Great and unexpected video from you! I love Essen and I've been following you for many years now, starting when I lived in SE England like you seem to do. Anyway, let's practice the pronounciation of some of the cities' names! Let's start with Bochum: think of a Scottish Loch and you've got the ch sound right for this one! The ch in Gelsenkirchen is pronounced differently, think of the beginning of "huge" and you've got it pretty much. Apart from Düsseldorf and Krefeld all the cities in your chart are part of the former coal mining and steel production area, the 'Ruhrgebiet' or Ruhr area.
On my 9 euro adventure around Germany, the pronunciation seems to vary a lot between areas. "Nächste halt" is sometimes said as "Nexter hale-t" , and sometimes "Nester Harlt". "Hauptbahnhof" is sometimes said as "Hopt-bahn-hof" , and sometimes "Haulpt-bahn-hof". There is quite a big different in accent. My least favorite is Frankfurt and Mannheim area. It is very gruff sounding. I like the Dusseldorf and Hannover area accent, it is kind of softer. I also like the Austria accent as it is very soft and sounds like the German version of the posh English accent. The Berlin accent is very interesting, it is very loud in your face.
@@benolifts Oh yes, Germany's got loads of accents and dialects, just as the UK do and probably any other country. Ranging from the "high German", the most purest form, in the Hannover area over only slight accents like in Hamburg, Düsseldorf or the Ruhrgebiet up to very strong accents or rather dialects in Bavaria (in the villages in the countryside it's so thick that somebody from outside is pretty much unable to understand anything) or Saxonia. In some areas in Northern Germany mostly (but not exlusively) older people also speak some form of "Platt", an old low German which is also not understandable for outsiders. And then there are the Austrian, Swiss and Northern Italian German accents and dialects and quite a few more. It's interesting to hear that these rather small differences are so obvious even to a foreigner. But then I also noticed them when I lived in the UK, struggling with the lady of my car insurance from Glasgow, the guide in the show mine in the Black Country Museum or the carpenter in Faversham... Later on I was able to understand most people, but certainly not all of them first time or at all.
The graphic is not correct the partion subway logo should be in Dortmund, Essen and Mülheim instead of Düsseldorf as Düsseldorf did not have any fully grade seperated line while Dortmund and Essen have. Bochum is an edge case as it misses the full grade seperation only at 4 crossings. The S-Bahn did not extend to Krefeld but to Cologne but the S-Bahn on the eastern side of the Rhine between Düsseldorf and Cologne is temporary seperated due to construction.
Yes. The trains had a lot of work done to convert them. They seem to run better in Essen than the B92 trains do in London. It feels like London got a downgrade. I am not old enough to have seen the P trains when they were in London. Would be interesting to see how they performed.
Great and unexpected video from you! I love Essen and I've been following you for many years now, starting when I lived in SE England like you seem to do.
Anyway, let's practice the pronounciation of some of the cities' names! Let's start with Bochum: think of a Scottish Loch and you've got the ch sound right for this one! The ch in Gelsenkirchen is pronounced differently, think of the beginning of "huge" and you've got it pretty much.
Apart from Düsseldorf and Krefeld all the cities in your chart are part of the former coal mining and steel production area, the 'Ruhrgebiet' or Ruhr area.
On my 9 euro adventure around Germany, the pronunciation seems to vary a lot between areas.
"Nächste halt" is sometimes said as "Nexter hale-t" , and sometimes "Nester Harlt".
"Hauptbahnhof" is sometimes said as "Hopt-bahn-hof" , and sometimes "Haulpt-bahn-hof".
There is quite a big different in accent. My least favorite is Frankfurt and Mannheim area. It is very gruff sounding. I like the Dusseldorf and Hannover area accent, it is kind of softer. I also like the Austria accent as it is very soft and sounds like the German version of the posh English accent. The Berlin accent is very interesting, it is very loud in your face.
@@benolifts Oh yes, Germany's got loads of accents and dialects, just as the UK do and probably any other country. Ranging from the "high German", the most purest form, in the Hannover area over only slight accents like in Hamburg, Düsseldorf or the Ruhrgebiet up to very strong accents or rather dialects in Bavaria (in the villages in the countryside it's so thick that somebody from outside is pretty much unable to understand anything) or Saxonia. In some areas in Northern Germany mostly (but not exlusively) older people also speak some form of "Platt", an old low German which is also not understandable for outsiders. And then there are the Austrian, Swiss and Northern Italian German accents and dialects and quite a few more.
It's interesting to hear that these rather small differences are so obvious even to a foreigner. But then I also noticed them when I lived in the UK, struggling with the lady of my car insurance from Glasgow, the guide in the show mine in the Black Country Museum or the carpenter in Faversham... Later on I was able to understand most people, but certainly not all of them first time or at all.
Essen does have such amazing trains and trams. Just like other cities in Germany.
Cheap flight adventure to Essen? Also my cousin lives in Dusseldorf.
When will you upload videos about lifts again?
The graphic is not correct the partion subway logo should be in Dortmund, Essen and Mülheim instead of Düsseldorf as Düsseldorf did not have any fully grade seperated line while Dortmund and Essen have. Bochum is an edge case as it misses the full grade seperation only at 4 crossings. The S-Bahn did not extend to Krefeld but to Cologne but the S-Bahn on the eastern side of the Rhine between Düsseldorf and Cologne is temporary seperated due to construction.
Does that mean I should expect a cheap flight adventure tp Essen?
Will you do a comparison of trams in munich?
Are you consid4ering going to the US/Canada? I imagine you'd get a kick out of some of the metro systems we have here.
Was waiting to hear the next station is bank
Nächster Halt Bank
Nächste Haltestelle, Philosophenweg..
Moin moin all ze vay, all ze vay.
Omgggg I‘m from Essen
Nice.
Be on can you do more wheelie bin is hungry
First and EARLY!!! I LOVE YOUR CONTENT!! KEEP it UPPP!!!!
Hey there, I’m Jinn!
You ain’t seen the pearl river delta
Isn't DLR 3rd rail?
Yes. The trains had a lot of work done to convert them. They seem to run better in Essen than the B92 trains do in London. It feels like London got a downgrade. I am not old enough to have seen the P trains when they were in London. Would be interesting to see how they performed.
The class P86 and P89 were transferred from Docklands Light Railway to Essen Stadtbahn in 1991 when they got replaced by B90 and B92 rolling stocks.
Hey Austin this is guys
Austin ist eine Mülltonne (Austin is a wheelie bin)