American reacts to THE FUNNIEST GERMAN MEMES [#59]

[@Adwaenyth]

"Schienenersatzverkehr" happens when there is a disruption or a construction site on a certain train route. And the meme describes how using "Schienenersatzverkehr" feels...

[@schnelma605]

The meme is based on a real transport: In 2006, the huge vacuum tank was transported *this way* from Deggendorf to Karsruhe. It is part of the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN)

[@Adwaenyth]

@@schnelma605 Probably didn't fit the Rhein-Main-Donau-Kanal. ;)

[@marsu37de]

Never thought to find my little hometown Deggendorf in one of Ryan's Videos...🎉😂❤

[@artischocke9000]

There are usually buses that take people from the train along the cordoned off part of the construction site to the next location with a following train. These bus journeys are often uncomfortable and very slow compared to the original train they replace...

[@itsmebatman]

The meme is that in the picture they show the route something had to take to get to Karlsruhe, which was obviously absurdly long compared to the distance between the 2 places. Ersatzverkehr does feel like that sometimes.

[@kaisander909]

WE = Wochenende = Weekend

[@alinadornieden8411]

Literally the same in English Ryan...

[@Julie-qc8cd]

The meme of the old lady talking about her dead husband shows that we germans cant do smalltalk

[@KekzEdition]

as a neurodiverse german I have to contradict. there is way too much smalltalk

[@Julie-qc8cd]

​@@KekzEdition I know what you mean. Try not to smile at random persons😉

[@missoats8731]

@@KekzEdition One single person can't be neurodiverse. I guess you mean you're neurodivergent. Neurodiversity just means that different neurotypes exist. "I'm neurodivergent" means that your own brain is different. Sorry, I had to. And yes. Waaayy too much smalltalk.

[@borntoclimb7116]

Correct

[@MinitendoFS]

As a German Gamer, i must say yes i do not know how small talk works xD

[@nickhaas3085]

Min. 9:35 on the left is Harry Kane. In 15 years as a professional footballer, he has never won a title. On the right is Jamal, who won his first title with Spain at the age of 17

[@klarasee806]

Just a few days (or even only one day?) after his 17th birthday. Sometimes life really isn‘t fair 😄

[@-w-6323]

*Yamal

[@ForumcoldiArchon]

Well he might be young, but also insanely good. He might become the new Messy

[@martinaklee-webster1276]

They moved a WW ll Submarine from Deggendorf to a museum in Speyer, close to Karlsruhe. Since the SUB is to big for the roads, they had to ship it down the danube, through the mediterranen sea , atlantic and up the rhine to reach the final destination.

[@Fochest0r]

Technikmuseum Sinsheim, not Speyer (they belong together somehow) but only thanks to your comment, I got it.

[@martinaklee-webster1276]

​@@Fochest0rSorry, you are right😊

[@raphpictures7375]

I'm sorry, but that's wrong. They moved a 200 ton vaccuum tank for detecting neutrinos from a company in Deggendorf to the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). The experiment is called KATRIN. There are some pictures on its wikipedia page showing the transport (also the image from the meme).

[@schnelma605]

@@raphpictures7375 correct

[@tobyk.4911]

​@@Fochest0rlet's say that mentioning Speyer was half correct: A year ago that submarine was transported from the Baltic Sea through the North Sea and the Rhine River to Speyer. And now they are bringing it from Speyer to Sinsheim (using the river Neckar and the Autobahn A6). But the submarine has never been in Deggendorf or the Danube.

[@Chuulip]

I'm extremely surprised that whatever translater you used was able to translate dialect so accurately! Also, i loved when you read the german before, also because it allowed me as a viewer to prepare for the joke 😂

[@Attirbful]

Teen pregnancy is really not a major problem in Germany and relatively rare. Our children do have comprehensive sex ed and access to birth control… U.S. teens are two and a half times as likely to give birth as compared to teens in Canada, around four times as likely as teens in Germany or Norway, and almost 10 times as likely as teens in Switzerland.

[@to_loww]

It's almost like abstinence-only sex education fails to do its task.

[@Attirbful]

@@to_loww weird, ain’t it?!

[@futurefox128]

Getting weird looks/comments from the cashier in the drug store ain't helpin' either USA.

[@christopherschmitt1801]

So people in Switzerland are the least fertile? 🤔

[@Attirbful]

@@christopherschmitt1801 my guess the figures must be interpreted as the Swiss have much fewer opportunities to actually have sex…. LOL

[@baumstamp5989]

11:12 she is answering in a heavy bavarian dialect that even some germans of the center or north might not understand and/or which is often made fun of, looked down on. same with the saxonian dialect!

[@scelestion]

I am just very surprised that the translation was actually correct. Usually translators have huge problems with dialects like in this meme. Progress is being made...

[@baumstamp5989]

@@scelestion oh absolutely!!!

[@bultvidxxxix9973]

@@scelestion Not quite I think. I am German, so my Bavarian isn't that good, but I think "A" means "auch", so the English translation would be "also for speech" or "including speech", but "as far as speech is concerned" would mean that it is only about speech. But it was really surprisingly close. Also: Die spinnen, die Bayern.

[@77dreimaldie0]

It's definitely southern, but I would have guessed Swabian

[@maireweber]

It's Bavarian IMO and says "Also concerning language, right?"

[@echo3-157]

In the driving license question there is one where there is a truck on the other lane coming and a dog runs on to the streets. The right answer is to hold the steering wheel straight and tight

[@lurigui]

Obviously break though, maybe that is important to add 😂

[@seltsamerjunge3642]

No, that's exactly the wrong thing. That's the point of the entire question: if you brake, drivers behind you will cause a crash. That's why you DON'T brake (unless there's no one behind you)

[@dannymunch4633]

@@seltsamerjunge3642 That's why you exchange the dog for a little kid. You are supposed to make an emergency break and during these you should hold the wheel frim and steady. Can't believe they replaced the kid by a dog, this must be a joke.

[@harbingerofcrazy5189]

@@dannymunch4633 As a German i can only guess that they did that because we Germans, on average, care more about dogs than about kids.

[@dannymunch4633]

@@harbingerofcrazy5189 Well, I guess!

[@frakturfreak]

The inner peace from England not winning stems from the fact that their only title is the World Cup in 1966. They played West Germany in the final at Wembley and were given a goal that would have been revoked with modern var and goal line technology because the ball only hit the crossbar and bounced on the line but was never fully behind it. This goal is brought up to this day. Because, according to some Germans, England didn't deserve the title in 1966 and are now somewhat cursed to not win another. 😂 At least we got a bit of revenge when we won the Euro 1996 which took place in England too.

[@bastyaya]

This... and because they are just fucking annoying! 😛

[@Blanko1998]

Yeah and than they came with their stupid song about 1 world cup and 2 world wars and they made fun of German fans after we went out.

[@Smurez]

This isn't the only reason. English fans on the internet are the worst. Disrespecting all other leagues, pitiful coping when they lose, extreme arrogance, and all that while having double the budget of any of the other big 5. Most people don't really care about Wembley or take it at least to some extent as a joke, but the way English fans are acting is inexcusable. It's like an extremely obnoxious kid with rich parents that thinks and acts he's better than everyone while having average performance, and this mostly due to the influence of the parents money.

[@zorrothebug]

Thank you. You explained it perfectly.

[@Lichti82]

Nice job. This is how communication in internet should work. Most would just write: google wembley goal. n'joy

[@Fochest0r]

11:03 Natalie Portman's character speaks with a very heavy Bavarian accent. I am extremely suprised your translation software got it right.

[@grimgrauman7650]

Even as a german i was confused what she is trying to say for a moment, then i remembered what they are doing down there

[@timposter]

5:11 This would've been the perfect opportunity to have a VPN Company as a sponsor😂

[@isabell3840]

That’s exactly my thought too 😆

[@klarasee806]

I really enjoy watching you pronouncing German words and I also think you can be so proud of the progress you have made. But this is one of my all time favourite channels anyway, so you can probably do whatever you want. I‘ll always love to watch your videos.

[@m.h.6470]

Yes, we do have drive-in theaters, they are called "Autokino" and are quite fun, if you have the right car. They have become more rare though as well.

[@vHindenburg]

Had a little bit of a comeback during the plague years.

[@ForumcoldiArchon]

Same as ice cream trucks I heard one yesterday.. the last time was like 20 years ago 😅 Though it isnt a big City where it might be a bit more common

[@chaoskind9012]

​@@ForumcoldiArchonthey usually drive close to schools and parks highly visited by children. Maybe you just havent been at thosr places enough since growing up😊

[@senfone]

Überseeangelsachsen😂

[@TraxtasyMedia]

In Germany we've got a beer hierarchy: Beer from tap glass bottled beer canned beer plastic bottled beer. Means mostly homeless or poor people drink canned or plastic bottled beer.

[@maskharat]

Exceptions to the hierarchy apply at music festival times, though.

[@CMDR_BananenKeks]

I love my canned beer... don't put me with the poor and homeless!

[@oscardalmatiner8724]

Cans are fine, but the plastic bottles do a poor job of keeping the sunlight out, so the beer goes bad really fast in storage which messes up the flavor

[@Manuel-cm1jg]

I was impressed that „PDS“ and especially „A was d‘Sproch betrifft, ge?“ was able to translate correctly.

[@darthplagueis13]

It wasn't entirely correct, but pretty close.

[@Fochest0r]

9:30 this is English striker Harry Kane who - for a record sum of 100 million Euros - transferred to Bayern Munich, the most successful club in Germany to finally win a trophy. He played for Tottenham all his career which did not win anything meaningful since 1991. In his first season, Bayern Munich finished 3rd, got eliminated by Real Madrid in the Champions League and got kicked out of the cup by a 3rd division team. So no trophy for him, as he also lost the European Championship finale with England. At least he won the top striker trophy of the Bundesliga last season. On the other hand you have Spanish 17 year old winger Yamal, who won his first finale against England.

[@materiaparticulata]

Keep on reading our beautifully precise language with your settled mind and charming character. Thanks!

[@Woltror]

I like when you read the german text, because it seems like you´re improving =)

[@mellertid]

Does it though?

[@MaryRaine929]

Me too. 😊

[@MrKillApple]

I don't, it's time I have to spend waiting through the struggle that could be filled up by another meme.

[@dnny1440]

This was your best meme reaction in months! But this was also an unnusual good crop of memes, so I can't say for certain if it was so good because of the lack of your german reading or the meme quality. Keep this format goimg for the next meme reaction and then we can draw conclusions which variable was responsible for the increase in content quality. Cheers from Germany

[@zerg0s]

6:05 a common question in German driver license tests is what do you when a dog emerges on the street right in front of you while another car is approaching on the opposite lane and there’s a child on the walkway to the right. It’s multiple choice, offering you to turn left, turn right or “keep the steering wheel straight and steady”. Which is the correct answer, hit the dog, not the child or the other car.

[@sirius1320]

16:00 in Germany, we have public glass cans where you throw your glass away sorted after the color (see-through, green and brown). But there are times where you are not allowed to throw in your glass, like at 10pm or at sundays or other days of so you don't annoy anyone with your glass throw away. The meme is refering to exactly that

[@SELBLINK_in_your_area]

* sorted by the color

[@mellertid]

Fancy! I don't think we 🇸🇪 ever separated green from brown glass. It is sorted at the facility though, I now learned.

[@SELBLINK_in_your_area]

@@mellertid In Germany, you must seperate green from brown from white glass, or at least colored glass (green/brown) from white. So there are 2 or more glass containers at each deposing place.

[@Wildcard71]

Additional rule: Other colors belong to green.

[@mellertid]

@@Wildcard71 l don't get it 🤔

[@MrHodoAstartes]

10:20 "Is that England?" It's three lions on a shirt. You tell me, mate!

[@jhdix6731]

Yeah, must be Swabian....

[@Spikebhaal]

@@jhdix6731 Urgh never compare us swabians to those english things.... we feel more like scots atleast they are stingy as we are :P

[@liamwagner6597]

How would he know? He is American and lives in Indiana. A tip: take a road trip through Indiana and you'll understand his suffering.

[@Tom_Der_Echte]

11:00 it's actually really funny that that sentence gets translated. Germans (well at least the one's wo speak "Hochdeutsch" dialect can't understand a single word in this sentence because it's a weird dialect 😂.

[@BruensLee]

I have to say that it was quite entertaining seeing you read the German texts 😉 besides the fact that it gives the reactions a special personal touch I really enjoy seeing you progress from week to week 👍

[@NeverMind439]

Suggestion: James Bray, a fellow youTuber who was not only in Germany already (3x) but seemingly tried to learn German and he is capable to Understand German and is also on a B2 niveau for the German language 😀 I would love to see, at some point, that Ryan would be able to Understand and Speak German on the same Niveau 😀 For your Drive In theater question: I DO believe that we have a hand full of those... but i think they don't make enough money so they often are playing Blu-rays instead of something new. The part with the "wanting Children" is Englands Top Offensive Player "Harry Kane" and the one on the right is the YOUNGEST player in the Historie of the European Cup (Seems like it is called that officially in English) with being 16 starting the European Cup (I think he turned 17 while playing in that cup so winning it is something like a birthday present for him 😀) WE: (W)eek(e)nd or "(W)ochen(e)nde"

[@obenohnebohne]

The flow of the video is much better when you don’t try to read the German (sometimes it sounds really good - and you’re improving-, and sometimes it is just cringe). I enjoy your content very much.

[@ForumcoldiArchon]

The speed up reading was the most annoying one.

[@weisilber8957]

0:41 didn't know Americans read arrows backwards. The more you know.

[@esrohm6460]

that language thing was referring to dialects being basically different languages in some cases. like it took me a while to get what was written there as dialect really isn't written down often but understandable spoken are they also only sometimes

[@jannecapelle_art]

ugh there are a lot of german influencers who move to dubai and tell everyone how great it is there. theyre the type of influencers that havent payed their taxes in 5 years and scam their audience but dont pay anything back. you know the type. they all go to dubai bc the taxes there are basically non-existent. also bc in some parts, dubai just looks like a "cool, rich" city that makes it easy to flex on impressionable kids who watch your videos lol. its a whole meme now bc its so common in that youtube niche.

[@ranmakuro]

Thanks mate. Had a rough night (not in the positive way) and needed something to wind down. This was great timing and a superb topic for the video. :)

[@petebeatminister]

WE stands for Week End, or WochenEnde rather. But it works in English, too.

[@solid20de41]

8:47 min ... Are you freaking joking me? 10.80$ / 15.81$ for a bag of Pombär?????? You can get them here for like 1€ or even cheaper. Now i understand what my american friends mean, when they say its all so cheap over here in germany, when they went here. Holy hell!

I think that there are no Pombären in America, it would be an imported product and that is why it is so expensive. If you want to buy foreign products in Germany, they are usually very expensive.

[@solid20de41]

I would agree, but just for fun i checked for Flamin Hot Cheetos (which you can get here), and a bag would cost me 4€ (4,36$), and i kinda doubt they cost 40 cents or less over in america (which would be the same price up on them). I think its a bit more down to ppl wanting to get massive profits from a product thats "hip" right now. (due to german snacks videos on youtube) Just my opinion :)

[@ForumcoldiArchon]

Pombär right now is like 1.6-2€ a 75g bag. Only on sale it is 1€ Inflation sure made them greedy.. no way the price is still doubled on corn or patato based products 😅

[@haraberu]

The "We need more goal opportunities, Sire!" is a reference to the video game Stronghold. It's an RTS from the early 2000's about building a medieval castle. Not made in Germany, but considered a cult classic among German gamers. It was fully voiced in English and German. Including error messages like "We need more gold, Sire!" and "Build more granaries, Sire!" Basically the same as "We require more Vespene Gas" from Starcraft.

[@stupidcookie2261]

About 07:31, this is a reference to the LEGO STARWARS games. These are collectable objects called 'minikits', either randomly placed somewhere in the levels or you get them as a reward for achieving hidden tasks Having diarrhea 100times in a day seems like a hidden task for me😂

[@77dreimaldie0]

I appreciate you reading the German words and watching you improve/ learn a bit of German on the way. Maybe double check yourself once every video with text to speech 😉

[@user-wh7hs2bc6m]

Hi, here in Germany we have also a Meile/mile, but it s not a precise distance. It s when there is a bunch of bars or restaurants you call it a drinking or a fress/eating mile. As you have at festivals, the eating zone with several food trucks can be called Fress Meile. Fressen belongs normaly to animals but sometimes people behave like animals, it s a simple description to much eating.

[@ulrikesauerland7801]

We have precise Meilen / miles in Germany. Think about Seemeilen or the old Meilensteine you can find on old Bundesstraßen. For example there is a Milestone in Lippstadt at the B55 where you can find the miles to Berlin. Just the old mesurement before Kilometer. We had Ellen before cm. One Elle is the range from middlefinger to Ellenbogen = 57, 07 cm. That"s two American feet. It's used till today for sewing by sticks with 50 cm range

[@user-wh7hs2bc6m]

@@ulrikesauerland7801 Hallo, das ist auch richtig. Im Bild was gezeigt wurde war ja wohl ein Bayer und für Amerikaner im Bezug zum Oktoberfest dachte ich das diese Erklärung passend sei.

[@ulrikesauerland7801]

@@user-wh7hs2bc6m Da könntest du recht haben. K. A. warum sich ein Bayer und ein Ami über Meilen streiten könnte. Macht keinen wirklichen Sinn. So ein alter Bayer mit Bart und Hut kennt wahrscheinlich sogar noch genau auf den Meter wie lang die alte deutsche Meile ist 😄

[@Inryaat2465]

The first meme is funny because this is literally what happens when a railway is broken and they need replacement. and they always plan it unnecessarily long

[@MotorbikeLife519]

Gonna explain some memes again :) 1:06 „Schienenersatzverkehr“ means that this is an alternative way of transport, a bus for example, because the original route has issues and cannot be used. 1:32 England fans are just arrogant f***ers. The team also played so bad everybody is still wondering how they got into the finals. 6:04 Maybe you get this question if you continue learning for the german drivers license, but the joke is that there is a rule which states that if there is an animal on the road you should not avoid a collision by braking or switching lanes, because by doing that you are endangering other driver. However, avoiding a collision in this shock moment is a human reflex which is why most courts decide you are not guilty for the accident. 11:15 some german dialects are complicated and hard to understand, so nobody likes hearing them

[@grimgrauman7650]

I think 11:15 is about the ban of useing diverse language in books, in Bavaria

[@oscardalmatiner8724]

​@@grimgrauman7650 nah, that one is about the Bavarian dialect itself. Lived there for most of my life, still have massive trouble with the rural dialect especially in writing

[@TyonKree]

A bit of Football trivia for you Ryan A rivalry is generally when two teams dislike each other. It is never one-sided. Germany has a rivalry with the Netherlands, started because of WW2 and the animosity was quite prominent till the 00s. Germany has a fear of Italy because we've never beaten them in a tournament without going into penalties, so after 90 minutes + 30 minutes extra time. The German term is "Angstgegner" - fear opponent. England meanwhile has a self-declared rivalry with Germany. They are claiming we are in deep denial that we actually hate them. We honestly couldn't care less - if it wasn't for their behaviour. Albeit it has gone down English fans were notoriously problematic well into the 00s with violence being rather present wherever they went. (and before some English fella turns up: Yes we had the same problem) For most German fans England as an opponent does not matter one bit. Meanwhile they hold us up as their big rival they have to beat. This goes back to the world cup of 1966 and them winning it due to home advantage, a Soviet referee and an invalid goal. But it's okay, in the wake of that we won everything that we could win and they could not. When they encounter German fans or just regular Germans they start to sing about WW2 and that is simply weird to most Germans who don't relate to Nazi Germany in a major way. (this includes German tourists in England, being called a Nazi or shown the Nazi salute is not that uncommon, especially for school classes on a visit) They obviously claim it is just banter but when the Spanish sang something about Gibraltar after the recent final (Gibraltar was taken from Spain in the 1800s by Britain) being Spanish they get all whiny about it. So most Europeans realise that English banter is a solely one-way street for the English to insult others. And due to all that behaviour quite literally everyone (perhaps except the Americans who are too removed from it all) rooted against England both in the euro cup final 2020 as well as the euro cup final 2024. They are simply too obnoxious to be likeable.

[@ScreamyBanana]

6:54 I feel the same. You never know what it will be like with these unknown people, but it will probably be no better than without them.

[@gonun69]

Don't know about other countries, but I saw quite a lot of beer in plastic bottles in Croatia. They were pretty big, 1.5 or even 2 liter bottles. Guess it kinda makes sense for bigger bottles? But feels wrong.

[@maramau2485]

I actually like when you try and pronounce things. Sometimes it´s surprisingly good, sometimes it is a total butchering. Beautiful!

[@TopaT0pa]

I love when you pronounce Schienenersatzverkehr as "shrine an or else tsar were care" :D Amazing videos. I don't even like reacts but I like this channel a lot =)

[@kisslab]

According a quick search, there are about 70 drive-in-cinemas in Germany. One is in my hometown Essen, but I had never been there.

[@hammerschlag1456]

I love it so much when you try to read the german, pls keep that! :D

[@corncutter]

Your translator is too good to understand the "A was d'Sproch betrifft, ge?" meme. It just translates her extreme dialect as if she spoke High German. :D

[@dominiklehn2866]

6:00 This is the answer tobthe driving test question on what to do if an animal or pet unexpectedly jumps on the road. You are supposed to NOT evade so you dont jerk into the oncoming traffic or a tree

[@atlas3877]

The Meme about the Study about Driving means, if a animal runs infront your car you have no Option to drive around it or you will crash, so you have to drive over it...... this is just really sad .

[@turtleflip5631]

11:19 I'm extremely surprised your translator translated this correctly. What the woman in the meme says is a very strong dialect from Bavaria, which -to the rest of the country- can sound very obnoxious and difficult to understand. Therefore, we don't like diversity in that regard 😂

[@rhysodunloe2463]

Plastic bottles are often used for the discounters' store brand beers. So it's the stuff drunk mostly by poor alcoholics.

[@maireweber]

Here in Switzerland I've seen them sometimes at festivals, because you can put the lid back on (unlike cans) and you can't injure anyone with them (unlike glass).

[@erikgag]

​@@maireweberHere in Germany you then usally get It from Tap in a Plastic Cup.

[@maireweber]

@@erikgag same here, but when you can bring your own drinks, they don't allow glass bottles. I only made that connection when the local supermarket suddenly sold plastic beer bottles by the carton, I had never seen that before and was disgusted. And then it clicked: it's OpenAir weekend!

[@helenewei4232]

The drivers test meme referenced a question where a dog runs on the street and you can't brake or move around without harming other humans (there is someone right behind you and next to you) so you have to answer : dont break and holf the steering wheel thight

[@jurgenbaumann67]

10:25 - Harry Kane (ENG) is one of the best striker, but he never won a team title, not with club and not with nation. The other one is Lamine Yamal, he got 17 during EURO and won it with spain. 11:01 - It is written in a bavarian dialect. Bavarian isn´t a language, its a desaster! WE - WochenEnde - WeekEnd

[@DeletedZeroZero]

I honestly can not believe you do NOT KNOW what a Lego MiniKIT is.. and that its a rare achivo

[@entropy4959]

5:39 This is the answer to the question of what you do when there is an imminent wildlife accident. You should keep driving straight and (probably) brake, since swerving might cause you to lose control of the vehicle and the consequences of that can be a lot worse than a dead boar and some bent metal

[@zoeschmitt1624]

0:27 sounds like he’s gargling twenty frogs

[@FluffyPancakesFTW]

the first question "what's the joke here?" got me so hard 🤣🤣🤣

[@RSProduxx]

11:00 more about dialects, "Amidala" is speaking in bavarian dialect here.

[@FeuerruepelLP]

Me, watching this while drinking a plastic bottled beer.... "Interesting"!

[@jozovila5911]

I enjoy watching you struggle say german words :)

[@Hey.Joe.]

Hi Ryan, drinking beer from plastic-bottle feels wrong, I agree and feel the same. But drinking from plastic cups (yes red solo cups are plastic too), instead from glass is even worser. 😉

[@der_cringe_physiker]

11:12 Close, I guess it is refering to the diversity of German dialects. We have a lot of them and I like them all very much but there are some obnoxious people who hate dialects and find them primitive or somewhat, especially when these are dialects not from their home region. I don’t get their mind. In fact, dialects are in danger of extinction and should be much more protected as they are now. What she is saying is written clearly in a southern German dialect, interesting that it could be recognized and translated by the software. 14:46 WE = weekend

[@chaoskind9012]

We do have drive in theaters but theyre really rare. Some events happened like that during covid but was a special thing

[@Absconsa]

3:23 Drive-in cinemas were often organized during Covid. But since social distancing is no longer a thing, I haven't seen one.

[@Mokrator]

Addition to Schienenersatzverkehr - usually you have typical names for Trains like RE for a regional express (thats some medium range train like 100-300km start to end station) or ICE you may heared of and these names are dedicated to TRAINS. If you see a actuall bus with "RE 123" that is a bus serving in front the train station instead of the Train (e.G. if there is construction hindering the train to access one or more stations for the missing piece). If you ever read that word you know you now need twice the time to get Home (or some month in the example)

[@merelyaghost.]

5:23 it's about doing the test for your drivers license, one of the questions is "How do you act right in this situation" with a picture of a truck on the left lane approaching, you in the right lane and a dog running onto your way from the left. The options are "I dodge to the left" (Into the truck), "I hold the steering wheel straight and steady" (drive over the dog) or "I evade to the right" (off the road). The correct option is driving over the dog, but most people wouldn't wanna do that cos it's sad. And most people mean driving over cyclists with their jokes, probably (They get annoying in germany)

[@iceraven4444]

They went all the way around because they were transporting a dangerous part of the particle accelerator to Karlsruhe.

[@danielle_283]

I love to hear you speaking German, please please Ryan go on with it (even it's getting more and more better) have a great weekend 😘

[@mauer1]

we dont have these driver movie things. but that you attune your radio is so cool.

[@SELBLINK_in_your_area]

WE = Wochenende (Wochen-Ende) = weekend (Week-End)

[@BlackWater_49]

11:22 POV: You're trying to convince everyone you're not running a cult. Your cult members:

[@theredingenieur8036]

I personally like it when you read the German words and I think it makes the reaction "special"

[@borntoclimb7116]

German memes are next level funny

[@ShoreVietam]

16:14 "Tell me you never experienced recycling in your life, without telling me you never experienced recycling in your life." xD

[@the_chaot]

6:10 it's about what to do when an animal jumps in front of the car in a certain situation.

[@darthfather1294]

HOW CAN YOU NOT GET THE RAILWAY JOKE xDDDD ahahaha american losti xD Dude two places right next to each other and for some reason they are connectet in a bizzarre way, even if it is dramatised, but i it's a meme about the bahn, there are a lot Bahn memes because of bad support and connections and trains are late and its not close to cheap to use it,,,,loved to see you struggle on that one xD RYAN: ARE THEY STUPID? ME:Indeed they are xD

[@benistcreative]

i like you reading the german, it's funny

[@DKofDAH]

Schienenerstzverkehr mean the trains can’t go further due to a construction site or something so you take a bus and travel on road instead of rails. Which is much much slower and feels like a huge detour

[@stellakeil96]

"Ich halte das Lenkrad gerade und fest" (I hold the steering wheel straight and firmly) is a meme referring to the theoretical drivers licence in germany. In your exam you get thirty multiple choice questions from a big catalogue of questions. In some of these questions, mostly something like 'you see an animal on the road ahead, what do you do?', the right answer is "Ich halte das Lenkrad gerade und fest" As far as I understand it, the meme just makes fun of this because in appears to be a cruel maniac answer. The actual reason for it is that you could start to spin or loose the control over your vehicle if you panic and try to drive around the obstacle

[@sybille6857]

Am I the only one who was reminded that we should hold the steering wheel sturdy while we drive over a cat?😂

[@Svarsmannen]

You'll probably won't read this, but I'll tell you anyway: These two little dots above the "a" are not for decorational purposes. A "Bar" is a place where you go to have a drink, on the other hand a "Bär" is a bear. Bär and bear are so similar in their pronounciation, that you get along with saying bear 100% of the time. I get that you struggle with "Ö" and "Ü", but "Ä" is so straight forward, you can do it. edit: there → their 😅

[@cindyhanschk8988]

Schienenersatzverkehr ist, wenn die S Bahn ausfällt und du mit dem Bus fahren musst. 3 Stunden unterwegs bist. Obwohl dein Ziel 20 Minuten entfernt ist. Das fuckt ab. Stressig.

[@Blockschrott]

"Waking up at 4 AM, that's rough" Me watching this at 4 AM, before heading to work:...

[@patrickfischer3349]

14:30 WE = Wochenende = week end

[@123banane]

16:40 Dosenbier ist das beste

[@morbvsclz]

16:30 That bottled beer is better than canned is still a common misconception. Most Experts say the complete blocking of light and oxygen make the can clearly superior as a container to preserve the beer well. Worst apparently are green bottles. I've read the image problem for beer cans came about because it was a lot more expensive (maybe still is) to get a production and filling line for canned beer running, so it was often large volume, cheap beers from large industrial brewers that were available in cans, whereas the smaller local breweries only could afford to bottle. So when you have "beer connoisseurs" or even beer sommeliers for tastings, they tend to prefer the can when available and then pour it into a nice glas. Tbh, I don't taste much difference 😀

[@gerardschnueriger5624]

Prost i will take a Martini too

[@banjo-kazooie]

WE is WochenEnde //// WeekEnd

[@kaibroeking9968]

12:01 Yup, they did. And my first question was how low the capacity for self-reflection in some persons could still sink from this point.

[@schattenschuetze2867]

11:15 Its about the different Accents in Germany. Best Example: Bayern vs. Rest of Germany

[@starstencahl8985]

One big plus would be setting up a discord or something and asking the community to quickly explain memes or words to you when you don't know the context or check tests you'd like to take for authenticity. Could improve the videos a lot, there are a lot of iconic and important memes or subjects that just get looked over, because you (naturally) don't get the context

[@alucard.reaper1727]

Please read the memes in german too. It's really funny to hear how hard the german language is for americans, also you've become so much better in pronouncing. My opinion Most important is that you have fun recording your videos for us 😉

[@Talorifeyden]

3:52 of cause we have that... take two nouns and put em together: it is called autokino. (car cinema). :D

[@RSDZSTURMLEITER]

The plastic bottle beer exists in germany. To be honest glass is best but plastic beer is better than no beer in the end.

[@Merkuonfire]

The "child pregnancy" meme is more about British Soccerplayer tries to get a title for the last 15 years - 17 old Spanish player get's it 1st attemp

[@nekromenace]

The anakin and padme meme was about the heavily disappreciated accents

[@NeleCB]

Yes, we do have drive-in theaters 😅 They're cute but I prefer the normal ones. Also, please continue reading the German phrases 🙌🏼

[@einflinkeswiesel2695]

"Autokinos" so car-cinemas as we call them do exist in Germany but they are rare. They were really popular during the pandemic tho

[@lutzj74]

In Germany, beer in plastic bottles is sold only at discount stores. Aldi, Lidl, Penny, etc. Maybe you'll be “lucky” and find it in the American Aldi as well. :)

[@vHindenburg]

The plastic bottled beer is cynically reffered to as Pennerglück (Bums Luck/Happiness) often.

[@lutzj74]

@@vHindenburg I know this term for cheap schnapps.