15 German brands YOU pronounce WRONG! | American REACTS!
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She is native German and she is right on all :)
I think he is somewhat angry that he is not able to catch the right pronounchion of german words. But all germans remember the moment when their teacher explained the correct pronounchion oh the "tee age". It was a nightmare. 🤣
As a northgerman I wouldn't consider a Bavarian a 'native german' 😂
@@Hallebumba errrh... good point... Alaaf!!
@@Hallebumba komme aus münchen kann kein bayrisch
@@Hallebumba naja dafür haben wir die bessere Kultur
I will probably have to disappoint you. Like pretty much all Germans abroad, Feli should also be insured by a German foreign health insurance. No mentally normal person chooses American insurance if he can have a German one instead.
Yes she is and her insurance wanted to flew her out to Germany for the surgery because it was way less expensive to pay the flights and the surgery in Germany
@@franninchen This is one of the many reasons why I love Germany so much. Here the human being still counted something and not only the profit.
I assumed the same. "mentally normal" 😂
@@Kelsea-2002 it depends where you go but after all it's pretty good in Germany but I would rather have our Medival style city's back that ar most gone thanks to the war
@@franninchen Feli said she would have done that, but her insurer waited until a few days prior to her scheduled surgery to make the request. She didn't want to put it off for several weeks (I'm sure she was in pain) so her German insurer agreed to cover all costs of having the surgery done in Cincinnati.
Fun fact:
The Albrecht Brothers already had more than 300 ALDI stores running in Germany before Sam Whalton opened his first Walmart in the US
That was so much fun
And Aldi helped push out Walmart by already having low prices etc that it became unprofitable for Walmart to be here
Not exactly.
Two Guys(now defunct) Stores from NJ was in business since 1945. Sam Whalton knew of them and supposedly asked them for guidance on running his Ben Franklin five dime stores. He was having financial and supply issues.
The "Walmart Concept" obviously came from "Two Guys" and their unbelivable selection. They had a grocery store, bakery, deli, electronic, clothing, housewears, garden, car repair and much more.
BTW.....No Walmart(even Super Walmart) today comes close to the size and selection that Two Guys had. They were the US' one and only true hyper-supermarket ever.
@@rick3747 well, the first Aldi store was founded by their parents in 1919. Which they than took over after the war
@@Hendricus56
That may be true but Sam went to Two Guys and specifically asked for guidance on running his stores since Two Guys were very well known and very successful by the time Sam was running his five and dime stores. Sam had relatives in NJ/NY who worked in middle mng for Two Guys and they suggested that Sam seek guidance for of course a fee. It worked out. Two Guys lost market share(due to many factors..Walmart's growth was not really a factor. Bad growth plans and mergers did Two Guys in) and closed around 1982 to then become basically the most successful US commerical real estate player ever since.
The ending “e” in PorschE or DeutschE Bank is not silent. Never.
In general, all letters are always spoken. Either as one sound per letter (“a” is the sound “ah”, always) or per group of letters (“sch” is always pronounced like “sh” although the letters themselves would be pronounced S-K-h).
Also, each letter always has the same sound, so an “e” (like in Porsche) is always an “e”. There are no “alternative” spellings for the same sound. A *situation* like dough, thought, tough is not possible in German.
Some minor exceptions may apply like “v” might be “v” like in english “Vase” and an “f” in “Vogel” (bird) or in “Volk “. But let’s not overcomplicate things… for now.
It is not correct that all letters are always spoken and each letter always has the same sound (but the exceptions follow rules so it's still MUCH easier than the English pronunciation!). You notice that when children learn to read and make mistakes because they think exactly that. For example: the g in "König" is not pronounced as a g, but like the German ch. The e in "lieb" is silent (because it has the function of lengthening the vowel i). The d in "und" is pronounced as a t, the g in Krug as a k, the b in Dieb as a p (Auslautverhärtung, final devoicing).
@@nriamond8010 SInce when is the G in König not pronounced like a G in Hochdeutsch?
"The d in "und" is pronounced as a t, the g in Krug as a k, the b in Dieb as a p" this is literally all wrong -- unless there's some dialect involved.
König is the only German word ending on g but spoken with ch.
@@vickypedia223 That's wrong. In standard German, EVERY word ending on -ig is spoken with ch. Southern dialects speak it like -ik, but that's not the official German.
@@JaniceHope Okay, ich sags mal auf Deutsch. Ich bin Germanistin und weiß, wovon ich rede - diese Dinge lernt man schon in den allerersten Semestern. Hast du schonmal von Auslautverhärtung gehört? Und die Endung "-ig" wird auf Standarddeutsch "-ich" ausgesprochen. Ja, das ist offiziell. Es wörtlich wie "ik" auszusprechen, ist Dialekt und in Süddeutschland verbreitet, aber eben kein Standarddeutsch.
1:30 "American health care actually working" - yeah, not quite. She has a German insurance and in several different videos no her channel, she explained the whole story of her injury and her experiences with the American health care system and its costs.
well american healthcare is working as Intended.
not good for the patient but good for the investors.
that's simply for profit healthcare.
At this point eating a cough drop to fix a broken bone is better then going to a hospital in America
4:04 in German, a "w" is ALWAYS pronounced like an Englisch "v". A German "v" is pronounced like an ENglish "f" or an English "v", depending of whether the word has Germanic origin or not.
"Volk" does have Germanic origin, and therefore the V is pronounced as F. You can also see it from the fact that the word has ann English cognate: "Folk". We have the same with our word for "Father", which is "Vater", with the "V" pronounced just like F.
Not always: Waage, Wand, Werner, Walter, wickeln, wandern .....pronounced as W not V
@@mariamunker5098 I think you misunderstood me. The German "W" is ALWAYS pronounced like an English "V" and the words you've mentioned are no exceptions.
It is the German "V" that is pronounced in two different ways, either like the English "V" or like the English "F".
There is no German word at all where a "W" is pronounced like the English "W" - this consonant simply does not exist in German.
(EDIT: Well, foreign words such as "Whisky" may be an exception. Although many Germans will still pronounce this more like "Visky" because they can't pronounce the English "W" properly.)
@@arthur_p_dent Thank you for explaining. You are right.
Just like in Afrikaans 😊
That's right English is an Germanic Language and, apart from Swiss German, Luxembourgish or Yiddish, together with Dutch, the language most closely related to German.
I think reading Swedish without being able to read it is almost easier than English. but of course I can also use English words that have either historically kept their proximity there or have been adopted in modern times
I am nativ German and it s just comedy watching your videos 🤣
Adi Dassler was also the shoemaker of the German national team who won the football worldchampoinship in 1954. It was a very rainy day but because of his new concept of changeable spikes (short for dry and hard underground, long for wet and muddy) the German team had a far better stand on the ground than their Hungarian opponents who were highly favored. This was probably one reason for the success and a huge push for Dassler's little company. So you can say that Adidas became famous because of bad weather.
not only that, he was the first to spoor a for a male African American athlete (Jesse Owens), he then got the first place in the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics!
Because of this reason his factory which was repurposed into a ammunition factory was not destroyed by the American occupying, when they have seen the picture of it, only because of this he could start building up his business again!
Let´s not forget about the Pervitin that was given to the german players.
@@gabortoth3706 Seems that you are Hungarian.
@@maraboo72 Ach ja, das Märchen vom dopingfreien Fussball. Gibt es wirklich noch Leute, die daran glauben?
Schraubstollen gab es vorher schon. Aber er hat aus den Fussballschuhen, die vorher eher schwere Stiefel waren, leichte Sportschuhe gemacht. Bei Regen wurden die kaum schwerer, während die Ungarn bei dem regnerischen Wetter an jedem Fuss 1,5kg schwere wasserdurchtraenkte Schuhe trugen. Die deutschen Spieler waren dadurch leichtfüßiger.
Ausserdem war der Regen ja Fritz Walter Wetter!
Bei Regen spielte er besonders gut. Das kam daher, dass er sich im Krieg mit Malaria infiziert hatte. Bei warmen, sonnigen Wetter machte ihm die Krankheit schwer zu schaffen. Bei kühlem Regenwetter dagegen machte ihm die Krankheit nichts aus!
Die Schraubstollen waren ein Marketingtrick, der super funktioniert hat! Deswegen hat es sich so lange gehalten.
The "Made in Germany" cames from England. They made it that the English only buy English products. But the German products had a much better quality, so that the German products was more wanted than the English. For example knives from the City of Solingen.
Yep the Englisch we're also stupid to not get VW after the war. There we're supposed to buy it but refused because they dont wanted a "German" Car company. The car Brand Opel was given to General Motors after the war.
@@worldsendace I don't think it was "given", they sold it. And went on to produce potato chips... The O in Chio is for Opel.
@@worldsendace It was the British man, Major Ivan Hirst that saved VW after the war. The British had many car companies of their own, why would they want another one in another country?
@@worldsendace As I remember Britain produced Opel cars under the name Vauxhall. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall_Motors
That is just not true. Germany at the beginning of the industrial revolution was the China of Europe. They copied everything and sold it cheaper but also produced it cheaper so worse quality. Made in Germany was created to warn of cheap german copies. Then a culture change happend in Germany with a focus on a own identity, they started producing high quality original products and Made in Germany became a mark of Quality
Like the reaction.
Just a little tip on the pronunciation:
1) There usually are no silent letters in German so all of them will be pronounced at least somewhat. So a word beginning with a K or G followed by an N will have the K or G pronounced as well.
2) There is no "TH" diphtong in German, so if you see any kind of "th" in a German word, consider to just pronounce it as a fairly strong T and the H is pronounced as a separt letter from the T.
3) F and V have almost exactly the same sound. Why, I can't say, it just is that way (meh, shrug). Both are pronounced like F.
If you are scared of long compound words, try to dissect them. German is the Lego of languages: you can dissect each compound words into fairly simple basic words. From those you can usually understand the general meaning or intention of the whole compound word. So even if you had a complex X-Wing Lego model in front of you, by looking closely you can still see all the small bricks inside it, and you understand their individual usage.
2) doesn't hold for plenty of greek loan words - > Mathematik, Theorie. Older spellings of some Words also used it to denoted long vowels "Rath" became "Rat", but the pronouciation is really "Raht".
3) Also has plenty of counteraxamples like Oval, Vase, Vagabunden, where V is pronouced like W.
In words of Germanic origin (the majority) the German "v" is pronounced like an English "f" while in words of Romance origin (those borrowed mostly from Latin or French) the German "v" will be pronounced like the English "v" (or also the German "w"). A hard "t"-pronunciation for "th" exists in English as well: Just think of London's big river Thames (pronounced TEMZ).
tell that to the letter H that there is not a silent letter :)
Up to 1873 behind every t there was a h. Today ,th' appeares only in names.
@@simongunkel7457 Even in Rath the h is not a silent letter. It denotes that the T is aspirated. But as all Ts are aspirated in German (and English as well), there's no need to write the h. So it got dropped in many words, Greek imports being a notable exception.
We have Aldi South in Austria, but the stores are called "Hofer" cause the name Aldi was already copyrighted by another company when they expanded to here. It's so funny how we all speak German but we immediately know if someone is from Germany, Austria or Switzerland by their local names for things and dialects :D
They also bought the „Helmut Hofer“ company which was already a well known store in Austria. So using the name Hofer gave them a publicity boost as well.
Or even smaller parts out of those three countries if you talk to them about Pfannkuchen/Eierkuchen/Plinsen/Palatschinke/Omelette which is essentially the same product.
Wer interessiert sich für den Hofer? Geh doch zum Lidl🤣
1:26 I am really sure that she mentioned her german international health care insurance, not the US one. German citizens do not need a foreign health care insurance while out of Germany.
You're right, the "s" you typically find in American brand names like McDonald's or Trader Joe's comes from an omitted "store" or "restaurant" after the name of the founder/owner. This is very uncommon in Germany especially for shops, usually it is only seen in brand names that originate from USA or in names of restaurants that are closely related to American culture (like sports bars or burger restaurants). Because "Aldi" isn't a name of a person but the name of the company itself, there is no need for an "s" in the end.
Trader Joes, is German.
@@michaelmcginn7260 The company is, but the name itself isn't. According to Wikipedia the brand was originally founded in 1967 by Joe Coulombe in California. It became a German brand in 1979 when Theo Albrecht bought the company, but it originally was an American brand, so the name actually is an American brand name.
@@michaelmcginn7260 The company was founded by an American. Therefore the naming was done to American norm/culture. Just because a German company bought it a decade later and now runs it, does not make the name German.
I always thought the "s" was a genitive s.
@@Crom1980 Yes, it totally is. But you can only have a genitive s if there is a genitive. Like in McDonald's (Restaurant), but not in e.g. Microsoft. Microsoft isn't a person that owns a company, so there cannot be a genitive s.
As a german the impressons on his face are just hilarious🤣🤣🤣
...and he has a nice face
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I think America is the only country that pronounces adidas as ah-de-das. In Australia we’ve always pronounced it as Adidas. Miele is often pronounced different ways here, so I’m glad I now know the correct German pronunciation, especially as Miele is very popular due to the high quality of their products. I never knew Birkenstock’s was German, the same with Nivea.
Fun fact: Nivea is literally the latin word for white
I find it very interesting that Australians pronounce Adidas right. Cool! ^^
@@MatthiasDrinksH20 do u want some white creme for ur face 🤣
@@derbyking8475 I heard Zink is good for skin lol
I've heard plenty of Australians pronounce it "ah-dee-duss". And Nivea as "niv-ee-ya".
Just to mention it: most germans would try to learn, how a brand is pronounced in its mother language, and use it like this.
As an example, we would say New York like it is pronounced in the USA, instead of neff jorg. Same goes for other languages. Versace is pronounced in italian language, instead of saying fersatse.
Yeah, but when it comes to food they forget that and switch back to saying "gnotschi", "expresso" und "zutschini" 🤣
Neff Jorg. Hahaha geil
I am from Bulgaria and the language we speak is so far from both English and German, but we still call is as the Germans
Lufthansa: Luft means air. And The company name is a homage to the Hanseatic League, the association of Low German merchants in the Middle Ages. The Old High German word "Hansa" means "group" in the sense of a group.
The „Hanse“ Hanseatic League
is the name for the associations of mainly North German merchants that existed between the middle of the 12th century and the middle of the 17th century, the aim of which was to ensure the safety of the crossing and to represent common economic interests, especially in the was abroad
I still can't get over the fact that Jägermeister is some kind of cult drink now.
It's the digestive my greatgrandmother had after each meal.
funny...my dad (now 78 ) always had a Köpi and a Jägermeister in a restaurant. he had the idea of invented it to the states in the early 1990's after he couldn' t get it on a holiday trip in America. he had a few contacts with the xompany but my mother wouldn't neither move to the states nor have a long distance relationship. so my dad dropped the idea after 1 or 2 letters/telefpncalls with the brand. but maybe his idea was the start to bring it to the US.... cause something about 8 ywars later in 2000, as I went there for the first time, it was the hit in bars and clubs
In Australia we pronounce Adidas like the Germans.
same in new zealand
Same in the Uk.
I live in the US and my Uncle's wife is German, so I always ask her how to pronounce German product , So my whole American family pronounces them ,the German way.
Adidas. So like everyone knows how to pronounce the word properly but the Americans 😂 sincerely Australia 🇦🇺
No offense but yes 😂😂 I can't understand Australian English because it's so bouncy 👍😂
This is true for most things. America is exceptional(ly conceited).
not true, As an American,I pronounce all this words the German way and so does my whole family, My Uncles wife is German and We always ask her ,the right way to pronounce all German words.
@@marydavis5234pretty sure you're the exception
Funny story about the founder of Adidas. He invented running shoes. Until then, athletes wore their normal shoes for sports. But they encountered first quite some backlash for their idea, until the founder decided to approach the American runner during the Olympics, Jesse Owens. He offered him the shoes and Owens won. Later, Owens sent a letter to the Dassler's, thanking them for the shoes and their treatment of his. This letter became important after WWII, because during WWII, the factory of the Dassler's were forced to produce weapons for the Nazi military machinery. When the war was over, American soldiers dismantled many of these production facilities, but the Dassler's could prove that they weren't on the side of the Nazi's (or, depending on who's stories of the event you follow, at least Adi Dassler was not agreeing with them and only cooperate to protects his workers) by showing the thank you letter of Owens. Because of that, the factory was not destoryed.
Sometimes I hear people surprised that BMW also makes motorcycles, being that most people only know them as a car brand, but they end up being even more surprised when I tell them that BMW made motorcycles many years before they made cars. 😄
They started in Berlin as "Berliner Motoren Werke" and where relocated after the war to Bavaria as Berlin was splited between the Western Allies and the Sowjet Union. At this point ist was renamed to "Bayrische Motoren Werke". Shortly after the war it was forbidden for Germany to produce aircrafts, and therefore motors for aircrafts. So they started to build cars. The motorcycle business started already after WWI, and the first motorcycles where produced in 1923.
@@tobiwillichnet6659 Davon stimmt fast überhaupt nichts. Siehe de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW
@@martinstubs6203 wikipedia.... wow ernsthaft. Wo jeder schreiben kann was er will? Die Welt hat dazu einen feinen Artikel geschrieben. Können Sie gerne selber recherchieren.
@@tobiwillichnet6659 wenn Du den Artikel von 2004 meinst... Ändert der auch nichts daran: ... BMW ging aus den Bayerischen Flugzeugwerken hervor, die ihrerseits aus dem Zusammenschluss der Rapp-Motorenwerke und der Otto-Werke hervorging. Im Laufe der Zeit wurden zahlreiche andere Unternehmen aufgekauft, so auch die Fahrzeugfabrik Eisenach die dann 1929 den BMW 3/15 baute, das erste BMW-Auto, das wiederum ein Lizenz-Nachbau des britischen Austin 7 ist. Und um das Ding geht es im Artikel. Der wurde wohl in Berlin endgefertigt.
Die "Berliner Motoren Werke" sind wohl nur eine Anspielung des Autors auf "Bayerische Motorenwerke". (Allerdings heißt es ja nicht Bayerische Autowerke...)
Nach den Kriegen wurden einige Produktionsorte beschlagnahmt oder waren zerstört, Tochterunternehmen umstrukturiert, Produkte geändert etc... Der Unternehmenssitz ist jedoch seit Anbeginn in München, die Produktion war/ ist jedoch Deutschland weit verteilt.
Grüße aus München - ich kann ein Besuch im BMW-Museum empfehlen Die sollten es ja wissen .. 😉
BMW startet with motors for airplanes as you see in the logotype
Aussies also use the Germain pronunciation of Adidas. Emphasis on they "ad" not the "i".
Some german letters of the alphabet is pronounced differeny. German V is pronounced "Fau".. And the german W is, well, like how V is pronounced in the English alphabet.
J= yot
K= ka
Y=upsilon (Ypsilon)
No one says "upsilon" in Germany. It's "üpsilon". These two little dots above the letter "U" are very important and they do make a difference. :)
@@quinnderuna16384 but when you write "upsilon" it might work for Americans since there's no ü. Don't confuse them more
"V" isn't pronounced "Fau", it's called "Fau".
@@quinnderuna16384 Funfact: Ypsilon is the name of the greek letter υ. The Greek also an epsilon ε. While both, the e and y before the psilon are just what the letter is pronounced, the psilon (greek: ψίλον) means naked.
Miele is the best, my washing machine runs now for 16 years without a single repair.
Agree, our Miele thumble dryer is more than 25 years old and running without repair.
have 3 siblings was one of the reason why my parents invested in a Miele washing-machine and a tumble-dryer from them.. yes, they are rather on the expensive side but they will handle way more cycles than other brands and have skilled personal who can and will fix these things... dunno if they still have it but they used to give the longest guarantee period as well cause they just trust their product to not break down prematurely..
Guarantee is not the neccessary - it just works for 15-25 years. If you take good care the washing machine or tumble dryer will work for your kids too.
We have a microwave from "Bosch", made in 1981, still working perfekt! Just changed a light bulb inside after about 30 years.
Given the quirky spelling of "w" as "double--u" I always wondered how the internet ended up with "www." as the prefix of so many domains since pronouncing it "double-u double-u double-u" takes about as long as saying "world wide web", while we Germans just go "ve-ve-ve". But then again we Germans have our own quirkieness in using a 3 syllable "yp-si-lon" for "Y" instead of just "why" :)
And this is the reason why we don't have in German much words with "y" at the beginning. Do you know any (German) abbreviation with y..? Or any word with y... in your daily language?
@@chrimu except for those quirky names like Yannick, Yvonne, Yelena etc.. Other than that I rarely use the letter 😂
@@robinraadhi2541 my name is Yannick 😭
@StrawberryStar but even there it sounds like a "ü", in my opinion 😂 but what I meant is that there are words that start with a y 😅
@StrawberryStar agreed 😅
I love the way you react. No matter what you watch, about our highways, our language or our houses, I feel thankful about your kindness!
Greetings from Germany 🙂
As a Swede I think we pronounce these brands pretty similar to the Germans, (but with a Swedish accent instead of a German of course), except for Adidas.
I think we've been to influenced by the Americans, so we pronounce that word more similar to the Americans, with a stress on the DI part rather than the AD part. Like a-DIII-das rather than ADDI-das.
Some older Swedes will sometimes call Volkswagen "Folkvagn" which is the literal translation like "Folk's wagon", it's also called by it's slang term "Folka".
@Dod Man 😁We call it "Liiiidingö-iiii" (Lidingö is an area in the eastern part of Stockholm, where that sound is extra common), not all of us use that long i that almost has a bzzzing sound though.
Oh Gott, da fallen mir ja glatt die Köttbullar mitsamt dem Gebiss aus dem Gesicht... 🙈
th-cam.com/video/ToZiFw9rUhY/w-d-xo.html
😏🇸🇪
@@Asa...S That buzzing "iiii" stems from the west coast, originally. It's still much more common in Göteborg than in Stockholm.
l'm danish and we pronounce them like the Germans do
Your accent is killing us, when you speak German....but Norwegians are even funnier but the Danes take the trophy....
Volks is a compound word.
Volk is the substantive. This s at the end in combination with Wagen means:
Wagen | [des] Volk[es] |
Or, when you like it a little bit older:
[Des] Volk[es] | Wagen
And now, you can go further and compress it into:
Volk [s] Wagen
The problem is, this doesn't work everytime.
We Germans tend a little bit to combine words.
And sorry for my english, it's not very good or as we say it here:
It's not the yellow from the egg
and don´t forget to butcher the word yellow with the worst german accent you can manage!🤣
@@MrMertefe and not to forget that German tongues often have significant issues with the "th"
At school we always made fun of this combining of words in German. Most famously (our school) : Bundeseisenbahnknotenpunkthinundherschieber.
Our famous complicated german expression: Zuckerbonbon mit Holzgriff (=lollipop)
@@jandenijmegen5842 well, why don't use a real german word instead like:
Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
or
Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung
And pardon me but who teach you that we use Zuckerbonbon mit Holzgriff? We habe the word: "Lutscher" for this
We made them up; it is fun to do in German. Thanks for your lovely lengthy word. It is funny to always (...) see them combined with "Gesetz" or "Verordnung". The big talents in lengthy words in administration. @@Moriarty1982
In South Africa we pronounce most of the brands correctly. I think it is because one of our predominant languages (Afrikaans) is a mix between Dutch and German.
Fun fact: In it‘s GTA video games Rockstar renamed Audi to Obey. Since Audi is the translation of „Horch“ into latin, Obey is the englisch translation for the German word „gehorche“. But don‘t get confused by all the words around „hören“ (to hear). While „horch“ is an older German imperativ for listen, „gehorche“ means obey and „gehören“ means to own. And get‘s weirder, because „gehört“ can mean „belongs to“ or heard. 😉
Fun Fact 2: When I was a kid, Jägermeister was an old peoples digestive or a liquor old people drink at old peoples birthdays. And by old I mean older than 40. But somehow Jägermeister has successfully rebranded themselves as a party drink for young party people mostly aged below 30.
I Like pisswasser the Most in GTA. ;-)
there are even more meanings of "gehört"
- "ich habe es gehört" = I heard it
- "es gehört mir" = it is mine
- "es gehört gemacht" = someone should (really) do it / it has to be done
@@PegasusNbW „das gehört sich“/„das gehört sich nicht“ - „that‘s adequate“/„that‘s not adequate“
AEG is the best joke. It stands for: aus erfahrung gut ( englisch: good because of knowledge) but we make jokes about it and say: "it means :'auspacken, einschalten, geht nich (unbox, turn on, doesnt work....)'."
German brands are not only just cool. German products in general are the technological pinnacle of the categories they fall in. And even cheap products made in China or else, generally have a sort of German origin. Because the Germans are on the top of the tech chain, they build the machines that make the machines that make the products. The whole world knows, if it comes from Germany, you don't have to worry about quality issues. But then, that's what you pay for as well.
And if you have money, you're probably cool anyways according to the standards of society.
"And if you have money, you're probably cool anyways according to the standards of society." Nope, not in every society. Australians and New Zealanders don't care how much money people have or what they do for a living, we judge people based on their attitude and behaviour.
Also think of all the famous American companies. Lots of them were founded by Germans. C.F. Martin, Levi's, Pfizer, Goldman Sachs, Steinway
@@grandmothergoose
In Germany we say:
If you buy cheap, you buy twice.
Wer günstig kauft, kauft zweimal.
Much of what we buy today breaks after just a few uses or works poorly or not at all under heavy use. If you then allocate the purchase price to the hours of use, you often pay more for the time with a cheap product than with an expensive product.
true. more big german world companies are WÜRTH or Optima (the font Optima was created for this company). Or chemical products BASF, BAYER or of course SIEMENS and Nixdorf
She generally targets an American audience with her videos, so often when she talks about how "English speakers" pronounce those brands, she's talking about Americans. Here in the UK, we pronounce Adidas the German way, as we also do with Aldi, Schwartzkopf, Haribo, Deutsche Bank and Lufthansa.
A Miele washing machine or dishwasher will be very expensive, propably the most expensive, that you can find. But they are really good though.
I agree. We bought our Miele Dishwasher at 2000 for about 2000 Deutsche Mark (or 1000€ if we would have Euro at this time) and it runs and runs and runs w/o problems. In general it's more convenient over the lifetime as a cheaper dishwasher.
Ryan I really like your genuine and honest reactions
One of the best episodes for me so far. i liked the moment when you realized the volkswagen thing. bulps was blinking.
Her remark that Mercedes, Audi and BMW "are driven by all social classes in Germany" just shows she is totally ignorant of at least half of the social classes in Germany.
She tells the truth.
A perfect example of the most german word ever..."jammern". Thank you. 😆
Re: Miele , my moms Miele washing machine is over 24 years old and works perfectly
Edit: also the German language mostly pronounces the first syllable so if in doubt, try that with German brand names
Fact HARIBO cost 95 cent a Pack here in Germany .... when there are on Sale u could get them for 69 cent a Pack
in my area they only costs 55 cents on sale
Fun little fact about Adidas and Puma: The headquarters of both companies are in the exact same city, Herzogenaurach, a few 100 meters away from each other.
I speak pretty good German and I'm English. No major surprises here, except how much Americans tend to mangle other languages.
8:50 Doesn't matter if you like to pronounce it that way - it's still wrong.
12:48 Yeah but there's a pretty huge difference because McDonald's actually does have an s in the name.
15:07 US americans tend to drop the e at the end of Deutsche, saying only Deutsch instead. They did the same with the old German currency, the Deutsche Mark, usually only saying DeutschMark.
PS: Nike is also pronounced wrong by both english and german speakers because the company is actually named after the ancient greek goddess of victory which means the word is actually of Greek origin and sould be pronounced like that.
People also say "to go to the doctor's" and "I'm at my friend's" in English, using the possessive construction is pretty common with location-specifiers. In "McDonald's" that possessive is simply part of the name.
@@daisybrain9423 But "Aldi" is a brand, not a name. So no possessive here. You don't go to Asidas' or BMW's.
@@lethfuil I don't think it's a brand in the way you use it in this sentence here. You wouldn't go "to a brand" anyway, would you? Aldi is a place you go to, it's a store. And it's a proper noun, so I think the comparison is applicable.
@@daisybrain9423 The compareson was bad, I agree.
Then let's just say that it's the place of a name and you wouldn't go "to New York's", for example.
@@lethfuil Yup, except here "New York" is the _actual_ placename. My friend's name or Aldi is _not_ a placename, it's a proper noun _referring to_ whom- or whatever the place _belongs to_ - so we use a possessive -'s, that was my reasoning.
I'm not sure if that's the reason behind it, but I think it makes sense.
you smashing the words dude! Im so proud ♥
We have all those brands here in Australia and pronunciation vary. I pronounce it the German way as they are German names.
The S on the end of Aldi drives me nuts!!! Don't do it.
Some years ago, Jägermeister used to be a brand for old people, but they found a very handsome PR-Agency to turn it into a drink that's well known by the youth also.
BTW, Feli doesn't mean this video rude. Brands or names are differently pronounced in every corner of the world.
It's very funny and entertaining to see your reactions of all the videos to germany.❤
Damn I somehow love your content 😄 I had to work on saturday but I completly lost myself in your vids. Please keep it up!
VW is (one of) the car manufacturing brand(s) of the _V_olks_W_agen company. You may call it Vee-Double-U, but it's actually pronounced more like Fow-Vae ;)
Exactly. Think of it as Folks-wagon, which is also the literal translation, even if pronounced more like Folksvagon in German.
The other brands are
- Porsche
- Audi
- Seat (Spain)
- Skoda (Czech Republic)
- Bugatti (Italy)
- Lamborghini (Italy)
- Bentley (GB)
- Ducati (Italy)
The funny thing about Porsche is that Porsche wanted to take over the majority of shares from VW and ended up being taken over by VW.
@@tosa2522 Don't see many Bugatti or Ducati here in Germany. Skoda and Seat were new to me when I got here. The others were all well known to me as a Canadian.
@@nctpti2073 I don't think you'll see many Bugatti anywhere in the world. Ducati mortorcycles are fairly common though I believe.
@@nari5025 Ah, perhaps motorcycles. Those brands are less obvious. I don't think I have ever seen a new Bugatti, in North America or here in Germany. Just vintage.
I watch Feli ALLL the time 😂 love her!
Whow, this video is a summit of two channels I really like!
Little funfact inbetween: in Austria, the discount Aldi has a different name: Hofer
VW is the short version for VolksWagen. As you can see it's taking the first V and middle W to form it.
In Germany hardly anyone spells out the complete name, we just use the short VW.
We don't have Trader Joe's in Germany.
The owner of Aldi North just named it that way in the US (maybe some legal issues? In Germany it's just Aldi South / Aldi North).
All german products are great
You have such a laconic commentary. Love it.
As a Croatian I am glad I confirmed that we pronounce everything (or most on this list ) right :-) ... which is understandable since we are close to Germany and lot of our people work or immigrated in Germany.
Yeah, you should definitely follow her and do more reactions to her videos. She is great and she allways do very good research for the topic, she speaks about. So she makes it a funny easy way to learn something about Germany.
Greetings from Berlin 😎
Speak the V just like F. Volksmusik would be like folk music
, Das muss ich jetzt hier mal loswerden: ich freue mich immer, wenn du auf irgendeinem der Kanäle ein Kommentar schreibst. Der Grund ist ganz einfach: du hast einen wunderschönen, sehr Klang von Namen! Lach! Liebe Grüße aus Hamburg Ben
I remember watching her video like... 2 years ago?
And i didn't even know that all this time i was waiting for a reaction video about it... But... Here we are 😂
I have a Miele vacuum cleaner for years now im very happy with that thing!
no every social class can afford a BMW, Mercedes or Audi since they are too exspensive and more exspensive than other brands popular in Germany like Ford, Opel or Renault.
They are more affordable compared to places like Denmark fx. Because if Germany's much lower tax on vehicles
@@oliverboisen7475 regular german families have a pretty low income though and simply cannot afford these cars. Even Volkswagen is off the radar for many. Most people I know own a Hyundai. Actually, most people I know don't drive at all.
greeting from Wolfsburg
Wolfsburger unter sich?🤔. Na egal.Hallo Nachbar. 😁👍
@@thorstens.8826 Moin Nachbar
Audi, Mercedes and BMW are NOT normal car brands to us Germans. When you can afford a car of this brand you’re also wealthy in Germany.
The 4 rings in Audi are 4 different companies that got together and made the brand
Australians pronounce Adidas like the Germans. It’s only you Americans that butcher it 😂
That makes them Aussies way cool! 🦈
@@stefankaiser3354 of course we are! 😂😂😂
@@moniquem783 🤙🏽
V W is on al VW even in USA
I was fascinated to find Aldi in 2015 in some US states ...so funny! and on our Scotland trips we always tried to shop at Lidl... even though we didn't fo to theses shops very often at home
I cannot wait to hear "elastisches Zwischenstück". I always try this before traveling into German speaking countries. It separates the Germans from the fake.
well not all classes in Germany can afford BMW, Mercedes and Audi. The lower 40% or so cant, unless they want to go deep in debt or buy a 15 year old one.
I only had Adidas wrong, didn’t know it was German 🤷♀️. The others I knew. Some of them, like Mercedes and Lidl, I put a little Swedish 🇸🇪 accent on but the rest I pronounce accurately ☺️.
you got 12 points. If young swedish people are on holdays in germany they are often drunk, because beer is cheap here compard with sweden 🙂
@@barfuss2007 I can imagine that 😬. I’m sorry for that, it’s not a good look. I’m 47 so I only know the many adults who go there to buy it but takes it home with them.
@@petragrevstad2714
that is no problem, I was sometimes drunk in my youth too, especially on punk concerts. in former times I worked two years for a swedish company - eniro.
@@barfuss2007 Well I am known to have been drunk a few times myself, in my youth but a couple of times in adulthood too I’m afraid 😂 - but I’m always good mannered, drunk or sober. Yes, I know what Eniro is, hope you liked it 😊. I sort of have German relatives, my half sister’s family on her mother’s side are all from Germany.
@@petragrevstad2714
Enrio had a initial public offering in sweden and was able to buy a lot of telephone book companies all over europe. In my case they spend 200 million DM and after two years the company was bankrupt.
The swedish bosses flew every week first class from Stockholm to Stuttgart, arriving at 12 o´clock in the moring, thir weekend began on thursdays... The "big boss" came from croatia, once I saw him fucking in the office... no jokes. Eniro also bought a telefon book compay in austria, after two years they sold it and after the new owner increased the sales again, Eniro rebought it. Totally crazy. In Moscow Eniro got problems with the russian mafia. LOL.
The background of all were the high taxes in Sweden for companies wins, they had to spend this money before...
My biggest surprise here is that US has Aldi stores, but not Lidl?! ;) The latter's all over Europe now, lots of stores, in every town here in Finland too, but no Aldis whatsoever :(
BMW actually stands for "Bayerischer Mist Wagen" (Bavarian Manure Wagon)
And in Austria we pronounce "Aldi" "Hofer"
Quite interesting Adidas and Puma are run by 2 brothers and verry controversial as they disliked eachother intensly and had some controversial political leanings in the 1930s and 40s , allso the dutch national team played in adidas kits but the Johan cruijff played in a puma kit as they where his sponser . diference was 3 or 2 stripes. so didnt realy matter but was a huge thing in the day.
Shes german so yes 🤣
I think you´re doing pretty well Ryan! 👍
First: you pronunciation is very good 👍🏻 second: great reaction again 👍🏻👍🏻 greetings from Austria 🇦🇹
Why do most Americans don't care about pronunciation in other languages?
because they don't care much for "other" languages, while the rest of the world normally learns other languages (mostly English f.e. in "western" countries) as second language from the kindergartens ;), so there is more a sensibility, that there *exists* different languages with different pronunciations 🤔🤷🏻♂️
In French slang, we would say Merco for Mercedes but it's not that often
Miele really is a classic. You usually buy one which will serve you, your kids and your grandchildren. Treat those machines well and the last almost forever.
mmh, when I talk to electricians who repair our larger technical household devices, they all tell me that those times are over, almost all manufacturers would only build their devices deliberately in such a way that they break down after a few years and repairs are not worth it, especially in terms of price and the user would therefore rather be forced to buy a new device
15:04 you pronounce the e at the end of the word. e of course in German pronunciation
In English, the e at the end of words is usually not pronounced. In German it is often pronounced as schwa. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the schwa has the letter ə
Your pronunciation is spot on, my man. Wouldn't take you much practice to sound like a German.
I agree; he seems to have a good ear.
Lol what
And Adidas and Puma are both headquartered in Herzogenaurach (Bavaria), a small town with a population of only around 24,500.
BMW also had factory in Eisenach (later part of East Germany), Eisenacher Motorenwerk "EMW", it's logo was red and white insted of blue and white.
Before BMW bought them they produced cars called Dixi, and later in East Germany they build cars called Wartburg.
So me as a german, can tell you: You have to be wealthy here as well to afford a Benz, BMW or one of the better Audi types. You can see that shes from a wealthy family when she could afford a Benz. Maybe it was an old A-Class. 🤣
Ignorance is bliss. She's a native German and you're trying to tell her how stuff is supposed to be pronounced??? LMFAO
Up to a few years ago every Taxi in germany was a Mercedes-Benz E Class fitted with comfy leather seats for passengers and driver.
9 out of 10 are still e class... Well, at least where I live!
In Copenhagen literally every taxi is a Mercedes. I love that in Europe I love that we actually have a running joke that if you drive a big Merc you look like a taxi driver. A bit like when all drug dealers once drove BMW's 😂
😄😄😄 I love it. And ofcourse like any man you did the word Jägermeister perfect just by seeing it
Could you be quiet while she’s talking, please…?
Why do you do this shows? You dont seem to be interested in German culture. Is it the easiest way to make money?
that's how I see it too. It strikes me here and others that the comments sound like stand up comedy. Why is that? There is a lack of background information and you have to acknowledge it. He doesn't even know Lufthansa. Very strange. Hopefully he knows Ford and the history of this company.
Thank You so much for sharing i enjoy these. Btw if you pronounce german Words sounds so cute 😂 i love it ❤❤
Don't forget about Siemens ..
During the time Germany was seperated in East- and West-Germany, the socialist, russian occupied East Germany produced high quality products that were then sold by the West Germany.
really interesting about Puma and Adidas is that both their headquarters are still located in Herzogenaurach, which makes it the smallest city with the headquarters of two companies mentioned in the DAX I think it translates to German stock index and also even with that great opportunity of two funders of big brands having lived there none of the schools in Herzogenaurach are named after either of them
I'm from Herzogenaurach and when I was a kid, you've always been aksed: Are you adidas or Puma? Because in most families someone used to work either for one or the other company 😂
First time watching an episode of yours. Just wanted to say when you made that sarcastic response to the bit when she said why Audi got the name, “why did they change there name”
Subscribe to your channel immediately. 😂😂
Fun fact about „Miele“: As these appliances are of extreme high German quality and will work for decades you have the problem that new functionalities like eco mode will not be available. Sooo ... if you don’t have a big family or you’re using it in a commercial environment it perhaps doesn’t make sense.
Dude, you crack me up 🤣
Great thing about Haribo:
Harald Riegel has reindeers and in fall you give Haribo your collected chestnuts and get the same amount of kilogram in Goldbären
I really like how you make your videos