@@maxwilhelm7244 I didn't mean the german pronounciation of audi. I just wondered why so much in english is pronounced the same with different spelling, and the other way around as well.
actually most Germans are pretty cool with englishspeakers pronouncing German a bit differently... most of us get pretty excited by the fact that someone went through the trouble of learning our (not so easy) language and that they're trying to speak to us in our mother tongue... we find that kind of charming^^
The only time when i went "No actually its pronounced like ..." was when some dude from LA told me i pronounced Porsche wrong.... because some dude in LA in the Porsche dealership told him how it was pronounced. Ya know...that 'murrican wanted to lecture a german on german pronounciation.
Man, when you said that Stuttgart was in Baden-Württemberg my German heart made a little patriotic jump screaming "Das Stimmt!" Not gonna lie, didn't expect that. I think many of your German viewers really appreciate seeing an American showing interest and getting to know our country and culture. Honestly, most of us think that Americans mainly don't care and know nothing about Europe, but seeing someone putting an effort into it and showing interest makes us very happy. Mach weiter so, Digga!
@@uniball1700 soviel ich weiß, ist digga eine Slang Form von dicker... Also sagt du im Gespräch zu deinem Gegenüber {digger bzw großer bzw Massiv wird dann aber heufig als brother assoziiert} kann mich da aber auch teuschen, bin schon 45 jahre alt. Oft wird es gesagt wenn man nicht einer Meinung mit seinem Gegenüber ist aber soviel Respekt hat dass man ihn als größereren massiveren Menschen anspricht um seine andere Meinung zu posten. Ist aber dann schnell umgangssprachlich geworden, so dass es dann als lückenfüller dient für Alter , Bruder, Muruck oder vieles mehr...
@@ChrisRedfield01 hast Im Grunde recht aber mir ging es eher darum dass es in einem Gespräch genau so wie bro im englischen benutzt wird. Beispiel: Was geht digger = What's up bro
@@ChrisRedfield01 Digga ist eine Slangform von digger (to dig: graben, also einer Sache auf den Grund gehen. Du diggst es nicht (You ain't diggin' it) bedeutet, dass Du etwas (z.B. den Zusammenhang oder die Funktionsweise einer Maschine oder das Wahlsystem nicht verstehst). Btw. "eine Schnecke angraben" bedeutet eine Frau klarmachen...
When someone asks me how American English sounds to me, I refer to it as "bubblegum English". Everything sounds a bit more "chewy" if you know what I mean.
@@xbiggieg und ein kleiner Tipp: "either... Or" und "neither... Nor" sind richtige Power moves in English. Wenn man die regelmäßig einsetzt, bringt das sein English gleich auf ein anderes Level.
10 years ago, in uni, one of my classmates did a presentation about how to recognize each era of beetle. I didnt know how much window design affects functionality until then.
Hate to be that person.... but person is usually only used in singular. No one says persons. "I have never met these people in my life" would be more accurate.
Basically V-Words of german origin (Volk, Verein, Vogel, Vieh) are pronounced like a F and words of latin origin (Verb, Variabel, Verifizierung, Vokabel) are pronounced like a W. And to the accent thing, I think over the last decades the american accent has become mostly the standard. Most of us europeans atleast learn way more english through the massive cultural influence of the US. (Music, Movies etc.) than in school
As for your question how the American accent sounds to us: my father always said it sounds like you constantly had a too hot potatoe in your mouth. And that stuck because it has a lot of truth to it.
The vowel thing is also not that complicated. In German, there is a short and a long version of vowels. On top of that, the last sound of words often is reduced to a less stressed variant (terminal devoicing being the most prominent variant). It also can apply to vowels which then are pronounced differently. It also seems funny seing an American complain about how difficult German pronounciation is. The pronounciation in German is actually pretty close to the spelling, except for loan words from other languages (which there are a lot). English is a completely different beast. Without the knowledge of some quite complicated rules or a lot of experience with the language, you never know how to pronounce an English word. Just think of homophones (air heir, bare bear, break brake, cereal serial , coarse course, flour flower, idle idol, know no) or homonyms (weak week , sun son, see sea, plane plain, meet meat). It's due to the history of the English language and the pronounciation changing a lot over time while the spelling remained pretty much untouched from the Modern English period on.
as someone who speaks German and French, I have to refer to probably my favorite language meme of all time: English: not too many rules, but a lot of exeptions + German: a bunch of rules, but way less exeptions = French: lots of rules and lots of exeptions
14:36 It's only weird if you only have one perspective. From a native German speaker's point of view, pronouncing a V like a W and a W almost like a Wih feels just as weird. And calling it "double-u", when it's clearly two Vs and not Us is also strange. But we get over it, you will too ;-)
Oh please not....i have to do that enough in my germanclass...have you ever read ,,der schimmelreiter"? It's soo complicated, even for a german native speaker
@@denkikaminari8703 I don't think Althochdeutsch means what you think it means. 😉 As for now, if I remember correctly, the double -u thing is even older. Althochdeutsch or rather transcription just came to my mind first.
@@anikl1140 Ist das eine neuere Lehre? Mir hat man noch das mit der Blütezeit des Althochdeutschen um 800 beigebracht, ich bin dann aber in eine andere Richtung gegangen und habe seither auch nichts Gegenteiliges vernommen.
To defend you have to say schultz and make a horn with your thumb and pinky on your forehead around here (NRW) or you get slaped on the forehead (if youre too drunk and dont react fast to protect your forehead)
Do you play with or without having a particular gesture you gotta make while saying Schulz? 'Cause I play the version where you gotta have your hand like this 🤙 and touch the tip of your thumb to your forehead while saying Schulz or it doesn't count
As a German writing my dissertation in English Linguistics I am super impressed by your ear for phonetics :-) you can pick up tiny nuances in the sounds by listening to them once! That´s some serious talent :-) Greetings from Cologne :-)
You're gunna love Germany when you get to visit. I spent a little over two weeks there in decemeber. Christmas markets are amazing, foods delicious, beer is great and the people were nothing short of nice. My next trip there mayyyy be a one way ticket.
As a highly introverted person, Christmas markets are the only bigger social events I will dearly miss. They are magical. Come visit next year when they will hopefully return.
I'm german, and when i went to school, we used learn to the grammar rules and words of the british english variation. Growing up using the Internet i obviously was confronted more with american english and thats the way i speak myself. But in fact i admire the british way of speaking english a lot more than the american's way. You say it seems to be a less sophisticated way to speak, but that is the think i like about british english. Its more sophisticated, but in a good way. German is very complex language and due to that offers a big variety of opportunities to express yourself in very different ways. You can do very cool things with the german Language and i feel like the british way to talk offers a lot more of these than the american way.
care to give an example? I can't think of a good one because I think 90% of the differences are just slight variations in spelling and commonly used expressions not something fundamentally different I like british english because it has more precise pronounciation (not accounting for dialects ofc) and it's not at all that "posh" as people try to paint it with cheap impersonations of a british noble guy and I like american pronounciation because it sounds more "round" and I guess a bit more relaxed
I also prefer british English, but I would like to point you to Bernadette Banner's youtube channel if you want to hear an example of absolutely beautiful and sophisticated american pronounciation. I sometimes love just listening to her videos because her speech is so relaxing.
5:31 Plenty of European languages don't pronounce all the letters, not even German. Not sure why you think that. English is a European language, by the way 😅 the h in th is not pronounced in German, and ph is usually pronounced like f. French is the best example for a language in which many letters are silent. English has a lot of French words, and German has a few (which are usually pronounced close to the French original).
@@luandemaku8948 Jap, damit hast du recht. Es wird im Deutschen zwar nicht jeder Buchstabe einzeln ausgesprochen, aber jeder Buchstabe hat einen Grund weshalb er da ist. Das Dehnungs-H hat einen Grund, Doppelvokale und Doppelkonsonanten haben einen Grund, Buchstabenkombinationen wie "ch", "ck" und "sch" haben einen Grund. Im Englischen hat man so unlogisches Zeug wie "tough", "though" und "through", die nicht ansatzweise so ausgesprochen werden wie sie geschrieben sind - und sich nicht einmal reimen obwohl die Endungen komplett identisch sind. Im Englischen hast du für jeden Laut mehrere Schreibweisen und für jede Buchstabenkombination mehrere Aussprachemöglichkeiten, die teils echt absurd sind. Reine Willkür. Im Deutschen hat jeder Buchstabe einen Einfluss auf die Aussprache.
@@Nutzername92a prinzipiell gebe ich dir da Recht, nur in manchen Fällen wie zum Beispiel beim "ck" ist es auch im deutschen teilweise ziemlich willkürlich, es gibt Wörter die mit einem normalen k genauso klingen würden wie mit einem "ck" noch dazu kommt ja, dass es die Regel mit den doppelkonsonanten gibt, nur beim k macht man plötzlich "ck" daraus statt einfach ein "kk". Genauso wie für außenstehende absolut nicht nachzuvollziehen ist, wann man ein "ch" weich ausspricht wie in "Elch" und wann hart, wie in "Bach". Also ganz so strukturiert und nachvollziehbar ist auch die deutsche Sprache nicht. Von Wörtern wie "umfahren" will ich garnicht erst anfangen haha
James about 70% of the Taxi cars are Mercedes-Benz, cause their engine is the one wich runs the longest. Most of them get about 400.000km on them before they are changed. Another funfact for you, Volkswagen is the mother company of the following car brands and have shares most parts in all brands to make it cheaper for them. Read and be afraid: VW Audi Porsche Skoda Seat Lamborghini Bugatti MAN Trucks Scania Trucks And Ducati Bikes So theoretically, every single mark is german nowadays^^ And the Big Brands got simple cars for everyone too, like the BMW Series1, the Mercedes A-Class or the Audi A1
Haha, the Trader Joe‘s reaction is pure Gold! 😂👍 (It’s founded nevertheless in the US, the Aldi Nord guys just bought it a time ago. Aldi in Austria is called Hofer btw.)
Never understood that as a german. But then again my grand dad worked in Georgia for some time after he was released as a war prisoner and he said he had never heard people speak better English after that 😆
Mercedes was formed from both Daimler in Stuttgart and Benz in Mannheim, and till today people from Stuttgart say, they work at Daimler, and people from Mannheim would say, they work for Benz.
Yes, the actual Haribo factory is in Bonn, right next to it there´s a shop, where can buy most of the gummies (and other sweets) and they are way cheaper than in stores. BUT since there is no room to expand the factory in Bonn, there was a new massive factory built in an indusrtial park in Grafschaft-Ringen.
18:00 The Dassler brothers had fallen out and split the company, Adolf Dassler took over the name ADIDAS, his brother Rudolf Dassler called his company PUMA. Both remained estranged until the end of their lives, even their sons, who took over the respective companies. Adolf "Adi" Dassler also provided the novel sports shoes produced by his company at the 1954 World Cup in Bern (the so-called Miracle of Bern), where Germany won 3:2 against Hungary. There is also a film about this, called "Das Wunder von Bern" (2003).
Wer're not that rich. ^^ Fun fact: in Germany some say "If i want to drive a Mercedes, i'd call a taxi (cab)." just to express their dismissiveness for that brand, that has a "built-in right of way" (because some drive like that).
i get annoyed when someone call me "Catherine" or "Kate" instead of "Katharina" even when they heard me saying how my name is pronounced correctly xD kinda frustrating because when they just read it it's not their fault but they heared me xD they HEARED xD!
I have the same problem with my name. Most people in Germany say Sewenna, when they read my name. But the worst thing is, even if I tell them that it‘s pronounced differently they mange to butcher the pronunciation 😂😂
Now double tha chaos: my name is Catharina. It's not the traditional german spelling, but neither is it manifested in any other language. Imagine: once I went to starbucks in the UK and when they asked for my name i said "catherine" because I thought "why even try". What I got was a cup with "Katchrin" on it.😂
@@cathib8634 Long ago at a hostel in Brighton, UK talking to an Englishman. He: What's your name? Me: Hannes (short for Johannes - like John) He: Ehm .. may I say Han? But it actually sounded like the first syllable of the German "Henne" which is a chicken.
You know your 're German when .... "Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengeselschaft" isn' t even your longest word 😂 Greetings from Germany
The Albrecht brothers got into an argument of selling cigarettes. One wanted to sell them, the other not. Then they split up. Aldi North bought Trader Joe's in 1979. The use the brand even in Germany for food items in the Aldi stores.
It's improtant to add though that they didn't really have much ill will between each other. Unlike Puma and Adidas, Aldi Süd and Aldi North aren't really rivals, they share markets between each other, stay our of each other ways and support each other.
Loved this video! As a German (living in the states now) I loved hearing you pronounce these brands 😄 And hearing that you never even been to Germany I love to see that you have such big interest in the language and culture 🖤❤️💛
_punches_ you're not allowed to say the s-word unless there actually is one, otherwise you get punched :) (that's how my brother & I played it as kids)
* If you tell English-speakers that Audi is Latin and hope that might get them to pronounce it right that's hopeless. They will still mangle it just like many other Latin words. Nivea is Latin too, which is why it doesn't follow the V = F rule. * Historically Mercedes taxis were used because they were super reliable and easy to repair. The most well know type for that is the W123 from the 70s/80s. Those are still driving around today in North Africa (though even then they are reaching the end of their life). Today with modern models it's probably more of an image thing. * The two Aldis have an agreement to stay out of each other's territory. So you only ever see one in a country. Aldi Nord covers France, Spain and other western European countries for example * The main Haribo factory is indeed in Bonn. They have a store within the city and also a factory outlet center. You can buy stuff like a kilo of one bear color there. They also have a lot more stuff than the bears, which isn't easily available in the US
Fun fact on BMW: We jokingly also translate these 3 letters to: Bei Mercedes weggeworfen (Dumped at Mercedes). xD We kinda see BMW as the little sister of Mercedes in Germany. Mercedes is recognised as a higher standard car than BMW. xD And yes, part of the factory of Haribo is located in Bonn-Bad Godesberg. We also have a huuuuuge store there, it's so amazing. If you ever get a chance to visit Germany, make sure to go to one of the Haribo stores! :D
Bei uns wenns smart waren und bei Zahlen die doppelt, dreifach oder vierfach waren. 😂 seid doch ehrlich, wir haben nur einen grund gesucht unsere freunde zu schlagen
Man you dont give yourself enough credit. You literally (im german, so this means LITERALLY) have the best pronounciation i heard from any american ever. You sir gained yourself a sub ( not for the pronounciation, but for you being humble, funny and inteligent) Keep it up!
I'm so happy to see foreigners especially from overseas being excited about our language and culture :) it let's me also realize facts about my own country.
it is so siple its all about the "A" which american speakers pronounce as "ay" but you should actually say "Ahhhh" so ist is Ahhudi and Ahhldi and VolksWahhhgen etc. etc.
Your pronounciation is just fine, man. Everyone has to start somewhere. But there is one thing that, compared to english, is way more complicated than it has to be: it's our german grammar. As a german, I don't waste a thought about it while speaking. But when I'm speaking or reading in english or watching movies or series in english, a lot of times I think: Who the hell came up with our god damn grammar? No wonder that german is considered a hard language to learn because our grammar sucks.😂 But nevermind, keep up the good work👍🏼
@@adenkyramud5005 als Deutscher ist es sogar relativ einfach Dänisch, Schwedisch oder Norwegisch zu lernen. Besonders Dänisch und Schwedisch sind ziemlich ähnlich zu unserem Deutsch Und in Finnland kann man sich in bestimmten Gebieten auch gut mit Schwedisch verständigen.
To your question about the haribo factory: there are several factorys in GER producing haribo. In Bonn used to be the main production and offices but they moved it to Grafschaft. I remember the heavy smell of haribo in the part of town where the factory was. Greetings from Bonn
@@publicvoidmain thanks for clarifying. But... that would have been such a German move, to use something as "blunt" and basic as "Trader Joe" to make your brand name appeal to Americans. 🤣
Hey, in autumn 2018 I was on vacation with my family. We did a trip to Florida (Miami-Orlando-Cape Coral-Miami) and at Cape Coral there also was an Aldi. So it's not true that there's no Aldi in Florida 😜
I grew up in east germany... And the ddr made a car called trabant (trabbi), and if someone sees a blue one, he has to punch the arm of the person next to him. And if it is a green one, same procedure, but with pinching...
I remember when I was a teenager back in the Stone Age and started making fun of my British cousin when he pronounced Addidas like she does and he cut me down to size.
Yes, the main fabric of Haribo is (or at least was) located in Bonn. They have a huge store there, where you can buy ALL kinds of Harbour sweets in large amounts. When I was a kid, they had a "challenge": because the founder of Haribo (Hans Riegel) used to have deers, they told children, if they would collect acorns & chestnuts during fall & give it to them, they'd get the same amount in Haribo-candy, as a reward. So every fall, as a kid, I was planning on collecting lika a ton of acorns & stuff, for getting a ton of gummibears in return.
7:34 Yea we do have a similar game, we play it when we are bored driving long distances and mostly we do it when we see a yellow car instead of a beetle
"England English and American English are like messed up cousins cause England has their own way of speaking english" Scots out there: Am ah a joke tae ye
Many US-Americans are driving "german" cars but even don´t know it xD Since General Motors has the hand on Opel, many of their cars, sold in the US with American brand names, actually had been developed in by Opel or are based on them, the Buick Regal and, the Chevrolet Cruze e.g. ;-)
@@sonnialex6727 Yes, but they still build cars based on the technique/designs of Opel and Vauxhall is the UK version of Opel since many years. Long before they "became" french ;-)
@@ArtaghVril maybe design, but the technique is shifting to the French. I've been driving opel since my first car 23 years ago, and am noticing a huge French" accent" to my newest one (2 years old). I don't like that. And yes, I knew that Vauxhall is the British opel 😉
BMW also constructs gas turbines. Daimler also builds more than cars. Porsche was Building Tank prototypes like the Maus For Aldi check the wikipedia site. they have Aldi world maps :D
I've noticed a lot of brits will shit on Americans for pronouncing r pretty heavy, but then they add random r sounds; like in "law" and "draw". Linguistics are fun.
Dude, this video gave me 30-minutes-permanent laugh, grin and smile. Love it. I enjoyed a lot watching an open, none ignorant American learn the correct pronounciation. And btw, James, your german pronounciation is very good! :-) Epic moment! Your facial expression *chuckle!* abload.de/img/bildschirmfoto2020-107ckc2.png #subscribed!
13:50 the cobblestone roads are becuase tarmac wasnt available in the middle ages(a lot of city centers in Germany are older than the US), not becuase we find them so appealing, theyre just old/cultural. and tbh ive never seen porsche or bmw taxis, theyre usually Mercedes E-Classes becuase taxis in germany are pretty much what you pick if you want to get somewhere fast and comfortable, as with 10 minutes more you can pretty much reach anything via public transport due to german cities just having way better public transport than the US and the fact that they were built when the most common way to travel was by foot(like in the middle ages), so theyre very compact and not as widespread and gigantic as most american cities.
3:05 Audi is a subsidiary of Volkswagen, and their models share a large number of parts. So if you can get a VW repaired easily in the US, it shouldn't be a big problem for Audi either. Porsche is also a subsidiary, not sure how many parts they share; probably fewer.
Tip for ya if there is an "e" behind an "i" ist a long "i" like in Miele and you pronounce it like "eeeeeee" but if the ist an "i" is in front of an "e" it's an "ei" you pronounce it like the "I" from I'am or I like... so "ei" ="I" and "ie" ="eeeee"
To me, a German, the American accent kinda sounds wet? If that makes sense like German is really dry and english just sounds a lot more flowy and wet lmao
In the area around cologne it's well known that little kids collect chestnuts in autumn and then they can go to the Haribo Store in Bonn where they get free sweets depending on how much they collected
US: Eastside vs. Westside
Germany: Aldi Nord vs. Aldi Süd
Ich sterbe grad aller 😂😂😂😂😂
Hahahaha
this is true, but even so we still have Ossis and Wessis
🤣🤣👍
🤣🤣🤣🤣IS SO
Basically Audi is pronounced like Howdy without the H
There is a nice meme with the picture of an Audi with a Cowboy hat on; Haudi
Thats great!
Think about it: why would owdy be pronounced the same as audi? The spelling is completely different.
@@YMandarin that's because german and English don't use the same sounds wtf 😂😂
@@maxwilhelm7244 I didn't mean the german pronounciation of audi. I just wondered why so much in english is pronounced the same with different spelling, and the other way around as well.
actually most Germans are pretty cool with englishspeakers pronouncing German a bit differently... most of us get pretty excited by the fact that someone went through the trouble of learning our (not so easy) language and that they're trying to speak to us in our mother tongue... we find that kind of charming^^
Ja weil die nicht mit der die das oder ein eine aufgewachsen sind etc
The only time when i went "No actually its pronounced like ..." was when some dude from LA told me i pronounced Porsche wrong.... because some dude in LA in the Porsche dealership told him how it was pronounced. Ya know...that 'murrican wanted to lecture a german on german pronounciation.
@Dennis Hoffmann you seem like a cool guy at parties...
@Dennis Hoffmann
Who is "we"? Me and most of the other Germans have no problems with foreigners. So, who exactly are you talking about, Junge?
@@CodyChamp
Yes, he seems like a richtige Spaßkanone.
In Germany, actually almost no taxis are BMWs or Porsches, they're almost exclusively Mercedeses.
Or VW
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@@henningschutz6257
Doesn't škoda belong to VW?
@@henningschutz6257 the more you know
Bei uns gibt es vereinzelt 5er BMW.... Sind aber selten
Every "C" in pacific ocean is pronounced completely different. Not only German has different pronunciations for their letters :D
Tushe
Yes you're right. Lol well played, english language 😏
Garage
Try the a's in Australia
German is really straight forward with the letters compared to englisch or other languages. Main exception is V.
James: "I guess in European countries specifically all of the letters are pronounced."
France: "Excuse me?"
I think there´re more languages in europe that don´t speak every letter than ones that do :)
You meant to say: Excusez-moi?
@@sailiealquadacil1284 haha yeah sorry you're right! XD
Le What?
Excusez moi?
"in european countries specifically all letters are pronounced" .... well bro... good luck in France
Danish as well. They swollow half of the letters
I mean english is a european language...
@@dasseher1467 Not for long anymore... brexit is coming...
@@julianb1594
European Union does not equal Europe.
Europe is just a continent you know.
and forgetting that Americans too are speaking a European language - the UK is in Europe
In germany, when there’s a yellow car, we say „GELBES AUTO“ and punch the guy next to us and i think that’s beautiful
in russia when wee see a yellow car we say yellow car and stab the guy next too us and i think thats beautiful
Benno oh yeah my bad of course we punch them hahah
Hä was soll das für ein Brauch sein? Das hab ich noch nie jemanden machen sehen
Ein soo gutes Kommentar, aber dadurch, dass du nicht gesagt hast "punch the guy" ist es nicht mehr premium.
I had that in school but with twingos
Man, when you said that Stuttgart was in Baden-Württemberg my German heart made a little patriotic jump screaming "Das Stimmt!" Not gonna lie, didn't expect that.
I think many of your German viewers really appreciate seeing an American showing interest and getting to know our country and culture.
Honestly, most of us think that Americans mainly don't care and know nothing about Europe, but seeing someone putting an effort into it and showing interest makes us very happy.
Mach weiter so, Digga!
Just in case anyone thinks digga has to do with the nword. It has nothing to do with that. Digga is just the German equivalent of bro.
@Dagoth Ur wdym
@@uniball1700 soviel ich weiß, ist digga eine Slang Form von dicker... Also sagt du im Gespräch zu deinem Gegenüber {digger bzw großer bzw Massiv wird dann aber heufig als brother assoziiert} kann mich da aber auch teuschen, bin schon 45 jahre alt. Oft wird es gesagt wenn man nicht einer Meinung mit seinem Gegenüber ist aber soviel Respekt hat dass man ihn als größereren massiveren Menschen anspricht um seine andere Meinung zu posten. Ist aber dann schnell umgangssprachlich geworden, so dass es dann als lückenfüller dient für Alter , Bruder, Muruck oder vieles mehr...
@@ChrisRedfield01 hast Im Grunde recht aber mir ging es eher darum dass es in einem Gespräch genau so wie bro im englischen benutzt wird. Beispiel: Was geht digger = What's up bro
@@ChrisRedfield01 Digga ist eine Slangform von digger (to dig: graben, also einer Sache auf den Grund gehen. Du diggst es nicht (You ain't diggin' it) bedeutet, dass Du etwas (z.B. den Zusammenhang oder die Funktionsweise einer Maschine oder das Wahlsystem nicht verstehst). Btw. "eine Schnecke angraben" bedeutet eine Frau klarmachen...
When someone asks me how American English sounds to me, I refer to it as "bubblegum English".
Everything sounds a bit more "chewy" if you know what I mean.
I always feel like that most people who watch videos like this are german
Hallo meine Freunde
Ja natürlich
Hallo mein Freund
True that.
Moin XD
Moin Meister😂😂
Hallo an Alle
Fun fact: In some country's like Austria or Switzerland "Aldi Süd" is called Hofer.
In meinem Hofer war heute Sekt (trocken) im Angebot. 1,79€ pro 0,75 Flasche.
@@claudiaberger9639 HAHAH LOL XDDD
In Switzerland we just have aldi.
@@syntarx But we don't go there... You grow up in either a Migros- or a Coop-family and you stick with it!!! ;-)
Ich dachte, Hofer heißt einfach Aldi in Deutschland. Als ob der Scheiß Aldi Süd heißt.
James: I literally did not know that
Me, a german guy: Yeah me too
Me neither*
I don't know anything
@@octopus8420 Thank you
@@xbiggieg kein Problem, freue mich schon allein wenn man dafür nicht angeblafft wird
@@xbiggieg und ein kleiner Tipp: "either... Or" und "neither... Nor" sind richtige Power moves in English. Wenn man die regelmäßig einsetzt, bringt das sein English gleich auf ein anderes Level.
How to detect a german on italian beach: 'birkenstock' 😂😂🤣
Aber bitte mit weißen Socken!
or sandals
Be glad you didn't play the "beetle game" in Germany in the 50s. (Almost every car on the street was a beetle)
10 years ago, in uni, one of my classmates did a presentation about how to recognize each era of beetle. I didnt know how much window design affects functionality until then.
American English and British English are like some messed up cousins.
Australian English be like: I have never met these persons in my life
Scots out there: Am ah a joke tae ye
"oy have neva medd these piesons in moy loyve"
fixed.
"Im sorry......?"
Canadian
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Hate to be that person.... but person is usually only used in singular. No one says persons. "I have never met these people in my life" would be more accurate.
Excited that BMW made aircraft engines? Would love to see the expression on your face when you google Porsche Traktor :D
or porsche tanks XD
And wait til he finds out that Daimler-Benz made aircraft engines as well
The Zeppelins has Maybach engines.
Like my expression when i recently ran into a Lamborghini tractor parked in the woods
@@neongrau drove one in Tuscany in the mid 1970s, a tracked Lamborghini, top speed was about 7 Km/h.
Basically V-Words of german origin (Volk, Verein, Vogel, Vieh) are pronounced like a F and words of latin origin (Verb, Variabel, Verifizierung, Vokabel) are pronounced like a W.
And to the accent thing, I think over the last decades the american accent has become mostly the standard. Most of us europeans atleast learn way more english through the massive cultural influence of the US. (Music, Movies etc.) than in school
uh nice to know
As for your question how the American accent sounds to us: my father always said it sounds like you constantly had a too hot potatoe in your mouth. And that stuck because it has a lot of truth to it.
The vowel thing is also not that complicated. In German, there is a short and a long version of vowels. On top of that, the last sound of words often is reduced to a less stressed variant (terminal devoicing being the most prominent variant). It also can apply to vowels which then are pronounced differently.
It also seems funny seing an American complain about how difficult German pronounciation is. The pronounciation in German is actually pretty close to the spelling, except for loan words from other languages (which there are a lot). English is a completely different beast. Without the knowledge of some quite complicated rules or a lot of experience with the language, you never know how to pronounce an English word. Just think of homophones (air heir, bare bear, break brake, cereal serial
, coarse course, flour flower, idle idol, know no) or homonyms (weak week
, sun son, see sea, plane plain, meet meat).
It's due to the history of the English language and the pronounciation changing a lot over time while the spelling remained pretty much untouched from the Modern English period on.
Krass das wusste ich selbst nicht mal
And ironically the original Latin pronunciation of V was like the W in „wall“. So „verificare“ was pronounced like „WEH-ree-fee-KUH-reh“.
he just know how it works:
She: From shoes to alcohol...
James: JJÄÄÄGGGERRRRMMMMMEEEEEIIIIISSSSSTTTTTTEEEEERRRRR!!!!!!!!!
1.) Go to germany
2.) Go to Hamburg
3.) Go to the Innenstadt, Alstercity or Hafencity
4.) watch some badass cars
I do always
Nein haha
or Munich Leopoldstraße or Maximilianstraße
"The European languages pronounce all letter"
Let me introduce you to French, where you have to write a sentence but only say two letters.
Or the other way around lol
Frech words are literally this:
😮🤫🤫🤫😮🤫🤫🤫😮
as someone who speaks German and French, I have to refer to probably my favorite language meme of all time:
English: not too many rules, but a lot of exeptions + German: a bunch of rules, but way less exeptions = French: lots of rules and lots of exeptions
@@kikikillian1208 I speak all three languages too and I can say this is 100% accurate
well in britan, usa, austrilia and canada you write queue but only say the q
14:36 It's only weird if you only have one perspective. From a native German speaker's point of view, pronouncing a V like a W and a W almost like a Wih feels just as weird. And calling it "double-u", when it's clearly two Vs and not Us is also strange.
But we get over it, you will too ;-)
You might have fun reading Althochdeutsch 😂
Oh please not....i have to do that enough in my germanclass...have you ever read ,,der schimmelreiter"? It's soo complicated, even for a german native speaker
@@denkikaminari8703 I don't think Althochdeutsch means what you think it means. 😉
As for now, if I remember correctly, the double -u thing is even older. Althochdeutsch or rather transcription just came to my mind first.
Xnhl heißt es nicht Mittelhochdeutsch? Ich dachte althochdeutsch gibt’s nicht
@@anikl1140 Ist das eine neuere Lehre? Mir hat man noch das mit der Blütezeit des Althochdeutschen um 800 beigebracht, ich bin dann aber in eine andere Richtung gegangen und habe seither auch nichts Gegenteiliges vernommen.
If someone burps, you gotta say "Schulz" real quick or you'll get punched in the shoulder
Schulz Rot
To defend you have to say schultz and make a horn with your thumb and pinky on your forehead around here (NRW) or you get slaped on the forehead (if youre too drunk and dont react fast to protect your forehead)
if someone burps you have to say gesundheit!!!!wich means bless you
In Baden-Württemberg you hit the forehead. Everybody and their mother can hit the shoulder being drunk. Try the forehead, it's much more fun.
@@vtmuseum Buddy of mine made it his specialty..he knew he had to burb and always sniped foreheads..no way to react =P
We have a game in Germany, when somebody burps you need to say "Schulz". If you are too slow, the guy who said it first hits you.
We used to answer with a color eg. „Schulz - Rot“ and whichever person fucked it up had to get punched by everyone lol
Do you play with or without having a particular gesture you gotta make while saying Schulz? 'Cause I play the version where you gotta have your hand like this 🤙 and touch the tip of your thumb to your forehead while saying Schulz or it doesn't count
Oder das gelbe Auto spiel
As a German writing my dissertation in English Linguistics I am super impressed by your ear for phonetics :-) you can pick up tiny nuances in the sounds by listening to them once! That´s some serious talent :-)
Greetings from Cologne :-)
"So your taxis are Mercedes and BMWs? You gotta be rich-rich!" Clearly you haven't been to Norway to see Tesla 85P taxis. 🤣
I saw about a week ago a tesla taxi in germany
In my city in Germany we also have teslas, and even a s63 amg
Luckily, Im currently learning norwegian :D
You're gunna love Germany when you get to visit. I spent a little over two weeks there in decemeber. Christmas markets are amazing, foods delicious, beer is great and the people were nothing short of nice. My next trip there mayyyy be a one way ticket.
Sorry, no Christmas Markets this year, say thanks to the Zombie pandemic.
As a highly introverted person, Christmas markets are the only bigger social events I will dearly miss. They are magical. Come visit next year when they will hopefully return.
"In European countries, all of the letters are pronounced" *manically laughing in French*
And in Danish
laughing french is not Ha Ha Ha its A A A
@@ningkibum-lia it's hon hon hon
@@Syagrius91 I know lmao😂 but you know since french people don’t prounounce the H and mostly it’s Hahaha..
*the polish enter the chat
How to fake an American accent: talk English but don‘t flex a single muscle in your face
In Germany we do that game with smart cars and yellow cars so we just shout "SMART" or "GELBES AUTO" and punch the person next to you
I'm german, and when i went to school, we used learn to the grammar rules and words of the british english variation. Growing up using the Internet i obviously was confronted more with american english and thats the way i speak myself. But in fact i admire the british way of speaking english a lot more than the american's way. You say it seems to be a less sophisticated way to speak, but that is the think i like about british english. Its more sophisticated, but in a good way. German is very complex language and due to that offers a big variety of opportunities to express yourself in very different ways. You can do very cool things with the german Language and i feel like the british way to talk offers a lot more of these than the american way.
care to give an example? I can't think of a good one because I think 90% of the differences are just slight variations in spelling and commonly used expressions not something fundamentally different
I like british english because it has more precise pronounciation (not accounting for dialects ofc) and it's not at all that "posh" as people try to paint it with cheap impersonations of a british noble guy
and I like american pronounciation because it sounds more "round" and I guess a bit more relaxed
I also prefer british English, but I would like to point you to Bernadette Banner's youtube channel if you want to hear an example of absolutely beautiful and sophisticated american pronounciation. I sometimes love just listening to her videos because her speech is so relaxing.
5:31 Plenty of European languages don't pronounce all the letters, not even German. Not sure why you think that.
English is a European language, by the way 😅
the h in th is not pronounced in German, and ph is usually pronounced like f.
French is the best example for a language in which many letters are silent. English has a lot of French words, and German has a few (which are usually pronounced close to the French original).
In German you pronounce every single letter!
French is completely different...
@@kingofmontechristo allein das deutsche "sch" ist ein Beispiel dafür, dass in Deutschland nicht jeder Buchstabe einzeln ausgesprochen wird xD
@@luandemaku8948 Jap, damit hast du recht. Es wird im Deutschen zwar nicht jeder Buchstabe einzeln ausgesprochen, aber jeder Buchstabe hat einen Grund weshalb er da ist. Das Dehnungs-H hat einen Grund, Doppelvokale und Doppelkonsonanten haben einen Grund, Buchstabenkombinationen wie "ch", "ck" und "sch" haben einen Grund.
Im Englischen hat man so unlogisches Zeug wie "tough", "though" und "through", die nicht ansatzweise so ausgesprochen werden wie sie geschrieben sind - und sich nicht einmal reimen obwohl die Endungen komplett identisch sind. Im Englischen hast du für jeden Laut mehrere Schreibweisen und für jede Buchstabenkombination mehrere Aussprachemöglichkeiten, die teils echt absurd sind. Reine Willkür.
Im Deutschen hat jeder Buchstabe einen Einfluss auf die Aussprache.
@@Nutzername92a prinzipiell gebe ich dir da Recht, nur in manchen Fällen wie zum Beispiel beim "ck" ist es auch im deutschen teilweise ziemlich willkürlich, es gibt Wörter die mit einem normalen k genauso klingen würden wie mit einem "ck" noch dazu kommt ja, dass es die Regel mit den doppelkonsonanten gibt, nur beim k macht man plötzlich "ck" daraus statt einfach ein "kk". Genauso wie für außenstehende absolut nicht nachzuvollziehen ist, wann man ein "ch" weich ausspricht wie in "Elch" und wann hart, wie in "Bach". Also ganz so strukturiert und nachvollziehbar ist auch die deutsche Sprache nicht. Von Wörtern wie "umfahren" will ich garnicht erst anfangen haha
Das ist aber wirklich manchmal. Bei "Sch" z.B. Andere Länder haben neue Buchstaben für diesen Laut.
James about 70% of the Taxi cars are Mercedes-Benz, cause their engine is the one wich runs the longest.
Most of them get about 400.000km on them before they are changed.
Another funfact for you, Volkswagen is the mother company of the following car brands and have shares most parts in all brands to make it cheaper for them.
Read and be afraid:
VW
Audi
Porsche
Skoda
Seat
Lamborghini
Bugatti
MAN Trucks
Scania Trucks
And Ducati Bikes
So theoretically, every single mark is german nowadays^^
And the Big Brands got simple cars for everyone too, like the BMW Series1, the Mercedes A-Class or the Audi A1
And Bentley
And german cars are cheaper in US than in germany.
renault macht aber sehr viele Motoren
Lamborghini started as tractors
@@Chualland they still have them not like Porsche, we have a nice red Porsche Junior
Haha, the Trader Joe‘s reaction is pure Gold! 😂👍 (It’s founded nevertheless in the US, the Aldi Nord guys just bought it a time ago. Aldi in Austria is called Hofer btw.)
„In European countries all letters are pronounced“
French: So you write a whole essay and then proceed to say 5 letters max.
Danish: hold my smørrebred
20:56 The classic explanation in Germany as to what an American (accent) sounds like is: Like someone who has a potato in their mouth.
Not right. It's like someone has a HOT potato in their mouth. :D
H O T
P O T A T A
Yepp, or a chewing gum!
Never understood that as a german. But then again my grand dad worked in Georgia for some time after he was released as a war prisoner and he said he had never heard people speak better English after that 😆
did u know that kindergarten is a German word and means "children garden"😂😂 pronaunced as kinderrr garrrten
Hrrrrrr
/ˈkɪndɐˌɡaʁtn̩/
It’s actually pronounced “kindagatn“
now learn Kindertagesstätte
Lev 6050 That‘s commonly shortened to „Kita“, pronounced like keetah. Should be easy for english tongues.
Mercedes was formed from both Daimler in Stuttgart and Benz in Mannheim, and till today people from Stuttgart say, they work at Daimler, and people from Mannheim would say, they work for Benz.
Hippedy hoppedy, this comment section is now german property.
😂
Underrated cmt
Lmfao
Yes, the actual Haribo factory is in Bonn, right next to it there´s a shop, where can buy most of the gummies (and other sweets) and they are way cheaper than in stores. BUT since there is no room to expand the factory in Bonn, there was a new massive factory built in an indusrtial park in Grafschaft-Ringen.
18:00
The Dassler brothers had fallen out and split the company, Adolf Dassler took over the name ADIDAS, his brother Rudolf Dassler called his company PUMA. Both remained estranged until the end of their lives, even their sons, who took over the respective companies.
Adolf "Adi" Dassler also provided the novel sports shoes produced by his company at the 1954 World Cup in Bern (the so-called Miracle of Bern), where Germany won 3:2 against Hungary. There is also a film about this, called "Das Wunder von Bern" (2003).
16:10 "in WolfsbUrg."
- "ah, Volvesberg".
I’ve actually been to an Aldi in America and I really searched but found only two product’s that I know from germany
Wer're not that rich. ^^
Fun fact: in Germany some say "If i want to drive a Mercedes, i'd call a taxi (cab)." just to express their dismissiveness for that brand, that has a "built-in right of way" (because some drive like that).
Bro!! I love how you can instantly nail the brand names! You‘ve got some talent 😇🙏🏼
You both need to do a Video together
i get annoyed when someone call me "Catherine" or "Kate" instead of "Katharina" even when they heard me saying how my name is pronounced correctly xD kinda frustrating because when they just read it it's not their fault but they heared me xD they HEARED xD!
but they didn't listen ;)
I have the same problem with my name. Most people in Germany say Sewenna, when they read my name. But the worst thing is, even if I tell them that it‘s pronounced differently they mange to butcher the pronunciation 😂😂
Now double tha chaos: my name is Catharina. It's not the traditional german spelling, but neither is it manifested in any other language. Imagine: once I went to starbucks in the UK and when they asked for my name i said "catherine" because I thought "why even try". What I got was a cup with "Katchrin" on it.😂
@@cathib8634 Long ago at a hostel in Brighton, UK talking to an Englishman. He: What's your name? Me: Hannes (short for Johannes - like John) He: Ehm .. may I say Han? But it actually sounded like the first syllable of the German "Henne" which is a chicken.
*heard
England has their own English dialect. It's called English.
😂😂😂
Bruh. .-. NOICE.
"In european countries, all the letters are pronounced"
France: Hold my Baguette xD
True and baguette u say Baggett and not Bag 'u'ett'e'
5:40 It's a very German thing to pronounce every single letter. Other European languages such as French or Italian have a lot of silent letters
You know your 're German when ....
"Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengeselschaft"
isn' t even your longest word 😂
Greetings from Germany
the word is missing an "l" (L) actually... so, it IS in fact longer
Aber das macht doch nicht mal Sinn 😅
@@Maexi habs auch nur aus pinterest 😂😂😂
@@morpheadelaluna7154 ouch 😂
The Albrecht brothers got into an argument of selling cigarettes.
One wanted to sell them, the other not. Then they split up.
Aldi North bought Trader Joe's in 1979. The use the brand even in Germany for food items in the Aldi stores.
It's improtant to add though that they didn't really have much ill will between each other. Unlike Puma and Adidas, Aldi Süd and Aldi North aren't really rivals, they share markets between each other, stay our of each other ways and support each other.
Loved this video! As a German (living in the states now) I loved hearing you pronounce these brands 😄 And hearing that you never even been to Germany I love to see that you have such big interest in the language and culture 🖤❤️💛
The "Punch buggy" game you played also exists in Germany but u only do it with red or yellow cars OR w a smart
_punches_ you're not allowed to say the s-word unless there actually is one, otherwise you get punched :) (that's how my brother & I played it as kids)
@@LeyCarnifex yessss same played it like that too
Aldi Nord also got stores in other countries, they kind of split up the world just like they split up Germany.
We are also saying American brands wrong. I think Nike is an example
Naik xd
What exactly do you mean? I think most of us pronounce Nike properly.
@@sylachsy3695 naja wir sagen naik und es ist eher naiki oder so
@@hohu1374 hmm interessant :D Ich hab die auch immer Naik genannt :D
Ich hab schon immer Naiki gesagt, wurde ich aber auch oft für ausgelacht hahah
* If you tell English-speakers that Audi is Latin and hope that might get them to pronounce it right that's hopeless. They will still mangle it just like many other Latin words. Nivea is Latin too, which is why it doesn't follow the V = F rule.
* Historically Mercedes taxis were used because they were super reliable and easy to repair. The most well know type for that is the W123 from the 70s/80s. Those are still driving around today in North Africa (though even then they are reaching the end of their life). Today with modern models it's probably more of an image thing.
* The two Aldis have an agreement to stay out of each other's territory. So you only ever see one in a country. Aldi Nord covers France, Spain and other western European countries for example
* The main Haribo factory is indeed in Bonn. They have a store within the city and also a factory outlet center. You can buy stuff like a kilo of one bear color there. They also have a lot more stuff than the bears, which isn't easily available in the US
Haribo isn't in Bonn anymore. They moved to Grafschaft... It isn't far away from Bonn, but not Bonn anymore
Damn, german girl really made her homework on those background informations. This is quality content. 👍
What’s About Siemens and Bosch. They are from Germany too
And Storck? Very good candy
Fun fact on BMW: We jokingly also translate these 3 letters to: Bei Mercedes weggeworfen (Dumped at Mercedes). xD We kinda see BMW as the little sister of Mercedes in Germany. Mercedes is recognised as a higher standard car than BMW. xD
And yes, part of the factory of Haribo is located in Bonn-Bad Godesberg. We also have a huuuuuge store there, it's so amazing. If you ever get a chance to visit Germany, make sure to go to one of the Haribo stores! :D
In german you have two pronunciations of „V“ you have the v which is in Volkswagen and the v which is in Vase, which is pronounced like a w
Adidas is based in Herzogenaurach near Nuremberg in Bavaria by the way
Funny, in Germany we had played the punch game too but with with the "Smart" car
Bei uns war es, wenn ein Auto 4 mal die gleiche Ziffer auf dem Nummernschild hatte
Und bei uns mit 4 gleichen Ziffern oder wenn es ein gelbes Auto ist lmao
Bei uns wenns smart waren und bei Zahlen die doppelt, dreifach oder vierfach waren. 😂 seid doch ehrlich, wir haben nur einen grund gesucht unsere freunde zu schlagen
Bei uns war es ein gelbes Auto
Man you dont give yourself enough credit. You literally (im german, so this means LITERALLY) have the best pronounciation i heard from any american ever. You sir gained yourself a sub ( not for the pronounciation, but for you being humble, funny and inteligent) Keep it up!
I'm so happy to see foreigners especially from overseas being excited about our language and culture :) it let's me also realize facts about my own country.
You did a great job pronouncing the brands, keep it up !
You should hear germans pronouncing "Worcestershire Sauce" :D
Worschester Soße, Not even trying
Squirrel is my favorite.
OrchesterSoße
it is so siple its all about the "A" which american speakers pronounce as "ay" but you should actually say "Ahhhh" so ist is Ahhudi and Ahhldi and VolksWahhhgen etc. etc.
Your pronounciation is just fine, man. Everyone has to start somewhere.
But there is one thing that, compared to english, is way more complicated than it has to be: it's our german grammar.
As a german, I don't waste a thought about it while speaking. But when I'm speaking or reading in english or watching movies or series in english, a lot of times I think: Who the hell came up with our god damn grammar? No wonder that german is considered a hard language to learn because our grammar sucks.😂
But nevermind, keep up the good work👍🏼
Deutsch is noch relativ einfach... Versuch mal fucking finnisch zu lernen ey... Das is richtig übel.
@@adenkyramud5005 ja gut, das ist noch ein anderes Kaliber😂 mir ging es jetzt gerade um den Vergleich englisch-deutsch😅
@@adenkyramud5005 als Deutscher ist es sogar relativ einfach Dänisch, Schwedisch oder Norwegisch zu lernen.
Besonders Dänisch und Schwedisch sind ziemlich ähnlich zu unserem Deutsch
Und in Finnland kann man sich in bestimmten Gebieten auch gut mit Schwedisch verständigen.
@@Claudia-hr5ei stimmt, da habe ich mich vertan.
Wollte eigentlich Dänisch hinschreiben.
Danke für den Hinweis
To your question about the haribo factory: there are several factorys in GER producing haribo. In Bonn used to be the main production and offices but they moved it to Grafschaft. I remember the heavy smell of haribo in the part of town where the factory was.
Greetings from Bonn
I found a Schwarzkopf shop in my home country, South Africa and my mind is blown away.
Dayum son
I must say, your pronunciation when repeating the words is surprisingly good.
"Trader Joe´s" is a brand within Aldi Nord. Especially typical American food is branded with "Trader Joe´s" at Aldi Nord.
But it's also important, that Aldi Nord only bought Trader Joe's, and did not found it.
@@publicvoidmain thanks for clarifying.
But... that would have been such a German move, to use something as "blunt" and basic as "Trader Joe" to make your brand name appeal to Americans. 🤣
I'm from Germany and I love British English. The accent is so beautiful. It sounds so unique and elegant 😍
Hey, in autumn 2018 I was on vacation with my family. We did a trip to Florida (Miami-Orlando-Cape Coral-Miami) and at Cape Coral there also was an Aldi. So it's not true that there's no Aldi in Florida 😜
As a German I am impressed how quickly you are able to replicate the correct pronunciation almost perfectly.
The UK has thousands of accents - when a serial killer sent the police an audio tape a linguist narrowed down where he came from to 3 square miles.
just finnished watching her video thinking "man, James needs to react to this!" and whapam, its on my starting page xD
I've heard some native english speakers called Lufthansa "Loof-thanza" and my ears cried in german.
Whats the difference between crying and crying in german?
@@grafinakaasu9048 the memetic appeal
😂
@@glycyrrhizor2507 yes 😭😣😣😣😣
sacrilege!!! OUCH! My heart bleeds... My soul is cringing...!
Came over from ggia and now subscribed your channel!! Looking forward for more of your content!
I grew up in east germany... And the ddr made a car called trabant (trabbi), and if someone sees a blue one, he has to punch the arm of the person next to him. And if it is a green one, same procedure, but with pinching...
We two blue ones when I was a child. So.... Sorry I guess XD
The pronunciation of 'e' is way weirder in English than in German. Watch the video 'The most common vowel in English' by Tom Scott and you'll see 😁
German week at aldi? Thats hilarious 😂
Probably pretty much the same stuff they sell in Germany for a Bavarian week.
@@chrisrudolf9839 i mean Bavaria may as well be a different country
I remember when I was a teenager back in the Stone Age and started making fun of my British cousin when he pronounced Addidas like she does and he cut me down to size.
Yes, the main fabric of Haribo is (or at least was) located in Bonn. They have a huge store there, where you can buy ALL kinds of Harbour sweets in large amounts. When I was a kid, they had a "challenge": because the founder of Haribo (Hans Riegel) used to have deers, they told children, if they would collect acorns & chestnuts during fall & give it to them, they'd get the same amount in Haribo-candy, as a reward. So every fall, as a kid, I was planning on collecting lika a ton of acorns & stuff, for getting a ton of gummibears in return.
7:34 Yea we do have a similar game, we play it when we are bored driving long distances and mostly we do it when we see a yellow car instead of a beetle
"England English and American English are like messed up cousins cause England has their own way of speaking english"
Scots out there: Am ah a joke tae ye
Don´t even start with welch.
Don't even start with irish
DONT EVEN DARE TO!
Many US-Americans are driving "german" cars but even don´t know it xD Since General Motors has the hand on Opel, many of their cars, sold in the US with American brand names, actually had been developed in by Opel or are based on them, the Buick Regal and, the Chevrolet Cruze e.g. ;-)
Opel and General Motors split, Opel now belongs to the french group PSA (Citroën, DS, Peugeot und Vauxhall ).
@@sonnialex6727 Yes, but they still build cars based on the technique/designs of Opel and Vauxhall is the UK version of Opel since many years. Long before they "became" french ;-)
@@ArtaghVril maybe design, but the technique is shifting to the French.
I've been driving opel since my first car 23 years ago, and am noticing a huge French" accent" to my newest one (2 years old).
I don't like that.
And yes, I knew that Vauxhall is the British opel 😉
James: “but if you actually think about it”
Mic: nope
James we had a walmart too in germany but only for a Short time
I don't know if mentioned before - but the BMW-Logo (in bavarian colours blue/white) is also a (symbolic) rotating propeller.
BMW also constructs gas turbines.
Daimler also builds more than cars.
Porsche was Building Tank prototypes like the Maus
For Aldi check the wikipedia site. they have Aldi world maps :D
For me, American accent sounds like sliding back and forth in the bathtub 😂
omg that’s so accurate lol
I've noticed a lot of brits will shit on Americans for pronouncing r pretty heavy, but then they add random r sounds; like in "law" and "draw". Linguistics are fun.
Dude, this video gave me 30-minutes-permanent laugh, grin and smile. Love it. I enjoyed a lot watching an open, none ignorant American learn the correct pronounciation.
And btw, James, your german pronounciation is very good! :-)
Epic moment! Your facial expression *chuckle!* abload.de/img/bildschirmfoto2020-107ckc2.png
#subscribed!
13:50 the cobblestone roads are becuase tarmac wasnt available in the middle ages(a lot of city centers in Germany are older than the US), not becuase we find them so appealing, theyre just old/cultural.
and tbh ive never seen porsche or bmw taxis, theyre usually Mercedes E-Classes becuase taxis in germany are pretty much what you pick if you want to get somewhere fast and comfortable, as with 10 minutes more you can pretty much reach anything via public transport due to german cities just having way better public transport than the US and the fact that they were built when the most common way to travel was by foot(like in the middle ages), so theyre very compact and not as widespread and gigantic as most american cities.
its insane watching your passion of learning so many new things day for day
9:23 that‘s the same what Austrian people think about the German „Hochdeutsch“
3:05 Audi is a subsidiary of Volkswagen, and their models share a large number of parts. So if you can get a VW repaired easily in the US, it shouldn't be a big problem for Audi either. Porsche is also a subsidiary, not sure how many parts they share; probably fewer.
The Porsche AG is a subsidiary of VW, but VW is owned by Porsche Automobil Holding SE. So VW owns Porsche, but Porsche owns VW.
@@kvasirsblod1289 ownception
Tip for ya if there is an "e" behind an "i" ist a long "i" like in Miele and you pronounce it like "eeeeeee" but if the ist an "i" is in front of an "e" it's an "ei" you pronounce it like the "I" from I'am or I like... so "ei" ="I" and "ie" ="eeeee"
Easy to remember: Pronounce it like the second letter as a standalone in English: "ie"->"e" (EE) vs "ei"->"i" (AYE).
To me, a German, the American accent kinda sounds wet? If that makes sense like German is really dry and english just sounds a lot more flowy and wet lmao
In the area around cologne it's well known that little kids collect chestnuts in autumn and then they can go to the Haribo Store in Bonn where they get free sweets depending on how much they collected