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That is true. But it also is true that a language with many guttural sounds will sound more agressive to a non speaker than one without. the same neutral sentence uttered in different languages wil be rated as nicer sounding or more aggressive sounding depending on some linguistics. That is not a problem in itself I think, it will become a problem if you judge the person based on that without asking what they actually said. I love learning languages and as a german it is often hard to get the more melodic languages right, my swedish teacher keeps on telling me I sound either depressed or angry, because of my speach pattern. On the other hand he sounds a bit silly and possibly drunk to me when he tries to speak german, because he cant stop the melody going up and down a lot and he does not seperate the words from each other as is done in german.
Yes, when yelling it might sound more aggressive than some other languages. For example I have heard people say that even cursing in French sounds nice. But generally people in Germany don't yell much, but speak rather slowly and quietly, with soft pronounciations. 200-300 years ago, I'm pretty sure German was not conisdered ugly. There were a lot of beautiful popular German books and poems which are still the same, but the world wars changed the image. Another aspect which I am not so sure about are the compound words. Firstly, it's not the only language that does it that way. There's other Germanic languages (e. g. Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Finnish) who have long words without spaces too. But secondly, English just puts spaces in between there, but when you talk the "word with spaces" describing the same thing as the German word are similar in length; so it's harder to read in German, but isn't "seven hundred seventy thousand seven hundred seventy seven" and "siebenhundertsiebensiebzigtausendsiebenhundertsiebenundsiebzig" basically the same?
German woman here... I actually find it extremely sad when our beautiful language is always put down like this and called aggressive everywhere! EVERY language is beautiful and interesting in itself and deserves to be appreciated or at least not devalued. And yes - I feel personally offended when I hear Americans, for example, shouting and screaming and screeching out the German language in a totally choppy way and with the wildest accent imaginable. Of course EVERY language sounds aggressive when misused in this way! What many people don't understand is that German is a very logical language, which is actually very easy to learn. Even our many compound words are logical and follow a simple principle: take 2 or more existing words, string them together and voilà, you have a fully functional word to describe something - but you don't have to "invent" a new word... So anyone can create new words whose meaning can be understood immediately. Absolutely simple... ^^ Btw: these mega long words that are often given as examples in such videos are not really used in everyday language! There is a separate word for this (of course 😆): "Beamtendeutsch" (words that are only used by civil servants in explanations, legal texts and the like). And as you can see, this is a great example of a compound word that EVERYONE intuitively understands: Beamten (civil servant) + Deutsch (German) = civil-servant-german. WE have ONE SINGLE word for this - in English it takes a whole sentence to describe this official gobbledygook... Which is easier to remember? And what is also annoying and sad about this stereotype: it is often not only said that the German LANGUAGE sounds aggressive, oh no - from an allegedly aggressive sounding language it is then also directly inferred to the general behavior of the normal German! Yes of course, we Germans are all aggressive... Grrr, how I hate that! I find it insulting. It would never occur to me personally to denigrate another language as "dirty" or "aggressive" just because it sounds different from my mother tongue! I have learned various languages (English, Italian, French, Croatian, Spanish, Dutch) and tried others, but unfortunately failed (Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Greek). The main reason for my failure was that it was virtually impossible for me to form the sound sequences etc. - simply because they differ so much from my own language. Is that why I call these languages aggressive or hard or something else? No, I am not! They are simply different, nothing more... The bad thing is that most of these self-proclaimed language experts don't have the slightest idea what German REALLY sounds like! The Americans in particular only imitate the creepy pronunciation and intonation of Hitler (whose actual voice sounded completely different when he wasn't giving speeches... Besides, this way of speaking is a very old stage technique, which is still taught and used in theaters etc. today). Besides, Germans don't shout at each other all day long - such nonsense... I'm really tempted to make a video on the subject myself and show how aggressive OTHER languages sound when you "bark" them out in this way...
If you watch old newscasts from like the twenties they all scream like Adolf. It was just the popular style. Now everyone's sounding serious and collected.
I often don't like the sound of female voices in English. It often sounds so shrill, loud and high-pitched to my ears. But maybe that's just my personal impression. But you're right, any language can sound harsh and aggressive, especially when you're angry.
It's a very nice explanation but even tho it's true. Don't think it's the biggest reason, all the non native German speakers that aren't actually learning the language but just wanna say a sentence of trying to make a German accent including the comedians in the video. It just sounds like there's trying to sound like Hitler. I speak 4 languages and no language i know about gives so many options to describe complex emotions in single words or give emotion more detail/Nuance like German. When I had Therapy in a different language then German my mother tongue, it was incredibly hard to do to this reason even tho my other 3 main languages are just as good but they don't have the same words to communicate precisely.
Or use the actual History and say that While everyone modernized their language in the times of the Great founder and his disciples german kept their language from the middle ages.
Before 1933 nobody considered German as sounding harsh or aggressive - that says it all. Until then german was THE most important language in the intellectual world and much of the scientific world. And just think of all this terrible music men like Bach, Händel, Brahms, Schubert, Wagner, Mozart, Beethoven produced !! Or think of Schiller's "Ode to Joy" - so full of hate.....
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Yes, I think you have a good point here: People can speak aggressively in every language 😅Greetings from Germany 😅🙂
Tone makes or breaks every language
bullshit die USA is not better,She haves Gun and dead Children and Peopel.....thats disgusting........
nope
@@circemuller1933 name me one language TAHT doesn't sound harsch than you speak aggressively only One
That is true. But it also is true that a language with many guttural sounds will sound more agressive to a non speaker than one without. the same neutral sentence uttered in different languages wil be rated as nicer sounding or more aggressive sounding depending on some linguistics. That is not a problem in itself I think, it will become a problem if you judge the person based on that without asking what they actually said. I love learning languages and as a german it is often hard to get the more melodic languages right, my swedish teacher keeps on telling me I sound either depressed or angry, because of my speach pattern. On the other hand he sounds a bit silly and possibly drunk to me when he tries to speak german, because he cant stop the melody going up and down a lot and he does not seperate the words from each other as is done in german.
much love from germany here, always happy to see someone give our language a shot :D
German has always sounded melodical and loving and caring to me, I always ascociate German with the most wonderful Christmas.
Well russian also sounds aggressive until you listen to my co-worker talking to her dog. It sounds like she loves him.
Yes, when yelling it might sound more aggressive than some other languages. For example I have heard people say that even cursing in French sounds nice.
But generally people in Germany don't yell much, but speak rather slowly and quietly, with soft pronounciations.
200-300 years ago, I'm pretty sure German was not conisdered ugly. There were a lot of beautiful popular German books and poems which are still the same, but the world wars changed the image.
Another aspect which I am not so sure about are the compound words. Firstly, it's not the only language that does it that way. There's other Germanic languages (e. g. Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Finnish) who have long words without spaces too. But secondly, English just puts spaces in between there, but when you talk the "word with spaces" describing the same thing as the German word are similar in length; so it's harder to read in German, but isn't "seven hundred seventy thousand seven hundred seventy seven" and "siebenhundertsiebensiebzigtausendsiebenhundertsiebenundsiebzig" basically the same?
German woman here...
I actually find it extremely sad when our beautiful language is always put down like this and called aggressive everywhere! EVERY language is beautiful and interesting in itself and deserves to be appreciated or at least not devalued. And yes - I feel personally offended when I hear Americans, for example, shouting and screaming and screeching out the German language in a totally choppy way and with the wildest accent imaginable. Of course EVERY language sounds aggressive when misused in this way!
What many people don't understand is that German is a very logical language, which is actually very easy to learn. Even our many compound words are logical and follow a simple principle: take 2 or more existing words, string them together and voilà, you have a fully functional word to describe something - but you don't have to "invent" a new word... So anyone can create new words whose meaning can be understood immediately. Absolutely simple... ^^ Btw: these mega long words that are often given as examples in such videos are not really used in everyday language! There is a separate word for this (of course 😆): "Beamtendeutsch" (words that are only used by civil servants in explanations, legal texts and the like). And as you can see, this is a great example of a compound word that EVERYONE intuitively understands: Beamten (civil servant) + Deutsch (German) = civil-servant-german. WE have ONE SINGLE word for this - in English it takes a whole sentence to describe this official gobbledygook... Which is easier to remember?
And what is also annoying and sad about this stereotype: it is often not only said that the German LANGUAGE sounds aggressive, oh no - from an allegedly aggressive sounding language it is then also directly inferred to the general behavior of the normal German! Yes of course, we Germans are all aggressive... Grrr, how I hate that!
I find it insulting. It would never occur to me personally to denigrate another language as "dirty" or "aggressive" just because it sounds different from my mother tongue! I have learned various languages (English, Italian, French, Croatian, Spanish, Dutch) and tried others, but unfortunately failed (Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Greek). The main reason for my failure was that it was virtually impossible for me to form the sound sequences etc. - simply because they differ so much from my own language. Is that why I call these languages aggressive or hard or something else? No, I am not! They are simply different, nothing more...
The bad thing is that most of these self-proclaimed language experts don't have the slightest idea what German REALLY sounds like! The Americans in particular only imitate the creepy pronunciation and intonation of Hitler (whose actual voice sounded completely different when he wasn't giving speeches... Besides, this way of speaking is a very old stage technique, which is still taught and used in theaters etc. today).
Besides, Germans don't shout at each other all day long - such nonsense...
I'm really tempted to make a video on the subject myself and show how aggressive OTHER languages sound when you "bark" them out in this way...
Have you heard Silent Night being sung in German? Pure love!
@giobozzde you should listen to silent night in german ("Stille Nacht")
you give pronouncing these words your best and i personally think you do it really great best regards from germany
German is a LEGO Language!
Yes, you are just a nice person.
we are not yelling all day, that might be the difference. they mostly use the adolf sound^^
If you watch old newscasts from like the twenties they all scream like Adolf. It was just the popular style. Now everyone's sounding serious and collected.
I often don't like the sound of female voices in English. It often sounds so shrill, loud and high-pitched to my ears. But maybe that's just my personal impression. But you're right, any language can sound harsh and aggressive, especially when you're angry.
It's a very nice explanation but even tho it's true. Don't think it's the biggest reason, all the non native German speakers that aren't actually learning the language but just wanna say a sentence of trying to make a German accent including the comedians in the video. It just sounds like there's trying to sound like Hitler.
I speak 4 languages and no language i know about gives so many options to describe complex emotions in single words or give emotion more detail/Nuance like German.
When I had Therapy in a different language then German my mother tongue, it was incredibly hard to do to this reason even tho my other 3 main languages are just as good but they don't have the same words to communicate precisely.
Or use the actual History and say that While everyone modernized their language in the times of the Great founder and his disciples german kept their language from the middle ages.
German doesn't sound aggressive. So, the question itself is wrong already.
And Hitler was part Austrian and part Jewish. Talk about hating yourself. And prejudice.
sry to disappoint you but Hitler was not jewish
Before 1933 nobody considered German as sounding harsh or aggressive - that says it all.
Until then german was THE most important language in the intellectual world and much of the scientific world.
And just think of all this terrible music men like Bach, Händel, Brahms, Schubert, Wagner, Mozart, Beethoven produced !!
Or think of Schiller's "Ode to Joy" - so full of hate.....
GERMANS ARE NOT AGGRESSIV! LOOK TO OTHER COUNTRIES 😡😡😡😡