True. I think British people in general don‘t have as much difficulties with pronouncing German words as Americans usually have, but Dwayne really does an excellent job pronouncing the German brands - even considering the fact that he is British 👍
This is why I as a German genuinely love the Brits! So humble, well mannered and simply interested in the information, it is super pleasant to watch. If you confront an American with all this, there is a good chance they will state "fake news" and go into rage mode.
Ah come on. You can find both types among every population. Remember BREXIT? Lots of Brits massively overestimated the importance of their litlle island on the world stage. They legitemately thought they could go back to the times of the empire.
the first time i saw an native english speaker pronounce the german brands like a true native speaker after listening to the german pronounciation, WELL DONE!
I am German and moved to Scotland. I spent 2 months of my life in Yorkshire too. The further north you get in the UK, the more the English sounds similar to German. In fact there are some pronunciations in Scottish which are more similar to German than English! Example: English: The daughter milks the cow. Pronunciation in Scottish: The 'dochter' melks the 'kuw'. German: Die Tochter melkt die Kuh.
The pronounciation of vowels up in Northern England and in Scotland is far more similar to the way it is pronounced in Standard German. Funny thing is, in my dialect (South-West Germany "rheinfränkisch") some vowels and even some words are closer to the English pronounciation than they are to Standard German. For example, you can say the sentence "My house is green." and it totally matches with the pronounciation in the dialect spoken here. Maybe it´s because the dialect hasn´t changed it´s pronounciation that much over the last 1000 years and is therefore closer to the common germanic roots the English and German language do share. Idk.
2:40 She is insured in Germany, which also covers all costs in the USA 6:15 Like the Italians, the Germans also pronounce every letter. Porsche not Porsch 8:23 What you mean are accents (é, è, à…) but we don't have them in German, we only have an "Apostroph" (also called "Hochkomma" or "Auslassungszeichen") Fun fact: Adidas and Puma have their factories and headquarters in the same small town.
The reason for this is that the founders of Adidas and Puma were brothers. Adidas was founded by Adi Dassler, Puma was founded by his brother Rudolf Dassler. And Adi Dassler invented replacable cleats on football shoes. Before they were fix, could not be replaced. But his shoes had cleats that could be simply unscrewed from the shoes, and other cleats could be screwed on. That was a thing when it starts to rain during a game. Just simply change the cleats and get an advantage over the opposing team. He was equipment manager of the German national football team.
A German health insurance wouldn't pay for treatments in the US. She must have US health insurance. That her health insurance had to approve the surgery also hints strongly at US health insurance.
@@shadowfox009x You don't have to, as there are German insurance companies that cover health care in the USA. But if Feli has moved her residence to the USA, then you are right.
Yes, English pronunciation is *way* closer to German, probably because English is also a Western Germanic language like German or Dutch, just strongly influenced by Norman Old French and the "High" or "regular" English pronunciation is still pretty close to the Anglo-Saxon Germanic pronunciation, especially RP and Northern dialects while GenAm has a ton of other influences as well as an isolation from the continent. Best regards Raoul G. Kunz
Hubert was hunting. And then he spotted a Deer. He aimed on him and wanted to shoot him when he recognized the white cross glowing above his head. Then, in one version of the legend, he turned his hunting style from a tough brutal hunter into a moderate and more christian hunter. Today he is the example for german hunters to be moderate an be honest to the creature you are hunting.
As a German I certainly understand the brits better the further north it gets. I like the neat geordie accent and in scotland they even got the "ch"- sound we have as well....as in Och aye the noo :) From my personal experience english is much easier to understand than american english.
I'm Scottish and you're right. I had Germans asking me to say phrases with the ch sound in France aged 10 and they were amazed that I said the ch sound. I then recited it's a bare bricht moon the nicht ye ken. Lots of Scots words are Germanic based nicht for nacht, bricht for bright and ken for to know. The Scots word for church is Kirk too.
@@Jinty92 though for the word itself, night isn’t farther away from nacht than nicht, GH represented the similar sound. They just went silent or shifted to F. What they write is a lot closer than what they say. Using some kind of G isn’t even odd, there are German dialects who pronounce G like CH and Dutch pronounces G with a sound similar to CH.
It's unbelievable, but Adidas and Puma are based in a small town called "Herzogenaurach" near Nuremberg. Even if you hoped otherwise, the brothers didn't get along. It got to the point where the town of 24,000 inhabitants was effectively split up, with one half (allegedly) barely speaking to the other, if at all. But things are said to have improved in the meantime.
@@PhreakDarkSoul And that't the mistake. Like the german language the english language official takes names as they are. Like Los Angeles. We don't say Loss Angels. That's just super disrespectful.
@@performancegold8562My English teacher was teaching Oxford English as well. Later I could take English courses at my company by Berlitz with changing teachers from all over the world. Australian English was hardest to understand... 😅
It's the other way around for me. School was a long time ago and most media is american. I have a good friend in england and I had quite some problems understanding her british accent.
Adi Dassler and his company Adidas played a part in winning the 1954 Football World Cup. He had developed screw-on studs, which made the German team's shoes much easier to adapt to different court conditions. During the final against Hungary it was pouring rain, and Adi Dassler's shoes provided significantly more grip on the deep and slippery ground and were significantly lighter than the Hungarian players' shoes.
Adidas and Puma are both German companies and arise from a family feud between the Dassler brothers Adi Dassler went on to found Adidas based on his name and Rudi Dassler founded Ruda which became Puma They were buried at opposite end of the same cemetery LOL The Albrecht brothers had discount stores called Aldi - see there is a pattern. and they had a bust up and ended up with Aldi Süd and Aldi Nord.
Right! But Adi is the abbreviation of Adolf. No German was ever called "Adi". It can also be mentioned that Adi Dassler is the inventor of studded football boots.
@@Sell-lee79 I think after the second world war Adolf was not a popular name I suspect that Adolf might have preferred "Adi" which is diminutive / unofficial version of the name.
@@Sell-lee79well … a lot of German names are used in their short forms (maybe not in writing, definitely not in official documents): Adolf - Adi Rudolf - Rudi Josef - Sepp Wilhelm - Willi/Willy Andreas - Andi Michael - Micha/Michi Anton - Toni
Nah, they've got Miele appliances in the UK, however you only find them in high end, and I really mean HIGH END, houses, yachts and planes. When the realtor shows off a fancy London Kensington or Chelsea townhouse or mansion, the first thing they mention when entering the kitchen: "Of course there's your Miele oven, fridge and dishwasher!"
Right ... as I am living in the hometown of Miele (Gütersloh) there is an old saying for Miele which refers to the high durability of their appliances. It goes: Nur Miele, Miele sagt die Tante, die alle Waschmaschinen kannte. (Only Miele, Miele says the aunt, who knew all washing machines)
Miele products are also sold in the UK and become more and more popular, because of the durabiliaty and quality, despite the high pice. I and also my partents have Miele washing maschine since years and are fully satisfied, best washing results and no repairs. Washing salons also mostly choose Miele for their reliability, but they have the industial version.
Regarding the accent, it depends on where someone comes from in the UK. As far as I know, the pronunciation of vowels of Britons from the North is closer to the pronunciation of Germans than that of Britons from Essex, Wessex or Cornwall, for example. Similarly, the Scots are closer to the German pronunciation of vowels. On the other hand, Germans in north-west Germany or near Holland tend to have a less pronounced German accent than Germans from other regions, which is due to the strong differences in dialects.
I really appreciate and love how you’re interested in these pronunciations of the German words and always compared it to the US although I learned British English in school. And you’re much closer to the German pronounciation and amazing to listen to it. Congratulations to all of your videos highly recommended! Keep going I enjoy your style very much!
Just gonna say, you have a pretty good ear. As in when you try to imitate her pronunciation, well, you actually say these words properly. I'm always frustrated with people apparently being unable to differentiate very different sounds but you did it almost perfectly (at least as far as I've watched yet). It's sad to me that this is somehow a (rare) talent but at least it's one you have ^^
10:47 BMW 1: €30.000 - €59.000, BMW X5: €87.000 - €114.000, Mercedes A: €28.000 - €63.000, Mercedes GLE €85.000 - €118.000. Everything is the manufacturer's recommended retail price. The average wage after taxes in Germany was €27,416 per year in 2023. 16:45 The inventor of the liqueur, Curt Mast, himself a passionate hunter, quoted the legend of Saint Hubertus, the patron saint of hunters, in the logo. According to legend, a deer with a glowing cross in its antlers appeared to Saint Hubertus during a Sunday hunt. 22:09 My parents bought a Miele washing machine in 1992. That ran until 2018, then they bought a new Miele washing machine. But not because the old one was broken, but because they wanted something new and modern. The same Miele washing machine for 26 years and not a single repair...
Hey Dwayne, regarding Germany and cars, you should do some research on Rudolf Diesel (Diesel Engine) and Nicolaus August Otto (Otto engine and the 4-stroke principle).
Add in Karl Benz, the actual founding father of cars. These three people basically started the whole car business, with Gottlieb Daimler also playing a significant role later on (the german henry ford essentially)
@crazy-4-cooking only from a technically standpoint. You gotta hand one thing to Henry Ford: he "invented" mass production more or less. The industrialization of punching metal did play a very significant part in making cars affordable for everyone.
I'm not really sure , but I think that the britsh accent is closer to german than the american accent. But I also think that the german accent when we speak english is closer to the british accent than the american, because we learn mostly Oxford English in german schools.
In the case of the Aldi brothers, there is suspicion that there was a dispute over the range (cigarettes). But this was never officially confirmed. I suspect that as the two brothers got older, the increasingly larger store became easier to run if the space was divided up. This also made it possible to better respond to the needs of the sales regions, which are different in the south than those of northern German customers. One thing is certain, however... The family was not enemies, as it was with the Dassler brothers. And... Lufthansa refers to the Hanseatic League in the Middle Ages. Translated, it means something like the “Hanse(atic League) of the Skies”...
Lufthansa is actually quite a poetic name, isn't it? Dreamed big from the start. I love our language. I learned more about brands being german while traveling abroad, than in decades living in germany. Anyone else who has been surprised abroad, by people happily pointing at something german and you were only vaguely aware it's a german brand?
@@Seek369 That rarely happened to me. And the joy of discovering, for example, a branch of a German company abroad depends on how much personal knowledge I have about a company (and I have a relatively good knowledge of it). It goes from, "Oh, how nice that they have a factory here too (and thus give people bread and work)" to, "What are these assholes doing here..."
If Karl & Theo Albrecht hated each other that must have sucked for Theo: being the younger one, still dying earlier as the 2nd richest guy in Germany while his brother was no.1 - and most of all: being the one who got kidnapped.
@@nehalilisays I think that when you're a billionaire, it doesn't matter what others have to offer. The Albrechts always lived very secluded lives. I suspect that they weren't interested in things like competition between brothers...
The first pause killed me..... this wait oh my god... i had to stop your video too. had to wipe some tears because i was laughing that hard. I love your videos 🤘
I am a 48 year old German and pretty much noone I know drives a Mercedes, let alone a Porsche. I know exactly two people who drive BMWs. It might be because she‘s from the South or it might be because I need some wealthier friends. All my friends have a bike and a bus pass.
It's no surprise that you'll only find stores of Aldi (South) in the UK. When they split the company in 1961 they also agreed where each company should expand business, so they wouldn't interfere with each other. Hence we have the Aldi-equator in Germany, Aldi (North) operating in the north and east of Germany, Aldi (South) in the west and in the south. The same applies to their international business. Aldi (North) is covering the east, west and southwest of Europe, Aldi (South) the UK and Ireland as well as southern and southeastern Europe. Aldi (South) also has entered the Australian and Chinese market. The only market where both companies are doing business is the US market, Aldi (South) as Aldi and Aldi (North) as Trader Joe's.
22:17 my mum has a Miele washing machine: bought in 1988 and it still works without any problems. All over the time! Miele: best quality - high price :)
Mercédès: The Name comes originally from the french novel "The count of monte Christo". Mercedes is the girl friend of the protagonist Edmond Dantès (The later Count). Jellinek was inspired by the novel to give the name to his daughter, who later inspired the name of the car model. the 2 "accents" above the e's comes from french language and shows a different pronounciation of the letter "e". They are called "accent aigu" (é) and "accent grave" (è). you can surely google for it.
As a supplement, since the first name "Mercedes" is not of German but French origin, it should actually be pronounced in French. So "Merssidess" with the stress on the third syllable. But it is not pronounced that way in Germany. Instead, the "C" is pronounced like a (German) "Z" (but still written with a "C", as it looks "finer" in the sense of "more elevated") and the French accents are omitted. This shows very clearly that French was considered the language of the educated in Germany. And these, in turn, are not as numerous in Germany as is often assumed abroad. Fun fact in passing: there was never a woman called "Mercedes Benz" ...
6:20 Look carefully close short above the HORSE,... there is smt written,.. *STUTTGART* > This is the *capital city of the federal state: "Baden-Württemberg"* > The orgin of Porsche and ofc of Mercedes Benz.... > Stuttgart is smt used to be called by "Teens: _Benz-Town"_ ;) >> The *swabian capital city!*
Yes, Adidas is a german brand, based on Adolf (Adi) Dassler. So the name of the brand is a short version of Adolf Dasslers name: Adi Das. His brother was Rudolf Dassler, founder of Puma. Both are born in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany Adi Dasslers wife was Katharina (Kaethe) Dassler born as Katharina Martz in Pirmasens (southwest of germany, Rhineland-Palatinate). Her father was Franz Martz, founder of framas (short for Franz Martz). So yes: Framas, Adidas and Puma based on the same family. Everyone knows Adidas and Puma but Framas is the big player in the shadow. Most shoes of the world are made with products from framas. The base of Framas is still in Pirmasens. Greets from Pirmasens, Germany. ;-)
Btw: The US transmitter “Pirmasens-Husterhoehe” based in Pirmasens transmitted the signals from Apollo 11 to Houston/Texas during the first moon landing in 1969. Husterhoehe is a district of Pirmasens. Framas is also there and only a few 100 meters away. Pirmasens-Husterhoehe is placed round about 20 miles south of Airbase Ramstein (US Military Airbase).
I sometimes watched littles snippets from british soaps like Hollyoaks on YT and learned that at least in some british dialects the pronounciation of some letters is closer to german than to american. Like the A in dance. I think, thats one reason, why your german pronounciation is pretty on point and you don't have that much trouble with our pronounciation as an american. In Germany, I would say, most of us speak a mix of british and american english, because what we learned at school is (suposed to be 😉) oxford english, but then many of us start to learn english more from watching american tv shows and movies. Thats also the reason why we sometimes use an english term and sometimes an american, like appartment vs flat and rubber vs eraser. Greetings from Berlin 😎
Sofa and couch! My German aunt, who's lived in the UK for more than 40 years now, gets mad at me when I say Couch... Also "in this house we pronounce our Ts!" Luckily when I lived in London for a while, my accent became less offensive to her and my cousins.😂 It's all good fun! 😋
The car was invented in Germany. Anyone can buy a BMW or Audi or Mercedes. However, “poorer” people are more likely to buy a used, i.e. cheaper, model.
True dat. My father always drove Audi when I was a child and my parents were far from being well off. I guess it was the only thing they spent a bit more more money on than they should, even with buying used models.
I´ve read about an automobile constructed in France in the late 18th century! It was steam powered and supposed to pull heavy cannons! It didn´t work very well and crashed into a brick wall - probably the first car accident in history! I somehow had to laugh when I first read that story!
That is not quite correct. The German Carl Benz built the first functioning car with an internal combustion engine and applied for a patent. Based on this, series production could begin. Self-propelled cars with a power engine - based on steam, among other things - had already been developed before, but did not get beyond the experimental stage. One example of this was the German company "DKW" - Dampf Kraft Wagen (Steam Power Car), which, by the way, had to merge with the car companies Horch, Wanderer and Audi to form the "Auto-Union" in the 1930s under pressure from the Sächsische Landesbank. The Auto-Union's trademark was four intertwined rings. Audi, as the last survivor, was authorised by VW to use the four rings as its trademark. However, Audi actually owned one.
@@Atomprofessor Automobile vs. modern car... Yes you are right, but car history took of with internal combustion. Steam was not lite enough and too complicated. You had to preheat the boiler and so on. Jay Leno has one of the steam things, there should be a video on YT
@@Atomprofessor Fardier from Cugnot in France ... 1749 or 1769 ... is more or less ther first AUTOmibile ... and 1830 London was the citiy with steam-busses. So, yes, i agree it is not quite correct ... first automobile and Daimler and Benz. But first car, at a definition like our cars ... the name of Daimler and Benz, Maybach, Opel, Horch, Porsche, Ledwinka, Otto, Diesel ... Bertha Benz is very important .... are names which should be known and which are connected to good old Germany.
Your question about the accent: As a German, I'd say you sound exactly how I was taught to speak English in the 90ties. I wouldn't say it sounds closer to German, but I get how Americans might have that impression, because Germans who speak English without having lived abroad usually sound much closer to British English than to American English (if they have managed to overcome the most conspicuous quirks of a stereotypical broad German accent like pronouncing th as s and w as v, of course). English lessons in German schools are usually very much focussed on British English. We started with British English only, then in the third or fourth year (don't remember which one exactly) we focussed on American English and the differences to British English for one year. In the years after we were allowed to individually choose whether we wanted to speak and write American English or British English, but we would get point deductions in written exams for mixing the two. Since we started with British English and thus were more familiar with it, most of us chose to stick with British English.
Hi Dwayne, that was a fun video! You do pretty well in pronouncing German words. If you wonder, if there are some more famous German brands you might know, there you are: SIEMENS, Thyssen and Krupp steel manufacturers, now being one company called ThyssenKrupp), BOSCH (car supply, electronics, batteries eletric engines), kitchen equipment, ZEISS (high end lenses and projectors), Leica (high end cameras) Infineon (silicon chips), E.ON ... But there are lots of famous British brands as well, so maybe you provide us a video about those?
Talking about cars: When I came to the UK for the very first time, I was wondering that you have cars by the name of "Vauxhall". Never heard of it before! They were just the same cars as in Germany, but in Germany they are named and branded as "Opel". The manufactory "Opel" was founded in 1862 by Mr. Adam Opel in Rüsselsheim, Germany. Until 1928 is was the biggest car manufactory in Germany until General Motors bought the company. But after the war, it became german again, but went with GM again and made Vauxhall in the UK. Or something like that - it's a confusing history as Chevrolet in the US is Opel, too, and so on. They are named PSA in France and the Netherlands, and so on ... < just as sum. There might be some mistakes, but as I said: complicated! XD P.S.: I like you "accent" XD As a german: "I do unterstand you!" :-)
@@wirauswien hieß ... es muss hieß lauten. Holden gibt es nicht mehr. Und so lange Opel noch unter dem Dach von GM war wurden ein paar Modelle unter Holden dort vertrieben. Heutzutage existiert Opel-Neuseeland und da dürften auch die Australier ihren Opel kriegen.
so what i understand from the video, britons get confused when you go to an aldi shop with your audi? =))) "hey babe, im taking the aldi to the aldi. You need some?" "no, but make sure you wearing you aldidasslers when you kickin the in line 5 bruv." accents are so funny
I think British English is closer to German than American English. But again- I couldn’t say which British accent I am talking of… the one where you skip the r. Or -er becomes -a. We do that, too. But we wouldn’t skip the other letters like your famous t. And like in Italian we pronounce the vowels in the words like we say them in the alphabet. No matter what.
Regarding the brother feud between the Dassler brothers: no, the feud is still on between the companies, maybe not in the hard way it went for decades with a divided city were an adidas employee would never visit a pub wich is primary visited by Puma employees and vice versa. Both companies are still in the same small city called Herzogenaurach, together with a third important company, the Schaeffler Group, a company which produces parts for automotive, aerospace and industrial uses. Because of this three companies the city of Herzogenaurach is by tax income per head the richest city in Germany with an employment rate of close to 100%. Btw, the way you adapt the German pronunciations when you repeat what Feli says very good, great job!
Ey up, mate. Your pronunciation is really pretty good. Way closer to the correct way than most Americans can say it. But like many have commented, northern English with its flat pronunciation of the vowels is quite closer to German than what is spoken in the south. I got lucky to be the son of a Derbyshire lad who got stuck in Germany so grew up bilingual
Since I'm used to American shows and always have to turn on the subtitles for English accents, I'd like to say that your accent is great for me personally. I would say yes, you sound more like a German than a Brit. Besides the quirks of your language.
10:08 thanks man, your pronounciation is also very good! There are many more car brands which are owned by german companies like: - VW (Volkswagen) owns: Bentley, Audi, Lamborghini, Porsche (partly, they own each other), Skoda, Seat, Bugatti (not any more), Ducati (motorcycle) - BMW owns: Rolls-Royce and Mini - Mercedes-Benz owns: Smart So as far as I know the UK only has Range Rover and Landrover left^^
Mercédès is a name from Spanish but I think this is the French writing of the name. It was quite popular for same time to give French names and also use the French writing of the name. We call it usally accent aigu when you are educated and know that this are French letters but most people will call it Dingens über dem e (thingy over e) I guess.
❤ I'm German and i was born near Wolfsburg and half of my family is working for Volkswagen. I like your Video and i understand your pronouncing really good. I will follow your channel, to train my english.
16:19 British people overall (no London, not you) seem be be closer pronunciation wise to german than American dialects. Also more considerate of the original pronunciation when a foreign word enters the language.
It is currently a Dutch brand because the parent company Stellantis is headquartered in the Netherlands. Inside are FIAT, Chrysler, Peugot and others. But Opel always had an important development and design center.
@@PamPamPenis Ähm... Opel wurde 1928 an General Motors verkauft. Ich bin beeindruckt, dass jemand der schon so alt ist, noch rüstig genug für's Internet ist...
In French, we call these little lines up vowells "accent" , the same word used for distinct ways to speak the same language. So in French : - Été means "summer", those are "accent aigu" and you pronounce this é like you say "it" in general. We find them in simple past verbs like "j'ai participé" , "j'ai mangé" which mean i participated, i ate. - Manière means "manner", this is "accent grave" and that is an equivalent sound with your translated word. Those letters are in the vocabulary to show how to pronounce them. For example, alphabet is the same word in French and in English but "analphabète" means "someone who cant use alphabet" , and that accent gives a clue how to pronounce the word. - Then another accent is ^ , "accent circonflexe" which in French indicates that in the past there was an "s" following that disapeared. For example : forêt, hôpital are words we used in the past as forest and hospital , but we didnt leave these "s" totally because when they turn into adjectives , we say "service hospitalier" or "production forestière" , there is also Château which means Castle , and for example people who live in Châteauroux are called Castelroussins Im not a linguist nor a teacher btw ☝️
Mercedes is viewed as a high class car in other countries. In Germany I heard them say "If you want to drive Mercedes, just call a cab/taxi" 😂 Because not long ago almost every single taxi in Germany was a Mercedes. But nowadays its pretty mixed 😉
In Germany Mercedes, Audi and BMW are also considered high class brands..... it's just that many Germans try to get one (and even take on loans for it), but times are also changing. And regarding cabs in Germany: It's not meant like "cab drivers are 'only' driving Mercedes", most Germans are fully aware of the fact, that you will be driving in a better car when ordering a cab compared to using your own. If you want to drive a BMW: German police is mainly using BMW as far as I know, but you may want to pass on that.
@@BlindingFlashlights German Police drives all brands ... Bavaria of course BMW and Audi ... but also VW, Fiat, Ford, Land-Rover, Mercedes, MAN ... Baden-Wurttemberg of course Mercedes ... but today more BMW and Audi than Mercedes ... and also MAN, Fiat, Ford Good Luck finding a BMW to drive ... maybe you have to use A MAN LTE oder VW-Crafter.
Hey there, Dwayne! I'm pretty new to your channel and I guess this is my first ever comment here... I really like your reactions and way of presentation. Keep up the good work! As for Germans driving the luxury brands... I guess we are still a or even THE car country and people absolutely treasure their vehicles. So oftentimes it's not that difficult to get hands on a used one in top condition even if has a very high mileage. On the other hand some people are just willing to spend a bit more on their car than in other countries. As far as I am concerned, I went with a Korean brand, KIA. 🤘🏻 Best wishes from Aachen, Germany! Andi
Thanks for your comment I really appreciate that you like the channel :). I’m beginning to realise how serious you guys are when it comes to cars ha! It all makes sense now.
@@dwayneslens many Germans really are... 😂 I always loved scooters and motorbikes and hab been riding for almost 30 years until a severe accident this time last year. I drive a car merely for safety reasons and comfort now. 😂
@@dwayneslens You know Americans and guns? While there are important differences, there are a fair number of similarities when you compare it to Germans and cars. I still remember at one of the earlier debates about maybe not having parts of the Autobahn without any speed limits, the anti-limit side came up with the slogan „Freie Fahrt für freie Bürger!“ (ADAC, largest German motor club, 1974). See the parallels?
11:25 Most of the cars like BMW, and Volkswagen are Company Cars. You can use the car also for private . For Tax reason you have to pay 1% monthly of the selling Price for the car.
I’m American and from the South. The way I pronounce Audi sounds like Odd-E. I say Porsche and Mercedez the same as the UK. Some people in the US name their kids after these two cars but will pronounce Porsche the name more like Porscha. I didn’t realize all these car brands were German either. I’m not into cars, it’s just a vehicle to get you from point A to point B for me. I pronounce Adidas the American way lol. It wasn’t until I got older that I learned that it was a German company and how to pronounce it. The way it’s pronounced in Germany in the UK sounds posh to me which I’m all for. If I was to try to pronounce it the way the Germans do people would look at me weird since nobody in the US says it that way,, they probably won’t even know what I was talking about. The original Audi and the US like the UK it’s a discount store to us. The other Aldi that was created by the bar there that sell out where the girl said it goes by Trader Joe’s in the US as a Posh store here. I’ve never heard or seen the hair care brand or that dishwasher brand in the US that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. I’m just probably never paid attention. As for the sweets brand, we do have that here. Honestly, i’ve never even pronounced it. I’m not a big, gummy bear person. When I was little, I’m sure I just said, can you get me some gummy bears from the store and that’s what was picked.
As a German, i recommend that you should do two things: - First: Drive a Porsche just for one hour, and you'll never want to drive any other car! - Secondly: Buy a washing machine, a vacuum cleaner or another electrical household appliance, if you are able to, and you'll never want another too! However it needs a little bit of care for those devices to have fun a long with them!
@@anjin-san Miele is very close to where I live. And many Germans swear on Miele, especially for washing machines, because they are extremely long-lasting. True, they are a little more expensive in the beginning, but I know friends of mine who had their Miele for about 20 years and it was still running...
You as a speaker of British English actually seem to be quite close to the original German version. The US-American pronounciation is a little different though. Especially when it comes to Adidas. But your Puma also was different. The funny thing is that many German brands in the UK are often considered Swedish. I had friends in the UK who were convinced that Haribo and Lidl were Swedish and were very surprised to learn that these two brands were German brands... Thanks for your reaction, though.I love Feli?s videos, she is quite a sympathetic character from Munich and it is nice to see that even British. people like her as well.
@@jackkelly335 This, or standard English, is the way foreign people are taught English in foreign countries like Germany. We learn later on that there are other ways to speak English but we are not taught that at school in the first place.
Moin, as they say in northern Germany, if Adi Dassler and his brother hadn't argued, there would be no Puma brand. As far as I know, the two brothers have never reconciled. The dispute began during World War II. Rudolf Dassler had to go to the front, Adi didn't. It was classified as systemically important for unknown reasons. Rudolf accuses Adi of using relationships to avoid the front. He reports Adi to the allies. Adi allegedly employed forced laborers. This breach of trust could not be remedied. The Dassler brothers then went their separate ways. Personally, I don't like German cars except Opel, even though I'm German. And your pronunciation of some German brand names wasn't that bad. Germany is a country of family businesses; they make up a full 90 percent of all companies. But there are often arguments in families. Germany's largest discount chain is no exception. There are various speculations about the Aldi brothers' falling out. Most often it is reported that the dispute broke out when tobacco products were introduced into the product range. Karl was against the sale of cigarettes, but his brother Theo wanted to include them in his product range. Aldi quickly split into north and south. At that time there were already 300 Aldi branches with gross sales of around 90 million marks. The “healthy brotherly competition,” as it was called at the time, continued until Theo’s death in 2010. But I can't say whether that was the real reason. There is a lot of speculation about the separation of Aldi into North and South
Remember, many german car brands died out or went out of funds. Fun fact: germans built the first which went over 200 km/h, 200 mph and 300 mhp (since Bugatti was under the VW Brand at the record)
16:00 When speaking English it really just depends on whether the person learnt a more English or American sounding accent but personally, I have noticed that I ended up with more or less the same accent in both languages, relative to either parent language. I mostly speak Yorkshire-ish English and mostly speak Ruhrdeutsch (a regional variety of Standard German) and a lot of the accent markers (like glottal stops for example) of the two are rather similar. Apart from that, Northern accents' vowels are also just closer to the German language (I guess that's bc of the Danelaw).
Amercia is a nice continent and there are wonderful countries, like Canada, Mexico, Argentina ... Adidas is founded bei Adi Dassler, while his brother founded Puma and both companies are located near Nuremberg / Erlangen in Franconia in northern Bavaria.
Adidas =Adi Dassler Audi is the second enterprise founded by August Horch in 1910 after he was ousted from “Horch Automobile”- it’s the Latin translation of Horch->Audi ALDI = Albrecht Discount 11:57 Before and during WWII the car was called “KdF Wagen” and could be payed by a monthly stamp system- no one ever got a car through this ! 19:44 You choose your friends-not family! If you don’t get well together… 22:38 Miele = Family name 23:29 Harry Riegel, Bonn She forgot some brands like Sixt car rental Siemens Osram Bauknecht SAP
"Mercedes" is a first name that comes from Spain (so Germans pronounce it incorrectly as well in this aspect). In Spanish there are no apostrophes in this name. They probably come from the spelling of this name in another language. I'm guessing French because her mother was a native French speaker (from a french-Sephardic family).
Yes, your accent actually is pretty close to German - at least compared to American English. In general, British English tends to be pretty close to German in terms of phonetics, since both languages have the same ancestor. One of the main aspects where you notice this is the vowels. In American English, every vowel is a diphtong, so two sounds combined, while in German and many British accents, the vowels are pronounced as one single sound, which automatically makes British English sound more similar than American English. Another thing Brits and Germans do the same way is dropping the r at the end of words, which creates famous meme phrases like Peter Parker ("Petah Pahkah") that Americans like to poke fun at, but it's very close to how Germans would pronounce the name as well. There's also other things, like vocabulary that is similar. For example, what Americans would call a license plate is called a number plate in British English, which is exactly the same in German ("Nummernschild").
11:10 No, these car brands simply produce more models for the German/EU market, not just the big luxury cars. 12:47 The letters E and I are pronounced differently in German compared to english...most of the time that is because english is inconsistent with the pronounciation, especially with the letter I which is pronounced in various different ways in English (just have a look at the words in this sentence - none of the I's in these words is pronounced as you just did when just saying the letter). 15:26 When you see the letters sp or st in a word they are always pronounced with a sch-sound - as if the word was written like schp or scht 16:02 British English is usually closer to German than American, Canadian or Australian English, however this can be a little hard to define because of the many accents in the UK (and Germany as well of course). Some of them are very hard to understand, sometimes even for native speakers (most Germans for example don't understand the Bavarian and Swabian dialects unless they are from those regions). The USA have different dialects as well of course, but American English is actually way more homogenous than British English even though the country is so much bigger. Fun fact: The tendency of native english speakers from all over the world to drop the letter t in the middle of words (like you just did with water - you pronounced it like wa'er) is actually wrong according to the phonetic rules of the english language. However - given how widespread this pronounciation is I expect the t to eventually dissappear from these words over time because that's how languages evolve over time. 16:55 That's not a moose, that's a deer (or what would sometimes be called a hart in english but I don't know if that word is commonly used anymore in English - as far as I know it is a bit of an older word) 19:18 The Aldi you have in the UK is part of Aldi Süd/Aldi South. In the case of the two Aldi chains it wasn't really that much of a fight the brothers had, they only disagreed about integrating some products into their stores and decided to split the company. However, they are not really competitors - instead they decided to split their spheres of interest. Internationally, Aldi Nord operates in Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Spain, while Aldi Süd operates in Australia, Austria, China, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Slovenia, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. Germany is the only country where both brands operate under the Aldi label, but the country is split: Aldi Nord operates in the nothern half, Aldi Süd in the Southern half. The only other country that has both chains are the USA, however Aldi Nord does not operate under the Aldi label there; instead, they operate under the Trader Joe's label, a company they bought in the 1970ties.
She is kind of right that Audi, Mercedes and BMW are driven by people of all classes but you must tell the people who buy the cars new and the ones who by it used, some even 3rd oer 4th hand. When you are able to buy this car new, you are being better of then the mean.
Also, at one time, pretty much every German taxi was a Mercedes - back when they were usually black and not the current sort of eggshell colour. (No dammit Grammarly, I'm on a Brit channel, so there's an "u" in that word!)
Contrary to The Dassler Brothers, the Albrecht Brothers (Aldi) parted on good terms and did it mainly to prepare their inheritance. They had a noncompeting agreement when they parted the company and divided their "claims" on pretty much the whole world among themselves. That is the reason why every country other than Germany either has only Aldi (South) with the orange and blue logo or Aldi (North) with the blue and white logo. In Germany, they are both present, but - as the names say - Aldi North only in the Northern half and Aldi South only in the Southern part. Only after the strict noncompetition clause expired (you can only do those for a limited number of years because of competition law), they started "poaching" in each others territories, but they usually don't do it with their respective main brands, but with other discount market chains they have bought (like e.g. Trader Joe's in the US).
I have written down other names of German companies that are listed on the stock market: Airbus (aviation, aerospace, defence) Allianz (insurance) BASF (chemicals) Bayer (chemicals, pharmaceuticals) Continental (automotive supplier) Daimler Truck (commercial vehicle production) DHL (logistics) Deutsche Telekom (Telecommunications) Henkel (consumer goods, chemicals) Rheinmetall (defence technology, automotive supplier) SAP (software) Siemens (electrical engineering) Siemens Energy (electrical engineering, energy technology) Siemens Healthineers (medical technology) Zalando (mail order fashion) Vonovia (property) and many other brands
She explained very well. The name of ADIDAS is based on the first letter of name of the owner. Adolf (called Adi) Dassler. Nice comment to a nice lesson of german brands.
I don‘t think, that the cars are cheaper here in germany but you can see a lot of german cars on the streets by brands like Audi, BMW, Mercedes, VW but also Porsche. We germans like our carbrands very much, so we drive it as well.
But it’s not like audi bmw or Mercedes are driven by all social classes. Maybe older models, when they are cheaper, but a new Audi A1 still costs over 30.000€ and that’s not possible to afford by all social classes
cars arent cheap in germany but in general we value cars alot we see cars as a wealth status so if ure "hot shit" you drive a fancy car.. also our market is really saturated with parts and german cars so they get cheaper if u buy them used most people tend to buy "jahreswegen" so called year old cars which were mostly leased by companies and are sold after a year.. the companies pay everycheckup and repair to retain the value of the car. so most private persons get a mostly new car for half the price
Hey man. Nice reaction! I will try to help you out with a few examples how vowels are pronounced in most cases. german - english e - Like the e in "end" i - like you pronounce e a - like the o in "mother" or the u in "understanding" 🤷🏼♂️🤔... whatever! 😂 o - it's quite similiar in both languages u - like the last sound in "you" y-u ei - like you pronounce "i" eu - like the -oy in "toy" ä - like the a in attention ö - like the o in "world" - kind of ü - that's a tough one! Had to search it, but there seems nothing in english that sounds like it. Best explantion I found, was a scottish pronounced o "who"! 🤷🏼♂️ Have to ask my british friend, her husband is a Scot. I think that was most of them and how they are pronounced most of the time. Have a nice day! Greetings from bavaria! ✌🏻
Fun fact about Aldi - in Austria it's Aldi Süd (Aldi south) but it's named "Hofer"... They're building their new headquarter in Salzburg, Austria (maybe finished in early 2026)
I'm sorry for bombing your reactions but I had to react to your request at the end. Your accent is pretty good. I'm a non German speaking Dutch man and I perfectly understand. One other thing. You have to shoutout the original video and put in in the discription. You owe them that.
Funfact: Florena "was" a cream from east germany (waldheim) and the company is older older than Nivea (from the packaging looked similar, why it came to court case) but now Florena and Nivea its the same because Beiersdorf (Nivea, Hamburg) bought the company in 2002.
Your accent seems to be very close to native german and you do a great job pronouncing german brands fairly correct. Well done!
True, it was much closer to the German pronunciation than the American one was, which I find quite interesting.
True. I think British people in general don‘t have as much difficulties with pronouncing German words as Americans usually have, but Dwayne really does an excellent job pronouncing the German brands - even considering the fact that he is British 👍
Yes, his pronunciation is pretty great and close to German!
and even your british accent is way more understandable than american bubblegum english
probably because british english is more close to its germanic roots than american english
This is why I as a German genuinely love the Brits! So humble, well mannered and simply interested in the information, it is super pleasant to watch. If you confront an American with all this, there is a good chance they will state "fake news" and go into rage mode.
Ah come on. You can find both types among every population.
Remember BREXIT? Lots of Brits massively overestimated the importance of their litlle island on the world stage. They legitemately thought they could go back to the times of the empire.
Nope, they just didn't want to adhere to EU law or EU law takes precedence over national law and Great Britain didn't want to accept that.@@LPVince94
oder "Alternative Fakten"... 😎
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the first time i saw an native english speaker pronounce the german brands like a true native speaker after listening to the german pronounciation, WELL DONE!
I am German and moved to Scotland. I spent 2 months of my life in Yorkshire too. The further north you get in the UK, the more the English sounds similar to German. In fact there are some pronunciations in Scottish which are more similar to German than English!
Example:
English: The daughter milks the cow.
Pronunciation in Scottish: The 'dochter' melks the 'kuw'.
German: Die Tochter melkt die Kuh.
Very interesting
I'm German and I learned a lot today 😅
Damals versucht es einem Amerikaner zu erklären.... ich war so lost.
Interessant 👍🏻
The pronounciation of vowels up in Northern England and in Scotland is far more similar to the way it is pronounced in Standard German. Funny thing is, in my dialect (South-West Germany "rheinfränkisch") some vowels and even some words are closer to the English pronounciation than they are to Standard German. For example, you can say the sentence "My house is green." and it totally matches with the pronounciation in the dialect spoken here. Maybe it´s because the dialect hasn´t changed it´s pronounciation that much over the last 1000 years and is therefore closer to the common germanic roots the English and German language do share. Idk.
2:40 She is insured in Germany, which also covers all costs in the USA
6:15 Like the Italians, the Germans also pronounce every letter. Porsche not Porsch
8:23 What you mean are accents (é, è, à…) but we don't have them in German, we only have an "Apostroph" (also called "Hochkomma" or "Auslassungszeichen")
Fun fact: Adidas and Puma have their factories and headquarters in the same small town.
The reason for this is that the founders of Adidas and Puma were brothers. Adidas was founded by Adi Dassler, Puma was founded by his brother Rudolf Dassler.
And Adi Dassler invented replacable cleats on football shoes. Before they were fix, could not be replaced. But his shoes had cleats that could be simply unscrewed from the shoes, and other cleats could be screwed on. That was a thing when it starts to rain during a game. Just simply change the cleats and get an advantage over the opposing team. He was equipment manager of the German national football team.
I mean, we don't really pronounce every letter, especially not in everyday speech but as a rule of thumb, it's a good approximation.
A German health insurance wouldn't pay for treatments in the US. She must have US health insurance. That her health insurance had to approve the surgery also hints strongly at US health insurance.
@@shadowfox009x You don't have to, as there are German insurance companies that cover health care in the USA. But if Feli has moved her residence to the USA, then you are right.
Adolf Dassler (adidas) und Rudolf Dassler (Puma).
5:10 The way you brits pronounce Audi sounds like our supermarket chain Aldi xD
Also german
We don’t pronounce Audi like that, we say Aldi like that ahahaha we say Audi pretty much like how Germans do
@@JM-X0304 Hm the Guy in the Video didnt so its only about him Not you people generaly
@@janikaogstefan I have also seen a Deichmann shoe shop in Birmingham.
Yes, English pronunciation is *way* closer to German, probably because English is also a Western Germanic language like German or Dutch, just strongly influenced by Norman Old French and the "High" or "regular" English pronunciation is still pretty close to the Anglo-Saxon Germanic pronunciation, especially RP and Northern dialects while GenAm has a ton of other influences as well as an isolation from the continent.
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The Jägermeister logo is a stag.
The cross and the stag are a reference to Saint-Hubert patron saint of the hunters, hunt, dogs and some others.
Thanks for doin' this, so I didn't have to...
They were also the first brand as a shirt sponsor in the "Fußball-Bundesliga" in 1973, which was quite a revolution.
Here in Belgium on St Hubertus day all pets are blessed with holy water by local priests.
Hubert was hunting. And then he spotted a Deer. He aimed on him and wanted to shoot him when he recognized the white cross glowing above his head. Then, in one version of the legend, he turned his hunting style from a tough brutal hunter into a moderate and more christian hunter. Today he is the example for german hunters to be moderate an be honest to the creature you are hunting.
The red Stag is the Sign for God how the Lion
Your German pronunciation is excellent, Dwayne. I'm impressed.
you are just a humbled, calm, friendly man, its a pure joy to listen to your voice. thank you :)
As a German I certainly understand the brits better the further north it gets. I like the neat geordie accent and in scotland they even got the "ch"- sound we have as well....as in Och aye the noo :)
From my personal experience english is much easier to understand than american english.
The problem with understanding the British is less in the pronounciation but in the vocabulary.
@@elbohne5636Also that is true, and … at school we learn British English.
I'm Scottish and you're right. I had Germans asking me to say phrases with the ch sound in France aged 10 and they were amazed that I said the ch sound. I then recited it's a bare bricht moon the nicht ye ken. Lots of Scots words are Germanic based nicht for nacht, bricht for bright and ken for to know. The Scots word for church is Kirk too.
@@Jinty92 though for the word itself, night isn’t farther away from nacht than nicht, GH represented the similar sound. They just went silent or shifted to F. What they write is a lot closer than what they say. Using some kind of G isn’t even odd, there are German dialects who pronounce G like CH and Dutch pronounces G with a sound similar to CH.
Die Amis hören sich an wie Oberwesterwälder im Vergleich zum Hochdeutsch 🤷♂️
It's unbelievable, but Adidas and Puma are based in a small town called "Herzogenaurach" near Nuremberg. Even if you hoped otherwise, the brothers didn't get along. It got to the point where the town of 24,000 inhabitants was effectively split up, with one half (allegedly) barely speaking to the other, if at all. But things are said to have improved in the meantime.
Adolf and Rudolf Dassler. The most interesting part is why they estranged. Their wives.....
Fun fact: They have both outlets where you can buy their shoes... but if you want to save money, you better go to the near by Sport Hoffmann.
Bruh ... you can write "Herzogenaurach" but not "Nürnberg"? :D At least "Nuernberg" or "Nurnberg" should be in xD
@@m0lDaViANope, it is the correct *English* word for the German town name: Nuremberg
@@PhreakDarkSoul And that't the mistake. Like the german language the english language official takes names as they are.
Like Los Angeles. We don't say Loss Angels.
That's just super disrespectful.
I'm a German and i love you reaction and i think you spell the most of brands right. It was funny to watch your reaction😅✌🏻
I can understand english aczent way better than american. in school we are learning the brittish english not the american so...
I have often problems understanding English accents except the northern even i had learned school English but i adapted way more American English.
We learned both even Australian accents etc. but none of them are hard to understand
In germany we learn Oxford English.
@@performancegold8562My English teacher was teaching Oxford English as well. Later I could take English courses at my company by Berlitz with changing teachers from all over the world.
Australian English was hardest to understand... 😅
It's the other way around for me. School was a long time ago and most media is american.
I have a good friend in england and I had quite some problems understanding her british accent.
Adi Dassler and his company Adidas played a part in winning the 1954 Football World Cup. He had developed screw-on studs, which made the German team's shoes much easier to adapt to different court conditions. During the final against Hungary it was pouring rain, and Adi Dassler's shoes provided significantly more grip on the deep and slippery ground and were significantly lighter than the Hungarian players' shoes.
Adidas and Puma are both German companies
and arise from a family feud between the Dassler brothers
Adi Dassler went on to found Adidas based on his name
and Rudi Dassler founded Ruda which became Puma
They were buried at opposite end of the same cemetery LOL
The Albrecht brothers had discount stores called Aldi - see there is a pattern.
and they had a bust up and ended up with Aldi Süd and Aldi Nord.
Right! But Adi is the abbreviation of Adolf.
No German was ever called "Adi".
It can also be mentioned that Adi Dassler is the inventor of studded football boots.
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Weirdly the Adi Dassler
who was formally Adolf Dassler
used the name and named his company
using that name LOL
@@johncrwarner Yo! Next Time I will watch the whole Video, Bro!
You are right!
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I think after the second world war
Adolf was not a popular name
I suspect that Adolf might have preferred
"Adi" which is diminutive / unofficial
version of the name.
@@Sell-lee79well … a lot of German names are used in their short forms (maybe not in writing, definitely not in official documents):
Adolf - Adi
Rudolf - Rudi
Josef - Sepp
Wilhelm - Willi/Willy
Andreas - Andi
Michael - Micha/Michi
Anton - Toni
Nah, they've got Miele appliances in the UK, however you only find them in high end, and I really mean HIGH END, houses, yachts and planes. When the realtor shows off a fancy London Kensington or Chelsea townhouse or mansion, the first thing they mention when entering the kitchen: "Of course there's your Miele oven, fridge and dishwasher!"
Right ... as I am living in the hometown of Miele (Gütersloh) there is an old saying for Miele which refers to the high durability of their appliances. It goes: Nur Miele, Miele sagt die Tante, die alle Waschmaschinen kannte. (Only Miele, Miele says the aunt, who knew all washing machines)
I wonder why that is. Is Miele just that much more expensive in the UK, or are there other reasons for that?
Thank you for the video! It was so much fun.
Miele products are also sold in the UK and become more and more popular, because of the durabiliaty and quality, despite the high pice. I and also my partents have Miele washing maschine since years and are fully satisfied, best washing results and no repairs. Washing salons also mostly choose Miele for their reliability, but they have the industial version.
Hi Dwayne, thanks for the German day, great video and an amazing channel. Thanks Thorsten
I had a really bad day and found your video by accident. I feel much better now. Thank you, Dwayne😘 Subscribed💪🏻
Regarding the accent, it depends on where someone comes from in the UK. As far as I know, the pronunciation of vowels of Britons from the North is closer to the pronunciation of Germans than that of Britons from Essex, Wessex or Cornwall, for example. Similarly, the Scots are closer to the German pronunciation of vowels.
On the other hand, Germans in north-west Germany or near Holland tend to have a less pronounced German accent than Germans from other regions, which is due to the strong differences in dialects.
Außerdem ist hier im Norden das Plattdeutsch sehr verbreitet (gewesen), welches viel gemeinsam hat mit z.B. Englisch & Niederländisch.
I really appreciate and love how you’re interested in these pronunciations of the German words and always compared it to the US although I learned British English in school. And you’re much closer to the German pronounciation and amazing to listen to it. Congratulations to all of your videos highly recommended! Keep going I enjoy your style very much!
Miele is widely available in the UK. I have an undercounter fridge and vacuum. Definitely quality appliances!!
Just gonna say, you have a pretty good ear. As in when you try to imitate her pronunciation, well, you actually say these words properly. I'm always frustrated with people apparently being unable to differentiate very different sounds but you did it almost perfectly (at least as far as I've watched yet). It's sad to me that this is somehow a (rare) talent but at least it's one you have ^^
10:47 BMW 1: €30.000 - €59.000, BMW X5: €87.000 - €114.000, Mercedes A: €28.000 - €63.000, Mercedes GLE €85.000 - €118.000. Everything is the manufacturer's recommended retail price.
The average wage after taxes in Germany was €27,416 per year in 2023.
16:45 The inventor of the liqueur, Curt Mast, himself a passionate hunter, quoted the legend of Saint Hubertus, the patron saint of hunters, in the logo. According to legend, a deer with a glowing cross in its antlers appeared to Saint Hubertus during a Sunday hunt.
22:09 My parents bought a Miele washing machine in 1992. That ran until 2018, then they bought a new Miele washing machine. But not because the old one was broken, but because they wanted something new and modern. The same Miele washing machine for 26 years and not a single repair...
Hey Dwayne, regarding Germany and cars, you should do some research on Rudolf Diesel (Diesel Engine) and Nicolaus August Otto (Otto engine and the 4-stroke principle).
Add in Karl Benz, the actual founding father of cars. These three people basically started the whole car business, with Gottlieb Daimler also playing a significant role later on (the german henry ford essentially)
@@rudolfdirks9253 oh yes, Like everything important car related has German roots. None of them being American.
@crazy-4-cooking only from a technically standpoint. You gotta hand one thing to Henry Ford: he "invented" mass production more or less. The industrialization of punching metal did play a very significant part in making cars affordable for everyone.
Obviously the Jägermeister logo shows St. Hubertus's attribute, the deer with the cross.
You might know that Hubertus is the patron saint of hunters.
Great guy. Charming video with good information and comment's. Smiling. Thx❤❤
There are so many other big brands founded in germany like Bosch, Siemens, Würth, Engelbert Strauss, Continental etc.
She forgot Siemens and Bosch.
I'm not really sure , but I think that the britsh accent is closer to german than the american accent. But I also think that the german accent when we speak english is closer to the british accent than the american, because we learn mostly Oxford English in german schools.
In the case of the Aldi brothers, there is suspicion that there was a dispute over the range (cigarettes). But this was never officially confirmed. I suspect that as the two brothers got older, the increasingly larger store became easier to run if the space was divided up. This also made it possible to better respond to the needs of the sales regions, which are different in the south than those of northern German customers. One thing is certain, however... The family was not enemies, as it was with the Dassler brothers. And... Lufthansa refers to the Hanseatic League in the Middle Ages. Translated, it means something like the “Hanse(atic League) of the Skies”...
Lufthansa is actually quite a poetic name, isn't it? Dreamed big from the start. I love our language.
I learned more about brands being german while traveling abroad, than in decades living in germany. Anyone else who has been surprised abroad, by people happily pointing at something german and you were only vaguely aware it's a german brand?
@@Seek369 That rarely happened to me. And the joy of discovering, for example, a branch of a German company abroad depends on how much personal knowledge I have about a company (and I have a relatively good knowledge of it). It goes from, "Oh, how nice that they have a factory here too (and thus give people bread and work)" to, "What are these assholes doing here..."
If Karl & Theo Albrecht hated each other that must have sucked for Theo: being the younger one, still dying earlier as the 2nd richest guy in Germany while his brother was no.1 - and most of all: being the one who got kidnapped.
@@nehalilisays I think that when you're a billionaire, it doesn't matter what others have to offer. The Albrechts always lived very secluded lives. I suspect that they weren't interested in things like competition between brothers...
The first pause killed me..... this wait oh my god... i had to stop your video too. had to wipe some tears because i was laughing that hard. I love your videos 🤘
I am a 48 year old German and pretty much noone I know drives a Mercedes, let alone a Porsche. I know exactly two people who drive BMWs. It might be because she‘s from the South or it might be because I need some wealthier friends. All my friends have a bike and a bus pass.
It's no surprise that you'll only find stores of Aldi (South) in the UK. When they split the company in 1961 they also agreed where each company should expand business, so they wouldn't interfere with each other. Hence we have the Aldi-equator in Germany, Aldi (North) operating in the north and east of Germany, Aldi (South) in the west and in the south. The same applies to their international business. Aldi (North) is covering the east, west and southwest of Europe, Aldi (South) the UK and Ireland as well as southern and southeastern Europe. Aldi (South) also has entered the Australian and Chinese market. The only market where both companies are doing business is the US market, Aldi (South) as Aldi and Aldi (North) as Trader Joe's.
I smiled the whole video. Was so lovely and informative. Subscribed. Thx :)
22:17 my mum has a Miele washing machine: bought in 1988 and it still works without any problems. All over the time!
Miele: best quality - high price :)
Unfortunately the mass loves low quality. They are planning to fire hundreds of employees right now.
Witzig und unterhaltsam, danke. Besonders deine Reaktionen bezüglich Haribo und ADIDAS/ Puma 😂 👍
You would be rally good in learning the german language, your pronouncing after hearing the german word is great
Mercédès: The Name comes originally from the french novel "The count of monte Christo". Mercedes is the girl friend of the protagonist Edmond Dantès (The later Count). Jellinek was inspired by the novel to give the name to his daughter, who later inspired the name of the car model. the 2 "accents" above the e's comes from french language and shows a different pronounciation of the letter "e". They are called "accent aigu" (é) and "accent grave" (è). you can surely google for it.
As a supplement, since the first name "Mercedes" is not of German but French origin, it should actually be pronounced in French. So "Merssidess" with the stress on the third syllable. But it is not pronounced that way in Germany. Instead, the "C" is pronounced like a (German) "Z" (but still written with a "C", as it looks "finer" in the sense of "more elevated") and the French accents are omitted. This shows very clearly that French was considered the language of the educated in Germany. And these, in turn, are not as numerous in Germany as is often assumed abroad.
Fun fact in passing: there was never a woman called "Mercedes Benz" ...
6:20 Look carefully close short above the HORSE,... there is smt written,.. *STUTTGART*
> This is the *capital city of the federal state: "Baden-Württemberg"*
> The orgin of Porsche and ofc of Mercedes Benz....
> Stuttgart is smt used to be called by "Teens: _Benz-Town"_ ;)
>> The *swabian capital city!*
Yes, Adidas is a german brand, based on Adolf (Adi) Dassler. So the name of the brand is a short version of Adolf Dasslers name: Adi Das. His brother was Rudolf Dassler, founder of Puma. Both are born in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany Adi Dasslers wife was Katharina (Kaethe) Dassler born as Katharina Martz in Pirmasens (southwest of germany, Rhineland-Palatinate). Her father was Franz Martz, founder of framas (short for Franz Martz). So yes: Framas, Adidas and Puma based on the same family. Everyone knows Adidas and Puma but Framas is the big player in the shadow. Most shoes of the world are made with products from framas. The base of Framas is still in Pirmasens.
Greets from Pirmasens, Germany. ;-)
Btw:
The US transmitter “Pirmasens-Husterhoehe” based in Pirmasens transmitted the signals from Apollo 11 to Houston/Texas during the first moon landing in 1969.
Husterhoehe is a district of Pirmasens. Framas is also there and only a few 100 meters away.
Pirmasens-Husterhoehe is placed round about 20 miles south of Airbase Ramstein (US Military Airbase).
@@dwin6005 What you might not know as a Brit: Pirmasens is somehow THE place when it comes to shoes in Germany.
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was. Not is.
I sometimes watched littles snippets from british soaps like Hollyoaks on YT and learned that at least in some british dialects the pronounciation of some letters is closer to german than to american. Like the A in dance.
I think, thats one reason, why your german pronounciation is pretty on point and you don't have that much trouble with our pronounciation as an american.
In Germany, I would say, most of us speak a mix of british and american english, because what we learned at school is (suposed to be 😉) oxford english, but then many of us start to learn english more from watching american tv shows and movies.
Thats also the reason why we sometimes use an english term and sometimes an american, like appartment vs flat and rubber vs eraser.
Greetings from Berlin 😎
Sofa and couch! My German aunt, who's lived in the UK for more than 40 years now, gets mad at me when I say Couch... Also "in this house we pronounce our Ts!"
Luckily when I lived in London for a while, my accent became less offensive to her and my cousins.😂 It's all good fun! 😋
The car was invented in Germany. Anyone can buy a BMW or Audi or Mercedes. However, “poorer” people are more likely to buy a used, i.e. cheaper, model.
True dat. My father always drove Audi when I was a child and my parents were far from being well off. I guess it was the only thing they spent a bit more more money on than they should, even with buying used models.
I´ve read about an automobile constructed in France in the late 18th century! It was steam powered and supposed to pull heavy cannons! It didn´t work very well and crashed into a brick wall - probably the first car accident in history! I somehow had to laugh when I first read that story!
That is not quite correct. The German Carl Benz built the first functioning car with an internal combustion engine and applied for a patent. Based on this, series production could begin. Self-propelled cars with a power engine - based on steam, among other things - had already been developed before, but did not get beyond the experimental stage. One example of this was the German company "DKW" - Dampf Kraft Wagen (Steam Power Car), which, by the way, had to merge with the car companies Horch, Wanderer and Audi to form the "Auto-Union" in the 1930s under pressure from the Sächsische Landesbank. The Auto-Union's trademark was four intertwined rings. Audi, as the last survivor, was authorised by VW to use the four rings as its trademark.
However, Audi actually owned one.
@@Atomprofessor Automobile vs. modern car...
Yes you are right, but car history took of with internal combustion. Steam was not lite enough and too complicated. You had to preheat the boiler and so on.
Jay Leno has one of the steam things, there should be a video on YT
@@Atomprofessor Fardier from Cugnot in France ... 1749 or 1769 ... is more or less ther first AUTOmibile ... and 1830 London was the citiy with steam-busses. So, yes, i agree it is not quite correct ... first automobile and Daimler and Benz. But first car, at a definition like our cars ... the name of Daimler and Benz, Maybach, Opel, Horch, Porsche, Ledwinka, Otto, Diesel ... Bertha Benz is very important .... are names which should be known and which are connected to good old Germany.
Your question about the accent: As a German, I'd say you sound exactly how I was taught to speak English in the 90ties. I wouldn't say it sounds closer to German, but I get how Americans might have that impression, because Germans who speak English without having lived abroad usually sound much closer to British English than to American English (if they have managed to overcome the most conspicuous quirks of a stereotypical broad German accent like pronouncing th as s and w as v, of course). English lessons in German schools are usually very much focussed on British English. We started with British English only, then in the third or fourth year (don't remember which one exactly) we focussed on American English and the differences to British English for one year. In the years after we were allowed to individually choose whether we wanted to speak and write American English or British English, but we would get point deductions in written exams for mixing the two. Since we started with British English and thus were more familiar with it, most of us chose to stick with British English.
Miele is present on five continents! The UK headquarter is in Abingdon. You'll def find their products at Harrod's ;)
Hi Dwayne, that was a fun video! You do pretty well in pronouncing German words. If you wonder, if there are some more famous German brands you might know, there you are: SIEMENS, Thyssen and Krupp steel manufacturers, now being one company called ThyssenKrupp), BOSCH (car supply, electronics, batteries eletric engines), kitchen equipment, ZEISS (high end lenses and projectors), Leica (high end cameras) Infineon (silicon chips), E.ON ...
But there are lots of famous British brands as well, so maybe you provide us a video about those?
Talking about cars: When I came to the UK for the very first time, I was wondering that you have cars by the name of "Vauxhall". Never heard of it before! They were just the same cars as in Germany, but in Germany they are named and branded as "Opel". The manufactory "Opel" was founded in 1862 by Mr. Adam Opel in Rüsselsheim, Germany. Until 1928 is was the biggest car manufactory in Germany until General Motors bought the company. But after the war, it became german again, but went with GM again and made Vauxhall in the UK. Or something like that - it's a confusing history as Chevrolet in the US is Opel, too, and so on. They are named PSA in France and the Netherlands, and so on ... < just as sum. There might be some mistakes, but as I said: complicated! XD P.S.: I like you "accent" XD As a german: "I do unterstand you!" :-)
I remember seeing an Opel car when I went to mainland Europe on holiday. I think Spain or Greece. I remember thinking oh that’s a Vauxhall 😂
@@dwayneslens great! so you know what i am talking about! XD *rofl *high5
In the netherlands, we had both. My father owned a Vauxhall Viva.
In Australien heißt Opel Holden😜😉
@@wirauswien hieß ... es muss hieß lauten. Holden gibt es nicht mehr. Und so lange Opel noch unter dem Dach von GM war wurden ein paar Modelle unter Holden dort vertrieben. Heutzutage existiert Opel-Neuseeland und da dürften auch die Australier ihren Opel kriegen.
Your German pronunciation of Mercedes is perfect and sounds very authentic.
so what i understand from the video, britons get confused when you go to an aldi shop with your audi? =)))
"hey babe, im taking the aldi to the aldi. You need some?"
"no, but make sure you wearing you aldidasslers when you kickin the in line 5 bruv."
accents are so funny
Being a german myself this video was very informative and entertaining! Thanks for your efforts man 👍🏻
I think British English is closer to German than American English. But again- I couldn’t say which British accent I am talking of… the one where you skip the r. Or -er becomes -a. We do that, too. But we wouldn’t skip the other letters like your famous t. And like in Italian we pronounce the vowels in the words like we say them in the alphabet. No matter what.
Hey, this is the first video of yours I've watched! You seem like a really likable guy! Greetings from Germany!
Regarding the brother feud between the Dassler brothers: no, the feud is still on between the companies, maybe not in the hard way it went for decades with a divided city were an adidas employee would never visit a pub wich is primary visited by Puma employees and vice versa. Both companies are still in the same small city called Herzogenaurach, together with a third important company, the Schaeffler Group, a company which produces parts for automotive, aerospace and industrial uses. Because of this three companies the city of Herzogenaurach is by tax income per head the richest city in Germany with an employment rate of close to 100%.
Btw, the way you adapt the German pronunciations when you repeat what Feli says very good, great job!
Ey up, mate. Your pronunciation is really pretty good. Way closer to the correct way than most Americans can say it. But like many have commented, northern English with its flat pronunciation of the vowels is quite closer to German than what is spoken in the south. I got lucky to be the son of a Derbyshire lad who got stuck in Germany so grew up bilingual
Since I'm used to American shows and always have to turn on the subtitles for English accents, I'd like to say that your accent is great for me personally. I would say yes, you sound more like a German than a Brit. Besides the quirks of your language.
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thanks man, your pronounciation is also very good!
There are many more car brands which are owned by german companies like:
- VW (Volkswagen) owns: Bentley, Audi, Lamborghini, Porsche (partly, they own each other), Skoda, Seat, Bugatti (not any more), Ducati (motorcycle)
- BMW owns: Rolls-Royce and Mini
- Mercedes-Benz owns: Smart
So as far as I know the UK only has Range Rover and Landrover left^^
Mercédès is a name from Spanish but I think this is the French writing of the name.
It was quite popular for same time to give French names and also use the French writing of the name.
We call it usally accent aigu when you are educated and know that this are French letters but most people will call it Dingens über dem e (thingy over e) I guess.
❤ I'm German and i was born near Wolfsburg and half of my family is working for Volkswagen. I like your Video and i understand your pronouncing really good. I will follow your channel, to train my english.
16:19 British people overall (no London, not you) seem be be closer pronunciation wise to german than American dialects. Also more considerate of the original pronunciation when a foreign word enters the language.
Opel is also a german car brand. Vauxhall is an English car brand and a subsidiary of Opel.
Abbä Obbel, git's nur in Eurobba...
It is currently a Dutch brand because the parent company Stellantis is headquartered in the Netherlands. Inside are FIAT, Chrysler, Peugot and others. But Opel always had an important development and design center.
Opel war mal deutsch, wurde französisch und ist nun niederländisch 😅 habe aber selber mal einen Opel gefahren (war zum Ende der deutschen Ära)
@@PamPamPenis du hast amerikanisch vergessen, was es die längste Zeit war.
@@PamPamPenis Ähm... Opel wurde 1928 an General Motors verkauft. Ich bin beeindruckt, dass jemand der schon so alt ist, noch rüstig genug für's Internet ist...
In French, we call these little lines up vowells "accent" , the same word used for distinct ways to speak the same language.
So in French :
- Été means "summer", those are "accent aigu" and you pronounce this é like you say "it" in general. We find them in simple past verbs like "j'ai participé" , "j'ai mangé" which mean i participated, i ate.
- Manière means "manner", this is "accent grave" and that is an equivalent sound with your translated word. Those letters are in the vocabulary to show how to pronounce them.
For example, alphabet is the same word in French and in English but "analphabète" means "someone who cant use alphabet" , and that accent gives a clue how to pronounce the word.
- Then another accent is ^ , "accent circonflexe" which in French indicates that in the past there was an "s" following that disapeared.
For example : forêt, hôpital are words we used in the past as forest and hospital , but we didnt leave these "s" totally because when they turn into adjectives , we say "service hospitalier" or "production forestière" , there is also Château which means Castle , and for example people who live in Châteauroux are called Castelroussins
Im not a linguist nor a teacher btw
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Mercedes is viewed as a high class car in other countries. In Germany I heard them say "If you want to drive Mercedes, just call a cab/taxi" 😂 Because not long ago almost every single taxi in Germany was a Mercedes. But nowadays its pretty mixed 😉
The busses too!!
In Germany Mercedes, Audi and BMW are also considered high class brands..... it's just that many Germans try to get one (and even take on loans for it), but times are also changing. And regarding cabs in Germany: It's not meant like "cab drivers are 'only' driving Mercedes", most Germans are fully aware of the fact, that you will be driving in a better car when ordering a cab compared to using your own. If you want to drive a BMW: German police is mainly using BMW as far as I know, but you may want to pass on that.
@@BlindingFlashlights German Police drives all brands ...
Bavaria of course BMW and Audi ... but also VW, Fiat, Ford, Land-Rover, Mercedes, MAN ...
Baden-Wurttemberg of course Mercedes ... but today more BMW and Audi than Mercedes ... and also MAN, Fiat, Ford
Good Luck finding a BMW to drive ... maybe you have to use A MAN LTE oder VW-Crafter.
Love it how lost he said: "Haribo is from Sweden, What" 😂
Hey there, Dwayne!
I'm pretty new to your channel and I guess this is my first ever comment here... I really like your reactions and way of presentation. Keep up the good work!
As for Germans driving the luxury brands... I guess we are still a or even THE car country and people absolutely treasure their vehicles. So oftentimes it's not that difficult to get hands on a used one in top condition even if has a very high mileage.
On the other hand some people are just willing to spend a bit more on their car than in other countries. As far as I am concerned, I went with a Korean brand, KIA. 🤘🏻
Best wishes from Aachen, Germany!
Andi
Thanks for your comment I really appreciate that you like the channel :). I’m beginning to realise how serious you guys are when it comes to cars ha! It all makes sense now.
@@dwayneslens many Germans really are... 😂 I always loved scooters and motorbikes and hab been riding for almost 30 years until a severe accident this time last year. I drive a car merely for safety reasons and comfort now. 😂
@@dwayneslens You know Americans and guns? While there are important differences, there are a fair number of similarities when you compare it to Germans and cars. I still remember at one of the earlier debates about maybe not having parts of the Autobahn without any speed limits, the anti-limit side came up with the slogan „Freie Fahrt für freie Bürger!“ (ADAC, largest German motor club, 1974). See the parallels?
@@KaiHenningsenone tiny little difference: in Germany we do not have a thing like the 2nd amendment.
11:25 Most of the cars like BMW, and Volkswagen are Company Cars. You can use the car also for private . For Tax reason you have to pay 1% monthly of the selling Price for the car.
I’m American and from the South. The way I pronounce Audi sounds like Odd-E. I say Porsche and Mercedez the same as the UK. Some people in the US name their kids after these two cars but will pronounce Porsche the name more like Porscha.
I didn’t realize all these car brands were German either. I’m not into cars, it’s just a vehicle to get you from point A to point B for me.
I pronounce Adidas the American way lol. It wasn’t until I got older that I learned that it was a German company and how to pronounce it. The way it’s pronounced in Germany in the UK sounds posh to me which I’m all for. If I was to try to pronounce it the way the Germans do people would look at me weird since nobody in the US says it that way,, they probably won’t even know what I was talking about.
The original Audi and the US like the UK it’s a discount store to us. The other Aldi that was created by the bar there that sell out where the girl said it goes by Trader Joe’s in the US as a Posh store here.
I’ve never heard or seen the hair care brand or that dishwasher brand in the US that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. I’m just probably never paid attention. As for the sweets brand, we do have that here. Honestly, i’ve never even pronounced it. I’m not a big, gummy bear person. When I was little, I’m sure I just said, can you get me some gummy bears from the store and that’s what was picked.
As a German, i recommend that you should do two things:
- First: Drive a Porsche just for one hour, and you'll never want to drive any other car!
- Secondly: Buy a washing machine, a vacuum cleaner or another electrical household appliance, if you are able to, and you'll never want another too! However it needs a little bit of care for those devices to have fun a long with them!
@@anjin-san Miele is very close to where I live. And many Germans swear on Miele, especially for washing machines, because they are extremely long-lasting. True, they are a little more expensive in the beginning, but I know friends of mine who had their Miele for about 20 years and it was still running...
I’m from the US and pronounce Adidas , the German way, my uncle’s wife is German, so I ask her how German products are pronounced.
I am German and watching this video from Germany. And would like to say that the commenter is a very likeable and pleasant person.
You as a speaker of British English actually seem to be quite close to the original German version. The US-American pronounciation is a little different though. Especially when it comes to Adidas. But your Puma also was different. The funny thing is that many German brands in the UK are often considered Swedish. I had friends in the UK who were convinced that Haribo and Lidl were Swedish and were very surprised to learn that these two brands were German brands... Thanks for your reaction, though.I love Feli?s videos, she is quite a sympathetic character from Munich and it is nice to see that even British. people like her as well.
What's "British English"? 🤔
@@jackkelly335 This, or standard English, is the way foreign people are taught English in foreign countries like Germany. We learn later on that there are other ways to speak English but we are not taught that at school in the first place.
You have an awesone natural grab for the german language
Moin, as they say in northern Germany, if Adi Dassler and his brother hadn't argued, there would be no Puma brand. As far as I know, the two brothers have never reconciled.
The dispute began during World War II.
Rudolf Dassler had to go to the front, Adi didn't. It was classified as systemically important for unknown reasons. Rudolf accuses Adi of using relationships to avoid the front. He reports Adi to the allies. Adi allegedly employed forced laborers. This breach of trust could not be remedied. The Dassler brothers then went their separate ways. Personally, I don't like German cars except Opel, even though I'm German.
And your pronunciation of some German brand names wasn't that bad.
Germany is a country of family businesses; they make up a full 90 percent of all companies. But there are often arguments in families. Germany's largest discount chain is no exception.
There are various speculations about the Aldi brothers' falling out. Most often it is reported that the dispute broke out when tobacco products were introduced into the product range. Karl was against the sale of cigarettes, but his brother Theo wanted to include them in his product range.
Aldi quickly split into north and south. At that time there were already 300 Aldi branches with gross sales of around 90 million marks. The “healthy brotherly competition,” as it was called at the time, continued until Theo’s death in 2010.
But I can't say whether that was the real reason. There is a lot of speculation about the separation of Aldi into North and South
Moin 😉
I think the way how you pronounced Audi is closest to what Aldi is supposed to sound like 🤓
Remember, many german car brands died out or went out of funds.
Fun fact: germans built the first which went over 200 km/h, 200 mph and 300 mhp (since Bugatti was under the VW Brand at the record)
Porsche built Traktors,but later also invented and developed Tanks during WW2 like the Tiger Tank.
Your german pronounceation is perfekt.
16:00 When speaking English it really just depends on whether the person learnt a more English or American sounding accent but personally, I have noticed that I ended up with more or less the same accent in both languages, relative to either parent language. I mostly speak Yorkshire-ish English and mostly speak Ruhrdeutsch (a regional variety of Standard German) and a lot of the accent markers (like glottal stops for example) of the two are rather similar. Apart from that, Northern accents' vowels are also just closer to the German language (I guess that's bc of the Danelaw).
Amercia is a nice continent and there are wonderful countries, like Canada, Mexico, Argentina ...
Adidas is founded bei Adi Dassler, while his brother founded Puma and both companies are located near Nuremberg / Erlangen in Franconia in northern Bavaria.
America is not a continent, it is the North American Continent, America is short for the United States .of America
Because of the Adidas/Puma split the stem factories of both are located in the same small town.
My VW Passat is 23 Years old and has 830,000km on the speedometer
5:30 if you pronounce Audi with an "l" people in Germany and Austria will think you mean the supermarkets "Aldi" ;)
Adidas =Adi Dassler
Audi is the second enterprise founded by August Horch in 1910 after he was ousted from “Horch Automobile”- it’s the Latin translation of Horch->Audi
ALDI = Albrecht Discount
11:57 Before and during WWII the car was called “KdF Wagen” and could be payed by a monthly stamp system- no one ever got a car through this !
19:44 You choose your friends-not family! If you don’t get well together…
22:38 Miele = Family name
23:29 Harry Riegel, Bonn
She forgot some brands like
Sixt car rental
Siemens
Osram
Bauknecht
SAP
"Harry Riegel, Bonn"
Harry, hol schon mal den Wagen? ;)
It is Hans Riegel.
ALDI = Aldi Diskont (not Discount)
... and some of this comments are so superfluous, as she explained the same things in her comments ...
@@BigDogMikel
Do you think they know what Diskont means ?
It's not all roses in germany, but love your enthusiasm. Enjoying it
"Mercedes" is a first name that comes from Spain (so Germans pronounce it incorrectly as well in this aspect). In Spanish there are no apostrophes in this name. They probably come from the spelling of this name in another language. I'm guessing French because her mother was a native French speaker (from a french-Sephardic family).
british english is the best english. I love the clear british english, the pronounciation. It´s easy to understand for us germans.
Yes, your accent actually is pretty close to German - at least compared to American English. In general, British English tends to be pretty close to German in terms of phonetics, since both languages have the same ancestor.
One of the main aspects where you notice this is the vowels. In American English, every vowel is a diphtong, so two sounds combined, while in German and many British accents, the vowels are pronounced as one single sound, which automatically makes British English sound more similar than American English.
Another thing Brits and Germans do the same way is dropping the r at the end of words, which creates famous meme phrases like Peter Parker ("Petah Pahkah") that Americans like to poke fun at, but it's very close to how Germans would pronounce the name as well.
There's also other things, like vocabulary that is similar. For example, what Americans would call a license plate is called a number plate in British English, which is exactly the same in German ("Nummernschild").
11:10 No, these car brands simply produce more models for the German/EU market, not just the big luxury cars.
12:47 The letters E and I are pronounced differently in German compared to english...most of the time that is because english is inconsistent with the pronounciation, especially with the letter I which is pronounced in various different ways in English (just have a look at the words in this sentence - none of the I's in these words is pronounced as you just did when just saying the letter).
15:26 When you see the letters sp or st in a word they are always pronounced with a sch-sound - as if the word was written like schp or scht
16:02 British English is usually closer to German than American, Canadian or Australian English, however this can be a little hard to define because of the many accents in the UK (and Germany as well of course). Some of them are very hard to understand, sometimes even for native speakers (most Germans for example don't understand the Bavarian and Swabian dialects unless they are from those regions). The USA have different dialects as well of course, but American English is actually way more homogenous than British English even though the country is so much bigger.
Fun fact: The tendency of native english speakers from all over the world to drop the letter t in the middle of words (like you just did with water - you pronounced it like wa'er) is actually wrong according to the phonetic rules of the english language. However - given how widespread this pronounciation is I expect the t to eventually dissappear from these words over time because that's how languages evolve over time.
16:55 That's not a moose, that's a deer (or what would sometimes be called a hart in english but I don't know if that word is commonly used anymore in English - as far as I know it is a bit of an older word)
19:18 The Aldi you have in the UK is part of Aldi Süd/Aldi South. In the case of the two Aldi chains it wasn't really that much of a fight the brothers had, they only disagreed about integrating some products into their stores and decided to split the company. However, they are not really competitors - instead they decided to split their spheres of interest. Internationally, Aldi Nord operates in Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Spain, while Aldi Süd operates in Australia, Austria, China, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Slovenia, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States.
Germany is the only country where both brands operate under the Aldi label, but the country is split: Aldi Nord operates in the nothern half, Aldi Süd in the Southern half. The only other country that has both chains are the USA, however Aldi Nord does not operate under the Aldi label there; instead, they operate under the Trader Joe's label, a company they bought in the 1970ties.
She is kind of right that Audi, Mercedes and BMW are driven by people of all classes but you must tell the people who buy the cars new and the ones who by it used, some even 3rd oer 4th hand.
When you are able to buy this car new, you are being better of then the mean.
Also, at one time, pretty much every German taxi was a Mercedes - back when they were usually black and not the current sort of eggshell colour. (No dammit Grammarly, I'm on a Brit channel, so there's an "u" in that word!)
@@KaiHenningsen
Yes of course and lots of leasing cars that are Audi, Mercedes and BMW going to the used car market.
Your English is much closer to Germany than Amarican English. For a German you are very easy to understand.
Contrary to The Dassler Brothers, the Albrecht Brothers (Aldi) parted on good terms and did it mainly to prepare their inheritance. They had a noncompeting agreement when they parted the company and divided their "claims" on pretty much the whole world among themselves. That is the reason why every country other than Germany either has only Aldi (South) with the orange and blue logo or Aldi (North) with the blue and white logo. In Germany, they are both present, but - as the names say - Aldi North only in the Northern half and Aldi South only in the Southern part. Only after the strict noncompetition clause expired (you can only do those for a limited number of years because of competition law), they started "poaching" in each others territories, but they usually don't do it with their respective main brands, but with other discount market chains they have bought (like e.g. Trader Joe's in the US).
I have written down other names of German companies that are listed on the stock market:
Airbus (aviation, aerospace, defence)
Allianz (insurance)
BASF (chemicals)
Bayer (chemicals, pharmaceuticals)
Continental (automotive supplier)
Daimler Truck (commercial vehicle production)
DHL (logistics)
Deutsche Telekom (Telecommunications)
Henkel (consumer goods, chemicals)
Rheinmetall (defence technology, automotive supplier)
SAP (software)
Siemens (electrical engineering)
Siemens Energy (electrical engineering, energy technology)
Siemens Healthineers (medical technology)
Zalando (mail order fashion)
Vonovia (property)
and many other brands
She explained very well. The name of ADIDAS is based on the first letter of name of the owner. Adolf (called Adi) Dassler. Nice comment to a nice lesson of german brands.
I don‘t think, that the cars are cheaper here in germany but you can see a lot of german cars on the streets by brands like Audi, BMW, Mercedes, VW but also Porsche.
We germans like our carbrands very much, so we drive it as well.
But it’s not like audi bmw or Mercedes are driven by all social classes. Maybe older models, when they are cheaper, but a new Audi A1 still costs over 30.000€ and that’s not possible to afford by all social classes
By the way: I like your videos very much! Keep on! 😊
Siemens
cars arent cheap in germany but in general we value cars alot we see cars as a wealth status so if ure "hot shit" you drive a fancy car.. also our market is really saturated with parts and german cars so they get cheaper if u buy them used most people tend to buy "jahreswegen" so called year old cars which were mostly leased by companies and are sold after a year.. the companies pay everycheckup and repair to retain the value of the car. so most private persons get a mostly new car for half the price
I'm german and was shocked about puma😂
Hey man. Nice reaction! I will try to help you out with a few examples how vowels are pronounced in most cases.
german - english
e - Like the e in "end"
i - like you pronounce e
a - like the o in "mother" or the u in "understanding" 🤷🏼♂️🤔... whatever! 😂
o - it's quite similiar in both languages
u - like the last sound in "you" y-u
ei - like you pronounce "i"
eu - like the -oy in "toy"
ä - like the a in attention
ö - like the o in "world" - kind of
ü - that's a tough one! Had to search it, but there seems nothing in english that sounds like it. Best explantion I found, was a scottish pronounced o "who"! 🤷🏼♂️ Have to ask my british friend, her husband is a Scot.
I think that was most of them and how they are pronounced most of the time.
Have a nice day! Greetings from bavaria! ✌🏻
Fun fact about Aldi - in Austria it's Aldi Süd (Aldi south) but it's named "Hofer"... They're building their new headquarter in Salzburg, Austria (maybe finished in early 2026)
This probably refers to Austria. In the south of Germany it is called Aldi Süd.
I'm sorry for bombing your reactions but I had to react to your request at the end. Your accent is pretty good. I'm a non German speaking Dutch man and I perfectly understand. One other thing. You have to shoutout the original video and put in in the discription. You owe them that.
Funfact: Florena "was" a cream from east germany (waldheim) and the company is older older than Nivea (from the packaging looked similar, why it came to court case) but now Florena and Nivea its the same because Beiersdorf (Nivea, Hamburg) bought the company in 2002.
as a german it was really funny to watch your video haha love it