I am German, and I live in Germany. I have an online chat friend in the US. My English is kinda OK and he doesn't speak ANY German, so of course our conversations are always in English. One day we were on the phone for a change, and not merely texting. During that conversation my partner at home asked me something in German and I answered - of course - in German. He was totally startled by that and asked: "Wait WHAT? You guys speak GERMAN at home?"

@onnasenshi7739

19 күн бұрын

An American woman once asked me why we call Germany Deutschland.

@DSP16569

18 күн бұрын

@@onnasenshi7739 Because we do not use the name the enemy gave us.

@onnasenshi7739

18 күн бұрын

@@DSP16569 Somehow you don't seem to understand that Deutschland is the deutsche name of my home country, that's why we Deutschen call Deutschland in Deutschland "Deutschland" and not Germany. PS: i am Deutscher/ German

@yt_n-c0de-r

14 күн бұрын

@@onnasenshi7739 Leaving a "fun" fact here: - Germany: obviously named after the tribe of "Germans" the Romans fought along the Rhine and picked the name up there. - Alemania: Is used for the south/south-west Germanic tribes "Alemanni", with which France and Spain had lots of contact with. - Tedesco: comes from ancient germanic "theudo" - meaning just "people/folk" - Deutsch: is believed to come from the tribe of Teutons the Romans described, but comes from "theudo" too ( later "diutisk", so Deutschland - diutiskland basically means "Land of People"). The romans just attributed some of the Teutonian traits to Germans and it got conflated :)

@UnifiedFriends

14 күн бұрын

Land of the free skull space

Made an online friend from the US and they asked 'are you friending me for a green card', I answered 'I'm from Amsterdam'😂😂😂 As if I would ever want to trade my freedom for that...

In the UK red traffic lights mean "Stop". NO right turn. NO left turn. Just STOP!!!!

@SB-cz9vo

8 күн бұрын

The same applies in Germany. Except if there is a green arrow sign right next to the red light. In such cases, it acts as a stop sign for right turns on red. Is there a left turn equivalent in the UK?

@andypandy9013

8 күн бұрын

@@SB-cz9vo Same in the UK if there is also a green arrow light. For either left OR right turns at a junction according to the direction(s) indicated by them. 🙂

@trevorcook4439

7 күн бұрын

No point in the traffic light if it can mean whatever you want. Use a give way sign

@irina-ty1336

7 күн бұрын

Yes, because in Europe we have fragile things called "pedestrians", who would like to cross the road without risking to be hitten by a car

@shadowlibra5758

6 күн бұрын

But for pedestrians it means go😂😂

When I was working at my local pub, we had a gang of American tourists pop in one afternoon. I was only 19 or 20 at the time and was the only one behind the bar (boss was upstairs sorting out some licensing stuff). They asked If there was someone who could serve them and I replied 'sure, what's your poison?' The bloke who asked laughed and said 'no seriously, can we get some service? I was really confused at this point, being behind the bar, wearing a staff apron and serving other people drinks I responded 'Yeah, of course, what would you like?' Dude was silent for a moment, then overly angrily said 'Quit playing games, you're not old enough to drink, let alone serve' 'I've been working here for over a year, and the drinking age is 18 here' 'That's against the law, your boss is in deep shit' At this point I had to stop myself from laughing cause I knew what I was going to do Place was filled with locals and regulars who all knew me and my boss, so I just went to the stairs and yelled DARYYL, AMERICANS AT THE BAR! He came down the stairs looks at me, looks at the yanks, then says (with a thick welsh accent) '' He can serve you lot, we trust our nippers to hold their liquor round here' He then poured us both a double whisky, we downed it, and he went back upstairs. 'So, what d'you yanks want?' Giggles all around the bar, and the looks on their faces was priceless

@peterpain6625

3 күн бұрын

Hope they at least tried some real beer. That vile stuff sold as beer in the USA would qualify as "yellow water" over here ;)

@shamusomalley4263

Күн бұрын

And then everyone 👏.

@Xeroph-5

13 сағат бұрын

Love the Welsh, you guys don't get talked about enough. - Your neighbour

@YeahNo

10 сағат бұрын

I would have paid to watch that.

@Thurgosh_OG

2 сағат бұрын

@@Xeroph-5 Where did you get 'Welsh' from the OG comment? They said their boss was Irish, that was all.

Got Asked if the man from WW2 is still our chancellor

@Alexp37

19 күн бұрын

Hot dang wow

@hrruben5135

19 күн бұрын

Classic one

@lynnm6413

18 күн бұрын

@@Anthyrion I was an exchange student in Michigan in 98, and in world cultures the teacher opened the Questions to the whole class: The 88 question ist still my #1 biggest wt actual f moment of all the dumbest sheeet Americans ever asked me

@Onnarashi

17 күн бұрын

He'd be 135 years old if he was still alive. Also, you'd imagine the Allies and the USSR (and Russia) taking an issue with him still being the leader of Germany if that was the case.

@mktosaft4255

15 күн бұрын

Ahh, the classic.

I was born in Germany but i have Japanese roots and i got asked by an American from Alabama if i did come to Germany by car or by plane i answered i walked from Japan to Germany and he questioned me if i'm an illegal immigrant like many Mexicans in the US 😂

@groundzero7470

19 күн бұрын

There is NO way Jk, i can totally see that happen ^^

@jbrittels804

2 күн бұрын

Wär ein langer Spaziergang gewesen. Sogar mit Schwimmeinlage.

For context, I'm German with Asian roots. Went clubbing one night where I met an Asian guy to whom I said "Hey, you kinda look like the guitarist from the Smashing Pumpkins. But on the other hand, you Asians all look the same to me." His friend, who turned out to be an American on holiday in Germany, went ballistic on me and called me an effing racist and wanted to fight me, if I don't apologize. Asian guy stepped in and explained to his friend that we don't fight people for a funny joke, that especially beating up a girl is not cool. It was an interesting experience.

@RoonMian

3 күн бұрын

Good for him, all Asians know kung fu.

@cantinadudes

2 күн бұрын

​@@RoonMianyea that would've ended badly

-=Story One=- "Do you have cars in Germany?" "Nah mate, we only invented them and build them for you guys. Why would we use them ourselves?" -=Story Two=- "Do you have toilets in Germany?" "Nope. We're something like 80+ million people and we all shit in the woods. Which is fine during summer, but during winter it gets tricky, because the trees don't have fresh leaves, which is why we have to catch squirrels for wiping. So, when you're in Germany during fall and winter: never forget your squirrel sling! Do you want me to teach you how to use it? Oh and be careful you're using them the right way. They got sharp teeth and are always hungry for nuts." -=Story Two, part two=- When I was little my step-grandmothers best friend (from Florida) paid us a visit during her Europe roundtrip. The thing I remember most about her was that she had two big suitcases. One was filled with her clothing and little gifts for us, the other one was packed to the brim with... TOILET PAPER. And no, I'm not old enough for this to have been during destroyed post war Germany. The funniest thing about that was: when she left, she left with a suitcase full of GERMAN toilet paper and left her American toilet paper behind. For a couple of years we brought "American toilet paper" as a "for shits and giggles bonus gift" whenever we visited friends and family. -=Story Three=- "You're really German?" "Yup" "Why haven't you killed Hitler yet?" "Uh, excuse me?" "Yeah, he's evil! You have to kill him!" "Uuuuuh... No, we don't?" "OMG you're such a Nazi!" "Wait, WHAT?!?" "You love Hitler! That makes you a Nazi!" "No, I don't" "But you just said that you don't have to kill him!" "Uhm... are you trying to... I don't even know how to call it... Mess with me?" "No! I'm dead serious! He's a really evil man!" "Oh gee... Listen, I have no idea what would make you think that he's still alive, but here's the thing: HE'S DEAD! And even if you don't believe that he killed himself in a bunker a couple days before the war ended, he'd be well over 100 years old by now and the fricking oldest human in the history of mankind..." -= Story Four=- "You're from Germany?" "Yup, that's what I just told you " "Man, I love those adorable small States on the East Coast!" "It's... a bit further east than that." "It's one of those islands off the coast? Didn't know that.. " "Nah, it's a bit further east." "But ... There's nothing there?" "Well, not entirely wrong if "ocean" is your idea of nothing. And at some point, very far to the east, the ocean stops and you're in Europe!" "Now you're just trying to make fun of me. No idea why, but I know for a fact that Germany is on the East Coast." "What would possibly make you believe that?" "I just know! Just like I know that you're American!" "I'm WHAT now? Why did you say that?" "You're speaking American with me!" "Well, technically speaking I'm not. I'm speaking English... You know what, let's just forget about all of this. Bye."

@Die_Jessi

8 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂 jetzt bleibt nur noch die Frage warum triffst du so viele intelligente Amerikaner?

@asaris_

8 күн бұрын

@@Die_Jessi Ne zeitlang hab ich versucht auf Aminservern MMOs zu spielen, da ich ne "Eule" bin und durch den Zeitunterschied hat das besser gepasst. Ging mir aber recht schnell auf die Nerven auf Grund von absoluter Idiotie von zu Vielen 💀😂

@Die_Jessi

8 күн бұрын

@@asaris_ 🤣

@shadowfox009x

8 күн бұрын

Yep. Die Auto Frage. Das I-Tüpfelchen? Der Typ fuhr einen BMW. Wobei das angeblich für British Motor Works steht. Hätten die Briten sicherlich gerne. Aber hey, wenn sogar Obama rumrennt und behauptet, dass die Amis das Auto erfunden haben, dann kann man das dem Durchschnitts-Amis schon verzeihen. Und Hitler als Kanzler. Das Mädel war auch etwas baff, als ich ihr sagte, dass der schon seit fast 70 Jahren tot ist.

@HeroinYoda

7 күн бұрын

Schick ma ne rolle rüber

I have a lot of conversations with American people online. I'm Dutch and when we start speaking about our countries the Americans always brag about America, the greatest country in the world. When I tell them them about the fact that America is the Number 1 exporter of food in the world followed by the Netherlands, they don't believe it. They also can't believe that we have more vacation days than they have, we don't go bust on hospital bills and have labor laws and worker's rights. They either are telling me I'm a liar or disconnect from our conversation. Seems it's too confrontational that America isn't that great as they have always been told.

@asaris_

Күн бұрын

@@williamgeardener2509 Once when I played MMOs on an English speaking EU server I met an American who was stationed in, uh, Naples, if I remember correctly? Doesn't entirely matter. It was Italy and a harbor town with American navy. He was an officer in the engineering department or something. Anyway, one night when we were talking he kinda "confessed" something to me by telling me his story. He has an older brother. Can't quite remember how much older, but a good chunk of years who joined the military before him and was stationed in Germany. After his service he decided to stay here, since he had found himself a German wife and didn't like life in the US. He had been in highschool at the time and the situation with his brother made him so angry that he went no contact with him, because he thought that he was a traitor to "the greatest country of them all". Fast forward a couple of years, he had joined the Navy and found himself stationed in Italy. At first it was just a random post for him, but when he started to venture out of base during his free time, it hit him like a freight train. And not just the culture and everything that comes with it. Through interactions with the locals he found out just how much better life in Europe is and that he has been lied to his entire life and he had quite a crisis with his identity as American. Took him a while to process that and one day he decided to visit his brother in Germany to apologize for having been such a dick hole about it. He told me that was really tough for him. His brother apparently just gave him a pat on the shoulder and said: "Don't worry about it, I totally get that. If it had been the other way around, I would have reacted just like you. But I'm really glad you "saw the light" when you came here..." What I'm trying to say: the kind of brainwashing in combination with unrestrained national pride they're being subjected to their entire lives is incredibly difficult for us to understand. Just like life in a cult is for someone who's never been a member of one...

An American exchange student was surprised to find running water, electricity and even color television in Germany so soon after the war. It was the late 1990s...

@TheMAmeph

18 күн бұрын

Exact same story. Well, probably early 90s. 91 or 92 I guess. Still...

@lynnm6413

18 күн бұрын

I was asked in 98 if we had cars, washing machines and electricity in 98, Michigan? When I proceeded to tell them that Porsche, Audi, BMW, VW, and Mercedes were German car brands, they said I was lying! 🙄

@UnifiedFriends

14 күн бұрын

​@@lynnm6413land of the free skull space. Just filled with fragile ego

@shadowfox009x

8 күн бұрын

My great-aunt in the US used to send us "care packages" up until the 80s. Because of the war. I didn't mind because I loved the bubble gum. But some of the stuff was weird or really low quality.

@cantinadudes

2 күн бұрын

​​@@UnifiedFriends nah americans (collectively) are barely under 100 iq. They're not dumber than many "smart" nations. The real problem is that the american education system doesnt teach much until college, and then its often in a specific field, and when it comes to college education they're the best (in terms of quality, the price you pay is unreal). So americans are usually the best in specific fields, but are overall lacking in education. In a society where everybody takes care of each other this wouldnt be much of a problem, but the US is very individualistic, so people stay uneducated. Also dont forget the brainwashing they put their kids under. The pledge of allegiance is really disturbing from a german perspective and they get taught so much bs to make america look like the best nation that ever existed. Americans are not stupid or malicious, they're normal people like you and me living in a fucked up country

An american teacher was very surprised to find out, that not all germans are actually jewish. 😮

@BergenDev

14 күн бұрын

In the day, they tried hard to not have them. Yea, he should be fired for not knowing history.

@viciousyeen6644

8 күн бұрын

Well there’s a certain historical reason for that…

@tobyk.4911

3 күн бұрын

apparently he/she doesn't know anything about European history. How can someone with a homeschool and a college degree not at least know that 1933-1945 most Germans were not Jewish

@GGysar

Күн бұрын

@@viciousyeen6644 Even before that jews were a small minority in Germany. US Holocaust Memorial Museum:"June 16, 1933, the Jewish population of Germany, including the Saar region (which at that time was still under the administration of the League of Nations), was approximately 505,000 people out of a total population of 67 million, or somewhat less than 0.75 percent."

@Pemenari

17 сағат бұрын

@@tobyk.4911 ive heard that appareantly at least in some places americans have no classes on geography or history outside america. like their schools dont actually teach them about the world only their own country. after i heard that i stopped wondering how (some) americans are so self centered.

You're wrong. It's only in the US where people are defined by the ethnicity of their ancestors. In Europe, people are referred to as being from that country if they have that citizenship. And in the UK, we're all Brits, regardless of ethnicity.

@tinawitte420

19 күн бұрын

Unfortunately that's not entirely true, there are racists everywhere. And just a random example that comes to mind: You can be of turkish descent, but born in Germany, and many people still see you as turkish, while in Turkey, people will nmo longer see you as turkish but as some germano-turk, thus making you feel not-at-home everywhere.(a treatment that of course may lead to some form of radicalization of the thus treated persons)

@Jo-de3st

19 күн бұрын

@@tinawitte420 Yes, it is a conscious move by prejudiced people to define people as an "other". It is not really acceptable and frowned upon by anyone with a shred of dignity. What helenwood is saying is that ALL minorities in the US ALWAYS get this treatment, which is bad.

@lynnm6413

18 күн бұрын

@@tinawitte420 thing is, as we‘ve just recently been seeing very graphically by all the pro-‚Palestine‘ celebrations on Oct. 7th, certain people prefer to spit on the culture and morals of their host country, indentifying themselves by religion alone… …so you cannot blame the host country to return the sentiment.

@moiraruff3292

15 күн бұрын

We're all Brits? Not if you're from the United Kingdom provinces of Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland! Then you're Welsh, Scottish or Irish! Some in England might even say they are English.

@eileencritchley4630

15 күн бұрын

@@moiraruff3292 Depends I say British then English with mix of Scottish and Italian with some Native Hawaiian thrown in for good measure, that confuses American's no end.

German here - got asked if we have cars. Also got asked if I know person xy who lived in Amsterdam. To be fair - another American called her out for this, asking her if she knows every person in Canada. 😆 Got also asked if Hitler ist still alive and if we have electricity (last one while we were chatting online).

@Donaldduck-n7h

19 күн бұрын

Warum googlen die denn nicht mal wann Hitler geboren wurde

@tinawitte420

19 күн бұрын

"elec...what?" 😆

@Vampirzaehnchen

19 күн бұрын

They probhably heard about our hamster wheels that everyone uses to keep their devices running.

@tinawitte420

19 күн бұрын

@@Vampirzaehnchen My two hamsters generate about 20% of the elctricity used in my household. Won't talk about the other electricity as apparently that's some form of violation of the Human Rights Convention. (as if anybody cared about it anyways, but the kids keep complaining, at least at the beginning of their shifts)

@jensk4198

19 күн бұрын

watch?v=c9Fr2Khm7Po "Blödsinn, Adolf Hitler war bis 1964 Schichtleiter im Argentinischen VW Werk, ist heute hinlänglich belegt" So musst Antworten.. ^^

Glaswegian is a person from Glasgow in Scotland. The only place I’ve heard of that black people distinguish themselves as being African before the country they are from is America. I’ve never heard a a black person here say they are African Scottish or African English etc, they just say they are Scottish, English etc.

@adamwynyard4065

12 сағат бұрын

@@robertarbitter897we are far less racist in Europe I think - people of colour say they are English rather than African English. Saying African has no meaning unless the person was African then they would say which country they are from

@YeahNo

9 сағат бұрын

@@robertarbitter897You realise how racist that is? Why can’t you just be American? It kinda sounds like you’re saying - “well I’m American but I’m [insert nationality/race/religion] so I’m not really American, American. So I’m not as bad as white Americans. Also my online DNA test says I’m 1% Navajo/Cherokee/Comanche/Apache too, so you can’t call me racist.”

I feel like the topic at 3:04 isn't that strange to me. When someone asks us where we're from, we just say our nationality/the country we grew up in without adding a race like in "African American". Because it doesn't matter to me and the people around me where my ancestors are from. I was born in Germany, my siblings were born in Germany and both of my parents lived here since they were teens so I don't feel the need to add that I'm biracial european/african when I tell people I'm from Germany because that's the only thing that matters when answering the question of where I am from. It's not like they're asking where my ANCESTORS are from when addressing ME with the question ^^

Just to turn this around a bit. Many years ago I was an early morning restaurant/hotel/pub delivery driver in Dublin. We used to stop for our tea break at one bar that would very nicely put on a fry breakfast for us. The bar was a huge modern one out front but had a small annex that was designed to look 1920s for a tourist feel at back. We did our delivery through this annex, which of course was closed in the mornings, but this particular lovely summer's day we kept the door to the alley open which enabled two young, fresh off the plane Americans to walk in. They looked around this annex, thinking of course that this was the actual bar and asked us if they could have a Guinness. The barman quickly put on the old fashioned cap and apron that would usually be worn when serving in this bar before coming from out front with a little bit more of a begorrah bejeysus to his normal Dublin accent. The barman pretended to have never heard of Guinness, and for the next ten minutes these two young guys tried desperately to describe what a Guinness was, me and my co driver joining the gag, pretending to never having heard of this strange black liquid of which they spoke while the barman offered them Heineken, Budweiser and Prava. The poor guys were about to leave when we let them in on the gag. No beer, as the bar was closed but they got a free fry and told to come back to the main bar later for a Guinness on the house.

Im German and imo english is a very easy language to learn

@sharonbunn2363

19 күн бұрын

I studied German at school for 3 years, I can say "my name is..." and "the bike is behind the van" xxx.

@Ace-Of-Spades---

19 күн бұрын

​@sharonbunn2363 I had English lessons for six years - more than 40 years ago. I actually thought I'd forgotten most of it, but in the last 10 years I've got so much practice again - thanks to the internet. 😁 I feel the same way about French as you do about German. I think I've forgotten more of the language than I've actually learnt in 4 years. The only thing I can still say is "open the window" and "close the door" And in flawless French: "Je ne parle pas français". 🤣 ​

@friskytwox

19 күн бұрын

Yeah it's the lingua franca, thanks to the US hegemony, media and influence. Also, colonisation. It's easy to learn when it's all over and the popular things, such as music, apps, all that.

@MrsStrawhatberry

16 күн бұрын

For German speakers English is indeed very easy, it belongs to the same linguistic family. For French people it's a lot more difficult.

@David_randomnumber

8 күн бұрын

@@MrsStrawhatberry Apparently it´s pretty easy to learn Norwegian if you´re an english speaker so the opposite should also be true.

I'm from Germany and I was visiting my aunt in the USA for 4 months in 2006 and I was actually asked by a woman in the US: If you were 8 hours ahead of us then why you didn't warn us about 09.11 ( True story! )

@tobyk.4911

2 күн бұрын

@@d3rdragon91 you would expect that especially in a country with at least 4 different time zones (without considering Hawaii and Alaska), people would know and understand the concept of time zones ... at least more than in Western and central Europe, where there are many countries within the same time zone

@julianneheindorf5757

6 сағат бұрын

Yes, how inconsiderate of us in Europe not to have warned the Americans….😂😂😂

Wow, the speeding ticket thing reminded me of Andrew Tate (remember him? This super obnoxious dude who got banned from every platform and who eventually got arrested with his brother in Romania for pimping and more). He was caught speeding in Austria on an ordinary road with his Lamborghini, because he thought he was still in Germany on the Autobahn... He hadn't even realized that he had left Germany and entered Austria. I know, it sounds unbelievable, but it's true. Just before that, he had posted a video of himself (on TikTok I think) and his brother eating a Wiener Schnitzel, also in Austria, and boasting about how super smart he was (like he always did/does) so it must have happened shortly after that. They didn't arrest him this time (it happened while he was on his way to Romania), but he was given a hefty fine and the Lamborghini was confiscated. A few days later, it was all over the news that he got arrested and that he was in jail in Romania. Maximum Schadenfreude. 🤣

@eileencritchley4630

15 күн бұрын

Thankfully he's not allowed to set foot in the UK, but well done Romania and Austria

@peterpain6625

3 күн бұрын

With Tate i always wonder what he's compensating for ;)

An 'African American' in other countries is called an American!!!

@cornishmaid9138

2 күн бұрын

Americans, in general, have a very poor grasp of English. They are particularly hopeless with grammar and past tense. Also, their inability to correctly use a knife and fork in painful and embarrassing to watch.

@Thurgosh_OG

2 сағат бұрын

This is a fact. Only US Americans use racist names for their own people.

Im from Brandenburg (south of Berlin) and one time, like 12 or 13 years ago back in school, weg got a exchange class from Spingfield Illinois. They only had warm winterclothes because they assume there's only winter in germany. Even the american teachers are baffled. It was June and we had like 34°C... Later they explane to us that they thougt we got 12 months of snowy cold winter because the only source for preparation were ww2 documentarys during the wintertime 😅

@marinacrespo1

4 күн бұрын

Omg its so sad how ignorant they can be :O

@b.f.2461

4 күн бұрын

Good lord, I went to Heidelberg in the spring and it was much warmer than where I came from.

@yukikitsune7366

3 күн бұрын

Yeah, that sounds about par for the course for American public schools.

I'm Canadian. 0nce I was asked if we still pay our taxes to England. Had to explain that we've been an independent country since 1867. Another time an American told me I speak English really well. My knee-jerk reply was "I should. It's my first language". The silliest question, though, was by an American who asked where he and his family could go skiing. It was the middle of July, in Montreal. It's hot and humid.

In 1992, an american black woman, who was a tourist, yelled at my black coworker here in Berlin (we worked in a sommer job with tour guides) because he didn't want to be called an "african-american" by her, since he was a german born to nigerian parents. She insisted that all black people outside of africa are "african-american". When he waved me over as his supervisor to deescalate, I (pale white) just pointed out that I didn't want to get involved in THIS conversation but that the conversation should end. I was then called a racist by the American woman In the same week an american asked me why we drive american cars. I looked around: BMW, Volkswagen, Porsche, Audi etc. Told him that these are german brands. He called me a liar, because this coworkers all drive these cars and "why should they drive inferior foreign cars?" and then, in the same job, someone asked us where the ruins of Berlin are being hid. I asked him what he meant. He told me with pride that the US-Airforce "bombed this city into oblivion and it's impossible that anyone can rebuild a city that big in less than 50 years" And maybe 10 years ago I witnessed a guy from NORWAY how he tried to explain an upset american woman at REWE, that he is "NORWEGIAN" not "NO-VEGAN". And if someone asks why I know that she's from the US... she said "for me as an american, that is rude"

I am an Australian. I was talking to an American on the phone. She was complaining know how cold the night was where she was. I told her it was a lovely day here, and it wasn't cold because it was Summertime. She refused to believe i was talking to her on a different day and in a different season. My boss tried to reason with her but she refused to believe either of us and was angry at our unprofessional attitude. Good thing we didnt tell her it was week until we celebrated a summer Christmas, it would have blown her mind 😂

A Glaswegian is person from Glasgow, Scotland. English was not hard to learn because it is a West-Germanic language like Dutch. (German also belongs to that category)

@gerriekipkerrie6736

7 күн бұрын

No i believe German and Dutch are a different branche, Frisian is in the same branche toigh

@Sakulboss123

5 күн бұрын

I would rather say german is a germanic based language, while English and french and co are latin based. Nordfriesisch is way closer to English than normal German. But it’s easier to learn danish or norwegian for example. The basis of our language coms from the ancient people, where romans where, are mora latin based languages, where teutons and skandinavian were, are more germanic based languages.

@triscelion7336

3 күн бұрын

​@@Sakulboss123 English is a germanic language because of the verbs and the verb structure, nouns have very little impact.

@matsudoambition2509

2 күн бұрын

@@gerriekipkerrie6736 German, English and Dutch are the 3 westgermanic languages though, for north you got the skandinavic languages (danish, swedish, norwegian), south was never fully defined, east was mainly gothic which died out.

@matsudoambition2509

2 күн бұрын

@@Sakulboss123 English is germanic language, albeit in the middle ages there was a certain event that brought a lot of french influx (Norman invasion, William the conqueror), later adjustments and simplifications (mostly for colonial reasons) lead to the modern extreme simplified english

This knife and fork thing always gets me because it comes up frequently. Because the fork was invented somehwere around the 4 th century AD, by Eastern Roman Empire of Byzantium. The knife somewhere at prehistoric times. America was born September 9, 1776 which is a few years to late to claim the fork and knife as something only American uses =)

@williamgeardener2509

2 күн бұрын

Americans won't let historic facts never defeat their patriotism. They invented the knife and fork, flags, swimming, hunting and building houses. Europe didn't start building houses until Americans show them how.

@uniquename111

2 күн бұрын

@@williamgeardener2509 You are trolling right? I mean either it is trolling or you are unedjucated consider America only exsisted since July 4, 1776. But ok i will humor you and give you a history lession. So lets look at America before it was America, you know when America stole the land from the Native Americans. Then the very first building made in America and still standing is Taos Pueblo which was located in New Mexico and built between 1000 and 1450 AD. Meanwhile the first building in Europe is Göbekli Tepe in Turkey which was built 9000 BC. If we look at home then the oldest in the world that have been found was in Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania and is 1.8 milion years ago In Europe it is Star Carr House which is near near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom and was built 8500 years BC. In my own country Sweden a small wooden house was built 1200. Americas first wooden house was built at 1642 by Swedish imigrants. Oooh the irony. As for forks, well sorry but China was first with that, then followed by the romans. And the knife, well sorry to tell you it was invented in the stoneage. First flag is Dannish from 1219 And i mean claiming hunting to be something America invented is just funny. Human being could never have surived if they did not hunt. So hunting is something that allways exsisted. In Scandinavia for example we hunted when the Ice sheet vannished which was 10.000 years ago. I don't even have a clue how you even figured that one out to belong to America. I am sure this is just a troll, but if so, very poorly troll.

@williamgeardener2509

2 күн бұрын

@@uniquename111 Sarcasm isn't your forte, is it?

@asaris_

Күн бұрын

@@uniquename111 And they're not even doing it right! Who cuts up the meat, then puts the knife away to hunch over the table, one hand underneath and shovels the food into their gobhole with one hand?

I got into an argument with a girl one time because she was offended that in Disneyland PARIS people speak in French first then English, then others language such as Spanish, German, Chinese and other which, apparently, is a proof that French people are arrogant because Disneyland park should only speak English even in a non-anglophone country and not other languages especially not the one of the country it reside in…😑 She also accuse it to favorise some European language over other because for her exemple: « there wasn’t an Austria traduction…» Ah yes and apparently it was very wrong to make a Chinese traduction because Chinese people aren’t allowed to go to Disneyland. That when I stopped trying…

How difficult it is for someone to learn english always depends on how close one's mother tongue is to english. For example germans and dutch people (germanic languages) will have an easier time learning english than french or italian people (romance languages) (generally speaking)

@alexandergutfeldt1144

10 күн бұрын

If that was true then native English speakers should find learning Dutch and German easy. My life experience tells me otherwise.

@PelycheeaceRA

7 күн бұрын

​@@alexandergutfeldt1144"easier". Not necessarily "easy".

@side2478

6 күн бұрын

⁠@@alexandergutfeldt1144you could call english a dumbed down version of German, e.g. Der, Die, Das and all the other words German has for this use become the in english. Also a lot of words are very similar with a few letters changed.

@alexandergutfeldt1144

6 күн бұрын

@@side2478 I would call English simplified, not dumbed down .. until you try writing something! Then problems arise .. I have no clue why spelling isn't reformed to something that resembles the spoken word. I have a suspicion, it revolves around 'elitism'!

@side2478

6 күн бұрын

@@alexandergutfeldt1144 simplified is definitly the better word. Regarding a reforming of a language, it’s hard to do that since there will always will be a lot of Protest from People e.g. „Gendern“ (German) where a Lot of People are against changing the language to have a generic genderless Term for Everything (Lehrer = Male Teacher, Lehrerin = Female Teacher) but this is a another topic

I was working at a Shop and i had my 6 month old, blue frenchie puppy with me. An american dude walks in and we started talking. He kept on saying, i should use my dog to breed and how much money i could make etc. I told him multiple times, that she is from an animal shelter and the rescue contract states it is forbidden to breed rescue dogs. Adding to the fact that a pregnancy would be way to dangerous for her. He was confused, when i told him, that the value she adds to my life isnt bound to how much Profit i can make with her, but rather the enjoyment i get from making this creature happy. He looked at me like i was crazy. "Not everything exists to serve and benefit you, so you can make more money, isnt it sad, that a life has no value to you except for Profit?" He agreed. "Yeah, I guess europeans havent lost their humanity like us"... i am still shocked by the way He was thinking

@leec6707

5 күн бұрын

Good on you. I find puppy breeders abhorrent.

@murphylaw467

5 күн бұрын

@@leec6707 me too. She is from an illegal breeder and ended up in the shelter, bc the breeder got raided by the police. I could never do that to her or another animal. She is there to be happy and silly, thats all

An American told me that we couldn’t have Christmas in Australia because it’s hot..another one asked me WHAT date we celebrated christmas.

My father was asked if it was a long car ride from Germany to Virginia...

@binaway

3 күн бұрын

I guess it would be.

@yukikitsune7366

3 күн бұрын

I mean if you wait until the Bering strait freezes over and have a lot of money, gas, and your visa; I am pretty sure you could drive to Germany but I can't imagine it taking anything less than 2 weeks. If your lucky.

@markedwards3647

Күн бұрын

Yeah, and the humidity was terrible.

My husband is from the netherlands and when we visted some distant familymembers in the US... one of my cousins thought he made that up to mess with them. She thought netherland was the place from the Peter Pan movie 🤦‍♀

@weejackrussell

Сағат бұрын

Never! Never!!!!!

The question about why the cafeteria workers in Norway were white reminded me of a question my kids asked me. I’m an American from the Pacific Northwest who had been living on the east coast. When I took my two boys and moved back to the Pacific Northwest after my divorce, they were enrolled in the local public schools near our new home. One day they asked me why all the cafeteria ladies were white. Very few black people live in Oregon, especially in small towns. On the east coast, lower paying jobs are often filled with black people, not so much in the northwest, where low-paying jobs are filled by poor white people.

As a receptionist at a Heathrow Hotell I had a tall, impressive man come to the desk to check in. I asked him what Nationality he was for the necessary form and he gave the name of a Native American Tribe for me to write down and handed me his passport. He was, of course, American. I understood his pride, but gently had to explain to him that his 'Nationality' was American - as written on his passport.

I am from switzerland and speak german as my mother tongue but i would say yes englisch is kinda easy to learn, especially cause its the language of the internet and you hear it so often that you get used to it very easily. But if you only have the english they teach us at school (for 7 years if you dont go to higher schools) then i have seen classmates strugle to speak english. Therefore the language is easier then some others but not to the fact that you learn it instantly.

@maireweber

19 күн бұрын

Agreed. English grammar is pretty simple compared to French or German and the vocabulary is mostly a mix of German or French/Latin roots, that makes it easy for most Europeans.

I used to work at an airport tax-free shop. More than once I got asked why we don't have dollars for change, they complained that why we only have euros even though they could pay with dollars. Had to explain that the currency in here is euro, we accept couple other currencies but if you wish to pay by certain currency, your change will be euros no matter what. Don't know if they understood because they continued complaining about that..

I was attending an American highschool as a German exchange student. In Spanish class we were shown a short documentary giving an introductory overview over different Latin American countries. When the movie briefly mentioned an old German settlement in the middle of the Brazilian jungle one of my classmates turned around and asked if that's where I was from. I was also asked "So do you guys have like a king or is it a democracy or something?", which I sort of appreciated since it showed a lack of basic world knowledge somewhat made up for by what sounded like a genuine interest in another place.

Im german. I was asked If the concentration camps are still guarded by the military or if it was privatised. (This was in 1996)

@BergenDev

14 күн бұрын

Most of the camps was in Poland as well.

@defender4004

3 күн бұрын

⁠@@BergenDevI wouldn’t say „most of them“. The first one was in Dachau, Bavaria. There were KZ‘s all over Germany but there were also the ones in Austria and the Netherlands. And some of the KZ‘s which are now in Poland were in Germany at the time.

A US Soldier at the Airbase i worked at 1990 try tell me Henry Ford build the First Car in the World. When i told him it was Benz he reply me Mercedes Benz is a Trademark for good Cars imported to US from Asia. I answer Mercedes was the Daughter of Carl Benz and he named the Company after her he ask me why i try to tell him Storys , he is not stupid like the Europeans.

@faithlesshound5621

2 күн бұрын

You're both wrong. The first petrol-driven motor car was made in Vienna by Siegfried Marcus. Dr Goebbels instructed German encyclopedia publishers in 1940 to change that to Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz

As a 15 year old, I visited Kentucky in the sixties as part of a Scotland/US exchange programme. Some of the questions I was asked were absolutely weird! Did we have washing machines/televisions? Was it difficult to learn to ride on a sheep? (Yes, really!!!!!!!!). Why did they understand me better than the other students? Umm, well, actually, I'm English (teehee, got my own back on the Scots for their teasing!). The young brother of my exchange hostess was absolutely captivated by the fact that we 'have kings and queens and things!'.....etc

I once commented on a video about cats and pet care. The comment was about cats and cat owners, and someone with the American flag as the profile pic replied to my comment saying: "Let me guess: you're an immigrant?" I am Romanian, living in Romania.

On a flight from New York to London circa 1970 in a Pan Am Boeing 747. I was seated next to an elderly American lady. As we approached Heathrow Airport from the west at about 3000 feet the captain used to intercon to tell passengers in the right hand seats to look outside as they would get a beautiful view of Windsor Castle. The lady said, seriously, Fool place to build a castle, right under the airport's flight path. No I did not try to enlighten her.

Talking to an American girl who, on learning I was from England, complimented me on how well I spoke English. She than asked me what language we spoke in England.

@vietcuongnguyenle8530

2 күн бұрын

That amazing when american not even know where their language come from 🤣 They think they invent english 😂

@asaris_

Күн бұрын

@@vietcuongnguyenle8530 Too many of them don't even know they're speaking "English" they think they speak "American" 💀

@vietcuongnguyenle8530

Күн бұрын

@@asaris_ i wonder how it make sense to them when a 300 year old country can have their own language when global connection already exist The last time a new language was invented in earth could be around 1000 years ago

@asaris_

Күн бұрын

@@vietcuongnguyenle8530 Don't ask me, I've given up on trying to make sense of what's going on in the minds of way too many Americans 😂

@Thurgosh_OG

Сағат бұрын

@@vietcuongnguyenle8530 Klingon isn't that old.

The most ridiculous thing I was asked when in the USA was: "Do they speak English in England?"!!!! John Logie Baird was the person who invented television, he was born in Helenburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

In a bar: "how old is your hometown?" Me: "1200 years plus" Him: "nah there are no such old towns" Me thinking: damn... Rome... Egypt...

@asaris_

Күн бұрын

@@manteqillamaster3156 Haha, yeah, I once told an American online about the time my school had its 715th anniversary. He kept insisting there was a typo and it was either 15 or 75. No, no, that wasn't a typo, and that's most likely not even the actual correct anniversary, that's merely the oldest document they found that mentioned it. 😂 That is so incomprehensible to them.

@TimStamper89

17 сағат бұрын

My future sister in law (yank) was suprised that it wasn't a big deal we had a church built about a year or so after their civil war. I had to explain it wasn't even the oldest church in walking distance.

@asaris_

16 сағат бұрын

@@TimStamper89 Their perception of these kinds of things is so cooked... 😂 I live in one of those quaint medieval tourist towns in Germany. The only fun thing about going to town during tourist season is watching their brains implode when they start to comprehend that every single house in the old town is about a millennium old and that they're happily standing there despite of being (partially) flooded every couple of years... For about a millennium straight... "But, but... HOW?!?" "They're made from rocks, you know, they don't dissolve easily when they get wet".

If a black man in USA is African-American what is Elon Musk?

@jonathanBeattie

Күн бұрын

Africanus American

Weirdly enough, I have not come across many citziens of North America to have offline experinces, but I kinda lost faith in humanitiy as I read about an North American teacher who was like "I'm only talking and teaching in Spanish (now) because I do NOT WANT to SPEAK in the "COLONIZERS LANGUAGE!" I mean "ouch"? the very least.

@MakotoAtava

5 күн бұрын

That hurts really hard.

@Thurgosh_OG

Сағат бұрын

So they are completely ignorant of Spain's 'colonizer' days then? Because the Spanish (and the Portuguese) were there quite a few years before the Brits were.

@weejackrussell

Сағат бұрын

English is the language of other colonisers of America. She was speaking a coloniser's language! Didn't she realise that America was ruled by British colonisers?!

English, linguistically speaking, is pretty simple and not very complicated. It does not have gendered nouns, declension nor a lot of suffixes and prefixes to learn. It is so much easier for an user of any slavic or romance language to learn english than vice versa.

@b.f.2461

4 күн бұрын

In the other hand, because it is a mix of a lot of language families, we have a LOT of irregular verbs and plurals. So it’s very much a “practice” language not a “learn these rules and they apply to everything” language to learn.

@pingwin4079

3 күн бұрын

@@b.f.2461 true, but english irregularity (e.g forget-forgot-forgotten) still applies to three forms of a verb. In slavic languages, verbs have a shitton of forms, as they are also gendered, and have even more forms when we decide the perferct or imperfect aspect of it.

@Nataruma

3 күн бұрын

@@b.f.2461 Reading books helps a LOT with building someone's familiarity with the quirks of English, but I found it easier to get into reading it than my own native language because of the straightforwardness of non-gendered nouns and participles.

@hrma6313

2 күн бұрын

And what about cases : Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Vocative, Locative and Instrumental ? Luckily no Gerundive.

Once there was this American maga woman in a chat who didn't believe I was Dutch, because my English was too good. She believed I was a 'liberal infiltrator' pretending to be Dutch. 🤣

not personal, but happened to a friend of mine (from finland) - american: didn't know they sold olive oil in your area. really thought it was a exclusive southern thing. 😭

I’m Swedish, born -75. I learned English in 4th grade, French in 7th grade, Spanish in 10th grade and German as an adult. English was the easiest because it’s all around us through television, movies and music but the others weren’t that difficult either. For me, as long as it’s the same alphabet as in Swedish, I learn pretty fast. I haven’t tried, but I would expect it to be more challenging trying to learn Russian, Polish, Arabic or Chinese for example.

We had an American exchange teacher (they toured the UK in groups) who, in our first geography lesson, wanted to play a game where we introduce ourselves and he will guess where we are from. He thought I was Jamaican. I am German, who was living with his Scottish dad at the time.

@12:35 To be fair, "Germany" IS a tiny, tiny town in Canada. Somewhere in the province of New Brunswick, which funnily enough is "Neu Braunschweig" in German. 😅

@faithlesshound5621

2 күн бұрын

Yes, and London is in Ontario and Paris is in Texas.

German here, when i were in New York, I met a nice group of people my age and later that evening we had dinner, they asked me how I escaped communism and how it feels to finally be in a free country

@TimStamper89

17 сағат бұрын

I mean tbf half of it was communist.....35 years ago.

@PaperWedge

15 сағат бұрын

Boah

@davidnau2626

13 сағат бұрын

​@@PaperWedgeYeah exactly my reaction

Worked in retail in late teens and had an American customer ask for an item using the American word for it (like how they call a pavement a side walk or the motorway would be the highway) I knew the word and was trying to remember what it was we called it. So I repeated the word back to myself. She three a hissy fit and asked of no one spoke English in our store. In London. England. Finally remembered what it was explained we didn't call it that and did have the item but I was neither going to tell her the name for it, I wouldn't tell my colleagues and I wasn't getting it and walked off. My team leader was laughing his head off.

I have been to Florida and California. One woman in Florida asked me where my buddy and i were from as we spoke so strange to each other. I told her that we were from Germany so we speak german. After explaining to her how we got there (airplane) and denying that Hitler was still alive and reigning Germany which is really true, she admitted that all these 3rd world countries like Germany simply doesn't interest her.

@weejackrussell

Сағат бұрын

Third world! She obviously didn't know anything about economics, world trade or Germany companies' position on the stock market.

Fun fact about Caucasians. I know it is used to refer to white people of European decent, but that is not really true. The Caucasus region is the mountainous border between Europe and Westerns Asia. Its includes the following countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia. Most people who you think are Caucasian would stick out immensely in the actual Caucasus 😂

@faithlesshound5621

2 күн бұрын

Plus on the streets of Moscow actual Caucasians get called black.

Well, i do have a funny story for you. I am from SE Europe and in general Europe people are known to dress up well, especially south. 😁 So i went to Denver last April and to Walmart for the first time ever and me and my family were dressed up upper smart classy. As i waited with my mom for my brother to get an Uber for us, a lady approached me and asked if we are from FBI. I just laughed and went away. 😂😂😂😂

In London, I was once asked if they would see elephants and lions at Piccadilly Circus...

I'm Swedish and when I was in Florida the first time as a 15 year old some older woman asked me if we have polar bears walking the streets and if I'm scared walking to school. Another one couldn't comprehend how I could understand how to use computers because America invented computers 😂

@simenkolas9373

12 күн бұрын

I think all nordic countires get that dam question. Norway, denmark, finland.

@Quzga

12 күн бұрын

@@simenkolas9373 haha yes most likely! They all think it's frozen over but I live outside Gothenburg. All we got is rain and moose

If we have iPhones in Germany. *I was holding one.

To the language learning question at around 11:00: Multilunguistic here. Grew up with at least 3 languages, from different linguistic roots. Answer: it kinda depends. If your native language is related to English (anything indo-germanic) it's just relatively (relative; as in "compared to something else) easy to learn. Heck, it's a German based language, and my almost first native language IS German, so English is a breeze. Also English in linguistic terms is rather "simplistic" - there are much harder languages to learn. But of course not "in a day" XD Knowing people from different lingusitic roots, they tend to struggle a lot more. But then you also have something like individual talent, effort and exposure etc.

Loved this video - by an intelligent American, too! 😄 I visited the Northwest of USA (from Australia) some years ago and, to be honest, I expected some silly conversations, at least things like "You have a cute accent, say something else." The Americans I spoke with were almost all well-informed, and I felt they were just like neighbours. Whenever I began explaining where I lived, they usually knew because they had been there, or knew someone who had relatives there. But on day 1, my son and I went into a burger place. The young guy serving was very friendly. He asked where we were from, and of course we said Australia. "I'd love to see Australia," he said, "especially New Zealand." To be fair, he got the hemisphere right, and he meant well. So I just said, "Yes, they're good neighbours, a bit like the Canadians to you. And we also tease each other about sheep."

Back in '94 I was working at a gas station here in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. I had an American from California with a bunch of skis on the top of his car drive up and ask me where all the snow was. He had driven up here to do some skiing and was confused why there wasn't any snow anywhere....in August. In the middle of Summer. I told him if he wanted snow that he would have to drive all the way West to the Rocky Mountains and climb up to the top of one of the mountains and hope he got lucky. ROFL

Lions on vegan diet: Lions are Happy to eat Every entitled vegan they can have their teeth on.

I'm Australian, and ive had people ask if we have electricity and another ask if we have to hunt to eat still. And the amount of people who have asked if dingo's hunt kids regularly, is frankly, ridiculous. So many more, but these ones stand out.

@peterpain6625

3 күн бұрын

I've a good friend that refused to have a stopover in Australia when flying to NZ because of "deadly spiders everywhere" ;)

@wingerwc

Күн бұрын

Had an american ask me if there are sharks everywhere, and they then thought that queensland was a city 💀

As a teen, I worked in a service-station in Toronto, Ontario Canada. One hot July day, a car from the U.S. pulled in. It had skis on its roof-rack. The driver asked how he could find the nearest ski-resort. It was 90 degrees F. BTW: We don't live in tents in the summer and igloos in the winter.

@weejackrussell

Сағат бұрын

I wonder if they would have asked the same question in Alaska?

9:05 VERY IMPORTANT NOTE Red is Red in almost every country. you arent allowed to make a turn. in some countries (germany for example) exist specific signs on a small amount of crossings which indicates if you are allowed to take a turn on red

@silkebower1977

2 күн бұрын

There is a green light with a green arrow underneath the red light on some junctions in Germany indicating that you are allowed to turn right even though the light shows red.

I'm latina, and not only europeans, but also the majority of latinos who were born and raised in our countries. People of different ethnicities who live and were born and grew up in these countries, we will not say that we are of that ethnicity or latino, we will say the nationality.

im from amsterdam and on a trip to the us i was in a hotelbar in boston on my own. the bartender asked me where i was from and i said Amsterdam and he asked me how it is to work in the red light district. when i asked him if he assumed i was a prostitute because i life in amsterdam he didnt know how to answer. needles to say i immediately left the bar.

I live in the university city of Cambridge UK. A few years ago whilst in the city centre i heard two American tourists talking, one said to the other that Cambridge UK was obviously modelled on Cambridge MA. Fell about laughing as did others who overheard their somewhat loud conversation, our oldest college Peterhouse was founded in 1284. One person witnessing this strange assumption asked a local woman why Americans feel the need to be so loud and without batting an eyelid she replied. So as to be heard above their children's gunfire which cracked me up.

I once visited a american Highshool and a few dudes were like: oh you from germany? Heil…! With the Hand like wtf…

@lynnm6413

18 күн бұрын

Same…4 days in school, ….got suspended for 2 weeks because I answered that salute with a hook to the stomach and laid the football captain out cold. I‘m 5‘3, female 😅

@Samuel-zl4jz

11 күн бұрын

@@lynnm6413 why did you do that

@lynnm6413

11 күн бұрын

@@Samuel-zl4jz because n Germany it is a jailable offense, police would have been called, and he‘d have gotten into big trouble. It is no joking matter for us!

@Samuel-zl4jz

10 күн бұрын

@@lynnm6413 Trotzdem nicht schlimm degga lass ihn halt

@lynnm6413

10 күн бұрын

@@Samuel-zl4jz was heißt denn ‚lass ihn halt?! Digga, wenn die Amis schon nix in der Schule lernen, müssen wir sie nicht in absoluter Ignoranz sterben lassen…! Boa eh

German here. I was telling an american that I prefer tea to coffee when she asked me if I would first put milk in the cup or tea. Because obviously, when you pour the tea first, a chemical reaction takes place and you get cancer. When I told her, it doesn't make any difference, because no matter how you get milk in the tea, there is no chemical reaction, she answered: "Well, chemistry works differently in US than in Europe."

@margi9103

Күн бұрын

Adding milk before the tea or adding it after the tea originally came down to your social status in the 1700 and 1800s. If you could pour your tea into the cup and then add milk you had a high social standing as you could afford the best porcelain from China. If you put the milk in first, you didn’t have good porcelain as the milk was added first to stop the porcelain cup from cracking from the hot tea..

@TheQuendel

Күн бұрын

@@margi9103 Thanks for this fun fact.

I'm American, but was in Jalisco, Mexico when this guy from Wyoming heard my group speaking English & came over to complain that all of the resort staff spoke Mexican and he couldn't understand anyone so he was transferring to another resort where they spoke American. He wasn't happy when we reminded him that he was IN MEXICO, so big surprise that everyone spoke Spanish, and that several members of the staff spoke English very well, but that he'd been acting like such a dick that it was no shock to us that nobody would speak it to him.

Lions on a vegan diet? I'm still laughing! 😂😂😂

I am from Austria and one time a very good online friend came over to visit our pretty country. We also made a trip to Salzburg and Gmunden. After that trip he said, he liked it very much but was dissapointed, that he didnt even saw one purple cow, just "the normal ones". He thought, that our cows are purple because the cows in Milka Schokolade commercials and on the package are always purple I had a very good laugh at that one. :D :D

I come from a major tourist destination in Europe and moved to a big tourist destination in asia and in my experience traveling americans here are much more relaxed and interested in a foreign culture. Maybe because it’s so far away and you only come here when you’re really interested in exploring something new

bro if someone asked me to turn off my accent i'd just do the same thing you did, but i would add: "would... you... like... to: a. continue... this... conversation b: get... fucked" and just walk away

@Quzinqa1122

8 күн бұрын

I would have said: "I will turn off my accent if you turn off yours."

@Thurgosh_OG

Сағат бұрын

@@Quzinqa1122 Then you'd get the "I don't have an accent" stupidity.

@Quzinqa1122

Сағат бұрын

@@Thurgosh_OG 🤪 Probably...

Only experience i have had was with a guy US who came to our restaurant in Colombia, when he saw our menu he got really disappointed "having to settle" for a hamburger and he made sure to stress that over and over that he had to settle for something because he couldn't recognize any of the other dishes.

@weejackrussell

Сағат бұрын

I never understand why people who go abroad don't try the local cuisine.

I worked inside a national park, jasper, more than one American asked what time we let the animals out in the morning 😂

Have you seen the Two Ronnies sketch ''Four Candles''? It'll go some way to realizing how difficult English is to learn.

@Thurgosh_OG

Сағат бұрын

That's 'Comedy Englis'h being used there, not quite the real thing but also the real thing.

I am german and was asked 1996 at my holiday in america if we have refrigerators in Germany 😂😂😂

@Luffey1232

13 күн бұрын

Refrigerators were invented in germany if i remember right 😅😂

@karstenbursak8083

8 күн бұрын

@@Luffey1232you could blow up American brains just by mentioning the stuff that was not invented in the states … oh and don’t forget to mention that Germans put a man on the moon and had America pay for it 😂

@Thurgosh_OG

Сағат бұрын

@@karstenbursak8083 But the yanks couldn't have done it without all the British help either. They had Brits running the Moon program and British engineers perfecting the craft, from the German research. So an Anglo-Deutschl space effort, funded by Yanks.

I work for a global company with about 50.000 employees and a middle management manager asked in a global video call if „you guys overseas have 4th Jul as a holiday too“.

@Thurgosh_OG

Сағат бұрын

The majority of US Americans don't even get that day off, so why do they even consider it a holiday?

hello, about the haggis bit (leaving the embarrassing moment aside), haggis is a known food of scotland, and is more of a hard i sound, not an ee sound. :) also, there is no turning on a red light, it just means stop, and a glaswegian is a person from glasgow.

@zymelin21

15 күн бұрын

haggis has a german cousin from the Rhineland, it is called Saumagen = sows belly

@Thurgosh_OG

Сағат бұрын

@@zymelin21 Scotsman here. Thank you. I didn't know about Saumagen.

North America includes Canada and Mexico.

@tommusikauswahl1066

9 күн бұрын

Canada is something like the sophisticated us, while mechicoo is the poor sibling that knows how to party.

@fedodosto3162

2 күн бұрын

Canadian here, Canadians would never say theyr are Americans for fear of being mistaken for US citizens.

@fedodosto3162

2 күн бұрын

@@tommusikauswahl1066 Québec (Canada) also knows how to party. All summer long outdoor festivals in Montréal and great winter carnavals.

My Dad married another woman at some point, and she could not cook. She cooked a turkey for Thanksgiving once and had the stuffing in a bowl. We always made our stuffing with rice at home and stuffed the turkey with it and I wrongly assumed every American would do this, but apparently she did not even know that stuffing is called stuffing because it goes in the turkey before cooking. When I told her that the stuffing belongs in the turkey, she said nothing and gave me a weird look.....lol🤣

@eileencritchley4630

15 күн бұрын

Yes it does unless you are a vegetarian then of course there would be no Turkey, Chicken, etc etc

Met a fellow motorcycle rider at a gas station. He was from Seattle and exclaimed we were crazy in Canada because he was having a hard time holding the speed limit especially in corners. So I taught him the metric system, and my hat was off for him, he never got a speeding ticket, well done.

12:10 I would have paid REAL money if the Storekeeper broke out their Cherokee 😂

I like to compare english to chess.. easy to learn hard to master. (Im swiss and work as a german teacher)

@jang3412

15 күн бұрын

Nicely put!

Well, a friend of mine told me, that an American ask him (just a couple of years ago!) if Hitler was still the German leader and if we have enough food for everyone in Germany....

American tourists overheard on Princes Street ,Edinburgh looking up at the 1200 year-old Castle..." It's a pity they built it so far from the railway station".....

@Thurgosh_OG

Сағат бұрын

Wasn't it, 'so near to the railway station'?

After traveling to USA from AUS in February (to snow ski), as a single skier I got onto a triple chair with two older American ladies. As part of the repartee I mentioned that it was over 100F when I left AUS the day before. One of them asked me "Oh, is it still February in AUS?". I was so stunned that I had no answer to that, but if I had been quick enough I should have answered "No it's August".

I would have said to the guy with the cutlery: "Yes, and on the contrary to others, we use it too!"

@Thurgosh_OG

Сағат бұрын

Only we use cutlery correctly, not the 'American' way.

In Germany you can't turn right on a red light. Only with a special Zusatzschild. Guess it's the same in the UK (just mirrored). Estonian looks and sounds similar to Finnish and if the grammar and amount of words is anywhere near similar, it's pretty hard, as Finnish is reeeallly difficult to learn. English is quite easy, you can get by with a few hundreds of words.

@TheMAmeph

18 күн бұрын

Yes, if I remember correctly they belong to the same family of languages. Finnish is one of the most difficult languages to learn - if there was a way to measure that objectively without the language-student's prior knowledge of other languages naturally interfering somehow.

I was born and raised in Iceland. I used to work in this grocery store in central Reykjavik (the capital city of Iceland), so we got a lot of tourists come in on day-to-day basis. One day this middle-aged American lady with a mildly thick southern accent came to pay for her items. As I was scanning she looked at me with stunned look and said; "I just have to say, I had no idea, I though y'all lived in igloos! I haven't seen any polar bears or penguins yet!" I don't know who was more shocked, her or me. I honestly didn't know what to say so I just said; "Nope, we clearly live in normal, modern day houses." Still the weirdest thing a tourist has said to me, by far.

Mum leans out the windows of my cab and says, "look George, that looks like the full moon we have back home" yeah right.

Eine Freundin wurde gefragt, ob wir in Deutschland Telefone haben und wie es ist unter russischer Besatzung zu leben…es war 2009. 😂

@peterpain6625

3 күн бұрын

Been to LA in back '99 and was explained what a fridge is and how a microwave works. When she continued and tried to explain the red and blue handles/taps and running water i almost lost it ;)

@LuluTheCorgi

2 күн бұрын

Lag doch Garnicht so falsch so abhängig wie wir von Russland waren/sind

@peterpain6625

2 күн бұрын

@@LuluTheCorgi Also das musst Du mir Erklären wie Du da jez gedanklich hingekommen bist? Oder brauch ich vielleicht ne Lobotomie um das zu Verstehen?

@tobyk.4911

2 күн бұрын

@@peterpain6625 nein, es ist sicherlich nicht so schwierig zu verstehen wie jemand gedanklich von "unter russischer Besatzung leben" zu "von Russland abhängig sein" kommt.

about the languages. there's multiple facets to it. First it depends on whether your mother tongue is of Germanic descent or of Latin descent or Slavic, etc... and whether the language you want to learn is of the same language family. For example. English, dutch and German belong to the Germanic languages, which means they're similar in grammar structure so it makes it easier to learn. If they're not from the same family, it's harder but not impossible. It all starts with learning the grammar or rules of how a language is constructed. Secondly it also depends on how much time you're willing to dedicate to it and when you started. It's been proven that between the ages of 0 and 12 learning a new language is a lot easier than after it. If you emerge yourself in a language, its going to get easier especially learning the vocabulary and subconsciously grammar structure than just spending 2 hours a week in a class room. A language has to be kept alive in order for you to fully retain it but there are also people who are language inclined and have spend years trying to learn but cannot retain it. You also have to look at it this way. You aren't going to get fluent in a language in 2 years. It took you to your age to get to the level of your mothertongue. Itll take at least the same amount of time to get to the level of the language you want to learn. I can only speak from experience about that but i started learning English at around 9 years old and i'm now 40. I spent hours a day with this language, whether it was through music, reading, tv or just plain conversation. I consider myself at a native level speaker but i also realise that i still make mistakes and i haven't mastered it and itll take a lifetime, if not more to actually get to that point. I'm still learning every single day. It's also around the time i was taught french in school and since i wasn't around the language outside of school, i didnt learn as much as english. Dont get me wrong, i can understand a whole lot of french, i can explain myself but if i have to choose between french and english. I'll always pick english because i'm more confident in my ability to speak english than to speak french. French is harder for me, i still need to stop and think of words, while i can switch between english and dutch at the blink of an eye.

@wendyryder2708

17 сағат бұрын

There’s nothing wrong with your English! The amount of people in the comments that mix up to and too, also of and off! To be fair some of these could have English as a second language, however not all! You’re doing well!

Many years ago, my husband and I plus our 5year old son,were staying at a hotel in London. Sitting at table not far from us , was an American couple. He took of his glasses, held them out and said I use these for hunting .My response was really. My son just looked at me in astonishment, and said mummy the look on your face said it all.

I one got asked how people in europe keep their food fresh, because in america they have fridges