As a Dutchman, I see many similarities between this northern German culture and ours: the low lying land, the foods, the fish, the red brick buildings, the islands, the Wattensee (we also have a part of that, and call it "Waddenzee"), it all reminds me of The Netherlands. Also, the language (the Plattdeutsch dialects) is closer to Dutch than High German is, since it was not affected by the High German sound shifts that happened over the centuries.
Should that surprise anyone? A long shared imperial history before you West Frisians opened your own shop. Of course the culture and customs and of course the language are similar, after all the centuries of living together...
@@MichaEl-rh1kv Actually? How surprising! We Franconians (I'm one of them) were the "previous tenants" on the land where the West Frisians live today. But in the long run it was too bad for us with the weather, the constant flooding during storm surges and just too cold and windy in the long run. We then moved south, founded an empire and saved Europe from the Arabs. In other words... We had more important things to do than constantly pouring water back into the North Sea. But there are always some who don't feel like moving and from them, the Frisians, as a fellow Germanic tribe, have adopted a significant part of the language. By the way, no one said anything about Lower Saxony, right? Because there are also Frisians living on the German side of the border, namely the East Frisians...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 😆 They said it in the video: Plattdeutsch derived from Low Saxon. The Franks however started around Belgium, some (the Salian Franks) moved to the Southwest to conquer the dominion of Syagrius and Gallia, others (the Ripuarian Franks) moved the Rhine upstream, conquering the Rhine valley up to the confluence with the Main. The Salians, ruled by Merovingian kings, defeated then competing Franconian tribes and also the kingdom of the Alemans. The Ripuarians (allied with the Salians, until Chlodwig I instigated the son of King Sigibert of Cologne to kill his father after the defeat of the Alemans, then killed the patricide and took over here also) went upstream river Main and fought with the Thuringians; the Thuringian kingdom was then also conquered by Chlothar I (who had together with his brothers already conquered Burgundy; since his older brother died in this war, he married his widow and killed two of his nephews to exclude them the line of succession). Not the nicest family... In either case: Dutch (but not Frisian) is Low Franconian, the Rhenish dialect, the Hessian dialect and Palatine German are Middle or Rhine Franconian (other varieties are Lorraine Franconian and Moselle Franconian), and in northern Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria they use East Franconian dialects.
@@MichaEl-rh1kv I would think that Dutch is a mixture of Franconian and Low Saxon: the dialects of the northeastern provinces are descendants of Low Saxon, while the rest (except for the Ripuarian dialects in Limburg, and Frisian in Fryslân) descended from Franconian. There are distinguishable dialects, but they do exist in a dialect continuum.
Great reaction! :) The word "Hanse" derives from the Old High German "Hansa" which meant "group" or "fellowship". The name "Hans" on the other hand is a short form of "Johannes" ("John" in English, "Jean" in French, "Juan" in Spanish). :)
Yay, you watched it! I'm from Leer and I have been looking forward to your reactiong to this video! The north needs to be recognised more outside of Germany!
Definitely! Just was near museum island an hour ago with lots and lots of tourists and I really think they miss out so much not visiting the coast because it’s not mentioned nearly enough. Love you guys and greetings from Berlin!
I'm from North Rhine Westphalia, short NRW, and I'm glad we're so close, because I know the North a bit and it's a part of who I am. Beautiful coast, sea, islands, Dünen und Strandhafer, close to the Netherlands and ❤️❤️❤️👍
@@Kokuswolf and the other scandinavians laugh about the danish cause they are basically the caribbean of the nordic countries. and the people north of the polar circle laugh about the people south for thinking they are far up north. and so on :)
Moin! (Saying it twice means you are a chatterbox!) Other variants: Hansi, Hänsel (you know, like the fairy tale), Hänschen (not really used much, but it‘s part of a well-known chilldren‘s song). How dare she make that face when looking at the Labskaus! It‘s absolutely delicious! „Pinkel“ (the smoked sausage eaten with kale) is very much a Bremen thing. People in other places will generally laugh at the name because it more generally means „pee“.😂 You are not the first American to be surprised at Germany having so much coastline and so many islands. Take a good look at a map. While there are a lot of cities that can still claim the title of „Hanseatic City“, only 7 have the first „H“ on their car tags: HH (Hansestadt Hamburg), HB (Hansestadt Bremen), HL (Hansestadt Lübeck), HRO (Hansestadt Rostock, HWI (Hansestadt Wismar), HST (Hansestadt Stralsund), and HGW (Hansestadt Greifswald).
Lots of love from Schleswig-Holstein. 🙌 I live 3 miles away from the Baltic Sea and right now our small town is overrun by tourists. We can’t wait for autum, when the beach is „ours“ again. 😉🤣
Moin as wi seggen in Sleswig-Holstein. Wenn du Düütsland nochmals besöken wullt un darbi ok de Strand an de Düütsche Küst, denn nich to de Wintertiet, sünnern in' Sommer. Ik heff dat op Plattdüüt schreeven. Translation: Moin as we say in Schleswig-Holstein. If you want to visit Germany again and also the beaches on Germany's coasts, then not in winter, but in summer. I wrote it in Low German because it's nicer.
Translation from Low German to Standard High German: "Moin, wie wir in Schleswig-Holstein sagen. Wenn du Deutschland nochmal besuchen willst und dabei auch den Strand an der Deutschen Küste, dann nicht zur Winterzeit, sondern im Sommer. Ich habe das auf Plattdeutsch geschrieben."
Rügen (the biggest german island) is quite beautiful, a very good tourist/vacation destination. It hasa UNESCO world nature heritage national park with beautiful chalk cliffs and forests, several important cultural and architectural spots and beautiful nature in general. The baltic coast is a special environment with a unique feeling, it's hard to describe.
The dish "Lapskaus" ("lobscouse" in English) has "scouse" in it, like the people from Liverpool, where it's eaten, too, as well as in other harbour cities of the North Sea, so I guess it's a typical sailor's dish.
It comes also from a special sailors ilnes " Scorbut ", it comes from the less of Vitamin C. One of the symptom is the loss of teeth. So the chef minced al parts of the meal.
I've built boats both in Hamburg and Wolgast. The idea of living in a city makes my skin crawl BUT Hamburg is about the only one I can stand, as it's covered in trees and surrounded by water.
Great, you took a look at northern Germany. There is much more, including historical buildings and sights. Likewise food and drinks, but also nightlife. Different than Bavaria, but just as attractive :-)
interesting is that she is actually from England AND said in another video that she likes to drink tea in a typical old English way (with milk). I expected to hear from here a bit about the similarities between wiith this tradition. what I also missed a bit was a greater context about the Hanse which connected many countries - there was also a kind of 'German business district' in London for that matter. Another aspecft was that the low German (old saxony/old frisian/etc.) is also common with the Netherlands within the same region + it was also influencing the English, because that Northern region (North Germany/Netherlands/Danemark) is the origin of most angles, saxons, jutes who moved over to England and made the 'Anglo-Saxons'.
Yes, tea is very popular in north germany. But also coffee started its victory-march through germany here in the north, in Bremen. It was a dutch man (Jan Jahns van Huisten) that asked the Bremen City Council for permission to serve coffee in public - as he knew it from his home - Amsterdam, Netherlands. (it was in 1673 - 4 years later he did the same in Hamburg) So Bremen was the first german city where coffee was served in public and it became a big trading-place for coffee. In the beginning the raw coffee was sold but when they found ways to keep/protect/preserve the aroma/flavour of roasted coffee, also coffee roasting companies were founded. Some of todays biggest german coffee-companies were founded in the north of germany - such as "Jacobs" in Bremen or "Tchibo" in Hamburg...
german islands in summer are fun .... winter, not so much ... ;-), yep, way more relaxed than the main land ... dialects/slangs: our grandparents from the north wouldn't have been able to understand their bavarian mates if both wouldn't speak high german. I even had this at one moment 1987 in the army when a tank commander from Friesland wasn't able to understand what a fellow commander from Deggendorf, Bavaria would ask for on the radio ... (we were laughing so hard when this happened, almost 20 tanks on the radio) .... So the different dialects can be quite hard to get for non-natives. Usually we'll switch to high german or english when you'll be around ... ;-) .
There a lot of canals up here in East Frisia and you can go on wonderful bike tours along the canals. The East Frisia tea ceremony is something special, but now people also drink a lot of coffee here.
I am also very pleased, that for once it is shown, that Germany has access to 2 seas. The baltic and the northsea. And also, that we up north have our own language. Language --not just a dialect. Usually, if somebody thinks of Germany, all they think is Bavaria. Lederhosen and Mountains. :) oh, and you realy have to get a "Franzbrötchen" especially when it comes right out of the oven. I guess a cinnabon is the closest to it. yummy.
As usual in such very short videos, a lot is missing . Flensburg and Schleswig are beautiful and historic cities really in the very north to visit or to live in. Flensburg is a bit Danish, not far from the border, you can hearsdmuch Danish as German. Schleswig and Haithabu and the museums are highly recommended. Nydam boat, bog people, the old Viking settlement in Haithabu and the Danewerk, which is word heritage. Much more to visit than just Lübeck in Schleswig- Holstein and Hamburg has much more interesting sites. Should I mention the melancholic Nordfriesland, the Wattenmeer Nationalpark?
I don't think the British mind, really. After all, the UK isn't that far away (fun fact: Hamburg is further north than London). My parents used to live in Ostfriesland and I confirm that there's always time for tea. I love that tea and even though I live in southern Germany, I always buy some Ostfriesentee when I'm up there to take home with me (because it seems you can't really buy genuine Ostfriesentee down here).
Hey Joel, as in my DM awhile back, I'm still thinking of visiting Hamburg, Bremen, and Bremerhaven soon, researching for school. John Excellent video and reaction!!
Yay, my home province! I'm a born "Mecklenburger". We're very proud of our huge number of lakes here. I actually come from the "Seenplatte" which is the area with the most lakes and also with the biggest lake that is located completely in germany, the "Müritz". (the biggest if partially located in germany counts would be the "Bodensee" down in the south) Been there a lot and it's beautiful. I can only recommend to visit it. I think my province is so heavily underrated, just because it's not full of huge cities with city life but rather more countryside-oriented here. The city I live in is small, but very beautiful. Also i'm really sad we stopped speaking low-german here. My dad would often use words from it so at least I know a little low-german now. If I can understand it depends heavily on what type of low-german it is, how fast the person talks and how clear, like if they talk fast and/or are more mumbling i'd have a hard time understanding it. I actually use "moin" all the time, and i can safely say, do NOT ever say "Guten Moin" as what the woman explained is true, "moin" doesn't mean "morning", it's just a greating, like "Hi" or "hey". We often say that just saying "moin" to each other followed by a short nod is actually enough of a conversation. If you extend it and the conversation goes like "and? you good?" - "yeah, you?" - "me too" you would already say "god, now i got very caught up in conversation!" haha But it really is mostly just a clichè and people here are actually very talkative and very fond of smalltalk.
The weather over here is actually very nice: It's not raining unless fish cross the street, and it's not windy while sheep still have curly fur. Both aren't the case under usual weather conditions which are water from above, below, and the side.
lol, I live on a north frisian island. So funny to see she interviewed tourists about living there... sooo funny (only the car driver is local) Of course tourists have no idea what it really means to live there. Work live balance, jeeeez, work here in the high seasons, after that we talk again. Btw. here people speak high german, platt and ferring, the island frisian language here, neighbouring islands have other types of north frisian. It's not a dialect, it's an accepted minority language strongly influenced by vikings. Tourists think it's danish :) And never say moin moin here... you're the loonliest guy on the island than.
Always counter clockwise as want to stop time, if only if she knew if the southern hemisphere was faster doing sun dials and clocks then the hands on the clock be going the other way around as the sun dial for them the shadow goes what we call counter clockwise
Moin moin. I lived on the German-Danish border, on the Flensburg Fjord for a while and loved it. Super-chill place and the fish, lecker. Look out for place names that end -by in Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark (Husby, Sønderby, Osterby, Overby), then look for the same ending in English place names (Rugby, Grimsby, Derby, Oadby, etc) - guess where the Danes settled in England.
To reminisce on, and/or learn about what you missed on your express visit to Europe, I think you should like this: "Germany's Hamburg and the Luther Trail" - Rick Steves' Europe (on YT)
for geograpical relations for us-americans - NYC is on the latitude of Madrid Spain - Northern Germany is on the latitude of Labrador - and that also shapes people and Moin Moin is chatty
I recommend u check out the city Schwerin It’s Mecklenburg Vorpommerns capital city and has the most beautiful castle in Germany imo Also there are a lot of lakes within the city as well as all around it
actually even in the south, .. lake of constance is neighbouring Austria and Switzerland and there, beside the islands of Lindau and Reichenau you find the subtropical island of flowers, - Mainau...that belongs to the swedish royal family. the heer is better here and you have a fantastic view on the alps with germany, austrian, swiss mountains and from the castle of waldburg even a small part of the mont blanc in france. (once there was a connection from the lake to new york via zeppelin..).. if you are arround and i am not using my flat, you are invited to stay here, in ravensburg. cheers
Yeah, I suppose you can determine what "Schietwetter" is... there is absolutely NO similarity to an English word... 😆😉 The German beaches are pleasant during the summer, but very dreary in the winter. As you may have guessed, the Schietwetter does dominate during the winter, and the extremely short days are usually gray, overcast, wet, cold, soggy, and very dark. The sun is only a rare guest during the winter. So if you want to see the islands from their best POV, come during the summer.
Northern Germany, imho best part of Germany: Super nice people, relaxed and always helpfull (as long as you use the Moin (only once!). The Marshes with its fertile soil and its old thatched houses, the Geest with its "Knicks"-landscape, the Baltic sea (a warm bathtub :-D ) with its gentle hills and the rough coast of the Northern Sea with its gnarled lifestyle. I have been all around Europe (East, West, North, South) been to many places in Germany, but I would never (NEVER!) move away from my Home, the northern Part of Germany. Wo de Nordseewellen trecken an den Strand, Wor de geelen Blomen blöhn in‘t gröne Land, Wor de Möwen schriegen gell in‘t Stormgebruus, Dor is mine Heimat, dor bün ick to Huus.
Awesome. DW (Deutsche Welle) is a very good, neutral, reliable source for News and Culture. Their German and English Channels are excellent. Highly recommended.
Joel, Hans stems from Johannes (James). In the old language Hanse meant Handel (Trade). Hope I could help. DW is a very good channel. Be safe and enjoy life. Elmar from Germany (Bit of a history geek)
Last time, you visited the 3 largest cities in Germany, in the exact order. Next time, you should visit No. 4, Cologne and No. 5, Frankfurt/Main. Go upstream the Rhine river, south and see the western parts of Germany. Have a look on the Roman remains and check the western German cusine. Go along the French Rhine border, down to lake Constance, to the Swiss border. And if you want, take a look for a day, into this countries as well...
East Frisians had to fight for their tea since East Frisia was inherited by the Prussian king after the last prince of House Cirksena had died without children. After he failed to install his own East Asia company in Emden he taxed and limited tea imports (because imports meant to lose foreign exchange which he needed to fund his many wars), so East Frisians learned to smuggle tea (besides some civil disobedience e.g. by civil servants obstructing the government by expanding bureaucracy). A few years later they were annexed by Napoleon and forced to his Continental Blockade (which they then undermined by trading tea with England and smuggling in general).
Hello Joel. I watch History With Hilbert channel. He is Frisian raised as a Geordie in Northumberland, but his family are from the part of Frisia in the Netherlands. He covers Frisian, Norse and Hansiatic subjects, as well as other stuff. He recently covered the Dutch influence in Gdansk. He is not that keen on reaction videos that add no new opinions, but he did himself look at a famous video showing how Frisian is near to English and old Anglo Saxon, that you could take a look at. Note that the East Indies were Dutch and Hanover and India were ruled by British monarchs, for the tea thing. Heligoland was Danish, then British a couple of centuries back, before being passed to Germany.
Glossing over that Norther Germany was Danish territory for thousand year before it was "stolen" i 1864. So Hamburg, actually HambOrg was build by danes at the time it was build. :-)
My grandparents didn't teach us Low German because at the time it was thought that the children wouldn't learn High German. I can barely understand it and can't speak. For me it also feels unnatural and I think that's a shame. Even my father, born in 1952, no longer fully learned it.
Ostfriesentee is not my cup of tea but its interesting and cool she put it into the video. I drink more japanese and chinese tea, assam most of the time from india and not so good quality I actually have ostfrisentee blendin my collection. It does taste 100x times better than teabags tho. Teabags are the biggest money rip off I can imagine. These should be illegal.
No, by far nor all coasts have islands in front of them. I guess Americans not knowing about German islands is pretty common because they'd mostly look at Germany on a world map or whole Europe map (if they looked at a a map at all ;-) ), which usually doesn't show the small islands.
i am confused over "europe's largest landlocked lake district" - what is that supposed to mean? isn't a lake always landlocked? and there are many much larger lake districts, just think about finland!
I understand about the confusion, let me help: A landlocked lake is a like which is not connected to any sea. Most lakes are connected to the seas because there are rivers flowing through them, so they have a water connection to the sea. Every river either ends in the sea or in another river which ends in the sea... and so on. Compared to that there are the landlocked lakes. They have no connection to the sea or a river, their water comes for example from melting glaciers, rain and snow.
the well known hamburger... was actualy invented by a man from the town of hamburg ..germany..who sold frikadellen in a bun :) (frikadellen are like meatballs)
Swimming in the North and Baltic Seas is for cold showers and hardy people. Sure to cool off on a hot day. The airline Lufthansa takes its name from the medieval Hanseatic League. Luft means air and -hansa means Hanseatic. The city of Lübeck was punished by Hitler because the citizens refused to support his party. Previously independent, they were administratively attached to the next district. Hamburg was in line and was awarded large areas. Nothing has changed to this day. The state of Bremen was lucky. The Americans needed a port and were therefore given Bremen to administer. The rest of northern Germany came under British administration. That's why Bremen remained independent. Bremen is also the only federal state that consists of two separate areas. No not really. Hamburg still has the island of Neuwerk, but it is tiny and has only 40 inhabitants. But there it's more about securing the rights of access to the port of Hamburg.
Pomerania was the home of the Prussians before they became kings of Berlin. Pomerania is now in Poland. Only Western Pomerania remained German and was united with Mecklenburg. That's why today it's called Meck-Pomm for short or long: Mecklenburg-West-Pomerania
german name Hans has nothing to do with the "Hanse" Hans ger or John eng ... short form of Jo(hannes) shorter Hans ... English language is one of the western german languages :-)
Like I said ... Berlin is not the best start for tourists in my opinion 😉 i can understand it but there are better places to be such as North Germany or nordsee like we say it ! Yes we got islands 😁 maybe you heard about Casper David ? Whatever there a beautiful ! My grandma (rip) comes from ostfriesland and I really love to hear plattdeutsch again 😍 its really sounds a little bit like english its a shame that nobody speaks it anymore 😑 meck pomm and the seenplatte also are really nice its possible to drive with an houseboat to nearly each lake most common is the müritzsee awesome vacation believe me 😎
moin ut noorddüütschland vun de waterkant😊 dat plattdüüsch snack wi in noord , middel un noordoostdüütschland an de baltiksee. de sprak komm vun de olden düütschen olde sassen ( alt niedersächsisch). dat olde engelse (old english) komm vun de nedersassen ( low saxony). dat kann du god lern as engels snacker😊 de armish lüüd in dien heimat amerika snack dat och noch. kiek mol unner plattdeutsch binnen internet da weer veel bannig plietsches to stöbern . so mien keerl dat weer en dialekt up platt . dat givt vun region to region aver och noch beten unerschieds. allerbest un hool di wuchtig mien keerl😊 woord up platt plüschmors-bumblebee😊 plüsch-hairy, soft mors- butt, ass
8:59 weird tea ceremony. why on earth should I ruin the nice Assam tea with its distinctive taste and scent first with sugar in the form of 'kluntje' and then even worse with cream which is also sweetening the tea further with lactose? if you don't like the original tea taste just take your run-of-the-mill cheap black tea and and sweeten it with milk, sugar etc until you just have some sugary warm water...
In order for you to really become a real North German boy, we first have to get you "einnorden". This means that you have to stand on the Weser dike in hurricane force winds and enjoy your matjes roll.
I'am living in Hamburg and I don't miss it. Yes it is nice here and of course the centre of Hamburg and all the atracrions for tourists are nice. But out of the centre you would see, Hamburg is like every other great town with all the problems of crime, poorness and everything else. If you should come to Hamburg visit the districts Mümmelmansberg in the east ore Steilshop in the north, Altona in the west with all the beggar and poorness at the streets ore Veddel in the south. And every day you have beggar in the subways and S-Bahn (city-train). Ore take a walk to tue south part of the centralstation, (Hauptbahnhof Süd) in the near of the ZOB (Central busstation). There is the Steindamm, a street in the district St Georg. Rally dirty, you will find prostitution, poorness, beggar and crime. And the central station of Hamburg has the highest crimerate of all stations in Germany. And If you want to drive by car you have to earn a lot of money. Hamburg is for owner wirh cars realy expensiv. For the reach people the car, for poor people are the bus and train. Sorry, but with also have a lot of problems here. Don't everything is nice ;)
According to WikiPedia "Hans" (the name) is a short form of "Johannes". see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_(name) . Thus has nothing to do with "the Hanse" which is a historic trading guild
As a Dutchman, I see many similarities between this northern German culture and ours: the low lying land, the foods, the fish, the red brick buildings, the islands, the Wattensee (we also have a part of that, and call it "Waddenzee"), it all reminds me of The Netherlands.
Also, the language (the Plattdeutsch dialects) is closer to Dutch than High German is, since it was not affected by the High German sound shifts that happened over the centuries.
Should that surprise anyone? A long shared imperial history before you West Frisians opened your own shop. Of course the culture and customs and of course the language are similar, after all the centuries of living together...
However official Dutch originates from Low Franconian, not Low Saxon...
@@MichaEl-rh1kv Actually? How surprising! We Franconians (I'm one of them) were the "previous tenants" on the land where the West Frisians live today. But in the long run it was too bad for us with the weather, the constant flooding during storm surges and just too cold and windy in the long run. We then moved south, founded an empire and saved Europe from the Arabs. In other words... We had more important things to do than constantly pouring water back into the North Sea. But there are always some who don't feel like moving and from them, the Frisians, as a fellow Germanic tribe, have adopted a significant part of the language. By the way, no one said anything about Lower Saxony, right? Because there are also Frisians living on the German side of the border, namely the East Frisians...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 😆
They said it in the video: Plattdeutsch derived from Low Saxon. The Franks however started around Belgium, some (the Salian Franks) moved to the Southwest to conquer the dominion of Syagrius and Gallia, others (the Ripuarian Franks) moved the Rhine upstream, conquering the Rhine valley up to the confluence with the Main. The Salians, ruled by Merovingian kings, defeated then competing Franconian tribes and also the kingdom of the Alemans.
The Ripuarians (allied with the Salians, until Chlodwig I instigated the son of King Sigibert of Cologne to kill his father after the defeat of the Alemans, then killed the patricide and took over here also) went upstream river Main and fought with the Thuringians; the Thuringian kingdom was then also conquered by Chlothar I (who had together with his brothers already conquered Burgundy; since his older brother died in this war, he married his widow and killed two of his nephews to exclude them the line of succession). Not the nicest family...
In either case: Dutch (but not Frisian) is Low Franconian, the Rhenish dialect, the Hessian dialect and Palatine German are Middle or Rhine Franconian (other varieties are Lorraine Franconian and Moselle Franconian), and in northern Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria they use East Franconian dialects.
@@MichaEl-rh1kv I would think that Dutch is a mixture of Franconian and Low Saxon: the dialects of the northeastern provinces are descendants of Low Saxon, while the rest (except for the Ripuarian dialects in Limburg, and Frisian in Fryslân) descended from Franconian. There are distinguishable dialects, but they do exist in a dialect continuum.
Great reaction! :) The word "Hanse" derives from the Old High German "Hansa" which meant "group" or "fellowship". The name "Hans" on the other hand is a short form of "Johannes" ("John" in English, "Jean" in French, "Juan" in Spanish). :)
Yay, you watched it! I'm from Leer and I have been looking forward to your reactiong to this video! The north needs to be recognised more outside of Germany!
Yes, about the north and the real north, although my Danish friends always laugh about the latter because for them it is the real south.
Definitely! Just was near museum island an hour ago with lots and lots of tourists and I really think they miss out so much not visiting the coast because it’s not mentioned nearly enough. Love you guys and greetings from Berlin!
I'm from North Rhine Westphalia, short NRW, and I'm glad we're so close, because I know the North a bit and it's a part of who I am. Beautiful coast, sea, islands, Dünen und Strandhafer, close to the Netherlands and ❤️❤️❤️👍
@@Kokuswolf and the other scandinavians laugh about the danish cause they are basically the caribbean of the nordic countries. and the people north of the polar circle laugh about the people south for thinking they are far up north. and so on :)
@@enha6008 Haha, right. :D
Yes, Hans is a male first name. It's an abbreviation of Johannes, so there's no connection to the Hanse. It's the German version of John/Johnny.
Moin! (Saying it twice means you are a chatterbox!)
Other variants: Hansi, Hänsel (you know, like the fairy tale), Hänschen (not really used much, but it‘s part of a well-known chilldren‘s song).
How dare she make that face when looking at the Labskaus! It‘s absolutely delicious!
„Pinkel“ (the smoked sausage eaten with kale) is very much a Bremen thing. People in other places will generally laugh at the name because it more generally means „pee“.😂
You are not the first American to be surprised at Germany having so much coastline and so many islands. Take a good look at a map.
While there are a lot of cities that can still claim the title of „Hanseatic City“, only 7 have the first „H“ on their car tags: HH (Hansestadt Hamburg), HB (Hansestadt Bremen), HL (Hansestadt Lübeck), HRO (Hansestadt Rostock, HWI (Hansestadt Wismar), HST (Hansestadt Stralsund), and HGW (Hansestadt Greifswald).
Das wollte ich auch gerade schreiben, dann kann ich mir die Mühe sparen. :-)
I always thought Johannes was like a Hawaiian name (I'm also someone who don't view Hawaii is part of USA as I view it as it's own country)
Lots of love from Schleswig-Holstein. 🙌
I live 3 miles away from the Baltic Sea and right now our small town is overrun by tourists. We can’t wait for autum, when the beach is „ours“ again. 😉🤣
Moin as wi seggen in Sleswig-Holstein. Wenn du Düütsland nochmals besöken wullt un darbi ok de Strand an de Düütsche Küst, denn nich to de Wintertiet, sünnern in' Sommer. Ik heff dat op Plattdüüt schreeven.
Translation:
Moin as we say in Schleswig-Holstein. If you want to visit Germany again and also the beaches on Germany's coasts, then not in winter, but in summer. I wrote it in Low German because it's nicer.
Translation from Low German to Standard High German:
"Moin, wie wir in Schleswig-Holstein sagen. Wenn du Deutschland nochmal besuchen willst und dabei auch den Strand an der Deutschen Küste, dann nicht zur Winterzeit, sondern im Sommer. Ich habe das auf Plattdeutsch geschrieben."
Rügen (the biggest german island) is quite beautiful, a very good tourist/vacation destination. It hasa UNESCO world nature heritage national park with beautiful chalk cliffs and forests, several important cultural and architectural spots and beautiful nature in general. The baltic coast is a special environment with a unique feeling, it's hard to describe.
The dish "Lapskaus" ("lobscouse" in English) has "scouse" in it, like the people from Liverpool, where it's eaten, too, as well as in other harbour cities of the North Sea, so I guess it's a typical sailor's dish.
It comes also from a special sailors ilnes
" Scorbut ", it comes from the less of Vitamin C. One of the symptom is the loss of teeth. So the chef minced al parts of the meal.
I've built boats both in Hamburg and Wolgast. The idea of living in a city makes my skin crawl BUT Hamburg is about the only one I can stand, as it's covered in trees and surrounded by water.
Great, you took a look at northern Germany. There is much more, including historical buildings and sights. Likewise food and drinks, but also nightlife. Different than Bavaria, but just as attractive :-)
interesting is that she is actually from England AND said in another video that she likes to drink tea in a typical old English way (with milk). I expected to hear from here a bit about the similarities between wiith this tradition. what I also missed a bit was a greater context about the Hanse which connected many countries - there was also a kind of 'German business district' in London for that matter. Another aspecft was that the low German (old saxony/old frisian/etc.) is also common with the Netherlands within the same region + it was also influencing the English, because that Northern region (North Germany/Netherlands/Danemark) is the origin of most angles, saxons, jutes who moved over to England and made the 'Anglo-Saxons'.
Always welcome to Hamburg :-) Keep up that positive spirit and mindset - makes your channel really fun to follow! Best from Hamburg
Yes, tea is very popular in north germany.
But also coffee started its victory-march through germany here in the north, in Bremen.
It was a dutch man (Jan Jahns van Huisten) that asked the Bremen City Council for permission to serve coffee in public - as he knew it from his home - Amsterdam, Netherlands.
(it was in 1673 - 4 years later he did the same in Hamburg)
So Bremen was the first german city where coffee was served in public and it became a big trading-place for coffee. In the beginning the raw coffee was sold but when they found ways to keep/protect/preserve the aroma/flavour of roasted coffee, also coffee roasting companies were founded.
Some of todays biggest german coffee-companies were founded in the north of germany - such as "Jacobs" in Bremen or "Tchibo" in Hamburg...
german islands in summer are fun .... winter, not so much ... ;-), yep, way more relaxed than the main land ...
dialects/slangs: our grandparents from the north wouldn't have been able to understand their bavarian mates if both wouldn't speak high german.
I even had this at one moment 1987 in the army when a tank commander from Friesland wasn't able to understand what a fellow commander from Deggendorf, Bavaria would ask for on the radio ... (we were laughing so hard when this happened, almost 20 tanks on the radio) .... So the different dialects can be quite hard to get for non-natives. Usually we'll switch to high german or english when you'll be around ... ;-) .
There a lot of canals up here in East Frisia and you can go on wonderful bike tours along the canals. The East Frisia tea ceremony is something special, but now people also drink a lot of coffee here.
I am also very pleased, that for once it is shown, that Germany has access to 2 seas. The baltic and the northsea. And also, that we up north have our own language. Language --not just a dialect. Usually, if somebody thinks of Germany, all they think is Bavaria. Lederhosen and Mountains. :) oh, and you realy have to get a "Franzbrötchen" especially when it comes right out of the oven. I guess a cinnabon is the closest to it. yummy.
Hello from the Hansestadt Bremen 😊 glad you liked this video from North Germany
As usual in such very short videos, a lot is missing . Flensburg and Schleswig are beautiful and historic cities really in the very north to visit or to live in.
Flensburg is a bit Danish, not far from the border, you can hearsdmuch Danish as German. Schleswig and Haithabu and the museums are highly recommended. Nydam boat,
bog people, the old Viking settlement in Haithabu and the Danewerk, which is word heritage.
Much more to visit than just Lübeck in Schleswig- Holstein and Hamburg has much more interesting sites.
Should I mention the melancholic Nordfriesland, the Wattenmeer Nationalpark?
Moin aus Flensburg 🙂
Yes, nice trip through northern Deutschland!
Danke
I don't think the British mind, really. After all, the UK isn't that far away (fun fact: Hamburg is further north than London). My parents used to live in Ostfriesland and I confirm that there's always time for tea. I love that tea and even though I live in southern Germany, I always buy some Ostfriesentee when I'm up there to take home with me (because it seems you can't really buy genuine Ostfriesentee down here).
When next time in Germany I would prefer the north because Bavaria you can have all over the world.🤣
DW ist good real Information 👍 greetings from Westfalia
Hey Joel, as in my DM awhile back, I'm still thinking of visiting Hamburg, Bremen, and Bremerhaven soon, researching for school. John
Excellent video and reaction!!
Yay, my home province! I'm a born "Mecklenburger". We're very proud of our huge number of lakes here. I actually come from the "Seenplatte" which is the area with the most lakes and also with the biggest lake that is located completely in germany, the "Müritz". (the biggest if partially located in germany counts would be the "Bodensee" down in the south) Been there a lot and it's beautiful. I can only recommend to visit it. I think my province is so heavily underrated, just because it's not full of huge cities with city life but rather more countryside-oriented here. The city I live in is small, but very beautiful.
Also i'm really sad we stopped speaking low-german here. My dad would often use words from it so at least I know a little low-german now. If I can understand it depends heavily on what type of low-german it is, how fast the person talks and how clear, like if they talk fast and/or are more mumbling i'd have a hard time understanding it.
I actually use "moin" all the time, and i can safely say, do NOT ever say "Guten Moin" as what the woman explained is true, "moin" doesn't mean "morning", it's just a greating, like "Hi" or "hey". We often say that just saying "moin" to each other followed by a short nod is actually enough of a conversation. If you extend it and the conversation goes like "and? you good?" - "yeah, you?" - "me too" you would already say "god, now i got very caught up in conversation!" haha
But it really is mostly just a clichè and people here are actually very talkative and very fond of smalltalk.
The weather over here is actually very nice: It's not raining unless fish cross the street, and it's not windy while sheep still have curly fur. Both aren't the case under usual weather conditions which are water from above, below, and the side.
I was borned in Hamburg..now live in Portugal.. ..Schaschlick i miss to eat..
Joel, I do hope you have an automobile centric trip to Germany soon. Can’t wait to see you zipping around Autobahn.
You really love Germany so nice to see come here bro
lol, I live on a north frisian island. So funny to see she interviewed tourists about living there... sooo funny (only the car driver is local) Of course tourists have no idea what it really means to live there. Work live balance, jeeeez, work here in the high seasons, after that we talk again. Btw. here people speak high german, platt and ferring, the island frisian language here, neighbouring islands have other types of north frisian. It's not a dialect, it's an accepted minority language strongly influenced by vikings. Tourists think it's danish :) And never say moin moin here... you're the loonliest guy on the island than.
8:23 The discourse that someone is eager to hear about.
Always counter clockwise as want to stop time, if only if she knew if the southern hemisphere was faster doing sun dials and clocks then the hands on the clock be going the other way around as the sun dial for them the shadow goes what we call counter clockwise
9:12 Assam Tea Rep! And yes, it is very strong.
Well,I missed the Pharisäer, if I recall it right it was coffee with rum and cream on the top😀
I'm still always surprised they talked about my Home Town of Leer
Hope you do the other three parts ❤
👍 Yes
Moin moin. I lived on the German-Danish border, on the Flensburg Fjord for a while and loved it. Super-chill place and the fish, lecker.
Look out for place names that end -by in Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark (Husby, Sønderby, Osterby, Overby), then look for the same ending in English place names (Rugby, Grimsby, Derby, Oadby, etc) - guess where the Danes settled in England.
German coastlines do feel underrated but what you need right now is a trip to that repurposed aircraft hangar water park.
This is all new to me because our childhood holidays were in southern Germany
To reminisce on, and/or learn about what you missed on your express visit to Europe, I think you should like this: "Germany's Hamburg and the Luther Trail" - Rick Steves' Europe (on YT)
You should try to work in Europe for one year or more that's the only way to understand the differences
I love that idea!
Okay I start in London for work if any lol
for geograpical relations for us-americans - NYC is on the latitude of Madrid Spain - Northern Germany is on the latitude of Labrador - and that also shapes people
and Moin Moin is chatty
I recommend u check out the city Schwerin
It’s Mecklenburg Vorpommerns capital city and has the most beautiful castle in Germany imo
Also there are a lot of lakes within the city as well as all around it
actually even in the south, .. lake of constance is neighbouring Austria and Switzerland and there, beside the islands of Lindau and Reichenau you find the subtropical island of flowers, - Mainau...that belongs to the swedish royal family. the heer is better here and you have a fantastic view on the alps with germany, austrian, swiss mountains and from the castle of waldburg even a small part of the mont blanc in france. (once there was a connection from the lake to new york via zeppelin..).. if you are arround and i am not using my flat, you are invited to stay here, in ravensburg. cheers
Yeah, I suppose you can determine what "Schietwetter" is... there is absolutely NO similarity to an English word... 😆😉
The German beaches are pleasant during the summer, but very dreary in the winter. As you may have guessed, the Schietwetter does dominate during the winter, and the extremely short days are usually gray, overcast, wet, cold, soggy, and very dark. The sun is only a rare guest during the winter. So if you want to see the islands from their best POV, come during the summer.
Northern Germany, imho best part of Germany: Super nice people, relaxed and always helpfull (as long as you use the Moin (only once!).
The Marshes with its fertile soil and its old thatched houses, the Geest with its "Knicks"-landscape, the Baltic sea (a warm bathtub :-D ) with its gentle hills and the rough coast of the Northern Sea with its gnarled lifestyle.
I have been all around Europe (East, West, North, South) been to many places in Germany, but I would never (NEVER!) move away from my Home, the northern Part of Germany.
Wo de Nordseewellen trecken an den Strand,
Wor de geelen Blomen blöhn in‘t gröne Land,
Wor de Möwen schriegen gell in‘t Stormgebruus,
Dor is mine Heimat, dor bün ick to Huus.
The Port in Hamburg is actually considered to be one of the biggest in Europe.
"Hans" is a short form of "Johannes" aka John in English and has nothing to do with "Hanse" :) .
Come to Thuringia, my friend, and I'll show you a beautiful country. !!!
Awesome. DW (Deutsche Welle) is a very good, neutral, reliable source for News and Culture. Their German and English Channels are excellent. Highly recommended.
0:04 all i can think is "please Karen dont spit at me"
Joel, Hans stems from Johannes (James). In the old language Hanse meant Handel (Trade).
Hope I could help. DW is a very good channel.
Be safe and enjoy life.
Elmar from Germany (Bit of a history geek)
Hi Joel , I enjoyed watching this video (pierre)
I hope you are doing fine.
Moin! Greetings from the baltic sea, Rostock ❤
Last time, you visited the 3 largest cities in Germany, in the exact order. Next time, you should visit No. 4, Cologne and No. 5, Frankfurt/Main. Go upstream the Rhine river, south and see the western parts of Germany. Have a look on the Roman remains and check the western German cusine. Go along the French Rhine border, down to lake Constance, to the Swiss border. And if you want, take a look for a day, into this countries as well...
Next time spend a day in Wetzlar and in Trier (Karl Marx Museum and the only still intact Roman Basilica)
Greetings from Hamburg!
@MoreJps greetings from hamburg 😀 if you're visiting hamburg again and want to have an autobahn experience you'll never forget, let me know. 😁
East Frisians had to fight for their tea since East Frisia was inherited by the Prussian king after the last prince of House Cirksena had died without children. After he failed to install his own East Asia company in Emden he taxed and limited tea imports (because imports meant to lose foreign exchange which he needed to fund his many wars), so East Frisians learned to smuggle tea (besides some civil disobedience e.g. by civil servants obstructing the government by expanding bureaucracy). A few years later they were annexed by Napoleon and forced to his Continental Blockade (which they then undermined by trading tea with England and smuggling in general).
Not seen Tea like that before. Although looked rather British
Yay, I love the "Meet the Germans" series .. as a German. ^^
Hey JPS IF you wanna get more inside north Germany, see, talk to loacals let me know if you'll be in Hamburg.....
5:01 Joel masters Plattdeutsch challenge
Hello Joel. I watch History With Hilbert channel. He is Frisian raised as a Geordie in Northumberland, but his family are from the part of Frisia in the Netherlands. He covers Frisian, Norse and Hansiatic subjects, as well as other stuff. He recently covered the Dutch influence in Gdansk.
He is not that keen on reaction videos that add no new opinions, but he did himself look at a famous video showing how Frisian is near to English and old Anglo Saxon, that you could take a look at.
Note that the East Indies were Dutch and Hanover and India were ruled by British monarchs, for the tea thing.
Heligoland was Danish, then British a couple of centuries back, before being passed to Germany.
A small correction: Hanover was not ruled by British monarchs - Britain was ruled by the house of Hanover. Small but important difference!
@@Kristina_S-O OK, but it would not have been so easy to link in with the tea. We have a Portuguese Queen to thank for that apparently.
you are so cute 😅😊 all the Best from Germeny liebe grüße aus Deutschland
Glossing over that Norther Germany was Danish territory for thousand year before it was "stolen" i 1864. So Hamburg, actually HambOrg was build by danes at the time it was build. :-)
Living on one of these islands I can tell you: It is NOT relaxed whenever there is holiday season. Only in winter when noone really wants to go here.
Love your vids Joel, but you might wanna increase your volume just alittle. You vids are too quiet.
Hans ... short for Johannes ... is John in english
My grandparents didn't teach us Low German because at the time it was thought that the children wouldn't learn High German. I can barely understand it and can't speak. For me it also feels unnatural and I think that's a shame. Even my father, born in 1952, no longer fully learned it.
Ostfriesentee is not my cup of tea but its interesting and cool she put it into the video. I drink more japanese and chinese tea, assam most of the time from india and not so good quality I actually have ostfrisentee blendin my collection. It does taste 100x times better than teabags tho. Teabags are the biggest money rip off I can imagine.
These should be illegal.
Next time in Germany you should travel with native Germans.
the moderator of the show IS British and did not seem livid at all!
❤ Rachel
Rachel is the best
"Hans" is short for "Johannes", John in English. The medieval term of "Hanse" for association has nothing to do with it.
I am surprised that you and even mure her being from UK know of the coast but not of the existence of islands. Isn't it kinda natural?
No, by far nor all coasts have islands in front of them. I guess Americans not knowing about German islands is pretty common because they'd mostly look at Germany on a world map or whole Europe map (if they looked at a a map at all ;-) ), which usually doesn't show the small islands.
i am confused over "europe's largest landlocked lake district" - what is that supposed to mean? isn't a lake always landlocked? and there are many much larger lake districts, just think about finland!
I understand about the confusion, let me help: A landlocked lake is a like which is not connected to any sea. Most lakes are connected to the seas because there are rivers flowing through them, so they have a water connection to the sea. Every river either ends in the sea or in another river which ends in the sea... and so on. Compared to that there are the landlocked lakes. They have no connection to the sea or a river, their water comes for example from melting glaciers, rain and snow.
ahh, that makes a lot of sense, thank you for explaining@@Herzschreiber
4:46 very strong weird accent
Hallo Joel, Grüße aus dem kleinsten Bundesland Deutschlands, dem Saarland!
I like your Videos 👍
Das kleinste Bundesland ist immer noch Bremen.
the well known hamburger... was actualy invented by a man from the town of hamburg ..germany..who sold frikadellen in a bun :) (frikadellen are like meatballs)
❤Hamburg meine Stadt meine Perle😊
Emderin/Eastfrisian Women
Eala Frya Fresena 💪🏻😊🙌🏻❤️
Where are the other parts????
Hans as a name is short for Johann(us). It is not related to the German word Hanse.
"Hans" ist the short form of the first name "Johannes" and has nothing to do with "Hanse".
Forget Hamburg - Lübeck is the best. 🙂
Swimming in the North and Baltic Seas is for cold showers and hardy people. Sure to cool off on a hot day.
The airline Lufthansa takes its name from the medieval Hanseatic League. Luft means air and -hansa means Hanseatic.
The city of Lübeck was punished by Hitler because the citizens refused to support his party. Previously independent, they were administratively attached to the next district.
Hamburg was in line and was awarded large areas. Nothing has changed to this day.
The state of Bremen was lucky. The Americans needed a port and were therefore given Bremen to administer. The rest of northern Germany came under British administration. That's why Bremen remained independent. Bremen is also the only federal state that consists of two separate areas.
No not really. Hamburg still has the island of Neuwerk, but it is tiny and has only 40 inhabitants.
But there it's more about securing the rights of access to the port of Hamburg.
Pomerania was the home of the Prussians before they became kings of Berlin. Pomerania is now in Poland. Only Western Pomerania remained German and was united with Mecklenburg.
That's why today it's called Meck-Pomm for short or long: Mecklenburg-West-Pomerania
Baltic Sea at 22° is nearly boiling,north sea as well, the last summers were so hot that we had Mediterranean temperatures in air and water.
Hanse=Trading. Hanse Stadt Hamburg=Trading city Hamburg
The German name "Hans" is a short form of Johannes and has nothing to do with Hanse 😊
Did he seriously asked if "Hans" is a german name? :DD
Moin 😊
GB drink tea, no way.
german name Hans has nothing to do with the "Hanse"
Hans ger or John eng ... short form of Jo(hannes) shorter Hans ... English language is one of the western german languages :-)
k bün neegierig, wer mien Kommentar op Platt hier lesen kann, lat mi dat weten.
Auf Nordhessisch heisst Dein Satz: Ich seng naischeerig, wer menge Kommentar uf Platt hej läse kann, lisst mich doas wisse.
Like I said ... Berlin is not the best start for tourists in my opinion 😉 i can understand it but there are better places to be such as North Germany or nordsee like we say it ! Yes we got islands 😁 maybe you heard about Casper David ? Whatever there a beautiful ! My grandma (rip) comes from ostfriesland and I really love to hear plattdeutsch again 😍 its really sounds a little bit like english its a shame that nobody speaks it anymore 😑 meck pomm and the seenplatte also are really nice its possible to drive with an houseboat to nearly each lake most common is the müritzsee awesome vacation believe me 😎
moin ut noorddüütschland vun de waterkant😊
dat plattdüüsch snack wi in noord , middel un noordoostdüütschland an de baltiksee.
de sprak komm vun de olden düütschen olde sassen ( alt niedersächsisch).
dat olde engelse (old english) komm vun de nedersassen ( low saxony).
dat kann du god lern as engels snacker😊
de armish lüüd in dien heimat amerika snack dat och noch.
kiek mol unner plattdeutsch binnen internet da weer veel bannig plietsches to stöbern .
so mien keerl dat weer en dialekt up platt .
dat givt vun region to region aver och noch beten unerschieds.
allerbest un hool di wuchtig mien keerl😊
woord up platt
plüschmors-bumblebee😊
plüsch-hairy, soft
mors- butt, ass
8:59 weird tea ceremony. why on earth should I ruin the nice Assam tea with its distinctive taste and scent first with sugar in the form of 'kluntje' and then even worse with cream which is also sweetening the tea further with lactose? if you don't like the original tea taste just take your run-of-the-mill cheap black tea and and sweeten it with milk, sugar etc until you just have some sugary warm water...
In order for you to really become a real North German boy, we first have to get you "einnorden". This means that you have to stand on the Weser dike in hurricane force winds and enjoy your matjes roll.
Your trip to Germany and was very limited to drink drink and more drink.
That’s very judgemental.
I'am living in Hamburg and I don't miss it. Yes it is nice here and of course the centre of Hamburg and all the atracrions for tourists are nice. But out of the centre you would see, Hamburg is like every other great town with all the problems of crime, poorness and everything else. If you should come to Hamburg visit the districts Mümmelmansberg in the east ore Steilshop in the north, Altona in the west with all the beggar and poorness at the streets ore Veddel in the south. And every day you have beggar in the subways and S-Bahn (city-train). Ore take a walk to tue south part of the centralstation, (Hauptbahnhof Süd) in the near of the ZOB (Central busstation). There is the Steindamm, a street in the district St Georg. Rally dirty, you will find prostitution, poorness, beggar and crime. And the central station of Hamburg has the highest crimerate of all stations in Germany. And If you want to drive by car you have to earn a lot of money. Hamburg is for owner wirh cars realy expensiv. For the reach people the car, for poor people are the
bus and train. Sorry, but with also have a lot of problems here. Don't everything is nice ;)
According to WikiPedia "Hans" (the name) is a short form of "Johannes". see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_(name) . Thus has nothing to do with "the Hanse" which is a historic trading guild