The answer to most of the "DO you have ... in Germany" is: "We invented it"

@oOIIIMIIIOo

Жыл бұрын

This! 😄

@rilja1985

Жыл бұрын

No that's not true

@rivenoak

Жыл бұрын

@@rilja1985 depends on the invention asked for. car is one if our proud inventions

@louistostmann2049

Жыл бұрын

@@rilja1985 Usually it is Italians discovered it, Brits pioneered it and Germans perfected it.

@andreaskonig3767

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. Almost all great inventions came from Germany or at least a german brain who lived in anther country while inventing. And I am even embarrassed at how ignorant even my german countryman/women are. We did invent almost all things that makes our lives easier and prettier and faster, better. To make my point: Name one invention coming from Ghana, Syria, or Israel or any other country. They made it their own over time and other people have pulled our works apart in order to understand how it is made. But apart from that....

Fun fact: Two of the most popular foods in Germany are pizza and pasta, but that's italian food. Btw, the inventor of the modern refrigerator was Carl Linde, a german engineer.

@knudsburg

Жыл бұрын

you forgot DÖNER ☺

@swanpride

Жыл бұрын

The most popular food is still and will always be bread. Also in its liquid form.

@brittakriep2938

Жыл бұрын

I come from swabian region . When i was a child in 1960s/ 1970s i didn' t knew italian food, because my parents are conservative rural people. But: Pizza is basicly the same we swabians know as Dätscher, Bätscher, Dinnet.... And italian Pasta? In swabian region most of german noodle companies are located, and swabian Spätzle have their name from similar , but not common italian noodles Spezzula'. Also our swabian Maultaschen ( my grandmother spoke of ,gefüllte Nudeln'/ filled noodles) are simply giant Ravioli. May be the reason is, that HRE emperors of swabian Hohenstaufen dynasty from late 12th century to mid 13th century also had been Kings of Naples ( southern Italy).

@Loribyn

Жыл бұрын

Regarding 'the inventor' of the modern fridge, you might want to look that up. There was no one inventor -- the product we know today is truly a global invention, for which no one country or person can take credit. It was invented widely and developed over quite a long period ~ by Britons, Americans, Australians, Hungarians, and Germans, each developing or perfecting the work of each other.

@TheGrisu25

Жыл бұрын

Wenn linde nicht so teuer wäre Kaufte ich auch meine technischen gase bei denen...

My favorite was "Do you have electricity", to which my friend answered, "no, we build Porsches, BMWs, Volkswagen and Mercedes by candle light."

@SoundNorthernstar

3 ай бұрын

mit mein hands! in ze forest , aus of pure wood! :))))))) each sunday vi wait for ze compost volkswagen to built our hauses :))))) jokes aside , they should see medieval cities still standing with cathedrals built 500 years ago or ... Horch 1930s cars , hell , even Hitler's Mercedes, Me262 , V2 rockets , learn about the father of USA space program... or better , they should try to read Herman Hesse :)))))))

@bianca2pack

23 күн бұрын

Nicht dein Ernst?! 😂😂😂

Fun fact: I worked at a traditional German bakery in America and many Americans didn't like our pretzels. Traditional German pretzels are cooked in lye before baking, therefore darker, and less soft. We don't serve them with Mustard or cheese sauce so Amercians were often disappointed. We actually had quite a few customers trying to give them back because they thought they were not made fresh. We had to market them as "hard pretzels" to avoid customer complaints. At one point my boss from Munich gave up and invested in a stash of Ketchup and Mustard. It was HILARIOUS to watch him give out these little packets whenever customers asked for them and the look of pure disgust on his face. I love these memories.

@MrsTenshi95

Жыл бұрын

Did you serve them with butter and salt? Or like a sandwich? With fine or with big grains of salt? In Bavaria, at least in Nuremberg where I lived, we love our pretzels in many different ways! But the butter pretzel with big grains of salt are "everybody's favorite" at least for everyone I know.

@itsnemosoul8398

Жыл бұрын

@@MrsTenshi95 We served them the way I know from Niedersachsen: with bigger grains of salt on top and a recommendation to add butter at home.

@axyz1078

Жыл бұрын

i would be digusted too, but here in germany we do have pretzel with chease baked on top of it

@itsnemosoul8398

Жыл бұрын

@@axyz1078 real cheese sprinkled on top is not what Americans mean by cheese pretzel. They're talking about a fake-cheese yellow sauce

@axyz1078

Жыл бұрын

@@itsnemosoul8398 yes i know, just mentioned the versions of german pretzels i know

An American once asked me if we have cars in Germany and it's hard to top that one. I was so confused that I only said yes and didn't even mention Mercedes, VW, BMW.

@Astrofrank

Жыл бұрын

And a German invented the car. There were earlier attempts, but they failed.

@Rabid_Nationalist

Жыл бұрын

Thellcthem the story of Volkswagen

@haggihug3162

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@sophiecooper1824

Жыл бұрын

No we use carriages 😂 like what is that question that's hilarious

@phoenixfeathers4128

Жыл бұрын

What the quack?! Oh my word

The why do you call Germany Deutschland question is straight-up as if I'd walk up to an American and say "Why do you call the United States United States? Why don't you just called it Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika?" which is what we call it in German. It's almost as if German and English are each their own distinct languages :'D

@LythaWausW

Жыл бұрын

Totally agreed except for those weird exceptions like "Kalifornien." Why not simply California? There seems to be English versions of all German states, but German versions of only a few American states? I'm honestly asking. Also I wanted to mention that some American citizens do not know either "Germany" or "Deutschland" - they speak Spanish. So it was helpful to look up the word "Alemania." Which is the prettiest sounding of the bunch, so let's all adopt it.

@DonDadda45

Жыл бұрын

​@@LythaWausW Because most German states have been vastly important throughout history and most of them have been established by the English speaking people in England already, so they have German names. Most Americans states don't have any significant importance really. It's more than often also due to English speaking people not being able to pronounce the German words or vice versa with Germans. California is a good example because when a German pronounces it, it sounds a bit wrong. It's not really natural. So people chose to say Kalifornien instead. Compare that to Texas which is pretty easy to pronounce as a German, so it has the same name still. Much more interesting are cities. Eg. there are cities like Cologne or Munich that are renamed because English people can't really pronounce the Ö or Ü in Köln or München, but cities like Frankfurt still have the same name because it's easy to say. All just random history and people deciding to name places differently in their own language to make it easier. There isn't usually a set reason for that, it's just how language developed.

@1983simi

Жыл бұрын

@@LythaWausW I actually googled around for this a little. it seems that in the very early 20th century (1901) it was decided during an orthographic conference of what 'standardized German spelling' is supposed to look like, that if a 'c' is followed by the vowel 'a', 'o' or 'u' the 'c' would have to be changed to a 'k', which is why in German it's also Kanada and Mexiko. You have to consider that many of these spellings come from a time when considerably less people in Germany knew English, forget fluency, exposure to English was just basically non-existent in everyday life. At that time German is not meant to make Americans feel cozy and recognized inside, it's meant for fluent communication among Germans. For use within one group of native speakers adapting pronunciations and spellings of loan words to suit the own phonetic rules is absolutely normal. It happens all the time. In every language. California is a simple word, true, but it is a more foreign sounding and looking word than Kalifornien to a German native ear/eye. And yeah, I guess it was a state more talked and written about in Germany. But also it offers itself very easily to getting 'germanized' which is not the case with states that are derived of old native American names (I think there is just really no way to germanize Mississippi ;) ). Another very mundane example for such linguistic adaptation of loan words - one that drives me personally crazy - is Americans confidently calling (and writing!!!) a chaise longue (literally french for 'long chair' pronounced something like shaiz lohng) as chaise lounge. As somebody who speaks French too, I cringe a bit inside every time I have to say chaise lounge in an American context. But of course, I do say it, because I know a) people won't understand if I used the correct French word/pronunciation and b) it is at this point an established word in the American language and as such I have to mentally detach it from its origin and accept it while speaking American English. Just as I say Adidas the American way when talking to Americans in American English. Sure, I could be a d* and insist on the 'correct' German pronunciation, but what's the point really? The American pronunciation obviously suits American ears and tongues better, and the main point of language is communication, so while I'm communicating using AE I'll naturally accept AE rules. As for Spanish speakers, they can call Deutschland Alemania any time when we are chatting in Spanish, if we are attempting a conversation in Deutsch, let's keep it at Deutschland. Or else I have to be allowed to call España Spanien back in return, which to my German ear sounds much nicer ;) What I'm saying is, languages develop all the time. Loan words fly all over the place, most changing their pronunciation a good bit, a fair chunk changing their spelling and some even their meaning as they are adapted to local needs, and that's okay. Just while we're communicating, let the rules be decided by the context and means of communication we chose. There is no point to discuss which word might sound 'nicer' because what sounds nice to one native speakers ear might sound completely unpleasant and foreign to another's.

@reinhard8053

Жыл бұрын

@@1983simi On the other hand French use non french words and names in their way by pronouncing the letters in french style which can be difficult to understand if you are German and generally speak foreign words in the foreign way.

@1983simi

Жыл бұрын

@@reinhard8053 it's literally everywhere. i live in India now, and all non-English foreign words/brand-names are pronounced 'non-correctly' and people will not understand you too if you were to pronounce them 'correctly'. again, this is very normal. you will never have it that native speakers of any given language who are for the most part just communicating with their own people within their own country will make a big effort to learn the correct pronunciation of every given foreign introduced word/brand name. it will be naturally adapted to their own phonetics to sound more fluent and natural in their ears within their own native language structure. and as long as everybody knows what they mean among each other that's largely fine. btw. that counts for Germans too, Germans mispronounce foreign words/brand names all the time. i grew up pronouncing the brand Nike as 'neik'. it's only with the internet and global commercials being more accessible that some young people have started pronouncing it the originally intended way, which is more like 'neiki'. another example that irks me every time i hear it is Germans pronouncing PayPal like PayPohl, which is just plain wrong. It is supposed to be pronounced as 'pal' (meaning friend) with a flat English a (not common in German phonetics and most likely therefor people intuitively went for a different and technically wrong pronunciation). Generally it's also rare to find a German who can pronounce a clean English 'th' which gives anything they say a quite distinctive German accent and makes it harder for actual English speakers to understand them. And lets not forget about Germans just inventing English words that don't mean anything to an English speaker. Literally, no English native speaker who hasn't been to Germany would be able to guess that 'Handy' in German is not an adjective like it is in English but a noun and that it means mobile/cell phone. An 'oldtimer' or a 'beamer' are something very different in English than what they are in German, etc. Same for Germans - meaning the random German you meet on the street without any special connection to France - attempting to pronounce French. You really get all wild attempts of pronunciation here. obviously, it's very different phonetics and if you didn't at some point go out of your way to learn French, chances are you'll end up mispronouncing things. I'm yet to meet a German - who hasn't learned French - who is able to or bothers to pronounce French names like 'Yves Saint Laurent' properly. So yeah, Germans are just as 'guilty' of mispronouncing foreign words, adapting them to their own phonetics or even giving foreign words new meanings altogether. Literally, all languages do this and it happens not planned but intuitively. Most people just never realize, because again, if everyone in a group is saying the same word wrong in the same way, nobody will realize it and they still understand each other, which as far as communication goes, mission accomplished. Again, I never even heard the correct intended pronunciation of Nike before 2000 until I first heard it pronounced correctly in the US. So when you encounter words of your own native language mispronounced in another country with a different language, my advice is to learn that 'wrong' pronunciation as just another piece of vocabulary of that language, and use it that way within that language context. When I go to the US I pronounce Adidas the American way, with stress on the second syllable - while Germans stress the first - because at the end of the day you will not teach or force millions of people to use the pronunciation you would prefer, and the goal of language is to effectually communicate. So accept that's what the word is pronounced like and/or that's the meaning - which may be different - the word takes here, and learn it as a loan word vocabulary. And do it with a light heart and the humbleness in mind that 100% your pronunciation of everyday foreign and loan words used within your native language is also not completely what an actual native speaker would pronounce it as. Edit: There are also a whole row of Hindi words Germans use and technically 'mispronounce' btw.: zb Dschungel, Shampoo, Curry, Ayurveda, Bungalow, Kajal, Mandala, Punsch, Pyjama...

While living in Japan, in a town which doesn't see many foreigners, an American couple asked me for help because I was the only other western person in the supermarket: American Lady: "Oh, thank you so much! It's our first day, we just moved here, we are English teachers. And this store is terrible, everything is written in this strange signs nobody can read anyway and NOBODY of the staff speaks English!" Me: "Yeah. Well, this is Japan. Therefore the writing is Japanese. And foreigners don't come here very often." First, I thought she was joking around. But no. They were serious. Guy: "But they could at least write in English so people can read what they are buying! Isn't it confusing for the people to have to translate everything? How do you know which laundry detergent to get?" Me: "If you plan on staying here, maybe you should study some Japanese. You know, for daily life. It helps a lot, believe me. And they don't have to translate anything, it's their native language." Lady: "Of course they have to translate in their head first. And learning Japanese? But why would we do that? ." Guy: "We teach English. They should just talk English to us. We're Americans, if we live here, they should try to speak in a way so we're able to understand!"

@gabrielesolletico6542

Жыл бұрын

Yes, this sound typical American.

@marrykurie48

Жыл бұрын

Here's my thought: "Well, why do you think you should teach them something they already know?" Just to make them see that it would be a useless project for them to be there. One way or another.

@extazy9944

Жыл бұрын

americans are so fascinating that some of them think english is like the default language for everyone and foreign language speakers have to translate in their head all the time. i heard from a guy who was asked if his family spoke german at home

@KeVIn-pm7pu

Жыл бұрын

How do you teach a langugage if you can only talk in this langugage. Especially in Japan where people struggle with Learning it as it is very different to their langugage. You cant explain anything. How are you even allowed to teach?

@isuperninja8926

Жыл бұрын

@@extazy9944 To be honest, I (German) used to think the same way, that people speaking English would translate things in their head to German, think of an answer and then translate it back to English. But then I finished kindergarten and became a little smarter.

As a German, I guess a huge part of this is that we have a very different understanding of smalltalk. If you ask something super obvious (Do you have refrigerators? Do you have cars? Are our accents confusing? etc etc) it implies that either you have absolutely no idea of things you should know at least a bit about or you imply I have absolutely no idea of things I really should know about.... Or you honestly think we use horse-drawn carriages and live in huts without electricity. Edit: Concerning the food, 99% of the time a "authentic German restaurant" in the US has absolutely nothing to do with traditional German food.

@gandalf_thegrey

Жыл бұрын

Edit: You mean 99.9%

@terzida5329

Жыл бұрын

I guess it is the same as Chinese, Japanese, etc. Food in Germany. Okay maybe there is under 99%.

@grischakugelmann2660

Жыл бұрын

@@terzida5329 yes because there are many animals forbidden to serve by law in germany and a few of the spices the chinese kitchen uses would harm ze germans in a way that they never come to eat there twice. Plus the distance between the countries forces the japanese and chinese 'chefs' to use replacement foods and some culture differences like the prefered red tuner (Europe) versus the white (fat) tuner for japanese (and Asia). cheers

@Sascha1887

Жыл бұрын

Naja Deutsche, Engländer und Amerikaner nehmen sich nicht viel beim Verständnis über andere Länder und Kulturen!!!! Die selben dummen Fragen bekommst du auch hier. Was auch mit dem ähnlichen Schulniveau zu tun hat! (leider) Welches deutsche traditionelle Essen meinst du?? Die meisten Gerichte stammen aus dem Ausland. Erst durch Gastarbeiter hat man erfahren, dass es mehr gewürze als Pfeffer und Salz gibt. Als meine Eltern nach Deutschland gekommen sind, kannte hier kaum einer paprika. Die meisten deutschen Gerichte haben am meisten slavischen Einfluss und dann französische oder italienische Einflüsse. Nicht mal Spätzle stammt aus deutschland🤷🏻‍♂️ Also von welchen "traditionellen" gerichten sprichst du? Gut Brezel sind typisch deutsch, aber mir fällt kein Gericht ein, wo du schon an der Zusammenstellung und Zubereitung siehst, dass es nicht aus Deutschland stammt. Aber alles andere.... Von Wurst, Sauerkraut über schweinshaxe.... Alles aus dem Ausland. Noch heute sind Einwanderer meistens von dem deutschen Essen und der Qualität in Supermärkten schockiert. Hier kennt man nichtmal richtige und gute Tomaten. Also traditionelles deutsches Essen? Currywurst? Döner?.... Ja das ist traditionelles deutsches Essen für andere Europäer. Ist nichts gegen Deutschland... Nur der Wissensstand und das Essen ist jetzt nicht gerade die deutsche Stärke, so wie du es hier vermitteln möchtest. Das sind genau die Themen, bei denen du als Ureuropäer der in Deutschland lebt, dir an den Kopf fassen kannst in Deutschland

@grischakugelmann2660

Жыл бұрын

@@Sascha1887 Aus welchen Land kommen deine Eltern denn ursprünglich und in welchem Teil Deutschlands hällst du dich denn überwiegend auf? Deutschland hat je nach Region (nicht Bundesland) komplett unterschiedliche traditionelle Gerichte und eine Tradition kann lange oder kurze Zeit zurückreichen, selbst die längste Tradition wurde irgendwann erschaffen und war damals erst ganz kurz zur Tradition geworden und z.B. im Ruhrgebiet, das es ja noch gar nicht so lange gibt, gehört es zur Tradition das es stark von eingewanderten Arbeiterfamilien geprägt ist und hier ist es die Mischung von ganz vielen Teilen von Traditionellen Gerichten zu 'neuen' Varianten. Aber es gibt auch ganz eigene Gerichte wie etwa die Kartoffelsuppe mit Speck und Brot Kanten die traditionell aus einem 'Grubenbecher' getrunken wurde. Außerdem gibt es auch Parallel Erfindungen und Köche / Bäcker die sich gleiches oder ähnliches ausdenken. Ich denke nicht das der Italiener der sich die Weizennudel ausgedacht hat von der bereits 3000 Jahre vorher von Chinesen erfundenen Nudel aus Reismehl wußte, bzw. der 1000 Jahre vorher von den Japanern aus Buchweizenmehl hergestellten. Oder das die preußischen Brotbäckermeister von den Lehmöfen der Bäcker der Antike wußten. Das schöne an Deutschland und der Globalisierung im allgemeinen ist ja das man das Beste von allem fast überall bekommt und ich liebe z.B. deutsches Leitungswasser, besonders in meiner Region schmeckt es vorzüglich und man kann es trinken ohne es vorher abkochen zu müssen, aber fast jeder Gastarbeiter (der hier neu zugezogen ist) und mit arabischen oder afrikanischen Wurzeln trinkt teureres Wasser aus PET Flaschen (zu mindest mein Eindruck) das teilweise monatelang irgendwo lagert und extra haltbar gemacht werden musste. Ich mag viele traditionelle Gerichte in Deutschland und die von Ihnen genannte Currywurst ist übrigens regional komplett unterschiedlich (in manchen Regionen wird dafür eine Brühwurst benutzt, bei uns zum Glück die Bratwurst). cheers

When I was in the US, Virginia, in 2018, a guy around 30 asked me if I had ever met "that guy named Hitler".... I thought he was joking, but he looked at me very seriously and waited for an answer. I was speechless at first, then I laughed and explained to him that Hitler died in 1945 and I was born in 1989. I don't want to say that all Americans are uneducated or egocentric, but several times in my life I got the impression that for very many Americans only the USA exists and everything else around it is totally unimportant.

@MrTombein

Жыл бұрын

@@makeandbreak731 KJK89 was born in 1989, he/she didn't mention Hitler's year of birth

@chheinrich8486

Жыл бұрын

That comes with being the Worlds superpower, you get an ego

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

I think I would answer it with a different question. Like asking them if they have met Lincoln.

@dj-um7el

Жыл бұрын

@@makeandbreak731 reversed lol

@shadowfox009x

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I had someone ask me about Chancellor Hitler. As in, our current Chancellor Hitler. I was pretty stunned by that.

so my 2 most fun encounters with americans. 1) "Where are you from?" "Austria" "oh cool, do you see lots of kangaroos?" "uhm...no not australia. Austria. Mozart, Alps..." "oh so you are german" "...not quite..." though i give that a semi pass as historicly austria and germany used to be one country for about 10 years and culturally are similiar enough. its a bit like saying "im from texas" "oh so you are canadian" 2) Speaking latin with a friend for practise. Woman walks in, stops, listens "Your spanish sounds weird" "thats because its not spanish, its latin" "honey calling it something else doesnt make it less racist" "huh?" "white people speaking spanish is racist "what...how?" "you are appropriating mexican culture" "...uhm...you...you know that spanish was originally spoken by white people in...say...spain?" "haha you fool, spain is not a country, its a language"

@AlexandraVioletta

Жыл бұрын

Sounds very american.

@otkare

Жыл бұрын

It's like that one facebook post about russian tanks rolling in to Georgia (Europe), and she was looking out the window in GA USA "aint no russian tanks here wth?"

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, Austria is sort of like mountain Germany. Some parts are very close to Bavaria, not only by distance but also culturally, and the only reason it's not Germany is because Prussia said no. But we love our neighbors to the south. Good food, nice people.

@Avantarius

Жыл бұрын

Fun fact: tourist locations in Austria often sell souveniers like t-shirts an mugs printed with "No kangaroos in Austria", often accompanied by struck out Australian kangaroo street sign

@chrisrudolf9839

Жыл бұрын

Well, if we count the Holy Roman Realm of German Nation as a country (which is debateable, since it had a very weak central power over most of it's existence and the local noble's fiefdoms - at least the more powerful ones of them - acted pretty much like independent states that are conjoined in a lose federation instead of a modern unified country), then Germany and Austria have been one country for not only about 10, but several hundreds of years.

In my 6 months in America I was asked many dumb questions. But the one that stuck with me was. „Does it rain in Germany?“ I couldn’t believe my ears and questioned the American society after that🤣

@janh.9841

Жыл бұрын

Just for comparison: I once heard from a Nigerian (I think) author in a TED talk about reading British novels, where she found a discussion about "bad weather". That was hard for her to comprehend because sun always shines in Nigeria and there is no such thing as the awful island weather of the UK (like ridiculed in Asterix in Britain: "Is it always this foggy hear" - "No, not when it rains" iirc).

@janh.9841

Жыл бұрын

It's this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dm19ytVrZJTglco.html

@stefankrautz9048

Жыл бұрын

i heard in a film reaction video here to the movie Independence Day, the first scenes show the moon with american flag. "Is there really an american flag on the moon ?" 😐

@caliberto5087

Жыл бұрын

No, in Germany they buy rain abroad...

@tarkitarker0815

10 ай бұрын

@@janh.9841 yeah but america is on the same northern hemisphere as europe, and everything but the outer most south of the us is on europe level or more north, thats a silly question to ask.

Oh man, I've heard some of those questions myself while living in California from 1977 to 1980. A real classic: "Do you know refrigerators/freezers?" Then the most embarrassing one: "I was in Germany recently. I didn't see any statues of " WHAT? Or, another irritating one: "Why was the German re-unification such a big deal?" The biggest shock I got as a software tech thirty years ago when American colleagues came to a big meeting at the client's site (a big bank in Germany) and the lady leading the American team told how surprised she was with the high-rises in the city, automobiles clogging the streets. She had expected ox- or horse-drawn carts. Later, she confided that her grandpa had told her that. BTW, he was a soldier in WW1. OK, lady, you did come to Germany by plane. How do you think you'd have come here otherwise? By steamboat! Oh my, oh my!

@jasoneldridge4738

10 ай бұрын

There a statue of Lord Nelson in one of the cities in Quebec ?

@sonibraun4971

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's beyond stupid but rather uncomprehensable

The Pretzel and Beer thing - always remember germany was divided between allies after WW2. If USA would be given the northern part of germany you were not germany-hyped on pretzel and beer... you would be hyped for crab rolls, fish, tea and liquorice .... traditional food from the north

@andreasb1352

Жыл бұрын

roughly 20% of US citizens have German heritage. Their influence is not all from Bavaria but the typical Lederhose and Dirndl of alpine regions are much more iconic than the traditional cloth based clothes pretty much everywhere else. I also think that the Oktoberfest played a major role in spreading this misconception as traditionally even in Bavaria traditional clothing is linen (leather was harder to come by and more expensive, especially the deer/stag leather)

@blondkatze3547

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes i lved in North Germany near the North Sea coast and loved to eat fresh fish with lemon it`s so delicious.🤗😋

@perfectten3620

Жыл бұрын

The people that have heard of those things are usually German Nazi heritage or American. This is because Americans harvested Nazis after world war II to get USA into space. American German settlers will be the culprits

@blondkatze3547

Жыл бұрын

@@perfectten3620 Anyway i don`t understand why people talk about Germany there would be so many nazis here that`s total nonsense there are quite a few like in other european countries even in America ,Russia etc it`s a shame that these people haven`t learned anything from history they`re just stupid i`m so glad that we had a democracy in Germany and can live freely there are so many different nations that like to live here.

@bastik.3011

Жыл бұрын

@@andreasb1352 yeah it's more the alpine regions because they had easier access to leather I think

Felicia: Lists 3 rather small countries and the smallest continent Ryan: Oh yeah that's basicaly the rest of the world

@unwokeneuropean3590

Жыл бұрын

Typical American. English speaking countries are the majority of the world for them.

@Weirdo1982

Жыл бұрын

These videos are really hard to watch...sometimes

@flopjul3022

Жыл бұрын

but that is technically the truth and i hate that it is, because its the rest of the world if you have left and right hand driving

@pascald67

Жыл бұрын

@@flopjul3022 what? thats not what he meant

@juliuscaesar5270

Жыл бұрын

@@flopjul3022 the most people int the world are right hand drivers

The refrigerator question just reminded me of many similar questions I was asked and awkward situations I faced in Japan.. Sometimes I felt they must think the rest of the world lives in caves and has never seen a microwave. The dorm lady was explaining 20+ year old girls how to use a shower, a toilet, a microwave, and a fridge. She also highly praised me when she saw me ironing my dress, like I was a 12 year old boy and she was a proud mother (I was 25 at that time..). Oh and my Japanese dorm-mates asked me if we eat noodles and rice in Europe, and when we went bowling one girls asked me if we also have bowling centres in my country...and many more. I feel Japanese are very similar to Americans in this respect.

@evobrand1210

Жыл бұрын

I think it's just because japanese is a pretty closed of country. Most people there have never been outside of it, so they concentrate on their own country

@tarkitarker0815

10 ай бұрын

@@evobrand1210 thats not that true, younger japanese ppl are REALLY infatuated with foreign culture. its mostly not the middle aged but the in betweens aged 32-42 that know jackshit. the white collar generation.

@robopecha

8 ай бұрын

japanese are not ignorant, they actually dont know things and are super interested to learn them. while americans are sure they know everything they just make up. it has not been that long ago in history that japanese people were not allowed to travel outside of the country and foreigners were not allowed in, so even nowadays foreigners and foreign countries are still very foreign for many of the japanese.

At my university there was always a student exchange with the partner university in Texas during the summer semester break. I went to the library early in the morning and on the way there I saw a few anxious looking ladies with hot pants, some with belly-free tops ... In below 15 degrees Celsius, they were freezing miserably. They spoke to me in English and I immediately recognized that they were exchange students from Texas. I took the ladies to the cafeteria so they wouldn't have to continue to freeze. They just didn't understand how it could be so cold in the morning in the middle of summer. And when I said that northern Germany is on the same latitude as Edmonton/Canada, they understood it even less and even more did not believe that Texas is on the same latitude as North Africa. 😂One gal googled it and was like "Wow, he's right!" ... they were able to google that, but not the weather forecast. 🤔😂 My stepmother was an au pair in California in the 80s and she was once asked if Germans had cars. She dryly explained that she always rides her pony to the grocery store and that all German car brands are only made for export. The person did not understand at first that she was joking. And was quite offended afterwards. 🤣

An American (in high school) seriously suggested to me to buy some stamps in America and take them back to Germany so I could send them a letter. I tried to explain that we have German Post Offices which require using German stamps, and if we didn't have Post Offices, it would not make sense to bring US stamps because there would not be a way to send it. I didn't get through to the person and ended up promising to buy stamps and take them back home.- Erika, if you are reading this.... I didn't.

@blondkatze3547

Жыл бұрын

In Americans High Schools they must really have lessons about european countrys i can`t understand why not.

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

I feel like american postage stams would make a nice souvenir.

@meljaxb

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@WalterModel45

Жыл бұрын

@@blondkatze3547 ?

@alphonsbretagne8468

Жыл бұрын

"Erika, if you are reading this.... I didn't." this really got me 🤣

I guess that the question if she speaks German fluently is caused by her speaking english so fluent. Most Americans are not aware that it is possible to be fluent in two languages. I am Dutch and I was asked once if we had our own language.

@chrisrudolf9839

Жыл бұрын

I guess the reason is rather that many Americans claim to be "German", by which they mean they are of German heritage and their great- ... great-grandparents immigrated to the U.S. more than a century ago. Of course most of those American "Germans" who have never lived in Germany don't speak German fluently, if at all. So when Americans in America hear someone saying they are "German" while speaking perfect American English, they might just automatically associate "American with distant German heritage" and it might take a while until it clicks when they are told otherwise.

@okkietrooy6841

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisrudolf9839 Thanjs Didn't think of that.

@oOIIIMIIIOo

Жыл бұрын

As I live near the border to the netherlands I understand your langage quiet good, because of the dialect here.

@andreaskonig3767

Жыл бұрын

yep. Or that other one they have asked me in New Zealand: Do you guys still march in the streets of Germany? REALLY? But they have had a program on TV at that time which was called Dumb and Dumber... Funny that. I am mentioning New Zealand, because its where I live now, but it's not that far removed from American culture and knowledge imho.

@aramisortsbottcher8201

Жыл бұрын

I don't know it, but I don't think being bilingual is such an unknown thing their, they have lots and lots of people speaking English and Spanish (there even is a hybridlanguage) and other minorities kept their languages aswell.

Not a dumb question, but some funny situations I could add: I once worked in a hotel as receptionist here in Dublin. This American couple asked me, how many BLOCKS from here was Christchurch cathedral. I asked them what they meant, here in Ireland we do not do blocks, the street layout is all zig-zag, it is basically made for drunk people (and I underlined that with a zig-zag motion of hand). It made them laugh so hard. On another location I got to meet some Americans and we got to talk about me as a foreigner living in Ireland. They asked me what brought me here. I sarcastically replied "The weather." You should've seen the big eyes of disbelief or wonderment on them. That couple still needs to work on their sarcasm skills.

@gandalf_thegrey

Жыл бұрын

Answering the question of why you are in Ireland with "the weather" is such a chad move lol

@juliab3326

10 ай бұрын

In my case "the weather" would have been an honest answer though. Germany is too cold in winter, too hot in summer for me. I prefer Irish weather even though it´s colder/warmer than I expected.

12:39 „You guys don’t dip [pretzels] in mustard? I could have sworn you guys do.” That killed me 😂😂😂 Nobody does that. You put mustard on meat or sausages. You’d eat butter, maybe cheese or Bavarian obazda, with your pretzels.

"Why didn't anyone warn us about 9/11 then if they're seven hours ahead." - This is gold, pure gold! :D

@domzausl5611

Жыл бұрын

You could just ask why New York didn't warn about the attack on Pearl Harbour. They're 5 hours ahead. And in the 5 hours until the attack every other Federal State could have sent a warning, but didn't.

@gregorsimon9337

9 ай бұрын

Kenny Bania agrees

Here's a funny thought: If some timezones are "in the future", the logic conclusion is that america is "in the past". And when you look at some laws or recent court rulings ...yeah..cant argue with that.

@MissSlovakia2

Жыл бұрын

Well, I have read somewhere in the newspaper, that USA is the most developed 3rd world country. Not gonna lie, I agree with this opinion in many cases (education, health care, basic human rights, work law...)

@marxel4444

Жыл бұрын

Why didnt XY called america to warn us about pearl habor / 9/11!? THEY WERE AHEAD OF US! WHY DIDNT THEY WANT US Thing?

4 years ago I spent an evening in Bali with an American couple. When we introduced ourselves they asked me where I was from. I wanted to test them a little and just said "From the birthplace of Arnold Schwarzenegger (Thal/Graz, Austria). It was clear to me that they would answer "Germany". They replied "ah, you're from Switzerland", they also thought, I spoke Spanish. I didn't know my way around at all, explained briefly to their amazement that Arnold came from Austria and that Austria was a separate country where, like in Germany, German was spoken. When I asked them how they could assume that you speak Spanish in Switzerland, they only answered: "hasta la vista?" True story ❤

@Roth2775

Жыл бұрын

😂🤣🤣 so far from reality ...typically US

@RGUCounT

10 ай бұрын

im swiss and i think this is very funny lol we do speak 4 different languages but spanish is not included...

@robopecha

8 ай бұрын

i think that is actually a cute story! they were using logic! and that is not something you can expect from americans. :)

@JohnDoe-rm1kw

Ай бұрын

Let me summarize ... an international actor uses in a motion picture a "random line" in a particular language, and therefor it is the actor's mother tongue ?? wow wtf thats beyond autism logic 🤣🤣

My favourite story about dumb questions comes from the German comedian Michael Mittermeier. And that one really needs to be taken with a big pinch of salt, although knowing a lot of US Americans through my dad's work as a CS guard for the Army I can imagine it to have happened exactly like that. So a young woman asks him, why they speak so many different languages in Europe and he jokingly replied "Because in 1945 we Germans lost the war." And she honestly answered "Oh, I'm so sorry for you guys."

@AussieFossil

Ай бұрын

🙂😊😀😆😅😂😂😂😂😂

Sadly time zones do seem to cause confusion and since I am in Australia trying to explain that Christmas is in summer is also difficult for some to grasp

@Sciss0rman

Жыл бұрын

I lost count on how many times I had to explain time zones to someone on Steam, for example. It's so frustrating. And yes... the Australian Winter/Summer times seem to confuse 95% of the internet.

@gerdahessel2268

Жыл бұрын

@@Sciss0rman And: at noon the sun is in the south on the northern hemisphere and in the north on the southern hemisphere.

@Boi_819

Жыл бұрын

I was surprised too

@andreamuller9009

Жыл бұрын

Yes, then explain to them why the moon, the other way around than in America, is almost upside down in the southern hemisphere. I tried it, it was frustrating, and it wasn't even a Flat Earther.

@manub.3847

Жыл бұрын

@@gerdahessel2268 As a European, when you watch a TV show that talks about the excellent "north" orientation of the windows, which uses the sun, you stop and think: "Oh yes, a show from the southern hemisphere ;)"

"Servus" - a common greeting in southern Germany and throughout Austria. Servus is latin for "slave". Or in the context of a greeting "I am your servant/at your service". It is the shorter version of the older: "Servus humillimus, Domine spectabilis" - "your humble servant, my noble lord". I have heard (from my Viennese relatives) that some time back back they used to say "Servus Christi" - "I am a servant of Christ". But it is hard to find any info to back this up. Fun fact. The Italian "Ciao" is the exact same word! Ciao is a distortion of the older "sklave" -> "Schiava" (slave). (but Ciao is also used as a goodbye). You can find variations on this one all over eastern Europe. Even one in Sweden - "Tjenare". (servant) Which is a very easy going and informal greeting in Sweden.

@jensschroder8214

Жыл бұрын

Also interesting that the tribe of the Slavs (Poles, Czechs, Slovakia and everything east of Germany). The word Slavs is related to the word slave (=Sklave). Slovakia and Slovenia too Maybe it's because these areas used to be ruled by other countries. Then the local population was just the Slavs/slaves. Today is the designation of the peoples themselves.

@jarls5890

Жыл бұрын

@@jensschroder8214 Actually... I had read this too a long time ago. But it may be that this is in fact not true. It may be that "Slav" and "Slavic" is a variation of "svoboda" or "svaboda" (free settlement). Another variant is the theory it is derived from the old meaning of "slava" (worshipper). And as a result - the English word "slave" may be a completely coincidence. It is quite convoluted so best to look it up.

@lilalaune4202

Жыл бұрын

@@jensschroder8214 nope it's not, the Slavic language has nothing to do with the Latin language. Just bcs the two words sound alike doesn't mean the mean the same or come from the same source. As it has alread been explained by another commentor, pls read, get educated and remember. This lie causes animosity among ppl too uneducated...

@SvenScholz

Жыл бұрын

@@jensschroder8214 that's called "Küchenetymologie" (kitchen's etymology) - just because a word in one language looks similar to one in another language doesn't mean they are related. Please don't assume stuff out of the blue, chance is high you embarass yourself. The Slavic autonym *Slověninъ is usually considered a derivation from Proto-Slavic adjective svobъ ("oneself", "one's own"; derivative svoboda > sloboda also "freedom", "free settlement"), which derives from Indo-European *s(w)e/obh(o)- "a person or thing apart, separate", root *swobh "his/hers", meaning "all the members of an exogamic moiety > actual or potential affines/blood relatives".[1] It can be interpreted as "a tribe of the free, of their own people".[3] Names of many Germanic tribes derive from the same root, and name wasn't an exonym but endonym.[3] Eventually with dissimilation of svobъ > slobъ was associated with slovo "word", originally denoting "people who speak (the same language)" (Wikipedia)

@blondkatze3547

Жыл бұрын

Greetings from North Germany Moin.😍

You don't dip Pretzels in mustard, you dip Weißwurst in mustard. If you want to do anything to a pretzel, put some butter on it. 😉 And one of the worst dumb American things I've ever come across was the best friend of my American step-grandmother visiting us with two suitcases. One was filled with clothes and gifts, the other... with: TOILET PAPER. The woman SERIOUSLY thought we didn't have TOILET PAPER in Germany! The most hilarious thing about that is, when she left, she dumped all of that American toilet paper at our house and filled her TP suitcase with: toilet paper.... GERMAN toilet paper... 🤦

@tarkitarker0815

10 ай бұрын

grannys always collect toilet paper and trade it like its a currency.

@8Flokati8

2 ай бұрын

Deutsches Klopapier kann ja bis zu vier Lagen haben. Ist in Amerika nicht eher zweilagig die Regel?

I have been to the us in 2013 and was also asked if we have electricity and cars . But they knew German car brands at the same time 😂

@dirkspatz3692

Жыл бұрын

"Do you have a sink with water from a tab in your house?" - But never answer with "Yes we have had this since Christi birth" (remains of an old roman aqueduct are in my city near cologne) - They will not believe it.

I have bern asked if Germany has also visited the German moon, just like America visited the American moon. This was a grown up asking and I don’t think they were trolling me. I saw it more as a failed attempt to show off US’ accomplishments. I am thinking that they probably realized what they said about ten minutes after our conversation ended

@peterfireflylund

Жыл бұрын

Ah, but you did invade the French moon at some point, didn't you?

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

​@@peterfireflylund we gave away some rockets and scientists so that the USmoon could be colonized. Are they still using Davy Crockett's for close range defense?

@marxel4444

Жыл бұрын

of course we have the german moon! thats where all the nazis went into hidding after ww2 ended with their flying reichsflugscheiben!

@trainerfrank9786

Жыл бұрын

In an other video on KZread there was someone from the USA who thought every country had its own moon. Might be the same issue here.

@theexchipmunk

Жыл бұрын

"Well no, but you guys flew on a rocket build from German technology."

I was visiting a Roman castle near Frankfurt with an American nanny at the age of 18 to show her around. We randomly talked about chicken eggs. She thaught they grow on trees. She was totally shocked after I have explained the real origin. That was an eye-opener for me, which I cannot get of my head when talking to US americans. Sorry to say that. I like your content btw. :)

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

Like people who think chocolate milk comes from brown cows.

@aramisortsbottcher8201

Жыл бұрын

I mean, I thaught spaghetti-ice contains real spaghettis, but that... Did she think birds give birth?

@thomasl.7700

Жыл бұрын

@@aramisortsbottcher8201 Actually she was so emberassed and I was even more shocked than her that we quickly changed topics afterwards. I did not want her to feel even more unconfortable instead showing and sort of teaching her about the Roman castle and it`s boarder to old Germanic tribes :)

@DSP16569

Жыл бұрын

@@HappyBeezerStudios Cows are purple! - Did you never see a photograph on a Milka chocolate bar? 🙂

@gabrielesolletico6542

Жыл бұрын

@@thomasl.7700 Ok, you must be joking.

My wife is German and has been asked the "do you speak German?" question a dozen times. I mean, Americans say dumb things like "I'm Irish" when they're not - they have some ancestors a few generations back who were Irish, but no, your grandfather being from Ireland doesn't mean you're Irish. You're American. So maybe her saying "I'm from Germany" translates to Americans as "My ancestors came from Germany, so I'm German". And yes, like 80+% of the world population drives on the right side of the road, not the left. So basically, Feli is right, there are a lot of dumb preconceptions of Germany (and the rest of the world in general).

I´m from Slovakia and sometimes I even don´t know how to react to american´s questions or their proclamations, like my name is Barbora, we also have Barbara in calendar and so many americans try to convince me, that I can´t pronounce and write my name, cause it´s Barbara, not Barbora and many times they even write on napkins, piece of paper "Barbara"...so many times I was asked "why is your official language russians and not english?", well our official language is slovak, not russian, yes we are small country but still we have our language...but the worst for me was, when we were showing americans students our historical sites like open air-museum and castle in Stará Ľubovňa and there were like it´s BS for tourist, cause that cannot be that castle was built at the end of 13th century cause US start to exist in 18th century, honestly I didn´t know how to react for that, so nothing before 18th century didn´t exist even Christopher Columbus is some fictional charater...but also I frequently hear one question from other europpean country(except Czech republic, Poland and Hungary), but in Germany, France and Spain it is so popular question "do you speak hungarian and russian?" and why they ask it? cause they think that when I´m from east Slovakia I learn russian(border with Ukraine, even they have official language, but okay) and hungarian, cause I was born 20 km from Hungarian border and when I explain them, that even germans who were born on border with Czech republic don´t speak czech, they say "but you speak and understand czech language and their border are much far away, so why you learn czech and not russian and hungarian language?", we were one republic for god sake, even I was born in Czechoslovakia and our language is so similar, so we don´t learn czech, we just understand it, just like czechs understand slovak, so if we are in Czechia we speak slovak and it´s okay and whey czechs visits Slovakia and speak czech it also okay...and I personaly never consider czech like foreign language, for me it was like dialect when we were one country

@jujsb

Жыл бұрын

"cause that cannot be that castle was built at the end of 13th century cause US start to exist in 18th century" I smashed my computer for this stupidity. How can Americans survive outside the USA ?

@meljaxb

Жыл бұрын

oh I didn't even know slovakia and czech where so close in languages and in understand each other. thank you for that information!

@matthiasewert3587

Жыл бұрын

@@meljaxb It was one state in the past.

@sonibraun4971

7 ай бұрын

@@jujsb they don't 🤣

When I spend my high school exchange year, several people indeed asked me if we use stones or if we know toilet paper ... (no kidding). I have also been asked if we know television. That's especially funny since the first TV transmission happened in Germany in 1931 (Manfred von Ardenne).

@bigbake132

Жыл бұрын

It was an American invention (Charles Francis Jenkins).

@sinusnovi3826

Жыл бұрын

@@bigbake132 but the first _public_ and live transmission was in Germany

@sinusnovi3826

Жыл бұрын

btw: toilet paper was invented in China centuries ago.

Es gibt keine dumme Fragen, nur dumme Menschen.

@akteno2796

Жыл бұрын

Hmmmm... Ich hab dieses Sprichwort zwar ein wenig anders in Erinnerung aber falsch ist das so auch nicht.

@McTerrox

Жыл бұрын

das ist das equivalent zum amerikanischen, nicht waffen töten menschen, sondern Menschen töten Menschen

@youradvertisehere

Жыл бұрын

Frei nach Forrest Gump, dumm ist der der dummes tut. Folglich gibt es dann auch dumme Fragen

@sickmediknight994

Жыл бұрын

Hallo Deutschland

@marrykurie48

Жыл бұрын

Und davon mehr als genug...

As for dialects : I'm British but lived in Germany for many years with a German wife. We once travelled to Italy and in a restaurant there people at the next table were speaking German. After a few minutes my wife leaned over to the neighbour and said "you're from Renningen" the guy answered "yes, how do you know?“ she replied "I recognised your dialect, we're from the neighbouring village, but I have friends in your village". I speak fluent German (and the dialect from 'our' village), but had hardly understood a word of what they were saying. As for dumb yanks: in Heidelberg Castle one day, I overheard an American woman tell her friend 'It is so much nicer here than Switzerland was yesterday' They were obviously doing the obligatory one-week tour of Europe. The Heidelberg Castle is a castle; Switzerland is one of the most beautiful countries in Europe.

@stefankrautz9048

Жыл бұрын

If you want to hear the most clean german spoken you have to visit Hannover or some parts in the Rhein area.

@tarkitarker0815

10 ай бұрын

@@stefankrautz9048 rhineland doesnt speak the cleanest highgerman. hannover is arguable. they speak about bütten and binnen. would go far more eastwards.hannoveraner also chop up highgerman and say keese and werbunk. hamburg has way more slang, bremen too but hannover instead of slang learned to pronounce just bad.

I was working with US soldiers years ago. I have meet ALOT of people who seemed to be really uneducated. Some young soldiers even told me "Oh we are here to free germany from the Nazis" That was stupid and offensive on a next level. But others asked me where our Queen Angela lives and if Castle Neu Schwanstein is really our capitol city. Not sure if that was a troll. Oh and yes that question about 9/11 is real. Because that is one I had to listen to a day after the incident.

Why is Germany called "Deutschland" in German? Well, "Deutschland" is essentially a derivation of "Land of the people". In Scandinavia, this changed to "Tyskland". The word "Germany" on the other hand, comes from the tribe the "Germanen", which is one of the major tribes, that settled in that region, before any country was founded. Similarly "Allemange" the french word for Germany, comes from another major tribe, the "Allemannen". The fourth root word for Germany is the polish "Niemcy", which simply means "mute" or "non-speaking", which simply means, that the people in that region could not speak the mother language (polish). That is why Germany has so many different names.

@Kimanox

Жыл бұрын

Almost. The "Germanen" are the entirety of these tribes, who settled in central europe. The name is believed to originate from the Romans (Not from Caesar, although he popularized it)

@m.h.6470

Жыл бұрын

@@Kimanox ok, you never stop to learn ;). I thought they were just another tribe, but you are correct, "Germanen" is the generic term for all the tribes in that region.

@andreasb1352

Жыл бұрын

@@m.h.6470 to add to @Kimanox the biggest tribes to settle todays Germany are the Bajuwaren (Bavarians), Suebians (Schwaben, Allemans), Franconians, Saxens (afaik biggest tribe, pretty much half of todays Germany). Additionally smaller tribes like the Sorbians, Prussians,... were assimilated. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_St%C3%A4mme en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ancient_Germanic_peoples (includes all Germanic tribes also from Skandinavia,...)

@justanothername5199

Жыл бұрын

@@Kimanox i read somewhere, can't remember where though, that "germani" was the gallic word for neighbor. Don't know how true this is though...

@aegirmeingott

Жыл бұрын

a nice explanation for a dark bulp. oder anders: perlen vor die schweine geschmissen. respekt!!

I was an exchange student in 1999 and I got asked similiar questions like "Do you have cars in Germany or do you still use horses?". And yes, I also got asked, if Hitler was still alive.

So, I'm german, and there was this one situation my brother was in with an american. A little information beforehand: My brother and I have been speaking english almost fluently since we were in high school (we are now 27, my brother, and 25, me, years old and have both graduated from high school at the age of 15). We were both pretty active on social media back then and have been talking to a lot of people all over the world in english, as well as read, write and watch stuff in english, so we've been practicing our english for most of our lives. Even now, we both speak in english a lot to each other, sometimes almost inclusively. Most of the time we've practiced with american english. So, the situation was that my brother left a comment on some youtube video and used the slang "y'all". He had also mentioned in the comment that he was german. Apparently, though, according to this one person, if you use a slang word like y'all you can't possibly be from another country since it's a slang inclusively used by americans, again according to that person. So, basically, because my brother used y'all that person accused him of lying about his nationality 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

I am German too but I don‘t think that all the questions would be annoying. When an American would ask me if the German restaurant is authentic I would answer it, because I don‘t think that the question is stupid it‘s a normal question. But the question if we live in the future is a very funny one I think but like I said most of the other questions are normal and not stupid😂

For the "Where to drive on the Autobahn" thing: There is an official law, that you have to drive on the right side. The middle lane or the left lane are only for overtaking slower cars.

@MBrieger

Жыл бұрын

Read the DMV book. Same in the US of A

@DJDoena

Жыл бұрын

But technically the topic on hand was not the Rechtsfahrgebot (law to drive on the right lane) but the general flow of traffic. We drive on the right side of the road in general, while the Brits (and some of their former colonies) drive on the left. And the answer to that is: Out of 241 countries around the globe, there are still 68 countries where you drive on the left side.

@Saufkopp1989

Жыл бұрын

RECHTSFAHRGEBOT :)

@lilithiaabendstern6303

Жыл бұрын

the farthest left is for the flying cars or "Fliegzeug"

@marxel4444

Жыл бұрын

i think they mean the left side of the road, not the left lane of your side of the autobahn. To be fair its the same with american highway that has multiple lanes so i dont know why americans get confused.

I think that freezer comment from an earlier video was based on a misunderstanding. What can be found frequently in Germany in smaller places is only having a fridge with a small freezer compartment and not having a separate freezer. But most larger households will have a separate freezer.

@DSP16569

Жыл бұрын

Or the six feet high freezer-fridge combi: bottom half is a freezer, top half the fridge. Often in bigger (for germany) kitchen. Because mostly everywhere is a grocerystore in walk distance germans tend to buy their food on a daily basis (or every two days) therefore no need to store food for a month in a room sized freezer. Families who live in a single family home in more rural areas (where the next bigger grovery store is not so close) often uses a freezer in the cellar (Kitchen in Germany - in older houses - are often tiny.

Ok two things; One: as a native German I have never ever seen someone dip their Brezel in mustard.. but it does sound like something I’d like to try And two: the one with the time zones and why we didn’t warn you about 9/11 actually happened to me too. I got asked by two Americans on totally different occasions this exact same question and these are moments when I actually feel sorry for you guys and your education system

Most stupid thing I was asked lately is how its even possible that germany could send military equipment to Ukraine. When I asked what they meant they told me that they thought germany was forbidden to have its own army ( Bundeswehr ) since the end of WW2, so we wouldnt need any military equipment of our own, because we cant use it anyway.

I was once asked from someone from the US was something like "Did you ever drive on the German Autobahn? I think you call it Bundesautobahn?" Then I told him that there is not "the autobahn" and that Autobahn is just the german word for highway and we have more than 100 of them to conect citties... and he was shoked because he always though that Germany has just the 1 Autobahn Hitler has build and all citties are conected to it.. that was also a little strange.. I have never known that some US think we just have 1 road in Germany ^^

@Astrofrank

Жыл бұрын

And they think that this road has 16 or more lanes, possibly in each direction. No, most Autobahnen have 2 or three lanes per direction, a few sections might have 4. But I wouldn't say it's the German word for highway, as the regulations are different. The Autobahn is more like a special type of highway.

@emmasly123

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@gandalf_thegrey

Жыл бұрын

@@Astrofrank Its the german word for highway. We would translate the sentece "Take the Interstate 20 (short I-20) towards Atlanta" with "Nimm die A-20 (A for "Autobahn") Richtung Atlanta" The regulations are different in every country, yet we all agree that all of them also have highways. Because interstate and autobahn are almost completely indifferent (aside from the speed limit).

@Astrofrank

Жыл бұрын

@@gandalf_thegrey Interstate - maybe. But most highways look far more like Bundesstraßen, except in cities or large towns.

Regarding the dialects in germany: I was on a student exchange and met with people from all around germany. As soon as i started to speak my local dialect most people were not able to understand me... So yes dialects can be really complicated I guess

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. I go to a city 150 km away and people don't understand totally normal words.

@demonmurasame733

Жыл бұрын

I had a couple of fun conversations with co-workers and friends simply about the different words for "sandwich" in different regional dialects. We did not even reach the border of our federal state and got to somewhere between 15 - 20 different words for it. And yes: I am aware that talking about bread is a very german thing to do ;)

@WhyneedanAlias

Жыл бұрын

Yeah or just normal day to day things which are different from town to town. Like I live in a very rural area and my school covered a radius of about 15-20 kilometers. It's very interesting how different the pronounciations of different words can be or that some words just exist in one place but not the other. Like we have a seperate word for a thick blanket and it was just very normal for me but when I firat used it around some of my friends they were very confused and never heard it before.

@justkate6338

Жыл бұрын

I live in the Netherlands close to the German border and always find it funny how the local dialects are so similar that people can fully understand each other while technically speaking their own language. As I don't really speak either German or the local dialect well, its really difficult to understand people.

@Gamm420

Жыл бұрын

I admit I don't know if there is something similar in Germany but I do know that in (very) mountainous regions of Austria, particularly Vorarlberg (bordering Switzerland/Liechtenstein), the local dialects are so far from "proper" German that many people from let's say Munich or Vienna have trouble understanding them. With a little practice, it's no issue, though.

Feli is AMAZING. She's only been in the US (full time) since 2016, yet speaks near-prefect American English with no accent, except a slight trace of a Midwest accent that I'm sure she picked up living in Ohio. I am a big fan of her channel Feli From Germany (previously called German Girl In America) and her podcast Understanding Train Station. BTW, "servus" in a Bavarian greeting meaning, roughly, "at your service".

@faithlesshound5621

11 ай бұрын

She had to stop calling herself "German Girl in America" after receiving a "cease and desist" letter with the threat of being sued for millions, because there was apparently already a German girl in America (actually only the descendant of Germans) and there can only be one.

It's not just that in Germany people can speak a different dialect in a neighbouring village, it can be a whole different local language. Yes, yes I know, my sothern German friends aren't aware of this, but Plattdeutsch ("Low-German") is actually not a dialect, but a language on its own, that happen to be spoken on the coastal regions and happen to survive the centuries for some reason, which is likely just the northern German attitude. Aside from these there are also minor languages all around Germany, right next to the endless amounts of dialects. Dialects that may differ so extremely from each other, that we get subtitles for them, because we won't otherwise understand it at all. Like, if that Bavarian farmer from some village starts talking, I've got no idea what he's saying. Not a single clue. I have a much easier time listening to Danish, because even though I never learned it, due to proximity I am able to understand enough to tell what the Danish speaking buddy wants from me. With the Bavarian? No idea. No clue.

I remember a funny situation during my exchange year: I was buying Cigarettes and tried to disguise my age with a german ID. So I presented it when asked and the girl behind the counter looked at it, then looked at me... really confused and asked: What is that? Me: Oh, its a german ID She: Where did you get that? Me: In Germany She: Why do you have that? Me: I'm german!? I must say that german IDs are bilingual, german AND english. So she asked: Where is your date of birth? So I showed the date of birth wich had "Geburtsdatum/Date of birth" written above. By that time she was sooooo confused that she didnt check my age (I was 16, legal age in MO to buy Cigarettes was 18) and gave them to me with no further discussion. Mission accomplished :D

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

Wait for the confusion between dd/mm/yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy dates.

@DSP16569

Жыл бұрын

@@HappyBeezerStudios Wait until they decided to use "Freedom"-time. Will be confusing when it is 32:09:05 o'clock while the rest of the world still uses their unpatriotic 09:32:05 (h:m:s)

@nikirol4051

Жыл бұрын

@@DSP16569 I'm honestly not sure by the way you wrote it if you like the 24-hour time or dislike it

@30daysofneiiin

Жыл бұрын

@@nikirol4051 It's not about 24-hour format. dd/mm/yy goes smallest to largest. h:m:s goes largest to smallest. mm/dd/yy is a weird order. m:h:s would be that weird order but for time. So 09:32:05 (h:m:s) Is 32:09:05 (m:h:s)

@nikirol4051

Жыл бұрын

@@30daysofneiiin Ohh, that would make much more sense

Dude i am 7 hours ahead and the sun is going up. So this is a warning the sun could go up at yours the next hours too.

That was my experience as well when I participated at a school exchange with a high school in Pennsylvania. Me and my fellow German classmates were asked lots of questions we were dumbfounded by. I remember being asked if we have Hitler posters on our walls at school or whether we have refrigerators at home... when I told someone that my parents emigrated to Germany from Greece I got a "Greece is a real country? Like, on a map?" About German Brezeln or Brezen, it really depends. Bavarians and Swabians are very particular about their Brezeln (originally the Brezel was invented in Baden-Württemberg, not Bavaria). Where I'm from - close to where the Brezel was invented - people mostly eat them with butter

I am cracking up here 🤣🤣🤣 I can attest to all of these questions, lol, been asked the same things, PLUS some. For example, at work (a huge supermarket), a coworker asked me if I knew what bananas were and if I knew what they looked like. I was so stunned that I actually thought she was being sarcastic, lol, but she was dead serious. Then the usual...how did I like Hitler (I was born like 30 years after he killed himself), how did I get along with him, do all Germans smell and why dont they use deodarants and so on. Then people always assume I like beer (I do NOT drink alcohol of any kind) and German chocolate cake (I also do NOT eat cakes of any kind). And YES, the pretzels in the USA suck 🤣🤣🤣

I worked on airline, and captain called that we are arriving after 20 minits to Helsinki from Miami and over 15 American's asked is this 20 minits Your local or our Us time 🤣🤣🤣

@julianaFinn

Жыл бұрын

Love that! I'm a Finn living in Australia and all my friends online from the States freak out when I tell them what day it is and what season. They can't seem to understand it. When I left Finland, it was winter. 3 days later I landed in Melbourne and it was midsummer. When I tell pple that they look at me like I'm insane. 👍

The thing with the food it, that it is difficult to describe to foreigners. From an outside perspective there is "German" food, but not so much from an inside perspective. If a food is typical, we would call it by the region where it originated, like "Bavarian food", for example. Most traditional dishes were invented before there was even a German state, so it would also be historically wrong to call it "German". Fun fact on the side: Couple of weeks ago there was an Instagram post about food in Germany, it showed the most popular food for each of the 16 states and I knew only 2/3 of them even existed and I had eaten only 1/3 of them in my whole life. And surprise, surprise, it was the food from either the states I live(d) in or visited.

@WalterModel45

Жыл бұрын

Same in Spain. Countries with very different weather or culture have diferents food . I laugh when i see this programs about "spanish food" Man That is just the south of the country.

@AussieFossil

Ай бұрын

There was a German(sorry) restaurant near me that has since closed and we used to go there at least once a month. My favourite starter was always swabian maultaschen, wunderbar! The owner and chef were from Berlin and we'd finish the meal with Berliner coffee. Sometimes we'd stay after the restaurant was closed and toss a coin to see if we got a free schnapps or had to pay however many times we wanted to try. It was sometimes an interesting walk home.

I just love how sarcastic you are. It doesn't feels like majority of other US reactions xD Just such way of reaction feels more ... human and proves one more time that people from all around the world despite of their differences in culture actually feel things in the same way

When I was on an exchange year in the USA, I was told by a 20 year old person "I didn't know Germany really existed. I thought it was made up." I was so confused but other people actually agreed with him.😅

My sister was an exchange student in Roscoe, Illinois in 1970. When she said she was from Germany, she was asked if we had refrigerators yet. On another occasion, she was asked if Germany was on the east or west coast.

@marxel4444

Жыл бұрын

That one with the coast would only be a thing if germany would have won ww2.

@DSP16569

Жыл бұрын

@@marxel4444 We are south of the north west and east coast (Nordsee, Ostsee) ;-)

@isuperninja8926

Жыл бұрын

@@DSP16569 My mom's colleague went to the US and she was asked if Germans eat with knife and fork. (I will give this one a pass because it was a child, but still very funny.)

@WalterModel45

Жыл бұрын

@@marxel4444 hahahahhaha Yes West or east coast of Europe.

Yeah, Americans, somehow a difficult topic when it comes to a bit....lets say weird questions 😅 about 15 years ago I was in Georgia and my host family took me to an Oktorberfest nearby. They asked me, if we have anything similar to their Oktorberfest in Germany. 🧐😐 And they sold "fried pickles" as special German foot. 🤔😵 Never ever heard about that here in good old Germany 🤦🏾‍♂️ That hurts especially from people from a country which doesn't even have anything similar to a beer 😅

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

I can't remember who said it, but the saying goes "american beer is like sex in a canoe. f**ing close to water"

@gemselchen

Жыл бұрын

It was the famous British comedy troupe Monty Python. And now for something completely different...

@WalterModel45

Жыл бұрын

@@HappyBeezerStudios HAHAHHAHAHAHAH That is true. I am from Spain, but i like a lot of things about America. But man, the food. The bread! It is a thing here. They call those things artificial sandwich bread...

@Roth2775

Жыл бұрын

that is the problem with the Americans: one part thinks all germany are wearring Lederhosen and Dirndl and everything looks like it is in Bavaria .... and the other part things, that the US had invented these things

I learned as a German a lot from Felicia about cultural differences between Germany and the US and it sometimes was really shocking how big the differences are.

I love these reactions so much. Thank you so much 🥰👍

In regards to fridges/freezers: didn't German scientists kind of invent those? ^^' Carl Linde invented the process that made natural ice unnecessary for cooling things (Linde-Verfahren). There were further developments made in Cuba and the U.S. afterward though.

@erikstolzenberger1517

Жыл бұрын

Exactly...the first ammonia-evaporation refrigators were made in germany^^

@johncenashi5117

Жыл бұрын

ive actually heard that Sweden was the first ones. But that might just be the idea of it. It says on Wiki that we were one of the first who made cooling rooms/places for beer and stuff. But yeh the traditional was probably Germany and then later improved and manufactured in US. Pretty interesting stuff, about something booring. hahahah

@Nico6th

Жыл бұрын

@@johncenashi5117 I read that there was an earlier model in the 18th century that used ammoniac to keep things cool, that was developed in Glasgow and then improved by someone in France. The Linde-Verfahren came after that but is what is basically still used today. He developed it to produce ice - for breweries xD I guess there were parallel developments like with most things.

@vattenpoel1328

Жыл бұрын

Swedish maybe. sigh

@swanpride

Жыл бұрын

Honestly, no matter what, the likelihood that a German was involved in the invention somewhere along the line is pretty high.

2:55 It is a bad question. Have you ever been asked why the US call temselves "United States of America" although it should be "Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika" or "les États-Unis d'Amérique", for instance?

@s.b.907

Жыл бұрын

They really should call it Verenigde Staten van Amerika. 😡 😂

@melnerud

Жыл бұрын

or "Amerikas förenta stater" (Swedish)

@tubekulose

Жыл бұрын

​@@melnerud Kära hälsningar from Vienna, Austria! 😁❤

@bastik.3011

Жыл бұрын

Counter offer we Germans start calling our country Vereinigte Staaten Deutscher Nation

@raydafuq3570

Жыл бұрын

@@bastik.3011 the USG - United States of Germany haha

Hey Ryan, happy new year and greetings from Germany. Its really fun watching your videos 👍

Happy Arvo Ryan! 🤣🤣🤣 That last one was a doozy!! Lol

About the German food: each region has its own tradition given by nature; the mountain south has other food as the coast, big cities as Vienna where people of more then a dozend languages and dozend of regions had lived together produced its own mixed of it; so when millions of German settlers from all parts of Germany, Austria and Swiss came to the northern middle west of the USA they mixed and created their own "German" culture and food. Places who still serve that type of food serve "traditional American-German" food. The two World Wars forced the Germans in America to assimilate. So often the revival of "German culture" is copying something someone thought modern Germans do and not what 3 or 4 generations before realy did.

@mikaari2110

Жыл бұрын

Vienna is NOT in Germany, it is capital of Austria....

@apolloniapythia9141

Жыл бұрын

First I`m from Vienna and I`m well aware of that! 😉 But till 1866 Vienna had been part of Germany and the capital of its biggest state - the Austrian Empire (it became the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1867 because Austria had to left the German Federation which became the German Empire in 1870). The most famous Austrian cooking book of the last third of the 19th and the first two-three decades of the 20th century had been called "Southgerman cuisine" or after the autor "Prato". German speaking people in Eastern Europe - most of them living in different parts of the AH emoire or its successor states called themself "Germans" because they belonged to this language group; this only changed because of the NAZI terror - most had to flee and went to Germany or out of Europe.

@Jankru

Жыл бұрын

@@apolloniapythia9141 Austria isnt Germany, and we dont want Austria as a part of Germany anymore. The last time this was happened ends up in a war. So you dont have to talk about Vienna, when we talk about Germany. The Austrian Emperor doesn't exist anymore.

@valsyaranamual6853

Жыл бұрын

All are 100's of years older than American white history.

@susella646

Жыл бұрын

@@Jankru Who is this "we" you talk about? 😉 But indeed, I have no desire to have Austria as part of Germany, but Apollonia's post was very knowledgeable and to the point. There is a shared culture between the south of Germany and Austria, so mentioning Vienna is important.

"The tabletop game" - Just for your information, Ryan, we Germans call that "KIcker" or "Tischkicker" or "Tischfussball" (or in some rare cases "Subbuteo" after the British brand/manufacturer who makes them, more in the style of a desktop game). We also have American Football here. Remember Nick Alfieri (NALF KZread channel)? He plays professional American Football for the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns. On his channel he just published the trailer to his upcoming film "Unicorn Town"; IIRC it will be screened on August 19th, 2022 on various outlets including KZread Movies. I for sure will watch it!

@RNS_Aurelius

Жыл бұрын

The name Subbuteo is actually a Latin pun. It's the Latin name of a bird called the hobby (Falco subbuteo). So the game/hobby is called hobby.

@L00pTroop

Жыл бұрын

NALF has also a second channel called "NALFs nonsens" where he explained the origin of the words soccer and football and guess what, the englisch people are responsible for this mess 😛

@bracinggreen3785

Жыл бұрын

"The tabletop game": Sometimes "Scherre" from "scharren" (scratching) de.wiktionary.org/wiki/scharren

@faithlesshound5621

11 ай бұрын

Don't Americans call table football "foosball?"

Experienced a similar think to the time zone thing. I was posting an in-game screenshot on July 12 2022 or 12.07.2022 as we write it (along with several other countries). My screenshot showed the date and guy accused me of cheating or timetraveling since 12.07.2022 is December 07th and "we don't have December yet". And yes, he was dead serious.Even folks from other countries couldn't convince him that Date/ month/year is quite common

@danigeschwindelt1795

Жыл бұрын

If you are working on databases this can become a rel pain Since if you only see a date such as 04 03 2022, one can not directly know is it now the European 4 March 2022 or is it the American 3 April 2022 Pi day is a special one beacause it only works in the American notation 3 14, were we write 14 3 14 March, but pi is always 3.14 due to the mathematical definition of it.

I think for monolingual, accent is a Big thing. On the other hand, when somebody speak more than two languages, or like people in Europe who are exposed to many languages in their life, accent is not very confusing, they are learning and accepting that people use different words or say words differently for the same meaning.

I am also german and spent a year in the US as an exchange program in high school. I have legitimatly been asked if we have cars in germany.

@Sonnenanbeterin1991

Жыл бұрын

Howw..

@Sonnenanbeterin1991

Жыл бұрын

Why

@huginug

Жыл бұрын

An teacher from the UK once asked my husband if reindeers exist 😁

Dont worry, it´s not so bad you think. It´s an kind of misunderstanding. 🙂 I believe the most problem here is, that in germany we don`t have smalltalk like you in the USA. We have, but not the same. An example: If you here ask someone "how are you" a German will tell you the truth, the whole truth. If he is sick, his wife is dying, he would talk this to you. Because for us, this isn´t a phrase. We understand this different. And so it is with question about our country. In American this is a part of smalltalk, i think. A polite smalltalk with interest. So in germany we do this different. We talk to other peoples "How it is in your country?" So, that the other tell us, what he want to tell us. Or we ask "here is it on this kind, how is it in your country". And we ask only this things, that we really, really CANNOT know. This is a kind of politeness in germany. And the second point of this that the german school system and our society (politics,news, etc) teach us a lot of our country, but just as much about all other countrys, too. (Well, special about the other europeans and the USA) We know a lot about the USA, France, the UK, Italy, and so one. And in the other european Countrys, this is also the case. An example: All people of France now how all other europeans and the most other country in the western world, drive. If on the left or right lane. Because of that, many germans think, this is also the case in the USA, too. So if you a german ask such questions, he could completely misunderstands you. For you it´s a interest smalltalk. For us it´s different. For a german, thats could sounds impolite or dumb. Because, in german perception, you ask us directly something, that we assume that you should actually know. So its sounds for germans. And this is in germany a way, to be very, VERY impolite to people from other german regions ( or countrys). If a german out the West would like to be bad to an east german(or african for example), he could say something like. "Ah, you have escalators in east-germany (your Land)?" For us it sounds like "your region is so primitive. See, I don't even know the simplest things about you." And because of this, such questions sounds for many german people dumb or conceited. (And because we have not any sense of humor, of course. 😉 ) I hope i could help. And my english was not so bad. ^^

@raydafuq3570

Жыл бұрын

perfect way to put it. Dachte mir auch, dass genau das das Problem ist.

@haggihug3162

Жыл бұрын

Ziemlich gut auf den Punkt gebracht. 👍

@chrimu

Жыл бұрын

Auf der anderen Seite schimpfen wir auch über Nichtigkeiten und sind wesentlich direkter, wenn uns etwas stört. Das ist Teil unseres Smalltalk 😄 Wenn sich ein Deutscher über dummes aufregt, heißt das eigentlich nicht viel. In anderen Kulturen ist die Hemmschwelle Probleme anzusprechen allerdings höher, wodurch es als schlimmer verstanden werden kann, als es gemeint war.

@rakat2746

Жыл бұрын

@@chrimu Das habe ich tatsächlich auch schon bemerkt.

@alexlola4723

Жыл бұрын

haha, i wanted to write that arnold has a great sense of humor - but i realized that he is austrian 😂😂

as I talked to someone from the US the very first time it was like 20+ years ago. It's was the prime time of AOL and AOL had these international chat rooms. I went there and wrote something like "Hey, I'm Magnus from Germany. I'd like to meet people from all over the world.". I got DMs and replies that were like "Hey, I'm Jim, I'm a white guy." - I replied with "Why would you say that you're a white guy? We're all people. That's cool.". His answer was, "Yes, but you're German, so you must be a Nazi." My very first experience talking to Jim from USA. That was awkward.

Here a little excursion about the word "Servus" which you were confused about in her opening. This word is mostly used in southern Germany and all over Austria. It just means "Hello" and/ or "Goodbye". You can use it for both situations. The origins are latin and mean something like "At your service". It's a very common greeting overall and a classic authentic word to say "Hi" in german. At least in Bavaria and Austria!

In Germany it’s pretty easy to converse imo, you learn “high” German. This is the standard German language you learn in school’s no matter the region, teachers are even required to always talk high German. Of course some have a dialect but more often than not it’s not that heave. Some old people are hard to converse with because if I remember correctly it wasn’t mandatory back then. Middle aged are better to understand because it got introduced back then (so the baby boomers), and now the younger generation can switch it on/off. If we decide to talk in our dialect to each other and we have a heavy one it literally feels like your speaking a different language sometimes and you understand almost nothing.

@belegur8108

Жыл бұрын

actually typically the more rural you get, the stronger the accent goes. in most of the big citties there is rarely more than a slight accent

@a1smith

Жыл бұрын

Also one big differences is that nouns have sexes which was dropped long ago in English. That takes English people a bit of work to get their heads around.

@raptorxrise5386

Жыл бұрын

Yeah i live in germany near the border with the netherlands and my grandfather speaks in a pretty strong accent of "plattdeutsch". Hes normally still easy to understand but its kind of funny how when he starts ranting about something he slips back into speaking platt and suddenly i completely cant understand him

@kathi4089

Жыл бұрын

I was visiting Munich a few weeks ago and talked to two old ladies for a bit and I would lie if I said that I understood more than 1/3 of what they told me...

@belegur8108

Жыл бұрын

@@kathi4089 well Munich is maybe the big exception to the rule... neither would i understand a Munich born with a heavy accent more than you did, and i am bornn and living in the second largest city of Bavaria. To be true, the northern part of Bavaria is actually Franconia and a complete other accent ( and even there local differences in dialect are very common ) Germany historically is the area of 6 big germanic tribes and that is true even now, but with more local differences....

I can totally understand that. I don't live in the USA but I know the country very well from countless visits. I still get asked the craziest questions. I often ask myself what is being taught, how do people get information, what news is being produced. I still can't understand it to this day. I remain polite and try to answer the questions as well as possible so that it is understood and thus pass on knowledge. Hope it brings something.

"I hope that's a joke" hahahaha that made my day, i heared that several times in other Videos.

A Friend of Mine was living a couple of Years in the USA and after a few months I asked him, what he Think about the People and the country and his answer was: I cannot believe, that these People flew to the Moon. 😅 I visited him for two weeks and the most stupid question for me was, if we already have Internet in Germany....it was in 2008. And the Most unpleasant Situation was in an Outlet store: a crew Member asked me where I came from(I think because of my bad English) and I answered (from Germany). Then he made the Hitler Salute and tried to sing a Nazi Anthem. But I have to say, I also met a lot of nice and Interesting People, too. And driving on a US Highway at 65 MpH scared me more, than driving on German Autobahn at 280km/h

yes someone tried to explain how a TV worked - whn I was in exchange in America. And my little host brother (but then that was so cute) was literally running a round screaming "they have gummy bears in Germany" - since I brought some German gummy bears over (and hin hint they are so much better then any american ones, because they do not taste chemical). I still send them over after 20 years XD He still loves them! I think it totally deoends on WHO asks those questions. With younger children they are fine! And it's cute. With grown ups - not so fine and not so cute! IF you are interested in Germany as a country I'd suggest "Thi is Germany" on you tube by Dr. Ludwig - it's liek 13/15 minutes just of cities and areas of Germany with music or for mind blowing fast facts about germany "Geography now" - but this is actually hardcore... *laughs*

@LythaWausW

Жыл бұрын

My husband is trying to teach me how teletext works, it's taking a while. There is even an app for it, which proves to me a lot of people look at teletext.

Oh dear! Please don't feel bad! And stay with Felis videos! I'm sure, you will find them great and realy informativ!!!

I love your reaction regarding the time zones question.

Man, you're so much fun, just can't stop laughing.

That last one about the authenticity of restaurants is acutally a great question and nothing to get mad about. Seriously. I have a lot of turkish collegues and some asian clients and you bet your arse I'm asking them were they go to eat out. Best answer I was given by a client: "Have you ever been to [thai restaurant in our city that I knew but never have been to]? Yeah, it's great there. It's ours". I've been there since and wasn't disappointed.

I was asked "Arent you amazed by our washing mashines?"

@NorthSea_1981

Жыл бұрын

LOL xD ...American toploader washing machines are so horrendously bad

@oOIIIMIIIOo

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I don't like top loaders. 😄

@WedrownyGrajek

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And weren't you? 😂

when I went to the US I was also asked once whether we had refrigerators...or roads. and whether we fled the country or if we were free to travel. O_o in addition, I was asked whether I was australian (I am austrian) even though I believe that I sound more like arnold schwarzenegger ;) because we are from the same area. and yes, the occasional and very direct/rude "you must be nazis, you are german speaking" thing, of course. yes, people ask in a very rude manner. in San Francisco it was very different though, we even met a person in the cable car that had german ancestry and just talked to us - he was very friendly.

Haha, I love your reaction videos 👍 I’m from Germany so it’s so funny and interesting.

I agree with you when you say that those food questions are interesting. When i lived in Canada they had a lot of "Dutch" things that were not really traditional, but inspired by or Canadianized. I always thought these things were interesting. And i gladly answered questions about that. I think it shows that people are willing to learn about your culture.

@AlexandraVioletta

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At least they try 🤷🏼‍♀️

@julianaFinn

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I agree. Now I'm self-conscious about asking again, as I always ask my Spanish friend or Vietnamese friend if the food we are being served is close to authentic. I had no idea that they may hate that question! I just find it fascinating, that's all

@Ecstasia1

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​@@julianaFinn I think it's just her. We have a lot of students from all over the world in our work group and it's always fascinating to compare cultures, foods and habits and I personally think someone who leaves their home country to experience a different culture but then gets offended when asked about their own is rather ignorant. Please keep on asking! If you annoy someone then it's their problem and not yours!

I have been to spring break in Daytona Beach. An American asks me where I'm from. I told him I'm from Germany. He asked me how did you get here? By car? 🤦‍♂️

@blondkatze3547

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Yes you drive with the car from Germany over the Ocean to America.That`s good.🤣😅😂

@kilsestoffel3690

Жыл бұрын

What about swiming? Or rowing (rudern)

@blondkatze3547

Жыл бұрын

That`s good 😅

When Ryan said he would be really interested in the answers to the food question, which Feli ranked no 1, he must have missed something: At that point she wasn't talking about stupid questions, but annoying questions. Which I assume means, she has to answer them way too often. Also to pick up about the house video and the freezers that were mentioned: Of course we have freezers in Germany. But the usually are a different device, and often stored in the basement.

😂😂😂Hhaahh😂😂 can't stop laughing I'm born and raised in the Netherlands (Amsterdam) the best country in the world (my opinion) and I really believe that my parents original marocain would absolutely agree. what I can say we the Dutch are great in a lot of things. Bud Germany makes the best cars the best refrigerator the best machines for farming and so on and so on they invented a lot of things like the high way I can't name it all it's too much so it's kinda sad that the majority of people don't know this I absolutely love German people (not all Germans of course) bud the majority. there are other countries in the world and I afcours know there are a lot of Americans that are really smart so I hope that people know that after watching these kind of video on KZread peace and happiness 😊😊❤❤

About dumb questions: Goethe said that you have to ask a smart question if you want to get a smart answer.

@WedrownyGrajek

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But then again he was German so I guess that doesn't apply to Americans, does it?

@maraboo72

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@@WedrownyGrajek About dumb questions: Goethe said that you have to ask a smart question if you want to get a smart answer.

@WedrownyGrajek

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@@maraboo72 I'm not American, you don't have to tell me twice. 😂

You might want to check out the channel "Rewboss". The creator is a Brit who has lived in Germany for more than twenty years and he makes really good videos for English speakers about Germany.

@Astrofrank

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They are very informative for Germans, too.

There are whole bakeries dedicated to different sorts of pretzels, pretzel buns, pretzel sticks and pretzel chestnuts (bites). With pumpkin or sunflower seeds, supersize, super small, you name it! And almost every shop sells frozen pretzels that you can bake at home :)

😂Love your video - and you!

When I was visiting the US, i told a women in colorado that germany is a beautyful place but sadly u are not allowed to laugh in public. She believed me and was rly sad to hear that.

I totally understand the food one about not seeing that type of food in Germany. In UK curries have became a national dish but the most popular chicken tikka masala is a British invention and doesn't exist in Indian cuisine.

When it comes to time zones, I had an English auntie who would make a phone call to us in Australia at 2.30 in the morning. Of course it was 12.30 in the afternoon in the UK. She seemed surprised that she had woken up the whole household.

omg she’s soooo right haha after living in the states for two years I can totally agree on her experience 😂

As a german myself i always say european football and american football, but also dont get pissed just because someone calls it different 😂

US perception of Germany is pretty much based on generations of US soldiers experiences while being stationed here. BUT the US soldiers have been in the southern part of Germany, so their experiences are mostly based on Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. The specialities of eastern Germany or the northern part are missing.

Feli is awesome. Very informative

Servus is the typical greeting here in Bavaria. It historically was the greeting, the Bavarian nobility used for their servants, as "Servus" just means servant in Latin. But it established as the regular informal way of greeting another person friendly :)