Brit Reacts to Shocking differences between GERMANY and the UK
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- Who do you think won the battle? Germany or The UK? Let me know in the comments section below :)
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Saying Germans all love wearing traditional Lederhosen is just as untrue as saying Scottish men all wear kilts.
Fact😊
That's what i wanted to tell.😅
That‘s what I thought! If he is from Denmark, he should know better!
It's more like saying something like "men all across the UK love wearing kilts" , considering that Lederhosen have no traditional significance in most of the country.
True that is such BULLSHIT
In Germany, lederhosen are worn just as often everywhere as kilts in the whole of Great Britain.
Just as kilts are only worn in Scotland, and only on traditional occasions, lederhosen are only worn in Bavaria.
And yes, we have different accents, for many North Germans from the coast it is easier to understand someone who speaks English than someone who comes from Bavaria and speaks extremely dialect. This is because of the original old Plattdeutsch and Old English are very closely related. Of course, languages have changed over the centuries, but it helps a lot if you listen carefully.
And funnily enough, this is also where the most tea is drunk in the whole of Germany.
Fun fact is :
In my youth, I drank with many english soldiers who were stationed near me. Sometimes they won, sometimes we won. But I've never seen it again with any people that you drank together, argued, got into fights, and then stood together again at the bar in harmony.
I was still in contact with some of them for a very long time after they were back home.
I always liked this quote to describe the difference between the UK and Germany .
The English Gentleman is to polite to be honest.
The German Gentleman is to honest to be polite.
I've never heard the saying before, but I think it's really good because it says everything there is to know about Germans.
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The Kilt in Scotland is the same with the Lederhosen in Bavaria, Nobody else in the UK/Germany wear them at all and even in Scotland/Bavaria they wear it only on some Festivals or special reasons.
think of sexual vs functional nudity, if the nudity serves a purpose (that is not for adults only) like tanning, swimming, going to the sauna or the beach then it's totally fine, there's nothing wrong. This includes mothers breastfeeding, they're seen as feeding their babies, there's nothing innapropriate with babies eating
It always shocks me when I hear about feeding babies being considered a bad thing. I mean, even if you think that starving a baby is morally acceptable... it's not like anyone wins if it's hungry-crying.^
The nude movement in Germany was born out of necessity. Around 1920, many workers' sports clubs were formed that had the problem that they could not afford sportswear. That's why they did sports naked. The top priority was no sexual assaults against each other. This first gave rise to the nude bathing movement FKK, which grew larger and larger. The movement was interrupted by the Nazi era, where this was forbidden. After the war, the movement was reborn, but not on the grounds of being poor, but of being free
@@walkir2662 true i do not mind seeing a nipple, if it means the baby will be quiet. idk how people prefer screaming babies or mothers to feed on the toilet?! very weird concept, eating in the most germ-y place ever
@@TheSwasi Yes, but with the prudish and constantly indignant Gen-Z, the movement will quickly be over again.
😂 Oh Dwayne, I can´t stop laughing. You have no idea how much joy you bring to me every day. You´re probably the best "Reactor" on TH-cam and your humour definitly resonates with mine.🤣👍
6:30 I don't know how it's done in other countries, but in Germany sex education is usually taught in school grade 3 or 4. And in many schools again in the 7th or 8th grade. Some parents are certainly happy that their children are being educated at school.
i laughed so much at your comments. you are a very likeable guy
After your comment on the kilt: In Germany it's about the same with Lederhosen. A small group uf people in a very specific part of the country wears that, but every stranger believes that's "national heritage".
We Germans also have the stereotype of Germans with the towel and vacation situation 😂
I'm from Colombia and spent 7 years living in London. Now 12 years in Berlin. Nothing to compare... Berlín all the way💓💓💓
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Well, I haven´t seen a cool guy like you in Germany for a while, so there must be something the Brits do right.
Germany is only 3rd in beer consumption, Ireland is 2nd, the Czech Republic is 1st and the UK is 6th
As far as dialects are concerned, one should not forget that Germany is also a multi-ethnic country, Germany consists of 6 tribes, Franconia, Thuringia, Alemanni, Bavaria, Lower Saxony/Saxony and Frisia. Thanks Dwayne I'm a fan of your channel and I'm always happy when something new from you appears
as for the drinking contest I reckon the Brits win, most Germans stop when they reach a certain level and the Brits drink until they are under the table 🤣
way more than 6...
And I think Ostfriesland drinks the most tea in the world per capita.
Czech first, Austria second, Latvia third. Germany is seventh in drinking beer per person a year.
@@Kullioking trau keiner Statistik die du nicht selbst gefälscht hast, don't trust any statistics that you haven't falsified yourself, my statistics say otherwise 😂
@@walkir2662 these are the 6 main tribes with which germany was founded, there are others such as the sorbs who even have their own language
@@onnasenshi7739 Ich hoffe mal das ist nicht die aus 2015 wo Deutschland wirklich auf platz 2 war.
As a german, I would say, we aren't more punctual then others, at least in private situations. It's more about showing respect of others time. If someone waiting for you and you don't get it, call immediately, so they can spend their waiting time usefull. But when it comes to professional appointments, that's pretty true!
1/3 is Forest
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10:48 I don't think the UK has the worst accent. As a german I like the british accent more than the accents of the US. In my opinion the brit accent sounds more gentle and elegant.
Germany has a lot of accents like :
-High German (Hochdeutsch, standard German)
-Low German (Plattdeutch)
-Bavarian German (Bayerisch)
-Upper Saxon Dialect (Sächsisch)
-The Berlin Dialect (Berlinerisch)
and some others even germans can't understand :D
There's one on that list I, even as a German, don't understand: Bavarian
Swabian would be a second one.
I speak Ruhrpott German which is distinct but not that different to High (Standard) German.
true but Low German is its own language not only an accent.
I like the british accent either!
Well, I mean, there are British accents that are pleasing to the ear and then there's some that rival German Saxon ("Sächsisch") in terms of sounding annoying.
@@TF2CrunchyFrogactually there are many people who have grown to like Sächsisch. I personally don’t like Kölsch at all
The world champion of drinking tea are the people of East Frisia. We drink more tea than the ppl from England. We even have a special tea ceremony. East Frisia is located in Lower Saxony, North Germany.
I love your reactions and how emotionally you're defending your home country xD
Germany does not only have accents, but some dialects will not be understood when going from one region to the next. Bavarian ist fundamentally different to Plattdeutsch (spoken in the North, with a lot of similarities to Englisch). Sometimes you go from one city to the next und you will have trouble understanding what they're saying.
....and I must say, you're getting pretty worked up about this video ;-) ....
Well, I have to add, we do not only have dialects, but we do also have different languages.
By the way, Low German is not a dialect but a language in its own right.
Not just the different languages/dialects, but also the fact that lederhosen and dirndls are just a part of Bavarian culture.
I live on the Schwäbische Alb and some miles down the hills is the Donau, the spoken language at the tale are not the same like here in the Albs, mostly the older people speak a several language from village to village, but also German in common.
I am from Germany, and we have many different dialects. In my opinion, the saxonian and bavarian ones are difficult to understand. And "Hochdeutsch" is like Oxford English, as we learn in schools.
But in Tea the Brits win with 200 l against 27 l in Germany. But the most Tea Drinkers are the "Ostfriesen" (a German Tribe in the North-West of Germany) with 300 l. In Ireland it is about 250 l.
Funny to call the Ostfriesen a tribe!😂 I know it is right, but in my imagination a tribe looks somehow different. You know what I mean, don't you?😅
@@Winona493 I would call all language groups in Germany and elswhere a Tribe. Swabian (Like me), Bavarian, Saxony, and all the others. So what is the correct wording?
@@alexanderpracher6753 I don't know! I think it IS the correct wording! But don't you know what comes to mind when thinking of a tribe? Einen Stamm? Like savages in the jungle.🙈
It is my fault, not yours. Sorry.
11:33 nope, in Germany they don’t have accents, they have dialects. And they have more dialects than the UK. First of all because Germany is larger than the UK, secondly until 1871 there was no Germany. Before, there were hundreds of German-speaking territories from the North Sea to modern-day Poland and Russia to the French border and to the alps. Most of these territories had nothing to do with each other, so of course their „languages“ developed differently from each other. To that extent, that a non-native speaker (like me) could NOT understand e.g. Bavarian or Swiss German (although I’ve been living in Germany for 20 years.) Even many Germans struggle with the dialects. HOWEVER, only very few people actually speak their dialects. Almost exclusively elderly people which is why many dialects will die out in the near future. Sad because I like the way they sound
Hold your horses ! It's not that we like nuditiy, we just don't mind it !! We are more relaxed as we know that we weren't born with clothes on.
Hello again - the german lady living in M.S I worked in germany at a no kill animal shelter and here at a vets clinic as a vet. tech and it took me 15 years to make the same amount of money that i made after 1 year in germany. Crazy !
Punctuality: I'd say for everything that's not a private or in any way casual/informal meeting, it's normal for most people to be there at least five minutes earlier, if not sooner (I personally even prefer ten or even fifteen minutes early, in case there's a problem like difficulties finding the place, plus I usually need some time to calm down a little and not look like I just ran a marathon to get there😅). For private things I think you often have more freedom and it's ok to show up a few minutes later without telling the host you'll come a bit later (if you're late up to fifteen minutes, I'd definitely tell them). But you still should expect most guests to be already there.
"....the SHADE!". You are so funny with your reactions and also so wholesome.
Dwayne, your videos are always a pleasure to watch. You're such a great and likeable chap, especially your catchy vibe and attitude... it feels almost like having a "Bro-Crush" on you. 😉😂
I wonder if that's the British or Jamaican part of you!? 🤔
I agree. I was infected by his mood.
Lederhosen is only a thing in the Alpine region.
Well, Germans only wear lederhosen and Englishmen only wear kilts.
Btw; I actually wear lederhosen very often ... when I'm sitting on my motorbike and chasing Englishmen on the Autobahn.🤣
@Kelsea-2002 😂 Haha, I like leather pants like that too. Had one for 25 years, but without a motorcycle 😢.
6:25 The better question is why the anglosphere is so prudish about it. At least in mainland Europe (can't speak for everywhere but everywhere that I know it fits) and South America (again, afaik), nudity is less of a big deal than in every English speaking country. Anglos (I hope that term isn't offensive) are the odd ones out here, *I think*.
Also, context matters. Expose yourself in most areas in public and you'll still get a fine or sth.
Concerning Lederhosen: no, we don't wear them regularly, most of us have never worn one at all. Lederhosen are distinctly Bavarian and I mean inner Bavaria, not even the entire state. Every area has traditional clothing but only in the South (and maybe in the Sorbian towns?) do they wear them in any number worth mentioning. Like others said, it's like saying everyone in the UK wears a kilt regularly.
10:00 The Frisians (people from certain regions in Northern Germany and the Netherlands) supposedly drink even more tea per capita than you Brits or the Turks, although the average German drinks less of it. Just a fun little factoid. Similar to the Dutch being the tallest nation but some Balkan population (forgot the name) being taller, yet (locally).
11:15 Same here. We also have several indigenous languages, not just High German, similar to you having Gaelic languages and Scots.
Edit: I personally wouldn't see Geordie and Scouse as *that* different but then again, that probably depends on how thick the accent is and most people (I assume) don't go all in on that.
16:10 Yeah, that's definitely a Danish accent.
23:45 That's not a stereotype, that's just true.
25:00 It is true. I think we rank 3rd in the world after Czechia (no. 1) and Austria (no. 2).
Edit: I'm pretty sure the Czech Republic is no. 1. Maybe he was looking at some old numbers (or maybe I was). Although alcohol consumption was on the rise in Germany, last time I checked.
29:15 On British vs. German humour I'd say I enjoy British TV more (it's actually funny). German stand up, for the most part, is just horrible. We do have better satire though, including Kabarett. When it comes to interpersonal humour, I prefer British banter and humour. German situational humour isn't that different, I think but German humour can be drier and a bit darker.
As a German, let me tell you, that's bs. Wages are higher and with that taxes are the highest among the EU. Renting can easily eat up to 35 to 45% of your wages after tax. Food might be cheaper at the moment but that is about to change. Try to rent a flat in Hamburg or Munich is almost a nightmare. Check it out yourself.
London 🤔
Not only are rents among the highest in the E.U.(major cities, at least), the problem is the number of tenants as opposed to homeowners. Germany has a far smaller proportion of homeowners compared to the U.K.. This means that folks on small incomes, (which I would see qualified at anything less than around 50,000 Euros p.a.) are exposed to inflation to a greater extent as a result.
@@baronvonklik7159 in addition to that. The new rules and regulations for building a new home are nuts. A house with energy efficiency class AA in the Netherlands equals to an Class E in Germany. Prices for construction materials are going through the roof as well.
@@baronvonklik7159 As far as I know, Armenian and Romanian did have the highest ownership shares🤔🤷♂️
@@baronvonklik7159 Switzerland the lowest
First of all; Germany vs England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, + all islands... where's the error??? But hey; no problem, Germany also takes on all these British robber barons - even without adding all our North Sea and Baltic Sea islands.
Second, Germany is the country with the most immigration from all parts of the world after the USA ... do you see the next mistake? A little tip on the side; go to Berlin, because there you will see inhabitants from countries that you haven't even heard of in England.
We got these green areas and spaces even around bigger cities and we got a lot of bigger cities who have there own style and flair. I am not really into puncuallity but it is good when you are ;-) but tea seems to me more and more comment in Germany. The northern parts of Germany have tea as a big old culture, coming from the times where water had to be heated to be free from bactariens and stuff. Dialects are crazy over here- sometimes we do not understand our own people. We got 200.000 castles around here, for what i heared, i guess not every castle is top preserved but many of them are, like in maybe no other country in the world. When you are interested in that......
IIRC, Germany has 16 officially-recognized dialects. 🙂 Some closely related, others wildly different. But that's why everybody is taught "Hochdeutsch" at school (which is also the language of commerce, medicine and legal matters). Think RP. But we have theater companies that perform in dialect, rock groups and singers performing in dialect ... and no newscaster will speak in dialect. (Ages ago, a sports journalist from Bavaria was conducting a live interview with a champion skier, also from Bavaria. Perhaps inevitably, they lapsed into dialect, and some joker backstage entered a flashing text on-screen, saying it was "original Southern Soundtrack". The nation was in stitches ... and the whole of Bavaria was up in arms with outrage. Which made the whole thing even funnier.)
Leather trousers are more a Bavaria thing and Not a completely German Thing. The stitching on the trousers Tell, where the Guy WHO wears the trousers, the Region where He IS located. Usually the traditional trousers lasts a Lot of Generation in one Family. You could do comparisons with the scottish and their Kilts. Michael Mittermeier tells also about that in His english Comedy Show.
Regarding wages and prices, this video seems to be 20 years old. This is not true at all. Housing is inaffordable - especially with the latest govermnent acts. And prices in cities and also on the countryside skyrocketed the last decade.
* In a mid-size town you pay 1.2-1.5K EUR without utility for a standard 3 room flat a month. Affordable flats become more and more scarce each year due to the influx of millions of illegal immigrants.
* Grocery prices also skyrocketed since 2020. For a family of four you have to plan for 150-200€ a week - not buying high-end stuff of course, just regular items.
* Energy bill doubled for most of us in the last 2 years. We pay 360€ per month for electricity.
* Many companies are announcing major layoffs or at least short-time work - companies are fleeing the country in droves due to governmental mismanagement.
These issues plus the normal expenses like increased gas prices, car maintenance tec. puts a normal family to break even at a whopping 3000-3500€ income. The average salary after taxes was ~2.400€ in 2023.
So this video you watched is either propaganda or simply very bad research!
If you plan a trip to germany, you should definitly plan the tourist-spots like berlin, hamburg, dresden, cologne, nurnberg, stuttgard, munich and so on. Keep in mind there are hidden areas like the River Mosel with nice attractions like the area around Cochem with a beatiful castle and wine region, but do not go there before it is above 20+ °C... spring or summer is fine
Seeing this just today after watching couple of your videos! Currently living in China and it kind of brings me back home I guess haha! So I really enjoy watching!
Also I've been to Leeds before, spent 2 nights in an AirBnB with a super nice granny who was also from Jamaican descent! Was definitely positively surprised by the city! And tomorrow I'll meet friends from Leeds who are now visiting China haha
In Germany we don´t have accents like English has. We have a variety of dialect that sometimes include differences in pronunciation, but are more distinguishable by the differences in vocabulary and grammar. An example would be "Brötchen", "Weck", "Weckerl", "Rundstück", "Schrippe" and "Semmel", they mean the same thing but are used in different regions.
Wow, that was a tough one for you. Funny for me to watch as a German. I have to say though that a lot of Germans love the UK. I myself had the opportunity to work in Leeds for two years and I loved it. Yorkshire is great and I really enjoy to hear your accent when I watch your videos.
As for language... there's an article from the BBC from 2016 about an important difference... how to say "no".
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> There's one thing about the German language that if you're British, you never really quite get used to.
> It's how to say yes. And how to say no.
> An English friend of mine, Jessica, once told me a story which sums up the problem.
> When she was at school in London she was about to go on an exchange to stay with a family in Germany, and the teacher sat them all down for a talk.
> "Now girls," the teacher explained, "when someone offers you something to eat, and you want it, you say yes, not no."
...
It's called "Why UK Brexit talk baffles Germany" and obviously used as part of the politics section, but it's mostly about why Brits don't get a German 'no' ona liguistic/culttural level.
Haha, this exactly.
In countries where people are more polite, it‘s more like a dance between the one who is offering food and the other one: it’s back and forth, back and forth,… and at the end, there will be some food on your plate if you are hungry (or if you are too polite to refuse).
In Germany, if you say "no", we think you mean "no" - and we will probably accept it. No dance.
So someone who is not used to our German directness and only says "no" to start the "dance", will probably end up hungry 😂
Beer per Person: Germany 90,4 l - GB 67,6 l AND Wine: Germany 28,8 l - GB between 13-14 l AND Spirits: Germany 5,4 l - GB 4,8 l / So we Drink more even in Spirit like Whisky and Schnaps
Believe it or not ,not even bavarians always wear lederhosen😅
When it comes to punctuality, there is a saying here in Germany:"Fünf Minuten vor der Zeit ist des Soldaten Pünktlichkeit." English:"Five minutes ahead of time is the soldier's punctuality." That means, that you have to be in place ahead of time, in order to be in time."
The naked body is a lot less sexulised in Germany. It's seen as something normal and natural. That's how it should be in my opinion.
Nudity isn't big, we don't think about it, it's normal
The "Towel-Thing" is no stereotype. It is the truth, but not for all Germans. I never did it, but I saw it a lot.
you can watch: this is germany, there you can see lots if castles from germany :)
I think he saw the video a long time ago (when he started his german videos journey)
Punctuality means that you see the one you meet as equal. Letting somebody wait means that you feel more important. That‘s why we are used to wait for hours at the doctor‘s or the jobcenter. Even if you have an appointment you have to wait at least 15-30 min, just to show that you are a few steps lower. It‘s just disrespectful to rule over somebody elses lifetime. This doesn‘t include all sorts of accidents and other mistakes but they shouldn‘t come regularly.
in offices or at a doctor, it also is about efficiency, whether you have a waiting room and handle as many people as possible, or whether you have reserved time slots and unproductive gaps between people. And when squeezing in some people during these gaps (eg at a doctor, instead of giving less important non-emergencies a time slot on the next day or a few days later) you get those waiting times again ...
Dialects - my grandmother spoke a very own language (low german) of our hometown Duisburg. It sounded like a kind of "mixture" of strange german, english and dutch words! I could only understand some words and wasn't able to speak it at all! With us, she spoke the "normal" 😉 german dialect of Ruhr-german and with people her age, she spoke her language....😅
Greetings from....🇩🇪 🙋🏻♀️
I love the sides of scotland I have seen.My brother lives ther since 30 years an I am happy that I visited him a lot of times.He lived between Edinburgh and Stirling. The Brexit makes everything difficult.I love the natur of Germany , our cities and social system.We can learn from the other side of living.And music conected us all over the world
Wow, there are only two British people on TH-cam I watch regularly these days, Rachel Oates and you, and I have just discovered that you are both from Leeds! Must be something in the water there!
From what I have experienced, the drinking culture in the UK is quite different from ours in Germany. We often drink only for „Gemütlichkeit“ here, not to get drunk - whereas binge drinking was probably invented in the UK (but has made its way to Germany, too). So we drink more beer in Germany, but I am pretty sure British people can drink more alcohol before they fall off their chairs.
Not sure about our Gen Z, though! They are „great“ binge drinkers, too. Might be close.
The towel on deckchair stereotype about German tourists is not even a stereotype - it‘s a fact. I never do it, I don’t like it and I can only apologize for my people, but… it is what it is.
We do love to plan ahead in Germany, which is not always a bad thing in my opinion, but sometimes we obviously put it a bit too far 😁
"Who is Mert" is another good one, he`s Scottish, living in Thailand and reacts to German stuff, even politics and comedy which imo actually are one genre :D
@@atconnys8786 👍 He is great, I do follow him too, I just don’t really watch his content on a regular basis for some reason.
German food is not boring. I'm offended too 😡😉
But the capital region of tea consuming is in Germany, it's the East Frisian Islands. 😉
Crazy that you guys beat us in diversity. For example I’m born and raised in Germany my mother was born and raised in turkye and my dad was born and raised in Armenia. My mum and my Turkish family site are Muslims and we kids and my dads family site are christians. And I know many family’s are mixed like mine in every variation u can imagen and I love that. I love how different and beautiful other cultures can be and how beautiful they can be if we mix them. Sorry for my English 😂🫱🏽🫲🏻
But I don’t know about the wage’s are higher and living is cheaper in Germany 😂 man I’m broke I’m not poor poor but I’m broooke u feel me? And It’s not because I consume much (like clothes or technology or so on) maybe it’s because if u work in healthcare u don’t count as a real person? 🤔
Don’t mention the war… Ehh… the colonies.
thank you for your reactions ❤
On a side note: most of the world's tea is drunk in East Frisia, a region in Germany. Between 1.5-2 liters a day per person!
Bro.Every country got dialects. we don't only got accents.We also got dialects,where many, many words differ from region to region.And dialects that are even non-intelligable to other Germans.Also in my region there is a strong dialect.Its called kurpfälzisch.And i come from a village,where words noticably differ from the standart dialect of the region.And is spoken in the region of Heidelberg.Its the so called most beautiful city in Germany and many,many people from different countries,especially south and north American, east Asian people and also from countries of Europe come here to study at the universities and get some taste of our south-western german region.Also its one of the warmest regions in Germany.One of the most culturally diverse,because it borders 2 other German federal states and is also very diverse in landscape.The hilly,vinicraft Kraichgau area,The Mountainstreet-Odenwald which is the so called forest of legends and myths.A mountainous and almost fully deciduous tree covered area.And the rhine level,that is just flat land.Also is one of the most historically and economically important and developed regions in germany.Lets say for example the first car ever was invented in our region.And even drove to the so called first gas station in my town ,that was a former apothecary.I really recommend you watching some content of Heidelberg, Kurpfalz and the 3rd biggest federal state of Germany Baden-Württemberg itself.
Thank you for your interest in Germany.I really like your videos.They are quite entertaining.Keep going!❤
Haha, I felt very entertained and it made me laugh to tears.
Don't take this personally because I really like England and Scotland too. It is often the case that we look into the distance to see beautiful things, but we often forget that our own country is also very beautiful. Unfortunately, it is a global development that the cost of living is exploding and we Germans tend to be very critical of the deficits in our country and politics. The entire world is facing major challenges and you cannot turn back the wheel of time.
Actually, when we visited the Isle of Skye for the 1st time on our honeymoon in 1981, we met people in some remote places who wore kilts like the rest of the world would wear jeans -- not the whole dressy outfit, but with just a plain sweatshirt and sneakers. It was interesting. 🙂
That's why you can hear different dialects from city to city
20:22 I just remembered an episode of Sherlock that featured houses that just looked like regular houses from the front, but were actually only the facade. Of course they've been build for some specific purpose I can't remember (to hide the entrance to a bunker or something?), but I still found it pretty odd and funny.😅
😂 That was entertaining and very funny. Thank you ❤
The people in the german region of east frisia consume even more tea than english people. Must be a coastal habit.
Das liegt daran das früher, als man noch aus Brunnen schöpft die Wasserqualität in Friesland nicht gut war, es war brackig. Der Tee machte es bekömmlich.
Ich mag die friesischen Teezeremonie🫖
Hi Dwayne! This is Gerhard (Gery) from Graz 👋
First of all - sorry for my English, my main language is German and I try to write without any translator...
I have seen now a few of your videos and I really love your reactions - you are one of the greatest 'be who you are" reactor from Europe - I've seen so far 🫣
Congrats to that! Love to see more.
A question of mine is...
Is your kind of filtering out some phrases a typical thing of English people? I mean - okay, you are right, if you feel a bit bullied with this video but there are so many even positive things to GB inside this clip.
Example: beer and tea
You drink the biggest amount of tea and are therefore number ONE, but not being better to Germany by drinking beer makes the point.
So is that a british thing, that you want to be - just as a question - better in some things which sounds "cooler"?
I couldn't stop laughing as you noticed that few minutes less sleep of Germans and combined that to the by towels reserved seats aso - what a genious beautiful combination!! 😜😀😂
Greetings and a hug from Graz, Austria
Gery
Hi, Dwayne! ....Yes, but you`ve got the commonwealth states! 🤔
...You are from Leeds???
...A video about german accents would be great!
...Funny reaction, but keep calm, Dwayne. We`ve got inflation. Everything gets more expensive at this time. People talk about it a lot.
...The thing with the towels are really a running gag. I didn`t know that brits sleep longer! 😂😂😂(Maybe, because their hang over is bigger).
At last I want to say again, that you are such a lovely person! I think we germans would like to "adopt" you. Maybe you meet your old school friend again! 🤣🤗
Lederhosen and dirdls are traditional and come finrom Bavaria and since the Oktoberfest is in Munich (Bavaria) you also dress traditionally! Football is also the number one sport in Germany. Ludwig The 2nd King of Bavaria built Neuschwanstein Castle in the 18th century and when Walt Disney visited Germany he found it so beautiful that he took it as his identification mark. The young man in the video also has half knowleWe . We have 25,000 thousand castles, palaces and ruins, do you have that much?
I´m a german and i live in the southwest of germany, nearly of Heidelberg. We have a lot of different accent´s : Schwäbisch, bayrisch, hessisch, PFÄLZISCH, saarländisch, Plattdeutsch, Sächsisch and many more. So, german persons from the south (Bayern) and a Person from the north (Hamburg); when they spoke only their own accent - they don´t understand each other (biggest smile). So we must speak all "Hochdeutsch", then we can understand each other. I understand many of these different accents, who´s nearly by my hometown, but sometimes, there´s a big Question in my face.
The most money in Germany is still in Baden-Württemberg, before Bavaria. But it is close. Correction, it changed now, Bavaria is first in 2023.
So so many dialects are spoken in Germany
13:19 not really. Every dialect has several varieties. In some regions every village has its own way of speaking
I' m a german or more a bavarian guy I've been to Britin a cauple of times and I really liked it
Looooved this.video extra much❤😂😊😊
MATE,
Your reaction is hillarious!! 😂
One shouldn't be that competitive.
During my childhood i payed a visit to denmark every year and i happened to feel some hatered every now and then for the sufferings in WW2.
So i'm finding that video quiet stunning and admittingly biased.
Have been in the UK mid 70s for a longer visit and for a german the english were gods, basicaly. 😅😊
Come over! The way is not far!!! Much love from Germany!
In wine regions, mostly south west, they drink more wine than beer.
1:55
density Germany: 239 people per square kilometre (619 people per mi2).
density UK: 270 people per square kilometre (700 people/sq mi)
32.7% of the area of Germany are forest and England ~13% (refering to Woodland Statistics - forestresearch).
71% of the UK are used for agricultural purposes, while in Germany it is 41% (refering to England.de)
28:15
Obesity world ranking: UK is rank 29 and Germany rank 47 (refering to worldobesity ranking). But food is not the only reason.
In Germany there are lots of different dialects. It is actually estimated that there are around 250 different dialects even though many are slowly disappearing. Germany has also such different dialects that some are recognised as their own language like "Plattdeutsch".
Just on the subject of drinking tea: In tea consumption, the British occupy a very good second place behind the East Frisians! Here is a quote from the Wikipedia article "Ostfriesische Teekultur":
Top quote: "On average, every East Frisian drank around 300 litres of tea in 2016, which was roughly eleven times the average German consumption. This means that the East Frisians have the highest tea consumption per capita in the world." End quote
Yours sincerely from Germany.
11:16 There are around 20 dialects in Germany, 62% of Germans speak one dialect, the others speak Standard German, which is taught in all schools.
University cost on a "public" about 200-400€ per Semester (6months), so max. 1000€ per year, because of train-tickets. On a private university I pay 360€ per month and 300€ for rent.
if there are towels on the pool and nobodys in sight. collect them all together and bring them to the reception. just tell them, somebody forget them at the pool. allways funny again :) aaaaand 4 x world cup winner :D love your chanell
I just was in London, it feels much bigger then Berlin. A bit like New York or Chicago. In terms of Multikulti, there are areas you here more Spanish or English than German.
20:00 I kind of envy the UK for valuing how things look as well. Sure, things should work but it doesn't hurt if it is nice to look at as well.
The funny thing is, we think the same about the British. There are true legends about the towel war between the British and the Germans.
Yes it looked funny when my husband started speaking german while they spoke oxford engl,
25:02 Actually a study says that one region of Germany tops the Tea drinking culture of england. And thats North Germany. 300 liter drank the "Ostfriese" meanwile the whole english people got it to 187 liter per year. But after all we are behind UK.
I really hope you will travel countries one day and take us all with you with videos.
2:15 7,686 km²
Green areas: 7,686 km² or 2.2% Agriculture: 191,119 km² or 53.5% Forestry: 105,432 km² or 29.5% Water areas are 6,749 km² or 1.9%
29:05-29:16 finally someone speaks the truth 😆
Love your reactions! Love the UK! 😘
25:02 This is how much beer Germans (71L - 90L) and Britons (51L - 70L) drink per year. The Czechs drink the most beer in Europe per year (90 - 130 liters).
Nice video. Thanks a lot
Feli and Josh did some videos about them in 'Understanding trainstation'
Hi Dwayne, there are more than 3,200 different types of bread in Germany.
Greetings from Berlin.
- Berlin is also very multicultural. But people with either Kurdish or Turkish or German migrant background (meaning either parents or grandparents migrated to Berlin) are the majority.
- Germans drink more coffee than beer per capita - and in some regions more wine than beer. By the way: Frisians drink more tea per capita than anyone else in the world.
- Not all Germans are as punctual. Sometimes they are a day late.
- Leather trousers are not at all a part of Germany's national heritage. After the Napoleonic wars Bavaria had doubled in size, and as some club in Bayrischzell declared the loss of the leather trousers (which were at that time already been replaced by loden trousers both in traditional clothing as well as in robust working clothes, except for hunting in the woods), they got the support of the king to create a Bavarian tradition around it, in order to create some Bavarian national sentiment. So it became part of Bavaria's national heritage alone. In the Alpine regions of Austria and Germany there was some decades ago also some tradition of young boys wearing leather trousers for outside activities (which was encouraged during the Nazi Regime and gradually died out during the 1970s).
- The acceptance of nudity originated in the late 19th and early 20th century mainly in the region around Berlin and the Baltic seaside resorts Berliners visited during summer vacations (but also in some places in the Ruhr region). It was founded in the Naturism movement of the time and a positive body acceptance as part of nature; it was propagated as healthy (and if you look at the bathing costumes of the time you'll understand that those were considered to be unhealthy). It was practiced by leftists as symbol for the equality of all humans beneath the clothing, by Evangelical Christians, which were often also vegetarians or committed to a raw food diet, by esoterics and also some extreme right-wing Germanic supremacists and Ariosophists.
- Germany has less accents than dialects. Standard German is an invention of mostly the 19th century, based on Martin Luther's bible translation, which was in turn based on the Meissen Kanzleideutsch (Meissen Officialese) and Middle German influences; it was propagated by Prussia after it had conquered most of Northern Germany and replaced in some regions e.g. around Hannover the traditional, more Lower German dialects. The West has mostly Franconian dialects: Dutch (= Low Franconian), Ripuarian and Moselle Franconian (both Middle Franconian), North, Middle, East and South Hessian, Anterior and West Palatine, Lorraine Franconian (all Rhenish Franconian), Southern Franconian. In the Southwest we have the Alemannic group: Lower Alemannic and Swabian (northern Alemannic), Middle Alemannic, High Alemannic and Highest Alemannic (southern Alemannic - Highest Alemannic is spoken mostly in the Swiss Alps, therefore "highest"). In the Southeast we have the Bavarian dialects: southern Bavarian (eastern Allgäu, Tyrol, southern Austria), middle Bavarian dialects (Mingarian around Munich, west middle Bavarian in Lower and Upper Bavaria, east middle Bavarian in northeast Austria, south middle Bavarian in central Austria) and northern Bavarian dialects (e.g. Upper Palatine); in the northern and western parts of the Bavarian districts Lower Franconia, Middle Franconia and Upper Franconia they speak East Franconian dialects, which mix in Thuringia with the Thuringian dialect, which is like Upper Saxon an East Middle German dialect. In the North we have Frisian and the Lower German dialects (which are based on Old and Low Saxon): Westfalian, Eastfalian and Northern Low Saxon in the West, Mecklenburgish-Vorpommersch, Marchian and others in the East.
The towel stereotype is so true, it hurts. My dad used to get up at 6 or 7 in the morning and lay out towels only to go back to bed and later go to the pool
11:09 *"Do you have accents?"*
> We do *arround 250 Dialects* like *English* is a dialect from *Old low German* ;)
1st directly said: *"High German"* is *NO natural "german",* it is a *"made up "german" as THE CHURCH wanted german to be,* > *reducing germanic importent words aand sounds!*
>> High german is lit. *fake* german. Similar to *"modern english"* which is also a *made up* english, how THE CHURCH wanted english to sound/look like and same as in german, *reducing GERMANIC importent words and sounds!*
>> Which is why *the church* took DEER and reduced it down to ONLY mean 1 instead ALL creatures, implementing THEIR dead langauge word for it _"animal."_
> You know from where "deer" comes from? Not only *sounds similar to german "Tier",* they actualy mean the same! Old english "small deer = small creature"
> Also in writting: Old english: *Dior* < *Tior* Old (low) German
> English words ending *TODAY* with *-ry* or *-y* were mostly like in german in old english *-rig* or *-ig* endings but,..ya THE CHURCH.
> *Hungry* was in Old english the same as in german: *Hungrig*
> So if you try to learn german,..try to use this swaping knowing this ;)
>> The *German dialects* are the traditional local varieties. They are traced back *to the different Germanic tribes.*
Many of them are hardly understandable to someone who knows only Standard German, since they *often even differ from Standard German in lexicon, phonology and syntax.*
If a narrow definition of language based on mutual intelligibility is used, *many German dialects are considered to be separate languages* (for example, in the view of Ethnologue).
>> The varieties of Standard German refer to the different local varieties of the pluricentric language Standard German. They differ only slightly in lexicon and phonology. In certain regions, they have replaced the traditional German dialects, especially the Low German of Northern Germany.
Lets take the *german federal state name of "Hessen"*
> *Hessen* is a modifyed version of the *germanic tribes name* which are the *Chatti.*
> In *germanic there is NO "Ch or -ch" !!* But a "H or -h" and it is a spoke *X or -x*
> *Hessen > Xessen > Xassen > Xatti < Chatti < Hessen*
> Saxon in english, uses the writting as it SOUNDS,...german *Sachsen* is fake, but *Saxen* correctly *spoken* and written *Sahen* then!
> The Chattis were one of the biggest germanic tribes.
> arround 100 to 50BC the Chattis splitted, and the part wandering away, settled down where today is... Netherland!
> *723* did *the church* fell the sanctuary (Heiligtum) of the Chattis, which was the huge *Donar Oak* (Donnereiche), which was dedicated to.. *Thor*
> Thor, the son of Odin &...the highest germanic goddess, which was *before Odin* even the highest goddess of germanics,... Mother Hulda/ Frau Holle is one of her CoverUp names, germanic people gave her, bc *THE CHURCH* by death forbit to even speak out her name. *Frigg(a)* was the sooo hated name by church. Ho(e)lle, Hel(l) are the *reasons* why *the chuch* used the highst germanic goddess to *DEMONIZE* the germanics highest god. *Mother Earth* ,..her womb,... made evil,... Goddess of Life, Death & rebirth,...her applegarden,..*stolen and put over germanics into the sky,...* in christianity, there was NO such called "evil place" before confronted with germanic culture and their goddess.
In *north* Hessen,.. there are *the 3 Holler Stones*
> One is 5 meter the second 3 meters high
> German saying is: "Frau Holle/Mother Hulda, droped this 3 stones there, as she made a _sidestep_ from the *Meißner (location!),* and noticed in one of her shoes stones, and poured them out there.
> They are located, with the *germanic (also for Saxons!) main lake (entrance to the other world of Holle/Hulda) is in the Geo-National park,.. *in the 100% center of today Germany!*
> Her magical plant is ... *the elderberry bush!* > Which is _"why"_ the german word for it is *Hol(l)under-busch* > Holle under (the) bush < *the elder in elderberry is Holle/Hulda = *Frigg(a)* !!
> It was even greeted when walking by by germanic peoples,..it was *holy* ...the world HOLY aaand german Heilig/Hold... rootes from *Holle/Hulda/Hel*
14:45 We have more than 20k castles and palaces in Germany. However, most of the castles are ruins.
Oh man! XD
Germany is covered by 1/3 fields and 1/3 woodland ... Americans who travel by train through Germany are always wondering: "You have over 80 mio. people living here on that small space... but where are they?!" XD
To the our contrysizes:
It gives a lovly book where a old british man make a loooong walk from southbritain to the north by feet! (The book calls in german "die unwahrscheinlicher pilgerreise des Harold fry" ,& it gives in english too,i just forgotten how its calls in english sry)^^.
However, thanks that book & thanks Joey kelly too lhe walked from northgermany to the south without using any monex), i know that its are exactly same much Km in our both countrys to walk from cross the country by feet from south to north or north to south (round 1000 Km)^^.
I have big problems with coming on time. And here it is really a big problem. When you start a new job and you are 3 times only 5 minutes to late. You will lose your job. Its really 0 tollerance for coming too late. When you are longer in the company and then you come too late you will became a written warning. After 3 warnings you loose your Job. So it is really important to be on time in germany when you will work here or become friends. Coming too late to an date is like a big disrespect. Friends can become realy angry because of it.