8 WAYS TO TELL IF SOMEONE IS GERMAN USING NUMBERS (USA vs Germany)

[@PassportTwo]

Check out Part 2 of this video for 6 more differences! 😃 ⏩ kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmrIpYN_hcaLeqM ⏪

[@minimesally3890]

Wenn Deutsche Ihre Telefonnummer mit 0 angeben ist das meistens die deutsche wahlweise da wir in Deutschland die +49 selten benutzen!!! Beispielsweise sind das die selben Nummern!!!💋💋💋 0123/456789 +49 123/456789 If Germans give your phone number with 0, this is usually the German one as we rarely use the +49 in Germany!!! For example, these are the same numbers!!!💋💋💋 0123/456789 +49 123/456789

[@seli3594]

how I count on my hands: 👍, ✌, ✌+👍, 🖐 without thumb, 🖐, and then 🖐 and on the other hand the 'german' way... I have my own way xD oke sry für das schlechte Englisch😅😅

[@whoeverdontcare]

Passport Two bro I live in germane

[@faenari]

Habt ihr Tipps für das lernen des englischen Abc? I have problems with the english version of "abc", pls help me. QQ

[@sso_kartoffel6268]

i start counting with my thumb but when i'm at number four i pull my thumb back and do it ?the american way?

[@SG-ys6fu]

day, month, year is ,for me, more logical, because a year takes the longest and a day the shortest.

[@fatewillgetyou5688]

I'm living in Germany and it's like that...🤷‍♀️ Wie wir Deutschen jetzt sagen würden: das war's ja mal wieder komplett🤣🤣

[@justanotherotaku565]

Da word ja der hund in der pfanne verrückt, noch mehr meiner deutschen brüder und schwestern hier XD

[@photelegy]

It's more logic than the American way. But I like the chinese way more. YYYY MM DD hh mm ss

[@gagaplex]

@@photelegy It's the best way for sorting files in the computer, too: YYYY-MM-DD - . Makes sorting really easy. :-)

[@tokkina6611]

I also think it's more logical. Either d/m/y or y/m/d...the american way feels as if you're jumping around 🙈I also think the street before the number is lore logical 😅 as well as starting to count with your thumb...I mean, what is the reason behind starting with the second finger? 🤔 I also sometimes turn them inwards instead of outwards as well. Still starting with the thumb though 😅 But I mostly see that way in asian countries.

[@theuncalledfor]

1: Thumb. 2: Thumb, index. 3: Thumb, index, middle. 4: Index, middle, ring, pinky. 5: All.

[@mushu-the-cat]

but only when showing the numbers. when counting through i go from thumb to pinky like he showed in the video.

[@ghandithepeacekopfer9840]

2: is also Index and middle, I asked 5 of my Friends and when showing number 2, it is Not Thumb, index

[@MR181Lou]

Ich mach das auch so, aber wenn ich zwei zeigen will, mache ich es eher amerikanisch

[@emmast9702]

Das stimmt so sehr😂

[@felixkrampe2649]

So wird es auf Deutsch gemacht :)

[@thepurplesmurf]

If you are confused how Germans say numbers have a look at the French. Their 90 is spoken "quatre-vingt- dix" which pretty much translate to "4 times 20 plus 10" 😂

[@PassportTwo]

What?? Haha, i don’t think I’m going to take on French after German...😂

[@MichelCantigneaux]

@@PassportTwo Soixante-dix (sixty-ten), quatre-vingts (four-twenty), quatre-vingt-dix (four-twenty-ten) is the Standard French system indeed. But not in (French-speaking) Belgium and (French-speaking) Switzerland. "Inner" Switzerland (Valais - Vaud - Fribourg) + Val d'Aoste : septante - huitante - nonante (fully decimal) "Border" Switzerland (cantons of Geneva - Neufchatel and Jura) : same as in Belgium Belgium (+ "Belgian Africa" : D.R. Congo - Rwanda - Burundi ) : septante - quatre-vingts - nonante, so a nearly decimal system but for 80 ...

[@MichelCantigneaux]

And a French-speaking community (Pays de "Par-en-bas" aka regional municipality of Argyle) in the south of Nova Scotia (Canada) also uses the full decimal system : septante - huitante - nonante (on the basis of the Norman dialect counting of their ancestors). Which can be also found in the Norman dialect variant of the Isle of Jersey (Channel Islands): the Jerriais. Otherwise, French-speaking Canada in general and mostly Québec uses the Standard French system : soixante-dix, quatre-vingts, quatre-vingt-dix . And so does the whole of "French Africa".

[@petereggers7603]

Here's a link to an interessting film (in german) dealing with the french system of counting (and the history) from the arte channel: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eX_RqYJqg8iHfrM

[@aphextwin5712]

In France, phone numbers are grouped in groups of two digits. Since 70 is spelled soixante-dix (sixty ten), there is a fine distinction between saying, eg, 70 50 and 60 10 50. Written out those two are: soixante-dix cinquante and soixante dix cinquante. Though to be fair, similar problems can occur in other languages, eg, 600 20 vs 620.

[@juilescieg]

Das deutsche Zählsystem ist etwas bescheuert. Mit Ausnahme des Datums. Tag. Monat. Jahr. ergiebt sinn.

[@Toni-ze6no]

hast absolut recht

[@heyyhellou4741]

Jup ich kann das immer noch nicht wirklich🙄😅

[@johnsbananamilkshake]

Das französische ist viel schlimmer tho

[@bubbletea.5005]

@@johnsbananamilkshake So wahr :^)

[@wildsin5573]

Naja dreihundertzwanzigundeins hört sich auch nicht gut an🤣

[@boriskalaschnikoff4764]

You have forgotten to explain the billion-Milliarde-thing. Could be important for the billionairs among us. 😁

[@PassportTwo]

haha, we had to draw the line somewhere so the video wouldn't get too long. Maybe one day there will be a part 2 😊

[@chrillehihihom1431]

But isnt this logical? And if you understand the logic behind, it gets very easyer. And be interessted in the world, you dont need a War, Homophobie,Rassismus,Antifeminismus,Feminismus, Neo Narzimuss.You see mus, i Think its quite smiliar for muss. Ich hab letztes Jahr nem Kumpel über die Backe geleckt. Who cares ich war fully full,Spitz,Hacke,kannte,auf Naht genäht.besoffen betrunken angaysoffen;). Völlig völlig extremst zerstört. That are the Times when you in war or has a Endgegner. Später eskalierte es noch etwas, aber am Ende alles gut.

[@chrillehihihom1431]

@@PassportTwo kriegste das Raus? Ist einfach nur ein Autoaufkleber den sieht man oft in Berlin. HowUpDoHighKnee ?? Hm. Or homeless und Obdachlose which word you Think is Humanitischer? Ein Homeless hat keine Heimat ein Obdachloser keine Obdach.

[@Anson_AKB]

@@chrillehihihom1431 it is not _"keine Obdacht"_ but _"kein Obdach"_ ... german "Dach" is english "roof", and "Obdach" might best be translated as "shelter" (a place to stay for the night, also can be used when saying "jemandem Obdach geben", "to give someone a place to sleep / stay for the night", like in the Xmas story :-) @Boris and @PassportTwo : currently, the usa and europe are talking about giving credits for businesses and the entire economy which are in the range of a trillion or billion, quite some difference :-) therefore i try to avoid this and only use the names up to a million, and then say "a thousand millions", "a million millions", etc (or use scientific notation :-) _short summary of those different names:_ we base those numbers on a million which is 1000000, and then give the next name "billion" (comes from "bi-million") to million², and the third name "trillion" ("tri-million") to million³, which i find quite logical :-) and the intermediate numbers are "xxx-illiarde" = "1000 xxx-illions", eg 1000 millions = 1 milliarde, 1000 billions = 1 billiarde. in contrast, the usa base it on latin mille = 1000, and thus 1 million is mille^(1+1), 1 billion is mille^(2+1), 1 trillion is mille^(3+1), etc. in both systems, the exponents are derived from the latin names bi, tri, quad, quint, sixt, sept, oct, etc, but applied to million^N vs mille^(N+1)

[@chrillehihihom1431]

@@Anson_AKB thx Mann or girl. jetzt wirds hart denke ich. Ich muss das ein paar mal lesen. Aber vielen Dank.

[@naomi_archive]

I’m German and I think ( that’s what my parents told me) the 0 in the phone number can be exchanged with the +49 . Hope I could help 🤗

[@rhaliaarellan1711]

yes thats right, the 0 also stands for +49 , means +49 441/ and 0441/ are the same. / - between the numbers are just a helper for the "vorwahl" and the "nummer" ( i know my english is bad)

[@GaruruMoon]

@@rhaliaarellan1711 if I remember correctly using 0 in place of the +49 only works while in germany, so if you want to call that number from outside you have to exchange it for +49 again, the 0 substituation is similar to how you can just leave out the +1 for US numbers while inside the USA - if I understand that system correctly.

[@debbiehope8402]

@@GaruruMoon This ist correct! :)

[@TomteMiley]

there is a whole system where the first two digits are for the Bundesland and the others for the city or area. 02 is NRW, 28 is Bonn, so 0228 is used for Bonn. +49 is just used (like every other country code) if you are calling from abroad. You can then leave out the zero if you want (+49228) or still include it (+490228). It doesn't really matter.

[@debbiehope8402]

@@TomteMiley your first point ist for phonenumbers. +49 or 0 is only for mobilphone...

[@amyloriley]

I love how you're showing a calendar, and the first day is Sunday! Look at any European calendars, and you'll see Monday as the first day of the week.

[@PassportTwo]

Another difference between Germany and the US! 😊

[@michaelgrabner8977]

@@PassportTwo It is related to God´s resting day...God created the world in 6 days and on the 7th day he was finished and saw what he has done was good and rested = Sunday in the roman catholic/greek orthodox christian tradition because they adapted the ancient Greek/Roman "dies solis" = "Sunday" of the ancient "sol invictus cult" which was the most influencial cult in the ancient Roman Empire directly related to the ancient roman Emperor who was also "Pontifex maximus" (highest priest) which later became the titel for the Pope to this day by the way and because of that importance of the sol invictus cult the catholics/orthodox which was - before the Roman Empire was divided in East and West - one religion anyway related that "Sol invictus day" to the christian god simply to get rid of the sol invictus cult in order to establish the "new christian religion" which doesn´t happen over night but during some generations. ... and starting the week with Sunday is related to the jewish tradition which was also then later adapted by the Protestants as well where Sabbath/Saturday is the 7th day

[@Anson_AKB]

i can't think of the weekend (saturday+sunday) being split to two different weeks on the calendar and thus part of the weekEND STARTing the next week. thus my week is Mo-So (mon-sun), and while saturday (sat in english) is "sa" in german, it is SonnAbend for me, while it is SAmstag in some other regions :-)

[@truSN8P]

@@Anson_AKB This is soooooo true!!! It really feels muuuuch better to not split your week - this feels so brutal! ;)

[@brittakriep2938]

In the early 70s , when i was a child, you could also find calendars in Germany which startet with sunday!

[@Mischekuppe]

German im Titel: Die Kommentarsektion ist nun deutsches Staatsgebiet.

[@biesifoto]

In phone numbers, all area codes actually start with a 0, so when used inside of Germany. However, in the international form, the o is replaced with the +49. So it's either 0 OR +49. And yes, there is a bit of confusion inside of Germany how to write this correctly; i.e. I've seen things like [phone] which I find rather confusing. And btw., area codes can have up to 5 digits (including the 0), where the biggest places will usually have less digits and smaller places will often have longer area codes. And phone numbers can vary in length, different from the US form in which every phone number will always have 10 digits.

[@PassportTwo]

Thanks so much for clearing all of this up! Helps a lot! 😊

[@MarsMH]

@@PassportTwo Some additional information: There are only four 3-digit-area codes. Hamburg (040), Berlin (030), Frankfurt (069) and Munich (089). Area codes come in eight groups starting 02, ..., 09 depending on the location of the town ("Vorwahlbereich"). Exceptions to this rule are 032, 0700, 0800 and 0900. The difference in length has technical reasons: In the time when the area codes were introduced, longer numbers took longer to call, because the digits were processed as "impulses". You just add up the digits (but 0 needs 10 impulses), so e.g. 069-12345 needed 30 impulses. This is also the reason why 112 was made the emergency number: it needed only 4 impulses.

[@MarsMH]

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[@lizben3463]

@@PassportTwo I'd like to add that phone numbers beginning with 01 are always mobile phone numbers. If you have a stationary phone number e.g. one belonging to a household and you are in the same town, also calling from a house phone, you can just forgo the area code completely and dial only the number. Like, if the number is 0234/ 567891011, you would only have to dial 567891011 in that case. This does not work if you're trying to call someone on a mobile phone OR from a mobile phone as they're treated separately from the area codes. But it works if you're using e.g. a Vodafone mobile calling another Vodafone mobile.

[@MarsMH]

@@lizben3463 Not exactly: Only numbers beginning with 015, 016 or 017 or mobile phone numbers. There also are other numbers starting with 01.

[@prozaque]

You don't switch numbers in English? Four-teen? Six-teen? No?

[@lennchen5432]

I think they meant the point when the difference occurs. We germans would say vier-zehn und sechs-zehn just like four-teen and six-teen. After 20 all nummbers from us are switched (23 - drei-und-zwanzig) and twisted when we count over one-hundred-twenty (124 einhundert-vier-und-zwanzig).

[@EnnovonSchwerin]

Yep, the german way is the older one. we count from 13 (dreizehn / thirteen) until 99 (neunundneunzig / nintynine) the same way. unless most of the other are switching above 20

[@prozaque]

@@lennchen5432 maybe what they meant, not what they said. I heard this argument before, and people seem to forget about those seven numbers before 20.

[@johnsbananamilkshake]

@@prozaque is that important tho? We all knew what they meant right?

[@jensalik]

@@johnsbananamilkshake well, it's even more counter-intuitive. So at least they could have mentioned it

[@dominikschmalstieg2912]

It is funny, as a Swiss I learned spacing large numbers with an apostrophe, in example 100'000. I still find it more intuitive, and it avoids confusion: if the separation is above the number, it cannot get confused with a comma or a period.

[@agnes15101968]

Good idea! I never knew this is how in works in Switzerland.

[@_laura_nadine]

Hahaha echt so! Üsi Lehrerin het sich au weg dem mol ufgregt, wel das uf de Arbeitsblätter I de Schuel oft au unne isch...

[@florentinenice9146]

When your friends argue over the right answer after a test Germany: it's 10.000 USA: no, it's 10,000 Switzerland: I got 10'000 Ger, USA: ... (Sry i just had to 😂😅)

[@VIlIlIlIl]

Try counting in french, that stuff is on another level 😂

[@j.c.3753]

French gives you a maths exam in order to count... Danish counting is sort of weird, too

[@ducklingscap897]

But also extremely easier. I find it easier than counting in German. The numbers make sense and you just need to memorize them. Also if you forget them you can do the math. But I always tend to mix up numbers when count/read them out loud and I am German.

[@dinosaurgameing7557]

Russian is funny too. The number 11 would be 1 after 10

[@Rorpost]

@@ducklingscap897 But some higher numbers in french could be confusing for somebody. 60 = "soixante" but 70 is not "septante" but "soixante-dix". 80 = "quatre-vingts" an 90 = "quatre-vingts-dix"

[@lakec108]

@@Rorpost The Swiss made it easier with septante instead of soixante-dix for 70 and nonante for 90 instead of quatre-vingt-dix-neuf. Having German as my first language (in our local dialect we count differently, again ( p.ex. 21, einundzwanzig becomes "oisazwanz´g" ) I actually find the English way of counting much more comfortable / less confusing than German and French . I always wrote the 9 the American way and since I used to work in the UK, my ones look like an I.

[@susu0301]

One: thumb Two: thumb, index three: thumb, index, middle four: index, middle, ring, pinky five: all of them And that's how most of the people I know count! (I'm German)

[@agnesgabriele6502]

I'm German too and I do the four with my thumb, index, middle and ring finger

[@MertenMaXx]

@@agnesgabriele6502 If I have to show it for a longer period of time I don't use my thumb, but if I'm just counting up quickly I count as they showed it in the video

[@CaptainLuk03]

@@agnesgabriele6502 warum antwortest überhaupt auf Englisch wenn er auch deutscher ist

[@TheGogeta222]

Lustig ist ja das ich von meinem Großvater das duodezimale zählen an jeder Hand gelernt habe mit dem Daumen geht man die einzelnen Fingerglieder ab man hat also am Zeigefinger 3 am Mittelfinger 3 am Ringfinger 3 und am kleinen nochmal 3 was einen ermöglicht mit einer Hand bis 12 zu zählen er sagte in unserer Gegend hat man früher immer so gezählt was mich überzeugt hat da man im deutschen eine duodezimale Zählweise hat also elf zwölf und Ned einszehn und zweizehn

[@Syliansa]

I mean like, the American 9 looks like a „q“ so for the wifi Passwort it’s the same problem

[@nari5025]

a 9 will always be written upper case, whereas q or g is always lower case, which usually makes them quite easy to tell apart just by height. (there should be a typography technical term that i'm desperately searching for but can't think of)

[@MiciFee97]

I am german and I write my 1 like the one in the keyboard 1

[@PassportTwo]

That should be an easily recognizable one by everybody 👍

[@Anson_AKB]

​@@PassportTwo yes, but it still can be confusing : i write 1 and 7 just as shown on the keyboard and on the monitor. when someone is used to write and read a one as "I" or "l", and the 7 with the horizontal dash, he still can be unsure when he sees the 1 and 7 that i write, and i would be unsure when someone writes the 1 starting from the bottom like an A. i also learned to write the 6 and 9 like they are shown on the keyboard, and now write them more hastily like they are shown on the monitor (no big loop like a J on the 9, but only a shorter one, at most ending horizontal). I also mostly write 0 and O exactly the same, but this might differ depending on context: for passwords, usernames, etc, i write 0 with a diagonal "/", uppercase O with a loop at the top, and lowercase o as a simple lowercase o :-) and finally, i write the 4 differently from keyboard and monitor, using only horizontal and vertical lines, slightly crossing each other.

[@CaptainLuk03]

@@PassportTwo i write it so 1

[@oscarsterner2623]

Idk if all Swedes do it this way but when I count on my fingers i do it the “German” way, and when I’m just showing a number I do it the “American” way

[@zinogrey3463]

as i know, germans usually do it like that too i've never seen a german showing a two with thumb and index, but with index and middle

[@Simple_Lina]

And I do the four not like him because I cant, just like him, stretch the ringfinger without the pinky. To count I go this way 1= thumb 2= thumb and Index finger 3= thumb, Index Finger and middle finger 4= Index Finger, middle Finger, Ring Finger, pinky 5= of course all

[@nari5025]

@@Simple_Lina this. you can count like this to yourself, but showing to others (ie. ordering the next round of beer) it's index to pinkie before thumb.

[@mariabulow5782]

Ich bin deutsche, und mir sind diese „schwierigen“ Sachen NIE aufgefallen 😂

[@photelegy]

Also das mit der Unlogik beim Aussprechen der Zahlen fällt schon schnell auf. 123456 sagen wir als mit so einem Herumgehüpfe. (1H+3E+2Z)T+4H+6E+5Z T = Tausender H = Hunderter Z = Zehner E = Einer

[@Evilschlitz]

Weil du halt damit aufgewachsen bist ist das halt normal.

[@lunagrindelwald7635]

Mir schon. Das mit dem 1. OG und so bring ich selber immer durcheinander 😂

[@blitzaal7778]

Wo sind die Deutschen? Wir müssen diesen Kommentarbereich einnehmen!

[@commanda_4774]

Da haben sie wohl recht.

[@siegbertmuller1886]

Jawoll meine kamaraden 😐7

[@shike2814]

Ja man

[@CaptainLuk03]

Jawohl

[@oAura7]

Ja hier

[@prozaque]

Phone numbers: 49 is the country code for Germany. 1 is the country code for the US and Canada (they are combined). The plus sign means, that you have to enter the code to get out of your country. In Germany this is a double-zero, in the US it's 011. So if you want to call to Germany from the US you'd dial 011-49...then the area code. To call the US from Germany you have to dial 00-1...area code. In Germany the number zero announces an area code. In the US it's the number 1. When you're calling from outside the country this digit is replaced by the country code stuff described above. From within the country, but from outside the area code it's 0-area-code, or 1-area-code respectively. So the annoying, confusing thing for Americans is, that the number 1 can be both the area-code announcement or the country's country code, depending on whether you're calling from withIN, or INTO the country. This digit is either one or the other. In Germany it's either 0 (zero) or 49. They write a plus sign in front of the country code (i.e. +49) because they don't know what country you'd be calling from, and that country's rules for getting a foreign line would be. So when you're reading a phone number like this +49 (0) 89/12345, you have all the information you need regardless of whether you're calling from outside or inside the country or area. From outside the country, let's assume the US, you'd dial: 011-49-89-12345. From within Germany, but outside the area, you'd dial 089-12345. From within the area (from a land-line) you'd dial just 12345. Done. Large cities typically have three digit area codes (including the leading zero, eg. Berlin, Munich). Smaller cities get more digits. Area codes for cities in an area all begin with the same digits and built from the code for the largest city in the area. When an area runs out of phone numbers they can add more digits, so they never run out of numbers and you'll never see new area code overlays like in the US where you can have multiple area codes for the same geographical area. So small cities' area codes can have more digits because there are less phones, and phone numbers tend to be shorter. You're not dialing the parentheses and the dash in American phone numbers. Don't worry about slashes in German numbers. It's just a visual cue to separate area codes from the subscriber number.

[@Lion603]

Thank you man, you provide some good education in a very understandable manner. Have a nice day :)

[@nurlukas1658]

Best answer to the topic. Thank you for your time. I learned something new :)

[@smo-king6504]

@@gracecooper4692 auf dem Handy oder Festnetz?

[@CuzTree]

@@gracecooper4692 Festnetz wird nach der 0 immer der selbe area code sein. Das hat einfach damit zu tun in welcher stadt oder gegend du halt lebst. deshalb musst du auch diese nicht eingeben wenn du innerhalb anrufst. du kannst also einfach von einem Festnetz im selben Ort zum anderen anrufen ohne 0 oder dem area code. Handy ist was anderes .. dort die ersten Zahlen sind wegen deinem Anbieter. Vodafon, Telekom, O2,... z.B gehört 0151 zu Telekom oder 0152 zu Vodafon. Da gibt es noch viele viele mehr die zu einem bestimmten Anbieter gehören, jedoch weiß ich nicht alle auswendig xD Vodafon hat verschiedene: 0152, 0172,... Hoffe das konnte etwas helfen?

[@sarahbartsch6729]

Very interesting when you look into the really high numbers: German Milliarde - English Billion German Billlion - English Trillion

[@eagle1de227]

thats a matter of Scale. the long scale uses powers of million (1.000.000^1=Million, 1.000.000^2=Billion, 1.000.000^3=Trillion) and the short scale powers of thousand (1.000^2=million, 1.000^3=billion, 1.000^3=trillion). But in the long scale there is no word for thousand millions so therefore the term milliard is used. Fun fact: in the UK they used milliard until 1975. then they switched to the short scale...

[@vHindenburg]

And at this point the German hasnt even started to count in high numbers.

[@SuperLphd]

The German system ist better in Big numbers

[@furzkram]

The upstroke in the number 1 in German is SHORT. Whoever writes it like a letter A is just lazy. Or visited a school where creative expression was put over legibility. (Unterstreiche das Wort "Kartoffeln" in diskutiere mit Deinem Nachbarn darüber ...) ;-p That's also the reason why we use a horizontal stroke in the number 7, so it can't be confused with the number 1.

[@PassportTwo]

So many people around here do it that way and it is very hard to read. haha

[@michaelgrabner8977]

the way to write 1 depends on the age ..I went to school in the 70ties and we learned to write the upstroke long...My younger sister went 10 years later to school - the same school by the way and she makes a short upstroke.

[@Anson_AKB]

@@michaelgrabner8977 and 10 years earlier, we learned it with a short upstroke too :-) i believe, your age group might also belong to those who learned reading with the "Ganzheitsmethode" (reading by seeing and recognizing entire words instead of reading the single letters and combining letters to words). and starting to count and calculate was also changed after i learned it (and later changed back again), using "Mengenlehre" and doing it with circles full of dots instead of with numbers.

[@michaelgrabner8977]

@@Anson_AKB I had "Mengenlehre" in both variations = circles and dots and with numbers ...and we "combined letters to words"..but my teacher (who was an old one short before he went into pension) wrote 1 with an long upstroke and so did we students as well...as simple as that..My younger sister had a younger teacher and she wrote 1 with short upstroke..that´s what I ment with it depends on the age..but I was not precise enough to make my point clear..sorry for that.

[@Xerlash]

@@PassportTwo When i write numbers it differs alot, using all the ways to write 1s, 7s, 9s,... depending on factors like if im the only one who needs to read it later, if im in a hurry etc.. also when writing letters my ö ü and ä are just with a straight indication line above them instead of taking the time to write two dots, so they usually look like this ō ū. when it comes to letters you will notice that there are very many different ways people write them, assumingly because in german schools there are two kinds of written layout which have to be learned. There is the Druckschrift (type font) as well als the Schreibschrift (written font) which supposedly is way faster when written by hand. Those usually get mixed up in an individual way as one grows up. Also the Schreibschrift was changed many times and even differed regionally in the past decades. (For futher information see: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schreibschrift)

[@tabea.baus1]

I'm from Germany but I've never seen someone showing the number four with only the pinky down. I also couldn't do it. Everyone I know shows it with the thumb down and the other fingers up. But Great video. Happy Easter

[@PassportTwo]

Like we have learned with so many German things, Germany is incredibly regionally diverse so maybe that could play a part? 🤷‍♂️ Thanks so much! Frohe Ostern 😊

[@Hoschie-ww7io]

Yep. The four is shown with the thumb down.

[@dnocturn84]

I'm also from Germany and everyone I know shows the number four with their thumb up and putting the pinky down. Every now and then I do encounter people which will show the number four with their thumb down, due to not beeing able to put the pinky down that way (when I was a kid, I was always asking people about things like that). Reading your (and other comments about that) comment claiming otherwise must mean, that there are also regional differences in Germany about how your show the number four with your hands.

[@Hoschie-ww7io]

dnocturn84 The number four seems to be the only inconsistent hand sign in Europe.

[@KiaraKitsune]

I also show the number 4 with the pinky down, but I met people, including my parent's who couldn't hold the pinky down, (because their strings are not long enough and the ringfinger pulls the pinky up) I'm german btw

[@nikomangelmann6054]

in old english (before they mess it up with french vocabulary) the counting was the same like in german

[@PassportTwo]

That's what I have heard and I guess that makes sense considering English is a Germanic language 😃

[@MichelCantigneaux]

@@PassportTwo And it is similar througout the West-germanic family : in Dutch : eenentwintig (een-en-twintig), in Luxemburgish : eenanzwanzeg (een-an-zwanzeg), Swiss-German : einezwänzg (ein-e-zwänzg)

[@carstekoch]

Though it is more convenient and logical the english way. I have long lost count as to how often i have mistyped the last two digits in a calculator because i was thinking of the "wrong" digit first. ^^'

[@missis_jo]

@@carstekoch You might think that it is more logical the english way. But I once taught an Estonian boy to calculate and I realised that it's easier for german students to learn that, because you usually start with the last digit (Einer) and then the second digit (Zehner). So in german you can Start to say your result out loud while you are still calculating in your head. It sounds stupid, but for a beginner it makes a huge difference.

[@thinkingbout]

@@carstekoch But in English they make it the same as the german way from 13 to 19 and then first switch beginning with the numbers after 20. So their system isn't completly more logical. At least the german one is more consistent😊

[@HansFranke]

The German phone system is structured for convenience and speed (not saying the US is not, but part of the convenience got lost over time) For one, Numbers are, like in the US, structured in area (city) code and local number, except, the area code isn't of fixed length, but variable. So smaller places get longer area codes,while larger get shorter. So even with keeping national numbering within 10 digits means that a city like Hamburg or Munich can use 8 digits for local numbers allowing 100 million lines. in contrast, some tiny village may get a 5 digit area code. This system allows growth were needed, without forced renumbering or assignemnt of additional area codes. The fixed length US system requires r(e)assignment every few years. For example, since 1947 the city of New York had 11 area code changes and now occupies 7 different area codes with no obvious relation. I'd say I prefer keeping my area code even if my city grows tenfold. Puting a zero in front is simply showing that the following number includes an area code. After all, within the city/area one doesn't need to dial the area code, but only the subscriber (local) number. A convenience that got somewhat lost in the age of mobile phones were an area code is needed anyway. So [phone] or 089/12345678 simply means 89 is the area code and can be omitted if calling local - as 0 is the escape code from local to national level dialing. Similar 00 is used to escape from local to international. Since these codes aren't the same worldwide, '+' is a replacement for whatever local escape codes are used in either country or network. Last and less related, the structuring of 3+7 for a local number in the US is due the original structure of local exchanges, which always handled (up to) 10000 subscriber lines - in the quite (good) old days, US exchanges allowed the same logic of shortening when dialing within an exchange, so neighbours could call each other with just 4 digit numbers. With growing cities this got abolished and turned to 7 digit numbers for local calls and escape+3+7 digits for long distance. which again turned into a somewhat flat 10 digit in the mobile age.

Ja der Herr Franke ist ja auch hier! :D

[@zeisselgaertner3212]

Super Zusammenfassung, die selbst die meisten US-Amerikaner nicht hinbekämen. 😌 Fehlt nur noch die Systematik der dt. Vorwahlen: Routing über Zentralvermittlung, Hauptvermittlung, Knotenvermittlung versus Impulsanzahl-optimierte Area-Codes (212 NY an der Ostküste, 213 LA an der Westküste, 214 Dallas TX usw.) ... und Area Codes hatten immer eine Null oder Eins als zweite Ziffer, so dass eigentlich keine vorgestellte Verkehrsausscheideziffer gebraucht wurde.

[@peregreena9046]

Little known fact: the leading digits of a local number is also for exchanges handling up to 10 000 lines. While a small village might only have one exchange (and actually located together with other small town exchanges in one of the larger towns), large cities have dozens. Usually the centre city regions are handled by exchanges with short stroke numbers (21, 22 and so on) and because the city's administrative offices are often located in the centre, they usually begin with low numbers. Higher numbers also usually have local regions within the city. This is a leftover from mechanical phone exchanges and with the computerized exchanges, one can actually take their number with them when moving across town. In the old days, this was only possible when one was moving inside the region handled by the same exchange.

[@laurabullinger6066]

There's a variation for counting to 4 with your hand in Germany you press your thumb to your palm and extend the other fingers, though this might be a regional difference When I see Americans write numbers, as a German I most struggle with the 7 and the 4 for some reason

[@laurabullinger6066]

Also I had to smile when you talked about the different floor labelling. It's a difference between Europe and America in general I think, and we actually learn that in school, in our English classes

[@PassportTwo]

So that variation would be exactly like the English speaking way of doing a 4 with our fingers! Much easier to get my fingers to do that! 🤣

[@WSandig]

@@PassportTwo I, as a german, do it that way too for the same reason

[@ESCLuciaSlovakia]

@@PassportTwo I agree. In Slovakia we count the same way as Germans do. And there are two ways to count four. When you need to just count fast on your fingers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 7...), you start with your thumb and then just continue. Even if the 4 is difficult to hold, you just do it for a second and you move on to the next number, so it is not a big deal. But if you need to show just the number 4, you can do it the other, easier way, because it's also easier to recognize than the other way, when it can be difficult to say how many fingers are actually supposed to be flexed.

[@peregreena9046]

There's also a difference between holding up fingers to communicate a number and counting off on fingers. The first sees a variation for the number three, when some hold the little finger in with the thumb, the other three fingers stretched out. The number four is usually shown by holding the thumb in and showing the four fingers. Some people can and do fold the little finger in when showing four. When counting off on the fingers, one usually goes from thumb to small finger in sequence. When getting to four many people stretch out the little finger already, though touching the ring finger for the count.

[@sonja3687]

Honestly, German is my mother language and often times I mix up numbers like 87 and have to think a sec about saying them in the right order - so it's not that easy (at least to me and everyone who isn't the best with numbers)

[@utopicuta]

Das passiert mir auch immer und deutsch ist auch meine Mutterprache🤷🏼‍♂️

[@e4arakon]

Kleiner Tipp, native language oder mother tongue ist sprachlich akkurater. Im englischen verwendet man die Wendung mother language kaum bis gar nicht

[@sonja3687]

I'm so done with this name choosing sh*t dankeschön :))

[@NEONightsBOY]

The counting system is the same from 1 to 20. for example: 19 is the same in german and english: nine-teen / neun-zehn 😉 but the english counting system is easier to me up from 20, even if i am a german speaking austrian.

[@PassportTwo]

That’s the weird thing about growing up speaking a language and then you don’t analyze and just accept it as it is. I never thought about 13-19 is that way...hilarious! Thanks for this! 😂

[@peterpan8147]

But you mustn't forget that in the UK, at least maybe 100 years back saying "five and twenty" was in use - but this might have been only in literature. I've come across it several times.

[@helloweener2007]

@@PassportTwo How German phone numbers work kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIjaqJJpnJachKM

[@Akkaren79]

@@PassportTwo Actually some German companies use englisch numbers for counting because it is faster and you dont easily make mistakes if someone on the phone tells you larger numbers.

[@andreasbraess3759]

@@peterpan8147 That is me as German interesting because hear from Club Animator that German only one how say "one twenty" this way I could count only in English and a little Italian, was me not clear that German are only one to in this way. That I write one like Computer and seven with horizontal stroke, was for me only thing of handwriting I learn in school. By was I lean also the seven with snake line as roof.

[@didimousevid.5460]

The / is only there so that you can see the separation better. So it is actually only used if you write the phone number by hand. -123/456789

[@hansc8433]

Basically, one could say that things are mostly different in the us, compared to most other countries. Not the other way around ;-)

[@PassportTwo]

Not implying either country does it more different than any other countries, just sharing our experiences with these two 😊

[@myglAU]

Lesson I take from this video as a German: I’m more American than German and my whole life was a lie..

[@Shinyaia]

i never saw someone who write the number one like an "A" most of germans write the number one like the one on pc "1"

[@lugo_7776]

I do the "A" thing but I freestyled . I have never seen any other person write it like that

[@k.erosene0]

@@lugo_7776 I do!

[@regen9116]

Lugo _ same here!🤚🏼

[@boahkeinbockmehr]

Omg the numbers 1 and 7. I still remember how I got my first math exam during my exchange year in Canada back with almost 0 points. Looking over it and comparing answers I saw that I should have gotten a 100% on it, so I went up to my teacher and asked her to look over my exam results. She again found almost no correct answer and when she started to read to me what the correct answers were supposed to be and I insisted that they were exactly what I had written it suddenly clicked and we both realized that we write 1 and 7 very differently in our respective countries

[@tamarafischer6307]

I never looked at my german phone number in that complicated way 😂

[@linamarie5308]

Of course it is hard to learn that the Germans say the 5 first and then the 4 (45), but I can tell you that sometimes as a child Germans have troubles with that too. Because you write it the opposite way as you spell it.

[@truSN8P]

There is no strict schema when counting with your fingers in Germany - do what ever is easy for you. If you order 2 beer you can show your thumb and index finger or your index and middle finger, or even your pinky and ring finger. When showing the number 4 you just fold in your thumb - it's that easy! Also it doesn't matter if you show the back or the front of your hand!

[@Bayerwaldler]

The number 4 I show with thumb and index finger on BOTH hands

[@lea-marie5224]

U put a 0 in Front of ur phone number or a +49 it‘s so u know u call a number in Germany! U can do either one of them but as a german I personaly think the 0 is more common. Hope I could help u out!❤️

[@Ostarrichi]

Der Kommentarbereich wurde soeben verstaatlicht und gehört nun der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

[@christinafriesen426]

The second point (21 said 1&20) is sometimes confusing even for Germans (at least to me)

[@dinosaurgameing7557]

I sometimes have problems in higher numbers like between 70 and 90

[@ohmygahwd_imgay]

Many german kids struggle with that too

[@jensalik]

The way the tens and ones are spelled out in the German language is a massive problem for children learning to count and calculate. It was proposed to change it around a few times but never caught on...

[@queen82]

Country code: +49 International call prefix: 00 Trunk prefix: 0 The leading 0 must be dialed when calling from within Germany and must be omitted when calling from abroad. When calling via fixed networks within the same area, the area code is not required.

[@eiram649]

For the dates, it is exactly the same in France, Italy, and if I’m not mistaken, almost in every European country... And yeah, if numbers weird you out, don’t try French, we were crazy when inventing them x)

[@fritzieschomaker1476]

German living in the US here, this was very helpful, just the other way around 😁.

[@MiciFee97]

About the phone number: the +49 is replaced by a 0 when you call within germany. Mobile numbers always start with 01xx xxxxxxx or +49 1xx xxxxxxx. Homephone numbers start with the area code usually 3 or 5 digits (always start with a 0 or replaced with a +49). For example frankfurt is 069 or +49 69. This confused me so much when i was in spain for my exchange in 8th grade. Cuz I thought i replace the spain countycode with a 0 when i call within spain. So i am used to just put the the county code in no matter if i am in the county or not. Its just easier

[@PassportTwo]

haha, cool! Thanks for the help! 😊

[@patriciamillin1977]

When I first came to Germany I wrote the 1 and the 7 the English way, until I started working as an operator in a company and my colleagues had to jump in for me so that I could take a break. They always had to ask me if the 1 was a dash and the 7 was a 1, so I had to start getting used to their way. Times were also confusing for me, because here they have a weird way of telling the time. In the UK we would say half past 7 or 25 past 7 or 25 to 8, but in Germany half past 7 would be half (to) 8, 25 past 7, would be 5 minutes to half 8, and 25 to 8 is 5 minutes past half 9. The German dates aren’t a problem, because we write them the same way and it makes more sense to me. It took me some time to get used to the American way when they kept referring to 9/11, which for us would be 11/9.

[@tramper42]

1:50 ... to help remember the order of German date: start with the smallest datepart of a year - a day, then a medium part of a year - a month, followed by the biggest „part“ - year itself... From small to big... day ... month.. year... ascending order.

[@wolfstiger751]

Im german and our phone numbers confuse me too😂so I also dont know why we sometimes write a 0

[@Cherryxarts]

I write my "1" depending on how much effort I put in, if I'm in a hurry I will use the american "I" and If I wanna write neatly I will use the german "A"

[@lourdesacevedo2613]

In Argentina most of those things are the same as in Germany, for example the dates or how we separate big numbers

[@kevinsamusch7338]

Ich versuche es mal auf Deutsch. In der Festnetztelfeonie gibt es die Ortsvorwahl (areacode). Jeder Ort, jede Region hat eine eigene. Zum Beispiel hat Berlin 030, Hamburg 040, meine ist 0441. Im Groben kann man sagen: je größer die Stadt, desto kürzer die Vorwahl. Wenn man den Countrycode verwendet (+49) kann man die erste 0 weglassen; Beispiel +49441×××××××××. Für Mobilnummern gilt das gleiche, wobei die Vorwahlen früher den einzelnen Mobilfunkanbietern zuzuordnen waren. Um die Vorwahlen von den Anschlussnummern zu trennen gibt es verschiedene Möglichkeiten. Zum Beispiel: (0441)12345 0441/12345 0441-12345 0441*12345 not common 0441×12345 not common. Ich hoffe es euch ein wenig geholfen. Thanks for your Videos. I enjoy them very much. Im sorry for writing it down all in german, but I think my english is too bad to get it all correct in english. Happy easter, the german would day;)

[@PassportTwo]

Deutsch ist kein Problem! 😊 Vielen Dank für die Informationen!! Frohe Ostern! 😃

[@all_in_for_JESUS]

Ich glaube das sind alles alte Schreibweisen. Nach der neusten DIN Norm wird die Telefonnummer nur noch mit Leerzeichen zwischen Vorwahl und Rufnummer geschrieben. 0171 2670351 069 33445577 Wenn +49 davor steht lässt man die erste 0 weg. Aber das braucht man ja nicht im Inland.

[@wandilismus8726]

@@all_in_for_JESUS Du hast Diensttelefone vergessen 0431 12345-10 oder 0431 12345-23.Die direkte Durchwahl bei Büro/Amtsnummernnwird mit - angezeigt, da die Hauptnummer ja eigentlich 0431 12345-0 ist (Telefonzentrale)

[@kb__0579]

In German phone numbers you include the zero at the front, when you aren’t tipping out the country code. If you include the country code you don’t have to include the zero.

[@Cherryxarts]

For the f8nger counting one: We actually only count like that till 3, the 4 and 5 is the same as u guys do it in America

[@s.w.9887]

Nah, that really depends, I know a lot of people (including myself) who will count all the way like that. Then again I know some people (way less in my area though) who count the "American way"

[@larrynoelle-8950]

When you're trying to show 4 fingers (every one except the pinky) you don't put the pinky completely down, that doesn't work, just put it like halfway down as far as you can and let the ring finger be all up

[@BigTwitchy]

You forgot the most important give-away that someone is German: Clapping along to music. We do it to ANY music ALL THE TIME, and I have no idea why, but I can't stop myself from doing it.

[@jakobfer8209]

Aber is das was deutsches ich dachte irgendwie das macht jeder

[@lotharschepers2240]

Okay Donnie, es folgt die Deutschstunde mit etwas Unterhaltungseffekt. Als native German habe ich bis mitte der 1990ziger Jahre meine Zahlen immer so geschrieben wie ich es in meinem Land gelehrnt hatte. Aber dann flog ich 1992 oder 1993 beruflich mal wieder in die Staaten und hatte nur ein kleines Zeitfenster um am JFK meinen Anschlußflug zu bekommen, als Deutscher musste ich im Flieger eine Fragenkarte ausfüllen und diese beim Zoll vorlegen und weil ich es eilig hatte habe ich mich auch noch im Flugzeug vorgedrängelt um als Erster abgefertigt zu werden. Aber genau an dem Tag hatte ich den Amerikanischen Erbsenzähler erwischt, er griff meinen Reisepass mit der Fragenkarte zog seine Augenbrauen hoch und meinte nur ich könnte ja wohl schlecht 7967 geboren worden sein, ergo sollte ich mal schön eine neue Fragenkarte unter seiner Aufsicht ausfüllen. Während dessen versammelten sich nach und nach die anderen Passagiere des Fluges (an denen ich mich ja zum Teil vorbei gedrängelt hatte) an der gelben Linie und fingen an meine "Strafarbeit" zu kommentieren. Weil das Ganze so peinlich war habe ich damals angefangen meine Handschrift auf die amerikanische Schreibweise umzustellen aber damit ecke ich immer mal wieder bei unseren deutschen Behörden an. Was das zählen mit den Fingern angeht habe ich mir ebenfalls so eine hybride Version angewöhnt, bis 3 die deutsche Variante für 4 die amerikanische. Frei nach dem Motto das jeweils beste aus den beiden Welten.

[@twithouttea7323]

I‘m German and I do the finger counting very differently, 1 is like Germans, 2 like Americans, 3 like Germans and then 4 like Americans again xD Am I weird? I think so hahahahah

[@juliannickermann9492]

I do that too, but i saw people going strict the "german" way and others the "american" way, i think this depends on where you are from and how old you are, at least that was the only system i saw with that, in the east it is the "german" way and the south and north the "american" way, the west and middle is more or less mixed with both, i for example moved to Niedersachsen from Rheinland-Pfalz and seeing others doing the american 3 the first time. Also older people are stricter with the counting way, maybe some leftovers from the past.

[@Elena-nw7um]

I do that too and i‘m also German. I think the Four in the German Way is hard When you want to put your (little Finger???😅) down.

[@twithouttea7323]

Elena true hahahahaha

[@ellotus6213]

Phone numbers: +49 then no 0 Without it you have to put a 0 in front of the number

[@andistuttgart9067]

Liked the reference to Inglourious basterds, i think this is actually where i learned the difference in counting from.

[@PassportTwo]

Haha, ya! I think it pretty much mainstreamed that difference.

[@ChrisTian-rm7zm]

Do you have the reference to "Winnetou" in the American version of Inglourious Basterds? (the scene was shot in the same set).

[@gapodo]

@@PassportTwo I've also only realized it by watching Inglorious Bastards (growing up in Europe the "other" way was something I've seen but not often enough to even think about it). What you might not have noticed (or at least not spoken about) is that in Germany (as well as in Austria, and maybe some other countries) we usually show the back of our hand when counting to the other person (the fingers not belonging to what you try to show are hidden from the persons view by your hand or from your perspective you always see all of your fingers / palm towards you.).

[@catharinap.2945]

Zero in front of a number is just a replacement for the +49 as same as in the USA(+1) you can leave the +49 out, when you calling in germany another german number, but you have ro write a zero

[@johnowusotube]

You can put a zero in front of the area code instead of the country code while you are in Germany ^^

[@高橋まなみ]

Warum haben die deutschen noch nicht die Kommentare übernommen?

[@Midnight.Creepypastas]

Haben sie.^^

[@thestonegateroadrunner7305]

Area codes in Germany are hierarchical, reflecting the pre digital telephone network setup, while in the states they are equipollent, again reflecting the US network setup.

[@celestitbarma8129]

I have never seen a one being writen like an "A" in german. I was born here and lived here my whole life and I haven't seen someone writing a 1 like an A. I'm sorry but I could never agree with the existence of "a german way to write a one" as an A. >-< Thats just unbelievable for me...

[@siene1518]

Maaaaaany people do it. Me included. Schools taught it differently depending on the year, the same way that letters change as well. For example, I was taught lateinische Ausgangsschrift as Schreibschrift but the next village was taught vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift. (Both in NDS and both in the same year). If your teacher makes the stroke up long when you first learn it, you're very likely to copy it. Almost everyone I know writes the A-type 1 but we know the other types as well (I sometimes use the short-stroke 1 as well,though)

[@celestitbarma8129]

@@siene1518 Well, I know that there are differences between the way to write a number. The difference between the number nine was logical for me. But the A-Type is still not really 'real' for me, because I visted many places in germany and write a lot of letters to different people. Some write the 1 like the keyboard one and some draw the little stroke down to the middle of the long stroke. But never to the bottom. That A-Type one that is mentioned here is more like the sign in math for "and" but not a number. (And I am studying to become a teacher and saw different type of school books and never saw it....) I don't know which school you where in or anything else, but still i can't really believe in an A-Type one...

[@siene1518]

@@celestitbarma8129 Of course you didn't see it in text books. We still use the regular 1 in books. The difference is that quite a few teachers I had would write it with a long stroke up, so that many students copy it that way. Apparently, it's not even a regional thing from NDS (which would then make sense of why it's very well known to me but not to you) since a couple of my co-workers from NRW also use it. It's no use to explain it to you, though, if you basically refuse to believe it even when I told you that, indeed, many people I know write it like that - at least among other variations. So I'll just leave it there.

[@celestitbarma8129]

Whatdoyou Mean Well first of all, please chill. I didn't mean that in any offensive way. It is just the same unbelievable for me as normal for you. It is just my opinion. And well as I said it would be easily confused with the sign for "and" in maths, so I find it even more confusing that you use it as an engineer. And fun fact I live also in NRW and making the stroke shorter would save you time :P

[@skynet0912]

In Denmark, we have a very strange way of saying 50, and a few other numbers... It's written Halvtreds, which roughly translates to "half of sixty"! It was originally a much longer version called Halvtredsindstyve, which referes to the original way of doing the actual numbercalculation... It's basicly "Halv tre", meaning "half three", which is 2.5 (you take the highest number before the 3, plus a half) Sinde means "times" (you have to times that number) Tyve means 20. So with this knowledge, you have 2.5*20=50 This of course isn't done anymore, but if you didn't know this origin, and you see the number 50 typed out in danish, it makes no sense why Halvtreds (50) isn't "half of 60", which is 30... We pretty much had two different number and counting systems at one point, and over time they just sorta merged into one in our language!

[@CeaselessWatch3r]

Let me tell you even we Germans get confused when writing numbers like 24 because of how we say them and accidentally writ the 4 and the 2 behind it

[@sirloro]

the 0 in phonenumbers is for the countrycode so If you are in germany you only have to write 0 and not +49

[@flippha]

counting with fingers (I'm german): 1 = just the index finger 2 = add the middle finger 3 = add the thumb 4 = add the ring finger 5 = add the pinky

[@Steppenkater]

I'm German and I start counting with the thumb, like they said in the video...

[@didimousevid.5460]

You can use the 0 for the +49 if you call someone. Its because sometimes Theres no + on the display/ Screen

[@sociallyawkwardpenguin9097]

I haven't been counting with my fingers since I've been 5 years old :|

[@PassportTwo]

Hope you don’t ever have to show someone what number you want with your hand then 👍🏼

[@Anson_AKB]

@@PassportTwo for me, counting and showing numbers are two different things :-) when counting with my fingers, i start with the thumb for 1-3, then all fingers without thumb for 4, and finally all 5 fingers for 5. i also have my hand where it is comfortable (probably invisible to others). but when i need to show someone a number, eg how many beer i want, i raise my hand (mostly with the backside towards the other person and only fingers for the number showing up): 1 is the index finger ☝, 2 is ✌, and 3/4/5 are the same as when counting.

[@itsmebatman]

The way phone numbers work is an artefact from history. To get that you need to read up how the early phone network worked, especially when they introduced dialphones to replace the ladies connecting phone calls in these large operator centres.

[@IamRex342]

Lol wer hat den bitteschön 3 Zahlen als Vorwahl, des sind normalerweise 4 oder 5

[@mourice6769]

Es geht hier um Handynummern und nicht um Festnetz falls du dass verwechselst

[@cwnbn3226]

Berlin und Hamburg z.B.

[@p1x3l73]

Hey im from germany and this video was in my home thing on youtube and thought it could be a interessting video and there are some cool things and yes most things for me are just normal because i grew up with them

[@PassportTwo]

If you found this interesting, then you will like these 6 differences you didn’t know existed between the US and Germany! -> kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3jZp3WtqbqVr6M

[@michaelgrabner8977]

What got my mind blown is "How Americans do substractions in math" it is completely different ..I mean totally completely different at all. Look at this link and your mind might get blown as well when you see "How Germans do substractions in math" it´s a short vlog about both ways kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5bZXqRmra6Ci9E I write 1 as described starting from the bottom then up and back to the bottom but I write 9 without a "hook" as well but nevertheless different to the "American way"..the difference is that I start to draw the circle on top and by finishing the circle I then draw the straight line slightly diagonal down so it looks like a oblique g without a hook or like a oblique q while the Americans start the circle at the bottom And for showing 4 you don´t need to bend over your pinky that much it´s enough to bend the pinky in an angle (usually 90 degree) so that the ringfinger can stay straight...or just showing all fingers without a thumb is also common when you just show 4 to make an order for 4 whatever because there is no "counting"

[@PassportTwo]

Woah woah woah...the German way of subtracting is crazy!! 😂 I have never seen that before either!

[@Leenapanther]

@@michaelgrabner8977 That's interesting thanks for sharing. I learned it like in Germany (I come from Switzerland).

[@TremereTT]

I can help you with the phone numbers. Phonenumbers are/were organized in Subnetworks. Every number dialed turned a switch that connected to one out-of and up-to 10 more such switches OR phones. So it was possible to build differently long casscades of switches to before adding phones as endpoints. When ever you dialed a number the signal line directly connected to the root switch of your phone network. In the USA that could be all kinds of entities from a company or a city. In Europe your signal line allways connected to the root switch of the cities Network, there were no competing Networks in the same city. If you worked in a company that had multiple phones your signal line would directly connect to your companies own root switch instead of directly connecting to the cities root switch. In order to dial a connection to a root switch that is a hirarchy up of your local telephone network a standard was formed and countries connected the 0(zero) dialcode of the root switch to connect to the rootswitch that is one hirarchy up in the phone network. This was called the "Exitcode". So to dial out of your company, you begin with the Exitcode "0" and your companies root switch connects to your city networks root switch. Inorder to someone outside the city network you dial an additional Exitcode "0" so your citynetworks root switch connects to the national root switch, wich would have a bunch of switches that form what results in city codes for each city network. In order to make connect with a Phone outside your national network you dial an additional Exitcode "0" and you get connected to a root switch whose subswitches form what results in nationa codes. Then you dial in the nationcode+citycode+landlinenumber+internalphone. Depending on the context we write these numbers down differently traditionally for lokal purposes(friends, school, lokal-customerfacing companies) it's just the landline number: 44577 and you can can identify the part of the city where some one lives. I lived in a bad part of the city, so your first impression on others can suffer the moment they ask for your phone number (remembering faces suddenly forming grimaces of disgust). For national businesses or friendship you add the city code including the exit code of the city network: 0231/44577 if you need an international european number you write city exitcode + nationalexitcode +nation code plus city code + landline number 0049 231/44577 there is an internantional replacement in the notation for 00 as some countries did not adopt the international standard for exitcodes like the USA for example. The replacement notation is "+" like so +49 231/44577 We have some businesses who are confused with how phone numbers work or who think their mostly lokal customers are stupid so they put "(0)" between the nation code and the city code like so: +49 (0) 231/44577 to indicate that if you are in the same nation you don't need to dial the the +49 but you need to add a city exitcode. I personally think thats weird. And wrong. There are people out there who program applications that synchronize large amounts of personal data of several databases and a good guess is that two entities are the sameif they have the same phone number... with this parenthesis weirdnes parsing phonenumbers becomes guesswork. Since phonenetworks are now digital and especially mobilephones are, today some states git rid the city and mobile network exit code and made it a fixed part of the citycode/mobile-networkcode. Itally did so!!! so if you call a person in Itally from outside of Itally you DO dial the zero infront of the city code +39 02/3786347823 02 is milan. 0 is not an exitcode in Itally. This way Itally can offer shorter mobile numbers as 0 has no longer the exit code function. Yet 00 is still a national exitcode in itally. hope that helps

[@katalantra]

Nein! Es ist auch für mich als Deutscher nicht einfach eine Zahl aufzuschreiben wenn ich sie hörte. Ich fände es viel besser wenn wir sagen würden 20 und 1 oder einfach 20, 1 um 21 zu sagen. Ich komme sehr oft durcheinander mit den Zehner- und Einerstellen. Ich denke das es auch anderen so geht, rede darüber aber nicht so oft, also weiß ich es nicht. Aber NEIN! es ist nicht einfach!

[@robfriedrich2822]

Department stores sometimes counts ground-floor as 1. We have another word for floor, when 1 is ground-floor, we say Geschoss

[@DIe3llie]

Within Germany the 0 at the front of the phone number is a substitution for the +49. You can use either. The +49 is only necessary if you call from another country

[@romanbecker6711]

I use the thumb for Numbers 1, Sometimes 2, 3,5,6,8.... The Telephone Numbers concept is simple. If you are doin an Innergerman phonecall You Vote the starting 0 in the prefix, If you are doin an international call to Germany you Vote 0049 and after that there is no starting 0 in the prefix needed.

[@picobello99]

In the Netherlands B stands for "Begane grond" which is the ground floor. And we use the Germam way to count floors. I ended up in the basement trying to find the exit several times when I visited the US. You forgot to mention the way people write the 8. Americans start with the upper circle whereas we write the lower circle first (at least Dutch people do this)'

[@PassportTwo]

Didn't forget, just didn't know 😊

[@vivianesteimle8864]

The 0 in front of the phone number replaces the +49, so when you’re in Germany you can just put the 0 in front instead and the call will go through in Germany

[@SzalonyKucharz]

The US dating convention is different not just from German, but also from the English and Irish. It's the 21st of April today in London and Dublin.

[@dirkdemeirleir264]

About the phone numbers: everywhere in Europe you ad zero to the area code when you phone inside the country. If it is preceded by the international code, the zero falls

[@davveedbb]

Your hand looking like that while counting is totally fine, showing 2 how you did is also fine nobody would realize that except for showing 3

[@arianname7531]

Yeah the 0 is an exchange for the 49, so if a number begins with: +49 177 it is basically the same as 0177. Most germans write their numbers like this: 0123- 4567890 (the 49 variation of this is [phone])

[@quazar3457]

I personally count to 4 by hand by stretching out every finger aside from the thumb. So, 1 is the thumb only, 2 thumb plus index finger, 3 from thumb to middle finger, _then_ 4 from index finger to pinkie finger and 5 the full hand

[@marmelade8331]

Even though im german, I still get confused over our phonenumbers. But i think the 0 in the Front just replaces the +49. You can correct me if im wrong, but i have no better idea for it

[@studikatze]

That's true ^^ when you call somebody from Germany in Germany, so it's both national numbers, you can type 0, but the +49 is the international prefix

[@Vanessa_03]

2:34 I still have to think for a second how to write numbers and I live my hole life in Germany 😂 lol 😂

[@luipompidou6958]

When you show Nr. 4 with youre hands: try to not push the pinky to the palm. Just „fold“ it and lean the ankle to the backsite of youre hand a little bit. so think: „ down half way and back“ and relax it ;-) should work.

[@CrisCheese_]

You write a 0 at the beginning instead of +49 just so it's shorter. When you are in the same location you don't have to put the first 2-5 number long location thing in. Just the last about 7 numbers.

[@dochamsty7361]

Ok a simplified breakdown of the phone number situation: The +49 is the country code for germany. Lets say 30 years ago you had to dial 0049 if you call into germany from another country. In Germany itself it is mostly replaced by a simple 0. So a phonenumber would look like this 0123/4567890 instead of +49123/4567890. Every county, rural district or administrative district has its own area code. This is usually the 0123 or +49123. Hamburg vor instance has the area code of 040 or +4940, Cologne has 0221 or +49221 and Berlin has 030 or +4930 as an area code. Sometimes it can differ from city to city or district to district. Any phonenumber in Germany can have up to 15 digits at max including the area code. Hope this helped you out a bit. Much love and keep up the great content!

[@micawithk6849]

I'm from Germany and never had a lot of problems with saying numbers until I got quite good in English. Now I always struggle with saying numbers the "German way" and have to remind myself to start with the latest number.

[@annejae7058]

The 0 in the front is simply the replacement of the +49. We simply don't really like using +49, so we replace it by 0.

[@WellnessBED]

For the phone numbers the 0 is a sort of abbreviation for the 49 so that is that. For the next two or three numbers is dependent if you hav a Traffic excretion rate, something Form the ONKz law, and the length of the number is normally dependent where you live. For example if you life in the local networks Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Munich there are 10 numbers but by the most others are 11 numbers the normal amount of required numbers. I know it's complicated and even I, how loved my whole life in Germany don't understand it. I hope I could help a little. 🙂

[@pennytorsilod9783]

A tip on counting to 4 with your hand like a German: try to not put the pinky all the way down and just put down everything above your first joint on your pinky. The first part of your pinky is staying up as if you were holding it up, while the rest of the pinky points towards you. So it’s more 90° than just pushed down completely. That allows you to fully hold up your ring finger while your pinky is somewhat down. Hope that helps :)

[@b43rCh1]

Regarding dates: If everybody would use the correct separators for dates it would be less of a problem: American-formatted dates are supposed to be used with a forward slash e.g. 11/04/2020 German-formatted dates are supposed to be used with points e.g. 04.11.2020 And if you like the clearly superior because ordered from biggest to smallest date formatting, e.g. 2020-04-11 you're going to use dashes.

[@land-man]

Greetings from my recommend-feed. And greetings from Wuppertal Germany, too.

[@wooperlovesbts2987]

The Day/Month/Year makes way more sense. From shortest to longest

[@WillHallas]

The switched counting like 21 is really confusing for a lot of german kids as well. I worked at an elementary school and the first graders would say 32 instead of 23 because the order of reading numbers makes more sense the way americans (and most of the world) do

[@jonathanschmitz1836]

The zero at the front is because if you call somebody in the country you are too, you can replace the +49 (in Germany) with a 0 so you don't have so much to write.

[@lenaheinzmann8313]

You can write a 0 instead of the +49, you can just do it how you like because both works☺️

[@humeyraakan103]

The zero infront of the phone numbers are exclusive for germany bc instead of typing "+49" you type "0". If it's a german number it's alway "+49" infront except when asekd for registrations online if a phone number is required. Then the "+49" is given and you write the number without the "0".

[@stevenmiklasinski3705]

I am german informatician. When it comes to writing a lot of 0s and 1s on paper, i use the American way, because it is faster. But usually, i write the 1 in two lines, where the one line is half the length of the vertical line. My 7 is always with a line in the middle, so you can tell 1 and 7 apart. the thing with the g and 9: my g crosses itself so they don't look alike.