In fact, i recently returned from the Netherlands. I dont speak a word of this language, but as my English and my German are quite recognizable, i do get 80% of the written Dutch. Its incredible 😊
Sings are very easy there, but when someone addresses me in dutch i'm completly lost. Lucky that so many dutch people speak english, german or both. ;)
@@SweetSchnubbl Youre right. Maybe i phrased this poorly. What i wanted to say was, that all the times i have been in the netherlands on vacation, I could read what streetsigns, warningsigns and all other signs meant, just by being able to read German and being able to read English. (I can read English much better than I can write or speak it.xD) So I fully agree with your original comment and basically wanted to say: Me too! When you have some understanding of English and German you can read most of whats important in the Netherlands, when its written in Dutch and there is no translation.
@@hackbertgrutzkotz7653 thecstreet signs are alike pretty much all over the world. So if you passed your drivers licence, yiu shud be able to read sighn all over the world, as they are SIGNS, no language
English is a bit of a hybrid language. It has germanic grammatical structure but largely romance vocabulary (due to Latin and French historical influence). Also English is quite simpler than German, because despite some irregularities in English, the German grammar is vastly more complicated and morphable.
However, please note the following: This only works with standard German. But there are many regional dialects where this doesn't work. I come from northern Germany and we often still speak Low German here - these tricks don't work with our language. By the way, Low German is not a dialect, but a separate language that is spoken in northern Germany. If you would like to find out more about dialects and the linguistic diversity in Germany, I recommend the Passport Two channel: "22 different German dialects" Maybe this would be an interesting reaction video for them
Low German is much closer to Dutch and thus even less distinct from English. So yes, consonant shifts may not work there but often aren't necessary anyways. Biggest problem learning German isn't word spelling but word order and ridiculous compound words paired with more elaborate grammar. Well not as messed up as Romanic languages but still more verbose than English. And spoken German has even more phonetic shifts adding another level of complexity.
@@benne_drakenpancer Du hest recht, Plattdüütsch is dat Nedderlannsche temlich ähnlich, aver dat is trotzdem en starven Spraak, ok wenn een versöcht, ehr to wahren.
German words are not so complicated. In fact the pronunciation is much more consistent than in English. Most letters are spoken and there are not many rules to how to speak a letter. But like in English there are no special letters for long and short sounds like in Hindi, so some things you just will have to know. But you will not find such nonsense as this: ua-cam.com/users/shortsBjsa5vy2G5o?si=tr2jUTaEhtXKQbak 🤣 The hill to climb for English natives are the 3 grammatical genders, that will influence adjectives and more. Also the 4 cases are so important but when you got the hang of it you benefit from a huge flexibility in the sentence structure … well, or you will be confused at all. In German you can switch the parts of a sentence into different order depending on what you like to emphasise a bit more. „Die Mutter singt dem Kind ein Lied.” means the same as „Dem Kind singt die Mutter ein Lied.” means the same as „Ein Lied singt die Mutter dem Kind.” 🤪
I go home-ich geh heim,yup these are related languages😂 english has more latin words,but we also use most of them in different context "related"f.e .as "in Relation zu" in relation to,so we know the meaning.also in science or medicine of course.
Unfortunatly little tricks like this cant solve all problems or "cheat" a language instead of learning it. Because now he just needs to come up with another nice trick to make himself stop pronouncing every german word wrong. The Guy is such an amazing language expert that he managed to pronounce almost every single german word in this video compleatly wrong and in an ugly way. He is not speaking german, he is speaking what english speakers think is german. Where does he get his pronunciation from? From guessing? Thats a bad idea when you are pretending to teach people a language and actually youre saying everything wrong and ugly. He also just assumes for whatever reason that a ß would just replace an ss which is complete BS and its the reason why he pronounces "Fuß" as if it was written "Fuss" 😩😩😩 buddy there is a reason why we use a different letter for this and it should actually make it easier, because the letter is there to show you 'look. Different letter, different pronunciation." But he just says its the same as an "ss"🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Its no problem to not be able to speak a language, but its a really big problem when you are pretending to be so good at it... he could at least tell the people that they should not focus on or copy his pronunciation because its not german at all and sounds very ugly and people interested in german watch this and believe this would be how you pronounce things and repeat it, he should tell his viewers before the video that he doesnt know how to pronounce german words.
@@bobbyg1068 read my comment first then maybe you would understand more and no his information is not accurate at all. And no i dont need help to read it because unlike him, i am german.
@@Shark34500 I did read your comment otherwise I would not have responded. And I believe he speaks English very well and is knowledgeable about the history of the language and its relationship with German. And I was using the impersonal 'you', not saying you personally need help to read German. The video is simply a set of tricks to help English speakers to translate German, not to speak it.
@@Shark34500 anyway yes his information about Germanic sound shifts and Grimm's law is very accurate, which is what I said, his linguistics information, not his pronunciation. That would be a problem if the video was for teaching you to speak German, but it isn't, it's a set of translation tricks.
You are half way there. Yes, they are all indo-european, but they did originate not in India, but, well half way between Europe and India. There are differing theories, but they basically boild down to the origin being a bit north or south of the caucasus. And later those languages spread out from there to the north-west and south-east, to Europe and India.
German is not a difficult language! I learned it as a toddler! 😉 😂😂
In fact, i recently returned from the Netherlands.
I dont speak a word of this language, but as my English and my German are quite recognizable, i do get 80% of the written Dutch. Its incredible 😊
Sings are very easy there, but when someone addresses me in dutch i'm completly lost. Lucky that so many dutch people speak english, german or both. ;)
@@hackbertgrutzkotz7653 i never talked about signs BUT THE WRITTEN LANGUAGE.
@@SweetSchnubbl Youre right. Maybe i phrased this poorly. What i wanted to say was, that all the times i have been in the netherlands on vacation, I could read what streetsigns, warningsigns and all other signs meant, just by being able to read German and being able to read English. (I can read English much better than I can write or speak it.xD) So I fully agree with your original comment and basically wanted to say: Me too! When you have some understanding of English and German you can read most of whats important in the Netherlands, when its written in Dutch and there is no translation.
@@hackbertgrutzkotz7653 thecstreet signs are alike pretty much all over the world.
So if you passed your drivers licence, yiu shud be able to read sighn all over the world, as they are SIGNS, no language
You did sooo much better than any other reactor!!!awesome! Smart people.❤
He does many great videos
Really a good video of the guy and it’s sweet to see how for you two a new world is opening 😄 greetings from Germany
The video even impressed me as a German
English is a bit of a hybrid language. It has germanic grammatical structure but largely romance vocabulary (due to Latin and French historical influence). Also English is quite simpler than German, because despite some irregularities in English, the German grammar is vastly more complicated and morphable.
It's a hidden lecture about language evolution-to read dutch is even easier for both,english and german speakers.
If it was only that easy. I learned to read German by reading the Bildzeitung.🤣
However, please note the following: This only works with standard German. But there are many regional dialects where this doesn't work. I come from northern Germany and we often still speak Low German here - these tricks don't work with our language. By the way, Low German is not a dialect, but a separate language that is spoken in northern Germany. If you would like to find out more about dialects and the linguistic diversity in Germany, I recommend the Passport Two channel: "22 different German dialects"
Maybe this would be an interesting reaction video for them
Low German is much closer to Dutch and thus even less distinct from English. So yes, consonant shifts may not work there but often aren't necessary anyways.
Biggest problem learning German isn't word spelling but word order and ridiculous compound words paired with more elaborate grammar. Well not as messed up as Romanic languages but still more verbose than English.
And spoken German has even more phonetic shifts adding another level of complexity.
@@benne_drakenpancer Du hest recht, Plattdüütsch is dat Nedderlannsche temlich ähnlich, aver dat is trotzdem en starven Spraak, ok wenn een versöcht, ehr to wahren.
German words are not so complicated. In fact the pronunciation is much more consistent than in English. Most letters are spoken and there are not many rules to how to speak a letter. But like in English there are no special letters for long and short sounds like in Hindi, so some things you just will have to know. But you will not find such nonsense as this: ua-cam.com/users/shortsBjsa5vy2G5o?si=tr2jUTaEhtXKQbak 🤣
The hill to climb for English natives are the 3 grammatical genders, that will influence adjectives and more. Also the 4 cases are so important but when you got the hang of it you benefit from a huge flexibility in the sentence structure … well, or you will be confused at all. In German you can switch the parts of a sentence into different order depending on what you like to emphasise a bit more.
„Die Mutter singt dem Kind ein Lied.” means the same as „Dem Kind singt die Mutter ein Lied.” means the same as „Ein Lied singt die Mutter dem Kind.” 🤪
I go home-ich geh heim,yup these are related languages😂 english has more latin words,but we also use most of them in different context "related"f.e .as "in Relation zu" in relation to,so we know the meaning.also in science or medicine of course.
Unfortunatly little tricks like this cant solve all problems or "cheat" a language instead of learning it. Because now he just needs to come up with another nice trick to make himself stop pronouncing every german word wrong.
The Guy is such an amazing language expert that he managed to pronounce almost every single german word in this video compleatly wrong and in an ugly way.
He is not speaking german, he is speaking what english speakers think is german. Where does he get his pronunciation from? From guessing?
Thats a bad idea when you are pretending to teach people a language and actually youre saying everything wrong and ugly.
He also just assumes for whatever reason that a ß would just replace an ss which is complete BS and its the reason why he pronounces "Fuß" as if it was written "Fuss" 😩😩😩 buddy there is a reason why we use a different letter for this and it should actually make it easier, because the letter is there to show you 'look. Different letter, different pronunciation."
But he just says its the same as an "ss"🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Its no problem to not be able to speak a language, but its a really big problem when you are pretending to be so good at it... he could at least tell the people that they should not focus on or copy his pronunciation because its not german at all and sounds very ugly and people interested in german watch this and believe this would be how you pronounce things and repeat it, he should tell his viewers before the video that he doesnt know how to pronounce german words.
He doesn't claim he will teach you to speak German, only that he can help you read it. His linguistics information is accurate.
@@bobbyg1068 read my comment first then maybe you would understand more and no his information is not accurate at all. And no i dont need help to read it because unlike him, i am german.
@@Shark34500 I did read your comment otherwise I would not have responded. And I believe he speaks English very well and is knowledgeable about the history of the language and its relationship with German. And I was using the impersonal 'you', not saying you personally need help to read German. The video is simply a set of tricks to help English speakers to translate German, not to speak it.
@@Shark34500 anyway yes his information about Germanic sound shifts and Grimm's law is very accurate, which is what I said, his linguistics information, not his pronunciation. That would be a problem if the video was for teaching you to speak German, but it isn't, it's a set of translation tricks.
All those languages are Indo-Germanic, because they came from India originally.
wrong. They are Indo-Germanic/Indo-European because they share a common ancestor. Thats why Indo AND Germanic/European and not just 'Indo'.
You are half way there. Yes, they are all indo-european, but they did originate not in India, but, well half way between Europe and India. There are differing theories, but they basically boild down to the origin being a bit north or south of the caucasus. And later those languages spread out from there to the north-west and south-east, to Europe and India.
The oldest known Indo European language is Hittite, which is basically Turkey now