"Ampel" not only means "trafic lights", but Ampel is a nickname of the current government coalition due to the fact that the government coalition is made up of the SPD, FDP and the Green Party. SPD uses the color red and FDP the color yellow in most graphs and the Green Party uses of course green.
Its interesting to See, how much you actually Mist know, to understand. Ryan of course does Not know our politicians neither political system or the latest News..so some of the memes, He simply cannot understand..
The bakery meme is not about change, it's about the chick just starting the day with a limited amount of cash in the register so draining the whole stash is not really an option. It's likely she says you can't pay with such a big denomination and sends you on your way. Hence the slap.
hausaufgaben = homework klimakleber (climate adhesive^^) - people who glue their hands to the ground with superglue in order to stop traffic and cause chaos. Very popular sport in Germany and Austria atm. 8:20 that's not beer, that's Mate Tea. Stronger than coffee (American coffee, to be precise).
promille = 1 in 1000 = 0.1 percent the kid was saying that he drove everybody home with exactly 0.5 permille/0.05 percent blood alcohol content. that's the legal limit over here. the sausage meme: the pot guy got 3,0 and the other one didn't do any homework (Hausaufgaben, lit. house tasks) for thirtheen years of school and ended up with 3,2 which is worse. 1,0 = A; 4,0 = D, over 4,0 = F. not entirely sure what they're trying to say though...
oh right, i forget germans use the numbers the other way around. in portugal, it's in ascending order, so i thought the 3,2 was a good grade on a scale from 1-5. so i guess the moral of the story is that the stoner dude put in just as little effort as the dude who didn't smoke weed but also never put in any effort and stoner dude still did better
Ryan, how about videos of you reacting to explanations in your comments? I often wonder whether your misunderstandings get cleared up from them. :) That would also create a conclusive narrative for your channel.
@@madmaximum875 Sometimes he says he has learned something from the comments. Also many comments are liked by him, so he is definitely not oblivious to them.
i think there's been a handful of times where he'll react to a video that mentions something that was also in another video he reacted and he'll mention he didn't get it in the first video but then people in the comments explained it
@@scelestion I don't really see any likes under this video for example... he may read a few comments here and there but not nearly all of them. He most probably doesn't even have the time to do so since this is not his only TH-cam-channel.
10:27 The paddle is the "Kelle". If the police show you that, it means you should stop. Don't know what they use for that in the US. I'm guessing a shootgun. 7:45 This is the "Lego-Man". Its a German TH-camr. In Germany there is a lignite mine. There are actually three between Aachen and Cologne. They are so huge that you can easily see them from space on Google Maps. Do you have to look, the hole is gigantic. Coal is dug at the front and filled up at the back. So the hole "walks". Every once in a while, when a village gets in the way, the whole village gets demolished and rebuilt somewhere else. The party "The Greens" are against lignite mining and regularly organize protest actions. But now they're in the government and since the Russians cut off our gas, they're suddenly in favor of opencast lignite mining, which doesn't go down too well with their members and activists.
The first meme with the 2200 netto is from an article in the Handelsblatt. Basically a magazin for investors and generally rich people that own a company or are high tiers in big companies. 99% of articles in handelsblatt are about why average employees should not be greedy with their salary, because most of subscribers of the Handelsblatt just basically dream of a slavery-comeback...
At the same time it has also been proven by sociologists to be accurate that an income of maximum happiness exists, and its not extremely high. 2200Euro net per month for a single person is probably not too far off, remember that this equates to about 6000Euro for a couple with two children (2.75 effective persons). You may still fantasize about having and spending more money, but fantasizing does not make you unhappy.
@@ShieTar_ Yes, it is the mark where a growth in income does not lead into a portional growth of happiness. Like from 1500 to 1750€ (1/6, 13%) makes you like 25% happier, but from 2400 to 2800 (1/6, 13% more) makes you only 20% happier. In extrem from 1000 to 1333 (1/3, 33,3% more income) will double your joy ( +100% happiness) but a rise from 5000 to ~6555 will make you only 10% happier, so you rather would like to work less and have more free time.
Just a suggestion, how about having a German, Austrian or Swiss by your side (a German would probably be best because you are specifically looking for Germany) who can help you translate and understand when google and translator can't.
9€ ticket was actually available in summer last year as a measure due to the fuel scarcity and associated high prices caused by Russias war against Ukraine and a measure against pollution, as a means to reduce fossil fuel consumption by cars. The 9€ ticket admitted (with very few excpetions) any regional public transportation (everything except high speed rail (aka the ICE)) in the entire territory of Germany, such a ticket did not exist previously. It probably increased economic activity due to people doing day and weekend trips within Germany. After three months the conservatives (CDU) and neoliberals (FDP) stopped its further extension, though a 49€ ticket was planned as a replacement.
Fun fact: The label "liberal" (and also "neoliberal") has a very different meaning here in Germany than in the US. While in US politics, "liberals" are the ones supporting freedom of religion, sexuallity, etc. "Liberals" in German politics are the ones supporting a free market: low taxes, low minimum wage, as few restrictions for businesses as possible. "The economy regulates itself." Is their opinion. The 9€ ticket was canceled, because it was a threat for the car/oil/etc. industry. (And because a bunch of punks used the cheap traveling to invade Sylt, the vacation destination of the rich Germans.)
The company running the train-tickets in my part of Germany did a special offer that everyone who has the tickets here in the Ruhrgebiet can use them for way further (distances) than normaly by now on the weekends so basicly if your monthly ticket says you can only drive on public transport in the nearest like 10-20 places than you can go way further like 50 places or something. IDK how exactly it works and if you can still use it but they did that for a time here in the Ruhrgebiet. So let's say your normal ticket only alows you to drive from Dortmund till Essen but you want to see Düsseldorf without buying a new ticket than you could've done it with this ticket now on the weekend, but IDK how that exactly worked since I didn't tried it
@@timquentin567 Yeah, the equivalent of the German liberal in America would be a libertarian. Though libertarian also stands for something different outside of the US i think.
btw ... the German high speed train called "ICE" is not pronounced like "ice", it's like "Ihh Zeehh Ehh" (so the letters pronounced separately) for InterCityExpress
Ampel / Traffic Light refers to our government which is currently being formed by three parties with the colors green, yellow and red, so they're called a traffic light. 3,0 on a German grading scale is a 2,0 (C) on an American scale.
And 3,2 is worse than 3,0 - we're counting 1 as the best, 6 as the worst. Translates to A,B,C,D,(E),F in the US scale. Only difference is that we have two severity levels of failing, E and F, whereas the US only has F.
The gender discussion in German is about how to gender words. So in English the words are usually unisex. Like baker can mean a men or a women, but in German we always have 2 versions: Bäcker and Bäckerin. The ending "-in" makes it the female version. So in the past if you don't know the gender or speaking to a mixed group, you used the male version. So "Bäcker" is used as male as well as generic, while "Bäckerin" is just used for female persons. No people started to complain, that using the male version as generic version is confusing. People don't know if you mean female persons as well. So they started to search for solutions, like using both "Bäcker and Bäckerin" or "Bäcker(in)". Then some started to use a separation sign "Bäcker*in" or "Bäcker:in" or "Bäcker_in" as a special generic form. As usually there are no characters like *, : or _ inside words other are unhappy about that solution. So there are a lot of discussions about that. And as the language has this versions for nearly any person related word, it can be quite prominent in the language. Like Professor/Professorin, Schüler/Schülerin, Bürgermeister/Bürgermeisterin, Kellner/Kellnerin. English knows a few similar cases like waiter/waitress. It it's rare and you can say server at least in America instead.
The issue is usually with the Plural version. One male Arzt (doctor) and 99 female Ärztinnen suddenly become die Ärzte (the doctors). Even the Duden is stating "yeah, thats kinda not right but the society hasnt agreed on anything new yet". The defenders of the generic masculin version usually say "the females are thought of, even when they are not mentioned and thus visible". Somehow they always get angry when I suggest to use the generic feminin. You know, because the male version is also thought of. Even better, they are also mentioned and included in most words. And then their special snowflake feelies get hurt. "Nooo, I dont like how that sounds!" or "Noo, thats not how it was done before". My brother in Christ, Doctors were applying leeches and letting blood before modern medicine came to be. Things change.
@@zwojack7285 As some boring tax accountant law bunny I might add that in some years between allowing same-seggs-marriage and changing some accidentally gender-specific wording in Abgabenordnung AO there was a time where the fundamental right to remain silent when close family (as legally defined group of people) was investigated got incoherent- your ex-wife was allowed that right, your current male spouse in same-seggs-marriage would have been denied that right along with some other constellations. So actual gender-neutral wording would be good thing for laws and safe a lot of work. In the other hand it can backfire- the whole misery about women's rights in the US started tumbling down because some whatever intended AHs started exclusing pregnant women from healthcare on the grounds that "not only women can be pregnant", so they got that shTi through because officially no gender was discriminated, only pregnant people. Not one single precedent case for being discriminated for being pregnant, so there they went. It's a whole mess and I hate it. Maleintent always ruins everything.
Or, better to say on second glance, said AHs could go and exclude pregnancies because the word "women" was used in Roe vs Wade, but their argument went that not only women could get pregnant and THAT would discriminated those people, so the whole legal standard was destroyed for everyone.
The trend in English-speaking countries is actually the reverse. Nouns that still have a female version (like "waitress") are being phased out and the male version is being used for everyone, male, female, and non-binary. This makes sense since a lot of other words do not have a female version in the first place and the adjective doesn't need to be adjusted according to the gender - except in a few random cases like "blond"/"blonde". If you follow English-language media you will particularly notice that "actor" has pretty much replaced "actress" in the last few years. I always think it's interesting how both languages are changing to be more inclusive, but the solutions are complete opposites.
@@zwojack7285 If people get angry when suggesting a generic feminine version, that obviously sucks, but it still doesn't make it a useful suggestion. The masculine one is just shorter and has already commonly been used generically, so it makes sense to keep doing that. There are also words that are neutral and feminine in the generic version and you don't need to add a masculine or new generic version for those. It just so happens to be the case that most generic versions of words are masculine, but that is not a problem itself. If the explicitly feminine version would not be used anymore like in english, the male association of the words would disappear completely in a few decades.
Income will be counted monthly in Germany, netto means after taxes and social insurance fees are subtracted. The meme with the pot smoker is about two politicians. The pot smoker is Armin Laschet from the christian democratic union (CDU) who failed to become chancellor in the 2021 elections. The guy who didn't make his homework (=Hausaufgaben) is Markus Söder, the Ministerpräsident (sort of prime minister) in Bavaria from the christian social union (CSU) which is the Bavarian branch of the conservative CDU/CSU. Abitur (highschool diploma from a gymnasium) notes get better with lower numbers. If you have a 0,whatever you're a genius, 4,0 will be just passed. So 3,2 will be pretty bad. The greens are the party of ecological awareness in Germany. Since 1990 they have come to change their minds from a sort of idealistic ecological policy to more real life decisions. They are now part of the Government and had to allow mining of brown coal which the giant model of a lignite excavator represents. Thus some folks think they are traitors of their own policy. Club Mate is a drink made of Mate tea, a high caffeine containing beverage...no beer. The gender thing:: in correct German (wrote it in capitals) it would be: "Die Zeit ist reif für eine VolkSinitiative zur Verbannung der grammatiKALisch falschen Gendersprache aus Schulen und Behörden. Als @cduhamburg fordern wir dies seit Langem. Ich werde die Initiative voll unterstützen! Translation: It's time for a people's initiative for banning the grammatically incorrect gender language from schools and authorities. As @cduhamburg (=CDU, look above, Hamburg), we've been demanding this for a long time. I will totally support that initiative!"
And the meme-part of the gender thing is: the guys who want no gender language (typicaly because it ruins the wonderfull german language) are not able to type three sentences in german without failures inside it (the red marks)
@@Gamer-g2v1r brutto is always the bigger value. In germany we have a "Lohnsteuervorrauszahlung", an estimation on taxes and social insurance. Your payout is netto and your Boss give the taxes to the tax office. Everything in the stores is priced out brutto, including VAT.
Whoever made the grammar meme apparantly does not know that "grammatisch" is actually correct, though. (You can actually use either, "grammatisch" or "grammatikalisch". They are both correct.)
11:11 in Germany, it's common that the Names of hairdressers consist of puns. And of course there's no way you could figure out German puns. But the funny thing is, two of them only make sense in English: "Well Kamm" is a misspelling for "Welcome" while "Kamm" means comb. And "Hairlich" includes the word "hair" while "herrlich" means wonderfull
8:55 if you like "Gummibärenpisse", what about "Einhornkotze"? It literellay translates to "unicorn vomit" and is used (at least around where i live) to describe stuff with too much colors or too much rgb-light etc. :D
Concerning the Mate: I have got the impression that Mate is a very German thing. Even in other parts of Europe you don't find it in every supermarket - while in Germany you have got a wide variety of different brands. Mate contains a similar amount of caffeine like energy drinks but with a very different taste. People like it or hate it. I like it, although I don't like Club Mate but other brands.
The 9-Euro-Ticket days are actually not that long gone. It was a project during summer last year where you could buy this ticket for 9€ and travel through the entirety of Germany with public transportation. Those were three months of bliss.
We in Germany use „doch“ also in another way. e.g. when someone says something that is correct, but the other person don‘t believes it, the person says „doch“ to make sure it is true. great video😂
06:10 promille is a unit of measurement for alcoho in your blood. And in Germany you are still allowed to drive a car after drinking alcohol if you have less than 0.5 promille...
3.2 is actually a "worse" grade here than 3.0. We use multiple systems of grading; 1 to 100 (with 100 being the best), 6 to 1 (with 1 being the best) - The latter is also often used with decimal points or just as words with or without a plus or a minus after.
Actually, in the Oberstufe it's technically 0-15, with them being represented as 6 to 1. A 6 is always a 6; a fail grade that is not qualified further and denotes a complete failure to reach even the minimum level to get a proper grade. The ones above that can go from 5.8 (5-, 1 point) to 1.0 (1+, 15 points). The decimals are mainly relevant for average grades. Note that anything below a 4- is still a failing grade, so you should aim for at least 4 points.
Haha the meme with the rougher tone on the country side hit home😂 I‘m working in a warehouse and everyone there is just cursing all day and when I get home I really need to focus to not cuss everyone out because I’m so used to it😂
German uses compound words. We just stick simpler words together to form a bigger one. English does it too, just very rarely. Example: airport - a port for aircraft (aircraft itself is a compound too); barefoot - with bare feet; bedroom - a room where the bed is. Desktop, fingerprint, lipstick, mailbox, sunflower, notebook... there are hundreds of them in English, too. In German it's just in constant use and we can freely cobble words together whenever we feel like it. So gummy bear piss just becomes gummybearpiss... Gummibärenpisse...
6:55 hausaufgabe is homework 5:56 die grünen are our green party that (are supposed to) want to protect Climate and Nature, but now the state ,which they are a part of had agreed to clear a town to demolish it for open coal mining and burning, even though after the project is finished it will be immediately illegal and we also don't actually need the electricity it would generate 12:19 the joke is that he is complying about a newer inclusive way of speaking, because it hasn't yet been formalized into formal rules, while writing this, 1) there is a s missing 2) it should be "gramatikalisch" 3) As I am Stupid I'm not sure but I think "langem" should be capitalized Edit: 5:56 I can't ensure correctness of the statement @pallao3500 told me other info about that in the comments, but I cant see it anymore he said: " [Quote from me] Thats what people see who dont look into detail. The truth is, the deal to demolish the TOWN (its not a city) for coal mining was done before Die Grünen even had anything to say about it. Now that they got elected they made a deal with the responsible energy company that they wont interfere with this project which was almost finished anyway (the people who lived there already left the place) if in return the energy company would agree to stop using coal by 2030 already instead of 2038 as the agreement made with the previous government stated and that they waive to demolish five other towns they also already had an okay to do so. So for not interfering with this one project they were able to stop five others and get a guarantee to stop coal 8 years earlier, which in fact is a great achievement. "(as I couldn't see his comment anymore it was transcribed from an image sorry for potential missqouting)
"die grünen are our green party that (are supposed to) want to protect Climate and Nature, but recently they agreed to clear a city to demolish it for open coal mining and burning, even though after the project is finished it will be immediately illegal and we also don't actually need the electricity it would generate" Thats what people see who dont look into detail. The truth is, the deal to demolish the TOWN (its not a city) for coal mining was done before Die Grünen even had anything to say about it. Now that they got elected they made a deal with the responsible energy company that they wont interfere with this project which was almost finished anyway (the people who lived there already left the place) if in return the energy company would agree to stop using coal by 2030 already instead of 2038 as the agreement made with the previous government stated and that they waive to demolish five other towns they also already had an okay to do so. So for not interfering with this one project they were able to stop five others and get a guarantee to stop coal 8 years earlier, which in fact is a great achievement.
I agree at 12:19 that for 1) an s is missing. However, for 2) I got really curious about "grammatikalisch" and did some research. Apparently "grammatisch" is used more commonly and for a grammar's "nature"(?). Many will say "grammatisch" and will understand that the grammar is meant in that context. While that's the case, "grammatikalisch" is the correct spelling in more professional work places like writers or poets and the likes. And as for 3)... I looked that up as well and both ways of spelling "langem" are correct. You can say "langem" and "Langem". Never in my life did a video like this or a comment like this make me so curious. Thanks.
@@gamixhyperdrive8425I do think that my analysis is correct. I may be extremely bad in my German Classes, but they are native German. My reasoning for 2) is that it is used as an adjective in a specific „Fall“ (literal eng would be case), and that it is similar to the given examples of the „Duden“ („grammatikalische Fehler“ and „grammatikalisch korrekt schreiben, sprechen“) For 3) I found a resource that states that in old German (pre 2004) it was correct and post that it is still permitted but the Duden recommends the capitalized form Third time trying to post I so sorry.
have you ever thought of livestreaming your reactions, cause we could help you with the words you don't understand by using the translator and it would make for very fun interactions too I bet, I mean if you are up for it
It's funny how you translated the sausage picture the wrong way^^ "My buddy, who took drugs straight for the last 2 years at school." (3.0 (mediocre result) on the high school diploma) - "ME, who didnt do homeworks for the entire 13 years at school." - (3.2 (marginally worse result) on high school diploma)
The ping pong pedal is like the sign a train conductor holds up. With that the police can wave cars off the road for checks or give them a ticket (and yes they have light signal in the cars too)
the joke about the polititian at 12:15 is that he demands grammatically correct German, yet his tweet is incorrect German. The mistakes are the underlined parts and I will explain them real quick. Volkinitiative is compound of Volk (folks, citizen, population) and Initiative (initiative, duh) however most Nouns in German require "linking letters" to flow into each other, in this case he didn't use "s", the correct word would be "Volksinitiative". The next mistake is the use of "grammatisch" which is coloquial for gramatically, the correct German word is "grammatikalisch". And the last one is "langem", he says that his party demanded something since a long time. However long in this case would be a noun and ALL nouns in German have to be written capital. So "Langem" would be correct.
10:28 You got it mostly. The 9€ ticket was a temporary government funded monthly train ticket to compensate high inflation and energy prices. It had a big impact because a lot of people use trains here to get around as you know. But it was obviously too expensive to keep it around permanently.
Imagine travelling 1000 miles straight into the richest neighborhoods and squatting there for 9 bucks! That angered some people just as much as sending Mexicans to Martha*s Vinyard!
I would like to see you google a bit more in this. I like you finding out whats actually going on. The Club-Mate things is a good example. Thats not beer, its a kind of carbonated "tea"/lemonade with a lot of caffeine, basically a better energy drink.
2200 Eur/month net is not bad at all (about 3600 before taxes and social insurance payments). If you're not in one of the more expensive cities that easily enables you to have an okay car (on a leasing contract) and your yearly vacation abroad granted you're not a huge spender in day-to-day life. You have to remember that you're entire necessary health care is already covered at this point and you're not paying school fees for your kids. A lot people earn a lot less. My mom got around 1600 net while I was a kid, now as a retiree, she's at around 1200. It would be tough if she didn't own her flat and she still has to be a bit frugal, but she can make do. 2200 net a month may not make you rich, and it does depend a bit on your personal situation (are you single, married, kids, no kids) but generally to attain the same standard of living which you get at 2200, an American would have to earn a lot more.
@@tigeriussvarne177 ja, aber Club Mate ist halt mehr, es ist mit Kohlensäure versetzt und etwas gesüßt oder anders es ist mehr Erfrischungsgetränk als Tee. Agree?
8:53 yea you wouldn’t find „gummibärenpisse“ in a thesaurus, but german rules for compound words allow lots of words that were never intended to exist.
BTW: Bär and bear are pronounced exactly the same. I think there are some German news sources that upload to TH-cam either with English subtitles or at least an English version. That would also be interesting to react to (and would clue you in to the stuff many memes refer to...).
so you couldn't get traffic light because it references to the colors associated with the government in germany as it is nigh impossible for a singular party to get a majority so multiple party with aligning ideologies group together. it just happened to be that it was sdp, fdp and b90 grouped which have respectively the colors red, blue/yellow and green
At around 6:30: "Hausaufgaben" means "homework". So in all his time at school he never learned at home. Both still managed to get a mediocre final score at the A-level/high school diploma. The men in the picture are the former governor of the German state Northrhine-Westfalia/ chancellor candidate (CDU-conservative party), and the governor of Bavaria and leading politician of the CSU (sister party of CDU, only electable in Bavaria instead of the CDU).
Oh, and the next one is about the current protesters/activists for climate called "the last generation". Some glue themself on the street and by that intervene in traffic. So people are annoyed. And this is the Google search list by current favorites.
And after that: "Die Grünen" are a political party in Germany that is currently in the governing coalition. They always have been climate activists and got more powerful in the last 20-25 years. With the current energy crisis they made compromises with their agenda and approved with some decisions about brown coal mines.
2 later about the video games: the argument about the effect of video games comes up like many times the youth/some teenage individuals show aggressive behavior. Most common after the school shooting (they are way less common in Germany, but happened) and the argument is that games like WoW let players lose sense of reality and trains players in usage of guns. But well, millions of people are playing those games and still are peaceful.
Next: the thing you refer to as "Pingpong pedal", is a so called "Kelle", which is a "signaling disc" for traffic. To be honest, don't get this meme completely. Would guess that it refers to "left wing" activist who are arguing against "right wing" on social media by maybe using hate speech (therefore the laptop) and the signaling disc is referring to the mentioned climate activists disturbing the traffic (???). Like the the ones against right wing activists are not using physical violence.
The 9 € Ticket was a bliss. Not only could you ride every PT in your place, but anywhere in Germany. This led to a major movement of people going places to visit. Like tenfold what normally was going on this time of year.
There's a reason that the rate for houseownership in Germany is only 49.5% (as of 2021) where as the rest of us are renting. To actually own a house or just an apartment you have to downpay quite a chunk and after that you are endebted around 30 years trying to pay it off so that when finally you retire one day it is all yours. So in retirement you don't have to pay rent but you still have to pay annual grounds tax, tax for being connected to the water grid, water itself and energy, trash services, upcoming reparations and considering that you'll face your body declining you might need to hire people to help you keeping your garden in shape. So even you're retired and not paying rent anymore you'll have to receive a minimum of a pension just to stay afloat.
"there's no way you have a whole word for gummy bear piss." as a general rule if multiple nouns are used to describe something in english it is one noun in german. compound nouns are the best thing ever.
10:40 yeaa kind of. Last year we had a time where you could buy tickets for all transportation options for just 9€. It came out to support the germans while everything, in particular the gas/petrol got really expensive because the war of ucraina and russia. With the ticket you could use every bus, train as often you want in whole germany for just 9€ in a month. It was freaking amazing!
I would love to see a video of you with a German. Explaining some memes, discussing culture, talking about stuff, the other one thinks is important to know about either Germany or the US. Me as German would like this very much, I think
The trafficlight (Ampel) is the color of a coalition of 3 political parties. The green (thats also their name), the yellow (FDP, liberal party), and red (SPD, the center-left party). We also have the black ( CDU center, right), the blue (AfD, the fascists). We also have the Jamaika-coalition which is black, yellow, green
Btw. The green party is called the green because they want green stuff like renewable energy, more green soldiers ,more war. But lately they accepted a deal with RWE to destroy a village so they can mine coal
10:05 the pedal is for signaling cars to stop on the side or follow the police car. They drive infront of the suspect and just hold it out the window. The meme itself is a little bit specific in terms of German political culture. The translation doesn't really transport the joke but I also don't really know how to explain it.
So here's an explanation with some language learning for you: We have three genders (male, female, neuter), for every noun it's one of them, and with each having the belonging article (der [m], die [f], das [n]) for it (such as "das Brot", "the bread"). And we have a different version of every noun according to the gender of person(s) or things we assume they have. For example we have "der Besucher" for the male "the visitor" and "die Besucherin" for a female "the visitor". So what gendered language ("die Gendersprache") is: What you're gonna do to gender something is you take the male word, put a "*" right after it with no space, and then you put the most common word ending for the female equivalent word, which endings almost all the times are "die GästIN" [f, singular] and "die GästINNEN" [f, plural]. So there's "der Besucher" (the visitor [m, singular]), "die Besucherin" (the visitor [f, singular]), "die Besucher" (the visitors [m, plural]) and "die Besucherinnen" (the visitors [f, plural]). And now, we have the problem that in traditional German language, you always used to use only "das generische Maskulinum" ("the generic masculinum") which is easily the male singular and plural forms to name each individual or group by calling the word for the men, sometimes we do it even if we're directly talking to a woman about herself, saying maybe to her "Du bist ein Maler!" - "You're a painter!" (male version of it: "ein Maler" [one male painter] / "eine Malerin" [one female painter]) - and most women didn't even think about that for a second ever. But in the last couple of years, things and society have changed much over here in that matter! A strong movement or open initiative started to form a couple years ago and people started to say: Wait a minute. First of all, why are we calling individual females male names? And secondly: Why do we use the male forms too for talking about multiple people, even if there's females or non-binary people along men or even if there are groups with only female and/or non-binarys, so without persons identifying as a male even in it? (I am gendering all my language too, and always, and even spoken vocally there is a possibility to inclusively do that which I do as well, and I'll explain to you in a minute.) So we thought there needs to happen a modernization and adaptation of our dealings with to whom we talk to. There happened to arise different ideas in order to do that. First of all, there's always the possibility to use the female version of every male noun (and opposite) in order to respect the person's gender (which many people nowadays don't mean their birth-given sex when talking about gender but more of what everyone's identifying with now, even if it is a non-binary or trans individual) for whom we add "the gender gap" - either an asterisk (*), a colon (:) or an underscore (_) in the middle of every word which means to include everyone who wouldn't feel included without. So "der Gast" [the guest, m, sg.] will change into "die*der Gäst*in" [f article, gap (*), m article, female beginning of the word, gap, female ending of the word]. So now to what you can do verbally. You just add the so-called "Glottisschlag" to it ("glottal stop") which means a very brief pause in spoken words in order to add the gender gap to it. :)
4:40 I think someone has to tell him now... The "traffic light" refers to the current ruling coalition. In germany, every party is associated with a color; CDU/CSU (conservatives) - black SPD (social democrats) - red FDP (market liberals) - yellow Green Party (Ecos) - green (obviously) AfD (extreme right) - Blue Left Party (extreme left) - sometimes red, sometimes purple We refer to different kinds of coalitions using these colors. Right now, SPD are in charge together with the FDP and Green Party, making it the "traffic light" coalition. There was also some talk about a "jamaica coalition" (CDU, FDP, Green Party) for example... Only exception to this is the GroKo (Große Koalition / Great Coalition) which is CDU and SPD, named like that bc they used to have like 70-80% votes combined and could basicially rule with absolute power.
Also, Söder is a prominent member of the CSU and is extremely pissed at the traffic light coalition bc they kicked the CDU/CSU out after almost 16 years as the leading government party (back when merkel was still chancellor)
The 2200 € happiness thing is highly dependend on the cost of living/rent/etc in your area. For a long time this monthly income made it possible in Germany to have a good life and afford nice things. The US seems to be a lot more expensive, considering that the € was higher than the $ for a while. Or considering that waiters in the US have to get a tip to survive which adds to your expenses when going out. But I might be wrong.
In german you combine words, so while there is no direct word for gummy bear piss, it's just "Gummi-Bär-Pisse" but in german you then write it as one word. That's why there are so many long, complicated words. They are just combinations of other words for one specific thing.
I believe the Igel / Hedghog meme could be related to Mittwoch or Mettwoch. The day where you eat mett from a Hedghog that is made out of mett and Pretzel Sticks
No it was a drawing someone made to tell their neighbours something they did annoyed them, he drew a panischer Igel and a glücklicher Igel. It was posted on ich_iel a while ago and was reused ever since.
It's a meme that started when someone shared a letter/postcard about an automated lawnmover potentially running over the hedgehogs. It included drawings of a panicked and calm hedgehog.
bless your heart for reacting to those memes, even though you cant understand half of them. partly, cause it doesnt translste right, partly causr ich_iel inside jokes and partly cause there are often not even real words but direct translstions from english
4:27 Yeah...But "Brötchen" are like 11 cents a piece, so your bill is somewhere around 4 Euros if you go a little crazy. and in the morning, registers are stocked only with minimal change...And people DO get very upset about that a lot here x'D
An Importen Thing for the first german one. Netto is the Money you get after Tax and after Paying all the insurance for health pension and moree. Which is pretty high in germany so you need a salary like a bit below 4000 for that. And the euro is worth a bit more and Cost for living is lower so in the US you need to get more like 6000 a month (depending where you live)
The "ping pong paddle" the police officer is holding in her hand is called "Winkerkelle" or "Anhaltekelle" and is meant to be used by the police to stop cars for a check. So if police are driving in front of you waving the Winkerkelle, you have to follow them to pull over at a good place for a check.
06:43 Abitur is more like an Associate Degree from a College than a High School Diploma. Abitur = Associate Degree Fachabitur/ Fachhochschulreife = Degree from a College/ Community College Realschulabschluss/ MSA = High School Diploma Hauptschulabschluss/ ESA = High School Diploma, but a bit easier
the beer/redbull meme isnt about beer , its a club-mate.Mate is a coffeome based drink from south america and it is in europe and northamerika called tea. club-mate is variation of the original and is sweeter , have light sparkling often , some kind of sugar and have often the same effect like a energy drink.
The meme with the housing prices does not directly refer to the inflation of the last year(s) Yes, the inflation rate that is commonly referred to includes rents and if rents increase so should the value of housing. Also, as prices for raw material rise, so would the prices for construction etc. However, the surge in housing prices has been detached from the growth of rents. The increase in housing prices was proportionally higher during the last decade. Many people believe it is soft bubble (and indeed there a signs today that indicate that) like the one before the Great Recession in the U.S. (although for different reasons). On top of the evolution of rent prices due to the lack of housing in Germany, a more important reason lead to dramatic increase in housing prices: The (needed) cheap money policy of the European Central Bank. Like in the U.S. we had a zero-interest-environment which made it attractive to borrow money, especially through housing credits and also opened up the purchase of housing even for people with little equity. For some it was cheaper to pay the loan rather than renting (which in Europe is much more common than the U.S.). In addition, investors shifted their portfolio from riskless (now mostly interestless) investments to more profitable but seemingly unrisky housing investments. The demand for housing thus increased twofold through consumers and investors. Funnily enough, as now consumer prices increase and the future is becoming more uncertain while at the same time nominal interest rise again, we see decreasing housing prices for some areas (although rents continue to climb).
Hausaufgaben is homework, tasks you get from school to do at home, which will be checked the next day at school. and about videogames they always try everything, except facing the truth.
Promille is a measurement for the level of alcohol in your blood it is 1 per mille (1000). One beer is half a liter beer is 0.3 promille if I remember correctly. But probably less...
Ahahaha Club Mate the beer, alright. Club Mate is basically a germany exclusive energy drink replacement made from a tea of Mate leaves. It keeps you awake far longer, has far less sugar, less coffein and no Taurin and other shitty stuff that gives you potential heart attacks.
Club Mate is not a beer, it looks like it, but it's (in South America very popular) yerba mate tea based soda and kinda tastes like cigarette smoke, but you get used to this weird taste as it contains a lot of Coffein. Mate soda is very popular in the IT sector, but well ... we have better tasting mate sodas for a few years like Mate Mate Classic or Mio Mio Mate. PS: Club Mate is extremely high carbonated, it feels like it explodes on your tongue, so much fizzy
At 12:15 it was about the red marked words because he spelled them wrong, but he wanted do stand up for the right Grammar It must be Volksinitiative, grammatikalisch and seit Langem so it is quite funny
I always wanted to do this, but never actually did. But this time I am gonna clear all misunderstandings in this and answer all your questions: 1:07 Ryan: "Is it 2200 $ a month?" - Yes, 2200€ after paying taxes. 2:19 Ryan: "I wonder how the inflation is going over there..." - I think it's bad, but housing prices skyrocketed even before. And there is just a lack of appartments and houses all over Germany. It's very hard to find a place to live these days if you want to quit living with your parents or moving with your family. 3:40 Ryan: "Leave the hedgehog in peace?" - I also don't know the hedgehog :D 4:42: Markus Söder and the traffic light: (As some people explained) These are the governing parties right now: SPD (red), FDP (yellow), die Grünen (green). Germany loves doing this puns with political parties. There is also the "Jamaikakoalition" (CDU, FDP, die Grünen), "große Koalition" (SPD, CDU; usually th biggest parties), rot-rot-grün (SPD, die Linke, die Grünen; not as funny, but often said), "Deutschlandkoalition" (CDU, SPD, FDP) or "Ugandakoalition" (SPD, CDU, FDP) and so on... Anyway Markus Söder is the leader of the CSU (CDU in Bavaria) and refers to the attempts of the government to legalize marijuana and cannabis. He also was one of the most restrictive politics in terms of covid prevention measures. He btw dressed as Shrek once on carnival, it looked hilarious :D 5:56 It is not half a mile. It is 0,5‰ (= 0,5 Promille = 0,05%), what is the highest legal amount of alcohol to have in blood in Germany while driving. Alcohol AND car industry love this trick. 6:16 The whole meme: Here again you have Markus Söder (right, CSU) and Armin Laschet (CDU) who absolutely failed trying to become Bundeskanzler in 2021. I think noone takes him serious anymore. Hausaufgaben = Homework. The numbers are grades (German 1 =American A; 2=B; C=3 and so on). I don't really get why the meme is funny, but the guy smoking weed obviously got the (slightly) better degrees. 7:25 Klimakleber is one of the words invented to call people glueing themselves on streets to protest against pollution and so on (last generation, extinction rebellion ect). 7:41: Refers to "die Grünen" again. There were huge protests in a village that is to be crushed because there are loads of brown coal underneath it. Hundreds of activists were there (for years) when police raided the place this week. The clue is that the green party allowed to tear down that village as they were reponsible is that particular state. In excange Germany will be out of coal burning for energy some years earlier. Some are still angry on the party because they let this happen. 8:00 As someone said, that drink on the left is Club Mate. A very popular energy drink especially amongst alternative people, students or hipsters. Its made from mate tea (I think it tastes as horrible as RB). 9:07 I don't know if this was a thing in the US, but when the first school shootings happened in Germany (there were like three and the first one in about 2006?) people, especially elderly politics who never had used a computer before blamed ego shooters for it. The argument went kinda old as almost everyone has played some before in 2023. 10:24 Ryan "What is this ping pong paddle she's got here?" - It is called "Polizeikelle" in German and they show you while driving to make you follow them for a control. 10:33 The 9€-Ticket was a great idea the government had in summer to appease people who now had less money to spend and to encourage them to use public transport more tha before. For 9€ per month you could travel around the whole country (with local trains and busses). I travelled about 2000km with it (about 1500 miles I guess) and it was awesome :D 12:14 Yes it's about gender language. The problem in German language is much bigger than in English because most words have a gender (especially for job titles). So I think this is more of thing in Germany (maybe). But he has the three (pointed out) grammar mistakes himself. It's a mess how some officials use twitter ect... Like if you red it all! :D Love your vids Greets
4:42 „Ampel“=„Traffic light“ is ALSO the actual leading political party… GREEN for the environmentalists, YELLOW for FDP (hotelowner & co), RED for SPD (should be for workers, socialism… but fail like all others) ..
6:16 is just about two buddies doing nothing for school and still getting an Abitur (0,7 being the best you can get, and 4,0 being the worst). The left one has done nothing but smoke pot for the last 2 years and the right one hasn't done any homework for 13 years.
You know? I Bet there are many Happy Germany watching your Videos Well one is there for Sure cause i Love watching your Videos to brigthen up my day :D
Hi Ryan, I enjoy watching Your videos a lot, i find it interesting how an American picks up German stuff - but sometimes it is cringy when You get it wrong due to false translation. I want to help!
0.5 promille is the meassurment of bloodalcohol in germany with which ure still allowed to drive as long youre driving safely, if your for example not driving straight with 0.45 promille... that limit doesnt protect you from fines n stuff. Promille means parts per million. So 1 promille equals 1 g of alcohol per 1 kg of blood... Hausaufgaben is homeworks from school. So 2 years of weed is about as bad as 13 not learning. 13 years is school length in germany depending on the schoolform.
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"Ampel" not only means "trafic lights", but Ampel is a nickname of the current government coalition due to the fact that the government coalition is made up of the SPD, FDP and the Green Party. SPD uses the color red and FDP the color yellow in most graphs and the Green Party uses of course green.
Perhaps a video on the political parties in Germany would be appropriate.
@@accdiabolus that would be interesting
@@accdiabolus Imagine having more than two relevant parties.
@@theangrysocialist6884 Maybe the video with the TH-cam-Video-ID *edit: better one "_OnO7uxmJzg" *
@@accdiabolus That one isn't great, I would propose this one: _OnO7uxmJzg
This time, I feel like Ryan misunderstood more memes than ever. 😂
Almost all of them. :D
I felt the same of about half of them.
yea he missed so often, he needs a german cooartner
Its interesting to See, how much you actually Mist know, to understand. Ryan of course does Not know our politicians neither political system or the latest News..so some of the memes, He simply cannot understand..
But I think it was hard memes for not germans. ^^
But yea he got nearly all of them wrong. 😐
You should really make a video about reading the comments and understanding what the memes are actually about.
The bakery meme is not about change, it's about the chick just starting the day with a limited amount of cash in the register so draining the whole stash is not really an option. It's likely she says you can't pay with such a big denomination and sends you on your way. Hence the slap.
Yes in germany bread is really cheap and costs only a few euros.
It's like buying a coffee for 3,50€ with a 100€ bill (happened at the hotel I worked at for 11 years, just 10 minutes after they opened...
So you're saying that it is about change :D (change = herausgegebenes Geld)
@@Fochest0r In the US change means coins... not the money you get back. Different country, differrent meaning
@@Brauiz90 oh, so is there a word in us english for the money you get back?
Club Mate is not a beer. It is a coffein-based drink, I believe. Correct me if I am wrong.
It‘s tea based
You are right, it is a is a caffeinated carbonated mate-extract beverage.
And it tastes horrible but we still love it for some reason.
@@dreamz1417 only students and Berlin Hipsters like it but for us it is the beste drink ever (after beer of course)
best trink
hausaufgaben = homework
klimakleber (climate adhesive^^) - people who glue their hands to the ground with superglue in order to stop traffic and cause chaos. Very popular sport in Germany and Austria atm.
8:20 that's not beer, that's Mate Tea. Stronger than coffee (American coffee, to be precise).
I like that you specified it to american coffee, because my "Zombiekaffee 300" is as close as you can get to meth, without breaking the law.
@@L_G218I think the Siberia Snus are probably closer
Stronger than an italian ristretto?
I mean. Sport? That's one way to look at it. I mean... ;) But yeah a controversial form of protest for sure.
#ResistToExist #ExtinctionRebellion
promille = 1 in 1000 = 0.1 percent
the kid was saying that he drove everybody home with exactly 0.5 permille/0.05 percent blood alcohol content. that's the legal limit over here.
the sausage meme: the pot guy got 3,0 and the other one didn't do any homework (Hausaufgaben, lit. house tasks) for thirtheen years of school and ended up with 3,2 which is worse. 1,0 = A; 4,0 = D, over 4,0 = F. not entirely sure what they're trying to say though...
That kid was me once.
@@benlee6158 I was both, got 3,6.
I was both of them combined and got 3,3 abitur.
That being a stoner hadnt had much of an impact on his performance in school compared to the guy that did worse by not doing homework at all.
oh right, i forget germans use the numbers the other way around. in portugal, it's in ascending order, so i thought the 3,2 was a good grade on a scale from 1-5.
so i guess the moral of the story is that the stoner dude put in just as little effort as the dude who didn't smoke weed but also never put in any effort and stoner dude still did better
Ryan, how about videos of you reacting to explanations in your comments? I often wonder whether your misunderstandings get cleared up from them. :) That would also create a conclusive narrative for your channel.
I don't really think he often reads comments
@@madmaximum875 Sometimes he says he has learned something from the comments. Also many comments are liked by him, so he is definitely not oblivious to them.
i think there's been a handful of times where he'll react to a video that mentions something that was also in another video he reacted and he'll mention he didn't get it in the first video but then people in the comments explained it
@@scelestion I don't really see any likes under this video for example... he may read a few comments here and there but not nearly all of them. He most probably doesn't even have the time to do so since this is not his only TH-cam-channel.
It's funny how important context is. Even translated, you only get like 5% of the memes jokes 😅
10:27 The paddle is the "Kelle". If the police show you that, it means you should stop.
Don't know what they use for that in the US. I'm guessing a shootgun.
7:45 This is the "Lego-Man". Its a German TH-camr.
In Germany there is a lignite mine. There are actually three between Aachen and Cologne. They are so huge that you can easily see them from space on Google Maps. Do you have to look, the hole is gigantic.
Coal is dug at the front and filled up at the back. So the hole "walks". Every once in a while, when a village gets in the way, the whole village gets demolished and rebuilt somewhere else. The party "The Greens" are against lignite mining and regularly organize protest actions. But now they're in the government and since the Russians cut off our gas, they're suddenly in favor of opencast lignite mining, which doesn't go down too well with their members and activists.
Wie witzig das klingt, wenn man grade in Lützerath rumsitzt 😂
Ich hab mich fast bepisst bei „I‘m guessing a shotgun“ 😂
The first meme with the 2200 netto is from an article in the Handelsblatt. Basically a magazin for investors and generally rich people that own a company or are high tiers in big companies. 99% of articles in handelsblatt are about why average employees should not be greedy with their salary, because most of subscribers of the Handelsblatt just basically dream of a slavery-comeback...
At the same time it has also been proven by sociologists to be accurate that an income of maximum happiness exists, and its not extremely high. 2200Euro net per month for a single person is probably not too far off, remember that this equates to about 6000Euro for a couple with two children (2.75 effective persons).
You may still fantasize about having and spending more money, but fantasizing does not make you unhappy.
@@ShieTar_ found the big corpo guy.
@@ShieTar_
Yes, it is the mark where a growth in income does not lead into a portional growth of happiness.
Like from 1500 to 1750€ (1/6, 13%) makes you like 25% happier,
but from 2400 to 2800 (1/6, 13% more) makes you only 20% happier.
In extrem from 1000 to 1333 (1/3, 33,3% more income) will double your joy ( +100% happiness)
but a rise from 5000 to ~6555 will make you only 10% happier, so you rather would like to work less and have more free time.
Just a suggestion, how about having a German, Austrian or Swiss by your side (a German would probably be best because you are specifically looking for Germany) who can help you translate and understand when google and translator can't.
i'm sure there's a lot of germans roaming around indiana that he can just invite to his home to work as a translator
Wanted to suggest the same thing. These videos are basically just him guessing what is happening and us explaining things
Twitch would be better i think. The chat could explain
I like him guessing most of them correctly. But a one off with a fellow youtuber, might be fun.
I like that he's alone and guessing :D
9€ ticket was actually available in summer last year as a measure due to the fuel scarcity and associated high prices caused by Russias war against Ukraine and a measure against pollution, as a means to reduce fossil fuel consumption by cars. The 9€ ticket admitted (with very few excpetions) any regional public transportation (everything except high speed rail (aka the ICE)) in the entire territory of Germany, such a ticket did not exist previously. It probably increased economic activity due to people doing day and weekend trips within Germany. After three months the conservatives (CDU) and neoliberals (FDP) stopped its further extension, though a 49€ ticket was planned as a replacement.
How dare people travel for cheap within their own country.
Fun fact:
The label "liberal" (and also "neoliberal") has a very different meaning here in Germany than in the US.
While in US politics, "liberals" are the ones supporting freedom of religion, sexuallity, etc.
"Liberals" in German politics are the ones supporting a free market:
low taxes, low minimum wage, as few restrictions for businesses as possible. "The economy regulates itself." Is their opinion.
The 9€ ticket was canceled, because it was a threat for the car/oil/etc. industry.
(And because a bunch of punks used the cheap traveling to invade Sylt, the vacation destination of the rich Germans.)
The company running the train-tickets in my part of Germany did a special offer that everyone who has the tickets here in the Ruhrgebiet can use them for way further (distances) than normaly by now on the weekends so basicly if your monthly ticket says you can only drive on public transport in the nearest like 10-20 places than you can go way further like 50 places or something. IDK how exactly it works and if you can still use it but they did that for a time here in the Ruhrgebiet. So let's say your normal ticket only alows you to drive from Dortmund till Essen but you want to see Düsseldorf without buying a new ticket than you could've done it with this ticket now on the weekend, but IDK how that exactly worked since I didn't tried it
@@timquentin567 Yeah, the equivalent of the German liberal in America would be a libertarian. Though libertarian also stands for something different outside of the US i think.
btw ... the German high speed train called "ICE" is not pronounced like "ice", it's like "Ihh Zeehh Ehh" (so the letters pronounced separately) for InterCityExpress
Ampel / Traffic Light refers to our government which is currently being formed by three parties with the colors green, yellow and red, so they're called a traffic light.
3,0 on a German grading scale is a 2,0 (C) on an American scale.
And 3,2 is worse than 3,0 - we're counting 1 as the best, 6 as the worst. Translates to A,B,C,D,(E),F in the US scale. Only difference is that we have two severity levels of failing, E and F, whereas the US only has F.
The gender discussion in German is about how to gender words. So in English the words are usually unisex. Like baker can mean a men or a women, but in German we always have 2 versions: Bäcker and Bäckerin. The ending "-in" makes it the female version. So in the past if you don't know the gender or speaking to a mixed group, you used the male version. So "Bäcker" is used as male as well as generic, while "Bäckerin" is just used for female persons. No people started to complain, that using the male version as generic version is confusing. People don't know if you mean female persons as well. So they started to search for solutions, like using both "Bäcker and Bäckerin" or "Bäcker(in)". Then some started to use a separation sign "Bäcker*in" or "Bäcker:in" or "Bäcker_in" as a special generic form. As usually there are no characters like *, : or _ inside words other are unhappy about that solution. So there are a lot of discussions about that. And as the language has this versions for nearly any person related word, it can be quite prominent in the language. Like Professor/Professorin, Schüler/Schülerin, Bürgermeister/Bürgermeisterin, Kellner/Kellnerin.
English knows a few similar cases like waiter/waitress. It it's rare and you can say server at least in America instead.
The issue is usually with the Plural version. One male Arzt (doctor) and 99 female Ärztinnen suddenly become die Ärzte (the doctors). Even the Duden is stating "yeah, thats kinda not right but the society hasnt agreed on anything new yet".
The defenders of the generic masculin version usually say "the females are thought of, even when they are not mentioned and thus visible".
Somehow they always get angry when I suggest to use the generic feminin. You know, because the male version is also thought of. Even better, they are also mentioned and included in most words.
And then their special snowflake feelies get hurt. "Nooo, I dont like how that sounds!" or "Noo, thats not how it was done before". My brother in Christ, Doctors were applying leeches and letting blood before modern medicine came to be. Things change.
@@zwojack7285 As some boring tax accountant law bunny I might add that in some years between allowing same-seggs-marriage and changing some accidentally gender-specific wording in Abgabenordnung AO there was a time where the fundamental right to remain silent when close family (as legally defined group of people) was investigated got incoherent- your ex-wife was allowed that right, your current male spouse in same-seggs-marriage would have been denied that right along with some other constellations. So actual gender-neutral wording would be good thing for laws and safe a lot of work. In the other hand it can backfire- the whole misery about women's rights in the US started tumbling down because some whatever intended AHs started exclusing pregnant women from healthcare on the grounds that "not only women can be pregnant", so they got that shTi through because officially no gender was discriminated, only pregnant people. Not one single precedent case for being discriminated for being pregnant, so there they went. It's a whole mess and I hate it. Maleintent always ruins everything.
Or, better to say on second glance, said AHs could go and exclude pregnancies because the word "women" was used in Roe vs Wade, but their argument went that not only women could get pregnant and THAT would discriminated those people, so the whole legal standard was destroyed for everyone.
The trend in English-speaking countries is actually the reverse. Nouns that still have a female version (like "waitress") are being phased out and the male version is being used for everyone, male, female, and non-binary. This makes sense since a lot of other words do not have a female version in the first place and the adjective doesn't need to be adjusted according to the gender - except in a few random cases like "blond"/"blonde". If you follow English-language media you will particularly notice that "actor" has pretty much replaced "actress" in the last few years. I always think it's interesting how both languages are changing to be more inclusive, but the solutions are complete opposites.
@@zwojack7285 If people get angry when suggesting a generic feminine version, that obviously sucks, but it still doesn't make it a useful suggestion. The masculine one is just shorter and has already commonly been used generically, so it makes sense to keep doing that. There are also words that are neutral and feminine in the generic version and you don't need to add a masculine or new generic version for those. It just so happens to be the case that most generic versions of words are masculine, but that is not a problem itself. If the explicitly feminine version would not be used anymore like in english, the male association of the words would disappear completely in a few decades.
a bunch of happy Germans 😂
That's a fantasy story.
@@christopherschmitt1801 ?
Income will be counted monthly in Germany, netto means after taxes and social insurance fees are subtracted.
The meme with the pot smoker is about two politicians. The pot smoker is Armin Laschet from the christian democratic union (CDU) who failed to become chancellor in the 2021 elections. The guy who didn't make his homework (=Hausaufgaben) is Markus Söder, the Ministerpräsident (sort of prime minister) in Bavaria from the christian social union (CSU) which is the Bavarian branch of the conservative CDU/CSU. Abitur (highschool diploma from a gymnasium) notes get better with lower numbers. If you have a 0,whatever you're a genius, 4,0 will be just passed. So 3,2 will be pretty bad.
The greens are the party of ecological awareness in Germany. Since 1990 they have come to change their minds from a sort of idealistic ecological policy to more real life decisions. They are now part of the Government and had to allow mining of brown coal which the giant model of a lignite excavator represents. Thus some folks think they are traitors of their own policy.
Club Mate is a drink made of Mate tea, a high caffeine containing beverage...no beer.
The gender thing:: in correct German (wrote it in capitals) it would be: "Die Zeit ist reif für eine VolkSinitiative zur Verbannung der grammatiKALisch falschen Gendersprache aus Schulen und Behörden. Als @cduhamburg fordern wir dies seit Langem. Ich werde die Initiative voll unterstützen! Translation: It's time for a people's initiative for banning the grammatically incorrect gender language from schools and authorities. As @cduhamburg (=CDU, look above, Hamburg), we've been demanding this for a long time. I will totally support that initiative!"
And the meme-part of the gender thing is: the guys who want no gender language (typicaly because it ruins the wonderfull german language) are not able to type three sentences in german without failures inside it (the red marks)
@@Gamer-g2v1r Angela, is that you?
@@Hoonsy2you ???
@@Gamer-g2v1r brutto is always the bigger value.
In germany we have a "Lohnsteuervorrauszahlung", an estimation on taxes and social insurance.
Your payout is netto and your Boss give the taxes to the tax office.
Everything in the stores is priced out brutto, including VAT.
Whoever made the grammar meme apparantly does not know that "grammatisch" is actually correct, though. (You can actually use either, "grammatisch" or "grammatikalisch". They are both correct.)
11:11 in Germany, it's common that the Names of hairdressers consist of puns. And of course there's no way you could figure out German puns. But the funny thing is, two of them only make sense in English: "Well Kamm" is a misspelling for "Welcome" while "Kamm" means comb. And "Hairlich" includes the word "hair" while "herrlich" means wonderfull
8:55 if you like "Gummibärenpisse", what about "Einhornkotze"? It literellay translates to "unicorn vomit" and is used (at least around where i live) to describe stuff with too much colors or too much rgb-light etc. :D
Or Bienenkotze as derogatory term for honey
Concerning the Mate: I have got the impression that Mate is a very German thing. Even in other parts of Europe you don't find it in every supermarket - while in Germany you have got a wide variety of different brands.
Mate contains a similar amount of caffeine like energy drinks but with a very different taste. People like it or hate it. I like it, although I don't like Club Mate but other brands.
Mate is originally from South America.
@@iwilltubeyouall I know. But there they drink it as a hot tea. The Mate that is mentioned here is a soft drink that is served cool.
Mate schmeckt aber leider nach Kotze
The 9-Euro-Ticket days are actually not that long gone. It was a project during summer last year where you could buy this ticket for 9€ and travel through the entirety of Germany with public transportation. Those were three months of bliss.
We in Germany use „doch“ also in another way. e.g. when someone says something that is correct, but the other person don‘t believes it, the person says „doch“ to make sure it is true. great video😂
8:46 The "beer" is in fact no bear but a Mate Ice Tea.
You should do this stuff on twitch so we can actually explain the things to you in real time.
or inviting someone on video call to explain things
06:10 promille is a unit of measurement for alcoho in your blood. And in Germany you are still allowed to drive a car after drinking alcohol if you have less than 0.5 promille...
3.2 is actually a "worse" grade here than 3.0. We use multiple systems of grading; 1 to 100 (with 100 being the best), 6 to 1 (with 1 being the best) - The latter is also often used with decimal points or just as words with or without a plus or a minus after.
Actually, in the Oberstufe it's technically 0-15, with them being represented as 6 to 1. A 6 is always a 6; a fail grade that is not qualified further and denotes a complete failure to reach even the minimum level to get a proper grade. The ones above that can go from 5.8 (5-, 1 point) to 1.0 (1+, 15 points). The decimals are mainly relevant for average grades.
Note that anything below a 4- is still a failing grade, so you should aim for at least 4 points.
man i love these vids. I just love americans watching german vids. Thx for the good content
And germans love watching people watch stuff about germany.
You should get a German explaining the memes to you after you guessed
9:08 There's a huge difference between Club Mate and beer.
1:30 Handelsblatt is a business newspaper and thus represents employer views on wage payments.
Haha the meme with the rougher tone on the country side hit home😂 I‘m working in a warehouse and everyone there is just cursing all day and when I get home I really need to focus to not cuss everyone out because I’m so used to it😂
German uses compound words. We just stick simpler words together to form a bigger one. English does it too, just very rarely. Example: airport - a port for aircraft (aircraft itself is a compound too); barefoot - with bare feet; bedroom - a room where the bed is. Desktop, fingerprint, lipstick, mailbox, sunflower, notebook... there are hundreds of them in English, too. In German it's just in constant use and we can freely cobble words together whenever we feel like it. So gummy bear piss just becomes gummybearpiss... Gummibärenpisse...
6:55 hausaufgabe is homework
5:56 die grünen are our green party that (are supposed to) want to protect Climate and Nature, but now the state ,which they are a part of had agreed to clear a town to demolish it for open coal mining and burning, even though after the project is finished it will be immediately illegal and we also don't actually need the electricity it would generate
12:19 the joke is that he is complying about a newer inclusive way of speaking, because it hasn't yet been formalized into formal rules, while writing this, 1) there is a s missing 2) it should be "gramatikalisch" 3) As I am Stupid I'm not sure but I think "langem" should be capitalized
Edit: 5:56 I can't ensure correctness of the statement @pallao3500 told me other info about that in the comments, but I cant see it anymore he said:
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[Quote from me]
Thats what people see who dont look into detail. The truth is, the deal to demolish the TOWN (its not a city) for coal mining was done before Die Grünen even had anything to say about it. Now that they got elected they made a deal with the responsible energy company that they wont interfere with this project which was almost finished anyway (the people who lived there already left the place) if in return the energy company would agree to stop using coal by 2030 already instead of 2038 as the agreement made with the previous government stated and that they waive to demolish five other towns they also already had an okay to do so. So for not interfering with this one project they were able to stop five others and get a guarantee to stop coal 8 years earlier, which in fact is a great achievement.
"(as I couldn't see his comment anymore it was transcribed from an image sorry for potential missqouting)
"die grünen are our green party that (are supposed to) want to protect Climate and Nature, but recently they agreed to clear a city to demolish it for open coal mining and burning, even though after the project is finished it will be immediately illegal and we also don't actually need the electricity it would generate"
Thats what people see who dont look into detail. The truth is, the deal to demolish the TOWN (its not a city) for coal mining was done before Die Grünen even had anything to say about it. Now that they got elected they made a deal with the responsible energy company that they wont interfere with this project which was almost finished anyway (the people who lived there already left the place) if in return the energy company would agree to stop using coal by 2030 already instead of 2038 as the agreement made with the previous government stated and that they waive to demolish five other towns they also already had an okay to do so.
So for not interfering with this one project they were able to stop five others and get a guarantee to stop coal 8 years earlier, which in fact is a great achievement.
I agree at 12:19 that for 1) an s is missing.
However, for 2) I got really curious about "grammatikalisch" and did some research. Apparently "grammatisch" is used more commonly and for a grammar's "nature"(?). Many will say "grammatisch" and will understand that the grammar is meant in that context. While that's the case, "grammatikalisch" is the correct spelling in more professional work places like writers or poets and the likes.
And as for 3)... I looked that up as well and both ways of spelling "langem" are correct. You can say "langem" and "Langem".
Never in my life did a video like this or a comment like this make me so curious. Thanks.
@@gamixhyperdrive8425I do think that my analysis is correct. I may be extremely bad in my German Classes, but they are native German.
My reasoning for 2) is that it is used as an adjective in a specific „Fall“ (literal eng would be case), and that it is similar to the given examples of the „Duden“ („grammatikalische Fehler“ and „grammatikalisch korrekt schreiben, sprechen“)
For 3) I found a resource that states that in old German (pre 2004) it was correct and post that it is still permitted but the Duden recommends the capitalized form
Third time trying to post I so sorry.
@@lptimey While I'm native german myself I'm certainly not qualified to argue about this so props to your classes. Also good to know for 3)!
7:00 3.0 is actually better than 3.2 because the best grade is a 1.0... and the Hausaufgaben means homework
have you ever thought of livestreaming your reactions, cause we could help you with the words you don't understand by using the translator and it would make for very fun interactions too I bet, I mean if you are up for it
It's funny how you translated the sausage picture the wrong way^^
"My buddy, who took drugs straight for the last 2 years at school." (3.0 (mediocre result) on the high school diploma) - "ME, who didnt do homeworks for the entire 13 years at school." - (3.2 (marginally worse result) on high school diploma)
Notably, both still easily passed.
The ping pong pedal is like the sign a train conductor holds up. With that the police can wave cars off the road for checks or give them a ticket (and yes they have light signal in the cars too)
the joke about the polititian at 12:15 is that he demands grammatically correct German, yet his tweet is incorrect German. The mistakes are the underlined parts and I will explain them real quick. Volkinitiative is compound of Volk (folks, citizen, population) and Initiative (initiative, duh) however most Nouns in German require "linking letters" to flow into each other, in this case he didn't use "s", the correct word would be "Volksinitiative". The next mistake is the use of "grammatisch" which is coloquial for gramatically, the correct German word is "grammatikalisch". And the last one is "langem", he says that his party demanded something since a long time. However long in this case would be a noun and ALL nouns in German have to be written capital. So "Langem" would be correct.
10:28 You got it mostly. The 9€ ticket was a temporary government funded monthly train ticket to compensate high inflation and energy prices. It had a big impact because a lot of people use trains here to get around as you know. But it was obviously too expensive to keep it around permanently.
Imagine travelling 1000 miles straight into the richest neighborhoods and squatting there for 9 bucks! That angered some people just as much as sending Mexicans to Martha*s Vinyard!
I would like to see you google a bit more in this. I like you finding out whats actually going on. The Club-Mate things is a good example. Thats not beer, its a kind of carbonated "tea"/lemonade with a lot of caffeine, basically a better energy drink.
2200 Eur/month net is not bad at all (about 3600 before taxes and social insurance payments). If you're not in one of the more expensive cities that easily enables you to have an okay car (on a leasing contract) and your yearly vacation abroad granted you're not a huge spender in day-to-day life. You have to remember that you're entire necessary health care is already covered at this point and you're not paying school fees for your kids.
A lot people earn a lot less. My mom got around 1600 net while I was a kid, now as a retiree, she's at around 1200. It would be tough if she didn't own her flat and she still has to be a bit frugal, but she can make do. 2200 net a month may not make you rich, and it does depend a bit on your personal situation (are you single, married, kids, no kids) but generally to attain the same standard of living which you get at 2200, an American would have to earn a lot more.
at 6:10 in Germany BAC is measured in Promille: 0,5 (parts per thousand) equals 0,05% which is the BAC limit in Germany for driving.
10:20 that "ping pong paddel" calles "polizeikelle" s a police disk shown by the police officers out of the windows when they stop cars on streets
2200 Netto is more than I would ever become as an physio therapist
Pony&Clyde: Pony means fringe or bangs, so it's a hair-related word game. The other hairdresser names were as well.
Every hairdresser (well, nearly) has a pun in the name. Its an accomplishment, if you see a shop, were it isn't so.
8:20 This is no beer, this is Club Mate, a kind of energy drink only better.
Mate is a tea
@@tigeriussvarne177 ja, aber Club Mate ist halt mehr, es ist mit Kohlensäure versetzt und etwas gesüßt oder anders es ist mehr Erfrischungsgetränk als Tee.
Agree?
@@accdiabolus Cool, können wir uns drauf einigen. ;D Und Club Mate > Red Bull ^^
8:53 yea you wouldn’t find „gummibärenpisse“ in a thesaurus, but german rules for compound words allow lots of words that were never intended to exist.
BTW: Bär and bear are pronounced exactly the same.
I think there are some German news sources that upload to TH-cam either with English subtitles or at least an English version. That would also be interesting to react to (and would clue you in to the stuff many memes refer to...).
so you couldn't get traffic light because it references to the colors associated with the government in germany as it is nigh impossible for a singular party to get a majority so multiple party with aligning ideologies group together. it just happened to be that it was sdp, fdp and b90 grouped which have respectively the colors red, blue/yellow and green
At around 6:30: "Hausaufgaben" means "homework". So in all his time at school he never learned at home. Both still managed to get a mediocre final score at the A-level/high school diploma. The men in the picture are the former governor of the German state Northrhine-Westfalia/ chancellor candidate (CDU-conservative party), and the governor of Bavaria and leading politician of the CSU (sister party of CDU, only electable in Bavaria instead of the CDU).
Oh, and the next one is about the current protesters/activists for climate called "the last generation". Some glue themself on the street and by that intervene in traffic. So people are annoyed. And this is the Google search list by current favorites.
And after that: "Die Grünen" are a political party in Germany that is currently in the governing coalition. They always have been climate activists and got more powerful in the last 20-25 years. With the current energy crisis they made compromises with their agenda and approved with some decisions about brown coal mines.
2 later about the video games: the argument about the effect of video games comes up like many times the youth/some teenage individuals show aggressive behavior. Most common after the school shooting (they are way less common in Germany, but happened) and the argument is that games like WoW let players lose sense of reality and trains players in usage of guns. But well, millions of people are playing those games and still are peaceful.
Next: the thing you refer to as "Pingpong pedal", is a so called "Kelle", which is a "signaling disc" for traffic. To be honest, don't get this meme completely. Would guess that it refers to "left wing" activist who are arguing against "right wing" on social media by maybe using hate speech (therefore the laptop) and the signaling disc is referring to the mentioned climate activists disturbing the traffic (???). Like the the ones against right wing activists are not using physical violence.
About the hairdressers: it's common in Germany that they have some wordplay in their name.
My BIL bought a house in 2012. 175.000 €, in the middle of nowhere in Bavaria. Now, 10 years later, the same house would cost 750.000€. Its insane....
Wasn't the actual line where diminishing returns of happiness for income begin like 75000 or something
The 9 € Ticket was a bliss. Not only could you ride every PT in your place, but anywhere in Germany. This led to a major movement of people going places to visit.
Like tenfold what normally was going on this time of year.
Hausaufgaben means Homework meaning the works you have to do for school when you are back home.
7:05 in Germany, the smaller grade is the better one. One smoked weed , the other didn't do any homework for 13 years
There's a reason that the rate for houseownership in Germany is only 49.5% (as of 2021) where as the rest of us are renting. To actually own a house or just an apartment you have to downpay quite a chunk and after that you are endebted around 30 years trying to pay it off so that when finally you retire one day it is all yours. So in retirement you don't have to pay rent but you still have to pay annual grounds tax, tax for being connected to the water grid, water itself and energy, trash services, upcoming reparations and considering that you'll face your body declining you might need to hire people to help you keeping your garden in shape. So even you're retired and not paying rent anymore you'll have to receive a minimum of a pension just to stay afloat.
8:20 Club Mate is no beer its more like tea with coffein
"there's no way you have a whole word for gummy bear piss." as a general rule if multiple nouns are used to describe something in english it is one noun in german. compound nouns are the best thing ever.
10:40 yeaa kind of.
Last year we had a time where you could buy tickets for all transportation options for just 9€.
It came out to support the germans while everything, in particular the gas/petrol got really expensive because the war of ucraina and russia.
With the ticket you could use every bus, train as often you want in whole germany for just 9€ in a month. It was freaking amazing!
basically in german, if there is "Klima" behind [Product], it's likely to be eco related
"klimakleber" is a nickname for the people glueing themselves to the road to protest against climate change and the autolobby
I would love to see a video of you with a German. Explaining some memes, discussing culture, talking about stuff, the other one thinks is important to know about either Germany or the US. Me as German would like this very much, I think
The trafficlight (Ampel) is the color of a coalition of 3 political parties. The green (thats also their name), the yellow (FDP, liberal party), and red (SPD, the center-left party). We also have the black ( CDU center, right), the blue (AfD, the fascists). We also have the Jamaika-coalition which is black, yellow, green
Btw. The green party is called the green because they want green stuff like renewable energy, more green soldiers ,more war.
But lately they accepted a deal with RWE to destroy a village so they can mine coal
Whats that blue trophy on the shelf? It has not been there like a week ago or something?
10:05 the pedal is for signaling cars to stop on the side or follow the police car. They drive infront of the suspect and just hold it out the window. The meme itself is a little bit specific in terms of German political culture. The translation doesn't really transport the joke but I also don't really know how to explain it.
So here's an explanation with some language learning for you: We have three genders (male, female, neuter), for every noun it's one of them, and with each having the belonging article (der [m], die [f], das [n]) for it (such as "das Brot", "the bread"). And we have a different version of every noun according to the gender of person(s) or things we assume they have. For example we have "der Besucher" for the male "the visitor" and "die Besucherin" for a female "the visitor". So what gendered language ("die Gendersprache") is: What you're gonna do to gender something is you take the male word, put a "*" right after it with no space, and then you put the most common word ending for the female equivalent word, which endings almost all the times are "die GästIN" [f, singular] and "die GästINNEN" [f, plural]. So there's "der Besucher" (the visitor [m, singular]), "die Besucherin" (the visitor [f, singular]), "die Besucher" (the visitors [m, plural]) and "die Besucherinnen" (the visitors [f, plural]). And now, we have the problem that in traditional German language, you always used to use only "das generische Maskulinum" ("the generic masculinum") which is easily the male singular and plural forms to name each individual or group by calling the word for the men, sometimes we do it even if we're directly talking to a woman about herself, saying maybe to her "Du bist ein Maler!" - "You're a painter!" (male version of it: "ein Maler" [one male painter] / "eine Malerin" [one female painter]) - and most women didn't even think about that for a second ever. But in the last couple of years, things and society have changed much over here in that matter! A strong movement or open initiative started to form a couple years ago and people started to say: Wait a minute. First of all, why are we calling individual females male names? And secondly: Why do we use the male forms too for talking about multiple people, even if there's females or non-binary people along men or even if there are groups with only female and/or non-binarys, so without persons identifying as a male even in it? (I am gendering all my language too, and always, and even spoken vocally there is a possibility to inclusively do that which I do as well, and I'll explain to you in a minute.) So we thought there needs to happen a modernization and adaptation of our dealings with to whom we talk to. There happened to arise different ideas in order to do that. First of all, there's always the possibility to use the female version of every male noun (and opposite) in order to respect the person's gender (which many people nowadays don't mean their birth-given sex when talking about gender but more of what everyone's identifying with now, even if it is a non-binary or trans individual) for whom we add "the gender gap" - either an asterisk (*), a colon (:) or an underscore (_) in the middle of every word which means to include everyone who wouldn't feel included without. So "der Gast" [the guest, m, sg.] will change into "die*der Gäst*in" [f article, gap (*), m article, female beginning of the word, gap, female ending of the word]. So now to what you can do verbally. You just add the so-called "Glottisschlag" to it ("glottal stop") which means a very brief pause in spoken words in order to add the gender gap to it. :)
4:40
I think someone has to tell him now... The "traffic light" refers to the current ruling coalition. In germany, every party is associated with a color;
CDU/CSU (conservatives) - black
SPD (social democrats) - red
FDP (market liberals) - yellow
Green Party (Ecos) - green (obviously)
AfD (extreme right) - Blue
Left Party (extreme left) - sometimes red, sometimes purple
We refer to different kinds of coalitions using these colors. Right now, SPD are in charge together with the FDP and Green Party, making it the "traffic light" coalition.
There was also some talk about a "jamaica coalition" (CDU, FDP, Green Party) for example... Only exception to this is the GroKo (Große Koalition / Great Coalition) which is CDU and SPD, named like that bc they used to have like 70-80% votes combined and could basicially rule with absolute power.
Also, Söder is a prominent member of the CSU and is extremely pissed at the traffic light coalition bc they kicked the CDU/CSU out after almost 16 years as the leading government party (back when merkel was still chancellor)
The 2200 € happiness thing is highly dependend on the cost of living/rent/etc in your area. For a long time this monthly income made it possible in Germany to have a good life and afford nice things. The US seems to be a lot more expensive, considering that the € was higher than the $ for a while. Or considering that waiters in the US have to get a tip to survive which adds to your expenses when going out. But I might be wrong.
Yo, when you read the word “gummibärenpisse” at around 8:50, the English subtitles said “gummy bar and peace” lol
In german you combine words, so while there is no direct word for gummy bear piss, it's just "Gummi-Bär-Pisse" but in german you then write it as one word. That's why there are so many long, complicated words. They are just combinations of other words for one specific thing.
I believe the Igel / Hedghog meme could be related to Mittwoch or Mettwoch. The day where you eat mett from a Hedghog that is made out of mett and Pretzel Sticks
No it was a drawing someone made to tell their neighbours something they did annoyed them, he drew a panischer Igel and a glücklicher Igel. It was posted on ich_iel a while ago and was reused ever since.
It's a meme that started when someone shared a letter/postcard about an automated lawnmover potentially running over the hedgehogs. It included drawings of a panicked and calm hedgehog.
Oh! Thank you! :) I wasnt aware of that meme!
bless your heart for reacting to those memes, even though you cant understand half of them. partly, cause it doesnt translste right, partly causr ich_iel inside jokes and partly cause there are often not even real words but direct translstions from english
gummibärenpisse is one of those conjoint words.
a prime example of, we can just put words together and everyone understands what we mean.
4:27 Yeah...But "Brötchen" are like 11 cents a piece, so your bill is somewhere around 4 Euros if you go a little crazy. and in the morning, registers are stocked only with minimal change...And people DO get very upset about that a lot here x'D
8:52 thats because in german you can create new nouns by chaining them together
I was a little bit surprised how the translator translated the word "Hausaufgaben".
The "Beer" at 8:00 is a kind of a soda with coffein based on mate-tea. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club-Mate
An Importen Thing for the first german one. Netto is the Money you get after Tax and after Paying all the insurance for health pension and moree. Which is pretty high in germany so you need a salary like a bit below 4000 for that. And the euro is worth a bit more and Cost for living is lower so in the US you need to get more like 6000 a month (depending where you live)
what is wrong with 2200 net a month? i think somewhere around this is average in the germany/austria/europe region
Club-Mate is not a beer, but a Mate-tea-drink that has a lot of coffein. It also tastes like cigarette butts.
I would describe the flavour somewhat akin to old socks.
And some brands are more intense than others.
You don´t know promille? What do you use in the USA to determine how drunk someone is? Or do you only have drunk and not drunk?
The "ping pong paddle" the police officer is holding in her hand is called "Winkerkelle" or "Anhaltekelle" and is meant to be used by the police to stop cars for a check. So if police are driving in front of you waving the Winkerkelle, you have to follow them to pull over at a good place for a check.
06:43 Abitur is more like an Associate Degree from a College than a High School Diploma.
Abitur = Associate Degree
Fachabitur/ Fachhochschulreife = Degree from a College/ Community College
Realschulabschluss/ MSA = High School Diploma
Hauptschulabschluss/ ESA = High School Diploma, but a bit easier
The traffic light are three parties that bound together. the CDU (red) the FDP (yellow) and die Grünen (green) thats why they called it Ampel 🚦
SPD is red 😉 CDU is black
@@Humpelstilzchen could also be
@@ftg_elementyx8746 True 😂
the beer/redbull meme isnt about beer , its a club-mate.Mate is a coffeome based drink from south america and it is in europe and northamerika called tea.
club-mate is variation of the original and is sweeter , have light sparkling often , some kind of sugar and have often the same effect like a energy drink.
The meme with the housing prices does not directly refer to the inflation of the last year(s) Yes, the inflation rate that is commonly referred to includes rents and if rents increase so should the value of housing. Also, as prices for raw material rise, so would the prices for construction etc. However, the surge in housing prices has been detached from the growth of rents. The increase in housing prices was proportionally higher during the last decade. Many people believe it is soft bubble (and indeed there a signs today that indicate that) like the one before the Great Recession in the U.S. (although for different reasons). On top of the evolution of rent prices due to the lack of housing in Germany, a more important reason lead to dramatic increase in housing prices: The (needed) cheap money policy of the European Central Bank. Like in the U.S. we had a zero-interest-environment which made it attractive to borrow money, especially through housing credits and also opened up the purchase of housing even for people with little equity. For some it was cheaper to pay the loan rather than renting (which in Europe is much more common than the U.S.). In addition, investors shifted their portfolio from riskless (now mostly interestless) investments to more profitable but seemingly unrisky housing investments. The demand for housing thus increased twofold through consumers and investors.
Funnily enough, as now consumer prices increase and the future is becoming more uncertain while at the same time nominal interest rise again, we see decreasing housing prices for some areas (although rents continue to climb).
Hausaufgaben is homework, tasks you get from school to do at home, which will be checked the next day at school.
and about videogames they always try everything, except facing the truth.
Promille is a measurement for the level of alcohol in your blood it is 1 per mille (1000). One beer is half a liter beer is 0.3 promille if I remember correctly. But probably less...
Ahahaha Club Mate the beer, alright. Club Mate is basically a germany exclusive energy drink replacement made from a tea of Mate leaves. It keeps you awake far longer, has far less sugar, less coffein and no Taurin and other shitty stuff that gives you potential heart attacks.
Club Mate is not a beer, it looks like it, but it's (in South America very popular) yerba mate tea based soda and kinda tastes like cigarette smoke, but you get used to this weird taste as it contains a lot of Coffein. Mate soda is very popular in the IT sector, but well ... we have better tasting mate sodas for a few years like Mate Mate Classic or Mio Mio Mate.
PS: Club Mate is extremely high carbonated, it feels like it explodes on your tongue, so much fizzy
With 0.5 per mill alcohol content in the blood You are allowed to drive a car in Germany - so everybody gets too drunk - except the driver
At 12:15 it was about the red marked words because he spelled them wrong, but he wanted do stand up for the right Grammar
It must be Volksinitiative, grammatikalisch and seit Langem so it is quite funny
I always wanted to do this, but never actually did. But this time I am gonna clear all misunderstandings in this and answer all your questions:
1:07 Ryan: "Is it 2200 $ a month?" - Yes, 2200€ after paying taxes.
2:19 Ryan: "I wonder how the inflation is going over there..." - I think it's bad, but housing prices skyrocketed even before. And there is just a lack of appartments and houses all over Germany. It's very hard to find a place to live these days if you want to quit living with your parents or moving with your family.
3:40 Ryan: "Leave the hedgehog in peace?" - I also don't know the hedgehog :D
4:42: Markus Söder and the traffic light: (As some people explained) These are the governing parties right now: SPD (red), FDP (yellow), die Grünen (green). Germany loves doing this puns with political parties. There is also the "Jamaikakoalition" (CDU, FDP, die Grünen), "große Koalition" (SPD, CDU; usually th biggest parties), rot-rot-grün (SPD, die Linke, die Grünen; not as funny, but often said), "Deutschlandkoalition" (CDU, SPD, FDP) or "Ugandakoalition" (SPD, CDU, FDP) and so on... Anyway Markus Söder is the leader of the CSU (CDU in Bavaria) and refers to the attempts of the government to legalize marijuana and cannabis. He also was one of the most restrictive politics in terms of covid prevention measures. He btw dressed as Shrek once on carnival, it looked hilarious :D
5:56 It is not half a mile. It is 0,5‰ (= 0,5 Promille = 0,05%), what is the highest legal amount of alcohol to have in blood in Germany while driving. Alcohol AND car industry love this trick.
6:16 The whole meme: Here again you have Markus Söder (right, CSU) and Armin Laschet (CDU) who absolutely failed trying to become Bundeskanzler in 2021. I think noone takes him serious anymore. Hausaufgaben = Homework. The numbers are grades (German 1 =American A; 2=B; C=3 and so on). I don't really get why the meme is funny, but the guy smoking weed obviously got the (slightly) better degrees.
7:25 Klimakleber is one of the words invented to call people glueing themselves on streets to protest against pollution and so on (last generation, extinction rebellion ect).
7:41: Refers to "die Grünen" again. There were huge protests in a village that is to be crushed because there are loads of brown coal underneath it. Hundreds of activists were there (for years) when police raided the place this week. The clue is that the green party allowed to tear down that village as they were reponsible is that particular state. In excange Germany will be out of coal burning for energy some years earlier. Some are still angry on the party because they let this happen.
8:00 As someone said, that drink on the left is Club Mate. A very popular energy drink especially amongst alternative people, students or hipsters. Its made from mate tea (I think it tastes as horrible as RB).
9:07 I don't know if this was a thing in the US, but when the first school shootings happened in Germany (there were like three and the first one in about 2006?) people, especially elderly politics who never had used a computer before blamed ego shooters for it. The argument went kinda old as almost everyone has played some before in 2023.
10:24 Ryan "What is this ping pong paddle she's got here?" - It is called "Polizeikelle" in German and they show you while driving to make you follow them for a control.
10:33 The 9€-Ticket was a great idea the government had in summer to appease people who now had less money to spend and to encourage them to use public transport more tha before. For 9€ per month you could travel around the whole country (with local trains and busses). I travelled about 2000km with it (about 1500 miles I guess) and it was awesome :D
12:14 Yes it's about gender language. The problem in German language is much bigger than in English because most words have a gender (especially for job titles). So I think this is more of thing in Germany (maybe). But he has the three (pointed out) grammar mistakes himself. It's a mess how some officials use twitter ect...
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4:42 „Ampel“=„Traffic light“ is ALSO the actual leading political party… GREEN for the environmentalists, YELLOW for FDP (hotelowner & co), RED for SPD (should be for workers, socialism… but fail like all others) ..
6:16 is just about two buddies doing nothing for school and still getting an Abitur (0,7 being the best you can get, and 4,0 being the worst). The left one has done nothing but smoke pot for the last 2 years and the right one hasn't done any homework for 13 years.
Netto in that context means after taxes and deductions. So 2200€ you get to spend on stuff.
the bakery thing is. they dont have enough money in their cashregister to give you change fpr 50€ at 5 AM
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I Bet there are many Happy Germany watching your Videos
Well one is there for Sure cause i Love watching your Videos to brigthen up my day :D
Hi Ryan, I enjoy watching Your videos a lot, i find it interesting how an American picks up German stuff - but sometimes it is cringy when You get it wrong due to false translation. I want to help!
0.5 promille is the meassurment of bloodalcohol in germany with which ure still allowed to drive as long youre driving safely, if your for example not driving straight with 0.45 promille... that limit doesnt protect you from fines n stuff. Promille means parts per million. So 1 promille equals 1 g of alcohol per 1 kg of blood...
Hausaufgaben is homeworks from school. So 2 years of weed is about as bad as 13 not learning. 13 years is school length in germany depending on the schoolform.