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Leonardo DiCaprio had a german "Oma".

The real literal translation from "Ich glaube ich spinne." is "I think i weave." or "I think i (am) crazy." Because spinne(n) is written small so it is a verb meaning one of two things eather "to weave" or "to be crazy.

The last literal translation was not so literal, because it confused a verb with a noun. "Ich glaube ich spinne" is literally "I think I spin" - and spiders are called Spinnen in German because they spin their net. The origin of the phrase are long winter evenings in former times when the villagers came together each week at another neighbor's home to spin their wool or flax, while telling each other wild tales and (crazy) horror stories for entertainment - they did spin their yarn together. Another word with the same origin is flachsen (from Flachs = flax), which means to yarn ridiculous stories or simply to fool around with words.

16:20 You can also lose your driver's license by riding your bike if you are drunk. The "Do not walk at red" thing developed back in the 1980s and 1990s as different campaigns requested people to act as a role model for children in traffic situations. The argument goes as follows: Kids do often have neither the overview nor the prudence to a assess traffic situations correctly, and if they see you traverse the road at red light, they will later do the same, even when it is not safe. This attitude is now ingrained in Germans.

German breakfast has changed a lot the last 150 years or so. About a hundred years before rural breakfast was split in the early one at sunrise (porridge or brennt's mus = burned or black porridge, made from roasted grist or wholemeal, coffee (mixed with coffee substitute), sometimes bread and jam instead of porridge) and the Z'Nine (9 am) or Z'Zehne (10 am) main morning meal; in Bavaria you can the latter still find as "Weisswurst" breakfast. About 125 years before the Swiss physician Bircher-Brenner invented the "Müsli", based on rolled oats, apples and dried fruits. Since the 1970s this became the main form for a cereals based breakfast in Germany, and for many Germans it is (in different variations) now their daily breakfast - except for the weekend, when the breakfast consists mainly of breadrolls, butter, cheese, sausages, jam and more. Sundays: As part of social reforms (to thwart the socialist movement) the German Empire introduced a ban of Sunday work in most trades in a 1891 amendment to the trade law. After WW I the protection of the Sunday as a day of quiet and recovery became a constitutional right - the idea was to give families at least one day per week together without anybody having to go to work. This article was one of a handful adopted also by the Grundgesetz (Basic Law), the new West German constitution after WW II; the East German constitution also got a similar rule. There were always exemptions for certain services (like emergency and health services, but also restaurants) and industries which technically can't close down for a day, and there were also some "softenings" the last decades. Bakeries are allowed to open at Sunday mornings to provide fresh breadrolls and shops providing mostly for travellers (in railway stations and gas stations) are also allowed to open. A few decades ago Germany had also shop closing times regulated by federal law (originally between 6:30 pm and about 7:00 am) to protect the employees in the retail sector; since 2006 the states can (de)regulate this by their own laws, only Bavaria still clings to the rules of the federal law (shops without special license closed between 8 pm and 6 am). But some attempts for 24/6 opening hours by some store chains failed in most places due to low turnover (and high costs). The official source for the number of kind of breads in Germany: www.brotinstitut.de/brotkultur

Dominic Monaghan, Martin Lawrence and Jerry Ryan really surprised me. With the others I either knew it or didn't know them at all, like the tennis player.

"Alles hat ein Ende nur die Wurst hat zwei !"

Here's another one: "seinen Senf dazutun". Literally, "to add one's mustard" -- meaning, "to put in their 2 cents' worth", as in giving (often unsolicited, and maybe not even helpful) commentary and/or advice, or simply meddling in affairs that don't concern them. Not exactly flattering. Oh, and "nicht alle Tassen im Schrank haben" (not having all cups in the cupboard) --> "da ist 'ne Schraube locker" (there's a screw loose) --> someone's crazy, or an idiot.

6 days, 12 hours stores are open. I don't know anyone who can't manage to purchase in these time. May be that it is for Brits or Americans unusual, but to be honest, i like the calm and going slow on sundays. And in in my experience foreigners also appreciates the silent sundays after a while. Here on youtube a lot of Americans for example are publishing their positve experiences with this german rule. Most of them enjoy the comfortably sundays too!

Konstanz Überlingen Meersburg Radolfzell

A few of your must see places are overrated , crowded and overpriced tourist traps imho.

I recommend you for the future: Weimar, the Elbsandsteingebirge, the Bastei, the Festung Königstein and not forgetting Dresden and finally the Spreewald. All very historic places. Driving around Bavaria alone is like getting to know America through Disneyland, because Bavaria is like Disneyland.

You should try Trier, the oldest city in Germany and the birthplace of Karl Marx. It’s lies in the Moselle valley full of vineyards and Marx based his idea of exploitation of the proletariat on his observations of the workers picking the grapes. I never read that anywhere before until I found it out at the Karl Marx museum. There’s a fairly intact amphitheater and basilica and Roman baths which are ruins as well as the entrance to the city, the Porta Nigra which is in very good condition considering it’s a few thousand years old. Trier or Treveris was known as the Rome of the north.

"This is blurrred"... "this is also blurred". Dude. Its commercials. Grow up.

Explanation of the last one: Audio production companies use all kinds of weird tools to create sound effects, e.g. a big sheet of metal to create the sound of thunder or coconuts to create the sound of galloping horses. In this case they used the sizzling sound of burning hot oil against flesh to create the sizzling sound of an opening sparkling water bottle. The joke is that they go "all in" for their art.

Those aren't very typical german ads though

...... I find them really disgusting. Typical German.

It would be interesting to hear how he pronounces city or country names in German. For example, Schottland, Irland, Grönland, München and so on.

Du hast vergessen, was es über das Essen und Trinken in Deutschland zu sagen gibt. :)

Very well Done 😂🎉

With the biro video they try to find new doctors for a hospital company...

The T in Tchibo is really important. Its a brand that is very wellknown in Austria (and southern germany, many people believe the Eduscho/Tschibo Brand is actually austrian), and in these regions CH at the start of words is pronounced as "K" not as a "sch" sound like in northern germany. So Tchibo without the T would be pronounced Kibo here instead of the correct pronounciation.

10:00 You cannot drive up to the Brocken though (never trust google maps). There are "roads" up there, but they are exclusive to supply the Restaurant & Hotel and not open to the public. The shortest point you can go with a car is Parkplatz Oderbrück, still 7.6 km away from the summit (or a 2h hike). A bit further & more common and pretty, but also more touristy would the path from Torfhaus. An easy hike, but still like 8-9 km long.

My favourite is schapsidee (i think i got that right). I have had slightly different translations from different Germans. 1. An idea you thought was great whilst drunk 2. An idea so bad you must of been drunk when you thought of it.

You should have made a drinking game instead of cards! 😉

You see the americans would have turned the castles into mcdonalds

German here. The Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg is really something very special and anyone who has been to Hamburg but hasn't visited the Miniatur Wunderland has made a big mistake.

I was working in Aberdeen (Scotland) 2003. The breakfast was terrible, you should never taste black pudding. After work I went into the town at 17:00. All local shops closed at this time. Worse than in germany.

You have to show responsibility when you drive a car or motorcycle. And breaking traffic rules even on foot or on a bicycle may indicate that you lack this. Just imagine someone cycling an autobahn against the traffic, blind-drunk. That are the cases when authorities can intervene and suspend a license. And as you lose your general permission to operate power-driven transport in such a case you may even lose a skipper's patent or your certificate as an airline pilot. To be honest, I do not want to sit in a plane when the pilot is a chap like that.

20000 castles, yes, but you need the eyes of an archeologist to see them all.

What on earth is this overgrown toddler whinging about? You can eat what you like for breakfast if you are making it yourself or is that below his pay grade ? Double decker trains; came across those in France about 40 years ago and great fun they were. So what if we don't have them. If he hadn't notice both France and Germany are significantly larger than the UK so we don't really need them. As for many of the other differences, I would hardly call them "culture shocks " , or perhaps he is easily shocked ; they are just differences which is why we go abroad to enjoy them and go with local flow. Giving way to emergency vehicles has been done in the UK for as long as I can remember although the French seem rather indifferent to the concept. If you hear an alarm vehicle you just get out of the way in any direction that allows the most room for a vehicle to pass as this applies on all roads not just motorways. As for castles, I live in Wales and we have more castles per square mile than any other country. I will concede on bakeries however, can't beat really fresh bread

Fleisch zum Frühstück? In Deutschland? Na gut, den Leuten rechts des Rheins insbesondere und uns Deutschen allgemein kann man - allzu oft zu recht - vieles Schlimme nachsagen, aber das nicht! Das ist mir in über 60 Jahren nie begegnet und ich habe dergleichen auch nie gehört! Meat for breakfast? In Germany? Well, the people on the right bank of the Rhine in particular and us Germans in general can - all too often rightly - be accused of many bad things, but not that! In over 60 years I've never come across that and I've never heard anything like it! (Transl. DeepL)

Und da sagen die da draußen, daß die Deutschen keinen Humor hätten, pardon, wir Deutschen. And then those out there say that the Germans have no sense of humour, pardon, we Germans.(Transl. DeepL)

7:17 we have "kiosks" for Sundays

I'm German, and I never liked sparkling water.

Sundays used to be like that in the UK until relatively recently - 1990s maybe ?

In my experience, most German adverts involve either constipation or diarrhea. You could get the wrong impression as a foreigner that most Germans have bowel problems:) On the whole the adverts are not very funny. The Dutch do the funniest ones i think.

Quite creepy

I'm 64. and was a child in the 60's and 70's in Wales. My daughter in law is German. Many just have cereal or toast for breakfast. Just like in the UK, what the hotels or restaurants offer for breakfast is not always what the general population eat. Back in 70's UK pop was sold in glass bottles and you got money back from the shop if you returned them, so as kids we looked in street bins to see if we could find pop bottles that we could return. Shops were not open on Sundays - not even small ones. Going to Germany is like going back in time to me. I am a driver and the UK tells you to pull over and stop if you hear emergency vehicle sirens. In Wales we do this. German bakeries. Well I have gluten intolerance, and it is just as difficult to get gluten free bread in Germany as in the UK, so I am not impressed by them. Castles? Wales has more castles per square mile than anywhere else in Europe, but just like the Germans our definition is broad, and include Norman motte and bailey castles and iron age hill forts .

The system behind the Rettungsgasse is very simple (technically): those driving in the far left lane move left, all others move to the right.

Pfand system is good. Invented in Denmark, where we have been recycling bottles since 1922 - in Germany it started in 2003, so 81 years later ...

Jaywalking. We also do that. We're not holier than the pope! But, when there are parents with little kids waiting for the green light, it is common courtesy to not jaywalk to give a good example for the little ones. So, the parents don't have to explain why some people walk on red. Just be the good example you would wish for your own offspring.

Lol, I have to re-watch this as there were so many! And even as a German I didn't know half of this stuff.

Oh wow, thank you for that glimpse into the Sächsische Schweiz. Amazing! Liked the music when you showed that river scenes. It fit perfectly.

I like the thoughtful way how you present those differences. Very nuanced. 😃

Viele der deutschen Phrasen gehen auf eine so weit entfernte Zeit zurück, das sie heutzutage keinen nachvollziehbaren Sinn mehr ergeben. "Alles in Butter" Herkunft: 1. Zerbrechliche Gegenstände wie Gläser und Geschirr wurden im Mittelalter in flüssige Butter eingelegt und nach dem Erstarren derselben als Block transportiert, um Bruchschäden durch den Transport zu vermeiden. 2. bezieht sich vermutlich auf früher gemachte Hinweise, dass Speisen mit Butter anstatt mit anderen billigeren Fetten, wie Margarine hergestellt wurden 3. vermutlich Berlinerisch, ursprünglich sollen Berliner Gastwirte die Auskunft »alles in Butter« gegeben haben als Hinweis auf die in der Küche verwendete teurere Fettsorte Es gibt hier den Ausspruch "Alter Schwede!!!" genutzt als Ausdruck totaler Überraschung. Ich könnte schwören, das 95% der Leute die das sagen absolut keine Ahnung haben woher dieser Satz ursprünglich stammt und welche Bedeutung er hatte, und trotzdem wird er auch heute noch so genutzt wie eigentlich damals, vor über 400 Jahren 😂 ( Nach dem Ende des 30 jährigen Krieges in Deutschland hatte der Kurfürst von Brandenburg beschlossen weg von den damaligen kostspieligen Söldnerarmeen zu einer landeseigenen Armee zu kommen. Um dann seine neuen Soldaten ausbilden zu lassen stellte er schwedische Veteranen aus dem 30 jährigen Krieg an. Das waren dann sozusagen Unteroffiziere die als Zeichen ihrer Befehlsgewalt einen Spies mit sich führten (Daher kommt auch der heute noch gebräuchliche Begriff "Spies" für einen Kompaniefeldwebel in der deutschen Armee) Damals jedenfalls gab es bereits den sogenannten Zapfenstreich, an welchem sich der Soldat wieder in seinem Quartier zu befinden hat. (Mit Zapfen ist der Zapfen eines Bierfasses in einer Schänke gemeint, und Zapfenstreich meint das beenden des Verkaufs von Bier.) Zu der Zeit diesen Zapfenstreiches ging eben dieser ´alter Schwede´ durch die Kneipen um nach Soldaten zu suchen die noch nicht wieder in ihrem Quatier waren, und sollte er welche dabei finden gab es harte Strafen für sie. Genau daher stammt dieser auch heute noch genutzte Ausruf "Alter Schwede!", nur damals warnten sich die trinkenden Soldaten damit gegenseitig davor von dem überraschend aufgetauchten ´alten Schweden´ erwischt zu werden um noch rechtzeitig vor einer Strafe zu fliehen. Was ich aber als viel spannender empfinde sind Redewendungen die im englischen und deutschem identisch sind, und davon gib es sehr viele die man fast Wort für Wort übersetzen kann. Das letzte worauf ich stieß war "...through thick And thin", im deutschen mit jemandem ´durch dick und dünn´ gehen. 😉

Not just 25cents for plasticbottles, its for cans 25cents too !!! ^^