Learning German is Easy

[@mar1za69]

I always believe that Arms has to fight for a German sketch just to remind everyone that he can speak German

[@Ensign_Roque]

He uses it so rarely though. Practice makes the Meister, you know 😅

[@hoodie_cat]

But Foil was teaching Arms though?

[@josephinecronin1195]

@@hoodie_cat foil was showing off his legendary “remembering complicated lists” skills. But I bet Armstrong wrote it.

[@venanziadorromatagni1641]

There aren‘t 2 past tenses, there are three. And taking 2 words is too easy. The Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz (yes, that word really was used in official documents, it‘s the name of a former law) mashed up 7 words, and ‚umfahren‘ means both ‚drive around‘ and ‚hit while driving‘, depending on how you pronounce it. But at least, we do not have 43 ways of pronouncing ‚gh‘ 😛

[@venanziadorromatagni1641]

Oh, in case anyone *does* wonder: It’s a law stipulating the transfer of supervisory activities when it comes to the labelling of beef products.

[@SandraOnCloud9]

As a German speaker I found this hilarious!😂

[@foilarmsandhog]

Wunderschön

[@ericpraline]

Find ich auch!

[@hilaryjohns4049]

​​@@foilarmsandhogThis brought back memories. I studied German in school. I dreaded every class for three years. I forgot I can still sing ..... mein Hut er hat drie ecken, so not all wasted, and who can forget dumpfkop, and a song about wanting to be a kangaroo and opening and closing eyes, ah ooo ah ooo ah ooo. Weird.

[@fantomshepherd]

Darauf muss ich erstmal den Backshop umfahren. 🤪

[@weswheel4834]

Ich hab ein hamster.

[@LegoMiniMovies]

Lol i was not expecting that German teacher ending. Great sketch as always

[@SamFAHntha]

Neither! I would've thought I had them sussed out by now but they always surprise me 🙈😂

[@Ensign_Roque]

That was unexpected 😅

[@AakeTraak]

Translator would be better and more belivable.

[@sarah.bea.]

Arms used to teach German, didn’t he?

[@SamFAHntha]

@@sarah.bea. He did! I promise I only know cause he told us. I haven't been creepy I swear. Oh Jaysus I'm making it worse by clarifying amn't I.

[@korky0104]

Hahaha, what a timing for this sketch, as I am currently on a business trip to Germany and just last night I was discussing about German language with colleagues! No matter how kind you are, German kids are Kinder 😄 Viele Grüße aus Deutschland! 🤗😘

[@foilarmsandhog]

Love that joke

[@jayATUK]

🤣 Brilliant joke

[@xanthias2001]

Well it’s a German joke. [So kinder a low bar…]

[@philomena_def-not-malcolm]

​@@xanthias2001 *Wie bitte??* 😂😂

[@michellebyrom6551]

​@tummeltottable kinder low bar. That's a pun on kind of a low bar (quality wise).

[@rongoldberg5096]

“And imperfect”🤣🤣 Finally I can use my 6 years of German education to understand something

[@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece]

But forget about the Plusquamperfekt. In many contexts you simply don't use that, so I assume it's not even taught. But now you know. In fact it's a bit like the bible, you would have been better off if I did not tell you about it. Now you will wonder about the edge cases where it would sound slightly more natural to use it. But an average your better off just ignoring it. Like misuse will raise weirdness by 20% while not using it will only raise weirdness by 1%. Also good applications are very easily avoided. It's legacy leftover in the language that probably made more sense 200 years ago.

[@Taliesin2]

Actually German doesn't have Imperfekt but Präteritum... Most romance languages have imperfect, but the German Präteritum doesn't have to have the imperfective aspect.

[@etuanno]

​@@Taliesin2And then there are the dialects. I seldomly use the Präteritum when I speak standard German simply because it doesn't exist in Swissgerman dialects. It seems like we lost it at some point a while back.

[@lennytheleopard]

I applied for a job in a german speaking worksite on the back of 4 years of high school german. At the interview they asked me (in German ) if I spoke German. I replied "not really" in German. They said that'll do! At the end of the year's work I was almost fluent.

[@Ensign_Roque]

Cool 😎

[@gandalf_thegrey]

Passt schon.

[@poppers7317]

Man wächst mit seinen Aufgaben.

[@Julia-lk8jn]

Well, if you answered "nicht wirklich" then you demonstrated that you can pronounce "ch" and know when to use "nicht" vs "nein". Also how to shorten a sentence down to the essentials _and still being intelligible. Good start.

[@nethmisenadheera4919]

Wow

[@katreeves64]

My partner spent 7 years in Germany, after which he came back to our home country speaking flawless English and nothing beyond a few words in German. That's the first time I heard of that 20-second rule referenced here. Germans want to see you struggle in their language for a bit but after 20 seconds they take pity on you or are frustrated at hearing their own language so badly butchered, and switch to English.

[@davidmcdonnell8473]

A lot of Germans also welcome the chance to practice their English.

[@Rot24.mu00q]

There is hardly anything more German than being impatient and finding it exhausting to talk to someone in bad German. I say that as a German. I always feel overwhelmed when someone who doesn't speak German well wants to talk to me. Most of the time these are situations in which this person needs help in some way, asks for directions, etc. And it's much more efficient in terms of time if you have the conversation in another language. Also, I never know whether and how I should correct someone's pronunciation or grammar in German. On the one hand, I don't want to come across as rude, but on the other hand, the person also wants to learn German. That's a fine line.

[@rhyfelwrDuw]

@rotter3.043 sorry to say to a German, I prefer French to German, although if it was a choice between German or Dutch, it would be German every time!

[@Rot24.mu00q]

@@rhyfelwrDuw I don't understand why you're apologizing for preferring French to German. I'm not offended by that at all now. It's just two languages ​​and I'm not so fond of my mother tongue that I would want to defend it. Especially since it's just your personal opinion. This is not an attack against the German language. So nothing to apologize for.

[@brag0001]

​@@Rot24.mu00qespecially since you had this conversation with him in English, which isn't even a proper language, but a pretty useful tool 😂

[@emilys.6787]

This is brilliant 😂 As a German (and linguist), I absolutely love it. Reminds me of that essay by Mark Twain "The awful German language", really funny too, but your sketch is funnier. So looking forward to the show in Hamburg. Have a wonderful day!

[@foilarmsandhog]

Thanks Emily!

[@hairyairey]

English is surely worse? Highly inconsistent, even taught badly (i before e except after...).

[@CiprianDoroftei]

@@hairyairey still no der, die, das and all their forms. Nothing beats a, an, and the.

[@hairyairey]

@@CiprianDoroftei Yes, but if you read an English word you have absolutely no idea how to pronounce it. Sword and sweet for example. Tough, plough, hiccough, through and thorough for another.

[@liam4688]

@@hairyairey i before e except after.... 🤣 you got us there

[@katharinaeveliina]

Hoffentlich kommt Foil damit klar, dass er im November dann überall Deutsch sprechen muss, nachdem er so mit seinen Kenntnissen angegeben hat. :D Vielen Dank für diesen Sketch!

[@beatrixwillius]

Volle Kanne!

[@Ensign_Roque]

I'd like to hear more of that ❤😂

[@RamblinRick_]

There it is...end a German sentence with an English word, "Sketch"

[@ElsebelseElsbeth]

Macht ja nix. Deutsch is ja so einfach zu lernen, wie wir jetzt gerade gelernt haben 😂

[@Keyswiz71]

@@RamblinRick_ 😂😂😂😂

[@moonhunter9993]

As a German teacher teaching adults beginners this was brilliant...

[@kstepko]

I’ve been teaching myself German and this is surprisingly accurate.

[@foilarmsandhog]

Haha enjoy the hacks

[@equolizer]

Some stuff is wrong though, v is not always f, for example. Only in words/word particles of Germanic origin, like der Vogel or the prefix ver- (like in verboten, vergessen, etc.), in words of Latin/Romance origin it's v like in English, e.g. der Ventilator (fan, in medical jargon also a device that pushes air into someones lungs), die Vase (vase like in English). Also I can't think of a word where S is pronounced "Sh". Maybe in a loan word. The other part is true, though, it can be pronounced like English S or Z. This one gets a bit more complicated as there are some rules around it which is the reason why we have "s", "ss" and "ß" (the last one is not a B, but an S, its use is to make the vowel before it "long", where "ss" makes it "short. Long and short are not totally accurate here, because it can also change the vowel sound a little bit, but that is how we learn it in elementary school). Also Y is called Ypsilon, but is pronounced "ee" or "ü" (can't write that last one in English, sorry). In Ypsilon the Y is pronounced Ü. Some people always pronounce it Ü, but in spoken German you will hear both. It's a rare letter, though, anyways, mostly used in Greek words, like Xylophon or Dystopie (both "ü"), or in nicknames like Willy (where it's "ee", like you would say it in English). Sorry for the pedantry, I am German after all.

[@pillow1557]

​@@equolizer I'm learning german but I think ß will sound like a long /s/ after they're followed by vowels

[@_Miri_]

This is a comment for Emily S., the German subtitling superhero! Emily, if you read this by any chance: thanks a million for doing the German subs - if it wasn’t for you I wouldn’t be able to send this sketch on to EVERYONE in my contact list in the next couple of days! 😁🦸‍♀️ Also, Christine the Ravenclaw, if you happen to be around as well: a huge thanks to you, too, for doing all those German subtitles in the past. 🦸‍♀️❤

[@foilarmsandhog]

Vielen Dank Emily!

[@emilys.6787]

This absolutely made my day 🤗 It makes me so happy to hear that, thanks. Now, I can't wait to start today's subtitles. Have a great day!

[@gimmethatplease2224]

Dies! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@SamFAHntha]

@@emilys.6787 Dankeschön Emily ❤️ And thanks Miri for letting us know who to thank! ❤️

[@nathalieb1626]

It's always a joy to subtitle these wordplay sketches, NOT... 🤣

[@azurehanyo]

“Perfect.” “And imperfect. You see, it’s all there, and so simple!” I love this sketch so very much.

[@shellycb3973]

As an Irish person who grew up in Germany I just love this! Brilliant writing, well done 👍

[@katria2412]

"After that the Germans are just gonna want to practice their english" - fair enough, I noticed that I tend to switch to english fairly quickly in a conversation with non-german speakers. So you got me there 😂

[@amlaaaa479]

It's because non-native German speakers talk soooo slowly.

[@Gemma.618]

Lads I know you don't really do tv programs but if you ever get asked for Taskmaster, please say yes

[@cheerfulcharlie9916]

YES!!!!! I couldn’t agree more!!! I think we need to start a petition for FAH to join Greg and Little Alex Horne!

[@foilarmsandhog]

Ah the problem is we never get asked!

[@josephinecronin1195]

That’d be something- Arms, though, with his legendary coordination 😂

[@niseplank4527]

I might die of happiness.

[@autism.and.blankets]

YEESSSSS!!!! I couldn't agree more!!!

[@KingKadem]

If I learned English in school from a woman who has only visited the UK for one month once then I don’t see any reason why language learners should have any problems with Arms. Cheers lads, to your brilliantly made video once again!

[@bernadinesavarin]

The massive irony of Foil teaching Arms German instead of the other way round 🤣 I bet there are loads of German viewers and fans who were disappointed you didn't speak any German, Arms. Great sketch! 😀👍

[@SamFAHntha]

I swear they do it on purpose 😂

[@Ensign_Roque]

Yeah I think it's save to say they're doing it on purpose 😂😅

[@ananyachatterjee197]

Arms, I want to say thank you cuz I had to make a short video for work last week to make science look a bit fun and I used your patreon editing video as a guideline for which aspects I should focus on. Yesterday I presented it and it went well ❤ Thank you for being so inspirational and an absolute legend ❤

[@SamFAHntha]

Go you!!!! 😊❤️

[@foilarmsandhog]

Oh well done you! 👏

[@Ensign_Roque]

So cool 😄😎

[@glkification]

Groß(artig)! I very much enjoyed the perfect/imperfect joke you slipped in there. My favourite German word at the moment is einigeln, meaning "to hedgehog oneself", to isolate and curl away. The YT channel Get Germanized taught me that one!

[@daniellamcgee4251]

Einigeln - to isolate; curl up (into a ball); to take a position of all-round defence. 🦔 I don't speak German. I just looked it up. Thank you for this wonderful word! 🦔

[@anniesoernym]

Foil teaching Arms, and not the other way round, was a wonderful surprise! 😄 Sooo looking forward to seeing you in Hamburg, lads! (And I can't believe it's not sold out already 😮)

[@foilarmsandhog]

Nearly... big room!

[@Timmahh85]

I can't wait to bring my wife to your show in Hamburg, it's going to be epic! 😍🥳

[@cherrypi_b]

Wrong city! Get on the train and go a little bit further to Berlin :D

[@anniesoernym]

@@cherrypi_b They were in Berlin last autumn, so I'm sure they'll come back in a while ☺️

[@johndoe5555]

As a Ukrainian refugee learning German, I'm crying a little...

[@Nico-od4yv]

Stay strong und Viel Erfolg!

[@johndoe5555]

@@Nico-od4yv Thank you. I do what I can. I got my mom and aunt out of the destroyed city and now I'm just trying to give them a safe place. I’m learning German and hope to find a job in Germany after that, because we have nowhere to return.

[@brinkiTOgo]

​@@johndoe5555Viel Erfolg! I hope that you can create a safe place for your family and that you find a job. And I really hope that it's someday a place you can come home to. I'm not really sure how to say what I mean but I hope you understand.

[@johndoe5555]

@@brinkiTOgo yeah, I understand :) Thank you

[@foilarmsandhog]

Goodluck with the job hunt and everything else. Love to you all

[@miriam2526]

This video was eye opening, even for a German! 😂😂 And, well, my absolute favourite, has to be Bürgermeister as well, never thought about that before. I'm working in a job where I have to talk to Bürgermeisters quite regularly, now I can never look at the again with a straight face 😂😂😂

[@foilarmsandhog]

It's a great digestive

[@AmandaKMason]

The old American Christmas cartoon "A Year Without Santa Claus" has a character called Bürgermeister Meisterburger

[@philomena_def-not-malcolm]

@@foilarmsandhog Are you talking about Bürgermeister or Jägermeister now? 😉

[@nastiavolynska]

😂😂😂 The "German teacher" ending just got me rolling on the floor 👌🏻🤣🤣 you guys are so hilarious! As a native German speaker, I can only imagine how German teacher Arms's students would end up speaking the language - I think they would give up and quickly turn to English or Irish instead 😢😂😂😅 I would love to teach you guys some interesting words like "Waldeinsamkeit" or "verschlimmbessern" or "gebetsmühlenartig", and also watch you go crazy over der, die, das 😆😏 or as we say in Germany: Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache 🇩🇪

[@NapaValleyVegan]

Brilliant! If I had only followed your advice, I would be fluent in Deutsch. My biggest problem is that every Berliner under 40 refused to speak German. They would get so irritated by me and immediately switched to English. The gymnasium comment was perfect! Now I am in Sicily, destroying the Italian language! 😂

[@foilarmsandhog]

Haha, they really do just change gears to English so quickly. Sicily sounds amazing

[@daniellamcgee4251]

The Italian Termsinator.

[@NapaValleyVegan]

@@daniellamcgee4251 😂

[@NapaValleyVegan]

@@foilarmsandhog Sicily is beautiful 🤩 When all I have to do is work on my tan and eat gelato, the island is paradise. But when I have to live in the real world and accomplish something, the bureaucracy here is no joke! 😳 😆

[@kapuzinergruft]

Go to Munich or Dresden - people would speak German. Berliners are meant to be rude anyway.

[@adhorapototry3329]

As a foreign student in Germany, it hits so close to home. 😭😭😭 Except after 20 seconds, there's usually awkward silence. After that you try to revive the conversation by attempting something new, followed by more awkward silence. 😥 2:38

[@SamFAHntha]

Embrace the awkwardness I say. People love humility.

[@foilarmsandhog]

Haha, love it! Also, sorry!

[@kedaver263]

Love that you lads dont jump onto viral trends and do your own thing! Thanks to that we get to learn new things every Thursday 🤓

[@strochnis33]

Let's salute Hog's tiny yet precious contribution to the bit: nice mugshot.

[@Lesliekentyoutubeuser]

Arms does look like a teacher. As a teacher, I can assure kids would have loved to have such a funny and sweet guy as their teacher 😊

[@SamFAHntha]

The CHEEK he'd get upto though 😂

[@philomena_def-not-malcolm]

I loved the teacher role he played in the first Influencer Dad sketch!

[@uroobataher7218]

He was a great maths teacher on Zoom during the early lockdown days too.

[@kwibuw]

And: Add "zeug" for a noun: Drums: Schlag-zeug (Hit-stuff) Airplane: Flug-zeug (Fly-stuff) Toy: Spiel-zeug (Play-stuff) Car: Fahr-zeug (drive-stuff) Pens/Pencils: Schreib-zeug (writing-stuff) Needle&Yarn: Näh-zeug (sewing-stuff)

[@martina_mc]

i'm gonna show this to my students on monday - and then i'll massively dissappoint them with the harsh reality that it's actually not that easy😂😂

[@foilarmsandhog]

Yes!!! Love it

[@chattphotos]

Sehr Gute! German is both easy and hard and very frustrating to learn on Duolingo With some context, you can skirt around some formalities of der,die,das'es depending on tense, case, weather, and equinox Without context, it's hard Martina Hill's sketches are a great starting point for common German and the context

[@martina_mc]

@@chattphotos yes, i know someone who learns german and loves to watch martina hill videos! bonus point: she's absolutely hilarious!

[@chattphotos]

@@martina_mc She's HILLarious* ;) Very clever work and I can understand most of what's going on

[@lisaahmari7199]

I study Spanish and French. When I get frustrated, I try learning German. Within two hours I am sobbing and run back into the arms of the much simpler Romance languages. 😅

[@Heleendje]

Ah the Great Educators ❤ love the Kidney Failure Boy Mug product placement 😅 I always enjoy the dynamic between these two characters ❤

[@foilarmsandhog]

Best/worst competition of all time

[@SamFAHntha]

Must hurt for the winners to see it on their table and not in their cupboards 😂

[@philomena_def-not-malcolm]

​@@SamFAHntha I think that every time! 😂 And every time I wonder how many persons see it and wonder "Is this de facto MY mug, only Hog never got it posted..." 🤔 It gets philosophical at one point...

[@the_well-known_stranger2275]

As someone who recently got back from an exchange in Germany this sketch was incredibly accurate. Especially the ‘they’ll want to practice their English’ line

[@SamFAHntha]

Yeah I've heard it's hard to learn German in certain parts of Germany 😂

[@linam764]

It's the same in Norway, so it's hard for English speakers to find the motivation to learn Norwegian.

[@FreyjaRKim]

My German friend once told me, "When you visit Germany, once they know you speak English, the Germans will start using English to speak with you." 😂

[@foilarmsandhog]

Yeah that was our biggest take home from our last trip there!

[@Ensign_Roque]

So the trick would be to try to make them believe that you are actually don't know any english. So you can practise your german 😂

[@EmmaLiza]

Did this entire sketch arise out of Arms trying to convince the lads to learn German with him? 😂

[@Ensign_Roque]

That's a good idea maybe they can form a group 😂 (😅 right they already have one 🤯)and make a Arbeitskreis to ,,save time and improve their working habits"😂

[@donaz2739]

😂😂😂 you have no idea how much I love this sketch 👋🏻 from someone who gave up learning German many years ago

[@SamFAHntha]

It's easy until it's too hard 😩😂

[@anna.popović]

One of my favourite ones this year 😅Love me some needlessly complex German compound words, maybe it's time to come up with some FAH specific ones. This sketch definitely lived up to my Donnerstagspaßvorfreude at any rate

[@foilarmsandhog]

👌

[@_Miri_]

I have a new favourite word! 😍

[@Ensign_Roque]

😂 Good one

[@anna.popović]

@@_Miri_ now somebody put it on a T-shirt, stat! 😉

[@IntensivePorpoise]

@@anna.popović it will need to be a long sleeve one, to have enough space to write it.

[@faolan2174]

I studied German for years and even lived in Germany. This sketch nailed it so well. XD especially the part about a conversation never lasting longer than 20 seconds before the Germans want to practice English. That line was so spot on! XD

[@thomasgeddes4817]

Just reminded me that the only German i remember from school is "Das stoplicht ist kaputt." You never know when it may come in handy though. I always look forward to Thursday mornings. You never fail to raise a laugh. Good luck with the tour.

[@philomena_def-not-malcolm]

You might make money from that. By stopping vehicles, saying that and writing a ticket for 20 €...

[@sarah.bea.]

“Descriptive - efficient - German” would be the perfect slogan for a German language school! Where did you get the slurring words technique from? That is actually really clever.

[@foilarmsandhog]

Patent pending on that technique. We're gonna start our own language school, take the world by storm. Drunk Class

[@sarah.bea.]

@@foilarmsandhog I‘d enrol in a heartbeat as long as the course doesn’t involve drinking Coors light 😅

[@magmalin]

@@foilarmsandhog Perfect for an Irish language school : "Spend seven drunken nights learning German"

[@dgsquare]

​@@foilarmsandhog12 grands to enroll?

[@suecole6473]

​@@foilarmsandhogTwelve grand?

[@brinkiTOgo]

As a German and a linguist, I found this brilliant 😂 And sadly the show in Cologne is already sold out 😢 it would have been close for me to go to

[@blairfus]

The handshoe or the footshoe?

[@PawsOnTheBalcony]

Still some tickets left for Hamburg, I actually just got some 🤩 I'm never this spontaneous and it's an 8-hour drive, but I just had to!

[@brinkiTOgo]

@@blairfus The handshoe of course :P

[@MairiAngwen]

I always love the language-related sketches! Also, Foil teaching Arms and not the other way around? The punchline was just brilliant. Great way to put Hog in a sketch btw I've been meaning to ask you for a while - is Foil secretly living in Spain? He is sooooo tanned, especially compared to Hog right beside him.

[@Ensign_Roque]

Maybe he lives secretly in Portugal like a certain someone 😮😂

[@bernadinesavarin]

It's the exposure to the sun that he gets from cycling everywhere 😀

[@MairiAngwen]

@@bernadinesavarin does he now? Good for him!

[@foilarmsandhog]

I actually think that's right. Love to be secretly running off to Spain every weekedn though!

[@MairiAngwen]

@@foilarmsandhog Ryanair flights are still cheap, right? Also, by now probably every Ryanair employee knows FAH :)

[@Widdekuu91]

As a Dutchie that appreciates the language of the neighbours, thankyou.

[@mareikedregger1513]

Mark Twain said: „Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.“

[@jenergomes]

Great! XD Portuguese can be very challenging, I would put in the same group of difficult languages that includes German. I could mention many examples, as the different sets of conjugations depending to the ending of each REGULAR verb (common in Romance languages) and the last language reform that make it more difficult to learn (at least I'm from the older school), but I give here two simple and easy examples, about letter pronunciations: - There are 5 letters or combinations with S sound: S (not between vowels), SS (between vowels), C (when before E and I), Ç, and SC. - X can have 5 sounds: CS, S, Z, SH, not pronounced (when before a C), and I excluded the SS because it wouldn't make sense without more explanations. So, Xena, the Warriors Princess, was known in Brazil as "Sheyna" - without the "e" sound from "y". 🙃

[@jennywinter7715]

Ahhh this takes me right back to learning German at school! Great sketch, as ever! See ya in London!

[@foilarmsandhog]

See ay there! Thanks for getting tix

[@BabyGirl-s8r7r]

This is so clever! 🤭 Love the wordplay! ❤️ And the slick hits! *efficient 😅 I only recently learned that my HS Spanish teacher spoke French and got by with Spanish bc they were so similar! 😂 (He taught both, to be fair.) Wonderful script. Kudos to all German teachers (and ex-German teachers) everywhere! And to FAH for educating us with comedy! 🫶🏼👏🏽

[@barbaraprimon]

German teacher…! Always that turning point that gives all the sense to the sketch..! 😆

[@willichnichwissen]

This was hilarious! I’m also super happy you finally added Copenhagen to the tour! I lived there last year and had to travel all the way to Berlin even though you had tour dates in all the other Nordic capitals!

[@ananyachatterjee197]

Foil always gets the memorizing big dialogues job 😂

[@MairiAngwen]

He has proven himself with the Brexit song

[@foilarmsandhog]

Gotta love a challenge

[@ananyachatterjee197]

@@foilarmsandhog then may be we can have a FAH sketch quiz with you as a contestant, Foil? Are you up for THAT challenge? 🤣

[@melinda8980]

Das war brilliant, Jungs! 😉 Had I known all these hacks back then, I could have saved myself long years at uni. 😀 Grüße aus Deutschland from an actual German teacher 🙋🏼‍♀️

[@elinahans]

Thank you guys, that video is just amazing. Usually I learn english, when I watch your videos, because my english teacher told us to listen to native speakers, it would help our pronounciation, but this time it was just fun, to realize how "easy" german is. 😂 You just forget about that, when you speak it since forever. I'm from Germany by the way.😅 PS: I had to look up like 5 words, so I would spell them correctly, so sorry for any misstakes. 😊

[@backpackingprofessor]

I'm super impressed: They know so much about German! I'm actually a German teacher, I'll use this video to teach my students pronunciation 🤣

[@SamFAHntha]

Lean back on your chair sipping a margarita 😂

[@foilarmsandhog]

Just get them drunk, it's quicker

[@Ensign_Roque]

​@@foilarmsandhog😂 😅

[@elisatorres7188]

​@@foilarmsandhog😂😂

[@cheerfulcharlie9916]

I know lots of people love the premier posts, getting insight into what FAH chaos will drop at 8am, but as someone who LOVES surprises, I so love not getting spoilers, getting all the joyous wonder in one hit 😀

[@SamFAHntha]

The surprise is great for sure. I do miss a bit of memeFAH though haha, but that's okay 😊

[@bernadinesavarin]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! At least I'm not the only lone voice in the wilderness about this. Wednesday nights are a nightmare to stay out of social media to avoid spoilers!

[@foilarmsandhog]

I'd be with you on this. Hate knowing anything about what I'm gonna watch

[@bernadinesavarin]

@@SamFAHntha You could probably do it after the sketch is officially released

[@SamFAHntha]

@@bernadinesavarin this is true!

[@MansiPabari]

From someone who learned German as a foreign language, this is so relatable and very clever indeed. Gut gemacht! Viel Spaß in Hamburg!

[@cinemagnolia]

Brilliant sketch! It actually made me want to learn German again (I studied it for almost ten years but forgot a lot). Thank you for the laughs and for the inspiration guys!

[@karenrussell5831]

Good to see Foil has lost his bandage 🥹 Love seeing a drunk Foil and the sketch is made funnier knowing Arms will forget more German than Foil will ever know 😆

[@SamFAHntha]

Oh WHAT a BURN hahaha

[@christinashelby6083]

Gut gemacht! This skit is a million times better knowing German. Painful but true, lol. Seemed weird to have Foil giving Arms the German "lesson," though!

[@Emeryyyy.ieeeee]

These lads content never fail to disappoint

[@foilarmsandhog]

Ah cheers!

[@SamFAHntha]

So truuueeee

[@LadyMagiccc]

Brilliant as always :D Hamburg is still 8h away, so I'm hopeful for an Austrian show at some point!! 😊 And to answer Hogs question "What is he the master of? Burgers?" It's written with an ü, and Bürger means citizens. So it is literally the master of citizens 😂

[@FBWL-u1r]

I'm Dutch so you'd think that learning German should have been a piece of cake for me in high school...until you get to the more advanced grammar...I honestly still don't know how I struggled through the written exams 😂

[@foreverfourteen]

the articles, the conjugations, tons of plural forms, + Nederlands has so much more international words. Studying Dutch did help me with reading in German, but speaking/writing is still difficult.

[@SofieBjorkheim]

I'm 38 days into learning German. Even better is that some words are equal in Swedish, too, so I knew even more words before I even started. Like gift is poison in Swedish too (and also married lol).

[@girlwithoutpearlearring]

As a German I deeply appreciate this sketch on a level I can't even put in to words ❤😂

[@StephanieJeanne]

The word for "big" is "gross" and "W sounds like V, etc." sequences were hilarious! I loved the ending!🤣

[@rain_of_parsley]

I already have my tickets for a show in Germany, I am looking forward to it so much! This skit was brilliant.

[@SamFAHntha]

Ahhh have a great time Parsley Rain

[@rain_of_parsley]

@@SamFAHntha Thank you :-)

[@foilarmsandhog]

Thanks! See you soon. Glad ya enjoyed the sketch :)

[@dramalexi]

Writing short stories I always enjoy the discussions in the forum about the 16 different articles. German is always so easy.

[@嘉宸謝]

„German words are words mushed together“. *Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz* : You don’t say?

[@SamFAHntha]

Even considering reading that word is giving me a headache 😂

[@dorismidge8762]

Your sketches really give me something to look forward to every week! Thank you!

[@sib113]

The worst part of learning german is spelling and pronouncing the long words that mean a sentence 😂

[@foilarmsandhog]

Just shove all the verbs in a pile at the end

[@ich8159]

So funktioniert das aber nicht! ☝🏻😂

[@jayATUK]

Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz. To be fair, it's kinda hard figuring out what it's even trying to say XD There are just too many words packed into it. But Finnish isn't bad at that sort of thing either: Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas (airplane jet turbine engine auxiliary mechanic non-commissioned officer student)

[@jayATUK]

@@foilarmsandhog Ah but the beauty of those long words is that there are no verbs at all 😁 Piling them up at the end works great for actual sentences though. "Ich verhielt mich so ruhig, dass man die Fliegen an der Wand hätte sollen gehen können hören." (I remained so calm that it should have been possible to be able to hear the flies on the wall walk (around).)

[@daniellamcgee4251]

​@@ich8159But works is how not? - Is that the literal translation of your German sentence into English?

[@oliviabooth6198]

As someone who watched this as a break from German homework, it's all too true. I love it when Arms gets to flex his German knowledge. 😂 Ihr seid immer lustig! Ich lachte viel. Deutsche Sprache, schwer Sprache. Die Sprache ist kompliziert aber schön.

[@thepiratehobbit]

That Kidney Failure Boy mug is going to forever haunt us isn't it 😂 but that being red, the yellow phone and the black table...was that intentional? 🇩🇪🤔😂

[@Ensign_Roque]

I wonder if there is ever something not intentional in their sketches 😅

[@partsofearth]

I can confirm the part about Germans switching after 20 seconds to practice their English! Also got your tickets as soon as it was announced and looking forward to see you in the beautiful Laeiszhalle!

[@MrMighty147]

This incredible. So well written and incredibly accurate 😅

[@MSte21]

My headcanon is that this is Oisin grown up and remembering the hacks he used from his exchange trip to Germany.

[@anonymous_selkie]

I thought that too! 😄

[@jankisi]

Actually, there are three past tenses: Präteritum (Imperfekt), Perfekt and Plusquamperfekt. Which isn't much compared to English: Simple Past (I went) Past Progressive (I was going) Present Perfect (I have gone) Present Perfect Progressive (I have been going) Past Perfect (I had gone) Past Perfect Progressive (I had been going)

[@Subsessor]

Naja eigentlich sinds schon auch nur 3 formen - nur dass jede Form noch ein Progressive hat. 🤔

[@paulpanter4941]

There are basicly three forms of past language Perfekt, Präteritum, Plusquamperfekt:) but I have never heard the last one in a normal conversation

[@anjalovse]

*flashback to Foil's livestream* Oh lad, please don't speak German! xD How convenient that this is right now as tomorrow will be a year since I took a train to Germany and saw you lads (and Miriam!) in the end in the process. :) You must have picked up on how happy I was there as it was my favorite meet and greet memory. I mean, just two days before I had a whole apartment just for myself in Marburg for five days, they gave me a free upgrade (there was construction work around it but it was fine to me as I was outside most of the day) so it felt like living there again. This year I gotta say I wasn't so happy even when I was there in April, some anxiety but I'm planning a trip around in November again and I gotta say, I feel like my anxiety has gotten a lot better nowadays. I'm not gonna go into details, my friends here around know how bad it went (Sammie, you ARE a sweetheart!

[@SamFAHntha]

You got this ❤️ And Foil's German sure did improve since the livestream I'd say? Maybe Arms brought out his inner German teacher for him haha

[@miriam2526]

Oh true! Almost a year ago! Mixed feelings, as this always coincides with my having to move to Germany for the winter, but it really was my favourite meet and greet as well! (And great meeting you of course!). Can't wait for the Hamburg reunion 😊

[@jelenaarsenovic4250]

It's entertaining that Foil is teaching Arms, but Arms knows German pretty well. Really great sketch, like a lesson from German class that I had, but I had to pause going to learn German because I had surgery. I hope I would go in the future! 😊

[@katiesmith9482]

I know very little German, aside from schwarze Strumpfhosen (for reasons i can't remember) so this was a very useful and informative video. FAH, ever the great educators.

[@rain_of_parsley]

That is very specific 😂

[@copiouscareerist]

Very funny!! Always look forward to Thursday morning funnies!! Missed you, Hog!! xoxoxo

[@tlamiczka]

English: Butterfly... French: Papillon... Italian: Farfalla... German: SCHMETTERLING!!!!!!

[@foilarmsandhog]

I love that word

[@aliya_punkenglish]

butter+fly is even worse, come to think of it. My personal choice is 'farfalla', especially when it comes to pasta.

[@magmalin]

And in Spanish it's mariposa. So what? Nothing funny about any of these words

[@somebodyCHBiH]

Sommervogu (Sommervogel) in Switzerland

[@allyson1691]

Smart, incisive and funny! What a combo. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💖

[@ACEM1306]

Foil got the job offer of 'The Arms translator' in the outro 😂

[@WolfHagenSdW]

As a German trying to help my foreign friends with the language, always reminds me of my schooldays, where I failed at grammar. And then beeing remindet of the millipedes dilemma: You can talk it just fine, due to beeing native, but once someone asks you about grammar, you can't comprehend your own mother tounghe all of a sudden.

[@Alopex1]

As a native German speaker, I must say this is 100% spot on. Laughed my arse off :D

[@globalman]

This was really delicious. Living in Germany and speaking the language which is my fourth language it was fascinating to watch this. It is even more humorous due to the authenticity and knowledge of German. I thank you lads for a much needed laugh. P,however I’m really sad to discover just today, too late, that you will be in Cologne. It says sold out. 😩

[@Nariasan]

Geiler Sketch!! I'm German and think this is absolutely top notch! Even better my mum (German) is the one who sent it to me! (And if you can make my mum laugh, you're the best in the world 😉 )

[@Kappinr1]

Just bought Tickets for your Night in Hamburg. Thx for the reminder! Looking forward for seeing you guys live!🎉

[@jennyormrod2288]

I'm not going to lie I was surprised that it wasn't Arms teaching Foil German! My knowledge of German is very minimal as for some reason at the age of 14 I chose French to continue learning! Although saying that I would describe my knowledge of French as minimal as well! So maybe languages aren't my strong suit! Brilliant sketch! Happy Thursday!

[@Heleendje]

Me too! Hope they'll talk about casting decisions some time on Patreon 😂

[@foilarmsandhog]

Ah that's okay, we can't be good at everything!

[@silasmetzger1377]

I love your content and waited years for you to do your brilliant jokes about our funny language :)

[@freeindeed7]

Thank you, love the sketch! Both educational and funny :D

[@gioknows]

Brilliant LOL. You guys have great imaginations. You'll NEVER run out of material. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada🍁

[@Srynan]

As a german, this made me realize why it was relatively easy to learn a lot of english words quickly. Although - the pronounciation is def. Not easy 😂

[@daniellamcgee4251]

Old English was a Germanic language, hence the commonalities. 😊

[@nathalieb1626]

@@daniellamcgee4251 Old English was placed in the Anglo Frisian group of Western Germanic languages. English got influenced by Germanic languages (Scandinavian, German and Dutch) and by the French (romanic) language because of the Normandic and the Brittany influences (Brittany = Bretagne, French region) through history. English has influences too from older anglo saxon languages and/or dialects.

[@emberdragon3436]

As someone who learnt German for 5 years, I love this. This is going straight to my friends still studying it

[@catcat8890]

My second language is English and after I turned 30 years old, I moved to Germany and have learned it. German is not easy at all but this video is hilarious.😂

[@emilyormsbee5897]

I'm learning German in college (considering a minor in it) and this sketch really brightened up my morning! Definitely going to show my German professor!

[@jayATUK]

And then, once you've mastered German, go and visit Switzerland 😂😂 But you can start with Southern, then Western Austria to "ease" you into it

[@emmab4380]

I love how Hog was included in the sketch by being featured on the Kidney Failure Boy mug

[@princesskenny7990]

Nach diesem Video kann ich jetzt die deutsche Sprache perfekt. Danke!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I love Foil, Arms and Hog with content around Germany. This should be fun!

[@SamFAHntha]

How'd ya like it? 😃

[@heather5494]

Brilliant punchline! And efficient way of getting hog into a sketch - put him on a mug.

[@foilarmsandhog]

He's always watching