*A BRIT TRIES TO PRONOUNCE GERMAN WORDS (gone wrong)*

@thesuomi8550

5 жыл бұрын

@Henrik Wallin FeelsBadMan

@kriss23v21

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

"Hamburg is not famous for being on a river" excuse me wtf?!

@040amk

5 жыл бұрын

Yes i live in hh and we are famous for rivers

@icetwo

5 жыл бұрын

@@040amk and prostitution

@Jonteai

5 жыл бұрын

@@icetwo lmao

@ajinkyamehere5365

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it literally has more canals and bridges than fricking Venice! Go figure!

Your pronunciation of Leipzig is killing me inside. It isn’t spelt liezpig

@Atheist2006

5 жыл бұрын

He pronounces it like _lesbisch_ . 😂

@17andtravelling

5 жыл бұрын

Frank S. haha I didn’t think of that. Jetzt bin ich eine Stadt in Deutschland!

@xaverlustig3581

5 жыл бұрын

@@17andtravelling No no, you're an island in Greece

@sammymarrco2

5 жыл бұрын

same

@lavaande

5 жыл бұрын

its pronounced [li-pp--tsick]

Actually the "geist" in "Zeitgeist" meanes more something like "spirit". So Zeitgeist means the spirit of the time.

Hamburg isn't known for being on the Elbe? It's Germany's biggest sea harbour. And it's an inland city...

@mysterium368

5 жыл бұрын

It's a Sea Harbour at a river.

@brick6176

5 жыл бұрын

@@mysterium368 I know. Which is why it's kinda obvious that it's on a river.

Oh I love living in the Rhein Main Verkehrsverbund, it’s the best state 😍

@Janox81

5 жыл бұрын

Die deutsche Bahn und der Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund würde sich freuen, Sie bald wieder begrüßen zu dürfen. Auf Wiedersehen!

@sushi777300

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@GBlockbreaker

4 жыл бұрын

sitz des ADAC

I don't know why but as a German I enjoy foreigners talking about Germany way too much. It's so interesting to know what they think about us and all the weird stuff happening here 😄

@xSoulhunterDKx

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

As someone from Leipzig that pronunciation almost physically hurt me but at least you know where it is and that it exists. Our population is now a fair bit bigger than it is shown here in the quiz.

@Lennte-kw5pc

5 жыл бұрын

Ossis🥴🥴

baden baden. Got me crackin. lol 50k inhabitants. Not quite a big city. xD

@peterg.w.8634

5 жыл бұрын

What really grinds my gears is how he said that Baden-Baden is now called Baden-Württemberg... Baden and Württemberg were two seperate german states and still are populationwise.... Never tell a swabian he is a citizen from Baden.....

@jpex6778

5 жыл бұрын

@@peterg.w.8634 Or the other way around :D

That „Zeit = Zeitung“ thing 😂😂 Never thought of that one

@LPPokefan

5 жыл бұрын

Und dann ist "die Zeit" auch noch eine Zeitung xD

@SiirCartierr

5 жыл бұрын

Its like "New York Times", thought he could have made that connection

"There's 18 religions in France apparently" -Toycat 2019

Your keyboard forces you to, but it's a little bit funny that you have to write Dusseldorf instead of Düsseldorf, because Dussel is a german word for idiot or fool. So, Dusseldorf would mean - literally translated - Village of the Idiots. Probably, some proletarians would agree to you :D. You didn't really find Leipzig. The app is right that the name consists of the syllables Leip and Zig, but not Leiz and Pig. Perhaps, you had Schweinfurt in your mind ;-). Your problem with Berg and Burg is a little bit funny; but understandable as well. In English they are pronounced the same way but not in German. Burg is pronounced Boorg like in stood - or Bourg in some dialects. It means castle or fortress. Berg would be probably written Bairg in English, it means mountain; as you said.

Just FYI: Burg is not the same as Berg. Burg means fortress, castle and Berg means mountain or hill.

@sizanogreen9900

5 жыл бұрын

It might have a similar root though since castles are often on top of hills. That is just me guessing though.

@irgendwer3610

5 жыл бұрын

@@sizanogreen9900 Berg comes from Proto-Germanic "bergaz" while Burg comes from Proto-Germanic "burgz". Both words come from the Proto-indo-european word "bʰerǵʰ", which was spoken 5 thousand years ago.

@sinisternightcore3489

5 жыл бұрын

They are also pronounced different. The er in Berg sounds like the British pronunciation of "air" and the ur in Burg is closer to that of "tour"

@peterg.8941

5 жыл бұрын

Fortress means "Festung" and not "Burg".

@Cybernaut551

2 жыл бұрын

Ah!

"I can't name anything in this corner of germany" while pointing exactly at where i live But i get it. Nothing happens in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It's quite the poor state and is still kinda effected by the aftermath of the soviet times 🤷‍♀️ Fun fact: we do have the biggest german island. It's Rügen and Angela Merkel id also from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

@falconofbalasagun4163

5 жыл бұрын

I like Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein because they're always a challenge to pronounce to English speakers.

@VillarsGM

5 жыл бұрын

Even most Germans can't pronounce Mecklenburg correctly, because you counterintuitively have to use a long E for the first one

@berlindude75

5 жыл бұрын

"Mecklenburg-Lower Pomerania" or "Mecklenburg-Hither Pomerania" (sometimes also "Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania") are the English names for that federal state.

The Hanseatic league (It's 'de hanze' in Dutch, I don't know the English term) has quite a fascinating history. Cities close to my home like Zwolle were part of it, but also cities far away cities like Talinn/Raval and Turku. You should look it up and maybe make a video about it!

@TheOzelot11

5 жыл бұрын

You just gave away the English term in the first three words lol

@martpuk5608

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheOzelot11 I didn't know if it was correct :)

@mwickholm

5 жыл бұрын

Reval is the German name for Tallinn.

@martpuk5608

5 жыл бұрын

@@mwickholm Ah thanks I didn't know that!

I've been screaming at my computer for 3 minutes BONN! BONN!

@aran9952

5 жыл бұрын

I’m_Dank_Don’t_Judge I was screaming MANNHEIM MANNHEIM MANNHEIM with the Rhein and Neckar runners ng into one, Mannheim is like 20 kilometers far away.

@sabinedieregisseurin8309

5 жыл бұрын

duisburgh, dresden, lies-pig

I live in Kiel, another city that was heavily bombed during WW2 and even nowadays people still occasionally find bombs here that then lead to huge areas of the city being evacuated for a day.

What is Bielefeld? Never heard of it and for sure it's not a city Also: How dare you not knowing Lower-Saxony ;) Good to know: The "Geist" in "Zeitgeist" means something like "mind" in this case and not some spooky creature. But you did very well

@martpuk5608

5 жыл бұрын

it literally means time ghost right?

@angela_merkeI

5 жыл бұрын

It's really unfair of the quiz to include only real cities except Bielefeld. They should've mentioned that it has also fantasy elements...

@WardancerHB

5 жыл бұрын

Geist= spirit Zeitgeist= The spirit of the time (or something like that)

The "Zeit" newspaper is like the "Times" newspapers in the english speaking countries ( NY TImes, Financial Times etc..) Thats why the name makes sense. Theres also a newspaper called "Die Welt" (The World) in Germany just like "Le Monde" (The World) in France or "O Globo" in Brasil. Other big german newspapers are the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung F.A.Z." (Frankfurt General Newspapers), "Süddeutsche Zeitung" (South German Newspaper) and the "Bild" (Picture) which is like the german version of "The Sun" and I think it is Europeans biggest newspaper by sales. "Der Spiegel" (The Mirror) is Germanys most sold news magazine ( like american "Time Magazine" or UKs "Economist").

Did you notice that on the second quiz (5:32), Leipzig wasn't in populative order, I mean it has 560k inhabitants but it's shown below Dresden with only 543k inhabitants.

Baden-Baden is a city in the region Baden of Baden-Württemberg. The current state (or federal country) Baden-Württemberg is composed of Baden, Württemberg and the smaller region Hohenzollern. After WWII, they were organized into the 3 states Baden, Württemberg-Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern (France had control over Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern and America had control over Württemberg-Baden.) They later unified to the Baden-Württemberg we know and love today. ❤️

12:17 did you ever think why prefix is called PREfix? Because it comes BEFORE. If it's after the thing it modifies, it's a suffix...

@thesuomi8550

5 жыл бұрын

@@pixiepandaplush indeed, and there are other kinds of affixes too, although they're not as common

Oh, with Saxony you were much better as you think. Today it is called Lower Saxony, Niedersachsen, but I think it is the real historical Saxony. And you wanted to call it North Saxony, that is as well better as you might think. The northern area is lower than the southern, Bavaria has mountains Schleswig-Holstein is almost as flat as the Netherlands. So, many things are called Nieder... (Lower ...) which belong to the north of germany and Hoch... (High ...) which belong to the south. Same thing for the languages. There is Hochdeutsch and Niederdeutsch. And although we speek Hochdeutsch in all of Germany and it is our main language and although the clearest accent of Hochdeutsch is spoken in Hannover, which is in the North, Hochdeutsch is in fact a southern german language.

@adalata

5 жыл бұрын

I never would have been as good about any other country as you were about german stuff!

@Hauketal

5 жыл бұрын

@Henrik Wallin Lots of European cities have different names in different languages. The borders moved a lot over the years and wars. Some examples: Köln (de) Cologne (en) Keulen (nl) Firenze (it) Florence (en) Florenz (de) Praha (cz) Prague (en) Prag (de) München (de) Munich (en) Monaco de Bavaria (it) Wien (de) Vienna (en) Москва "Moskva" (ru) Moscow (en) Moskau (de)

@berlindude75

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the approximate area of Lower Saxony (from 1814 until 1866 the Kingdom of Hanover) used to be called Altsachsen (Old Saxony) because it mostly encompassed the ancestral lands of the Saxons. The reason why the name "Saxony" moved farther east is because in the 12th century Duke Henry the Lion (Heinrich der Löwe) of Saxony and of Bavaria opposed and refused to assist the Holy Roman Emperor in his wars in Lombardy / Italy. He was thus stripped of his titles and banished from the realm (Reichsbann). The ducal title of Saxony, severely diminished in territory (Anhalt and Brunswick-Lueneburg et al. split off), was awarded to the House of Ascania which had possessions farther (south)east. The Ascanians later split into various lines of which Saxe-Wittenberg retained the Saxon ducal and elector titles. When in the 15th century the electoral Ascanian line died out, both titles were awarded to the Margrave of Meissen of the House of Wettin. Hence, "Saxony" moved even farther up the Elbe river (also known as Upper Saxony / Obersachsen) and eventually grew to include the approximate area now known as the federal state of Saxony (from 1806 until 1918 the Kingdom of Saxony).

"Geist" usually means "Ghost" but can also mean "Spirit". "Zeitgeist" is basically the "Spirit of this time"

Munster is an Irish province and a German city :)

@Frahamen

5 жыл бұрын

Munster is an Irish province. Münster ia a German city.

@exostriker1817

5 жыл бұрын

Farahen Den Munster is still a german city

@fe-jo

5 жыл бұрын

@@Frahamen Munster, Lower Saxony or Münster, North Rhine Westphalia

@itsmebatman

5 жыл бұрын

@@Frahamen Münster is also a certain type of church (probably what the English call minster)

1. It is called Leipzig, not liezpig 2. It does have a racing circuit, it is the porsche test track, beautiful circuit and not really a test track, and it has some amazing turns..... sorry, i always get carried away when talking about motorsports

8:14 And now say: Südschleswigscher Wählerverband! 😅

@roerd

5 жыл бұрын

Just use its Danish name to make it easier: Sydslesvigsk Vælgerforening. (It's the party of the Danish minority in Germany.)

@Anton32000

5 жыл бұрын

Ich hab auch etwas gebraucht 😂

First you miss North Rhine Westphalia, then the quiz asks for a city that doesm't exist. I'm properly offended.

You've never heard of Das Boot?

He acts like he knows a lot but he doesn't *Angry German noises

every time he speaks without filling the quiz, i hate that. He's stressing me, he never has time to fill everything, and as far as I know I still want to fill, but he doesn't RAAHHH it stresses me

I only watch 2nd channel videos, I only just realized this. I'm really into Geopolitics and History, I suggest games like HOI4 and VIC2 to you, they are history games but have a lot to do with Geopolitics as they are RTS map games. I think you would enjoy them, look at a few videos on them, for VIC2 I suggest ISP and for HOI4 either ISP or Rimmy (his name isn't what you'd think). If you read this thank you very much.

21:24 Sure, the 18 religions of France 😂

You beat me hard on this one, ToyCat. With the exception of flags, you beat me hard on all these geography quizzes. And I love geography. Edit: oh, I scored equally with you on German vocabulary. But, I'm Norwegian so it was easy to guess based on similarity to Norwegian. (also I had German in school, but I almost failed that)

@DieAlteistwiederda

5 жыл бұрын

Same whenever I try to do these kinds of quizzes for your language, Swedish or Danish. It's different but similar enough that I can guess what is going on when I see it written down.

@saftsuse866

5 жыл бұрын

@@DieAlteistwiederda You German? Dutch is also like that. I can read Dutch wikipedia and at least feel like I have a clue on what's going on, although details elude me. But when I hear them speak I am totally lost.

@DieAlteistwiederda

5 жыл бұрын

@@saftsuse866 yes I'm German and Dutch is so closely related to German that it's basically like reading a very strong dialect of German so I don't really count it as surprising how much I can understand. I was surprised how much Norwegian I can understand though but of course I barely understand anything when someone is actually speaking those languages while I can somewhat understand Dutch or at least if it's not spoken really fast. I don't lift it close to the Netherlands so maybe I would be better at understanding Dutch if I did, I'm good at pronouncing Czech and polish names though.

@saftsuse866

5 жыл бұрын

​@@DieAlteistwiederda Polish pronunciation is crazy.

Hamburg is very famous for the River Elbe. So famous, in fact, people forget Dresden also lays on that river.

Do the Dutch badge! (if there is one)

Got an idea for a video you could do :) Capital cities consisting of more than one word and the story behind it. I don't come from one like it, but I'm sure you can find some interesting stuff. Great channel btw!

What is that pronunciation of Leipzig loooool

@thesuomi8550

5 жыл бұрын

And basically every pronunciation

@jacobbaer785

5 жыл бұрын

Liep -tzigg. Leipzig.

@horstheinemann2132

5 жыл бұрын

It is Leip- tsig. The ei is like the i in time.

ibx2cat lowkey getting paid by JetPunk

Very cool video!

the car code for hamburg is HH which stands for hansestadt (hanse city) hamburg (:

Dieser Moment wenn du deutscher bist und alles kennst

do the language badge quizzes

Munster is one of the 4 provinces of Ireland, along with Leinster, Connaught and Ulster. These 4 provinces are then split in to 32 counties, 6 of which are in Northern Ireland.

Burg is city and berg is mountain but some dialects pronounce them the same

The first e in Bielefeld is a silent letter to mark the long vowel, the whole syllable is pronounced like the word bee.

Lol you know the Rain Main Verkehrsbund hahaha I travel everyday with it

Why do people never assume Bonn is a big city? It was the capital of West Germany

@xaverlustig3581

5 жыл бұрын

The capital of West Germany was explicitly chosen not to be a big metropolis so as not to compete with Berlin.

What's the page you do all these quizzes?

fun fact about dresden: after the reunion of germany, the west spent tons of money to reconstruct the east and now it's main train station is clad in gold and marble

can u link the quizzes in the description?

Baden-Baden literally has a population of 55.000

you have never been to Portugal? it's by far my favourite country you should definitely go there! really nice cities, beaches and especially the peneda geres national park in the north...

4:48 - this actually surprised me! I'm originally from Brandenburg and most people don't know this city where I live now :o it's got about 70,000 or so

on your confusion about saxony: the historic saxony is lower saxony, when the last king of saxony died his title was inherit to the ruler of the area that is nowadays called saxony, this area has no more connection to the germanic saxon tribe than the rulers title Geist = Spirit

Where can I make the quiz?

crazy that you know my little city Mainz, greetings from here!

Coult the Aviva Life Insurance Plan be right for you?

German here. You did amazing! I don't think your performance is appreciated enough since we Germans probably tend to point out worse things rather than better ones but good job, mate!

Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz in German btw) has some really beautifull places

Zeitgeist does not mean time ghost. It sort of means "the spirit of time" and refers to what is popular at this time of age. It's hard to explain as there is no English counterpart to it.

PLEASE DO MORE ON JETPUNK toycat!

That Leipzig one killed me

it pains me to hear non-germanic people read the ei in words like Leipzig and Zeit as "ey", its proper pronunciation in most cases is more in line with the ie in english words like lie which is "ai"

@angela_merkeI

5 жыл бұрын

I think you mean "german" people. As a brit he is germanic.

@twitertaker

5 жыл бұрын

Easiest explanation for that is that "ei" is spoken like the "i" in "time".

@FairyCRat

5 жыл бұрын

Here in France for some reason everyone knows it's pronounced that way. And then we're weirded out when realizing it's pronounced "ey" in Dutch. But we still tend to forget that "ie" is pronounced "ee" in both languages.

5:41 Bonn was once the capital of Germany. Of course its in the top 20.

Münster is a city and the name of some church buildings. There's also a Münster in Münster. When I was in Münster once very shortly, I walked to what I thought was the Münster, later I found out it was "only" the Lambertikirche

I only got most of the cities from bundesliga and bundesliga 2 teams

I live in Wuppertal.

Watching this from Stuttgart :D

15:41 Munster is one of the provinces in Ireland, whereas the Germany city is called Münster, note that the spelling and pronunciation differs :)

awwww you said you like aachen my hometown ♥

I life in Bochum this too in the list

I know Saxony and berlin and that sit

Your pronunciation gets me laughing, but youve done a good job👍🏻

West:Cologne/Gladbach/Leverkusen/Gelsenkirchen/Dotmund/Aachen/Duisburg/Bochum/Bonn/Ahlen/Essen/Siegen

Geist also means mind, or spirit, which would both be more appropriate for Zeitgeist than "ghost", btw

BUT!!! Could the Aviva Life Insurance Plan be right for you?

more!

Bjelfield 🤔 never heard of that city

Wrong Eagle in the Thumbnail

Oh yeah yeah

At least he knew something

Leip-zig. NOT Leiz-pig

My wife’s Spanish and I’m going to try to get a Spain badge now. I’m sure I’ll get it cause we live there during summers. Do you have a German wife/gf?

@ibx2cat

5 жыл бұрын

I do :)

If I took the second quiz I would have guessed all the Länder except for Saxony-Anhalt and Hesse. Shout out to the German commemorative 2€s of for providing me of such knowledge!

@androlsaibot

5 жыл бұрын

The Sachsen-Anhalt coin is still to come, also the Brandenburg and Thüringen coins. This year will be a "break" with a coin for the Bundesrat. I guess most Germans who will see the coin (out next Tuesday) won't even know what the Bundesrat is, and might think of the Bundestag/Reichstag building.

Funny that you think towns like Baden-Baden or Brandenburg are among the biggest cities in Germany^^ I mean Brandeburg has about 70 000 inhabitants and Baden-Baden is even smaller with 55 000. Ok, to be fair the whole state of Brandenburg is named after that town and Baden-Baden sounds similar to Baden-Württemberg even though as a Swabian from Württemberg I don't like that you said "Baden-Baden is called Baden-Württemberg these days" because Baden-Baden was never the name of a country or a state (it was just Baden) and it kind of disrespects the long and glorious history of the Kingdom of Württemberg (ok I'm overexaggerating^^)! We Swabians don't like Baden! I mean the best thing about Karlsruhe is the Autobahn to Stuttgart!!! (don't take this too seriously, it's basically a love hate relationship) ;) Your other guesses were interesting as well because cities like Potsdam, Freiburg and Saarbrücken aren't that big either but at least they are cities with more than 100 000 people and they have been important cities in German history so I get why you would think of them^^

@OlympusLetsPlay

5 жыл бұрын

Ein Schwabenbruder, und ich dachte dass ich der einzige bin der schockiert ist😂

@xaverlustig3581

5 жыл бұрын

He thinks they are big cities because two states derive their names from them. Easy mistake to make.

@ibx2cat

5 жыл бұрын

the only reason I guessed is because they have an airport with regular flights to the UK, and airports *usually* are for more populated areas

@Chouyren

5 жыл бұрын

@@xaverlustig3581 Well I don't say that Stafford is one of the biggest cities in England just because there's a Staffordshire (the county, not the dog^^). The biggest city in that county is actually Stoke-on-Trent while Stafford is only number five. But yes, it's an easy mistake to make, just like asuming the biggest city of every country in the world must automatically be the capital. There are often historical reasons why a region is named after a town or why there's a capital not being the biggest city in the country and it's easy to overlook that^^

@Chouyren

5 жыл бұрын

@@ibx2cat well the Baden-Baden airport is sandwiched between Karlsruhe and Straßbourg so it works as an airport for these two cities and the surrounding area so you're not completely wrong but I mean London Stansted isn't exactly located in London either even though at least it still has London in it's name^^ Also Baden-Baden is a very expensive spa town with a beautiful old town and stuff so it's very popular with rich people who often take their private jets to go there.

It's L E I P Z I G. It has nothing to do with pigs. I was just dying inside. And Hamburg is famous for the Elbe, it's Germany's biggest harbour.

The misspelling got me like 😬

Dortmund is technically the largest metro in Europe because of the Ruhr and if you are big into sports you’d heard of Dortmund

Das Boot!? Lightning War? Periodic Zeit Geist?

I'm german and I have to say that you did very well. (Even tho I would have been better but I do not know so much about forgien countrys like you know about germany. Respect :D )

Your struggle with German words is real 😂 Try this one, it means squirrel: Eichhörnchen

do qiuzzes on saterra it's a name all countries on a continent stuff like that it's pretty fun would make a good video I think

You have many german fans. We love you over here

Not Bad, you know a lot about my country :) Greetings from Germany.

69K subs oof noice

I swear if you made this a live Stream we would have helped you.

Berg-mountain Burg-Castle

You thought Zeit was newspaper 😂

In German "w" is pronounced "v" "z" is pronounced "ts" "ei" is pronounced like the letter "i" "ie" is pronounced "ee" "v" is pronounced "f" At the end of syllables "d" is pronounced "t" A single "s" is usually pronounced "z"