Visit Germany - 10 MORE SHOCKS of Visiting Germany
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After Nearly Two Million Views We Have Returned with another 10 Things That Will SHOCK You about Visiting Germany! Whether you find the insanity of German line culture a bit nuts or perhaps the crazy notion that there are speed limits on the Autobahn or maybe that Germans seem to love to be naked we have found ten more ways tourists, travelers and vacationers may be shocked or surprised on their next trip, weekend or vacation to Germany!
Filmed in Munich, Germany
Copyright Mark Wolters 2017
Ten More Shocking Things About Visiting Germany (in no particular order)
1. German Line Culture
2. German Love of Rules
3. Germanisms
4. You need a stamp for things to be "official"
5. Germans speak really good English
6. Germans really are some of the nicest and most friendly people, regardless of what the German stereotypes say.
7. They eat more than just pork
8. The deposits or Pfand for glasses and bottles
9. There is a speed limit on the Autobahn sometimes.
10. The German free body culture
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Welcher deutscher sieht sich das video auch nur an um zu gucken wie andere über unser land denken? 😅
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Quasi jeder ausländische Kanal: in Germany u
Dont jailwalk.
Ich, deutscher: Lauf mehr bei Rot über die Ampel
Ich 😊
Ich denke das ist interessant😅
^ Nazi code or?
you know you are german, when it's 4am, no cars around but you still wait for the light to turn green x)
because man weiß ja nie!
Sometimes drücken wir auch eine Auge zu. We don't want to be päpstlicher als der Papst. ;-)
bew is
If there are no cars and no small kids arround,i dont wait until its green.This is my greek side :-)
You know you live in the german country side, when the traffic lights turn off at 9 PM
My daughter is 3 years old, and she’ll yell “Rotgänger Totgänger” at jaywalkers. Makes me very proud.
Young walter looks like he bout to drop the hottest mixed tape of 1997
+Penguin Tacos a little pearl Jam, STP, Rage mix tape action!!! ;)
This is very true. In Little Odessa tons of men drinking vodka talking and gesturing. I stay a far
You cant just walk around naked in Germany. Don't do or if you want to be careful, that you are in an area where it's allowed
I keep trying to tell people this who have never been there. I have been all over Europe, and actually had to do a lot of research and looking to find the areas where nudity is allowed. Topless females on a beach is a bit more common, but this idea that so many Americans have that people run around naked in parks and beaches routinely is absurd. Even where it is allowed, there are usually more people in bathing suits or shorts than there are nude.
Casey Vee I think mark is more talking to the people that not only don't plan to do it, but don't expect to see it at all. It's not extremely common but it's certainly more common than in the US where going nude will have you in handcuffs no matter where you are.
Actually, there is a nude beach near where I live, in Virginia Beach, so the handcuffs anywhere bit does not apply. I agree nudity is more common in Europe, but having made 7 trips over there of up to a month each, I have never really come across it by accident. I even have to argue with my family members who have never set foot out of the United States that people do NOT run around naked all over Europe.
Casey Vee Yeah I think it's overemphasized for countries that aren't used to it, and then a lot of Americans also seem to get the idea that Europe has one uniform culture.
Totally agree!!
another tip: a not small number of people, some of them homeless, some of them seniors with poverty pensions, heavily rely on collecting bottles and cans for the deposit. if you are out and about and have a single empty water bottle you dont want to drag all the way back (popular with the party crowd and their beer bottles on weekends), put it *next* to the trash bin, but not inside the trash bin. in major cities, there if often not just bags with dog poop in the bins, but used syringes from IV drug users as well. Putting your bottle(s) next to the bin means bottle collectors won't have to search through the bins potentially very dangerous contents.
Many panhandlers and homeless folk asking for change on the train often also accept empty cans and bottles (plastic and cans is most desired cause the plastic bottles and cans have higher deposit than most glass units and are lighter). when i dont have change, and like many, can't afford to give a bill, i ask them if my Club Mate bottles are ok (i drink this like water).
+ledzepgirl92 Yep, some German cities even have a "Pfandregal" or "returnable bottle shelf" built into their trash bins that you can use to donate your bottles.
ledzepgirl92 Berlin is sooo poor
Irov Stimpe Yup I've seen that too! Also nice to see someone else from Freiburg ;)
Iran is beautiful in this year and Many Luxury Malls are built in big cities ,so Travel to Iran ,Even you can see amazing Mountains and rare animals here ...I was in many places in India ,Iran ,Nepal and Andaman Islands before
Irov Stimpe aaaah okay yeah I love it too :)
On a scale from 1 to 10, how german are you?
- Do you have an authorization for this survey?
3ene Gerling "On a scale from 1 to 10, how-"
"I don't have time for something as silly as this! My 15 minutes break is almost over!"
I would say "NEIN"
@@cifhd4903 ist das gewollt falsch geschrieben? Bin mir da gerade nicht so sicher.
3ene Gerling s
Yes..Ja
Having a conversation in northern germany ^^
Me: Moin
Friend: Moin! Kalt, ne ?
Me: Jo, bis später.
Friend: Tschö
+Dethilion I can actually hear the accent when I read it in my mind :)
:D stimmt :D
Solch ein Gespräch gibt es nur unter Sabbelköppen...
ich hab erstmal nen lachanfall beklmmen..trifft doch häufig zu bzw ähnlich :p
jo so is dat hier im norden. ^^
Knocking on tables instead of clapping your hands is mostly practiced in academic context or business meetings (with people of academic background). And you put the "Professor" in front of the "Doktor", so it's "Herr Prof. Dr. Marc Wolters". So being a false-finder might also be tipically German :-)
Deutscher Spitzgriffel 😜
You can´t clap when your holding a pencil. How shocking !
@@a.f.w.froschkonig2978 or a beer
*typically (also German ;) )
Andreas Z ich kenn nur das die penner das in ner kneipe zur begrüßung machen weil se zu faul sind moin zu sagen
Döner is a german dish actually it was invented in Berlin
By a Turk in Germany. So kinda mixed :)
Still german
I don't get why you germans are so obsessed with making everyone believe the döner is german. doesn't matter where it's from, it's delicious. and thats all that counts.
Döner is turkish it's the word for the way the meat is prepared...
Well, it' still just kebap meat in bread... so technically, it has been around for ages.
Knocking on tables is a university thing. After a lecture the students knock on the table if they liked it
At least in my university, people knock because everyone else does. Not because the lecture was good (because they rarely are...).
I am a foreigner and I had one semester so far. I just do that as a symbol of relief xD
No i Do it cause im too Lazy for Real clapping
Another thing that may shock you is the little children's tales that sound something to the tune of, "Sally played with matches... Sally burned to death."
joe john Hans looked up all the time. Hans drowned.... german fairy tales are so sweer
+joe john those brother Grimm stories are hard core. Or max and moritz?
joe john or when people find out the true stories behind their Disney ones that are mostly german :D
Max und Moritz is Willhelm Busch Joe John referred to something you'd find in the Struwwelpeter. But Grimm tales are pretty ... well, grimm as well. Disney sanitised them.
Cautionary tales. Also many original fairy tales were meant for adults, not children and were based on real life gruesome events, especially during the Middle Ages here in Europe. They were just toned down a bit when written for children. Cautionary tales were useful. Telling children the awful things that can befall them if they go into the woods alone during an age when there was a real threat of being attacked from bears and wolves, for example.
The germans are so nice and really want to get it right for you. In a restaurant in Hamburg i got a menu in SWEDISH although i can manage in german but i had an obviously swedish t-shirt. We are really not used to that kind of consideration.
semi-related to your comment, but ive noticed that many scandinavians who visit make an active effort to speak german and oftne speak it well, which is very refreshing from mostly anglosaxon tourists just simply relying on the universality of english.
ledzepgirl92 Northern Europe take German in school. Met some Dutch,Norge,Sweden’s and Finnish. The take German besides English.
Most Europeans speak Englisch. Any one born after the sixtys .
The translation (English) is also very literal, it's quite nice they do it.
I was on a flight from Munich to Las Vegas a couple of years ago and the whole plane ERUPTED with applause when we landed after the long flight. I just thought Germans must really love to gamble. Now I know, thanks Mark!
We do! Flying is like gambling and if the pilot landed safe at the destination point it's like winning the jackpot!
dogsoldiersc when u are on a travel bus the people will also often sing the bus driver song. Germans really like to be nice to the drivers, pilots, ...
Yeah, when i was in school, we totally loved the bus drivers. When we made trips to northern Germany or Italy, we befriended the drivers and still talked with them years after, when we met them on the bus or the street.
You don't speak German, because you have no stamp? That's a classic case of bureaucracy in action, more than anything cultural.
+Nick Hentschel yeah. It was hilarious. The guy and I laughed about but he said there was nothing he could do about it.
Wolters World I wouldn't have laughed. :-(
This stuff is less than funny, it can be such a burden in life. It is much harder in Germany to change careers or get a job as a foreigner than in other countries.
Gulliver the Gullible If you're speaking from personal experience, I'm deeply sorry.
Some Germans are not aware what others have to suffer because they have always adhered to the system and never strayed. Once you have strayed from what is considered to be the norm in Germany, you may be in trouble. I can tell you that from experience. Now I live in Australia, where there are less such formal problems for us, but there are also many things which are better in Germany than in Australia.
My Germanism is that I can't eat without a knife...doing an Exchange Year in the US right now and struggle eating with just the fork lol
Lasse F i used to only eat with the spoon but my parents didnt like it :/
fun fact: before forks were invented more that 500 years ago and before they have been used by the wider masses, people only ate with knifes and their fingers
I am from Germany and I just love watching this kind of videos about our country 😃
The old woman told you "Bei Rot musst du stehn, bei Grün DARFST du gehn" not "lasst". It means you are allowed to go when the lights are green.
Triggered me as well, he said it in another video the same way.. grr :D
Murlerino good catch! I also remember the same phrase used in another post and it went right by me as we’ll.
For everyone complaining, here is what Wikipedia says:
"In Germany the döner kebab was popularized by Turkish guest workers in the early 1970s with a center in Berlin.[13] The dish developed there from its original form into a distinctive style of sandwich with abundant salad, vegetables, and sauces, sold in large portions at affordable prices, that would soon become one of the top-selling fast food and street food dishes in Germany and much of Europe, and popular around the world.[14]"
So the dish itself is turkish, but in the form of a Sandwich so you can eat it to go, is german. And the ingredients of the todays popular Döner ar also partly german, and were not in the original Döner from Turkey. Like Kraut and other stuff
Have a wonderful day!
You mentioned the knocking instead of clapping, the difference is the thing you are applauding for. If it is something artistic, musical or something creative you clap, but if it is something like a science talk or a lecture you knock
We may give away our D-Mark, but never you, Mark☺
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peter patzig cringe
Tom Breier put a bit of salt on it and then i wont be cringey anymore
You also "gave away" the "thaler", but in 1523 the "daler" came to Sweden, and eventually the "dollar" to the U.S.
This is awesome
Ok - here's a nice one: I was born English and have lived in Germany, mainly in Hamburg, for 42 years now.
Now when you want to get married in Germany, you cannot do that everywhere. Of course you can have a ceremony in Church, but legal marriage always has to happen IN the registrar's office. There are very few exceptions for having the legal ceremony outside the registrar's office, but these places are very few and the same have to be registered.
(welcome to Germany, but on the upside of this rule-madness, the things here in Germany work really well)
In any case, at a legal marriage, a registrar needs to be there to do tit, so 90% of all legal marriages are in the registrar's office, which is usually located in the Town Hall of the place where you live.
When my (meanwhile ex-) wife and I wanted to marry, we wanted to marry in the Altona Town hall, because it is a beautiful old building and the reception room has a very nice atmosphere. Now Altona is a district in Hamburg, and in Hamburg, every District has its own town hall. As the Altona Town hall is very popular for marriages, they at one point limited marriages only to residents of the Altona district and to people from outside of Hamburg. My fiancé then lived in a different district of Hamburg, but fortunately, at that time I was living in Berlin.
Now in Germany, in order to get married, you have to - guess what - register (LOL) for marriage at the registrar's office. For a couple from two different places in Germany, you can register in either location for either location, so in order to make the Altona-town-hall-marriage possible for us, we decided that I would register in my local registry in Schöneberg, my district of residence in Berlin.
(Can you still follow? 'Cause in the end I'm talking about Germany here... ;-) !)
So I called up the town hall in Berlin-Schöneberg, got connected to the registrars office and asked my questions, which documents were needed, how mich it would cost etc. Now my mum is German and when we moved here from England, I only visited German schools, finished my German High-School with a German High-School diploma ("Abitur"), studied in Germany and so on and so forth. My German as well as my English are accent-free, so talking to this lady was something completely normal for me.
As I at that time only had a British passport, at the end of our, ca. 20 minute long conversation, I asked the lady if there was anything special for me to observe as I had British nationality.
Pause.
Her response: "You're not a German national?"
My response: "No."
Pause
She: "We do not give foreigners any information by phone!"
Me: "What?!?! Why on earth is that?"
She: "Well, it could be that you could misunderstand the requirements and what I'm saying."
Me: "Do you really think so? I have been to German schools since 2nd Class of the primary school, I have a German Abitur, I have studied at a German University, and, above all, we have just been talking for roughly 20 minutes without you even noticing a thing! What's the problem?"
She: "Still, I must insist that you come here personally, that is our rule!"
To cut a long story short, my wife and I married legally in Denmark, only two hours by car from Hamburg, got an international marriage certificate in five languages (!), which just needed to be - yes: registered! ;-) at the Hamburg registrar's office for a fraction of the fees that a normal German marriage would have cost me!
+GNUFZ hahahahah SOOOOO TRUE!!! Awesome story. I'm still laughing at it all. Because it is so damn true
I think I read somewhere that the knocking-on-the-table-clap goes back to the period of the "Vormärz" (1815-1848) when students knocked on the floor with their walking sticks instead of applause.
+Max Mustermann cool
as far as I know this kind of applause just happens at the universities, not in other places. at least that´s how it is here in Austria.
Max Mustermann that is the reason why we had to do so right after a GFS (gleichwertige Feststellung von Schülerleistungen, in English it would probably sth like: equivalent assessment of the performances of pupils) especially in history classes
In switzerland we knock too.
We started doing it in school when we got older because it´s easier
any vegetarians and vegans visiting germany: Eintopf is your friend, there are many yummy veggie stews here and different variations of lentil stew. big cities also have restaurants where you get vegetarian version of typical german fare like bratwurst with sauerkraut. if you are out and about any time of the day, or just looking for a quick snack, falafel sandwiches from kebab restaurants (looks for anything that advertises "döner") are abundant almost 24/7 at least in bigger cities and a nice change to mcdonalds etc for a quick snack.
ledzepgirl92 Thank you very much for the tip. Coming to Kassel in the summer!
I am from Germany and I really love this video because every single thing you say seems to be true and sounds so silly now that I have been to the states for almost six months :D enjoyed that you like it so much :)
+Isabell Wagner thank you!
I am a portuguese girl and I can tell you that germanisms are not just germanisms! In Portugal we also do that with our índex finger on our head when you wanna say that a person is crazy.. And we also open our hand in front of our face in order to say that someone is an idiot! We also eat a lot ,a lot, a lot of pork meat from North to South... but mostly in the South. You must come to the Alentejo in Portugal. We eat alot more pork meat than the Germans! Bureaucracy ?? Stamps?? Certificates??Man.. Have you ever been in Portugal?? It is the same thing here in Portugal.
Carmen Conde I’m half Portuguese and half German. I’ve been to Portugal and absolutely loved it! We’re traveling to Germany soon and I’m glad there are things that are similar. ❤️🇵🇹 🇩🇪
If you make an attempt to speak German they are the nicest people I have ever met! They will always switch to english for you no problem and really love it when you still say your please and thank yous, hello and goodbyes etc in German.
+Neil McAdam exactly! Well said
Meeting a German in a different country and you attempt to speak German to them, they are instantly your best friend as well. I have found in a lot of the smaller German cities/towns they are so excited when given the opportunity to speak English.
I’m sorry but the Döner is from Germany not from turkey
Thanks
it is like when you produce a product in china seal it in germany and then write "made in germany" on it
Invented in germany by turkish
@@ExelsEntertainment no invented in turkey and then improved by a turk living in germany
@@justsomerandomguy2590 Döner invented in Turkey
Döner Kebab invented in Germany
Your videos never fail to brighten up my sub box, Mark, happy travels for you and your family 😄
+Thomas T thanks TT!! Big travel hug to you!
The Pfand isn't just in Germany. In Denmark we've it had Pfand (or pant) since 1942 for glass bottles and later for certain plastic bottles and from 2002 also soda and beer cans.
I was on a 2 week vacation to Germany in summer of 2015, and in Munich I watched so many people crossing roads when light was red while I stayed on sidewalk and waited patiently. I did not want to be the ugly American tourist that did not show respect. I was surprised at how many people though crossed when they should not. Did not matter time or location. I am very excited to be going to Freiburg for a week this April. Ich liebe Deutschland and the wonderful people. Love your videos, especially the ones about Germany. Tthanks for your work.
Don Travis When there are young children (under 10), normally most people wait for the green light, but when there is none many people just wait until theres a gap in the traffic because they want to save time. But as far as I know (not sure about this) you can even lose your drivers license if you get caught crossing the red light too often.
Don Travis just don't hold the traffic back and be carefull. and yes you get evil eye from some older people or moms.
Don Travis : Indeed much has changed in the last 2-3 years.
Thank you Leon, from what I recall of my travels in 2015, people did seem to mind the light everywhere else except near the pension I was staying at on Steinheilstraße in Munich. I ditched the car in every city/town I was in and did plenty of walking. Where I was staying seemed like a non tourist area so I expected stricter adherence to this rule. Most all other locations I visited were mostly in Pedestrian zones so I did not have any concern :) ; my biggest mistakes was to keep forgetting the importance of bike lanes! I tried my best but a number of times had a bell ringing behind me to remind me of my error :)
***** Yes if you're not used to the bike lanes, it can be quite hard to don't forget about them. But it happens to me too, even though I'm used to it ;)
I love your facts about the country I live in. Want to hear / see more about Germany from you. For myself it is important to know, how other people like / hate Germany
+Horror_LP I have always been a big germany fan. I loved living there and love going back every year. Big travel hug to you!
Wolters World have you ever visited east Germany like Dresden?
I'm the same way, watching the America episodes. I love learning what is fundamentally different about life here from somewhere else that may surprise people, though it's normal to me. I'm also learning about German culture because I'll be studying there next Spring, so it's good to be prepared for anything different I'll have to get used to.
Micah Philson
Michiganian here. Myself as well. It is rather interesting to to see how things that we consider normal, are foreign to international visitors and immigrants.
Horror_LP By the sound of it the worst thing about Germany is the *_not_* queueing in line! That’s anarchy, it makes no sense at all.
I like the landscapes of Germany (in the south - I’m not so familiar with the north) and the friendly, civilised people, and the impressive infrastructure. I visited Germany a lot in 2000-02 and haven’t returned since 2004 . . If the recent _Migrant ‘Crisis’_ has made the resident population of Germany a lot more Islamic since then, well that’s a new Dislike for sure, Sorry. I’m familiar with various European cities which are definitely in worse condition due to large scale uncontrolled immigration.
Germany is wonderful. Love the sense of precise timings. So tourist friendly.
It's hilarious to hear someone talk about the weirdness of my nation :DDD So fun!
You are soooo sympathic! Just subscribed :3
Interesting to watch and pretty cool u corrected some of ur previous statements and views! Million thumbs up from germany!
Sweden and Germany are quite the same in many ways I think, from a swedish perspective. The line-culture is different sometimes, as swedes prefer not being close to each other. BUT, being being more or less naked, having lots of rules and regulations, being rather hard to get to know (but nice when you do know them), and so on. Sweden have been more lighter on rules/ethics, laws, regulations for 10-20 years, but for the last 5 years it's getting more oldschool and conservative again. PS. Bringing cash money to Germany was a big shock for me as a swede, as swedes mostly use debit/credit cards.
Enemtee well, we (or at least the majority) do still think: nur Bares ist Wahres (only cash is (trust-)worthy) :)
Cash is king right. I will put that into memory until I go to Germany next time.
Swedes and Germans were most of the time allies in history, they both had the same enemies (Russia, Denmark) and supported each others for example in WW2 when Germany was invading Norway, they supplied each others and respected each others.
As far as I know, the "Professor" comes before the "Doktor"
micha0001 No
Bachelor
Doktor
Professor
Wollt ich gerade schreiben. You are right. It is always Prof. Dr. Soandso.
:D thats a very "German" comment.
i forgot...
Bachelor
Master
Doctor
Professor :D
Der Professor Titel ist allerdings kein höherer Bildungsabschluss nach dem Dr., sondern lediglich der Titel für die berufliche Lehrbeauftragung an einer Hochschule
One thing I notice with Italian people like you had with German , so I was flying from Roma to Amsterdam as a solo traveller and once the flight got land everyone just clapping ,cheering and saying Bravo Bravo.I was laughing like a hell and totally different experience.
Great info to share Wolters, Thanks a lot :)
And waiting for other amazing videos
Thank you so much for sharing this with us... subscribed!!
I like you so much dear Mr Doctor Professor Wolter für deine very informative travel Videos 👍😘
+Caracta X. Danke!
Knocking on tables instead of clapping is only in specific environments, for example in adademical ones like university.
Correct: it's done at your western neighbours too.
We always knocked on the table when a classmate finished his presentation
@@strandkorbst9643 We started doing that in Sek. 2 (year 11-13 of school) and in church after concerts because it's perceived rude to clap in a church.
Das stimmt nicht. Das Klopfen auf den Tischen wird auch bei vielen anderen öffentlichen Orten angewandt.
I am german and I love to see your views on germany, so funny, last video on the first 10 shocks, I laughed so hard on loosing people in the bedcrack, so true, I remember that from so much holidays in bavaria where we went on holidays often. Keep on making those great videos
I subscribed your channel recently and I am enjoying more and more. Thank you for your videos
Sorry, but it should be Prof. Dr. not Dr. Prof.! ... just the rules.. but the DB isn´t that strict to the german rules...
I'm from Italy and I've been in Germnay once. I've been in München, Augsburg and neighborhood and what shocked me most was the first thing you talked about lol... once I got scared of the doors cuz they were closing when I had to get off and I didn't have enough space to move away
+☣Scuppetta1998☠ I know right!
☣Scuppetta1998☠ did you like Augsburg? I live in a town nearby and I think its a very beautiful City.
Hey man. Great channel. Visiting Germany, Prague, Budapest and Austria soon. Appreciate the info.
Love the videos Mark! Me and my mate are off to Berlin in March (we're English) - found your videos very useful as research. Thanks for the uploads.
As a german, I did quite enjoy this. Take my subscription, good sir :D
Also I believe that the german love for rules is quite obvious in our language. I don't know any other language with quite so many rules (and exceptions to go along with them). That being said after having to learn german grammar, the english one is kinda relaxing ;) Hence lots of germans might have a funny accent but their english grammar and writing is usually pretty good.
(Except for germans using to many commas,,, ;-D)
Its "Herr Professor Doktor" and most people ignore that part because even most Professor usually don't want to be addressed as Professor all the time nowadays.
+comsubpac I had a professor in my masters program in Germany who wanted us to say doktor, doktor because he had 2 doctorates. I just laughed. I didn't do so well in the class I believe :)
Vielen Dank lieber Mark für die tollen Videos!
Looking forward to a trip to Germany next summer. Been watching a lot of the videos for homework and these have been super helpful.
well..if you want to study in Canada you need a certificate proving your English skills as well. that's not really a Germany specific thing
Glad you talked about the speed limit. When I tell people about my 300 euro ticket they usually don't believe me until I pull up the screen shot
+Dyanna Moore yeah. Had an ex girlfriend who would get nailed by the blitz in Cologne all the time it seemed like. She would show me the picture and I would just laugh. I think the blitzes actually just catches people looking their worst and gives them a ticket for that. Not the actual speeding ;) just kidding.
Dyanna Moore my cousin has lost his driver license because of a blitz. Going 60km/h over the speed limit isnt good xD
it surely isn't.
Interesting , thanks for these videos !
Great video, very informative.
Have you visited Tübingen? I will be studying there this fall for an entire year. What advice can you give an American college student about the culture of German universities? Also, do you have a video about German universities? If not, can I recommend that you do one? That would greatly help college students like myself and others decide on studying in Germany!
Driving on the autobahn and German drivers who don’t camp on the fast lane and follow rules. It’s bliss! 😌
The lack of line culture in germany is shocking to me as an german as well.
you are very sympathico. It's nice to hear good things about my country
Knocking on the table doesn´t replace clapping in general it´s just a common and somewhat more professional thing that you can see a lot in schools, universities and sometimes at the inn....
Hello from Bremen/Germany! - As we Germans are so particular about our rules and let others know about it in a very direct manner, I have to blend in - of course ;-)- and let you know the following :
The rule is that if a person has several academic titles, you put the highest title first when adressing that person. Therefore, as you seem to have several academic titles, the german railway operator Deutsche Bahn would not adress you as "Dr. Prof. Mark Wolters" but rather as "Prof. Dr. Mark Wolters".
In Germany the titles Professor/Prof. and Doctor/Dr. become part of your first name and you are allowed to have your passport altered accordingly. Apart from that other titles such as Master, Bachelor or in your case Diplom Ökonom VWL/ Dipl. oec. cannot become part of your first name.
Hope, I did my best to verify, that we Germans love our rules and telling others about it ;-) LOL - Love your channel! Keep up the good work!
Viele Grüße aus Deutschland
+Kinala Nela you rock. Danke
that clapping on the plane is to applaud and thank the pilot for "not killing everyone" at the landing because we understand that its not so easy to fly a plane and we think they deserve the praise
Thank you for such a great video about my country!!!
Great video!
but just to let you know the translation of stamp in this case is Stempel not Stampfer.
stampfen means to stamp your feet but stamp on a letter is Stempel, two differnt words.
keep it up and enjoy! :)
Toiletwoman, worst superhero ever
I'm so glad I found your channels. So informative.
+cmeflywva I'm glad you found it too! All the best on your travels!
Nice! Enjoyed that video.
+Iva Hristova-Kovalska thank you!
Der Döner kommt aus Berlin und nicht aus der Türkei! 😉
"Stamp or it didn't happen" :'D
It's so funny to hear what other people notice as special or different in your country.
This is a great video and a you seem to be a very friendly guy.
Thanks.
Thank you
Vielen Dank Herr Doktor Professor Wolters! Noch ein tolles Video! Viel Spaß in Mexiko!
or rather Wideo... never understood the V vs W confusion!
+pamparis12 danke schoen! Wir freuen uns weil es zu Hause -10 Grad ist... und "nur" 24 in Camcun... ;)
The Line Culture gets better every year. In supermarkets it is absolutely common but we forget our good will when it comes to busses and railways.
All german kids learn english with the start of grade 5. I think the essentials are teached in elementary school though. It's been a while since I was in school :D But, german learn english in school for at least 5 years.
Freikörperkultur: Yes, germans are free with that. Nipples and bums are common in Advertising, but you can't just walk around with no clothes on =)
Leithia_Trenkh with the Start of Grade 5? We started to learn it in Grade 3. are things that different between the Bundesländer? If i'm allowed to ask, where are you from? I'm from Bavaria
Well, Germany has 16 States and 16 different Education systems. I think, teaching English in Elementary School is something that happened around the year 2005 or so. Before that it was rather uncommon (except obviously for Pilot projects...).
Das hängt von den Bundesländern ab, bzw. der Besatzung nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg. Die Sprache der Besatzer wurde übernommen, deswegen wird auch beispielsweise französisch gelehrt. Ob immer noch russisch im Ostblock unterrichtet wird, bezweifle ich. Auch ist der Trend dahingehend, dass auch in anderen Bundesländern auf Englisch gewechselt wird, gibt es im Grundschullehramt Studium mittlerweile als Fremdsprache nur noch Englisch. Übrigen wird Mittelwelle schon in der Grundschule nicht bis jetzt, Englisch Pflichtfach in der dritten Klasse, sondern auch schon wahlweise früher Englisch angeboten.
I`m from NRW, but I started school in 1989 ... so, I think it was a bit different back then ^^
I'm living in Brandenburg and I'm now in class 10 and we learn English since the first class. Maybe that's why we can speak english very well, because you started it in the age of 6.
I didn't know you're a mister doctor professor ;)
planning my trip to prague,budapest, and berlin in june
been so helpful watching your videos
Hi Mark, Super Video, Weiter so!
Ich weiß ja nicht, was andere Länder über Nacktheit wissen, aber als ich vor zwei Jahren am Bodensee in einem Freibad war, haben sich zwei englisch sprachige Personen bei mir aufgeregt, weil ich angeblich zu "nackt" wäre. Dabei trug ich einen Badeanzug!
Kessa S. dabei haben die Briten die FKK Kultur erfunden xD Wahnsinn
Saphira Tamaki Ich weiß ja nicht, woher die kamen, aber in einem Freibad sollte man damit rechnen, dass Leute in Bikini oder Badeanzug ins Wasser gehen. Und immerhin habe ich mir noch einen Badeanzug gekauft, weil ich meinen Bikini nicht mehr gefunden habe!
Eben, was wollen die denn, dass man trägt? nen Burkini?
Saphira Tamaki Das habe ich mich auch gefragt! Aber vielleicht sind wir ja in ein paar Jahren so, dass wir nur in solcher Bekleidung schwimmen gehen können! Es soll ja keiner auf dumme Gedanken kommen!
bodensee, da wohn ich haha
That example with the line culture is absolutely wrong!! I'm a German and see it every single day. People waiting on both sides of the door and making space for the people who wants to get out of the train. After that happened and everybody is outside, the people going inside the train from both sides. I don't know why i think so if u were living here for 3 years.
But the most of immigrants here don't care about the rules and german culture.
Great Videos! keep going!
Dennis Hönes Kommt wahrscheinlich auf die Gegend an. Ich als Schüler kann dem Video nur zustimmen.
Dennis Hönes die ganzen kleinen Kinder drücken immer sofort in die Busse/Züge rein. Die meisten älteren warten immer ganz freundlich
die alten warten? aus welcher parallelwelt kommt ihr?
hier macht einfach jeder was er will. der klassiker ist "ich lasse keinen aussteigen und dränge mich erstmal durch die tür, obwohl das verdammte teil noch voller menschen ist, die erstmal rauswollen"
Also ich hab jetzt die letzten Tage sehr drauf geachtet. Niemand hat gedrängelt, alle haben Wimmer gewartet, egal welches Alter.
Vllt ist das ja nur bei uns in stuttgart so
:-D Als ich Deinen ersten Kommentar las, überlegte ich schon, ob ich mit "Bist Du Schwabe?" antworten sollte... :) Ja, in Stuttgart klappt das irgendwie.
I love your vids. Is so funny to see how others see us. And your right :D
Your channel is great :)
about the point with the nudity. actually it is forbidden to walk around naked and you might have to pay a fee (at beaches, lakes youll most likely not get punished). But there are places, for example at a beach, where signs with the FKK symbols were put down and there you are allowed to go full naked. Once again dont go outside without your clothes :D
Germany has a lot of different regions with different culture, dialect, food, mentality and so on. just keep that in mind!
I'm happy to see pictures of my hometown Lübeck! I hope you liked it here 😊
Really nice video!
+Peter Odell thank you
Hey we knock on tables 2 in Quebec Canada haha ;) its a mix of both usually i start by clapping and end up knocking on the table like a savage
Je Suis Hulk Hahahahaha no we don't!!!!!
pretty sure about half the class room was banging on their tables at the end of every oral presentations i've had to do throughout my entire civil engineering studies at concordia and dawson MTL... i myself love to bang on tables sorry youre boring ;)
And we clap when we land from a plane too haha or bus! I remember it happen to me a lot! :)
What you're explaining is like the south of Germany. In the rest of Germany there's a phrase that says Bayern isn't Germany.
Last First did I do it right? its bavaria in english and that is just a joke of us germans cuz their accent
What in this video is only applying to Bayern? I don't really see it.
Last First did I do it right? south of germany also includes Baden Württemberg
The name "Free State" doesn't give them any more rights than any of the of the other states. It's just a name.
he explained englischer garten in munich only, not Munich, not bavaria and definitely not the whole south of germany.
Great video Mark I love the videos and Keep up the Great work
+Ricky Grewal thanks Ricky! We will do our best!
Great video, thank you! Only one thing; clapping is completely fine and common in Germany. Knocking on the table is a academic thing. We use it at the University for example after lectures and presentation. After a concert we clap of course. :)
In Germany we have a thing called the "Rechtsfahrgebot" (literally "right-driveing-commandment") meaning in any street with more than one lane in your direction you always have to drive on the lane at far right as possible. It is only allowed to use the middle or left lane if you are about to pass another car and are significantly faster. Normally you will drive in the middle lane because the right one is filled up with LKWs (trucks) lined up like peals on a necklace but the left lane.
Long story short: You always have to drive as far on the right as possible.
This does *not* apply in cities though, there you can choose the lane freely (§ 7 Abs. 3 StVO).
The background is quite simple: multi-lane country roads or the Autobahn typically only have exits to the right. Also the speed differential between the cars is much lower in the city, so it's easier to keep track of your surroundings to both sides.
And even on the Autobahn you are allowed pass on the right, if there is a continuous, slower line of cars on the lefthand lane.
So in Germany it's trucks on the right, Teslas on the left, and everyone else in the middle. Got it 👍 🤣
@@Mars-ev7qg Not quite. Yes, trucks are usually on the right (unless they partake in an "Elephant race") but if there's like a half a kilometer gap on the right lane you still have to switch to the right lane and back again once you approach the next vehicle from behind...
Haha you just need a rule on a sign that says to stand in line, then it works pretty well.
This one has it!!!
I really enjoy watching your videos :) have to laugh a lot. You're absolutely right with most of the things you say :)
OMG, you are always so happy and jolly !! :)
Oh and it's "true" that there is no law for paying at toilets. -at least no written law for it. But an "unofficial" one. If you won't pay - the cleaning lady at the toilet will kill you with her looks or even say something: "What about the money?!" (straight forward & with an angry tone). She really expects you to pay! And others will look at you like you killed some one: "What he didn't pay?!" - so no law, but yes a law. LOL.
Nobody gives a shit about the fish. Everybody is only making pictures with the wild boar. If you ever visit Munich and see the fish and the boar. Also make a picture with the fish. Poor fish.
Hi Mark, I have just discovered your chanel and I am pretty obsessed with it. You are soo cool and your vlogs are perfect. I must say I am laughing a lot watching the tips and love&hate in different cities or countries. It reminds me my visits to those places and you are 100% right! 😊 Thank you, you make me travel soon! Greetings from Prague and peace to the world!
+Tereza Novakova thabk you Tereza! I'm glad you found us and have enjoyed our videos. Big travel hug welcome to you!
All of your travel videos are excellent, but it is obvious that you have a special passion for Germany.
I once had some exchange student friends and asked them if they want to join me for a thermal park (swimming pool and slides). I also told them that I am going into the sauna and they are welcome to go too. They said "sure".
Well... a day later somebody told me I had to warn them about the fact it is just nude in there and I did.
Guess who went with me xD
Not even the Canadian!
+Kyagos yeah. I remember my first German sauna experience. But I was warned beforehand :)
Ich verstehe nicht warum sich die Touristen über das Trinkgeld für die Toilettenfrau/Mann aufregen! Im Restaurant benutzen sie einen Taschenrechner, damit das Trinkgeld stimmt.
When you're speaking German, and not throwing the odd German word in when speaking English, your accent is remarkably good.
very amusing video...this line culture made me smile.... we learnt it from our Grandmas and they learnt it in the war....we still behave like we were queuing for an air raid shelter...