Reaction To German Celebrities Speaking English
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- Reaction To German Celebrities Speaking English | German and English Language
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In this video I react to celebrities, politicians and other well known people from Germany speaking English
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Günther Oettinger has probably the strongest German accent I can imagine and he made me as a German cringe so badly 😱🙈
I think you can hear that he is from Southern Germany.
Actually he is not changing his accent,it is his Wiedererkennungsmerkmal.....kind of trade mark
Ehh ahhhh Sänk Youu. Everytime Oettinger shows up in an international context you know it's gonna be great.
Oettinger is from southern Germany, he especially has a strong Swabian accent in English which always makes me cringe as a Swabian myself. I love my accent in German but you gotta let it go in English 😅😂
Guys, we wanna make a good impression as a nation! Suggesting Oettinger is somewhat...cruel. Just don't.
The average German person has tears of laughter when listening to Oettingers English, but Mert doesn't bat an eyelid :D
That's because he has a strong accent as well.
I think Germans are way harsher in judging people's attempts to speak another language. Native speakers probably appreciate the effort of someone learning a second language.
That said, Oettinger's accent really is hilarious - but hey, I'm a harsh judgy German. 😉
if you look him in the eyes you can see the small people inside his brain running in haste holding a German/English duden in they´re hands searching for words
"We are all setting in one boat" 😂
For me it sounded like he was talking German, but he changed the German words with English words.
Also, jetzt mal auf deutsch:
Es hörte sich so an das er auf deutsch gesprochen hätte, nur die deutschen Wörter mit den englischen Wörtern ausgetauscht hätte
Daniel Brühl is an absolute exception, he is simply a linguistic genius. In addition to German, he also speaks Spanish, English, French, Catalan and Italian, some of them fluently. For the role of Niki Lauda in "Rush" he adopted the Austrian inflection so perfectly that even Niki Lauda himself applauded.
You need to know that Angela Merkel was raised in East Germany, so she didnt learn english at school. And we always make jokes about Günther Oettinger for his bad english haha.
In East German people of course learned English, but it's the typical English you learn at school, without ever practise in real life.
She learned russian at school rather than english@@lilg2300
you were only able to select english as a third language (next to german and russian) from the 7th grade on.
Her english clearly is school english.
You can learn grammar and vocabulary at school, but pronounciation is best learned in contact with people who speak english as a first language, wich was hard to do in the GDR.
i suspect her russian is much better.
@@lilg2300Not in general as it was just a third language option from 7th to 10th grade & not always possible.. My mother for example learned as 3rd language french & ironically speaks far better english then my father who had english, but even my grandpa who was born 29 remembered more words then my father. So the english level in the GDR was more or less as good & common as french is today in Germany.
To me, as a German, Matthias Schweighöfer and Daniel Brühl sound like „typical younger germans, who had to learn English for 6-8 years“. I sound a lot like that as well. German English teachers try to teach RP and no „regional accents“. Combine that with international media and you get a very interesting accent for Germans, who like the English language.
And Germans older the fifty often forgot most of the English they learned in school (if they grew up in western Germany, unlike Angela Merkel, who learned Russian instead of English).
You are lucky that you said "often", because i am the opposite. I am over 50 and my english is still present, and in keep it "alive" while watching movies and series in their original language if they are in english. In my line of work i need english only sometimes, but on rare occasions i still need it also for work. And of course i listen and comment on english youtube videos as well. 😄
Daniel Brühl has also starred in a number of American/English films by now. He also grew up, if I’m not mistaken, in Spain, which means he is fluent in three languages. The more you learn different languages, the easier it gets and the more you are able to embrace a natural/native accent, I think.
I am 52 and I speak the best English of my life. Maybe because I watch videos like these all the time?😂
@@citycobra5014 I have learned the hard way not to use words like „all“ and „none“. And I do know over 60 year old Germans, who are either fluent or A1-level at the most, so I do know that both extremes are possible.
Even if you travel a lot, you don't necessarily have the opportunity to polish your "rusty foreign language skills".
As a 50+ generation, I often have the impression that I stutter and awkwardly articulate myself in English when I talk to customers, but they are always so grateful and "shower" you with compliments for your use of the English language. :)
Daniel Brühl is a special one. He's probably the most international german actor, that also plays in spanish and english movies. He has bilingual parents and was raised multilingual, as I know.
And he also does act accents in english really good. (like in Rush, the austrian accent of Niki Lauda)
I have to watch Rush again, Brühl was so good in it
Just watched him in two movies back-to-back: Alone in Berlin and The Woman in Gold.
Oliver Kahn is full of surprises, given his reputation on the field. Never would have thought his English was this great. I'd say he is easier to understand than when he speaks German :D
For me as a German who had 12 years of english class in school, I find it more pleasant if someone actually is well spoken and has a good choice of words and grammar than talking without an accent.
With Günther Oettinger you probably have one of the most stereotypical german accents but he is indeed very fluent and his sentences and words are more complex than for example Thomas Müllers english.
Also you see a very strong difference in age. The older the speakers are, the more insecure and "german sounding" they normally are.
It sounded a lot like a prepared comment after negotiations & not at all spontanous in contrast to Thomas Müller. Also Öttinger refused to speak english spontaneously before. However in general I agree that vocab & grammar are more important, also it's sometimes sad that strong accents are often confused with bad language skills.
Oettinger 'fluent'?!? lol
I always have the impression that Oettinger doesn't SPEAK English but is always FIGHTING it. None of both come out of their battles unscathed, but, at least, he bravely faces his biggest enemy! Like, imagine you have to fight an immortal dragon and while you didn't win and are bleeding from all kinds of wounds, the dragon isn't in a much better condition!
"Neither of them" works better than "none of both" :)
Other than that, couldn't agree more.
Gronkh is the biggest German gaming YTer with almost 5 million followers (about 5% of all German native speakers in Europe) on his main YT-channel alone, and 1.6 million followers on twitch. Sarazar was his business partner and friend and he himself is a Let's Player (1.9 million on YT). When the video was made (about 6 years ago) Kelly missesvlog has a big YT-channel (2 million followers).
Gronkh and Sarazar were the German voices of two trolls in The Witcher 3.
Gronkh has done some prominent voice acting in games like "The Town of Light", "The Evil Within 2", " The Pillars of The Earth", "Chaos on Deponia", "Goodbye Deponia", "Harvey's New Eyes", The Night of The Rabbit", "1954 Alcatraz", "Watch Dogs: Legion", Cyberpunk 2077", "Elex 2" as well as movies like "Resident Evil 6: The Final Chapter". "Alien Covenant", "The Batman LEGO movie" (as Joker), "Monster Hunter", and "Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves".
Nena is a German singer. She has a few big songs in the 80s. Her first song was "Nur Geträumt" and her biggest success was "99 Luftballons" or 99 Red Balloons" She also had a chart song together with Kim Wilde in 2003 "Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime" and a song together with Dave Stewart "I'm Your Rebel"
She has produced much more music since the 1980s.
Seb is actually a huge fan of British pop culture in general. I believe he particularly loves British humor and comedy (e.g. Monty Python), and the British accents in general, so it kinda makes sense that he is able to imitate some of them.
Not only that, but he can also speak Italian and french as well on a fluent level.
His impersonations are actually quite "famous".
Günther Oettinger also has a strong accent in German. This is how English would sound if it were spoken in Baden-Württemberg.
Nena is a german musician, she sings 99 Luftballons e. g.
Nena recorded also an english version of this song: "99 red ballons".
@@JohnHazelwood58 and the chinese version: 99 Winnie Poohs
@l.c.899 it was 100% for Winnie the Pooh, not 99%...
He's a dictator 🤗
You should definitely check out everything about Stefan Raab. He is/was (retired in 2015) one of the biggest TV-Entertainers of Germany and he had a late night talk show called "Tv Total". He had very famous national and international celebrities on his show. In my opinion his interviews with some famous musicians were fun to watch, because he often had a little jam session with them and made them sing or talk in German. The most famous interview would probably the one with Eminem.
Stefan Raab himself is a talented musician and even participated in the Eurovision Song Contest multiple times as an act, a producer/songwriter and mentor for Lena (won the ESC in 2010), who Stefan Raab has discovered on a singing competition show of his and who is now one of Germanys biggest pop music artists.
I could go on and on...this man is a TV LEGEND!
I wouldn’t say retired, he just wanted to go behind camera, and not in front of the camera, he still produces many shows just behind camera
I am an Englishman living in Austria and it is very easy to tell which part of Germany someone is from when they speak German, but impossible when they speak English. I can however tell the difference between English and American when they speak German.
So true!
Diane Kruger is a german actress that has moved to Hollywood very early. She also stared in Inglorious Bastards next to Daniel Brühl (who was also in Captain America Civil War btw.). Kruger was also the lady Nic Cage stole the declaration of independence from in "National Treasure".
And don't forget "Troy" where she played Helena.
Interesting that Daniel Brühl left a lasting memory in Merts Brain, but Diane Krüger did not when he watched Inglorious Basterds.
Funny thing about Diane Kruger is she has adopted a slight American accent when she is speaking German now. Always feels a little awkward when she's dubbing herself in the German version of her movies.
afaik she moved to France very early. She also speaks french very fluent and is synchronising her films into french and german. I´ve heard her faking english with a french accent in an interview. Boom, in love.
This comment helped me to remember where I saw Daniel Brühl. Thanks! I even googled and did not saw Captain America in his movies, but saw Inglorious Bastards and since I plan to watch it cause I saw some clips from there I thought it was it)
Daniel Brühl isn't really the norm though. He speaks English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and French fluently. He has a Spanish mom and German dad so he already grew up speaking two languages.
I'm braziliam
Nena: *speaks good english with a slightly german accend
Mert: When I close my eyes, I could probably tell she's from germany
Me: *see Oettinger comes next: Oh boy...
Sebastian Vettel is quite skilled regarding languages. He speaks German, English, Italian, French and some bits of Finnish
Vettel is very talented in languages. He also learned Italian very quickly at Ferrari
as one says here in germany, if one asks a footballer a question, one should not be surprised of becoming a witness to an answering attempt... entire folios, no, libraries, have been filled with the vocal erruptions of the questioned like, "we can't concede more goals than the opponent scores" - Friedhelm Funkel, "We shouldn't stick the sand in our heads now." - Lukas Podolski or the legendary "Milan or Madrid, as long as it's Italy." - Andreas Möller, especially with important topics, one does not want to ask certain Footballers or one ends up with answers like "I never saw any slave labourers, they are all running around freely here." - Franz Beckenbauer in Qatar...
The Sand quote is actually from Lothar Matthäus
@@dwayenway Lothar Mattäus: "I am a german record player"
(okay, thats a fake, but still funny, i think :)
Nena started her career in the 80s as a singer, and I would say that her voice has a special sound which is pretty attractive. Although she is in her 60s now, she still appears youthful.
11:40 she's probably referring to some languages like german being more effective in training pets. Pets tend to understand languages like german better because the sounds are very clear and distinctive and the commands are very short. German isn't the only language like that though.
You said you knew Daniel Brühl from Inglourious Basterds, Diane Kruger was in that movie too. You might have also seen her in the National Treasure movies with Nicolas Cage.
For a person who learned Russian in school, like most young Germans nowadays learn English, she does very well.
Günther Oettinger was Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg from 2005 to 2010. From then on till 2019 he was an EU commissioner. Contrary to a very high percentage of Germans in West Germany learning English at school for at least five years he had only three years of English. His first foreign language was Latin which he did for nine years, his second was French which he did for seven years. According to a newspaper article from the "Stuttgarter Nachrichten" he said that before becoming EU commissioner he never really needed to talk English. If you compare his English skills with those of quite a few American students who did German at High School for even a longer time he is really doing well.
For me, as an American living in Germany and trying to learn German as an adult, I think that most of the speakers were very clearly understandable, which is my goal. I don't care so much whether they have any kind of accent.
I speak English with an accent (southeastern U.S.) and it is my mother tongue.
The thing to keep in mind about Angela Merkel is that she grew up in the DDR. Her first foreign language was Russian. I don[t know at what age she learned to speak English, but I find it remarkable that she was able to speak to both the US president as well as the president of Russia in their own languages.
Matthias Schweighöfer is a very successful actor and producer in Germany with ambitions to go international. So: yes, he is expected to be at least conversational in English and surely one more foreign language (French, Italian, Spanish would be the usual choice). Nena who is going on sixty went to school in the late 1970/early 1980s in Western Germany and surely learnt her basic English there but she's been in the international music business for about 40 years, of course she is fluent in English. You might know her as the singer of the 1980s hit "99 Luftballons".
Oettinger is a shame, regardless of his English skills, but taking those into account, he is rock bottom.
Öttinger's pronunciation is cringeworthy, but his English level in terms of vocabulary and speaking fluently is actually quite good. In the bit in the video, he is apparently speaking freely, not reading a premade speach or concept, and he uses quite complex words and sentence structure.
Good point. For sure his English is also better than most American presidents' German.
But most important: Baden-Württemberg is also the Scotland of Germany, so even his German is very special.
However King Charles and especially his father's German impressed me deeply @@chrisrudolf9839
Oettinger has to go on to 80 now, meaning he was in school around 1950 ... when you did not get great english knowledge in most circumstances... he probably took lessons after reaching political positions that included some international collaboration and for that path he is still okay. You understand more of his english sentences than you do in german from clowns like Edmund Stoiber. ;)
@@Ugly_German_Truths He is 70, born in 1953. He's my dad's age, and my dad's English is significantly less embarrassing
Nena is severely underrated. People totally ignore that she actually lived for 23 years before 99 Luftballons and that she has lived for 40 years since 99 Luftballons.
You know Nena, "99 Luftballons" or the english version "99 Red Balloons". I was once in a Kraoke Bar and when that song played my british friend said "Stand up for the national anthem of Germany" xD.
Accents are fun and authentic. Its about grammar and vocabulary for me. Im german myself and while its probably easy to hear where im from, speaking eloquently is much more important than anything else. Or at least trying to. German might sound like a very "tacky" and strict language, but its actually quite flowery and beautiful. If you dare to delve into it, that is. When speaking another language i always try to take that with me, from my native language, and put it into the one im currently speaking.
Nena is a really popular singer and songwriter. She wrote "99 luftballons". :)
"Olaf Scholz, with that eye patch looking like a James Bond villain" made my day! 😁
As soon as I saw Oettinger on the thumbnail I HAD to watch this :D
Dito!😂
Wow, I haven't expected Merkel to speak that well,she must have practised a lot. See shegrew up in the former GDR, and so her secondary language was Russian instead of English. Well done 👏. I also liked her sarcastic undertone in how she addressed her audience.
Diane Krüger played Bridget von Hammersmarck in Inglorious Basterds, so you have seen her before ;)
When it`s about speaking english, Günther Öttinger is a guest in many cabaret-shows. He`s champion quasi :)
Matthias Schweighöfer is indeed an actor and already had a few roles in America. He played Heisenberg in Oppenheimer for example!
Gronkh and Sarazar and Kellly were all big youtubers at that time. Gronkh still does lets plays and streams and is one of the earliest gamers on yt germany.
Also i dont think the british german accents really resembles any region in Germany, its just a mesh up of older people speaking English with a bit of satirical exaggeration
Context to Gronkh’s mistake (He is a very famous German TH-camr by the way):
Six is called „sechs“ in German and there is actually no big difference in pronunciation between „sechs“ and „sex“. (Only difference is that „sechs“ is spoken with a voiced s, „sex“ with a voiceless, but not everyone really makes a difference when speaking those words.)
Matthias Schweighöfer is an Aktor/Producer/Regisseur. I know him mostly from german productions but he recently played in "Oppenheimer".
Nena is a Singer who is famous for her Song "99 Red Ballons".
Gronkh is the one of biggest german TH-camrs.
Schweighöfers role in the Netflix Movie "Army Of Thieves" (2021) was also very appreciated outside of Germany.
Funny, I never ever heard of the Gronk and Sala? guys. I would say Rezo is the best known TH-camr in Germany, but I was born in the seventies… I grew up with just 3 TV channels… 🤷♂️😝
Well Gronk and Sarazar got big with gaming and "let's plaly's" like Pewdipie, so maybe not the stuff you normally watch. He was the one with the most Subscribers for a long time. @@pogerchopond
Regisseur? It's director, dude!
Mr. Oettinger has a really intensive accent - i guess his talk printed out would have been pretty impressive, and he is speaking without a script!
Btw Gronkh said "sex", but actually I think he said in german "sechs" which is pronouced like "sex" and means "six"
Gronkh is one of the famoust streamer and a gamer, though not a very good gamer, just very entertaining
I had exactly the same thought. Ein typischer "Freudscher Versprecher" 😂
Günther Oettinger is a meme in germany because of how horrible his english and strong his accents is xD heute show always make fun of him
Yes, you have seen Günther Oettinger being interviewed by Fabian Köster about Brexit in the heute-show! There was also a joke there where Fabian Köster asked him if they could make the interview in English, which refers to Oettingers well-known "peak German accent" that is known throughout Germany and always made fun of. This is also the reason he appears in this video for sure
Oettinger is such a comedic genius! 😂 Best Denglish, I've ever heard.
Try to find Franz Josef Strauß speaking English - even funnier than Oettinger, as he has a bavarian accent!
@@michaelhartmann8086 Never heard Franz - Josef speaking English. That'll be interesting!
5:30 I can hear that Thomas Müller is from our neighboring village. - Just kidding, I knew it, he's our local hero. When he speaks German, I can actually hear it, as he has our dialect.
Günther Oettinger was prime minister of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg (where I'm from as well) before his roles at the European Union, so his accent isn't only a German one, but actually a Svabian one. His English is regarded as one of the funniest ones, so he was mocked by several satirist shows.
Diane Kruger is a German actress who has appeared in German, French and American/English movies and TV series, portraying native speakers, respectively. I think I can hear an accent in her English but it’s so slight that if you didn’t knew what her native language was, you wouldn’t be able to recognise it as a foreign accent.
No. It's not actor's English. We actually learn this at school. And I think it's great that even Britsh people appreciate that. Thanks a lot. This is a great feeling.
"Gronkh" is the actual arch type of a TH-camr in Germany, very funny and sympathic. I think he was one of the first TH-cam content creators in Germany that got really famous and well known, as well as most famous "coldmirror" Kathrin Fricke ❤
Still dying when I watch Sebastian Vettel say to Clarkson "Some say ...".
@mert, i like how you differentiated between people having horrible german accents when trying to speak english, vs people who speak english very well, but allow their german to color their english because they are in fact german and are comfortable with being german. I studied english at university and was trained to completely eliminate any trace of german accent. That was definitely a goal for a while. I then moved to the US and i found that i needed to allow my german heritage to come back in a little just to maintain my real personality. Now it is just a clue for people who have traveled that i am in fact of german descent. a conversation starter if you will. 30 years on i have to say that my english has overtaken my german just a little. getting rusty in my mother tongue.
We had only 3 years English in the school, no computers, 2 TVchannels, today the kids are fluent in English.
Love Your accent by the way..!! Cheers Mate, keep Your fine work going..!
Daniel Brühl is among my favourite actors - he can personate his roles so well
Günther Oettingers speech was aired in severel comedy shows... he is the definition of 'cringe'.
Anxiety inducing 😂😂😂 loved that.
you can notice a bit who is constantly switching between German and English (Müller, Brühl), who is "prepared"(politicians), and who is just settled in (Krüger, Vettel).
The parodic german accent of the talk show host is pretty much on point. But as a German it helps me improve.
„Daniel Brühl - I’ve seen him in Inglorious Basterds. Diane Kruger - never seen her before.” Haha
Great channel 👍
Olaf Scholz, by the way, is not only a politician but the german chancellor 😅
I have to admit, even after living in the UK for ever a decade, people still told me they were able to tell I was foreign (though not necessarily German). On the other hand, I have heard Germans (in the UK) speak English so well that even I couldn't tell they were German. Maybe I was too old when I moved to the UK (I was 46) to really pick up the style, pronounciation, expressions etc. But I did get along extremely well, I never had any problems communicating with my British peers nor did they have a problem understanding me. And I did get the occasional compliment for how well I spoke English.
Since returning to Germany in 2018, my English skills have decreased massively, at least in my opinion. I still try to watch all movies etc. in English to at least try and keep up, but it's difficult. Everything on German TV is dubbed, sadly.
While in the UK I met a guy from the Czech Republic and he spoke the dirtiest Blackpoole accent I have ever heard. And he had the best Indian impresssion I have ever heard (except for Russell Peters) - a real language genius.
General speaking, in my opinion many Germans struggle with the pronunciation of the "th" (it often sounds either like an s or like d) and also some words are pronounced German (e.g. good - gut (German, means the same). What I also experienced is, that often older Germans struggle more, because children in Germany learn English at school very early (my English lessons at school started in third grade elementary school) maybe this could be the reason but even I, although I had English lessons for about 9-10 years at school, sound like that sometimes if I’m speaking it while being very angry/ excited😂
greetings from Germany...well, you saw Diane Kruger (her real last name is Heidkrüger) before...she played ´Brigitte von Hammersmark´ in "Inglourious Basterds". She speaks English and French fluent and dubs her roles in many films herself.
mentioning having seen daniel brühl in Inglorious Basterds but not knowing Diane Kruger (who starred in the SAME MOVIE) made me go "huh" for a second
I think you have to differentiate between accent and vocabulary. Oettinger for example had a stronger accent than most of the other ones but used much more difficult words that Thomas Müller.
"First we had no luck, and zen we were unlucky"
Lothar Matthäus, Footballer of the year ^^ (one of his many funny memes translated)
I also learned 6 years english in school from a english female teacher, and one day she took me apart and asked me
"Do you have english relatives or ancestors? You pronounce it so well..." I was 13 and very shocked 'D . Ok, maybe I pronounce it well, with less accent, but my grammar and vocabulary is still small, and I don't know typical anglo idioms. ;)
For me all that different anglo dialects are very interesting.
But sorry, Mert, the first time I heard you, I thought you are not coming from Great Britain ^^ You have such a strong scottish dialect :) But the Cockney dialect is very good recognizable. And the Liverpool dialect sounds in part even a little bit proto-germanic.
On the other hand, I can't hear the difference between australian and US english.
LOL, you have seen Daniel Brühl in Inglorious Basterds but you have “never seen” the only female lead in it, Diane Krüger, who also played Helena in Troy, the female lead in the National Treasure film series with Nicolas Cage…
The accents of the majority of people I know lies somewhere between Gronkh and Matthias Schweighöfer. Günther Oettinger is a meme :D
Nena is the 99 red balloons singer :)
Daniel Brühl made some English/American movies and tv shows (like Rush, the Avengers, The Alienist...) His English is really good.
Many Germans, such as Sebastian Vettel, who have to speak English every day in their job, automatically have fluent pronunciation. I think that many people cannot tell whether he is German when he speaks.
Oettinger is, among other things, known for not being particularly great at speaking English. He is quite the character, to put it mildly, who had his fair share of at times somewhat bizarre scandals yet somehow managed to stick around for a fairly long time. The most positive opinion on Oettinger I heard was "at least Oettinger spoke Swabian" when somebody was asked on radio about Oettinger's successor as Ministerpräsident of Baden-Württemberg Stefan Mappus. Hardly a glowing endorsement, I know.
The speech of Günther Öttinger was actually shared on German social media because Germans thought how funny his strong German accent sounded😂
Matthias Schweighofer is most famous for portraying Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones.
I like your channel from minute to minute more.
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It's very interesting how you think about accents.
The examples you presented make really clear that nowadays it depents on the circumcstances. Unfortunately.
Gronkh and Sarazar really look like musicians on this clip 😂😂😂😂 would have never come into my mind 😅
I highly recommend watching Wolfgang Ketterle. He has a physics nobel price. I think he has been working at the MIT for 20 years, speaking english on a daily basis. And that guy has such a ludicrous german accent
the "stereotypical" accent that the talkshow host used when talking to Diane Krüger was a very Movie accent. I don't think I've ever heard anybody talk like that in real life, unless it was to fake an accent. I don't think I can tell regions apart by their accent in English. It's mostly based on age, when they started learning English and how much people speak English.
And I don't know what it is with our politicians. They always have a stronger accent than most celebrities. It'S probably because all the celebrities (esp. actors and musicians, but also people like Kahn (though I was surprised about his English too)) interviewed here have international fame. And you only really manage that if you have some control over the English language^^. So, there are probably many celebrities who just never speak English, so you wouldn't know. For the politicians, the environment also plays a role. Most of these were quite formal settings reading a pre-written speech. It says very little about how bad or well they speak, when they don't read along. Oettinger for example, at times, falls apart completely if asked to do an interview in English. Scholz can do a fluent interview in English (and as a politician I'd assume that's pretty hard, cause you have to keep a formal polite and diplomatic tone throughout) but his accents gets a bit stronger than it would've been here. etc.
Nena is a German singer. She became world famous with her song 99 Luftballons....I would be happy about your reaction.....
Nena performed the song "99 Luftballons" during the 80s e.g. and she also sung an english version, i guess it was called "99 red balloons". It is an anti war song.
Another song by her is „Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann“. Jan Böhmermann was using the melody of her song for his version „Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdowan“.
Anyplace anywhere anytime is another version from kim wild and later Nena and Kim did a collaboration on this song in english and german if I remember right!
10:30 His shows were always fun to watch, especially bc he just didn't give a fuck ^^
Is there a script? Ah, whatever, let's chat about random stuff. Loved it. And you could tell the guests did, too.
Before watching this video, I dare to predict that Günther Öttinger wins with flying flags.
Oettinger speaks grammatically correct. Only his accent is heavy
James Bond villain just nailed it.
Olaf Scholz, who is the German Chancellor right now and as such the successor of Angela Merkel speaks English with an - at least in my ears - clear northern accent. He used to live in Hamburg for many decades and you can tell even when he speaks English his Hamburg way of speaking. At least I can, because I am originally from Hamburg, too. 😊
Interesting point about voice vs appearance/behaviour. I mentioned Einstein in another comment and was surprised to hear him have a rather high pitched voice, despite his rather large frame. Same goes for George Washington, who had a similar voice and spoke rather softly despite his stature and the air he had about himself.
English is a second language at most german schools. A humanistic high school (Gymnasium) might prefer Latin as second language.
So my "school" languages were: 1-4th grade only german. At 5th grade english, at 7th grade latin - the alternative was french.
Although Latin is not easy, it helped me much more than I thought.
There is a Compilation of Seb Vettel doing impressions. It's quite entertaining. I mean Seb Vettel is entertaining as a whole and even someone who is not an F1 geek like me should at least take a look at what he's done and how he is as a person.
Oettinger trying to speak english actually is a meme here
You might know Mathias Schweighöfer from the Oppenheimer movie for instance. Not that I think he is perfectly cast or anything but he is a well known German actor.
Nena ist the woman who brought you "99 luftballon" > a famous singer anc singing coach from German.
Günther Öttinger was minister of the state Baden-Württemburg in Germany and is famous for his bad English.
Dian Kruger is an actress mostly in the US today which is of cause from Germany. She played for instance in the "National Treasure" series. She is pretty fluent and lives in the US if I am not wrong.
Nena is a singer from the 80s, 99 Luftballons (99 red balloons) was her break out song
Olaf Scholz is the german chancellor and yes, he did wear an eyepatch the last weeks after having an accident.
Most germans, born after WW2 in western germany, speak or at least understand english, because it's teached in schools as a second language you have to learn. In eastern germany it was a little different, guess what? Right! They learnd russian as second language. After the reunion english was the No1 second language you have to learn in reunited germany. So as a native german speaker it's sometimes funny to hear some germans speaking english, because you can hear their german regional accent even as they speak english. Fo rexample Thomas Müller, you can hear his bavarian accent even in english. Or Angela Merkel, her eastern german tongue is for me clear hearable as Olaf Scholz hanseatic hamburger kind of speaking.
For me Günter Oettinger (yes you saw him before in the heute show) is the best example of how you sholdn't pronounce english as a german, and I guess that's the reason why he is often prompt to speak english during heute show interviews...
Diane Krüger, Mathias Schweighöfer and Daniel Brühl are well addiucated actors and seen in many internatinal productions ( Troy, captain america civil war, army of the dead...) that's why their english is so well, with restrictions for Mathias Schweighöfer... ;-)
Nena is a german singer. She had an international number one hit single "99 Luftballons" ( 99 red ballons) in 1983 and several national hitsingles over the years.
Mathias Schweighöfer played in 'Army of the Dead' and 'Army of Thieves'. (Funny horror stuff) And naturally a lot of German movies and tv shows.
Daniel Brühl played in a lot of movies. For example The Bourne Ultimatum, Inglourious Basterds, The First Avenger: Civil Wars, The Alienist and so many more English language movies...
Diane Kruger played in Troja, National Treasure with Nicolas Cage and a lot more...
Nenas '99 red Balloons' should be known...
I guess you should stream more movies. 😅
Diane Kruger is probably mostly known for playing Helena in Troja. She works in Hollywood for many years now and actually started her career as a model and later actress in france. So she is also fluent in french and her og name is Heidkrüger😅
Oliver Kahn is an extremely intelligent guy, can be very surprising to hear his extremely intelligent commentary on football matches.
Oliver Kahn is a really striking example of how appearance on pitch and post-carrier behavior can drift apart. He behaved like a rabid chimp on the pitch, shouting, kicking almost chewing peopls face off, but as an expert for german TV and as president(?) of Bayern München he behaved very statemen like, was calm, rational, well spoken - and that translates surprisingly well to his speaking in english
Edit: Nena is the singer of 99 Luftballons and Gronkh is like one of the biggest lets play streamers/youtubers in germany over the last 10 years, sarazar is his friend and (former?) business partner - I believe they had a falling out of some sort
Oliver Kahn was not president of the FC Bayern club (e. V.) , but the CEO of the FC Bayern München AG which runs the team and is owned by the club (amongst some other owners).