Finally Opening Up About my First Year in Germany as an Immigrant 😨
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Do you want to know the truth about my first year in Germany?
The struggles and the adventures?
People say a lot of things about “first years” and “first experiences”. Some have it easier than others and some go through hell and back again to make things work. For me, it was a little different.
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I can't help asking myself how you understand the difference between expats and immigrants.
For myself, when I was working in Hamburg, expats were CEOs, and upper-middle management types, who came with their families to stay for 2-3 years, or four at most, e.g. from Norway or France.
or in other words: image movies are not reality. I would wish Baden-Württemberg people would be more often so open minded and amusing like in this video, often they are the opposite of that.
@@mattesrocket That is what I thought as well - until I started really thinking about the friends I made the last 60 years in Ba-Wü.
One local (actually still owning a Turkish passport) I met the other day on the street after he had managed to arrange Islam-courses at the Gymnasium his sons visit (he is a member or the Elternbeirat) worked with me ten years ago. We started talking about the twenty years we worked together and he mentioned his visits to the Arab countries. He only spoke English there and made them think he did not understand any Arab (Actually he is fluent in it since his childhood in Germany). He raised his children trilingual, they started with Turkish (his wife) and Arabian (him) and added German in Kindergarten (he is fluent without any accent).
Combinations like this are rather common these days. At the last kindergarten party there suddenly existed a table with everybody speaking Russian. One person had said a sentence to his spouse in Russian and suddenly several families (well, just the parents to be precise) switched to the language they had grown up with. They only then norticed that others had been growing up the same way. And I learned something new about the friends of my daughter, that I always had assumed to be locals.
Actually these days we have quite a mix of people here in Baden-Württemberg and often you can not tell where they are from. Most of them integrate perfectly as far as behavior and language is concerned.
Last week there was trouble with the Strassenbahn in our village/Dorf and the communication through the loudspeaker was hard to understand. So I decided to be polite and repeat it in English to some Asian guests (travelling with suitcase). Then the girl (about 20-25) admonished me (in German!) that I should talk German with them.
That was the moment I decided that in the future in Germany I would only address people in English and then continue in German until asked to do different.
@@wora1111 wow
@@jmolofsson Well, an expat is an immigrant that does not know yet, he is going to stay.
Seriously though, the difference is the status. An immigrant is actively trying to get a German passport and live here indefinitely. After the last changes of European laws that automatically includes all people from European countries or Switzerland.
This was very interesting, Jenna, thanks for sharing. I am so glad you had that dreamy start, and got to fall in love with Germany before the Alltag and bureaucracy got hold of you, as well as the personal difficulties. Also, my first jobs in Germany were in Freiburg and Düsseldorf- I literally travelled on the train between them Friday Düsseldorf, Saturday Freiburg!
You are a lovely person, sending a virtual hug 🤗
Hi Lauren in Germany ^^
@@aka99 hi!
Interesting video and there's a lot I can relate to. I first moved to Germany in the early 2000s to teach English on a two-year contract. I was quite lucky that my employer sorted a lot of things out for me and provided accommodation. This meant that I didn't have to go through the rigamarole of finding a flat, furnishing it, etc. I was also in a bit of an expat/English-speaking bubble, so it did come as a slight shock to the system when I moved to D'dorf and had to step outside that. Overall, though, it's one of the best moves I've made. I daresay your husband could have got a good job in England as a dentist. For me, though, the UK cost of living has just become too high. I've found that Germany offers a lot more in terms of prospects and quality of life. Kudos to you for going down the self-employment route, though, as that can be very difficult and expensive.
Another great video, thanks for sharing , I have been living here now for 5 months and your videos have really helped me. Thank you so much.
Hello Jenna
You are one of the sweetest person i have ever seen, i absolutely love your channel and appreciate your meaning, because you really into the things that you like to talk about with a lot of research. And even if i don't agree with everything i have so much respect of your work.
Interesting to hear about this very specific topic of your experience and life with different culture, different language,far away of your home and so much to learn.
Freiburg is wonderful, a very nice place, but they need to build new houses as well as lot of other places in Germany.
I wish you a nice weekend, maybe with some snow ❄️
Thanks much! Deine Aussprache ist übrigens beeindruckend und erfrischend ... insbesondere auch, weil da ansonsten schon einige Metzger unterwegs sind. Auch wahr, jeder von uns hätte natürlich mit den allermeisten Sprachen auch so seine Probleme.
Bottom line: Great job, much appreciated!
My opinion: think twice, if you move to Baden-Württemberg/Länd, there are some downsides depending where in Baden-Württemberg you would end
Nice to welcome you in "The Länd". I love Canada - just because you invented ice hockey. ♥ (There are more reasons, but I love hockey! *_*)
Hey Jenna, interesting, I didn't know about your Freiburg experience. I spent my first 15 years Germany in the Düsseldorf area. You missed the time when steel was still being produced in the Ruhr valley and the air quality was really bad. When I left they were just starting construction on the Rheinpromenade in Düsseldorf and it has become a much nicer place to live now. For the last 25 years I have been living in the Karlsruhe area and have family living in Freiburg and in Berlin. To be honest, I do prefer this part of Germany, but I think that most areas of Germany have their own particular attractions. For expats wanting to come to Germany, I would suggest looking for a smaller, self-governed munipality near a larger city to start out in. The bureaucracies there generally are not as overwelmed as in the larger cities and they tend to be very helpful to expats.
You have to look " Ländle" a PR Produktion for Baden-Württemberg. I laught so much. Best entertainment
to catch foreign employers. Hu, i wrote it, you say IT😩 Cause Nalf was so proud about this genial vlogs
I’ll be in Düsseldorf in 3 weeks to interview for a job! Woot!
Ahhh how exciting! Best of luck with the interview! 🤩 Let me know if you get it!
My halfbrother owns a restaurant in the lighttower in Düsseldorf.
This time you said "actually" only 29 times. Sorry, I know I am a bad guy, but I can't do anything about it 😀😇
Quite a task you've put yourself up to there, keeping statistics on Jenna's most favourite word, regarding the speed she's talking in... *again* 🤣🤣💛
God you must be bored
Me and My german wife living in Dubai and she always mention that she wants to move back, but I'm very scared of the move :(
One thing my mom always said to me was “don’t be scared, because nothing ever needs to be permanent.” It really helped ease my mind when I took the big leap… simply knowing if I didn’t like it in germany, I’d go back home to Canada and get a new job. I always thought of the “worst case scenario’s” which helped me move forward 🥰
@@lifeingermany_ that was reassuring thank you
pssttt - i'm writing all of this in lower caps, so mila won't wake up...😁💛
if those were little snippets from videos from way back when you came here, then i'm actually a little envious - eight years and you haven't changed a bit. 👍 and for saying you did everything wrong in your first year and you had to grow up fast afterwards: it would seem that somehow "you've got the curve" 😁 and made up for it pretty well 👏👏.
so, if you were trying to put yourself up as being a bad example - i'm sorry to say, but you failed miserabely (especially at the end of the video...)😁💛💛
The gap in the job marked, is more or less in all of Europe. There are a few exceptions.
7:08 My first thought let pop up "adultery". Like committing to ad... eh becoming an adult.
Ich mag dich und deine Videos echt gerne. Aber ich komme über das bis später nicht hinweg. Es müsste eigentlich bis bald heißen. Bis später heißt das man sich zeitnah eigentlich am selben Tag wieder sieht. Bis bald ist demnächst. Was es ja eher trifft. Ich weiß nicht warum aber es triggered mich jedes mal 🤣🤣🤣
Das ist eine von ihren Eigenheiten, die sie unverwechselbar und liebenswert machen - ich freue mich z.B. schon zu Beginn jedes neuen Videos auf die Verabschiedung mit dieser (neu-deutsch) catch-phrase...😁😁
Aber mal im Vertrauen und bitte nicht böse sein (das ist nicht als herbe Kritik gedacht - es hat eher humoristischen Charakter, denn so habe ich Deinen Kommentar auch verstanden): wenn man eine Nicht-Muttersprachlerin zum richtigen Gebrauch einer Redewendung anhalten möchte, sollte der Aufruf an sich schon frei von Rechtschreibe- und Kommasetzungsfehlern sein...😉💛💛
🤣🤣🤣 ich liebe deine Kommentare immer @flamedealer
@@LaurenAngela_aufDeutsch Oh, und das Wichtigste: wie geht es Dir - Corona gut überstanden?
@@flamedealership mir geht es gut! War sehr viel los in letzter Zeit, leider keine Energie für UA-cam aber das ändert sich bald! Geht es dir gut?
@@LaurenAngela_aufDeutsch Ja, danke, mir geht's auch gut. Ich kann Dir auch nur sagen, was ich hier Jenna immer wieder empfehle: nehmt euch Zeit für eure Leben und Lieben! YT ist, trotz eurer Leidenschaft dafür, nicht alles. Wenn ihr viel um die Ohren habt, macht langsam!
Ausgehend davon, welchen Content ihr produziert, habt ihr euch mit Sicherheit treue Fangemeinden erschaffen, die auch mal eine kleine Funkstille aushalten.
Und: ihr seit uns nichts schuldig. Sicher, es ist schön, informativ und unterhaltend, eure Videos zu sehen. Aber ihr habt doch alle auch ein "echtes", nicht virtuelles Leben, das letztendlich wichtiger ist, oder?
Trotzdem ist es natürlich immer schön, von euch zu hören und den Kontakt mit euch zu halten!
Well , aren't you glad you did not give up your sweetheart but more important, you did not move to LITTLE BRITAIN - FORMERLY KNOWN AS 'THE EMPIRE OF GREAT BRITAIN ' 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
My first year in the states was tough, evenso my english was already good enough because in my German hockey team we always had canadian players ( 2 foreigners the league allowed each Team here back then ).
So I had years of practicing my school english 😱 ). But making friends was despite americans being friendly , they are very, very on surface ( sehr oberflächlich ), so it took a year about to make serious friends. Stop blabbering Franco 🙄
Anywho, bet many many people are glad you stayed 👍🙋♂️
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