрын

No way I'm close to being a linguist, but yeah, I noticed she has a little bit of that Midwest "twang" when speaking English and very little of a German accent. I'd probably mistake you for Canadian TBH!

@theopuscula

2 жыл бұрын

@@poneal666 Don' worry that "classic back of the throat pronunciation" is one of those extremely unscientific stereotypes about German. And the single "o" in lose actually a completely different vowel to German "o", and one that a single o very rarely represents in English. Wannabe linguist at work in this comment.

I come from Hamburg, where the Beatles' international career started, the Beatlesplatz is on the Repperbahn, near the great freedom.

In Danish we have 'Skadefro', which is the exact same thing as 'Schadenfreude'. :-) Ciao!

Schadenfreude is Skadeglädje in Swedish, haven't found it in other languages tho.

@autumnday77b

2 жыл бұрын

Skadefryd in Norwegian and probably Danish! We have many words derived from German 😊

@kadamandros

2 жыл бұрын

It exists in Hungarian, as well, the term is "káröröm" and is composed of the same meaning parts.

like u hearing actors speak a German thanks for hearing u critic

When I hear someone speaking English with a German or other foreign accent, I am always impressed. That person can do something I cannot. Speak another language. Anyone who looks down upon someone who speaks with an accent is a bad person, especially if they don’t speak a second language themselves. I’d block anyone who was critical of a German who speaks fluent English with an accent.

@CHarlotte-ro4yi

2 жыл бұрын

I would assume that those being more critical about someone speaking with an accent are Germans themselves. It is quite common for our teachers to pester us to speak with a proper accent and especially a proper "th" that we become quite critical of people who do have an accent. That's (an ugly) part of German culture, being hypercritical and always knowing better as well as the concept of "Fremdscham" (feeling ashamed for an error someone else committed).

@914Rocky

2 жыл бұрын

@@daykibaran9668 You’d never know it from your comments. Your written English is excellent. I tend to be critical-in my head-about people who have lived in the US for 20+ years and can’t speak English. I can’t understand it.

@HalfEye79

2 жыл бұрын

@@914Rocky Same with other countries. When you are living in a foreign country, then you should at least try to get some skills in that language.

@CHarlotte-ro4yi

2 жыл бұрын

@@daykibaran9668 I was referring to Germans judging other Germans for having a German accent in a foreign language (English in particular). I do catch myself doing this in my head a lot because I find a German accent awful yet it never happens to me if I hear an Italian, Russian or French accent in a foreign language.

You can tell that Will is a musician/singer. He's pretty good at getting the sound of the words right.

Hello, has been I long time. Keep up the great work.

For once, I feel encouraged, with my two years of university class German. I mean: Some of those celebrities sounded so badly, that even someone with 6 months of German would be encouraged

Jennifer Lawrence was endlessly amazed with Chris Pratt during the promo's during this tour. He did magic tricks and crazy english accents during other appearances.

Great content, keep it up

The accent that is used is a reminder of the show Hogan's Heros. That was the accent used in the TV show from the mid-60's.

I studied French for years but didn’t have anyone to practice with. I have fun hearing people talk to their kids. Whispering to my spouse, “That child is not going to get any candy if they don’t sit down.” Small joys.

Your videos are always enjoyable and informative. Agree! The actor( forgot name) who played main character in House.

@maxharrison257

11 ай бұрын

Hello jeweliedear 👋👋

I agree with you that we don't have high-pitched voices, but then I heard the interviewer at 25:23 and he sounded EXACTLY like what Chris Pratt was mocking earlier :D:D:D

31:42 - The one with Trevor Noah ordering in German at a restaurant was really funny!

Hi from Czech Republic 🖐️great content :)

"79%".. is the way to speak as a German (thought and number order), but you actually had 97%... - Which I believe you read correctly: You only "thought-converted-to-words" turned it around. AS a non native English or German speaker, your English (and accent) is really good. Very seldom, and only "here-and-there", there is the tiniest hint of a German accent. I hope to improve my German, to only 60% of our capability, and that would in itself, be a milestone to me. Thank you for your lessons. Viele dank.

Great video

Great job

The best example of British accent to American accent is Hugh Laurie in House.

Feli, you just crack me up sometimes! Your English is quite fluent and idiomatic and unmistakably American. You have a light German accent that is appealing rather than appalling (like an ABBA song). I agree with you about accent not equating with competency or comprehension. My immigrant grandfather spoke English with a fairly heavy Serbo-Croatian accent, but he could read and write English very well. I have fond memories of him smoking his pipe and reading "another damned thick, square book" in English. 🤓💖

Great video. Fun

My ex-wife's mom was from Munich but she lived in the USA from 1964 or so. Her English was quite good but she spoke with a pretty noticeable German accent. The funny thing was that my ex-wife said that she couldn't hear the accent. Her friends used to tell me that they would tell her things like, "wow, your mom speaks such good English, but she has a strong accent." and she would tell them, "I don't hear any accent." I'm sure it has something to do with growing up around the accent so that you are used to it to the point that you don't notice it.

12:28 “ok 79 percent” Me: U sure bout that?

@FelifromGermany

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha oops 😂

@alaapsikri1280

2 жыл бұрын

Omg I did not just get a reply from you!!! The legend replied to my KZread comment!!! Thank you!!! So krass!!!

Das ist eine sehr gute KZread Kanal! Ich liebe Ihre Arbeit mit deine Videos. Hallo für dich aus West Lafayette, IN von Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika!

24:00 - the beatles have lived in Hamburg for some time - they spoke german to some extent ;)

great danke greetings from Bolivia

20:00 - It's funny how he sounds like German with a very strong Dutch accent. Literally. I've worked with Dutch people before and they had this exact accent.

Es gab mal die Schweizerdeutsche Rechtschreibung, meine Mutter hatte die noch in der Schule. Wurde jedoch verworfen und nur noch Hochdeutsch oder wie es bei uns heisst Schriftsprache unterrichtet. Ausserdem finde ich euer Deutsch viiiel härter, ihr habt einfach mühe mit dem ch. 😉 Grüsse aus der Schweiz

You should do a reverse video where German actors speak English or use an English/US accent in movies or shows. I'd love to hear some. Just a suggestion. Stay gold 💛

There's a fun moment in the new Beatles' documentary "Get Back" where Paul counts in saying "Eins, Zwei, Viertel-nach-Drei" 😅 I loved that. And he still knows a bit of German to this day.

I think its a bit of a cultural meme to make a German accent sound camp. Which is basically the German accent thing that you're wondering about. Either very harsh or kind of camp. Maybe the campness is some kind of irony against a more typical harsh German accent.

Chris Pratt can totally come over and pratice his German for all his life with me!

@maxharrison257

11 ай бұрын

Hello kerstingast 👋👋

Ich muss zugeben das ich kaum bis gar kein Englisch kann. Darum verstehe ich wirklich nicht viel von dem was du kommentierst, aber dennoch fesselst du mich mit deinen Erklärungen und finde deine Videos allgemein sehr interessant. Besonders wenn ich dann doch mal das ein oder andere verstanden habe....Da gucke ich mir gerne mehr an... Schöne Grüße aus dem Norden Deutschland´s

i **think** that accent comes from an EXTREMELY old TV show Hogan's Heros. its the oldest tv show i can think of with that comedic German accent..

32:25 if you want to know what Schadenfreude means just listen to the song "Schadenfreude" by Avenue Q 🤣

I completely agree with the point you make at 10 minutes in. I am English and speak Greek with a Cypriot accent. I'm far from fluent, but my pronunciation is often commented on favourably, but it causes me awkward moments from time to time: Like speaking to a Greek or Greek Cypriot I don't know - I might give them a fairly long and detailed question, but when they reply, I might only know half of the words they are using and have to stop to try and make sense of their answer. At that point, they are confused because they assumed I was fluent. 😞

Wow Rosamunde Pike is really impressive 😱

I love German! My dad was stationed in Heidelberg when I was a kid, and I had to take a German class. That was a long time ago, so of course only a little bit stuck with me. I would love to be fluent though!

@danielmeyer847

2 жыл бұрын

Hello, how are you??

@danielmeyer847

2 жыл бұрын

Hello, how are you??

@izacable1

2 жыл бұрын

Greetings from Heidelberg :)

In the early 90's, I lived in the Saarland. My neighbors spoke French, not much English. I learned a lot. However, I have forgotten most. I struggle now.

12:51 I would literally just say "Can [I/we] have the bill please?" haha! Do some people make that more complicated?

I think the Beatles had a translator from Hamburg who wrote the German lyrics. I remember reading somewhere that Paul McCartney once told the translator that, as English people, they had trouble pronouncing the "ch" sound. So he proposed to change "Sie liebt dich" to "Sie liebt dir". The translator rejected this, arguing that only people from Berlin talk like this and nobody in the west would want to hear that

The feet of big animals are either called "Tatzen" or "Pranken" in German. "Bratzen" are more likely coming from the English word "brats".

@FiR3Fr3aKs

2 жыл бұрын

bratzen ist auch ein altertümliches Wort für Pfoten/Pranken und kommt nicht von brats.

Paul McCartney speaks some German, he said he learned it at school, and during their time in Hamburg of course. They lived at Astrid Kirchherr's house, and there was their buddy Klaus Voormann, too, who often played with them (not on any album of the Beatles, but on some solo albums) and who did the cover art for Revolver.

Could you do a video on popular German celebrities/TV shows or pop culture for someone who wants to be immersed from overseas?

Love your videos! There is actually an English word for Schadenfreude - epicaricacy. Admittedly it's not often used.

@brittaanson3197

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the new word! But, saying "it's not often used" seems to be a bit of an understatement. Apparently it appeared in a dictionary for about 50 years in the 18th century, but there is not really any record of usage since then, other than appearing on lists of interesting words.

I think the Host of the Rosamund pike Interview has a real strong German accent. In my German ears your accent is Just perfect.

Ich glaube, "Bratze" ist ein Dialektwort für "Gesicht", aber ich bin nicht 100 Prozent sicher.

Dominic West (very English) playing a Baltimore detective in The Wire absolutely crushed the local "sound". I didn't know of him prior to The Wire and could've sworn he grew up in or near Baltimore (where I live).

@K__a__M__I

2 жыл бұрын

Whait what? Dominic West is british??? I had no idea.

@michaelsommers2356

2 жыл бұрын

@@K__a__M__I So is Idris Elba, who played Stringer Bell.