German Brands AMERICANS pronounce WRONG!
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I already like this girl Nele from Germany , she is funny , good choice , Christina is the main member of the channel
She has UA-cam charisma.
Yea Christiana's the main i really like Nele too
Each one is a popular representative of their country
I tried my best hahaha 😅 Thanks to Nele I learned how to properly pronounce these German brand names~ She was a great teacher and fun to hang out with! Hope you guys enjoyed! -Christina 🇺🇸
Another good video on the channel , you are the main member of the channel , you have chemistry with anyone 😂😁
You speak so sweet German :)
You did really well Christina 👏
You sound so cute...
You did great. Believe me, not all Americans can pronounce it real
Fun fact : their interation is good , enjoyable and funny , but their outfits are on fire too , loved their clothes 🇩🇪🇺🇲
🇨🇵 what about us ?
🇬🇧 ditto
That's it , Christina again with the languages , she is the best with it 😂
pretty good US representation
in Germany we all pronounce Adidas the same way I've never heard other Germans pronounce it differently
Yes, I don't know what she is on about
We French pronunce Adidas just like our neighbor's Germans would say
I wouldn't be surprised if there were some very regional variations, German's pretty good at having those lol
@@leDespicable Nein nein nein nein
@@leDespicable Standard German does not have variations.
Plus, there is only one right way to say it according to the people who make the shoes
The biggest thing I always notice with English speakers learning German is that because the 'e' at the end of words typically are not pronounced in English, and they are in German, English speakers tend to almost always miss that final 'e' sound.
Yes, my partner does the same
But they pronounce it when they try to speak French they are mostly silent in French too.
Nele is a great add to the channel , and Christina...well she is amazing
Christina as a personality is very jolly. She makes everyone smile. Nele & Christina, good job.
I love Christina’s hand writing ✍🏻 in the air while pronouncing German! I like the new German addition Nele to the World Friends family, she explained very well how to pronounce each word! I do miss German Elli though too, I hope she’ll come back soon.
Christina is so cute haha
@@thiagom1054 agree!
Never in my life I heard a German say "adeedas"! There is no controversy - only Americans and other foreigners pronounce it wrong. It's definitely with a short i
Wrong , I am American and my uncle's wife is German, and my whole family ask Aunt Irene , how to pronounced the German Brands right.
@@marydavis5234 tbh, I have to agreed with Miriam. Having lived in Germany all my live, I've yet to hear a single German person pronounce it a-DEE-das and not A(H)-dee-das (some people stress the first syllable more than others, though, but that Adi comes from the first name Adolf and the same stress/no stress on the first syllable happens there) unless it's an English conversation and someone just goes along with it. If they speak about that company in the news, it's never a-DEE-das.
Now, that doesn't mean that I don't believe that your aunt says it like that but it really isn't a thing Germans commonly say (in my experience).
@@siene1518 On the other hand, the acronym GIF comes from Graphics Interchange Format, thus with a hard G. However the creator of the image format has said the acronym should be pronounced "JIF", i.e. with a soft J sound.
Thus the owners of Adidas most likely are the ones to determine how to pronounce the brand name, regardless of how it was constructed. (Here in Sweden we also tend to say a-DEE-das, not A-dee-das nor a-dee-DAS).
@@anderszapac And I accept that JIF is the correct way, even though from my own understanding, I'd be more inclined towards GIF. Then again, I've never had to use JIF/GIF in spoken conversation, so I don't really mind being wrong.
Anyway, just to make sure, I've checked several videos (opening of a flagship store in Berlin, skipped through a couple of interviews with adidas managers/CEOs, watched commercials published by adidas,etc) and found that all official German adidas sources pronounce it AH-dee-das or rather a(h)-dee-das since the a(h) usually is only slightly stressed. This follows the German rules of pronunciation and makes sense with the origin of the brand's name.
I'd be surprised if the founder used a completely uncommon way of pronouncing it when his name is a fairly standard German name and I've found no indication that his name was pronounced differently than the standard way of we'd pronounce Adolf "Adi" Dassler. Unfortunately, I couldn't find original audio of Adi Dassler saying adidas but the current and former CEO both say a(h)-dee-das.
When asked "Americans pronounce the brand name as ah-Dee-das. How do you feel about it?", the former CEO of adidas answered "I don't mind as long as they buy our shoes", implying that it's not the correct way but who cares. And that's basically what it is - not a big deal either way.
I usually wouldn't even have been as invested in this to actually do that amount of research but after your comment, I was curious. But yeah, from a German POV, nothing indicates that the pronunciation should be anything other than AH-dee-das / ah-dee-das.
Btw., I also never heard a-dee-DAS but at least that would make more sense than a-DEE-das because if you said the entire name of the founder, you'd say "a-dolf DASS-ler". I don't think that any German who had never heard the pronounciation of adidas would go for ah-dee-DAS but at least I get where it's coming from.
@@siene1518 👍
I am learning Polish, so I have a great deal of appreciation for trying to pronounce a language new to one. Having a native speaker as a coach is SO helpful. Best of luck on your linguistic journeys!! I love watching you folk.
If you'd like I can be your language practice partner!
Another great effort from Christina , well done .
My German teacher was Austrian: "If there is a letter, you will pronounce it."
Wise words!
In germanic idioms, including english speakers eating final vowels and consonants, that's awful. And to do worst plus with particular slangs. Idiomatic terrorism.
Words of experience, wisdom and Hard job.
Sadly there are two exceptions...
Like the "ie" you only pronounce the "i"
And the silent "h" 🙃
More videos with Nele & Christina, please ~ Wonderful dynamic together!
As a person (American) learning German my confidence was doing backflips i love learning German 🇩🇪🇺🇸,!!!
Glad to see a new friend from German!
Well done everyone.
nelle.awesome.
Fun!!
Both , english and german are from the same family , germanic languages , but the german is more close to dutch
mhm
They are so beautiful
I miss Lauren, Mis UK
4:33 That explanation is wrong. The F sound does not change but with a double f the preceding vowel is short and with only a single f the vowel is long.
Now make her say Kärcher correctly!
Yes! 🇩🇪
I'm half way with it I'm rusty at reading in German but my speech and understanding is good but my grammar will be hard to fix as I have bad grammar in English as well and that's my first language
Wunderbar :3
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Let her say “Schöfferhofer Hefeweizen” :)
This was really wholesome and I can relate to Christina as someone who is learning the German language but as of late my ability to speak in German has been improving and honestly these videos help me learn a little bit more
Christina’s laugh always puts a smile on my face.🤣😊
as a german, Christina didt really good.
OMG, she looks so sweet trying to pronounce the words.
I am from Bulgaria actually, I can't say which was the hardest but I can say that all words and Christina's tries are funny. I laughed during listen to her
6:50 Nope. Its Adidas with emphasis on the A. Emphasizing the i is just wrong.
6:02 🤣
Never heard a German pronounce Adidas differently than "Adi-Das". I don't think there's any controversy.
Adidas is with 100% certainty correct the way she said it first. The second one is a foreign mispronunciation. It comes from the shortening of the bosses name and that makes it clear.
Addidas/ Adolf (Adi) Dassler, Puma/ Rudolf (?) Dassler. Two brothers, two companies, because they had troubles.
the german girl is so pretty!!! ich liebs hier
y‘all ich meinte nicht „ich liebe sie“ ich meinte ich liebs HIER. hier as in the word here!!! i love it here… das sagt man heutzutage so, es sind nicht mehr die 90er, get over yourselves
ich liebe ihr auch
@@lintycarcass If i can correct you just, for your Future it would be "Ich liebe sie auch"
Wenn sie einen Herren aus einem regierenden Haus heiratet, ist ,Ihre ...' möglich :-)
@@brittakriep2938 ?? was
@@mina-nanana : Da in Monarchien die Adligen den ,pluralis majestatis', also die ,Mehrzahl der Erhabenheit' benutzen, wäre die junge Frau ,ihre königliche Hoheit' etc.. ( Das heißt, das Wort ,ihr' wäre in der deutschen Sprache nur in einem seltenen Sonderfall halbwegs richtig). Falls sie meinem Gedankengang nicht folgen können, sind sie nicht allein, da ich Asperger habe, kommt dies gelegentlich vor.
Ich kann Deutsch aber nur ein bißchen. Ich habe die Deutsch studiert in der uni 😃
Ich auch. Ich sage dass es ist eine schöne Sprache.
Many of the brands that originated in other countries that are in available in the US run advertisement with a localized version of the brand's name in the US, so while it may not be pronounce like the original name, it is questionable to call it wrong.
Bring others also. Missing most of them
54 year old American. My oldest cousin is 61 now, but when she was in her mid to late twenties, she looked an awful lot like Nele. I guess that is one of the things you have to put up with if you have German ancestry, that all of your female cousins are probably going to be gorgeous.
Old ass 😹 lmao
Christina looks very pretty and beautiful when she crosses her right leg upon her left leg!
I just call it a Beemer. I had a classic 325e ..
I love German language 🥰
Christina is the main character. She is the one that appears in all videos
Christina nailed the 'a' sound in 'Gummibaren', which is like 'ae' or 'æ' - impressive!
Nele was so kind not to use the hammer on poor Christina this time. :)
Yeah in German you can actually use ae to transcribe ä (e.g. when using a foreign keyboard setting or when writing your name for a foreign correspondent)
Sas. .ya.setuju..
Christina is Carrying this channel atm.
I took 2 years of German (50 years ago) but I hesitate to pronounce "Walther" which is a German gun manufacturer since I've never heard it pronounced by a German speaker.
Should have learned the French 🇨🇵
It is spoken simply Walter. Before 1873 behind every ,t" a ,h' was written in german language, but not spoken. In 1873, and finaly 1901 the unnecessary ,h' after a ,t' was abandoned ( with exeption of Thron/ throne and nongerman words), so the ,th' appeares today mostly only in names of persons or companies.
@@brittakriep2938 yup, names are usually excluded, which means people tend to pronounce them how the would be pronounced with the current roles. Which doesn't help.
Das ist kein /th/ in Walther, sondern ein /t/ und ein /h/. Walt'her. Der Buchstabe (für den Lispellaut) ist irgendwann aus dem Englischen verschwunden (vielleicht durch den Buchdruck?) und in /t/h/ aufgelöst worden und sieht jetzt genauso aus wie t'h. Im Isländischen ist er noch vorhanden.
The beauty of language ...pronunciation isn't exact because it changes with different regions of the country, hence dialect. The smaller the country the better chance you have. However, with large scale countries dialect can make it impossible to understand from North to South or East to West.
Fun fact: as I said before, for italians is easer to speak german words correctly ‘cause the vowels intonations is preatty similar (for standard vowels without double ‘..’ at last)
Volks-Wagon say it like that basically a two word name for a car brand
Vela Is Spanish actually. It means candle
I liked this one. It was fun and educational. Where's Lauren?
I've owned 5 "Folksvagens", and drive one now!
Volk ( german) and folk ( english) have the same root. Same with lake ( english) and Lache german. Both are waterfilled, but a lake is much larger than a Lache ( puddle). Today Lache is mostly replaced with Pfütze.
Wish you'd spell it correctly in the upper left corner, it's not "Gummibaren", the Ä is a completely different letter to A so it's actually "Gummibären". Same with Schöfferhofer. I was kinda confused about that lol.
American here from Wisconsin. I was confused too, especially with the second word, thinking the "o" would be pronounced the same in both places. It makes more sense the way they pronounced it for it to have the umlaut on the first "o" (American keyboard, maybe? I'm not aware of how to do them on mine, tbh).
@@EddieReischl ö = oe, ä = ae and ü = ue if you arent on a german keyboard with umlauts. But im pretty sure apart from German speakers nobody would understand and be confused even more.
@@EddieReischl if you are on windows you can do alt codes to type an umlaut ie hold alt and type in the correct numbering (i usually use the number pad) and release alt
@@cixelsyd40 Hey, I appreciate it, I figured there must be a way, I was hoping somebody would know and respond. Thank you.
Callie and Christina, Rea and Sidney should guess know the words in german, dutch, swedish, danish, feroese, frisian, icelandic, luxemburgish words. Let's have fun and more learning.💛💛💛💛🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻
BMW
German: “ yeah the W is a V sound”
VOLKSWAGEN
german “ohno but here it’s actually a W”
It's still a V sound in Volkswagen
Es fängt mit dem Vogel-F an. Und klingt wie folx-...
yea, more like F than the english W
This one was a little longer and I really liked it!
I want Nele back, she’s adorable.
In Sweden we say nellie kind of like they do in england but not really and spell it Nellie but i see you were spelled nele but it was pronounced nelie
How is 'Aspirin' not in included? 🤔
Adidas is pronounced as "Adi"-"Das". Because it is an abbreviation of 'Adolph Dassler'. Adolph was referred to as "Adi". But some people say "AD"-"DEE"-"DIS".
Do Italian brands!
Why do all Americans think the E at the end of german words is silent?
Das auslautende e käme bei Englischsprechern fast allein, wenn man sie am Anfang des Deutsch-Unterrichts etwa 5 Zeilen aus dem mittelenglischen Canterbury-Tales von G. Chaucer LAUT lesen lassen würde. Da gibt es dieses e noch, wenn man es nicht spricht, werden die Verse mehr als holprig.
Please make a video with portuguese language topics
🇩🇪: ich habe Deutsche und Englische Staatsbürgerschaft (deutsche Mutter & englischer Vater) und hätte nie gedacht dass die deutsche Aussprache so schwer sein kann 🇬🇧/🇺🇸: I have German and English citizenship (German mother & Englisch father) I never thought that German pronunciation could be so difficult
as a scandinavian. this is easy
I want to see one video of Spanish brands
crush on cristina!
German Girl Nele looks like Madelyn Cline from Outerbanks!!! and here we go again with Christina's infectious laugh 😂💖
🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪💛💛💛💛 Nelle is cute.
3:20 That’s what she said
The German "z" is always pronounced as "ts"!
Just like the Italian "zz" always sounds like "ts".
@@thulsa_doom Exactly!!!
I have never heard a German person pronounce Adidas with the empathize on the "I"
Maybe that prononciation is more common in big cities because of the english influence?
y'all need to put the umlauts on the vowels, because those matter
It's not Gummibaren, it's Gummibären
AAAAAAAAA
on the picture for 'Dunkel' there is a Ukrainian brand of beer! :D
finally found something about my country in this channel)
Адидас 🔥
When you're learning German and don't say them right 😔🤦♀️
Three
Adidas is a shorteneing of Adolf (Adi) Dassler's name so the company name should be pronounced as if saying his name.
Never seen a video where the german guy actually explains that Ö is literally just = oe same for ä = ae and ü = ue . that explanation would make things easier. and she let it slide that the american girl sometimes didnt pronounce the e at the end...
I think German pronunciation is very cool.
But, when I pronounce it, it is difficult……
wenn käfer sounds like kiffer so funny for a german cause kiffer means = weed smoker / stoner , peace
Christina is the main character. She is the one that appears in all videos 😩🤭
A starring...lol
When im like oh in Sweden we pronounce the german brands right Swift i get its germanic language but i thought we didnt but yeh lol
This one was kind of fun for me, since I picked German as my foreign language in high school, and studied it for four years. Forgot most of it...
Did Nele say no to the hammer?
Sheesh
the non-silent e at the of words is quite the trap.
fun fact, so puma and adidas were started by 2 brothers who split after 30 years after ww2. they were making shoes known as geda's which were featured in the 1936 olympics. so adidas is just from his name, adolf "adi" dassler, and pumas, rudolph "rudi" dassler.
I'm Vietnamese. I'm learning English and please tell me how to learn effectively
Hi, here are some tips that's worked for me. You can watch movies and tv shows in English with subtitles also in English, so that way you'll practice your listening skills until you get to the point where you won't need the subtitles anymore and you'll also be learning a lot of words. About the pronunciation, you can start making daily short videos, that's 2 to 3 minutes, speaking in English. You can talk about anything in these videos and you don't really need to plan or make a script to do it, just pick up your phone randomly anytime of the day and start recording you speaking in English. Try to do one video per day at different parts of the day (morning, midday, midnight, afternoon etc) and talk about different topics, like what you did that day or what you're planning to do etc. By doing that, you'll practice the most used grammar tenses in English (present, past and future) and also improve your pronunciation skills. To practice your writing skills you can write or reply to comments on youtube videos or any other social media you use. You can also write a blog or write down short paragraphs everyday, for example, talking about your day. The last thing you can do (that's what I'm doing right now) is to focus on reducing your accent and sound more native. This tip is optional but if you want do that just choose an English accent you like and start imitating it. Try to find patterns in the word's pronunciation and intonation, tips to sound more natural with that accent and watch videos from people who speak with that accent you chose. I've been doing that for a long time and my English is very good by now, I can understand movies and tv shows without subtitles and I can also speak clearly and naturally. I hope this helps you, good luck.
@@ThePraQNome ❤
I didn’t know some of these were German.😳
I NEVER HEARD SOMEONESAID ADIDAS LIKE THE AMERICAN WAY IN GERMANY
I loved the video but can you do swedish next😂🥺🇸🇪
Fun Fact Hefeweizen is not a brand 🙃
there are no 2 different ways to say "Adidas" in German there is just one right way...and every German who says otherwise simply don´t know what "Adidas" actually means.
"Adi" is the first name of the founder "Adi Dassler" and that first name is just said in 1 single way + adding the first 3 letters of his surname = "Das" = how "Adidas" is actually pronounced and it is just the shortening of an "actual name" and therefore there is simply no room for any other interpretation of pronunciation in German....just saying
Scardenburdenhardenbart😼
The American is actually really good with the accents
Porsche
yes it´sGerman