German was Shocked by the pronunciation of German Brand Names in German Speaking Countries!!

[@Charles_200]

Bring the guy from South Africa to the video , i mean as he speaks afrikaan i would love see him speaking as well

[@andyx6827]

As a German, I really couldn't care less how people pronounce "BMW" 😂 It's a freaking acronym ffs. Of course people are going to pronounce the letters the way they are pronounced in their own language, because that's how acronyms work, lmao 😂

[@ahsookee]

Also as a German, I disagree. With lesser well known brands you are right, but noone in Germany says Eeh Bé Ehm for IBM for example.

[@RealmoftheBlackShadow]

Maybe the companies involved care a lot and even sponsor this video. Hm.

[@andyx6827]

​@@ahsookee Try AOL, UPS, HTC, HP, H&M... We pronounce all of these the German way. If someone says "eDídes" instead of "Ádidas" or "Porsch" instead of "Porsche", I have a reason to make fun of it. Because people should at least try to put the emphasis on the right syllable and don't randomly leave out letters for no reason. But when people pronounce an acronym correctly in their language, who gives a shtt, seriously? 😂

[@anndeecosita3586]

I’m not sure if it’s a language difference but BMW and IBM are not not considered acronyms for English speakers. An acronym is an abbreviation where the letters are said together as word. For example, NASA,ICE, or AIDS. For us BMV, IBM and such are called abbreviations. Interestingly DEA is pronounced as an abbreviation for English speakers and as an acronym for Spanish speakers.

[@CarterKey6]

I agree there was a guy who did a video about how everyone expects Americans to pronounce words how they are said in the native country but no one expects a French person(or whatever country) to pronounce it the way an American would say it. I also feel like the German girl was being rude or aggressive to the American girl even making her say she would pronounce it like she said it. Like I get it and I try but there’s a bit more aggression when it comes to Americans.

[@folkehoffmann1198]

As a German I always felt like most people say Mercedes. I've heard people say Benz but I mostly hear Mercedes. Maybe it's a regional thing.

[@_joilife]

Actually I did a mistake ahahah cuz we also say mostly Mercedes. My Brian was a bit confused. I haven’t spoken German for a quite long time ahahah

[@katii1997]

in NRW (North-Rhine Westphalia) we even say "Benzer" sometimes. for example " Hast du den Benzer da grade gesehen?" (Did you see the Benzer there?)

[@mixlllllll]

In Finland we usually say "Mersu" lol

[@Foatizenknechtl]

benz is really rare.

[@kiilto1824]

It might be too much to ask but playlists for every country/languege seen in your videos would be really cool thing to have. Then it would so easy to check every video with your own language or languege you want to hear more.

[@Asa...S]

The loud background music is super annoying, and makes it hard to focus on what they're saying.

[@sognsvann3]

Here in Norway a lot of old people transelate Volkswagen into norwegian - Folkevogn.

[@Fritjof-or7bt]

Same in Sweden - Folkvagn.

[@SinarNila]

Interesting this phenomenon. Try to say the German word in a nordic spell.

[@Abensberg]

in germany we say "adolf dassler" and "rudi dassler" for puma. ;-)

[@ShonnMorris]

I like how the American girl poited out the different pronunciations Americans have for the same words/names.

[@SadMatte]

Petition to join together West-Germanic and North-Germanic languages in these videos.

[@jerry2357]

It's funny that the German girl didn't know that Porsche was German, when Ferdinand Porsche designed the original Volkswagen!

[@fabius_simtube1559]

And it says Stuttgart in the Porsche logo

[@sèdnuvès]

Anyone who is not interested in cars or car brands will not know such things. Even "car lovers" in Germany know a maximum of 1% of the German car manufacturers, probably only the 5 big ones. Trippel, Mia, Erk - hardly anyone in Germany knows them, although they were pioneers of their time; more than Porsche was.

[@andyx6827]

Also, like, how many languages does she think use the "sch" letter combination? 😂

[@_joilife]

Don’t ask me why I didn’t know it I felt so stupid after i saw it 😂

[@ShawueFan]

@@sèdnuvès it's not about brands, it's about common knowledge.

[@Denyo666]

The Dutch guy pronounces things way different than the rest of the Netherlands. HE is from the South , so some words with the G for example sound way closer to the Dutch speaking part of Germany or Germany. They should've brought someone who is not from the South to hear how more than 90% of the population pronounces those words.

[@markschoning5581]

What do you mean with the Dutch speaking part of Germany? I do live 10 kilometers away from the Dutch border. Could you please enlighten me!

[@Denyo666]

@@markschoning5581 Low German is close to Frisian which is spoken in the North of the Netherlands.

[@kiekendiefje]

Think it was meant to say 'Dutch speaking part of Belgium or Germany' ;-) @@markschoning5581

[@caroskaffee3052]

this feels like the perfect opportunity for germans to get revenge on americans for calling german "weird" and "harsh" since the american seems to be the weird one out

[@henri191]

I think i would never say the "BMW" full name , even though i studied some german , but this word apart for being too big no one around me probably would undestand 😂

[@Bielefeld123]

In German we say BMW,pronounced "bé em vé"

[@Stefan23E]

Funfact in swabian-dialect (Stuttgart area southwest Germany) we don´t say "Mercedes-Benz" we say just "Daimler". And insread of "Volkswagen" we say "VW" (Fau-We).

[@Onnarashi]

I find it curious how Sophia calls it the American or English alphabet, like Europeans and non-English speakers don't have the same alphabet. Some of us may have a few letters different, but the fundamentals are the same. It's a Latin alphabet that existed centuries before England or the English language.

[@losarpettystrakos7687]

English alphabet is correct. It's based on the Latin alphabet, but it's not the same. The original Latin alphabet has 23 letters, while the English alphabet has 26 (all original Latin letters plus J, U, W). Other Latin based alphabets may have other additional letters or some letters may be omitted, for example the German alphabet has 30 letters. So, it's absolutely correct to say "English alphabet" or "German alphabet".

[@tanizaki]

When you understand that English does not have letters like ä and ß, you will understand why she said, “English alphabet”.

[@bananenmusli2769]

She meant the English pronunciation of the letters

[@thespankmyfrank]

What she meant was that she says "double U" for W because it's the "American alphabet". She clearly knows they have the same letters, just that the others pronounce W more as an English/American V.

[@andyx6827]

​@@losarpettystrakos7687You're wrong. The German and the English alphabet are identical. Both have the exact same 26 letters. The German language does have the additional symbols ä/ö/ü/ß, but these don't count as letters in the alphabet. They are literally just other ways of writing ae/oe/ue/ss.

[@anttirytkonen11]

While in Finnish 🇫🇮 we would pronounce Volkswagen as its written, I would say it's more common to say Volkkari. Keeping it in mind how they pronounce IKEA in Sweden 🇸🇪, it would have been interesting to hear how a Swede would say NIVEA. 🤪 Maybe, they could give it a go for the following 🇩🇪 German brands as well, some of them more obscure than others: König (electronics accessories brand of Nedis - mind you there's that ö) Sennheiser Eheim (aquarium accessories) Tetra (fish food) Sera (fish food) Bosch Miele Siemens Kärcher (mind you there's that ä) Rowenta Einhell (garden and power tools) Stihl (handheld forestry and landscaping equipment) Würth Demag (cranes - my father used to install these before his retirement) Braun Bayer Brita Hama (electronics accessories) Henkel Pelikan (stationery) Herlitz (stationery brand of Pelikan) Faber-Castell (stationery) Playmobil Knorr Lidl Bauhaus VARTA (batteries and other electrical equipment) Osram (electric lights) UHU (adhesive) Claas (agricultural machinery) Deutz-Fahr (agricultural machinery) Audi Opel Mercedes-AMG (Mercedes-Benz' high-performance subsidiary) Brabus (Mercedes-Benz' tuning company) Maybach (Mercedes-Benz' sister brand) Schuberth (protective headgear) Airbus (🇩🇪🇫🇷🇳🇱🇪🇸) Lufthansa Condor (airline - full name Condor Flugdienst GmbH) Hapag-Lloyd Flug (previous name of TUI fly Deutschland) Continental (tire manufacturer) Meyer Werft (🇩🇪🇫🇮 shipyard) Allianz Deutsche Post and its sister brand DHL Deutsche Bank

[@girlfromgermany]

Oops, a German who didn't know that Porsche is a German brand 🙈 Well, now she knows! The other day I heard, that Americans also say "beemer" when they're talking about a BMW. But this girl here didn't do that. Does that depend where in the US someone is from?

[@AP-RSI]

She's weird and doesn't sound typically German. It sounds more like an immigrant German.

[@solace02]

can we get Andrea from Spain 🇪🇸 and Andrea from Mexico 🇲🇽 , and Loida from Argentina 🇦🇷 guess slang from another country, they did Brazil 🇧🇷 and Colombia 🇨🇴 and really want to see more from them and see how they do with other countries slang!

[@anndeecosita3586]

Admission: I didn’t watch this video. I’m becoming disinterested in what I deem to be overly wielded topics, but I don’t want to complain without rendering suggestions. So I’m brainstorming in a thread. 1. What do you call the various types of relatives in your language or country? Both formal and informal. 2. What word is used for various professions in your language or country? 3. Talk about your how your education system is set up as far as age, years, stages. 4. What are some of the holiday traditions in your country like food, decorations, activities. Silent Night is originally in German. Might be interesting to get guests to sing it in their language.

[@catinabox3048]

Awesome ideas! I've always found the relatives thing interesting because as a Chinese-American who teaches French, I can't help but marvel at the Western world's lack of words for relatives. In Chinese we have five words for uncle and four words for aunt depending on whether they're on mom's side or dad's side, and whether they're related by blood or by marriage. With cousins of our generation (we don't consider other generations to be cousins but rather aunts/uncles, nephews/nieces, grandmas/grandpas, etc), we have different terms depending on their gender, age in relation to us, and whether we share a family name.

[@danikaHR]

Love this idea!

[@kiekendiefje]

@@catinabox3048 Interesting. Here in The Netherlands we only use the word uncle or aunt (oom/tante - no other words for it) but we do differentiate when we talk about them, like maybe saying oh he is my uncle from my father's side or she is my aunt from my mother's side, oh she is my aunt by marriage, she married an uncle from my fathers side or he is my husband's uncle from his father's/mother's side or she is my husband's aunt from his father's/mother's side etc. With cousins we have two words depending on whether they are male of female and we use those words (neef and nicht) also for our nephews/nieces but we usually then say neefje and nichtje ('je' is like 'little') especially when they are of a young age, after that they are called neef/nicht. To differentiate between the two we say for example 'that is cousin so and so, he/she is my cousin from my father's or mother's side or he/she is my nephew/niece from my brother and his girlfriend/wife or sister and her boyfriend/husband, or my nephew/niece from my brother in-law and hisgirlfriend/wife or sister in-law and her boyfriend/husband. However, some dialects within our Dutch language may have different terms for the uncle/aunt etc .. could be I don't know really. In the northern province of Friesland (where I am from) we have our own language and the wording is different but I think in essence it's the same ;-)

[@patronus_edits]

We actually say VW in Germany we would never say the full name 😂

[@christianoster_sole]

Absolut verrückt, dass eine Deutsche denkt Porsche ist keine deutsche Marke, wenn FETT im Logo Stuttgart steht???

[@andyx6827]

Absolut verrückt, dass du denkst, eine nicht-autoaffine Person würde sich Logos von Dingen durchlesen, die sie nicht interessieren.

[@_joilife]

Ich hab mir das Logo nie wirklich angeguckt aber glaub mir Ahahha als ich’s gesehen hab kam ich mir richtig dumm vor 😂 sorry

[@ShawueFan]

@@andyx6827 absolut verrückt, dass es mittlerweile normal ist, mangelnde Allgemeinbildung zu verteidigen...

[@AP-RSI]

Sie hört sich für mich eh nicht so 100% Deutsch an. Vielleicht von Zuwanderern. Denn sie spricht seltsames Deutsch mit einem Akzent.

[@AP-RSI]

@@andyx6827 Wer Porsche nicht als Deutsch kennt, muss schon ziemlich ignorant oder dumm sein! Eine der bekanntesten Automarken und die ständig per Werbung überall präsent ist! Sorry... deine Antwort ist dämlich!

[@danikaHR]

I heard once that the letter "w" is called "double u" because people used to write it as 2 "u's" and not 2 "v's"

[@AP-RSI]

VV = double V and not UU = double U! But, there was probably the sign UU in old German or Germanic, which was interpreted or spoken as W.

[@mixlllllll]

In some languages it is literally double v

[@boboboy8189]

This german Girl looks like snow white

[@_joilife]

Ah ? That’s such a nice compliment!!! Thank you so much wow !

[@SoyPagani]

make a video with italian-spanish-portuguese 🎩🍷

[@marriedandcrazy04]

To correct the American girl... if you watch the commercials for Haribo, they always pronounce it with a long "A" sound... Hā-ri-bō, or Hair-i- bo, so long"A" and long "O"

[@muhammadfikofernando1844]

the pronunciation of Dutch is similar to Indonesian, maybe next time you can invite Indonesian, Dutch, and their close relatives, Filipino and Spanish, because they are all similar

[@m97120]

Is the Netherlands guy wearing his hotel slippers?

[@poppinc8145]

2:55 The subtitles and captions here are wrong. The second pronunciation she said sounded far different from what's written. 4:10 The guy is hard to hear and you're making it worse by playing loud background music while he's speaking. Lower the volume!

[@poppinc8145]

Please include _Puma_ and _Hugo Boss_ and _Siemens_ in these German brand pronunciation videos next time.

[@2WarriorJay8]

I'd definitely pronounce Volkswagen in American exactly like how the Dutch guy did, very literally.

[@rickydimas2674]

The dutch when say BMW as "be em we" it's like Indonesian

[@marcowikkerink7519]

Sophia's actually right about the pronunciation of the w. In English, the w is pronounced with rounded lips, so it's a full w. In Dutch, it's pronounced as a ʋ (IPA, phonetics), which means the lips and teeth are in the position of the v, but it's just a short tap - whereas a v is a fricative, so the sound is made by blowing air past it.

[@marcowikkerink7519]

PS - mind you, the Dutch guy (sorry, forgot his name) is from "below the rivers," so his w is even somewhat more rounded than that of someone who speaks standard Dutch (but someone from Limburg would have an even stronger w, in IPA the Greek bèta letter (β) is used for it.

[@ShonnMorris]

@@marcowikkerink7519 I was going to ask about that because I've heard Flemish people pronounce the W very much like the English W.

[@liukin95]

In British English we pronounce 'Adidas' closer to the German way rather than the American way. The way Sophia pronounced 'Haribo' threw me off too!

[@tonyf9984]

I heard 'horrible' ...

[@nuraalam8857]

As a swiss pple i speak schwizer deautsch😂

[@WahidahCherazade]

Is it just Swedes that says "Merca" about Mercedes? (c pronounced almost like an s)😁 And to say the full "Mercedes Benz"? Never. (also, if I google "Merca", first suggestion is Mercedes official website)

[@anttirytkonen11]

If the Swedish Wiktionary is to be believed, its pronunciation sounds pretty close to "Mersu" in Finnish while being a bit softer. 🤓

[@JulianGutie]

The Dutch man is handsome

[@sebastiangade]

As a Danish person, I'm surprised that the Dutch guy pronounced a lot of the names the exact way I'd pronounce it

[@RichardHoogstad]

I’m not, Danish & Frisian (the other Dutch language) have a lot of similarities. And Frisian pronunciation isn’t extremely different from Dutch.

[@Denyo666]

He is from the Southern Part of the Netherlands, which sound exactly like North Belgium or Germany. They should've brought someone not from the South.

[@alvine_]

the American girl is so slow in speaking where is she from in America??😊

[@chanchaniceman]

She stated in one of the videos she’s from the South either Georgia or anywhere around that region

[@TheTurncoatWolf]

yeah she is unusually slow for an american.

[@itsmanupf]

Swiss was kind of pointless since she also speaks German haha I don’t think you really have an accent on brand names 😅

[@ohmnesia]

You would be surprised

[@thespankmyfrank]

Swiss German is so different though. I do agree she got very little to say in this video, but I hope there's a German vs Swiss comparison coming, that'd be neat.

[@andyx6827]

So you didn't hear a difference between "Biakenschtock" and "Birrchrenschtockchkr"? 😂

[@laurageiendorfer7144]

No it sounds different

[@nightlyrowentree6047]

Whaaat we need is british ennglish added with the american on this lol

[@liukin95]

Exactly this! In the UK we pronounce Adidas closer to the German way rather than the American way.

[@nightlyrowentree6047]

@liukin95 I just think it be enteresting to have the American and British pouncing foreign brans with each other be interesting to hear the differences to the actual way the brand is supposed to be pronounced like Nike

[@ericnam9064]

Sophia！I love you！

[@yasminesteinbauer8565]

That makes no sense. If she pronounces BMW differently, no one in the U.S. will understand her. The pronunciation is not wrong. It is simply the English alphabet.🤷‍♂

[@glykera]

The "English alphabet"? 😂 It's the Latin alphabet that we all use. The difference is the pronunciation.

[@yasminesteinbauer8565]

@@glykera In fact, most European languages use variants of the Latin alphabet. The German alphabet, for example, has additional characters. And since the same characters stand for different phonemes in different languages, it is absolutely common to speak of the German or the English alphabet etc.

[@anndeecosita3586]

@@glykeraNot all European languages have the same alphabet 😂

[@MLange-l1b]

Why do they say the comparatives so weird? "More hard" "more far". I noticed this a lot in other videos of the channel too.

[@oohEuphoria]

The country is called Switzerland, ty

[@AP-RSI]

And not Sweden! LOL

[@bettajoeresmenia5536]

Where is andrea of spain

[@AP-RSI]

The German girl sound not like typical German! Sorry... and not known what Porsche is? WTF? Where did she live?!

[@sandraperlstein79]

Also the pronunciation of the companies are based on how we hear them in commercials.

[@poppinc8145]

She didn't know that Porsche was German? Do they not teach WW2 history in Germany either?

[@caroskaffee3052]

what does porsche have to do with learning about history?

[@ShawueFan]

@@caroskaffee3052 go back to school...

[@ShawueFan]

In Germany we learn more about WW2 than in any other country on this planet... but some people just are stupid^^'

[@caroskaffee3052]

@@ShawueFan could you at least answer my question?

[@caroskaffee3052]

@@ShawueFan what does it have to do with porsche

[@SinarNila]

German is pretty sexy lang❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@isalutfi]

Where is Austria?

[@ajeettv]

South east of Germany

[@bananenmusli2769]

@@ajeettv good one

[@Herobox-ju4zd]

The Dutch guy doesn't know how to pronounce anything Dutch. I don't know because he's the last one in line to pronounce it in his language or because he's been exposed to outside languages a lot, but he's off 100% of how Dutch people would pronounce these words.

[@ThW5]

Yeah, the Belgian girl gives a closer idea of how some Dutch people say it, not the ones up north, though.

[@asafusubov696]

Try comparing Karcher :)

[@reineh3477]

Do you mean Kärcher?

[@asafusubov696]

@@reineh3477 yes

[@ahsookee]

​@@asafusubov696It would be anglicized as Kaercher, ae = ä, oe = ö and ue = ü

[@asafusubov696]

@@ahsookee would be interesting to hear from each participant

[@atstrollz6875]

deja vu?

[@yifeng8288]

die deutsche und die schweizer sprechen diegleiche Sprache, die deutsche Sprache😂

[@AP-RSI]

Na ja, Schwitzer-Dütsch ist wohl ein wenig anders... LOL

[@sawomirmarnotrawny1694]

dude name was adolf dasner. and mercedes is kinda name of his dother. so adidas and mercedes benz. couse his last name was benz.

[@ajeettv]

Adolf Dassler

[@ahsookee]

Mercedes was the name of his daughter, it's a female name. Benz was his surname (Carl Benz). Daimler was another person involved somewhere there but I don't remember in what way

[@Wanjek89]

Most German call it Benz? I'm German and know nobody who does that

[@bananenmusli2769]

I think even Daimler is more common than Benz

[@ahsookee]

No, it's called Mercedes by 90 % of the population

[@ohmaroh6606]

doch die meisten sagen sie fahren Benz anstatt sie fahren ein mercedes

[@Wanjek89]

@@ohmaroh6606 Die sagen dann wahrscheinlich auch wallah

[@ohmaroh6606]

@@Wanjek89 also die personen die ich kennen haben das auto vom dad ausgeliehen oder geschenkt bekommen

[@andrewliu2996]

Stop using shocked.

[@SALx96]

I know right? All the titles are copied and pasted lol

[@AnXX94]

@@SALx96 a lack of content ideas ehh

[@gigasflare]

that is one Sweetest american girl i've ever seen, like an angel fall from heaven

[@Paramurasaki]

Girl speaks not really good german

[@ruslanbidzhiev5197]

It's Porscha!

[@andyx6827]

No it's not. It's Porsche. To Germans, Porscha wouldn't even sound close to Porsche. An "a" is not an "e".

[@ruslanbidzhiev5197]

@@andyx6827 I know it was a joke.I just quoted Joye from Friends

[@ruslanbidzhiev5197]

@@andyx6827 kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKK6kmSZadiZb7M

[@johnjohnson4289]

I don't want to be mean but that American girl talks as if all life energy has left her. It's kinda annoying even though she's pretty and seems like a nice person.

[@powerful-i8]

I don't think all southeners in America talks like that

[@pasha_smrad]

BE EM VE

[@chetao190]

BmDobbleyu

[@ejcmaestro6520]

Tbh i always cringe when americans pronounce foreign things and language. 😬

[@tool4rage434]

🥱

[@Pharaoh_The_Great]

The American is long winded

[@peterlimburg3872]

Away with this guy and bring back Karlijn

[@DonMas-car-pone]

I do miss Karlijn here as well 🤔 she's the sweetest thing!

[@SinarNila]

Til today Haribo never sounds German to me , for my ears sounds Japanese, Korean. I know the company the name logotype is German, but the phonology resembles Asian langs in highest truth.

[@Leenapanther]

Haribo stands for "Hans Riegel Bonn" Hanuta = Haselnusstafel

[@tanizaki]

The American is lucky she’s pretty.

[@Pikachu-ez1rm]

What? Lol

[@markrich7693]

The American pronunciation for Birkenstock is correct germans only saids beconstock

[@ahsookee]

St sounds different in German and English, it's pronounced sht in German. And the r is different too, in German it comes from the top of the back of the mouth whereas in English it comes from the tongue region.

[@thespankmyfrank]

How is the American way correct when it's a German word? 💀 To be fair, I didn't realise it was a German brand so I would've just said it the English way, but it makes sense now that I think about it that's it's German in origin. Which would make the German pronunciation correct.

[@blackbat121]

The way the American girl talks bothers me a lot !

[@dasmaurerle4347]

Is it not Birkchastökchli in Switzerland?😂❤

[@nirutivan9811]

Birkestökli would be a small Birkenstock. The -li ending in Swiss German does the same thing as -chen or -lein in standard German, so (with some exceptions) we only use it, when we talk about something small 😂

[@dasmaurerle4347]

@@nirutivan9811Like a z'Mörgeli?😂😘

[@nirutivan9811]

@@dasmaurerle4347 I personally wouldn‘t say that (for me it‘s pretty much always Zmorge), but it would be possible. But we also have the word zmörgele, which is a verb (and not a diminutive) that means „to eat an extensive breakfast“. But „zmörgele“ is also a bit old fashioned and not that common anymore among my generation.

[@cartier2312]

German is harsh and it’s aggressive language

[@tonyf9984]

And French is so mellifluous that you could call your girlfriend Merde and it would sound flattering? Yeah, right .

[@ahsookee]

German and French get confused all the time on social media when a German video goes viral internationally. Probably more often than German gets recognized correctly. So by that measure French is ugly too.😊

[@caroskaffee3052]

if you only watch ww2 documentaries, sure

[@EddieReischl]

I get what Sophia was saying. We probably should pronounce our letter "w" as "wuh", in the English manner of speaking. "Double u" doesn't make any sense. We don't "doubleualk" to the store. This is maybe what other language speakers find peculiar. I think if Porsche was Italian, it would maybe be spelled "Porscia". The "sch" sort of gives it away, although a person might think it was Swiss or Austrian.

[@bananenmusli2769]

sch exists in italian. They pronounce it like sk

[@andyx6827]

It would be spelt "Porsce" in Italian, not "Porscia". A and E are entirely different vowels.