Wow! This video reminded me of my trip to Japan. I related so much to your story about the grocery store. Also, I think in European countries the first floor is called the "ground floor" or floor 0. I think it's because they think of floor as elevation instead of the ground. So when you go to the fifth floor, you have "elevated" four floors above the ground floor.
Actually in German it would be the "1.Obergeschoss" (1.OG), translating as first _upper_ floor but that usually is shortened to "1. Stock" which again is the short form of "1. Stockwerk". And I think the word "Stock" in German is connected to the English "stack". So if you read it as the first stacked floor, things start making sense ...
Here are a few tipps to understand the German perspective: The lady in the supermarket wants you to use a shoping cart because they are only allowed to have an certain number of customers in the shop at the same time. So the shop reduced the amount of available carts and asks you, to only enter the shop with a cart. This way they intend to make sure that there will be no more than the allowed max number of customers in the shop. The First floor in a building is called Erdgeschoss, which translates to 'ground floor' and the next floor on top is the first floor. It is not really logical, I agree. Casual questions do hardly exist in german culture. If you ask a question, Germans feel obliged to answer correctly. Small talk or beating around the bush is not really the german way. We bluntly speek facts and to the point which might even be considered offensive in other cultures. I hope you have a good time here in Germany even though through this pandemic not much is normal.
Hello! Thank you for the detailed explanation! And yeah, thank you, I have really enjoyed my time here in Germany and am looking forward to the next 6 months of living here! :)
7:23 I love how they count their floors like they count their arrays
Perfect 👌 😂 no need to learn about programming arrays, just go to Europe!
Watched this 3 times, great perspective of living in this beautiful country
Wow! This video reminded me of my trip to Japan. I related so much to your story about the grocery store.
Also, I think in European countries the first floor is called the "ground floor" or floor 0. I think it's because they think of floor as elevation instead of the ground. So when you go to the fifth floor, you have "elevated" four floors above the ground floor.
Ohhh, see, that kinda makes sense about the ground floor! And haha ikr the grocery store 😂
Actually in German it would be the "1.Obergeschoss" (1.OG), translating as first _upper_ floor but that usually is shortened to "1. Stock" which again is the short form of "1. Stockwerk". And I think the word "Stock" in German is connected to the English "stack". So if you read it as the first stacked floor, things start making sense ...
Here are a few tipps to understand the German perspective:
The lady in the supermarket wants you to use a shoping cart because they are only allowed to have an certain number of customers in the shop at the same time. So the shop reduced the amount of available carts and asks you, to only enter the shop with a cart. This way they intend to make sure that there will be no more than the allowed max number of customers in the shop.
The First floor in a building is called Erdgeschoss, which translates to 'ground floor' and the next floor on top is the first floor. It is not really logical, I agree.
Casual questions do hardly exist in german culture. If you ask a question, Germans feel obliged to answer correctly. Small talk or beating around the bush is not really the german way.
We bluntly speek facts and to the point which might even be considered offensive in other cultures.
I hope you have a good time here in Germany even though through this pandemic not much is normal.
Hello! Thank you for the detailed explanation! And yeah, thank you, I have really enjoyed my time here in Germany and am looking forward to the next 6 months of living here! :)
Really enjoyed this video! I could totally relate to going to the grocery store in Italy and having a communication crisis.😂
HAHA ikr!! It doesn’t help when the cashier starts yelling at you lol! 😂 and thank you, glad you liked the video!
Nice
Dang, they even sell eggs in metric
HAHA this comment is gold. Hope you’re doing well Zach!
The metric system rules!!
Actually they are sold in groups of 6 or ten eggs