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Fun fact: In Germany, checking your phone while standing on the side of the road is actually illegal while the engine is running, because you are legally considered a driver in that moment.
@Rico Ten It was more like that in Soviet Union, but not n Western Europe. Perhaps your friends came from former Eastern block, which was under heavy Soviet influence and control (the situation changed in last 30 years, though). The difference between US and European law is that US law is based on Common law and precedents, while Europe has more strict law codes (mostly based on Code Napoléon)
@Rico Ten Look at washing your car for instance. In Germany, washing your car with water is legal, but you can't use detergents, because doing so contaminates the ground water. For that, you need to go into a washer.
@Rico Ten I see it as a part of national culture that is a result of relatively recent and long absolutistic monarchy. There is a word for that: Ordnung.
@Rico Ten And so as i say, it's piece of crap. They either don't know the law and by the rule: Ignorantia juris non excusat, they get normal punishment. Or they are from the soviet block and left years ago and so they say how they remember it was.
That's the most ancient greek way of showing cultural differences and you guys nailed it! That's honestly some of the best content I've ever watched regarding this topic, love it!
@@allyw7405 😂 in a way. However, Greek Philosophers used to write their lectures in form of a dialogue of two opposing opinions closing in on the truth through the process of the discussion. I don't know if there is an English expression for this, in German we refer to this style as "Dialektik".
I giggled when he said it looked like Disneyland. My grandfather worked on the concept art for the little houses for the Storybook Land ride. He was full blood German lol.
I feel the loud speaking in public part so much. I had a date with a foreign girl that talked really loud. Oh my god like everyone around saw how uncomfortable I was.
I love Nalfs glance to "Why don't we eat and have a conversation or sth..." at 0:52 😂 Great video! Especially for not commenting/titling and just leaving the scenes speak for themselves, they really are self-explanatory. And "I thought you germans liked cars" - I just couldn't anymore 😂
I'm American no doubt, but when you check my ancestry. My family came from Germany. So I'm always curious to learn more about Germany when I can. I always liked how families from Mexico will speak only Spanish at home and English in public so their kids learn about family heritage and cultures while learning what they need to know to live in the US. I think it would have been cool if my family had a thing like that. Nobody in my family knows anything about Germany including the language. Last person in my family who knew German was my great grandfather. I can still learn but I kind of have to learn what I can from Google since I can't afford a trip to visit myself.
brilliant XD the first one might go over many germans heads though, in the US asking "how are you" is a greeting very small smalltalk. In germany you ask that if you expect a summary of someones current issues and problems
@@farzana6676 by todays standards not cause anglo saxons are the english (and to some degree the US and australia) even though they started out as german...they arent really anymore
@@OrkarIsberEstar I was wondering because I hear this phrase often and I recently heard Vladimir Putin say that "Russia is tired of Anglo-Saxon global domination" So I was wondering who exactly he is referring to when he says "Anglo-Saxons".
@@farzana6676 well he might include the germans in that XD but suually it refers to england, and sometimes england the us and australia aka the anglosphere. which sometimes includes new zealand as well
It’s just extremely odd to me that someone would feel it appropriate to launch into a serious convo within 2 seconds of meeting up (and in a hallway?). If someone did that I would think they lack social skills and emotional intelligence.
As a Canadian, I envy Germany's bus system. My vehicle broke down a while back while I was working at a major factory in my city across the street from a major shopping center with a bus stop right between them but the nearest time and place to my shift start where I could be dropped off by a bus was a few blocks away about 45 minutes early and when I got off work 12 hours later in the morning I had to get a ride from a coworker because there were no buses running for hours after my shift end (and no buses run at night either, just to point out how much it sucks). Our bus system seems to exist entirely to serve college/university only.
Yeah, that makes sense too. College and university students are often poor, cannot afford a car. I had auto trouble, needed to use a bus for a while. Very very inconvenient.
to language - well...kinda. you can say english did branch off and begin as a dialect of germanic - to be precise saxon dialect. But german evolved out of germanic just like english, so german is not the ancestor to english but a brother. inded up until roughly 1000 AD a person from england and a person from germany could verbally communicate. then germany had some ronounciation changes (no more th) while english introduced lots of french to their language. The final cut was around shakespears time when english dropped most of its grammar and german went through a lot of letter changes (n->b, f->v, k->g etc.) and since then the languages are barely recognisable as being similiar to each other
If you compare old German and old English, they are VERY similar. However, over time, as you already mentioned, a lot of changes occurred which make their modern counterparts vastly different. Though "modern" high German has still more similarities to the "old" one, than English does to its historic counterpart.
the changes aren't that ð/þ became d. but t began s, ss/zz, z/ts. and other stuff. but Westgermanic was fractured into dialects alread at the time where the Jutes, Angles and Saxons went to the Brit Islands. So you can say historically it's from the starting German dialects, because actually all West Germanic dialects resemble the German dialects, except for English nowadays and Scots. Frisian was highly influenced by the new arriving Norse.
2:48 Wait until he hears about trains... And once he's amazed by the German railway he'll hear all the Germans complain about the DB and be even more confused.
LOL that first interaction needs to be explained. In America, asking, "how are you?" or, "how are you doing?" CAN mean that you are literally asking for a long explanation of events in that person's life, but usually, it just means, "hello" or "salutations". It's like an abbreviated version of saying, "I'm concerned for your welfare as a friend, but I (or we) are pressed for time at the moment." In Europe, however, asking "how are you?" ALWAYS means, "give me a long explanation of how your life has been going."
I heard that too.... a Soviet ex-pat cautioned me that asking a Russian "how is life" will get me a story. He emphasized the point by grabbing a button on my shirt.
43 million people in the U.S. are of German ancestry. Germans settled in Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and some other states. Kansas had over 60 news papers in German language. I'm sure, some people know the ß.
Yes, ancestry. Doesn't mean their descendents speak the language further than "danke" or "auf wiedersehen". From what I've read only a tiny percentage-less than 1% speak it and those are mainly German born or first generation.
@@greenknitter As i wrote before: Some of those people will know the ß. I'm not saying that all 43 million people are familiar with German language and culture. As far as i know these descendants of ancient settlers from the mid-19th century and maybe some WWII immigrants celebrate German traditions in the U.S. and Canada, probably in smaller towns and villages. They also play German sporting games such as Capture the Flag and Chinese Wall or calll them British Bulldog (which is pretty odd, because in the U.K. it is referred to as German Bulldog sometimes, but in Germany we don't use these names).
@@daisaigai7 Yes some will, but "some" really amounts to maybe one per cent of the entire population from what I've read who have any degree of fluency in German. There are towns in the mid-West that have a lot of German descendents who have festivals celebrating their German heritage too with lots of typical German foods and drink. Like a Disneyfied version of a Bavarian town from the 19th century.
Even when Nalf put the pizza box in the proper paper recycling bin, he still neglected to squash it flat first. Squash the boxes flat! Otherwise your bin is full of empty boxes after three days and you still have another 10 days until collection day.
or you live as i tenant and some one before you put his ikea carton box in there without aquashing it first while you stand there with your hands full and think "fuck! assholes!" ^^
3:20 that hits home when i was a kid i always got told that i speak to loud in germany my mother is from thailand and there you speak very loud with eachother
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I went to chicago and in the supermarket the cashier asked me how i am……. In germany i go to lidls/adlis. I just stood there, uncomfortable, shocked. I said „ig good, im here on vacation. The flight was a little rough but better than the sea way, right? Ahaha“ and………. They looked at me, nodded and said the most insincere. „Cool.“
@@dompdompdomp 💀💀💀"how are you?" "hello" is SUCH a rude response to me bc I'm expecting an honest answer but i totally get where you're coming from!! guess ill just have to suck it up and say that next time. thanks for the advice
Here in Canada we are much more reserved than people in the US so it also annoys me when people pretend to care. What makes it worse is that it’s a requirement in many english business out of customer service/politeness. If anything though people are much more genuine about it up north here if they ask, or they just try not to get in your business at all.
@@liad0x When asked that in the US, the proper response, (with a customer service worker or any person you don’t know well), is good, thanks or fine, thanks.
"It looks like Disney Land." It's almost like Disney Land was based on old world architecture, something you don't find in America, but Germany has. I wouldn't compare them, it's like comparing a statue to a 3d rendering of the same statue. Both look good, but the heart and soul of an artist went into one, and while the same 'could' be true of the other, it's still just a copy.
@Rico Ten I'm American... The US is younger than the kind of architecture I'm talking about, closest we have is more modern replicas, like Disney. It's a modern age, anyone with a phone can look up the age of America.
@@jeremyblade7561 But if Disneyland is based on old European architecture, with castles and such, then it makes sense that Germany would remind an American of Disneyland. So why do they try to make that something to mock?
My mom didn't let us cross the street on our bike always had walk it across and wait for the cross walk and I lived in a medium sized city so there was public transportation only had one car growing up so we took the bus to the grocery store while my dad was at work all the time and we weren't aloud to watch TV while we ate we all had to sit at the table my dad and mom always had to sit on the end and couldn't touch our food till we prayed so most of these are kinda normal for me too as an american
Culture differences are amazing. I relate so much to these videos because as a Venezuelan that grew up in the states and went back to Venezuela and now lives in Austria, there were soooooo many things people found weird about me and viceversa and it's an amazing process to understand our cultural differences and of course, adapt and change certain behaviors to integrate is also so amazing. It really changes your mindset of society, people, communities and overall life. Travelling and if possible, living, in other places outside our countries is an amazing thing.
@@LittleLulubee it's actually helpful to know both because some pronunciations are more similar to spanish and in Spanish we also have gender for words. So that helps with die, der, das. But overall, German is quite hard haha. I'm far from fluent still.
@@LittleLulubee MOST Americans do NOT recycle or use public transportation. This is also dependent upon where in the US you reside. You live in New York City you use the subways and cabs. You live in a rural area you do not have that option. Those represent some examples. As far as recycling.....California & DC is very big on that. Other states not so. I live in Texas and if you want to go anywhere you need to drive. Very few people recycle. I do but I am in the minority. Here it is limited on what you can recycle.
4:10 just as a side note: English originated mostly from the Frisian language that is spoken in a northern region of Germany called Ostfriesland. It's not a dialect -its a language! ;)
Being on the phone (or any other devices, even the GPS) while you're in the driver's seat and you have the motor running is not only bad for the environment, it also can become quite expensive when the police comes along.
@@emjayay when you are parked and the engine is running, yes. That's what a lot of people aren't aware of. Therefore better turn the engine off, before taking any device in hand.
Ha! I spoke German and mixed delightfully with the locals during my Army tour in Mannheim and Heidelberg, 52 years ago, and every little detail of this video essay rings sharp and clear. Besten Dank aus den Verrückten Staaten von Amerika!
4:00 No, it's an "SZ" which alternatively is spelled as a double, not triple S. So "Lange Straße" could also be spelled "Lange Strasse" but it looks off.
One funny thing from an American tourist here in Slovenia. One asked the guide in all seriousness, why did people build a 600 hundred year old medieval castle so near the airport. That question would apply to Germany too. And another one was, if we still have dragons here after seeing a bridge with dragon statues called “Dragon bridge”.
Nick, you made my day! Roly-poly and unkaputtbar, just after a bad injury you surprise us with a gorgeous video with radical living, couldn't stop laughing, all the beloved good old topics still work! I wish you a speedy recovery, get well soon and don't forget to remind Mikey of his duties as a younger brother. Lord Nalf must be served!
Zum Thema Mülltrennung: ich habe 7 Jahre in Portland, Oregon gelebt und dort ist Mülltrennung heilig. Ich wurde andauernd von Nachbarn belehrt, was ich wo rein zu tun hatte… so strikt ist das in Deutschland nicht!
Ich wohne in Deutschland und meine Nachbarn haben mir am Dienstag Müll vor die Füße geworfen behauptet man müsse im Sommer zwei Müllbeutel benutzen und ich wäre weil ich nur einen verwende und Essensreste entsorge allein verantwortlich für Madenbefall in der Tonne (ist ja nicht so dass es Sommer ist und das ein natürlicher Prozess) dann meinten sie ich solle den Müll den sie auf den Boden geworfen haben wieder einräumen. Meinen Papa haben sie dann auch noch belogen und ich bin fast hyperventilert. Die gucken aber auch in meinen Briefkasten und informieren meinen Besuch über den Inhalt oder sind der Meinung ich müsse meinen Besuch der Hausverwaltung melden und ich würde zu laut die Treppe herunterlaufen
In Seattle, food contaminated paper goes in the compost bin with the yard waste. Not that Seattleites are any smarter or more conscientious than the rest of Americans, based on some of the things I see in the bins here.
If half of the pizza is still in there and it's also inseperatable through cheese-"glue", than you're right (but when cheese gets really cold, you should be able to get it off the cartboard). Otherwise you seperate those components into bio waste and paper waste and throw them into the appropriate bin.
@@dnocturn84 Once a pizza has left any residue on cardboard, you can _never_ get it all off. And cardboard decomposes just fine in the compost. It's just cellulose, same as the trees it was made from.
@@blindleader42 Yes, I never said that you're forced to put it into the paper bin. Bio waste is just as fine for really messy pizza boxes. The bin shown in the video was "Restmüll", which is not the right bin for bio waste anyways. Unless this region of Germany doesn't offer seperate bio waste bins, which is very possible, than this bin would be absolutely fine. But I personally prefer to throw "clean" pizza boxes (yes, I sometimes end up with very clean pizza boxes, almost like new - somehow) into my paper bin.
I like the videos with you both in it and the mostly peculiar interaction. Embrace that project, it's one of few things amongst so much BS on YT that stil can make me laugh
Fuck Damn I felt the first bit so hard. I've been guilty of this so many times. Also at 3:30 ... EVERY german, that lives anywhere near to a US Base, knows that americans lack the ability to adjust their volume to the surroundings. Sometimes its rediculous it you have like a table of 8 soldiers.. being louder than ... well... everything
This just explains so much about my own personal culture shocks when I got here. Particularly seeing Radical living embodying what I encountered, and very different to how he usually is. Btw, does anyone know his name?!! I never took that in… Loved both these videos, please make more together, it’s genius squared.
Omg you guys are the best! I would film the others and make a spoof of my usual videos. Dreamy Nalf and calm Radical Living. Can’t you just see it?! Lol! I actually love comedy. I get told off for being a clown 😠 But I suppose it’s a matter of time and place… 😬
It’s just like I am there wearing the In and Out Burger T-Shirt!! It’s all so accurate. I think it’s funny Germans think 70 degrees is cold in the evening 😀😀😅
😂😍 I've been walking all that places the last two days. How are you Nick? I hope it wasn't such a serious injury at yesterdays game and you're getting well soon! Your brother played really good yesterday, I enjoyed the game and atmosphere in Schwäbisch Hall very much!
By now Nalf is so custom to “our” way of doing things, that I wonder what’s his go to behaviour in such situations nowadays is.. and if chooses the german way does it change when coming back to the US?
Damn, the stereotypes be hitting hard with this one, haha! I hope y’all realize not all Americans are like this… I’m an American in Germany right now on an exchange trip, the walking thing is the exact opposite! I’m always going, going, going, and my German doesn’t wanna go anywhere! I’m having a good time, though! Another thing is the mayonnaise. SOOOO MUCH MAYONNAISE IN GERMANY! And the burger sauce too!
Leaving america is step one. Youre obviously not familiar with germany so i think its a little naive to assume you havent done anything culturally incorrect. But obviously there are many american ytbers vlogging their life in germany so its obvious that not all americans are rrrrroootttteeen? I dare say it. But dw, as long as youre open to different things youre under the top 500 americans. So cheers. ALSO RECYCLE.
Sure, it's all the stereotypes combined in one person for the laughs. People are different. Just like there are Germans who don't recycle, jaywalk and leave the motor running while waiting for someone. ;-)
@@liad0x Bruh you don't know anything about Americans. From my experience of living there, they either know nothing at all or know more about things than most people anywhere. And the divide is maybe 70-30
@@srirampatnaik9164 95/5 „more than most people anywhere“ literally sounds like just another variation of „america is the best“ and „you know nothing“ bc my experience was different is the typical radically absolute egocentric american view. How long have you lived in usa?? i fear you’ve been americanized 💀
@Rockemsockem Exactly, Europeans live like kings and take it for granted. It's hard to go off and travel the world when you're too busy working 60 hours a week to pay off student loans.
4:35 that looks like a pizza box, those are usually filled with grease, do Germany recycling systems have a way to recycling that? Cause in America pizza box's are the exception to recycling rules
But if you're a white person who chooses to live in such a hot climate you must expect to have to deal with that heat, no? Using ac uses more petrol and so perpetuates the very thing that's causing you to use ac more and more: climate change.
Hey man, love your channel! Just found out about it in these past few days. I live roughly an hour north of Schwäbisch-Hall, have spent some time in the UK and US myself. Tremendously enjoy your content! Cheers! Philipp
😹😹😹 this is so accurate. I never knew ß was called triple S. I thought it was a mistake and looked it up. Learned something new. When I was stationed in Germany my orders said *Giessen* and when I arrived the signs all said *Gießen* . I was freaking out because I thought I was gonna get in trouble 😹😹😹
@@SCHNUSELI yes found that for the first time when I looked it up. Very interesting as I only learned how to speak German (not master btw) and never learned the alphabet. My German friends of course helped me a lot with phrases and slang
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Still waiting to show NALF the mad nightlife of Berlin, he'll never be the same again 😸🐱🐉
Go hard on him 😂
he will not want to leave berlin
Hahhahahahaha love that idea
mach ihn nicht kaputt
@@gdi4695 go hard or go home
Fun fact: In Germany, checking your phone while standing on the side of the road is actually illegal while the engine is running, because you are legally considered a driver in that moment.
@Rico Ten It was more like that in Soviet Union, but not n Western Europe. Perhaps your friends came from former Eastern block, which was under heavy Soviet influence and control (the situation changed in last 30 years, though). The difference between US and European law is that US law is based on Common law and precedents, while Europe has more strict law codes (mostly based on Code Napoléon)
@Rico Ten Look at washing your car for instance. In Germany, washing your car with water is legal, but you can't use detergents, because doing so contaminates the ground water. For that, you need to go into a washer.
@Rico Ten I see it as a part of national culture that is a result of relatively recent and long absolutistic monarchy. There is a word for that: Ordnung.
@Rico Ten It's just a piece of crap.
In Europe what isn't forbidden is allowed... only before the fall of USSR in eastern block.
@Rico Ten And so as i say, it's piece of crap.
They either don't know the law and by the rule: Ignorantia juris non excusat, they get normal punishment.
Or they are from the soviet block and left years ago and so they say how they remember it was.
Dude, "America invented English" was way too much 😂
English is not an offspring of German either.
@@henningbartels6245 it is another germanic language
@@olafbitter3999 yup, but "Germanic" is not the same as "German".
@@olafbitter3999 Old English was related to German, but modern English is much different.
But we did. That's why it's called "English".
That's the most ancient greek way of showing cultural differences and you guys nailed it! That's honestly some of the best content I've ever watched regarding this topic, love it!
The ancient greek had youtube? haha
@@allyw7405 😂 in a way. However, Greek Philosophers used to write their lectures in form of a dialogue of two opposing opinions closing in on the truth through the process of the discussion. I don't know if there is an English expression for this, in German we refer to this style as "Dialektik".
Dramatization at its finest! :)
@@lequedicatsamarge4228 I call that a civilized debate.
@John Broadwell Yes...which is a greek word 😂
I giggled when he said it looked like Disneyland. My grandfather worked on the concept art for the little houses for the Storybook Land ride. He was full blood German lol.
Awesome!!! 👍 So it IS based on German classic architecture! 😄
@@LittleLulubee However, Americans don't say "Disneyland looks just like this".
Wow sounds amazing.. what exactly was his job title if you don't mind me asking? Sounds like my dream job haha
The German-American chemistry between the two of you is just perfect! 😂
Strong chemistry Germany-America...Indeed
Germany is Gemany
American is American
5:38 According to German law, he would have been in his rights to slap him in the face for asking for ice cubes for his beer.
We don't do that in the US lol
@@greenmachine5600 you have guns in us. So you dont need to slap anybody.
We don't put ice in our beer but we do store it in an ice cooler. Or it is served from the tap in a frosty or chilled mug. 😋🍺 Cheers 🍻
@@briansmith48 as a German I can't drink american tap water. It's nasty
AMERICANS NEVER PUT ICE IN BEER. Absolutely ridiculous!! 🙄🙄
I feel the loud speaking in public part so much. I had a date with a foreign girl that talked really loud. Oh my god like everyone around saw how uncomfortable I was.
Foreign, from where? And where were you?
I agree with it too.. cuz i talked loud as well and everyone can hear me. 🤣
I love Nalfs glance to "Why don't we eat and have a conversation or sth..." at 0:52 😂 Great video! Especially for not commenting/titling and just leaving the scenes speak for themselves, they really are self-explanatory. And "I thought you germans liked cars" - I just couldn't anymore 😂
Yep….”So what show or movie do you guys want to watch?” So American. Cars, TV and LOUD.
The beginning alone was glorious.
If you don't know what makes you German, now you know :D
Absolutly agree!
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Jawohl!
Shit, now I know why my American friends react like that xD
I'm American no doubt, but when you check my ancestry. My family came from Germany. So I'm always curious to learn more about Germany when I can. I always liked how families from Mexico will speak only Spanish at home and English in public so their kids learn about family heritage and cultures while learning what they need to know to live in the US. I think it would have been cool if my family had a thing like that. Nobody in my family knows anything about Germany including the language. Last person in my family who knew German was my great grandfather. I can still learn but I kind of have to learn what I can from Google since I can't afford a trip to visit myself.
"I thought Germans like car".
I died for this
Should just make it a sitcom already. I’d watch it.
brilliant XD the first one might go over many germans heads though, in the US asking "how are you" is a greeting very small smalltalk. In germany you ask that if you expect a summary of someones current issues and problems
When people say Anglo-Saxons rule the World.
Does that include Germans or not?
@@farzana6676 by todays standards not cause anglo saxons are the english (and to some degree the US and australia) even though they started out as german...they arent really anymore
@@OrkarIsberEstar I was wondering because I hear this phrase often and I recently heard Vladimir Putin say that "Russia is tired of Anglo-Saxon global domination"
So I was wondering who exactly he is referring to when he says "Anglo-Saxons".
@@farzana6676 well he might include the germans in that XD but suually it refers to england, and sometimes england the us and australia aka the anglosphere.
which sometimes includes new zealand as well
It’s just extremely odd to me that someone would feel it appropriate to launch into a serious convo within 2 seconds of meeting up (and in a hallway?). If someone did that I would think they lack social skills and emotional intelligence.
As a Canadian, I envy Germany's bus system. My vehicle broke down a while back while I was working at a major factory in my city across the street from a major shopping center with a bus stop right between them but the nearest time and place to my shift start where I could be dropped off by a bus was a few blocks away about 45 minutes early and when I got off work 12 hours later in the morning I had to get a ride from a coworker because there were no buses running for hours after my shift end (and no buses run at night either, just to point out how much it sucks). Our bus system seems to exist entirely to serve college/university only.
Yeah, that makes sense too. College and university students are often poor, cannot afford a car.
I had auto trouble, needed to use a bus for a while. Very very inconvenient.
4:25 Nalf was actually right, pizza boxes go into the black bin, because theyre oily paper
True, they chose a bad example with the pizza box. Still a great scene! 😄
But not this part. It was the top so if you are very precisely you put the top in the paper bin and the bottom with all the oil in the black bin
G’day from France. In France in 2024 pizza boxes are put in the recycling bin even if they are oily. Take care
to language - well...kinda. you can say english did branch off and begin as a dialect of germanic - to be precise saxon dialect. But german evolved out of germanic just like english, so german is not the ancestor to english but a brother. inded up until roughly 1000 AD a person from england and a person from germany could verbally communicate. then germany had some ronounciation changes (no more th) while english introduced lots of french to their language. The final cut was around shakespears time when english dropped most of its grammar and german went through a lot of letter changes (n->b, f->v, k->g etc.) and since then the languages are barely recognisable as being similiar to each other
If you compare old German and old English, they are VERY similar. However, over time, as you already mentioned, a lot of changes occurred which make their modern counterparts vastly different. Though "modern" high German has still more similarities to the "old" one, than English does to its historic counterpart.
well, languages never stop to evolve!
appreciate the explanation!
the changes aren't that ð/þ became d. but t began s, ss/zz, z/ts. and other stuff. but Westgermanic was fractured into dialects alread at the time where the Jutes, Angles and Saxons went to the Brit Islands. So you can say historically it's from the starting German dialects, because actually all West Germanic dialects resemble the German dialects, except for English nowadays and Scots.
Frisian was highly influenced by the new arriving Norse.
@@SchmulKrieger The point is that current German is not the ancestor of English, is like saying current apes are our ancestors.
Love this BROmance 😂❤️
2:48 Wait until he hears about trains...
And once he's amazed by the German railway he'll hear all the Germans complain about the DB and be even more confused.
We have public transportation in the US- buses and subways. So that part is totally unrealistic!
"thats a natural ac we call it"
LOL that first interaction needs to be explained. In America, asking, "how are you?" or, "how are you doing?" CAN mean that you are literally asking for a long explanation of events in that person's life, but usually, it just means, "hello" or "salutations". It's like an abbreviated version of saying, "I'm concerned for your welfare as a friend, but I (or we) are pressed for time at the moment." In Europe, however, asking "how are you?" ALWAYS means, "give me a long explanation of how your life has been going."
I heard that too.... a Soviet ex-pat cautioned me that asking a Russian "how is life" will get me a story. He emphasized the point by grabbing a button on my shirt.
43 million people in the U.S. are of German ancestry. Germans settled in Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and some other states. Kansas had over 60 news papers in German language. I'm sure, some people know the ß.
Yes, ancestry. Doesn't mean their descendents speak the language further than "danke" or "auf wiedersehen". From what I've read only a tiny percentage-less than 1% speak it and those are mainly German born or first generation.
well, thanks to media and government, pretty much nothing of it is left cuz of ww1.
@@greenknitter
As i wrote before: Some of those people will know the ß. I'm not saying that all 43 million people are familiar with German language and culture.
As far as i know these descendants of ancient settlers from the mid-19th century and maybe some WWII immigrants celebrate German traditions in the U.S. and Canada, probably in smaller towns and villages. They also play German sporting games such as Capture the Flag and Chinese Wall or calll them British Bulldog (which is pretty odd, because in the U.K. it is referred to as German Bulldog sometimes, but in Germany we don't use these names).
@@daisaigai7 Yes some will, but "some" really amounts to maybe one per cent of the entire population from what I've read who have any degree of fluency in German.
There are towns in the mid-West that have a lot of German descendents who have festivals celebrating their German heritage too with lots of typical German foods and drink. Like a Disneyfied version of a Bavarian town from the 19th century.
many Germans landed in Baltimore and lived there like my family
Amazing acting you two. I m impressed.
Even when Nalf put the pizza box in the proper paper recycling bin, he still neglected to squash it flat first. Squash the boxes flat! Otherwise your bin is full of empty boxes after three days and you still have another 10 days until collection day.
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or you live as i tenant and some one before you put his ikea carton box in there without aquashing it first while you stand there with your hands full and think "fuck! assholes!" ^^
3:20 that hits home when i was a kid i always got told that i speak to loud in germany my mother is from thailand and there you speak very loud with eachother
I would take a bike as a beer transporter for the 400m to the supermarket and back.
I would take a beer with me, so I don't arrive thirsty at the supermarket.
I would use a backpack or good old "kasten".
The problem with me is, that the beer wouldnt even make it to my. They would be empty if im home
To the greatest come back artist of all time.
All the Nalficorns and everyone else hope for your speedy recovery. The playoffs need The Nalf on the field.
TSGO
Did I miss an illness?
@@astridchladek1927 He was injured in Saturday's football game. Check in to his Discord room. I posted about it on the Announcements channel.
I was expecting the annual rant about the heat without ac in Germany 🤔😉
Coming soon, don‘t worry 😉
2:20 yes, thats why we keep them safe in the garage.
The bus thing has me cracking up, a lot of people here in the US don't usually use it if they don't have to. Where here in Detroit, it's part of life.
1:30 As a german, I'm on NALFs side there. If I eat something, I always watch TV.
But not if you are with people?
Not much good on TV anymore and too many commercials.
If im with people we talk and drink beer.
You got me at "I thought you Germans loved cars" :D
I saw the thumbnail and knew this would be another epic video. And I was not disappointed 😂👍
I went to chicago and in the supermarket the cashier asked me how i am……. In germany i go to lidls/adlis. I just stood there, uncomfortable, shocked. I said „ig good, im here on vacation. The flight was a little rough but better than the sea way, right? Ahaha“ and………. They looked at me, nodded and said the most insincere. „Cool.“
@@dompdompdomp 💀💀💀"how are you?" "hello" is SUCH a rude response to me bc I'm expecting an honest answer but i totally get where you're coming from!! guess ill just have to suck it up and say that next time. thanks for the advice
Here in Canada we are much more reserved than people in the US so it also annoys me when people pretend to care. What makes it worse is that it’s a requirement in many english business out of customer service/politeness. If anything though people are much more genuine about it up north here if they ask, or they just try not to get in your business at all.
@@torink8229 Americans who say how are you aren’t pretending to care. It’s literally a greeting.
@@liad0x When asked that in the US, the proper response, (with a customer service worker or any person you don’t know well), is good, thanks or fine, thanks.
i love the "not wanna hug but yes ok i will got with it just for once" at 00:07
hahahahahahahahah shit there is so much of info in the first 30sec hhaaahahahahaha
Are German guys really huggy with guy friends?
@@LittleLulubeeyes.
"It looks like Disney Land."
It's almost like Disney Land was based on old world architecture, something you don't find in America, but Germany has.
I wouldn't compare them, it's like comparing a statue to a 3d rendering of the same statue. Both look good, but the heart and soul of an artist went into one, and while the same 'could' be true of the other, it's still just a copy.
Germany is based on Disneyland
You got it upside down. Germany copied Disneyland
@@farzana6676 no Disneyland invented Germany
@Rico Ten I'm American... The US is younger than the kind of architecture I'm talking about, closest we have is more modern replicas, like Disney.
It's a modern age, anyone with a phone can look up the age of America.
@@jeremyblade7561 But if Disneyland is based on old European architecture, with castles and such, then it makes sense that Germany would remind an American of Disneyland. So why do they try to make that something to mock?
Yeah I love Radical Living. He is super cool. You guys should do more stuff.
Awesome. I think you two should have a channel for yourselves... It would be a best seller
My mom didn't let us cross the street on our bike always had walk it across and wait for the cross walk and I lived in a medium sized city so there was public transportation only had one car growing up so we took the bus to the grocery store while my dad was at work all the time and we weren't aloud to watch TV while we ate we all had to sit at the table my dad and mom always had to sit on the end and couldn't touch our food till we prayed so most of these are kinda normal for me too as an american
All of that sounds pretty normal for Americans. Nice and old-fashioned. Same with my family 😊
I was soo triggered when you throw that paper into the Restmüll... ;D
This video is among the funniest things I have ever seen! I laughed so hard I cried! The Americans reactions were so spot on!! (I'm american)
Wir haben wieder einen von diesen amis hier, der nicht recyceln kann… kommen sie ihn abholen?
* white vests intensified *
you guys are the best comedic duo since laurel and hardy..!!
We want part 3🙏🙏🙏🤜
"You have a lot to learn, man. You have a lot to learn."
and now with Mike xD
Truly love you guys!! I want more!!
Culture differences are amazing. I relate so much to these videos because as a Venezuelan that grew up in the states and went back to Venezuela and now lives in Austria, there were soooooo many things people found weird about me and viceversa and it's an amazing process to understand our cultural differences and of course, adapt and change certain behaviors to integrate is also so amazing. It really changes your mindset of society, people, communities and overall life.
Travelling and if possible, living, in other places outside our countries is an amazing thing.
I also moved to Austria! But from Germany and still, there are quite a lot of cultural differences. 😄
@@solokom which major cultural differences did you encounter in austria?
@@solokom Yeah, I’d like to know, too!
What was it like learning German for you, as an English and Spanish speaker?
@@LittleLulubee it's actually helpful to know both because some pronunciations are more similar to spanish and in Spanish we also have gender for words. So that helps with die, der, das. But overall, German is quite hard haha. I'm far from fluent still.
The first 10 seconds were already perfect lol
I kept laughing and laughing, and Radical living couldn't even keep from laughing too.
Your videos always make me smile. Everything you say is TRUE!
Not at all, there were some falsehoods
@@LittleLulubee Really...name them.
@@blondegerman4461 Like insinuating that Americans don’t recycle and don’t use public transportation. Those things are totally false.
@@LittleLulubee MOST Americans do NOT recycle or use public transportation. This is also dependent upon where in the US you reside. You live in New York City you use the subways and cabs. You live in a rural area you do not have that option. Those represent some examples. As far as recycling.....California & DC is very big on that. Other states not so. I live in Texas and if you want to go anywhere you need to drive. Very few people recycle. I do but I am in the minority. Here it is limited on what you can recycle.
The saying at the beginning ("my dog died last week") caused a spontaneous Heartstopper-flashback.
#Charlie #Nick 🧡💚💙💜
your collab series are so great :) i need more
4:10 just as a side note: English originated mostly from the Frisian language that is spoken in a northern region of Germany called Ostfriesland. It's not a dialect -its a language! ;)
That's incorrect. Frisian and Englisch might share similarities, but Englisch mainly derieved from Saxon
Also the frisian language, like the Name Ostfriesland already suggests, is spoken in Westfriesland and Nordfriesland too
By that logic most germans don.t speak german .... frisian is closer to german then what ever the f swabians speak ...
🤣👍 so accurate, had that culture shock vice versa while in the US
Being on the phone (or any other devices, even the GPS) while you're in the driver's seat and you have the motor running is not only bad for the environment, it also can become quite expensive when the police comes along.
When you are parked?
Depends on, if your engine is running or not.
@@emjayay when you are parked and the engine is running, yes. That's what a lot of people aren't aware of. Therefore better turn the engine off, before taking any device in hand.
Ha! I spoke German and mixed delightfully with the locals during my Army tour in Mannheim and Heidelberg, 52 years ago, and every little detail of this video essay rings sharp and clear. Besten Dank aus den Verrückten Staaten von Amerika!
LOVE the In-N-Out t-shirt! True West Coast man :)
I love these collaborations. They're the best 😆
Ich schmeiss´ mich gerade weg vor lachen! :-)
It’s even worse in the drive through when your car is running for up to ten minutes if they are slow or just plain inefficient! 😂😂😂😂😂
I thought Germans liked cars?!!!!
2:50 that woman at the bus stop was probably thinking "these god damn tourists"
4:00 No, it's an "SZ" which alternatively is spelled as a double, not triple S. So "Lange Straße" could also be spelled "Lange Strasse" but it looks off.
A triple ‘s’, had to giggle too
@@Hoschie-ww7io Yeah, why not a quadruple S already, now that we're on it? XD
joke within the joke. prompting one of the most german things to do: correct others in youtube forums : )
It WILL be spelt "Strasse" in Switzerland, where they don't have the ß anymore.
@@jwag82 Yeah, but it still looks off to me.
One funny thing from an American tourist here in Slovenia. One asked the guide in all seriousness, why did people build a 600 hundred year old medieval castle so near the airport. That question would apply to Germany too.
And another one was, if we still have dragons here after seeing a bridge with dragon statues called “Dragon bridge”.
Nick, you made my day! Roly-poly and unkaputtbar, just after a bad injury you surprise us with a gorgeous video with radical living, couldn't stop laughing, all the beloved good old topics still work! I wish you a speedy recovery, get well soon and don't forget to remind Mikey of his duties as a younger brother. Lord Nalf must be served!
Zum Thema Mülltrennung: ich habe 7 Jahre in Portland, Oregon gelebt und dort ist Mülltrennung heilig. Ich wurde andauernd von Nachbarn belehrt, was ich wo rein zu tun hatte… so strikt ist das in Deutschland nicht!
Ich wohne in Deutschland und meine Nachbarn haben mir am Dienstag Müll vor die Füße geworfen behauptet man müsse im Sommer zwei Müllbeutel benutzen und ich wäre weil ich nur einen verwende und Essensreste entsorge allein verantwortlich für Madenbefall in der Tonne (ist ja nicht so dass es Sommer ist und das ein natürlicher Prozess) dann meinten sie ich solle den Müll den sie auf den Boden geworfen haben wieder einräumen.
Meinen Papa haben sie dann auch noch belogen und ich bin fast hyperventilert.
Die gucken aber auch in meinen Briefkasten und informieren meinen Besuch über den Inhalt oder sind der Meinung ich müsse meinen Besuch der Hausverwaltung melden und ich würde zu laut die Treppe herunterlaufen
As if Radical Living never jaywalks in Berlin... ;)
I think i even walk more over reds than greens 😅
"why don't we eat and have a conversation or something" - said no german ever😂😂😂
Always funny, thank you.😀👍
"Kommen Sie ihn abholen?" Made my day :-)
To be fair, a pizza box likely should go into garbage because of food waste. If you put it in the recycle bin, it'll just rot the entire batch
In Seattle, food contaminated paper goes in the compost bin with the yard waste. Not that Seattleites are any smarter or more conscientious than the rest of Americans, based on some of the things I see in the bins here.
If half of the pizza is still in there and it's also inseperatable through cheese-"glue", than you're right (but when cheese gets really cold, you should be able to get it off the cartboard). Otherwise you seperate those components into bio waste and paper waste and throw them into the appropriate bin.
@@dnocturn84 Once a pizza has left any residue on cardboard, you can _never_ get it all off. And cardboard decomposes just fine in the compost. It's just cellulose, same as the trees it was made from.
@@blindleader42 Yes, I never said that you're forced to put it into the paper bin. Bio waste is just as fine for really messy pizza boxes. The bin shown in the video was "Restmüll", which is not the right bin for bio waste anyways. Unless this region of Germany doesn't offer seperate bio waste bins, which is very possible, than this bin would be absolutely fine. But I personally prefer to throw "clean" pizza boxes (yes, I sometimes end up with very clean pizza boxes, almost like new - somehow) into my paper bin.
@@dnocturn84 "Yes, I never said that you're forced to put it into the paper bin"
And I never said you did.
Christ on a crutch. Move on already.
1:22 an engine that is turned off for a few seconds does more damage than one that is not turned off
Ok, this time NALF gets the million views, ok? Can we settle for that?
I'm down for that.
Both? Both!
I'd love to see a sketch with you and both the Amis! That'd be hilarious :)
I like the videos with you both in it and the mostly peculiar interaction. Embrace that project, it's one of few things
amongst so much BS on YT that stil can make me laugh
As a german myelf I have to agree that it is impossible to consume food whithout watching TV/UA-cam etc.
Fuck Damn I felt the first bit so hard. I've been guilty of this so many times.
Also at 3:30 ... EVERY german, that lives anywhere near to a US Base, knows that americans lack the ability to adjust their volume to the surroundings. Sometimes its rediculous it you have like a table of 8 soldiers.. being louder than ... well... everything
We learn to yell in public from a very young age because it's the only way for your friends to hear you over all the other Americans.
@@AsaTJ522 Hahaha. That's why it's a cultural thing.
Great action from both guys!
This just explains so much about my own personal culture shocks when I got here. Particularly seeing Radical living embodying what I encountered, and very different to how he usually is. Btw, does anyone know his name?!! I never took that in…
Loved both these videos, please make more together, it’s genius squared.
Why not join in as the british part of the story?
@@peter_meyer 👍would be funny
PS: Hi Lauren 🙋♂️
@@peter_meyer yes, please! That is the welsh perspective!
Omg you guys are the best! I would film the others and make a spoof of my usual videos. Dreamy Nalf and calm Radical Living. Can’t you just see it?! Lol! I actually love comedy. I get told off for being a clown 😠 But I suppose it’s a matter of time and place… 😬
@@LaureninGermany Make it so!
Lol. Walking around my first German town, I actually said "its like Six Flags." Which of course generated chagrin from my German host. Ha. But it IS!
It’s just like I am there wearing the In and Out Burger T-Shirt!! It’s all so accurate. I think it’s funny Germans think 70 degrees is cold in the evening 😀😀😅
The in and out burger shirt is hilarious, didn't even notice it until i started editing 😅
70 degrees is blistering hot my man. Everybody knows, that water boils at 100 degrees, or what are you talking about?
@@stefanb6539 70 degrees Fahrenheit
@@stefanb6539 Not in Freedom loving units!
Unless you live in places like Florida, Public Transit is not a thing unless cities are around.
😂😍 I've been walking all that places the last two days. How are you Nick? I hope it wasn't such a serious injury at yesterdays game and you're getting well soon! Your brother played really good yesterday, I enjoyed the game and atmosphere in Schwäbisch Hall very much!
what town is this?
@@90Kasiek Serious? S C H W Ä B I S C H H A L L
@@mascami thanks
I love these two together
im born and raised in Germany and always watch TV when i eat. 🤣🤣
Please take the American on a trip on the freeway, the last ride was really funny😄😁
By now Nalf is so custom to “our” way of doing things, that I wonder what’s his go to behaviour in such situations nowadays is.. and if chooses the german way does it change when coming back to the US?
Both of my favorite UA-camrs 👍🏽👍🏽
Damn, the stereotypes be hitting hard with this one, haha! I hope y’all realize not all Americans are like this… I’m an American in Germany right now on an exchange trip, the walking thing is the exact opposite! I’m always going, going, going, and my German doesn’t wanna go anywhere! I’m having a good time, though! Another thing is the mayonnaise. SOOOO MUCH MAYONNAISE IN GERMANY! And the burger sauce too!
Leaving america is step one. Youre obviously not familiar with germany so i think its a little naive to assume you havent done anything culturally incorrect. But obviously there are many american ytbers vlogging their life in germany so its obvious that not all americans are rrrrroootttteeen? I dare say it. But dw, as long as youre open to different things youre under the top 500 americans. So cheers. ALSO RECYCLE.
Sure, it's all the stereotypes combined in one person for the laughs. People are different. Just like there are Germans who don't recycle, jaywalk and leave the motor running while waiting for someone. ;-)
@@liad0x Bruh you don't know anything about Americans. From my experience of living there, they either know nothing at all or know more about things than most people anywhere. And the divide is maybe 70-30
@@srirampatnaik9164 95/5 „more than most people anywhere“ literally sounds like just another variation of „america is the best“ and „you know nothing“ bc my experience was different is the typical radically absolute egocentric american view. How long have you lived in usa?? i fear you’ve been americanized 💀
@Rockemsockem Exactly, Europeans live like kings and take it for granted. It's hard to go off and travel the world when you're too busy working 60 hours a week to pay off student loans.
The worst part about American cities, they are built mostly around driving, that joke about 400m is so true
As a gay man, I firmly support this hot, sweaty and handsome collaboration.
As a straight woman, I concur.
Wow. I just realized how much of how I was raised is from my German family. Kinda cool! :)
Yoooo you guys did a vid together again, Nalf I know you from the first video on his channel btw😂
PS: I mean the first from like 9 months ago
You guys are great together! Thank you for making me smile! "Ice!!?? That is an eternal sin in Germany!!!"
LOVE the In N Out T-shirt!! Cool video guys! Warmest wishes from Northern California
4:35 that looks like a pizza box, those are usually filled with grease, do Germany recycling systems have a way to recycling that? Cause in America pizza box's are the exception to recycling rules
German answering: Greasy pizza boxes go into the bin for general waste
Where I live in the US, greasy pizza boxes go in the yard waste container
Well done, and funny.
Sorry but if we’re in Texas, any potential German friends are gonna lose the “Turn the engine off!” argument in this heat.
But if you're a white person who chooses to live in such a hot climate you must expect to have to deal with that heat, no? Using ac uses more petrol and so perpetuates the very thing that's causing you to use ac more and more: climate change.
@@greenknitter are you German? Also, I was born here and enjoy the culture
@@alexiakelley4245 No, I'm Irish. I've lived in Germany and my partner is German.
What culture do you mean?
@@greenknitter rural Texas southern culture
Hey man, love your channel! Just found out about it in these past few days. I live roughly an hour north of Schwäbisch-Hall, have spent some time in the UK and US myself. Tremendously enjoy your content! Cheers! Philipp
😹😹😹 this is so accurate. I never knew ß was called triple S. I thought it was a mistake and looked it up. Learned something new. When I was stationed in Germany my orders said *Giessen* and when I arrived the signs all said *Gießen* . I was freaking out because I thought I was gonna get in trouble 😹😹😹
ß=SZ
@@SCHNUSELI yes found that for the first time when I looked it up. Very interesting as I only learned how to speak German (not master btw) and never learned the alphabet. My German friends of course helped me a lot with phrases and slang
@@pqsk umlaute like ä,ö and stuff, are not in the alphabet, same with ß. Never thought about it, until now:)
@@SCHNUSELI wow that is interesting 🤔
As a German: Never heard ot "triple S". I guess they made that up. ß is known as "Es Zett" - SZ