June shouldn't be too embarassed about that Du/Sie... As soon as someone realises that a foreigner is learning gernan, the Du or Sie doesn't matter. We know, how tricky our language can be ;)
@exzses The English language always uses the polite form ("you" 2nd pers. pl. = Ihr) - even to siblings, spouses and children. The non-formal, familiar form would have been the forgotten "thou" (= Du). If we copied the English way of adresssing other people, we'd sound like Wallenstein ("Euer Liebden").
That’s very empathetic! :) Gives me soooo much hope since I’ve started learning German just about few months back. I aspire to pursue my higher education in Germany and yeah, your comment was rather comforting to read 😁 (not about the du/sie part particularly, but the fact that you try to understand Foreigners despite the flaws..)
@UCMRnuqcBcmZBw4lRp0ZUtFQ Well, I played Brennball with pins being the bases you need to reach in elementary school and we played Völkerball without any equipment besides a ball
@@lol-bx9xm I would guess she talks about Hütchenball - it's the modern version of Völkerball, cause Völkerball is way to dangerous nowadays (but it was way more fun)
Particularly where you come from a country in which history is denigrated as something to be left behind and forgotten. Leaving bad times behind was the motive for the great majority of European immigrants to America.
I guess you mean "Schulsanitätsdienst". Yes, that's actually students from grade 8 or older giving first aid. They take a first aid course and practise regularly. And then they take turns walking around with the walkie-talkie on, ready to go help if there's a medical problem.
I always shook my head when they put out warnings on the German radio about someone who walks or bikes on an autobahn. Wondering: „Who the f*** does that?!“ Guess it could just have been some murricans 🤔
Ist Dein Wortschatz wirklich so gering, als daß Du ohne das häßliche F-Word nicht auskommen kannst? Auch die Abkürzung entschuldigt nicht dessen Verwendung!
Rainer-JGS Wenn dich meine Verwendung dieses Wortes in dem Kontext so schockiert, dann empfehle ich, du solltest dich lieber aus der gefährlichen Welt des Internets und besonders der anzüglichen Kommentarsektion auf TH-cam fern halten. So eine unschuldige Seele, wie deine, könnte permanenten Schaden erleiden.
@@93Taru Aber es würde Dir - lieber 93-Jahre alter Taru - auch kein Zacken aus der Krone fallen, wenn Du die prägende Macht des geschriebenen Wortes ein wenige sorgfältiger beachten würdest, denn derlei häßliche Formulierungen tragen mit zur Verrohung des Netzes und der Welt im allgemeinen bei! Ich bitte Dich, dies lediglich als freundliche und gut gemeinte Bitte zu verstehen und nicht als überhebliche Bevormundung! Liebe Grüße vom Rainer-JGS.de, dem Förderer guter Umgangskultur und aufrichtiger Nächstenliebe.
The grammar is actually a lot easier with the formal "Sie" than the informal "du". I knew a Belgian guy in college and he used the formal "Sie" with everyone. And we would tell him, "Dude, we are friends. There is no need to use "Sie" when you are talking to us.", but he would just always use the formal "Sie" because that way he didn't need to think about the right verb ending.
@@stefanw7406 But then you will run into problems with the Verumlauterung required for many diminutives. I think that's harder than figuring out the grammatical gender. "Das Mannchen trägt lederne Schuhchen und baut sein Hauschen am Flusschen bei dem Bruckchen."
During my time in Germany, as an exchange student, my host family had taken us out to eat. It was one of the first few days I was there. There were several of her family members there so we could all meet each other (like her grandparents, an aunt and uncle, etc.) I remember it was a nice pizza place. We even had wine with our meal. My host parents asked me if I wanted more pizza. Well, I didn’t, so I wanted to tell them no thanks, I’m full. However, I didn’t know the word for full. Usually, when I don’t know a word in German, I just plug in the English word and hope they know what I mean. So, I said, “Nein, danke. Ich bin full.” The entire table started laughing so hard and I had no idea why. Finally, my host sister explained that ‘voll’ (which sounds like ‘full’) means drunk! So, I just told her family , “No, thanks. I’m drunk.” I was so embarrassed I wanted to crawl under the table!
Where I live, it's totally normal to say "Ich bin voll" if you mean you ate so much you can't eat any more. Though it can also mean drunk. Usually the context helps to make the determination which is meant.
Silkwesir This was in SW Germany- Bad Kreuznach. My husband, who is from Berlin, explains it as funny because it was obvious I was searching for a German word and made a faux pas by using an English word that sounds like a German word that is totally possible and coincidentally can mean drunk. Adding to that, I was only 15, and I had had a couple of glasses of wine 🍷 I’ve even heard voll being used as full, but it was a great opportunity to have a good laugh! 🤣😂🤣😂
Yeeesss! Another video with June and Sophia! I love you guys and I love listening to embarrassing stories of others! I only watched a few minutes of it by now, but I know this will be good!!! And I think the game you are referring to is called "Keulenvölkerball" or something like that. I played it myself a few times here in Germany in PE class. :)
The sleeping during class thing.. I once fell asleep during biology, and my teacher just took a huge wooden ruler user for drawing on the board, walked up to my desk, raised the ruler and slammed it onto the desk right next to my head. Boy, that was loud....
@@MontanaShowalter oh yeah... and it worked. never fell asleep in his class again. actually, he was a pretty cool dude, and he didn't mind really that I fell asleep, but he minded that it was during his class. I remember him telling me if I were too tired to stay awake, I should stay away and sleep whereever I wanted, but not in his class where I would just disctract my classmates. We all liked him.
I once had a bad headache in history class and had to close my eyes a little bit and either way I almost fell asleep so i just closed my eyes for like 10 seconds and my whole class was looking and talking about me while my history teacher just ignored me and then my headache wasn't that bad anymore and I tried to stay awake and apologized and explained to him after class why I was "sleeping"
Hi Montana, maybe you could explain to us Germans which steps you - as a young American - have to take in order to vote in the upcoming election? Where do you have to register? Do you have to register each time a selection is held or is the registration valid for all future elections? Do you have to pay a fee for registration? What do you do when voting (make an X somewhere or press a button or whatever)? For comparison: in Germany everybody has to be registered at the local authorities (= Einwohnermeldeamt) anyway. When an election is coming up, you automatically receive a postcard to inform you, at which location you can vote. Since in Germany the elections usually are held on a Sunday, the election locations are often in school houses. Before you can vote, you have to show your ID-Card or Passport to make sure that you are really the person who is registered (e.g. you can not vote more than once in the election). You vote by making an X on the ballot in the circle that belongs to the party which you want to vote for. Thanks a lot!
American voting is very similar to German voting. You register once at 18+ and are always registered. We vote on Tuesdays, usually in a school or a community center, showing your ID. The method depends on the state in which you live. In Alabama, we bubble in next to the candidate you choose.
@@rachaelkramer9746 but we don't have to register in germany, we just get a letter once we're old enough from the town/ area we are registered to live in, where to go to vote
Wibke Std True. I didn’t get into such small details, but that’s still a registration when you are registering at your Bürgeramt with your address. Similarly, we do the same thing, except not with an address, but our driver’s license, post office, or even online. The only difference is that we aren’t required to register our address in an official capacity, as is in Germany. We do, however, give our address when we register to vote or get our license. It’s just a matter of which is required first in each country. My husband still votes in Berlin, and I vote in the US. We have two residencies.
Rachael Kramer but one thing that isn’t good in American elections is that there are only two parties: the democrats and the republicans and that’s pretty bad for voting, because it’s like deciding between „Cholera und Pest“(german saying). It is way outdated because of this two party system and should be updated for present. We in Germany have the system that you can vote two things: one party and one person of a party and a cool thing is You can have as many parties as you want the only thing you have to reach is 5% of the voters or 3 persons being voted in 3 Landkreisen(many areas in Germany like mittelsachsen I think)to get in the Bundestag or Landestag(for each country: saxony, north-Rheinwestfalen, Bavaria, Brandenburg, Berlin, ......)so for now our Bundestag is splittend in 6 Factions. The chancellor is like a president for us and our Präsident is only like a representative from Germany(but he leads the army and declare war if it’s necessary). The chancellor can do many things but is not powerful enough to make a dictatorship or even touch the rules of our country(there can be one way, but it’s hard to explain and you can’t edit/remove our Grundgesetz). I think if Americans do the same it would be okay if you are the superpower on the globe. But with the presidents making dumb thinks like Trump we could get a next big war, because the Americans behave themselves(I mean the president/leading party). So would be nice :)
I'll never forget my very strict Maths teacher's reaction to an American exchange student falling asleep in his class. The first time it happened, he got really angry and told him to focus. 5 minutes later the poor dude fell asleep again and the teacher kicked him out of class. He was furious. Cursing. The class was shocked. That teacher was very strict but also had a kind of "confused professor" persona, so he didn't even realize that it was an American exchange student. When we told him he was like "I don't care where this imbecile is from!" So yeah. Don't fall asleep at a German Gymnasium. Or any school in Germany for that matter.
I remember some situations from when I was in the U.S. The most embarassing one was when my host mother asked me "Will you sweep?". I heard sleep instead of sweep and it was the middle of the day. So I said "No" and probably made my host family think I was ungrateful and/or lazy. I also remember coming back from lunch break late on my first day. So I went to my chemistry class and the teacher told me to "Go find Wilhelm Herrschel". I had never heard of him and so I thought he was probably someone I had to see because of being late. Yeah. Turned out Wilhelm Herrschel is a scientist and my chemistry teacher had set up papers about scientists to arrange the seating order. And I also remember being at a fair one summer night and trying to tell my host sister that I was sweating. I thought the e-a-t part was pronounced like the word eat. So my host sister answer was something like "You mean you're sweating. What you just said means you're turning into sugar." So dont worry, exchange students in the U.S. make funny/embarassing mistakes as well. But looking back now these stories are all rather funny. And in my French class in Germany pretty much all of us made funny mistakes. My french teacher had a very vivid way of teaching us never to make these mistakes again but also laugh about them.
I think everyone who ever went to live in another country has a few funny stories to tell. I just remembered another one. Back then I didnt know the difference between Italian pizza and American pizza. So when we had pizza for the first time I was gonna put a whole pizza onto my plate. So I put piece after piece onto my plate until my host sister asked "What are you doing?" And I was like "I'm taking my pizza". And she was like "Yeah, but no more then 3 or 4 pieces, you'll be full after that".
Not getting the pronunciation right can lead to really funny moments. On a Sunday evening one of my flat mates- a Spaniard- came back from a trip to Paris and Harri a finish chap was really curious to learn what what Agustin had been doing in Paris. It turns out he spent the entire weekend at his friends flat playing games or so. So he goes “I did not see anything (of Paris)” but with his thick Spanish accent he said as much as “I didn’t drink anything” which was not the response Harri was hoping to get so he goes “no worries. You can fun in Paris without drinks. So what’s it like there? Did you visit any interesting places?” and again Agustin responded “no I didn’t have any drinks”. This kept going until both were getting increasingly annoyed with each other stupid answers and questioning. Neither of them realised that Agustins Spanish accent prevented him from saying what he wanted to say so he kept repeating “vu” - “seen” instead of “bu” - “drunk”. It was hilarious
Es freut einen zu sehen das euch die Zeit in Deutschland gefallen hat. Auch ich war vor langer Zeit als Austauschschüler in Amerika. Leider keine 8 Monate. Ich denke es ist immer eine positive Erfahrung die man aus einem anderen Land mitnehmen kann, für die eigene Zukunft und für eigene Gedanken. Habt weiterhin Spaß an dem was Ihr macht.
i relate to reggae falling asleep in class so hard!!! i’m in spain rn from germany and people don’t realize how exhausting and draining it is to hear and try to figure out a different language the whole day. your brain has to work so hard and you’re just always super tired
I can’t tell which one I wanna do first. Like just when I think I decide, ok that one! A different one does something that makes me indecisive again. The struggle is real
The "school nurses" are often called Schülersanitäter. They are other students who have special lessons to learn how to help if there's an emergency. In my school we had extra meetings with people from the ambulance to practice emergency situations :D
Well not sure if the game you played in PE is what i have known as 'Brennball', which is quite a bit like Baseball but without using bats and with a football sized ball. It has been a long time since i played it (more than 20 years now) so i am not completely sure how it worked exactly. What i remember is this: There were 2 teams and one was spread out accross the field and had to catch the ball and throw it back, the other team had to try and get their members around the síde of the field. Basically that team had to throw the ball and run to the next safe point one by one while the other team was busy catching the ball and throwing it back. If they finished while a team member was not at the safe point yet that member was 'burned' and out of the game. Thats at least what i remember of it.
Hallo Montana! Ihr 3 girls seid so süß und lustig! Auch wenn es teilweise schwierig ist Euch zu folgen, weil Ihr ja oft durcheinander redet! Aber das ist bei einer so lockeren Truppe junger/hübscher Mädchen ja wohl auch ganz normal. Außerdem kann man sich das Video ja auch gerne mehrmals ansehen um doch noch alles zu verstehen..! Übrigens war mir eingefallen, daß Du vor ca. 3 Monaten ein ähnliches Video mit Deiner besten Freundin Ashley (in Deutsch auch "Busenfreundin" genannt) gemacht hattest. Es war schon echt sehr nachlässig von Dir Ashley so lange vor uns (Deiner "erweiterten Familie") zu verheimlichen und sie seither auch nicht mehr zeigen. Sie ist ja geradezu wie Dein Zwilling, was auch andere Viewer schon so geschrieben haben, und ebenso sooo süß! Sie würde auch perfekt in Eure deutsch-amerikanische 3er Truppe passen, was meinst Du? Alles Gute für Dich, Deine Familie und Freunde aus Deiner 2. Heimat!! P.S.: I did this comment in German to challenge & help you improving your German skills, and because my English couldn't express what I wanted to tell you! So, forgive me please!
Oh wow - you went to school in Unna? How fun - you may have went to the same school I used to go to, looooong ago (and where my niece and nephew go at the moment). Glad you mostly enjoyed the stay here :)
I remember now: There is a German operetta in which a man is looking forward to getting rich from an advantageous marriage. At one point, on the way to the wedding, he says "Her das Gelbe!" (Bring on the yellow stuff!)
German PE teacher: I'll let you choose what we do today. German class: VÖLKERBALL (Wich is essentially dodgeball, or the more literal translation !all out war!)
I can totally relate to the sleeping in class. My eyes hurt when I do monotone things like staring at a board in school/university, staring at monitors and driving a car on the Autobahn. I figured out when your eyes hurt it's because they get dry from blinking less when you do these monotone things.
'Schülersanitäter' student medic. In Germany it is a concept that is supported by most schools, some better, some worse. Especially at the Gymnasium you can have well qualified students (If the school really supports it adequately), who start 5th grade with first aid and medic training at least once a month and at least 2 professional medic training courses every year. Reaching 10th grade they could handle almost every emergency at school as well as ambulance medics.
Well you'll remember those memories your whole life i guess :) Always nice to see the three of you :) I catched June's kiss. I'll keep it ok? :3 Do they have IG btw? :)
If she really was on an Autobahn (should be the A44), she probably also got announced in the local radio's "Verkehrsmeldung", so everyone knows that somone is biking on the A44... 🤣
you have friends. you have parents who love you how you are. you spent a nice year- almost at least- in this beautiful country. you, my girl, don't know how good you have it :)
You are my second favourite youtuber from outside of Germany. An deinen Videos erstaunt mich, wie gut du deutsch ohne Kasusfehler sprichst. Dein Video über Helikoptereltern hat mir am Besten gefallen. :)
Looking back on June's cycling story it occurred to me: I'm surprised there are that many bugs left in Germany. The bug dieoff has been positively disturbing. There are only a quarter as many insects as there were in (IIRC) 1970. Car windshields are a lot cleaner after a long drive than they used to be.
Wait WTF? Soest und Unna? I was born in Unna. The road you most probably took is not a highway, it is a "Landstrasse", which is a long straight strech of road where you are allowed to drive 70-100km/h (43-60mph). Usually going though rural areas with farmland (hence "Land"strasse) to both sides of the road.
Are you sure it was an Autobahn. Wasnt it maybe the Kraftfahrstraße where the limt is 100km/h? Because riding a bike on the Autobahn is pretty much forbidden, especially when you're not a prfessional rider. Someone would have called the police immediately. And riding a bike on these other streets is actually pretty normal i think, at least in areas not too close to the city.
Soest to Unna are around 40KM or 24.something miles and if you were on the Autobahn with your bike, then you were although a local radio star (Verkehrsfunk).
Ok, "ausziehen" is a bit tricky because it can refer to either taking your clothes off, or moving out of an apartment or a house. Neither really apply to riding a taxi. But hey, nice try.
Hi, my name is Edris and I live in Germany. I have a little problem with my neighbors and I want little help from you guys because you lived in Germany too, I live in a camp which is a lot of refugees from Afghanistan and other countries, my neighbors wakes me up by a laud sound during 2 O'clock in the morning, I already told the sosioal amt and also I called the police several times but they still waking me up, I don't know what else to do, please tell me how I can get rid of this problem, is there somewhere in Germany I can go and talk?
June, where did you all that bugs from? I grew up that after every fast drive the car front is full of dead insects. Nowadays I barely find any dead insect after an hour of driving. But as you take it with humor, you know: How do you know a biker is kind? Because of the bugs between his teeth! :-)
Yes, I was wondering that too. The insect decimation in Germany is positively disturbing. IIRC there are only a quarter as many (individuals, not species) as there were in 1970. June was the envy of most of the bird population. We're seeing the same thing in Canada: fewer insects, fewer birds.
The Problem with you-Du/Sie is that Du-you are false friends. English speakers use ALWAYS the FORMAL "You" . The equivalent to "Du" is "thou" which is not used anymore (only in slang in some regions in northern england). These are the singular words in Shakespearean english (if you read the novels in original) : Thou: You When “you” is the subject of the sentence. - deutsch DU Thee: You When “you” is the object of the sentence. - deutsch DIR Thy : Your Possessive form of you. Commonly used before a noun that begins with a consonant/consonant sound (like the article, “a”). Thine: Your Possessive form of you. Commonly used before a noun that begins with vowel/vowel sound (like the article, “an”). Also used when indicating that something is “absolute and understood”. Thy/Thine - deutsch DEIN
June , ausziehen instead of aussteigen not much of a difference for an English speaker Ausziehen can use when you change apartment ( Ich bin ausgezogen , ich ziehe aus , ich ziehe um ) You are like the three musketeers. All for one, one for all. And always in a good mood
June shouldn't be too embarassed about that Du/Sie... As soon as someone realises that a foreigner is learning gernan, the Du or Sie doesn't matter. We know, how tricky our language can be ;)
ach ja ? immer dieser sozialismus...
@exzses The English language always uses the polite form ("you" 2nd pers. pl. = Ihr) - even to siblings, spouses and children. The non-formal, familiar form would have been the forgotten "thou" (= Du).
If we copied the English way of adresssing other people, we'd sound like Wallenstein ("Euer Liebden").
Aber "Sie" ist doch viel einfacher...
That’s very empathetic! :) Gives me soooo much hope since I’ve started learning German just about few months back. I aspire to pursue my higher education in Germany and yeah, your comment was rather comforting to read 😁 (not about the du/sie part particularly, but the fact that you try to understand Foreigners despite the flaws..)
@@thkempe bruder was redest du da
Junes smile is melting my heart
Yeah she's really cute!😉
They are all three just cute
Yep!
Agreed
do you mean "Völkerball"?
because that's a game you'll play in german pe class all the time xD
It's either Völkerball or Brennball, but I guess it's former.
@UCMRnuqcBcmZBw4lRp0ZUtFQ Well, I played Brennball with pins being the bases you need to reach in elementary school and we played Völkerball without any equipment besides a ball
it could be "Hütchenball" its Völerball but you have to hit 3 Pins
@@lol-bx9xm I would guess she talks about Hütchenball - it's the modern version of Völkerball, cause Völkerball is way to dangerous nowadays (but it was way more fun)
@@ElRackadusch Völkerball dangerous?!
She did not drive on the Autobahn or Highway. She drove on the B1 which is a Bundesstraße. Im from that same area she is talking about.
Imagine knowing that before and being able to reach out to them
If she did that on the Autobahn, SEK and GSG-9 would have shown up immediately and pulled her off
Having to do the history quiz in front of the whole class is BRUTAL lmao
Particularly where you come from a country in which history is denigrated as something to be left behind and forgotten. Leaving bad times behind was the motive for the great majority of European immigrants to America.
I guess you mean "Schulsanitätsdienst". Yes, that's actually students from grade 8 or older giving first aid. They take a first aid course and practise regularly. And then they take turns walking around with the walkie-talkie on, ready to go help if there's a medical problem.
Ours didn't even had an walkie talkie, our principal just called them over the speaker system
We barely had a „krankenzimmer“. Never a sanitätsdienst or something. When you got sick could just take a rest there but nobody would take care of you
In my school there called "Malteser"
aussteigen and ausziehen. that's 2 words you will never forget in your life.
🤣
Aus einer Wohnung zieht man ja auch aus.
I always shook my head when they put out warnings on the German radio about someone who walks or bikes on an autobahn. Wondering: „Who the f*** does that?!“
Guess it could just have been some murricans 🤔
Ist Dein Wortschatz wirklich so gering, als daß Du ohne das häßliche F-Word nicht auskommen kannst? Auch die Abkürzung entschuldigt nicht dessen Verwendung!
@@Rainerjgs wow was ist den da so schlimm dran 😂 dachte nur Amerikaner werden da so empfindlich
@@Rainerjgs Was ist denn mit dir falsch!?
Rainer-JGS Wenn dich meine Verwendung dieses Wortes in dem Kontext so schockiert, dann empfehle ich, du solltest dich lieber aus der gefährlichen Welt des Internets und besonders der anzüglichen Kommentarsektion auf TH-cam fern halten. So eine unschuldige Seele, wie deine, könnte permanenten Schaden erleiden.
@@93Taru Aber es würde Dir - lieber 93-Jahre alter Taru - auch kein Zacken aus der Krone fallen, wenn Du die prägende Macht des geschriebenen Wortes ein wenige sorgfältiger beachten würdest, denn derlei häßliche Formulierungen tragen mit zur Verrohung des Netzes und der Welt im allgemeinen bei!
Ich bitte Dich, dies lediglich als freundliche und gut gemeinte Bitte zu verstehen und nicht als überhebliche Bevormundung!
Liebe Grüße vom Rainer-JGS.de, dem Förderer guter Umgangskultur und aufrichtiger Nächstenliebe.
The grammar is actually a lot easier with the formal "Sie" than the informal "du". I knew a Belgian guy in college and he used the formal "Sie" with everyone. And we would tell him, "Dude, we are friends. There is no need to use "Sie" when you are talking to us.", but he would just always use the formal "Sie" because that way he didn't need to think about the right verb ending.
It's like always using the diminuative of a word, cause it's always "das". Sounds funny, but it's always correct. 😂
@@stefanw7406
But then you will run into problems with the Verumlauterung required for many diminutives. I think that's harder than figuring out the grammatical gender.
"Das Mannchen trägt lederne Schuhchen und baut sein Hauschen am Flusschen bei dem Bruckchen."
During my time in Germany, as an exchange student, my host family had taken us out to eat. It was one of the first few days I was there. There were several of her family members there so we could all meet each other (like her grandparents, an aunt and uncle, etc.) I remember it was a nice pizza place. We even had wine with our meal. My host parents asked me if I wanted more pizza. Well, I didn’t, so I wanted to tell them no thanks, I’m full. However, I didn’t know the word for full. Usually, when I don’t know a word in German, I just plug in the English word and hope they know what I mean. So, I said, “Nein, danke. Ich bin full.” The entire table started laughing so hard and I had no idea why. Finally, my host sister explained that ‘voll’ (which sounds like ‘full’) means drunk! So, I just told her family , “No, thanks. I’m drunk.” I was so embarrassed I wanted to crawl under the table!
hahaha no way! i’ve definitely said that too
To crawl? Ah, there was a swimming pool under the table. "Become" it right, right? 😉
LOL wanting to crawl under a table is an expression in English used when embarrassed.
Where I live, it's totally normal to say "Ich bin voll" if you mean you ate so much you can't eat any more. Though it can also mean drunk. Usually the context helps to make the determination which is meant.
Silkwesir This was in SW Germany- Bad Kreuznach. My husband, who is from Berlin, explains it as funny because it was obvious I was searching for a German word and made a faux pas by using an English word that sounds like a German word that is totally possible and coincidentally can mean drunk. Adding to that, I was only 15, and I had had a couple of glasses of wine 🍷 I’ve even heard voll being used as full, but it was a great opportunity to have a good laugh! 🤣😂🤣😂
It's illegal and very dangerous to take a bike to the Autobahn. :-D
June is so adorable!
Thanks for sharing your stories 😄
Are you sure it was the Autobahn not the Bundesstraße?
I hope it was not the Autobahn. Otherwise Montana would not only have been on german TV, but also on the news in the radio^^
@@ElRackadusch When I was a kid, I took a bikeride on the Autobahn as well... for about 2 hrs or so... but it was never in the news :)
Probably a Bundesstraße (B1). It's legal to bike here, but not fun.
i don’t think it was actually the autobahn 😂 from all these comments i think that that would’ve been illegal!
Definitely it was only the B1. But our "Bundesstraßen" are very similar to small American Highways, so easy to mic up :)
Sounds like you had the time of your life - you girls are a great team!
Oh, it's June again. She's so cute and pretty^^
Yeeesss! Another video with June and Sophia! I love you guys and I love listening to embarrassing stories of others! I only watched a few minutes of it by now, but I know this will be good!!! And I think the game you are referring to is called "Keulenvölkerball" or something like that. I played it myself a few times here in Germany in PE class. :)
The sleeping during class thing.. I once fell asleep during biology, and my teacher just took a huge wooden ruler user for drawing on the board, walked up to my desk, raised the ruler and slammed it onto the desk right next to my head. Boy, that was loud....
no way 😂
@@MontanaShowalter oh yeah... and it worked. never fell asleep in his class again. actually, he was a pretty cool dude, and he didn't mind really that I fell asleep, but he minded that it was during his class. I remember him telling me if I were too tired to stay awake, I should stay away and sleep whereever I wanted, but not in his class where I would just disctract my classmates. We all liked him.
I once had a bad headache in history class and had to close my eyes a little bit and either way I almost fell asleep so i just closed my eyes for like 10 seconds and my whole class was looking and talking about me while my history teacher just ignored me and then my headache wasn't that bad anymore and I tried to stay awake and apologized and explained to him after class why I was "sleeping"
Hi Montana,
maybe you could explain to us Germans which steps you - as a young American - have to take in order to vote in the upcoming election? Where do you have to register? Do you have to register each time a selection is held or is the registration valid for all future elections? Do you have to pay a fee for registration? What do you do when voting (make an X somewhere or press a button or whatever)?
For comparison: in Germany everybody has to be registered at the local authorities (= Einwohnermeldeamt) anyway. When an election is coming up, you automatically receive a postcard to inform you, at which location you can vote. Since in Germany the elections usually are held on a Sunday, the election locations are often in school houses. Before you can vote, you have to show your ID-Card or Passport to make sure that you are really the person who is registered (e.g. you can not vote more than once in the election). You vote by making an X on the ballot in the circle that belongs to the party which you want to vote for.
Thanks a lot!
that’s such a great idea! thank you :)
American voting is very similar to German voting. You register once at 18+ and are always registered. We vote on Tuesdays, usually in a school or a community center, showing your ID. The method depends on the state in which you live. In Alabama, we bubble in next to the candidate you choose.
@@rachaelkramer9746 but we don't have to register in germany, we just get a letter once we're old enough from the town/ area we are registered to live in, where to go to vote
Wibke Std True. I didn’t get into such small details, but that’s still a registration when you are registering at your Bürgeramt with your address. Similarly, we do the same thing, except not with an address, but our driver’s license, post office, or even online. The only difference is that we aren’t required to register our address in an official capacity, as is in Germany. We do, however, give our address when we register to vote or get our license. It’s just a matter of which is required first in each country. My husband still votes in Berlin, and I vote in the US. We have two residencies.
Rachael Kramer but one thing that isn’t good in American elections is that there are only two parties: the democrats and the republicans and that’s pretty bad for voting, because it’s like deciding between „Cholera und Pest“(german saying). It is way outdated because of this two party system and should be updated for present. We in Germany have the system that you can vote two things: one party and one person of a party and a cool thing is You can have as many parties as you want the only thing you have to reach is 5% of the voters or 3 persons being voted in 3 Landkreisen(many areas in Germany like mittelsachsen I think)to get in the Bundestag or Landestag(for each country: saxony, north-Rheinwestfalen, Bavaria, Brandenburg, Berlin, ......)so for now our Bundestag is splittend in 6 Factions. The chancellor is like a president for us and our Präsident is only like a representative from Germany(but he leads the army and declare war if it’s necessary). The chancellor can do many things but is not powerful enough to make a dictatorship or even touch the rules of our country(there can be one way, but it’s hard to explain and you can’t edit/remove our Grundgesetz).
I think if Americans do the same it would be okay if you are the superpower on the globe. But with the presidents making dumb thinks like Trump we could get a next big war, because the Americans behave themselves(I mean the president/leading party). So would be nice :)
I'll never forget my very strict Maths teacher's reaction to an American exchange student falling asleep in his class. The first time it happened, he got really angry and told him to focus. 5 minutes later the poor dude fell asleep again and the teacher kicked him out of class. He was furious. Cursing. The class was shocked. That teacher was very strict but also had a kind of "confused professor" persona, so he didn't even realize that it was an American exchange student. When we told him he was like "I don't care where this imbecile is from!"
So yeah. Don't fall asleep at a German Gymnasium. Or any school in Germany for that matter.
9:52 Je später der Abend, desto hübscher die Gäste ;).
i love the 3 girls comby XD
I remember some situations from when I was in the U.S. The most embarassing one was when my host mother asked me "Will you sweep?". I heard sleep instead of sweep and it was the middle of the day. So I said "No" and probably made my host family think I was ungrateful and/or lazy.
I also remember coming back from lunch break late on my first day. So I went to my chemistry class and the teacher told me to "Go find Wilhelm Herrschel". I had never heard of him and so I thought he was probably someone I had to see because of being late. Yeah. Turned out Wilhelm Herrschel is a scientist and my chemistry teacher had set up papers about scientists to arrange the seating order.
And I also remember being at a fair one summer night and trying to tell my host sister that I was sweating. I thought the e-a-t part was pronounced like the word eat. So my host sister answer was something like "You mean you're sweating. What you just said means you're turning into sugar."
So dont worry, exchange students in the U.S. make funny/embarassing mistakes as well.
But looking back now these stories are all rather funny.
And in my French class in Germany pretty much all of us made funny mistakes. My french teacher had a very vivid way of teaching us never to make these mistakes again but also laugh about them.
hahah all of those stories were so funny thanks for sharing :))
Funny stories! 😆
I think everyone who ever went to live in another country has a few funny stories to tell. I just remembered another one. Back then I didnt know the difference between Italian pizza and American pizza. So when we had pizza for the first time I was gonna put a whole pizza onto my plate. So I put piece after piece onto my plate until my host sister asked "What are you doing?" And I was like "I'm taking my pizza". And she was like "Yeah, but no more then 3 or 4 pieces, you'll be full after that".
Congrats to 60,000 subscribers!
thank you!!
So funny! The part with the bike ride and bug covered face. 😂
How do you know about a motobiker with an old helmet, that he is very nice?
- The flies are covering his teeth.
Not getting the pronunciation right can lead to really funny moments. On a Sunday evening one of my flat mates- a Spaniard- came back from a trip to Paris and Harri a finish chap was really curious to learn what what Agustin had been doing in Paris. It turns out he spent the entire weekend at his friends flat playing games or so. So he goes “I did not see anything (of Paris)” but with his thick Spanish accent he said as much as “I didn’t drink anything” which was not the response Harri was hoping to get so he goes “no worries. You can fun in Paris without drinks. So what’s it like there? Did you visit any interesting places?” and again Agustin responded “no I didn’t have any drinks”. This kept going until both were getting increasingly annoyed with each other stupid answers and questioning. Neither of them realised that Agustins Spanish accent prevented him from saying what he wanted to say so he kept repeating “vu” - “seen” instead of “bu” - “drunk”. It was hilarious
I love how I get a whole other point of view on my home country when watching your videos👀👍🏻🌈
Ich bin erstaunt wie froh sie sind deutsch zu lernen 😂😂
Es freut einen zu sehen das euch die Zeit in Deutschland gefallen hat. Auch ich war vor langer Zeit als Austauschschüler in Amerika. Leider keine 8 Monate. Ich denke es ist immer eine positive Erfahrung die man aus einem anderen Land mitnehmen kann, für die eigene Zukunft und für eigene Gedanken. Habt weiterhin Spaß an dem was Ihr macht.
i relate to reggae falling asleep in class so hard!!! i’m in spain rn from germany and people don’t realize how exhausting and draining it is to hear and try to figure out a different language the whole day. your brain has to work so hard and you’re just always super tired
With so sweet and funny exchange students like you guys, the schools have some funny stories, too.
So everyone is a winner 🏆☺️👏
Really cute 😉
I can’t tell which one I wanna do first. Like just when I think I decide, ok that one! A different one does something that makes me indecisive again. The struggle is real
Nice and a bit funny stories.
Your last point in the video are the "Schulsänitäter". They are volunteer students and helps if you feel ill.
The "school nurses" are often called Schülersanitäter. They are other students who have special lessons to learn how to help if there's an emergency. In my school we had extra meetings with people from the ambulance to practice emergency situations :D
Well not sure if the game you played in PE is what i have known as 'Brennball', which is quite a bit like Baseball but without using bats and with a football sized ball. It has been a long time since i played it (more than 20 years now) so i am not completely sure how it worked exactly. What i remember is this: There were 2 teams and one was spread out accross the field and had to catch the ball and throw it back, the other team had to try and get their members around the síde of the field. Basically that team had to throw the ball and run to the next safe point one by one while the other team was busy catching the ball and throwing it back. If they finished while a team member was not at the safe point yet that member was 'burned' and out of the game. Thats at least what i remember of it.
At our school we have got an app for the Vertretungsplan so we can check at home at the morning.
Love your content! I am also from America living in Berlin right now and gonna upload the wildest story’s in the future 😝
Nice funny stories. Very entertaining and interesting.
June was in Soest? So close in our beautiful Westphalia. Nice fact :)
So you had to throw at pins and people, right? It has to be "Kegelball". It was played at my school, too.😊
Please please please more videos with Sophia and June 😁
Awesome video Montana!!!
Love your content 💯
Hallo Montana!
Ihr 3 girls seid so süß und lustig! Auch wenn es teilweise schwierig ist Euch zu folgen, weil Ihr ja oft durcheinander redet! Aber das ist bei einer so lockeren Truppe junger/hübscher Mädchen ja wohl auch ganz normal. Außerdem kann man sich das Video ja auch gerne mehrmals ansehen um doch noch alles zu verstehen..!
Übrigens war mir eingefallen, daß Du vor ca. 3 Monaten ein ähnliches Video mit Deiner besten Freundin Ashley (in Deutsch auch "Busenfreundin" genannt) gemacht hattest. Es war schon echt sehr nachlässig von Dir Ashley so lange vor uns (Deiner "erweiterten Familie") zu verheimlichen und sie seither auch nicht mehr zeigen. Sie ist ja geradezu wie Dein Zwilling, was auch andere Viewer schon so geschrieben haben, und ebenso sooo süß! Sie würde auch perfekt in Eure deutsch-amerikanische 3er Truppe passen, was meinst Du?
Alles Gute für Dich, Deine Familie und Freunde aus Deiner 2. Heimat!!
P.S.: I did this comment in German to challenge & help you improving your German skills, and because my English couldn't express what I wanted to tell you!
So, forgive me please!
Oh wow - you went to school in Unna? How fun - you may have went to the same school I used to go to, looooong ago (and where my niece and nephew go at the moment). Glad you mostly enjoyed the stay here :)
Does June have a channel too?
Suppose June let it rip quite a bit in germany!?! And she's keeping the best storries for herself. That's what we did at your age.😉
Omg I can't stop laughing hahah This video was entertaining and interesting 😂 Loved all of your stories hajah
In past days long ago there was a time when Money for example was made from gold, silver or copper, then the yellow Money was the best. :-D
I remember now: There is a German operetta in which a man is looking forward to getting rich from an advantageous marriage. At one point, on the way to the wedding, he says "Her das Gelbe!" (Bring on the yellow stuff!)
German PE teacher: I'll let you choose what we do today.
German class: VÖLKERBALL (Wich is essentially dodgeball, or the more literal translation !all out war!)
I can totally relate to the sleeping in class. My eyes hurt when I do monotone things like staring at a board in school/university, staring at monitors and driving a car on the Autobahn. I figured out when your eyes hurt it's because they get dry from blinking less when you do these monotone things.
'Schülersanitäter' student medic. In Germany it is a concept that is supported by most schools, some better, some worse. Especially at the Gymnasium you can have well qualified students (If the school really supports it adequately), who start 5th grade with first aid and medic training at least once a month and at least 2 professional medic training courses every year. Reaching 10th grade they could handle almost every emergency at school as well as ambulance medics.
Well you'll remember those memories your whole life i guess :)
Always nice to see the three of you :)
I catched June's kiss. I'll keep it ok? :3
Do they have IG btw? :)
i see what you did here.. Lol haha
If she really was on an Autobahn (should be the A44), she probably also got announced in the local radio's "Verkehrsmeldung", so everyone knows that somone is biking on the A44... 🤣
Also she couldn't have done it for two hours, as after 15 minutes or so the highway police would've been there to get her off 🙈😅
3.20 If its in Teams it could be Völkerball and if not its maybe Zombieball
June you are so amazing :) greetings from germany
would you plz contact me?
"Kegeln" - the name of the game I suppose.
All the three of you just seem so sweet and kind, I think I would love to talk to you! (Maybe when you come to Hamburg🙃)
Love this combination
Kegelball is what we called it in school
4:56
Sie verstand wahrscheinlich Geld (Money) statt Gelb(Yellow)😁😉
Ja, das hat sie doch erklärt.
Love ur content so much :))
you have friends. you have parents who love you how you are. you spent a nice year- almost at least- in this beautiful country. you, my girl, don't know how good you have it :)
we all had it so so good :,) we are so grateful for the times in germany that we had
You are my second favourite youtuber from outside of Germany. An deinen Videos erstaunt mich, wie gut du deutsch ohne Kasusfehler sprichst. Dein Video über Helikoptereltern hat mir am Besten gefallen. :)
1:51 "So just to reiterate...." 😂 😜
In my school years, someone who falls asleep was rudely wakened up by getting a soaking wet sponge thrown right at her/him.
Looking back on June's cycling story it occurred to me: I'm surprised there are that many bugs left in Germany. The bug dieoff has been positively disturbing. There are only a quarter as many insects as there were in (IIRC) 1970. Car windshields are a lot cleaner after a long drive than they used to be.
One factor could be that they're more aerodynamic
Wait WTF? Soest und Unna? I was born in Unna. The road you most probably took is not a highway, it is a "Landstrasse", which is a long straight strech of road where you are allowed to drive 70-100km/h (43-60mph). Usually going though rural areas with farmland (hence "Land"strasse) to both sides of the road.
Playing dodgeball with bowlingballs...... The ultimate motivator. :P
i laughed so hard on the bug freckles story :))))
Hey girls. You're so cute. Love you all♥️
Are you sure it was an Autobahn. Wasnt it maybe the Kraftfahrstraße where the limt is 100km/h? Because riding a bike on the Autobahn is pretty much forbidden, especially when you're not a prfessional rider. Someone would have called the police immediately.
And riding a bike on these other streets is actually pretty normal i think, at least in areas not too close to the city.
Soest to Unna by bike? No problem as there are pretty good alternative little streets parallel to the B1 ;)
hallo June und sophia.Schoen,euch mal wieder zu sehen.@June:Say Leudde one more time please. greatings von West-D
Soest to Unna are around 40KM or 24.something miles and if you were on the Autobahn with your bike, then you were although a local radio star (Verkehrsfunk).
It's "Sanitäter", not sanitizer. I can totally understand the freudian slip these days, but these things aren't quite the same.
yes! i realized that while editing 😂
13:54 But that's why mixed use of toilets isn't really a thing for us. You can't see each other and you have real privacy on the toilet.
First Lesson. Oh, ich könnte euch Sachen beibringen. Ihr habt nicht einmal davon geträumt. 😉🙏🙀
Ok, "ausziehen" is a bit tricky because it can refer to either taking your clothes off, or moving out of an apartment or a house. Neither really apply to riding a taxi. But hey, nice try.
Or you are going to go on an adventure.
@@HalfEye79 Or that. Just nothing transportation-related
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That is for sure.
Does June have got her own TH-cam Channel?
June lived in Soest?! That's like 20km away from where I live
Does June also have a TH-cam channel?
no sadly not!
@@MontanaShowalter ok thx =)
As far as I know only US bathroom stalls have those weird gaps. Everywhere else on this planet you can't see what's inside.
I like June :D
June ! Sofia ! Can we please be in a love triangle ? PLEAAAAAASSSE!
@June: Soest ist ja garnicht so weit weg von Siegen! :-)
I think you mean “Keulenvölk” (the game in PE kinda like bowling)
11:57 You haven't really ridden a bike on the highway, have you? That would not only be illegal, but also incredibly dangerous 😱
Hi, my name is Edris and I live in Germany. I have a little problem with my neighbors and I want little help from you guys because you lived in Germany too, I live in a camp which is a lot of refugees from Afghanistan and other countries, my neighbors wakes me up by a laud sound during 2 O'clock in the morning, I already told the sosioal amt and also I called the police several times but they still waking me up, I don't know what else to do, please tell me how I can get rid of this problem, is there somewhere in Germany I can go and talk?
hey montana, have you ever visited the us cities ,where german-americans live?
Greetings from Hamburg
A lot of teachers in the US will not let you sleep. With rare exceptions.
I don't think you drove on the Autobahn. The police would have stopped you if you would have done this. You maybe drove on a Bundesstraße.
Hi from Fröndenberg (next to Unna and near Soest) ;-)
Wo habt ihr in Deutschland Studiert?
We used to call that game „Burgball“🤔
June, where did you all that bugs from? I grew up that after every fast drive the car front is full of dead insects. Nowadays I barely find any dead insect after an hour of driving. But as you take it with humor, you know: How do you know a biker is kind? Because of the bugs between his teeth! :-)
Yes, I was wondering that too. The insect decimation in Germany is positively disturbing. IIRC there are only a quarter as many (individuals, not species) as there were in 1970. June was the envy of most of the bird population. We're seeing the same thing in Canada: fewer insects, fewer birds.
did you play "Völkerball"?
yes!! thank you
The Problem with you-Du/Sie is that Du-you are false friends. English speakers use ALWAYS the FORMAL "You" . The equivalent to "Du" is "thou" which is not used anymore (only in slang in some regions in northern england).
These are the singular words in Shakespearean english (if you read the novels in original) :
Thou: You When “you” is the subject of the sentence. - deutsch DU
Thee: You When “you” is the object of the sentence. - deutsch DIR
Thy : Your Possessive form of you. Commonly used before a noun that begins with a consonant/consonant sound (like the article, “a”).
Thine: Your Possessive form of you. Commonly used before a noun that begins with vowel/vowel sound (like the article, “an”). Also used when indicating that something is “absolute and understood”.
Thy/Thine - deutsch DEIN
I couldn't stop laughing 🤣
I'd like to see more of you three telling funny stories...maybe next time in German 😍
Ich möchte gerne ein Autogramm von euch haben! Und leider hat Montana meine Anfrage bei Facebook nicht beantwortet. :-(
Ohh June lived in soest? 😅 Archigymnasium?
Ne Convos😂 in der Stufe von meiner Schwester
haha nee convos hab sie voll oft gesehen
Schönes Video von Euch .... und zur Übung macht das ganze Video doch mal in Deutsch.
Das kommt bestimmt noch besser.
Schöne Grüße
I don't think June was biking on the Autobahn. That would have been pretty dangerous and illegal.
June , ausziehen instead of aussteigen not much of a difference for an English speaker
Ausziehen can use when you change apartment ( Ich bin ausgezogen , ich ziehe aus , ich ziehe um )
You are like the three musketeers. All for one, one for all. And always in a good mood