German VS American VS British
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2017
- Who had it better? School, food...OTHERS?! Find out in todays' British VS American VS German!
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Her accent is amazingly close to native English. I'd barely notice she wasn't??!
izzy a some Germans got this
Yeah, the fact that she is so fluent in English, has an basically English accent, then can instantly snap back to German with a German accent... that's very impressive
I met a Thai guy at work (I live in the UK) and he sounded American. I think it depends on where they learn to speak English.
I think it depends on the person and how well they can copy accents (and how well they feel doing that without feeling stupid) and practising it. It's a little bit like singing. Some people hear the little differences between the pronunciation and others have problems with that.
Most Germans I have talked to I wouldn’t have known they were a non-native speaker. I’ve also noticed the same with some natives from some Scandinavian countries. It’s pretty wild.
i'm learning german at the moment, my favourite words are ohrwurm ("ear worm"- when a song is stuck in your head), quatsch (nonsense), imbissstube (snack bar- it has three s'!), lebensmüde (tired of life), handschuhe ("hand shoes"- gloves), warteschlange ("waiting snake"- a long queue), anything with 'zeug'- flugzeug ("fly thing"- aeroplane), fahrzeug ("drive thing"- vehicle), and OF COURSE GLÜHBIRNE! SO DANG CUTE
Before the spelling reform of 1996, there were no words with 3 consecutive letters. Imbissstube was Imbißstube back then.
Wolfram Sandig yes, that's what my teacher explained. i usually still use an eszett for most words (not sure why haha, it looks better??) but i quite like the novelty of three consecutive letters
Not all ß's got dropped, only if they follow a short vowel like in Imbiss, Fass, Schloss. If they follow a long vowel, they stay. e.g. Fuß, weiß, Maß.
Also, if a word would have theoretically be written with 3 consecutive letters, before the reform the third letter was just dropped. So Schifffahrt was spelled Schiffahrt, for example.
Wolfram Sandig i had learnt that rule at some point, but i find it easier to just use an ß, german already has so many rules! that's interesting about the three consecutive letters, i like how german just mushes nouns together to make one word :)
Jessica R sorry but usually you say "Imbissbude" in German and not "Imbissstube";)
She's such a typical Berlin girl :D
I think she represents Berlin, not Germany hahaha
As someone who know very little about Germany this is so interesting!
What do you see - ? I was so surprised that she was from Berlin. She looked like a girl from a smaller city - for me..
Lea Maro I lived in Manheim Germany
Am German, not Berlin, don't see how she's not representative.
This sounds like such a german thing to say. Considering she said everyone is more proud of their region rather than the country... unless you're not german. In which case, ignore me.
"the Scandinavians own biking"
:cries in dutch
Also... Swedes and Norwegians pretty much don't have bikes at all, because there's mountains and a lot of snow. They have skies.
QUESTION: why do english speakers think that english is difficult to learn???? like it is seriously one of the easiest languages to learn??????? pls someone answer meeee
Aneth Ochoa because we hear our whole lives that English is the hardest language to learn.
I thought it would be hard to learn because there's lots of slang and lots of different words that all mean the same thing
I'm an Australian but I only began learning English when I started day-care/preschool and I found it very difficult. I think it has to do with pronunciation and how words can mean something entirely different based on the context. Even now, I struggle with English and I've been speaking it for almost 17 years
I’m from Mexico and I never found it really hard, but yeah maybe it depends on how close you are to a place that speaks english and how often you use/hear it. I think that german is MUCH harder haha, or any other language really, like french because those have very specific pronunciation
Esmeralda GamgeeTook may I ask what language you spoke before learning English?
I had to laugh when she said she feels safe about her phone in Berlin. I am from Stuttgart and personally know at least 5 people who went to Berlin and returned without their phones :D
I guess we have a whole other level of safety here in Spätzleland.
Dukhanstmichmal Spätzleland wie geil 😂😂
Ich lebe seit 20 Jahren in Berlin und kenne niemanden, dem was gestohlen wurde. Keine Ahnung, was deine Freunde falsch machen
SpätzleLand omg 😂😂
That's probably because they don't live in Berlin. Thieves notice you don't live here, they see whether someone is an easy target and who isn't.
Ich bin auch aus der Spätzlelandhauptstadt :)
its always weird to see an english video about your country :'D
I mean, it wasn't just about your country.
In Berlin klauen se dir nur das weed😂
das ist einfach so wahr
In Hessen regieren die Türken gefühlt xD
Und in Bayern ist die SChule am SChwersten :(
Janis Vcraft44 isso
und ist dreckig
It's so fucking weird to open youtube, click on Evans new upload and see your old elementary school classmate sitting next to him. What the aCTUAL FUCK! Good for you babe
Wer hätte das damals gedacht, was? :D
Oh Evan English is so easy compared to other languages
Gosia Berendt it depends if you just want to speak English or if you want to write English. There are so ooo many words that sound alike but are spelled differently and mean 2 totally different things. For example knight (you don't speak the k) and night. I have been around a lot of people who learned English as a second language and speaking they are fine but their spelling and their grammar is absolutely terrible. I know in Spanish and German words are spoken the same way as they are spelled. When I was learning Spanish and German my spelling was 95% of the time perfect because things are spelled the way they are spoken. German my grammar was pretty good also because English grammar and German grammar are pretty much the same.
Jessica Ely I know right? When I was learning French, my teacher was from France and there were barely any irregulars unless it had something to do with a vowel at the beginning of a sentence. My teacher would tell us a general rule and then tell us there were some exceptions, but she couldn’t think of them off of the top of her head. In English, I could think of around ten exceptions to like every rule.
@Jessica Ely Totally agree, I'm a native speaker of English, and I've really messed up when it comes to words that sound the same but are spelled differently. You have the obvious ones, like your and you're but then you have things like upon and a pawn. I've had to think for a solid 5 minutes thinking how exactly I could spell something because I couldn't sound it out.
Helen Cui as If those words didn't exist in German
I think that German is waaay more harder than English because English grammer is very simple but German grammer has a lot of rules and exceptions. I have been learning German for 2 years and I think that its grammer is nothing alike English grammer.
Nein, in Deutschland gibt es keine Beschränkung der Amtszeit für dern/die Kanzler/in.
Oh das ist großartig
Naja nach 4 Jahren wird halt neu gewählt
Anna said there is a maximum of 4 sessions for the Bundeskanzler but in Fact there is absolutly no cap for that.
Came here expecting a terrible German accent but I'm surprised in a positive way! Looove Annes voice and accent 🙏🏻 and Evan you really impressed me with your German skills!
The German accent is generally nice!!!
ShirtsandSkirts actually some people speak like her. (E.g. Me after living 1 week in an English speaking country)
hohu Eigenlob stinkt. In deinem Fall bis zum Himmel
WHAT? SO YOU DONT LIKE SE DSHÖRMEN PANZERCLOCK ACCENT?
I hate when some of us have this terrible accent, that really goes on my boobs😥😂.
German is much harder to learn than english. I'm dutch and I have to learn both language in school and at home and I've struggled (and still do) with german a lot and English is the same as dutch for me, it comes naturally.
Ik vind het juist andersom.
Met latijn had ik de grammatica al gehad en met Engels deden ze rare dingen. (Ze probeerden je na de 3e al het examenniveau te laten halen.)
Bij lezen en verstaan heb ik gewoon geluk dat ik vaker dialecten hoor. Dan is het makkelijker om woorden uit de context te halen.
Well the Döner Kebap was invented in Berlin, but by a Turkish guy if i remember correctly
what’s maybe a difference to other languages is that the German dialects are nearly all of them not only a change in phonetic but also grammar and new vocabulary (not like a few words, more like a thousand). In Baden-Württemberg alone you have 3-4 dialects in Bavaria you have 4 and what I find most interestingly is Hessen as in Hessen there are several smaller dialects with a lot of vocabulary needed (für die deutschen: einfach mal das Hessenquiz im HR anschauen - das ist eine Fremdsprache und nichts anderes, trotz relativer regionaler Nähe versteht man da einfach nichts), Plattdeutsch is also Kind of another language (and there are also dialects in the Ruhrpott as well which I wouldn’t see as another language like Bavarian, Schwäbisch, badisch, Nord- Mittel- Südhessisch, because it mostly changes phonetics but doesn’t add new words to it).
So yeah I’m pretty sure there are more than 10 dialects in German. If it’s more than in the UK I can’t really assess.
Bayern hat mehr als 4 Dialekte. Man kann vielleicht vier grobe Regionen nach Regierungsbezirken (Schwaben, Ober- und Niederbayern, Ober-, Unter- und Mittelfranken, Oberpfalz) mit ähnlicher Sprechweise festlegen. Aber allein der Fränkische Dialekt hat eine so große Varianz, dass es in Würzburg (Unterfranken) völlig anders klingt und funktioniert als in Bamberg (Oberfranken) oder Nürnberg (Mittelfranken). Zusätzlich spricht man um Aschaffenburg herum eher hessisch.
Für Gesamtdeutschland kommt man hier www.dw.com/de/deutsch-lernen/dialektatlas/s-8150 bereits auf 20 Dialekte, die sich aber sehr wahrscheinlich alle noch in kleinere Mundarten zerlegen lassen.
Ruhrpott doesnt add words, but unites words: hömma, sachma, tuma, weissewatt? :D
Schwäbisch hat sooo komische neue Wörter, ich bin gebürtig schwäbisch, lebe in Stuttgart, aber weil meine Eltern beide nicht von dort sind und ich demnach richtiges Schwäbisch nur in der Schule und eben außer Haus höre, verstehe oft nicht mal ich solche Urschwaben. Da sind so seltsame Wörter und die normalen deutschen Wörter werden halb umgedichtet, das is echt schrecklich!😂
A dialect is very very hard to asses, because language is hard to asses. The difference between language and a dialect is an army. Bit reductive, but a language is essentially a dialect with power. And borders between languages ar even more difficult to define.
It's a continuum that has been affected by history (ie, nationalism in the 19th century for a large part, education played a large role in unifying dialects into a language) but if you look at local dialects, my Dutch grandma can speak Achterhoeks and go just over the border and be understood in the local dialect.
Both dialects are protected by the EU under the larger umbrella of Low Saxon/ Saxon dialects. So does that count as one? If we're looking at the Netherlands, Low Saxon includes Achterhoeks, Veluws, Drents, Twents and Gronings. So does that make for 5 dialects? There are still differences within say Achterhoeks, Liemers is it's own thing, and my grandmother can tell if someone is from a certain village based on accent and words (ie dialect). So you know, where we draw the line is basically arbitrary.
All the Germanic dialects from Northern Germany and Netherlands to the middle (I think) of Switzerland are on that spectrum with little changes every few kilometers that add up. The p/pf border is one small step that distinguishes most German from most Dutch dialects, appel/Apfel. But there's also the uu/oe difference within the Netherlands, huus/hoes. And they're not solid borders, like, my mother says huus, but not muus, that one is moes.
Take the kitchen cupboard in Swiss, to me it sounded very Dutch, but with ch/g sounds where I'd put a k, [keukenkastje] in Dutch.
You will learn how to understand dialects over time. You will learn how to take meaning out of the context and you will learn how to recognise the patterns.
To be honoust, that's the way I understand German. I tend to combine my knowledge of German with the context and what Dutch word seems to be like it. It works quite well, but some people tend to find the tactic realy hard to use.
I feel like americans would freak out when hearing about Finnish university. It costs the student nothing, and you can actually GET money from the school (as help to survive)
Same in Austria (almost 😊😊)
It was the same in England before 2010, when I went to uni, (a long time ago), you could also get a bigger grant (almost double) if you went after the age of 26 as a mature student.
That’s the same in Germany, the university us free, you usually have to pay something like 300 to the local student union, but they provide e.g. student housing and very cheap meals for that. And if you are poor, you can get BaFög, where you get like 700€ per month I think. Half of that is a loan you have to pay back after school, if you make enough money, after a while it gets forgiven if not paid back, if I remember correctly.
I have to disagree with Anne as there is not one accent per State. The accents do not follow state borders at all and there is more than one accent in most states or at least different variations of one accent.
Wolfram Sandig same in the netherlands we have 12 districs but the accent I have is the most common one so we can all understand each other
lmao in Bavaria there's a new accent every 5 kilometers. even in small towns. it's like a war
Seriously. Might be worse in the south, but bayrisch and fränkisch are def not the same, nor schwäbisch and badensisch.
and don't forget allemanisch! (basically swiss german mixed with the above)
yeah it's not even just about the 'big' dialects but even among them there are a thousand different variations. It's not just Bayrisch, Fränkisch, Schwäbisch, Badisch (heißt das badisch? xD) Pfälzisch, Reinländisch, Rheinhessisch, Hessisch, Saarländisch ... There are also some cities that have their very own dialect. And then even within a single accent there are so many variations. I grew up in Rhineland-Palatinate in the palatinate. In Mannheim, just across the Rhine they have their own dialect. And even among my native palatine dialect (which I actually can't say that good^^) there are people who can tell you exactly whether somebody is from Pirmasens, Neustadt Weinstraße or Landau just from the way they speak.
Deutsch and Dutch is practically the same word anyway. Also until around the 16th century people from the Netherlands were considered German too.
The divide mainly happened because Luther's bible translation into German, multiplied by Guttenberg, spread into all German areas and became the basis for modern day German. The big exception were the Netherlands though, where the people trying to spread Luther's bible were branded heretics and mostly killed (burned). Therefore the Dutch kept their old "German" dialect and developed into a somewhat seperate identity.
Btw as a German speaker I personally understand probably 75% of Swiss German and 50% of the Dutch language (a bit more when it is in written form).
Dutch is pretty similar to East-Fresian. If you were born and raised in that area understanding Dutch isn't that complicated. Speaking it though, is something different
my mother was born and raised near Moenchengladbach (not far from Holland). Her dialect is very similar to Dutch and she can understand Dutch very well.
I've seen so many videos like this but you two realy stood out because you seem very educated and considered. Had fun watching it, ihr seid echt sympathisch!
Good video but I have three remarks:
1. Merkel is in power for 12 years now this will be her 4th term if they manage to form a coalition but there is no term limit at all, so she could run again in 4 years its just not very likely that she will and 16 years is longest time a chancellor ruled in Germany. Well if we don't count Bismarck, who ruled for 19 years but that was during the German Empire.
2. There are more than one dialect per state in Germany. I read somewhere that there are more than 200 distinguishable dialects in Germany but googling now I found a map with 35. It probably depends on the definition of dialect. The situation is pretty comparable to the UK overall.
3. Healthcare is not provided by the state like in the UK with the NHS but by non-profit public or private sickness funds. Its universal because their is a legal mandate to be insured and these funds are heavily regulated, but they are not run by the state and no foreigner are not autocratically covered.
Wait so bismarck *isn't important to you*
Thank you
I'm pretty sure a German chancellor can run for as many terms as they like. 4 terms (16 years) is just the longest anyone has ever done :)
Charlotte Löhr Yep, there's no restriction on how many times a chancellor can get reelected. Just the president (Bundespräsident) can only do at max two terms (at five years each term).
Yes, the German constitution does separation of powers really badly (IMO) between the legislative and executive branches.
Still I would say that we are prettty far from a dictatorship ;). Arguably, the way parliament gets elected (kind of a mix of first past the post and relational representation) even is more fair than the pure majority vote in the UK and the US.
Somehow, when they made the president (our head of state is *not!* the chancellor) into a purely ceremonial role they still let the president's office keep the term limit whereas the head of the executive branch does not have one. But the chancellor needs a working Bundestag majority - technically a plurality can suffice in special conditions, but that provision has not been invoked so far.
By the way, the British premiership also lacks a term limit. Additionally, the election term for the commons is 5 years vs 4 for the Bundestag. So maybe we do not do so bad after all. (**cough** to say nothing about the "_term limit_" for a life peer in the House of Lords).
Guess you are German? The federal chancellor (Bundeskanzler) can run as often as he (or she) is voted.
There's no limit by law.
Yep, she definately brought up some misinformation in the clip. Also the thing about health insurance being covered by taxes for everyone is flat out wrong.
Why do you think the separation of powers is bad in germany?
I think it only makes sense to elect a cancellor in a coalition that has the majority in the Bundestag. This is a way to ensure, that the executive Branch can function properly and can have the backup of the Bundestag, if it needs to be.
Making the president the head of state and giving him a ceremonial role is actually a pretty smart move I think. The president does not hav a bias towards a party or the gouvernment. So the events he is going to are not misused for propaganda purpuses. He can focus on his dutys fulltime and doesnt have to "runt the country in the meantime". I think splitting these things up is a good way of dealing with that problem.
Brötchen, Schrippe, Bemme, Semmel those are the main ones.
Hmmm.. But Stulle is a slice of a big loaf of bread right? Not actually a brötchen.
We say Wecken/ Weckle :)
Donge, Knifte, Bütterchen
Weck
Laabla
Going fast on german highways - yeah my first driving lesson where I’ve ever been on a highway I went 215 km/h ... now that I have my license I usually go between 140 and 160, otherwise you just hold up traffic lmao
Evans constant shots at America were the funniest things as an American
Sorry but there are way more than 16 dialects. Baden Württemberg alone has two distinct ones: Swabian and Badnerisch. Bavaria has more than I can count with München, Franken, Niederbayern, Woid, Oberpfalz, ...................... There are many more.
ItIsMeMaybe Plus in Nordrhein-Westfalen only we have the dialects from Düsseldorf, Köln, the Ruhrgebiet, the Münsterland and some more that I don't know the names of, but it's definitly more than one per region/state
Bw I'd say has 3 at least, obsl the ones you mentioned as well as allemannisch
Even in Saarland there are around 10 and then within them, there are more than 2...
@@lottadum1451 The Sauerland has one as well ...
@@deadkadira4398 ..., woll? :D
Trust me, in german there are many more irregularities than in English😂
The real difficulty is knowing the genders. I've always found that so hard
Chiming in two years later, but I can't not: No, there aren't. German has a way more extensive system of inflections (that still pales in comparison to, say, Latin), but that has nothing to do with irregularity. English is way more irregular as it has everything irregular in German as well, but also for example throws a bunch of defective verbs on top, for which you have to substitute other verbs if you want/need to form an infinitive (to ...), a gerund (...ing), or any tense other than the basic present (indicative and subjunctive), namely the auxiliary verbs whose third person singular present indicative doesn't end in -s (the German cognates of which don't end in -t, but are fully functional). And I shall assume that you were only talking about grammar and not spelling/pronunciation as there's no competition whatsoever in this regard (for historical reasons).
Twincast Haha, you‘re probably right. Both languages have their difficulties. The main „irregular“ thing in German are probably the pronouns, because they are nearly chosen randomly
@@paperfreddie9778 Well, as soon as a language has grammatical genders for inanimate objects and/or abstract concepts, there inevitably has to be some arbitrariness in their application, but I wouldn't call German _irregular_ in this regard. That said, with many of the (non-Latin/Greek) gendered endings having eroded away from nominative cases over the centuries in both German and English, while only the latter lost the grammatical distinction as well, this certainly adds a lot of case-by-case learning for non-native speakers of German. I'd wager that the abundance of compound nouns helps a lot, though? And most nouns do in fact clearly indicate their gender with their endings.
I've learned from german friends and brits living in Germany that with the autobahn, any accident you're in and there's a suspicion you were over the advisory limit you're liable for damages and your insurance may be invalidated as a result.
I've read that insurers will increase premiums if you declare that you want to speed on autobahns, and then give this automatically you've not declared but have an accident as mentioned above.
May vary between insurers
Electrical stores in Germany are my favourite thing ever. I got directed to one because I'd forgotten to pack my glowsticks and I thought to myself "Surely I won't find any in here?" but not only did it have electrical items, but all the accessories for the electrical items (cook books, DVDs, novels, cuddly minions...). That was so strange to me! Apparently the glowsticks are stocked in case there's a power cut.
Kate's Adventures what I love about this comment is that you state "I'd forgotten to pack my glowsticks" so nonchalantly as if those are items everyone takes when they go on holiday
Samantha T ...you mean people usually don't? What sort of a holiday is that?! D:
What is so bloody astonishing about german electric stores?
Where do you come from? From the USA?
Did you expect to travel into a 3rd world country or what?
We even have fresh spring water, running out of our walls ;-D
I'm in the UK, our electrical stores are the electrical items only haha, if the accessories aren't considered electrical they're not usually available to buy. It's an upgrade on what we have, not surprise that you have what we have hehe!
Over here if I run out of glowsticks, the only place that stocks them is the pound shop (where's everything's £1, sorry if that sounds obvious but my German friend didn't understand the name at first). I think if I were to go to the electrical store and ask for glowsticks, the employees would find that really strange.
ich liebe dich ❤
Every German not living in Berlin just thinks: Oh, I hate Berlin :D
Speak for yourself. I'm from near Trier and I love Berlin.
Im from Neubrandenburg and i like Berlin
Used to live in Berlin and hated it. But I dislike big cities in general.
Jup...😂
I'm from the "Ruhrpott" (which is a former industrial area in North-Rhine Westfalia) and I love Berlin
🤣🤣🤣 One black humor fact: I'm originally from Venezuela and I just laughed so much when they were talking about feeling safer in Germany or in the UK. I just thought to myself, " Come on guys go to Venezuela and then let's talk about feeling safer ". It's been a while since I left, but believe me there is probably not a single place on earth that can make me feel unsafe now... 🤣🤣🤣
What's with normandy 1945?
There are a lot of People in Germany that are proud to be German but dont show it because they get called a nazi or stuff like this. I am very proud to be German and i dont know why i shouldn`t be that. srry for my bad english
I agree
Sorry for my bad english
Fck nazis!
Some english/american ppl think that everyone in Germany is a nazi. That's so stupid. Or these jokes everywhere, they're fucking me up.
You absolutely should be proud of where you are from! We cannot change history, but we can learn from it. Plus, WWII wasn’t started by the people, It was started by a/the politician(s) who didn’t give a crap about the people. And who used their power to either brain wash the vulnerable or inflict fear into the rebellious. That war and the horrors were instigated by three major players.. Germany, Italy and Russia, it just happened so that Hitler came out on top .. could have very easily been Stalin. None of the leaders planned in keeping their agreements on no attack treaty that they signed. So no, you can’t blame the people.. especially several generations later for mistakes of their elders. Just have to be more aware and more empathetic of one another to make sure that another Charismatic wacko with power didn’t bully an entire nation into submission. We have to think for ourselves.. always!
And my experience as an immigrant in the US and now in Germany is that if you put out the vibes of fear and uncertainty , you will find it everywhere you go. When I left my country for the US, our neighbors and friends were in disbelief that my family was making such a heroic move to the land of gangsters, or as it was perceived by them, having never traveled outside of the former Soviet Union. When we got to America, it was very normal, and no people don’t run around waving guns in your face or take the wheels off your parked car. Every city has “bad” neighborhoods, but all in all it’s safe. In fact, I made it a point to work with children from so called “bad” areas also known as the projects, and even then I was able to not feel scared to walk through the neighborhood or talk to people who lived there.
And note that I’m in Germany, I enjoy every moment of being here. I have met many wonderful people who are very patient with me when I try to speak in a very elementary way and often times switch to English once they realize that I’m struggling😊.
I have been fortunate enough to travel to a few radically contrasting parts of the world and humbled to have mingled with the real people who live there and no matter how rich or poor those countries are, they all have their positives and natives and most certainly they all have rich histories of peace and the violence but they all without exception should be proud of the land that they come from, the language they speak and the culture (art, music, literature, philosophy, and architecture) it inspired.
Honestly though, German is just factually harder than English. We've got four cases (Nominativ, Genitiv, Dativ, Akkusativ), we've got three articles that change with the cases, we constantly break our conjugation rules, we almagamate words without any real rule whether there's an N, an S or just nothing in the middle (Küche*n*schrank, Reich*s*tag, Buchmesse), and I could go on.
There's no denying that German is harder to learn than English. Not saying that that's either good or bad, but it just is that way.
In english to be Is the only word you have to conjugate
Felix Thönnessen
To be in German
Ich bin
Du bist
Er/Sie/Es ist
Wir sind
Ihr seit
Sie sind
It’s hard in German too
M4RTIN *ihr seid
It really is hard...
Hallo Leute ich bin Deutsch :)
In Englisch: yeah I think our Grammar is hard ,
Dein Deutsch ist schon echt gut Evan!
As a german teacher who at the moment works with refugees i have to say the grammer is quite hard for most people to learn...you really have to know your der die das if you want to get the 4 Fälle des Nomen right. But there are definitely harder languages out there.
But on another note.... since you're into the language at the moment you should check out the german band annenmaykantereit. The singers voice is so unique and beautiful! Also the lyrics are amazing. A really beautiful representation of our language.
meh
Deutsch ist eine der Sprache mit den unterschiedlichen Dialekten auf der ganzen Welt... was redet die da... wir sind ne Gemeine mit knapp 12000 Einwohner und es gibt Wörter aus dem 4km entfernen Teilort die versteht hier keiner...
Und nach dem ganzen asiatichen die schwerste Sprache
IRIS Toly lol
Ja, ich versteh andere Dialekte auch nicht, z.B. bayrisch oder berlinerisch versteh ich kaum (bin Hesse höhö)
Das Schokokätzchen
Ich bin aus Bayern
@@charlotte-7700 das ist alles nichts gegen Schwarzwald oder Plattdeutsch
I learned polish as my first language, than I moved to Germany, there I learned German (obviously) and English. Now I learn French and I'm going to learn Dutch, Italian and the language you speak in the Netherlands Idk
I love learning languages ❤️
Sidenote on Healthcare: It's technically not tax money but automatically deducted as social insurance contributions from your salary if your employed. If you're an European citizen, you can use your European Health Insurance Card (or whatever it is called in English) to get free healthcare in Germany. So, tourists from outside of the EU are generally not covered.
DumblyDouner In English, it is called the European Health Insurance Card but it is generally shortened to just an EHIC card
It's just called an EHIC card in England :)
DumblyDouner oh, that's how it works in Greece too
An EHIC card? An European Health Insurance Card card??
and you only pay half of the healthcare the other is paid by your boss. And if you get paid enough you can take another kind of service but I don't know much about that.
My favourite german word from the minimal german i learnt in school is Naturwissenschaften if i spelt that right haha
Cerys Cole you spelt it right haha. Really? Naturwissenschaften? Well these are my fav subjects but I like the english word for it much more😂
You dit it.
Germany: Jein
Australia: Yeah, nah... or Nah, yeah
NZ...yeah nah
Now you understand that German can be an efficient language or it can be used all the way around and make it inefficient.
eg. Nicht wirklich, aber ja
which means Jein
i think thats an nice idea for a video, and your german is getting way better so keep that up! :)
But I have quite some additions about that university stuff:
1. the amount of money you have to pay per semester (called Semesterbeitrag or Studiengebühren) differs quite much with different universities, it is mostly around 150/200€ but atm ranges from 90€-400€ depending on which uni you go to (which is only for State Universities, private ones may charge way more)
2. you can legally study as long as you want, but most universities (if not all) require you to pay a special fee if you take too long
for example my university charges 500€ per semester if you take 4+ Semesters longer than you're supposed to in addition to the normal Semesterbeitrag (this is called Langzeitstudiengebühren)
-the thing about the cost of the doctorate is most easily explained with an example: so say you want to get your doctorate in social studies so you first have to do the bachelors degree which has a normal period of 7 semesters, then you need to get your masters degree which is an additional 4 semesters and the doctorate which is 6 semesters, that adds up to 17 Semesters where you have to pay the normal tuition fee and then the rules for Langzeitstudiengebühren (as explained above) apply -> so in conclusion as long as you don't go over the normal period for each of the degrees you're paying the same amount of money for every semester
3. the tuition fee is for way more than the public transport
-you pay a certain amount for public transport wich you can only use in the state you study in, not in all of Germany
- a certain amount goes to the regional Studierendenwerk which is kind of like a student union that cares for everything study related that is not about the education itself but living, campus life etc.
-some amount goes to the Studentcouncil of your university
so you actually do not pay for the education itself (thats why everyone says its free) but for everything around it and the administration :)
EXCUSE ME "Scandinavians kind of own biking"????? I'm Dutch and I'm SO triggered
i'm from sweden and i've never heard this? you can have biking back it really is cold to bike 90% of the year
Really? Yeah Dutch weather is shit as well, it rains all the time... I feel like we kind of 'own' biking though, like that's our thing hahahahahah
Dutch people definitely own biking, I agree
Out of curiosity, are clogs still worn practically, or they now an historical item? From an Australian.
Well clogs are I guess worn, but they don't look like what you would think they looks like, my grandparents and my mum have them but they usually use them for gardening, so we don't wear them out
My current favourite word to say in German is geschirrspülmaschine.
Dish washing machine.
Pumpernickel is nice too :D it's a kind of bread, a really dark bread :D
I'd find it really interesting if Evan did an episode of this show with an Austrian person, because we obviously speak German in Austria but it's a completely different culture (and dialect/accent)
She is almost pronouncing chuchichästli correctly: who-her-hash-ly but the second syllable which she is pronouncing like “her” you roll the ‘r’ sound at the end. Bouncing from a rolled r back to the h is hard for English and High German speakers but is common in Swiss German.
döner is love. döner is life
It wasn't invented in Germany tho
Döner macht schöner
@@denizterzioglu61 yup
it's turkish
The education and uni stuff depends on which sate you live in in Germany. I am from the south and it's a little different there.
Clemence C. When i was seven i was taking german and im american because i love german and austrian culture but i forgot it and im 12
I was in London last week. Most bikes I saw had at least a wheel stolen. And there were plenty. Its amazing.
One thing that I find crucial to mention when talking about "free" university in Germany is that we do only pay like 120-300 bucks per semester to the university, but we still have to find a place to live and pay rent for that, which is by no means cheap. In smaller cities you might only pay around 450€ per month, but I've heard prices as high as 600-700€. This can be cheaper if you manage to get a spot in a student dorm (around 200-300 per month) but there are only so many rooms available. As far as I know, when you get a "full ride" in the US it includes accommodation. So if you count rent to the semester fee you end up somewhere around 1,950€ (counting rent as 300/month, which is below average. If we go with 450€/month, which is somewhere around the average iirc, we end up at around 2850€ per semester). Now that's not nearly as cheap anymore.
There are also several other factors that increase your semester fee. For example, if you're a student without a german passport, you pay more (I think around 600€, but I could be wrong there). If you're doing a second degree (like, you already have a bachelor's degree and you do another bachelor's), you also pay that amount. If you've been studying for your current degree for longer than ten semesters, you also pay that. I think there are even more reasons this fee increases, but these are all I could name off of the top of my head. Don't forget that you also need to pay rent on top of that.
I think these facts are important to mention, because a lot of people talking about this topic either don't know about them or forget to mention them. I think most Germans forget to mention them, because to them it's obvious that you would still need to pay rent, while as far as I know, American students already pay their rent with their college tuition fee. If I'm wrong about the part with American's tuition fee including rent, please correct me on that.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and have a good one~
Anyone else remember that time Evan sleep-spoke in German?
oh yeah NEXT TRAVEL VLOG COMIN TODAY TOO
WHAT WHEN
YOUR PFP AYY
Wheres the video
Evan I love you but English is 100% the easiest language to learn
safer apocalypse I'm finnish and 100% agree 😂
except for spanish tbh 😂
libiluvi I've heard Finnish is really hard, Dutch is hard too and I'm sure there are more
ripmyfictionalfriends Dutch is hard because it has a shitton of irregulars and exceptions on all the rules (it's my first language so I'm glad I didn't have to learn it)
ripmyfictionalfriends Yeah Finnish is complete bullshit tbh 😂 The grammar is completely different from other languages and we don't even have prepositions lol
Hard same on the "German is harder to learn than English". I am also very glad it's my mother tongue so I just picked it up naturally and didn't actually have to "learn" it. Sometimes I feel like my grammar is better in English than in German lol.
chuchichästli, chuchi is the kitchen and a chästli is a small cubboard. the li at the end means most of the times its somthing small. A Cup is a Becher in German or Bächer in Swissgerman (Zürich Slang) and a small cup therefor is a Bächerli.
in germany stores are closed on Sunday cause ~christians~
Mostly because of unions and workers rights now, really.
Um EXCUSE ME biking is owned by the Dutch!!!!
i LOVE this video so much!! I grew up in Germany but lived and went to school in the US for a while and so i can relate to so much of this. And Evan can I just say that your german is amazing!!
By the way, Germany has over 20 different accents, we Bavarians have an own accent per city as well. There are parts in germany where we can not talk to each other
That pikachu in the back is staring into my soul...
I mean, Germany's track record for nationalism isn't that great, so it makes sense that Germany teaches that patriotism and nationalism is bad
Savannah True, same goes for Austria
Savannah this is true for some places in Germany , but I think dortmund ( were I'm from ) is kinda patriotic as we have the best football team Borussia Dortmund and we're proud Germans
In America you always think your region is better than the others and you’re all just really patriotic
What about events like when the German Soccer Team is in action for example?
I mean... if you ask most of the places we've sent our soldiers, I think they'd agree that American nationalism is also a problem... *shots fired*
We have lockers in our German school 🤨
Viktoria Gäbelein yeah it depends on the school. My school had lockers too but in other schools in the region there aren’t ones.
u do? o.o thats kinda cool
Das ist ein wirklich gutes Video. Ich muss sagen dass es mir sehr gefallen hat.
In South-west German we say "Weckle" for buns.
Germany also has SO many vegan alternatives in shops now, which is great. And you can get any dairy product lactosefree.
There's only very few motorways in Germany that don't have speed limits. Especially near the French border yet for some reason lots of French people think they can just cross over and speed like crazies
I love these VS videos :)
Doner kebab is an traditional Turkish food. Its Berlin style presentation is a modified version of the fast-food style presentation in Turkey.
Fast-food style doner kebab is presented not on a plate but in a bread with side dishes inside. Berlin style only adds several sauces to fast-food style kebab in a pita bread.
10:30 Ey! Scandinavia is not as cold as you might think. (except in the winter) but at least here in Norway, theres mountains all over the place so cycling can be a lot of ups and downs which is annoying. In denmark tho, Its very nice cycle.
i don't think german is necessarily the hardest language to learn, it's probably the weird and irregular pronunciation that makes it seem like you can't speak it well even after studying it for a long time(also der die das)and even I as a german young adult get confused sometimes because of the irregularities
I Volunteer being in the American VS Swedish video! I will fly to London for that video, I promise.
I think everyone wants to know what it's like getting paid for going to school, haha
YOU GET PAID
Same here! I will gladly do a French vs American video. (I'm initially German tho, so it could actually be French vs American vs German vs British so... Hmu)
You get paid i'm sorry what? Ahhh cry. I'm in uni now in the U.S. and barely scraping by
It's true! About 130 USD or 110GBP At least up until university. Fortunately university is free :)
Hedda Gulliksson don't forget that we get paid if we go to university also + we get a great loan option from the state
Wow, amazing how good her accent is :0. Great video ;)
You should try Bavarian, I think that would be great! (I am from Bavaria :D)
Just started learning German - I’m South African 🇿🇦. It’s very similar to Afrikaans⚡️
Also - BIGGG HP fan⚡️ (no relevance just a fanboy😂)
Dutch is even more similar
probs cause it's similar to Dutch
German, Dutch and Afrikaans are all Germanic languages. And Afrikaans basically developed from Dutch, that's why they're so similar.
Arleen Vo English is a Germanic language too that's why is so easy for me to learn german.
as a German this was so interesting!
Bit late to the party but hey ... I get the confusion about the Dutch and Deutsch thing :P Try living in Belgium where we also got a Dutch speaking part and a French speaking part. If I say I speak Dutch people assume I'm from the Netherlands or Germany, Belgium isn't even a possibility :P Anyway very cool vid and ... keep it up man! xD
On the dialects, we do have many of those. Back, when travelling wasn't that easy, basically every village had its own dialect. They rarely ever talked to each other and that way, differentiable manners of speech developed. Nowadays with easy transport available to almost everyone, this has faded. Even the great regional dialects (of which the smaller, village-bound ones are variations) are getting rarer and rarer.
The small ones, I only know from the tales of my grandmother, who once lived in a tiny village in germany's west, called Thür. The only sentence in that dialect I know is "Dat daat dat, datt dat dat daat!". It is more or less a toungue twister, that translates to: "Die tut das, dass die das tut!", in english "She's doing that, she's really doing that!". People from the next village, about 5km away and called Kottenheim, talked, so I was told, differently again. Apparently two older women from there, who came to visit sometimes had the habit of exchanging a bit of dialogue when they were about to leave: One would always ask: "Joon mer?" (Gehn wir? -> Shall we go?), to which the other would reply: "Meeinste?" (Meinst du? -> You think so?). Again, the people of Thür didn't talk like that.
Anyway, I seem to have gotten really carried away, just wanted to say, that technically, there _are_ a lot of german dialects.
Kind of unrelated but I think you should include a more Scottish view in the 'vs British' videos as we have quite a different culture from England
So true it defo needs to happen :)
he should get someone from the 4 countries in the uk and compare the differences
good point
Yesss love him but he always uses UK and England interchangeably but it's not the saaaaammmee
Hayden Cooper V I volunteer for the Scottish candidate 😂
We only have lockers about 40cm x 20cm in Ireland YOU DON'T KNOW HOW LUCKY YOU ARE EVAN😭😭
we don’t really have any , my school hired a company and so you can pay a certain amount every month and rent one , but they are also small and there are definitely not as many lockers as students
Our school literally have none
dude german schools have no lockers so be fucking happy
I live in the US, and we didn't get lockers.
Our school has lockers but I don't think I've ever seen somebody use them
When they were talking about accents in the UK, it's so true. I'm from somerset, and it's a very farmer-y accent, we just don't pronounce our t's. Somerset = summER-se-t (t not properly pronounceed)
Dude your Videos are fuckin' amazing. I need to sub to you. Much love from germany ♡
Just had a conversation all day with my American co-worker that has a German boyfriend. Lots of cultural things came up. Excited to watch the video!
1:53 talking about England and saying they have it hard with education, Ireland literally has the hardest exams in Europe, the junior cert (GCSE's) you take 11-13 exams depending on the school, and the leaving cert (a levels) you take 6-7!
also, touching on the uk, a British A is an Irish A, B, C and a British B is an Irish D.. so never shit on Irish people if they get all B's and C's BECAUSE THAT SHIT IS HARD
goldan Irish exams are fucking hard and it is not easy to get an A at all, and there's no continuous assessment so it's all down to your exams at the end of third and fifth year
goldan are you saying for Irish GCSE equivalents you had like 11 exams because in England gcse exams you have like 20-30 exams normally
goldan my school is only doing 5 subjects in the junior cert where the hell did you go to school
you know yer one I did ten Junior cert subjects but a lot of those had two paper such as maths, english, Irish, business and then we had projects, aurals and orals along with that
Tbf though I graduated from high school in Germany (Abitur) and had 3x 5 hour (!!) exams, one 3.5 hour exam and one oral exam. And those exams are 50% of the grade you get, the other 50% is the two years leading up to the exams. I now study psychology at university in England and the exams and essays are wayyy easier than the stuff I had to do in Germany. That's just my experience though 🤷🏼♀️
Also: in Germany you get a participation grade in class that usually counts 50% and I think that system is way better than the English system where only the exams are important. It's soooo much pressure and people who get exam anxiety are fucked
Dein Akzent ist so süß Evan. 😄 interessantes Video 👌🏼
I'm from switzerland and I must say Evan said the "chuchichästli" almost perfectly. I was shook xD
why is no one talking about how lovely and beautiful anne is? she seems wonderful! 😊
Absolutely, i was scanning the comments for remarks about her beauty, but noone seems to care... the internet isnt what it used to be... very strange ;) Anne is marvelously beautiful! I could watch her all day.
Anne reminds me a bit of Diane Krüger ^^
I think it's her voice. It is kinda similar.
about the doctorate question: the price she mentioned is generally for up to a masters degree. because doctoral degrees in germany are almost never done with a system where you take classes but just with writing the dissertation. and most doctorate candidates are either employed by a university in an assistant position (and write abouta topic related to the research they do in that position) or they are living on a grant. so they are actually paid a somewhat OKish salary/income during that time.
in switzerland it's similar and doctorate candidates get about 6-7000 francs per month afaik
LOL I laughed way harder than I should have at the bis bald at the end hahah
I've lived in LA, NYC, and Boston. Only place I ever had a car (and needed a car) was LA. There are American cities where you don't need to drive. I wish there were more...
Same. I go out a lot more often when I'm in NYC than back home in California. It sucks that I have to have a car if I wanna go on spontaneous boba or target runs ;___;
I must say I love your videos and your vs Videos plz do more ❤️❤️
in Germany you can study up to 8 semesters free (you may buy a publictransportticket and pay a small amount of money for study costs) for bachelor and the master is also free up to 6 semesters. After that you have to pay for each term. The PHD has a different approach and also splits up in the speficitations for each science.
Out of curiosity, how are you learning Germany, Evan??
I really enjoyed this. I had a German friend a few years ago and felt so confused due to our differences. I never had the opportunity to really understand her culture, so this opens my eyes a little bit more to it!
Chuchichästli comes from Küchenkasten (Kasten being another word for Schrank) and in Austria, I'd rather say Küchenkasten than Küchenschrank.
Also if you ever wanna do a video with an Austrian, I volunteer xD
Lol at the end I thought it said 'dank Anne'😂😂
i want to be a friend with this guy. he is so friendly
Berlin is so Not "Germany"😂😂
Every "Bundesland" is totally different
8:48 NORTH YORKSHIRE F YEAH!
The biggest and best county
In my school we're not allowed to have backpacks because there were to many injuries caused by someone turning around quickly and taking someone out
omg
What?
Where?
...seriously?!
Fun Fact: here in Texas we have a speed limit of 85 on some toll roads, and frequently in those higher speed limits if you get into a small group of traffic, everyone will just decide the speed limit doesn't matter because a cop can't get all of us at once, so I've had days driving to work and just going the speed of traffic I'm sitting at about 105mph/169kmh
Healthcare is free as a basic service. You can buy upgrades. First help I.e. in an accident is free for anyone (tourists, etc). But this covers only time until they can release you safely from a hospital
Yesss early squad. Thanks for the upload, Evan.❤️❤️❤️
GERMAN IS SO HARD THERE ARE SO MANY RULES TRUST ME I HAD TO TAKE 8 YEARS OF GERMAN BUT SPEAK ENGLISH MUCH BETTER. I mean that's probably because I only encounter Swiss German and basically can't understand 60% of the people in my country
You talk about accents, but in Australia we don’t really have regional accents. We have three broad accents categories - Cultivated (think Cate Blanchett), general (Hugh Jackman) and broad (Steve Irwin) and for the most part, it’s not divided by region (although certain accents will be more prevalent in certain areas). We have minor words that are pronounced differently depending on regions, such as “castle” can be pronounced differently, with a short A - “cassel” in some of the southern states (that being said, I have rarely encountered anyone pronouncing it this way) and with a long A - “carsel” in the northern states. This is due to English being a very recent addition to Australia (There were about 250 Indigenous dialects and languages prior to the English populating Australia). We appear to have a lot of influence with children of migrant parents, who tend to adopt elements of their parent’s native language and Australian English and this can be shown in communities that can be high in a particular cultural group.
I lived in a village in England my whole life and London terrifies me😂😂❤️ I hold everything so close to me