The school bus situation is different in rural areas. The bus stops at every childs house because houses are often far apart. Except for big cities there is no public transportation and if both parents work school buses are the only way for kids to get there. And yes i know this is just your experience at school.

eeewwww tawwk funnih.

Free Rachel from Spandau. Bring back Rachel to DW.

In Australia, back in the 1960s, we got big movies about two years after they were released in the USA and the Northern Hemisphere. But we got the songs on the radio before the movies were released as they were meant to lure the audience to go to see the movie. Which we couldn’t do in the Antipodes. So we learned all of the songs from Mary Poppins, Sound of Music, South Pacific, Carousel, Oklahoma!, and all the other big musicals without knowing where they came from or how they fit into the story. That is why “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” (from Mary Poppins) seemed so weird to us. But we all learned the words.

was mir am wehsten tut ist das man keinen Dialekt mehr in Deutschland spricht. ich bin Oberpfaelzerin von Regensburg und ich fuehle mich immer benachteilicht wenn ich noch immer in meiner Heimatsprache rede. ich waere bzw nie darauf gekommen das Feli eine Muenchedrin ist [ und sie ja nur Hochdeutsch spricht ] und der Oberbayrische Dialekt mir sehr bekann ist sollte sie ihn jemals anwenden . obwohl ich Deutschland fuer ueber 60 jahren verlassen habe und ich immer noch mit einen deutschen Akzent spreche [ auf dem ich sehr stoltz bin ] hoert er sich anders an als die der Lehrerin !

"It's all Greek to me " is a line from Willam Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar"

When I came out in Cincinnati officially, I was 18. Back then Cincinnati was overly conservative. The police, the mayor, the city officials etc all discriminated legally against anyone believed to be LGBTQ+. It seems to have improved. When I moved to Atlanta, I thought I had gone to heaven, as the city was called the City Too Busy To Hate, and a city of 3 million residents was much more open and friendly to LGBTQ+ folks. Would I feel safe walking down the streets in Cincinnati these days?

As for group nomenclature, if there is ONE male in a group of mixed genders in Hispanic cultures, the members are called masculine persons. "Visito cada ano a mi familia. Tengo 3 hermanas, 1 hermano y 1 tia. Ellos son simpaticos a mi." Jen can confirm.

I wonder, if different cities celebrate different Pride weeks. In the USA we celebrate it different times, depending on the city. In Cincinnati, New York, Toronto and San Francisco celebrate it based on the original Stonewall event, the last weekend of June, which is why worldwide June is thought of as Pride week. In Atlanta we moved ours to the first or second weekend in October. Being in the South, it stays hot/warm longer in the year, and October is quite pleasant...not too hot or too cold. Plus, the last weekend of June is a heavy rain weekend in Atlanta. Therefore, our Pride is early October.

All four of you are just beautiful people externally and internally. Everyone is clever, funny, insightful and though-provoking. What an amazing group you are. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge and and advice.

I understand Yvonne's need to escape the Latino vibe/conversation and have some private time outside the Spanish language/culture circle. My brother married a Mexican woman, and all her relatives live close to my brother's family. The Latinos overwhelm my brother, despite his love for his in-laws. They drop off their kids after school or before their activities and suddenly my brother has 11 kids he hadn't planned on take care of, and they're all speaking Spanish. My brother understands some Spanish, but it's a word here and there. His saturation point arrives quickly. And when Uncle Tommy comes to visit, I take all the kids and take them to their events, and we speak the whole day in Spanish. My brother's in-laws trusts me to take them around and watch them, while my brother gets his needed break from the language and culture. And Uncle Tommy loves any chance to speak French, German or Spanish, so I never tire of all them. Plus, I'm a 59-year-old kid, so I love their activities and participate, even if I'm not everyone's uncle. I might as well be.

Southern hospitality is a myth. I moved to Atlanta from Cincinnati in 1994, and I discovered that southerners here are quite fake about the welcome. They want zero guests. They greet you but don't want to host, feed, entertain, or house folks who are not family members. Baton Rouge doesn't surprise me doing that to Yvonne. Did Feli know Josh prior to his arrival in Germany? Jen and Yvonne's youtube channel is so helpful. I recommend it to all my friends, who wish to relocate to Europe, but specifically to Germany. It's always so easy to trust other LGBTQ+ folks. As a gay/queer American I never know whether other foreign cultures will discriminate against tourists and expats like me. It's so refreshing to know that you're out and make no excuses and just tackle the bureaucracy without worrying about, if a German Beamte(r) would deliberately try to hinder the progress of an LGBTQ+ person just to be mean or a hindrance.

I like his shorts popping up on my youtube feed and he's great, but I'm afraid he's found a niche that's gonna run dry soon. You only have so many stereotypes for a nation.

My sister had to guard her son after birth because they kept trying to take him to be circumcised . She told them no several times .

I invite Josh to come to east germany for exploring.

The 6 month training period is written down in the contract and there are no vacations. Vacataions are only effective after a year of Employment. So its written in the law book and we believe in it.

Vacation- and Christmas Money is more a Westgerman thing i guess. Just talking from my experieance thats not a thing i used too or i ever got.

Also in München neue Büroräume anzumieten wäre auch fahrlässig. Die Miete würde sich mindestens verdoppeln.

Golfplätze gibts überall in Deutschland. Das ist wirklich nichts Seltenes.

I don’t know if you read comments on a two-year-old video of a series that has ended, but it’s important for people coming to the US who are not regarded as “white” in the U.S. to know that those things that Josh says are “no big deal” are in fact a “big deal” because traffic laws are enforced more rigorously and many police are quicker to use force with respect to people not regarded as “white.” It is a phenomenon known as the “crime” of “driving while Black.”

At 50 years old and living my whole life in Adelaide, South Australia, I absolutely HATE Vegemite. I find it very disgusting. It is pretty much only yeast extract with a few other things thrown it, particularly salt. There are many german settlements near Adelaide, in particular Hahndorf and the Barossa Valley. The Barossa is a wine growing region and know all over the world and was originally settled by Germans only a few years AFTER South Australia was first settled. Being a free colony instead of convicts helped the European immigration and while MANY Australian towns that had German names were changed because of WWI and WWII, Hahndorf is one of the few that kept it's name. We also have a German here in Adelaide called the Schützenfest with many of the Oktoberfest fun and competitions, German beer and food and people wearing Lederhosen and Dirndl's. Having an Australia 'educate' an American on 'proper' english is correct. We use the Queen's english or British English which is where the language comes from, not American English where certain words have different meaning and spelling is different and 'butchered' E.g. Aluminium, Colour, Flavour.

Bachelor-Studengänge im angelsächsischen Raum sin normalerweise 3 Jahre lang. Vierjährige Bachelor-Studiengänge sind eine Besonderheit der USA. "Amazon" mit unbetonter dritten Silben mit Schwa ist die normale Aussprache in Großbritannien.

They shoulda gone with “poodles”

The word Schnitzel didn't really make it into British English. Americans use it, and so do Australians, but in the UK we just call it an "escalope" - a word borrowed from French.

Your just a normal European communist. Of course you hate guns, but know nothing about it. Convention 🙄

I was born in April of 1965 in Nevada USA. My Mother's favorite movie is "The Sound of Music." We went on the bus tour in 1991 with my 3 year old son and one year old daughter's whose middle name is Vienna. It was fun. We have home videos of the trip.

Edelweiss was/is a consistent song in my parents' house, we watched Sound of Music almost as often as we watched Lord of the Rings (due to watching it or it being on in the house so often, I can accurately identify where in the stories of each movie that most of the sound effects happen). Anyway, I can say none of us were under any impression that the n@zis liked the song, which, as Feli said, was sung in opposition to the n@zi occupation. I remember the first time I watched it as a kid, I had had NO idea what WW2 was, or why the VonTrapp family was running away, and when I felt weird about the captain getting teary eyed, my dad said "Because his whole country was being overrun by n@zis and they'retrying to force him to be one." I definitely was under the impression, from the crowd joining in with the song, that Edelweiss was the legit national anthem of Austria. And that was my very first impression of WW2. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk lol.

easiest ways to learn a language is with friends. they wont judge. i learned Dutch via my friends, and now get it fine tuned via my GF when it comes to shaving, in my experience, my GF now shaves less than she was single. i dont shave but were happy smashing our things together. if were watching a movie and i run my hand up her leg, and there is stubble, for me is means she shaved recently. if she had super hairy legs, armpits etc id ask her to shave cause thats a turnoff for me personally. she asks me to have a certain beard, and thats never been an issue, infact i get her to do my beard

Great vid, big fan of Type Ashton and u guys now got a new sub and il be working through your older vids! great questions, fun atmosphere! edit: Feli, im gonna guess you left Germany between the ages of 10 to 14 or atleast were immersed in english at that age. you dont have a german accent at all, except for in a few words. that usually indicates you were at an age malleable enough for language, but just on the higher end. I left germany when i was 8 and only in dutch, my 3rd language, does my german accent make a strong reappearance because i learned dutch in my teens and only fully in my early 20s around the child to teen age, we are unable to pick up languages as easily and accents stick. our brain development moves from more malleable to more set. also a reason to teach kids second languages earlier rather than later

I (64 male, former single parent of two) can only speak from a perspective of someone who grew up and lived in Western Germany. From my childhood until my kids were alsmost grown up, there was "Kindergarten". The little ones went there from the age of 4 (sometimes 3) to school age age 6. Kindergarten was between 8 and 12 a clock. Kids had to bring breakfast/snack time food. No other meals were provided. At some point there was alo "Kinderkrippe" for babies and toddlers. It was pretty rare in Western Germany and only found in large cities. It was much more common in the former GDR. Not sure about the opening times or meal provided, as I never went and neither did my kids. In larger cities (not sure about smaller ones) there was the occaisonal "Kita" (Kindertagesstätte) where kids stayed from 8 in the morming (sometimes earlier, like 7:30) to 4 or 5 in the afternoon. Kids had to bring breakfast/snack time food. But they also got warm lunch around noon and went to take a nap in the afternoon. These days "Kindergarten" and "Kita" is used interchangeably for the same institution. And as far as I know it always daycare (meaning it's from 7 or 8 in the morning to about 5 in the afternoon) and all meals are provided. Not sure about age restrictions though. Some take young ones not potty trained others don't, as far as I know. An absolute rarity when I had my kids is more common now, the "Tagesmutter". "Tagesmutter" is (usually) a lady who takes in kids for a set time period from Monday to Friday on her own terms. She sets the limit of kids she is willing to take in, as well as the age range. She proviedes what is necessary, from diaper changes to food and has her own fees for the services provided.

Do Austrians speak German or do Germans speak Austrian?

Ich würde deutsch als Sprache mit "präzise" beschreiben. Für nicht muttersprachler erscheint es oft sinnlos warum manche Wörter oder Wortzusammensetzungen gebildet werden. Aber sie beschreiben meistens unterschiedliche, präzise Systemzustände. Geil oder? Mehr muss man auf deutsch nicht schreiben. Lets switch to english again 😀

I watched it in Rio de Janeiro around the time that it was released in Brazil. But, even here in the USA, there are movies, even great movies, that my grandkids do not know about. Recently, I was with the are was surprised that none of them had heard of, much less watched the movie "White Christmas." The difference is that "The Sound of Music" is still on TV occasionally whereas "White Christmas" is exclusively show around Christmas and then only once. Ever though it won several Academy Awards, you may not have heard about "Casablanca" witch is set in Casablanca during the time of the Vichy period.

I always loved this film from growing up. My parents brought me up watching musicals. The classic musicals especially 70s and before. I was born and raised in NY and now living in suburban NJ. I have been to Austria 4 times including Salzburg,. I also went on the Sound of Music Tour and Dinner twice. I love history but of course I love going to Salzburg also because of the Sound of Music as well as the history there of course.

I guess calling an Austrian or German woman "Fräulein" would be a bit like calling an American adult woman "young lady"

"schnitzel" and "strudel" were definitely widely known in the US before 1965. I'm sure the movie did strengthen the awareness, though.

I've never heard of anyone thinking that Edelweiss is a Nazi song.

It sounds to me like the Germans don't like highly romantic movies in general. Whereas, many America's love romantic movies. I mean, they used to, but not so much in 2024. Nowadays put a Satanist movie out and the young Millenials will love it. Scary AF.

Alter, die Aussprache von ihm ist unglaublich. Selbst nachdem ich weiß, dass das nicht seine Muttersprache ist, kann ich es echt nicht fassen.

It depends on the country. I have done an exchange year in Korea and chose to stay in a 4-bedroom luxurious appartment. There were only 2 other Korean girls there and they did NOT want to talk to anyone (not even to each other). I was thrown into a group chat with them and they rather discussed stuff briefly and efficiently there than simply come out of the room and tell me directly. With one of them, I only exchanged 2 short sentences. Ever. My friend lived 1 year in Japan and had the same experience with his Japanese room mate. Here in Austria, going to dance classes or art classes didn't help. I went to dance classes for 7 semesters straight and no one talked to each other. O saw the same faces every semester and whenever I tried to have small talk, people became cold quickly. Same for art classes, weirdly enough. It's not just me, as I was seeing the same faces over and over and even between them, no one talked to each other! I have no idea what the hell is going on😅

I cant believe that it is 1 year ago. I miss you both.

You kinda have to be racist to believe in race. Especially, if corrected find metal loopholes to legitimize the concept. its one way to rob people of their individuality and oddly that's very un-american.

In 1982 I stood & had my photo taken with my back to the "no man's land" full of land mines and farther back, the fence & GDR border guards.

Best mtg host

Circumcision talk starts at 53:50

Born and raised in the US, i have never heard of ANYONE watching sound of music around Christmas time.. da heck?!? That's so random jajaja

Fatty milk, that is more creamy, is way healthier than the reduced fat options

I've a question for Josh: Sometimes you use some german words and translate it into english - like "einen groben Plan" / 'a general idea'. I'm asking because sometimes i do the same thing the otherway round using english words first and looking for fitting german words afterwards - although i never lived in an english speaking country and my english is not 10% as good as your german. 😅

33:44 Where do I find that podcast?

N Louisiana you take the sat in 10 grade and to pass the 12 grade and the school system gives that that is the only test we took it wasn't a state test your Scores decided if you passed unless they have changed it since the 1980's