🇩🇪 LET'S LEARN GERMAN! American Couple Reacts "How Anyone (including YOU) Can Read German"

🇩🇪 LET'S LEARN GERMAN! American Couple Reacts "How Anyone (including YOU) Can Read German" | The Demouchets REACT
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[@hunchbackaudio]

I have to communicate in Dutch, English and German on a daily basis. And the only way that that’s possible for a linguistic failure as me, is that they are so similar. I’ve had 3 years of French education in school and that was a total waste of time, can’t do it.

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

You’ve learned the hardest languages to learn (to us) and think French is hard? 😅

[@hunchbackaudio]

@@TheDemouchetsREACT I had the advantage of learning the hardest one as a kid and it’s just between English and German. I found the language of math and music way easier to learn than all other languages. My brain is not wired for French.

[@dodgeprojects7078]

Yeah I did french for 3 years in school too and can't remember any of it ,I lived in Germany for 4 years and know alot

[@walterhelm8186]

@@TheDemouchetsREACT German has a complicated grammar, but in terms of commonly used vocabulary, it is closer to English than French.

[@HenryAusLuebeck]

hahahaha

[@Freeingtime]

Awe nostalgic moment, thanks for this. I lived in Germany for years. Loved it!❤

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

You’re welcome!

[@galenthom]

Tounge in German is pronounced as "tsunge, the e is produced as a short e sound". Zwei is pronounced as "ts why" this is the number 2.

[@16-BitGuy]

tsoonguh

[@tubekulose]

The German "z" is always pronounced like a "ts". The words you were struggeling with are approximately (phonetically not perfect yet) pronounced as follows: zu -> "tsoo" zwei -> "tsveye" Zunge -> "tsoongay" Different topic you briefly touched: every word in almost every Indo-European language, wherein a "ph" makes an "f"-sound (E.g.: telephone, photography, philosophy, ...), is a loanword from Greek.

[@pabuah7132]

W is pronounced V in German Wasser(Water) is pronounced Vassar, not Wasser. Vassar as in Vassar College

[@fredaowusu-agyapong]

Learning the basics in German is fun and then it gets hard and then you get a hang of it and then you start to struggle. Once in a while you struggle. You have to learn German your entire life . That's how it feels like Learning German.

[@TheCardiffgirl]

That wasn,t really easy, but you both did so well! I,ve been in Germany for so many years and I have to say that an english friend of mine had a lot more problems with pronunciation than I did, which I didnt understand until I realised that because I,m welsh, I was able to understand and verbalise the sounds much more automatically.

[@arnebollsen]

Moin! Greetings from north Germany 👍. High German is a new German language with no dialect. In north, middle and east north Germany we speak Plattdeutsch. It s the old German language ( low saxony, altsächsisch). . The old english comes from the German low saxony. Plattdeutsch is similar to dutch and old/ new english. Plattdeutsch: Moin ! Dat plattdüütsch is en olden düütschen sprack . Dat weer en regioon noch snackt. De kinners kun dat lern in de school. De olden lüüd op'n land snack dat noch. Woort up platt: Pepper- pepper- Piep- pipe Dat- that Old - old School - school Schipp- ship Schiet - shit Water -water Book- book De- the Drinken- drinking Op-up Clock - clock Son- son Süün- sun Maan - Moon Brod- bread Woort -word Eiland - island Hook- hook Funny Plattdeutsch word is Plüüschmoors- Bumblebee Plüüsch - soft ,smooth Moors - butt, ass😁 So mien deern un keerl dat weer en ennblick in de plattdüütsch sprack. Hool jüm wuchtig un allerbest ut noorddüütschland vun de waterkant Bremerhaven 👍 Arne 😁

[@CityOfWTown]

Hochdeutsch ist auch nur ein Dialekt und Plattdeutsch existiert überall in Deutschland und unterscheidet sich teilweise schon stark im Dorf nebenan.

[@michaelgrabner8977]

@@CityOfWTown Das stimmt nicht, vor allem die Aussage, es gäbe Plattdeutsch - überall - in Deutschland. Es gibt 2 deutsche Sprachfamilien und das sind, oder besser gesagt "waren" im Prinzip 2 verschiedene deutsche Sprachen. Und diese sind : Niederdeutsch + Hochdeutsch und das sind geographische Bezeichnungen. Alle deutschen Dialekte im Norden sind Teil der "Niederdeutschen Sprachfamilie" - und - alle deutschen Dialekte im Süden sind Teil der "Hochdeutschen Sprachfamilie" Plattdeutsch = Niederdeutsch ...Niederdeutsch wurde früher ausschließlich nur in den geographisch "Niederen Gebieten Deutschlands" = "im deutschen Flachland" = Im Norden gesprochen = das Niederdeutsch war "die deutsche Sprache des Nordens"mit all ihren Dialekten...übrigens "nieder" = "flach" = "platt" und "Plattdeutsch" (= ist übrigens der Dialekt der dem alten Niederdeutsch noch am allerähnlichsten ist) gibt es daher auch nur im Norden und deswegen nicht "überall" Übrigens "Holländisch/Niederländisch" hat sich auch aus "Niederdeutsch" entwickelt und gehört somit ebenfalls zur "Niederdeutschen Sprachfamilie"...und Niederdeutsch hat auch Dänisch sehr beeinflusst, deswegen unterscheidet sich Dänisch sehr von Schwedisch + Norwegisch obwohl alle 3 im Grunde sehr eng verwandte Nordische Sprachen sind = "Nordische Sprachfamilie". Hochdeutsch wurde früher ausschließlich nur in den geographisch "Erhöhten Gebieten Deutschlands" = "im deutschen Hügelland + Bergland/Alpen" = Im Süden gesprochen. Und dazu zählt auch die Schweiz + Österreich mit all ihren verschiedenen Dialekten...und das Hochdeutsch war "die deutsche Sprache des Südens" Und "Mittelhochdeutsch" is quasi ein Hybrid = vornehmlich Hochdeutsch (=Satzbau + Grammatik = hochdeutsch) + sehr viele Vokabeln von Niederdeutsch und verbindet somit Niederdeutsch mit Hochdeutsch...und ist auch die Sprache der Luther Bibel, die bekanntlich in vielen Aspekten zur späteren Standardiesierung der heutigen deutschen Sprache beigetragen hat.. Und "Standard Deutsch" = das standardisierte Deutsch von heute, dass man in der Schule oder als 2te Fremdsprache lernt, entwickelt von Konrad Duden" hat nun mal viel mehr von "Hochdeutsch" übernommen (=vor allem Satzstellung/Satzbau + generell sehr viel Grammatik) als von "Niederdeutsch" (= und hat damit "Niederdeutsch" komplett verdrängt in Deutschland und daher ist Niederdeutsch somit in Deutschland nur mehr in den norddeutschen Dialekten zu finden ) deswegen wird "Standard Deutsch" - umgangsprachlich - als "Hochdeutsch" bezeichnet, aber ein "Germanist/Linguist = "der Spachenprofi" würde das so nie tun (= würde nie den Begriff "Hochdeutsch" mit dem Begriff "Standard Deutsch" gleichsetzen so wie es umgangssprachlich überall getan wird, meist auch noch befeuert durch den Irrglauben der Begriff "Hochdeutsch" meint "Hoch Sprache" dabei meint es in Wahrheit bloß "Hochlandsprache" was man, wenn man Germanistik studiert, dann auch detailiert lernt.), weil der Germanist unterscheidet grundsätzlich zwischen "Standard Deutsch" und "Hochdeutsch" und zwischen "Hochdeutsch" und "Niederdeutsch" auf Grund dessen was ich hier versucht habe nur oberflächlich zu erklären.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Ähm...Hochdeutsch, entspricht der Schriftsprache. Das gilt so weit mir bekannt ist, gleichfalls für die Schweiz und Österreich. Nur mit der Ausnahme, dass da noch regionale Unterschiede auftreten, wie z.B. das österreichische Wort Paradeiser, für Tomate, die jedoch auch im Duden, Berücksichtigung finden.

[@Winona493]

That was fun! Even for me as a German!😂

[@Winona493]

"Sansch" for Zunge got me!😂

[@toniheikkila5607]

From my Fenno-Ugric view all the Indoeuropean languages are the same, just written differently 😅

[@wolsch3435]

I found robwords' post enlightening, but not surprising as a native German speaker. A small note: the letter "ß" is not simply an alternative for "ss", if a "ß" is placed after a vowel, it means that the vowel is pronounced long. Robword's pronunciation of "Fuß" is therefore wrong. But that only diminishes his contribution a little.

[@Anson_AKB]

about the "squiggly B" which isn't and never should be called "some kind of "B" or "some type of greek beta" : in old script, there were two different letters for "s", depending on whether they were at the end of a syllable or anyplace else. one of them looked similar to an "f" without the horizontal "-", and the other maybe more like a "s" or "z". when they appear together as a ligature, the "long s" and the "tailed z" or "round s" smelt together as the letter "ß" which therefore mostly is called "ess-zett", but also rarely "sharp s" or "double s". But it is completely unrelated to "B" or "beta". btw: there always ever was only a lowercase version of it since it never appears at the start of a word (remember that half of it is the version of "s" that only appears at the end of syllables, and that "ß" is more of a ligature than a real letter) and if it wasn't available in some script, it simply could be and was replaced by two s which also applied eg to uppercase headlines in books and newspapers: "ss" and "SS" (and which is always done in swiss german that doesn't use the "ß"; apparently also "sz" and "SZ" in east-austria near hungary). But quite recently in 2007 also an uppercase version of it was introduced in unicode and officially accepted in 2017 so that people now hopefully can obey bureaucracy when they are asked to fill out a form in "uppercase only" and at the same time are not allowed to change/modify/falsify names or words that include the lowercase ß. to read more about it and see graphically how it turned from two different "s" into the "ß", and which unicode codes lowercase and uppercase "ß" have, and even some pictures of currently existing streetname signs (with quite different versions of typescript for "ß" on them), search wikipedia for "ß" (cut&paste from here) or for "sharp s"

[@KairetuKaKafete]

Loved the test at the end, i was guessing with ya'll 😂

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

Stressed us out!😂

[@79Testarossi]

Great reaction 👍🏻 greetings from Austria 🇦🇹

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

Thank you.

[@michaausleipzig]

Well ... the consonants are one thing. The pronunciation of vowels also differs HUGELY between english and german. But it's actually much easier (or at least more consistent) in German. Vowels will pretty much always be pronunced the same. Meanwhile english gives you "book" but "cool" and "heat" but "head"!! Confusing!!!! 😜

[@Anson_AKB]

i think most european and many other languages pronounce vowels quite similar to each other, except for english which is very different and inconsistent when compared to european or also many other languages. when trying to speak german or other languages, it might be best to learn pronouncing the few vowels aeiou first (in german also äöü and ei ai ie), or you'll mess up every word (or give yourself an extra hard time) even when all the many consonants (including difficult ones, or variants like different "ch" in _ich_ [not like "ike"] vs _Bach_ [not like back], etc) are perfect. i would try to explain the pronunciation of vowels like this: a as u in "but/hut/un...", ä as e in "left" or a in "can", e as e in "bed" (but longer) or "ehh", i and ie as ee and ie in "eerie", i as i in jingle or y in ...ly, o as o in "robot", u as oo in "boots", ai and ei as the word "eye", ö as o in "worst" or ea in "earth", and ü as u in maybe "amusing". and y is no vowel at all, except in imported english words.

[@MrsStrawhatberry]

English has many more silent letters than German, for example the e at the end of words, they are ALWAYS pronounced in German. In English you don't say them out loud. When English speakers read german, they always forget to say the e in the too

[@bobopro1628]

Thx for your efforts. Greetings from Berlin. In addition to these swaps it helps to look at words that have been used by common people thousands of years ago and thereby haven't been influenced by academic latin: Hand, Finger, Arm, Nase, Bruder, Vater, Mutter, Haus, Bett, Wein, Wasser, Milch, Brot...

[@HenryAusLuebeck]

Weißt du was? Deutsch ist eine wundervolle Sprache. Gruß aus Schleswig-Holstein.

[@BatsiraiMusuka]

Funny enough...l had a German Grandma growing up. She long late now. She was my Fraternal Grandfather's brother's wife and they lived down the road from us. Still have memories of her (and she's the one who introduced my palate to soft boiled eggs and also to home made salsas) it was weird to me in those days though. And coincidentally, I am currently learning German as well. The "der" "die" "das" (and now l have just learnt there is also "den"), they are making me tear out my hair. Also "wandere" "wanderst" "wandert" also for some reason is getting me in a twist. And dont be fooled at how close they seem to be related to English...The sentence construction would make for broken English and that is always making for many a hilarious moments. I think you can tell l am enjoying my frustrations with it.

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

This was good for beginners, but it was still tricky. Those are great memories to have!

[@avr7120]

wait till you learn theres also "dem" (Dativ) and "des" (Genitiv)

[@BatsiraiMusuka]

@@avr7120 Warum muss Deutsch so schwierig sein?🥵

[@avr7120]

@@BatsiraiMusuka Ach komm, gibt schlimmeres. du packst das! Maybe it helped that I learned it in kindergarten and kids soak up language like it's nothing! Or that my first language is russian which has 6 Kasi? Kasuse? Kasus?, instead of the 4 in German lmao.

[@BatsiraiMusuka]

@@avr7120 Oh nien!! let me stick to German then 🤣

[@xwormwood]

You did very well, very good!

[@dietmarbottcher5900]

You did bloody good, seeing this for the first time. Watch it three or four times and you will be able to read german 👍👍😊

[@butenbremer1965]

Love you so much for having done this fun reaction video! Greetings from Frankfurt, GER. 🥰 "Apfelkuchen" actually happens to be my most favorite "Kuchen" of all time! If you'd ever stumbled upon the German word "Keks" (as in "Butterkeks") - just swap the "k" with a "c" and you'll get "cakes" aka as cookies (i.e. small cakes) in modern English. This is a small world!

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

This video put our thinking muscles into overdrive😂. We’re glad you enjoyed it.

[@josbogers]

Cookies is actual derived from the Dutch word "koekies" which means the same.

[@publicminx]

its always good if one does not think those (German, Dutch, English) as different languages but just as different dialects. if one looks at the different english or german dialects then you also have often a different way to write it, to pronounce it etc, but if one gets the greater pattern behind it then its getting more easy. and there is a lot of words which are quite obvious similar if one speaks it the same way. if one speak 'light' in English then its sounds more different to the german 'Licht' as if you speak 'light' in the German way. then its clear thats quite similar, just in the past ppl wrote it with different letters. often differences were just from writing the same/similar spoken language with different letters down.

[@stephanterblanche4597]

Zu = tsu Zwei = tswei Zunge = tsu-nge (the e at the end like in the)

[@BatsiraiMusuka]

20:44 Easy, you say? wait till you start with the way they construct sentences 😅😅🤣🤣🤣

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

Oooh you must've missed us stressing out at the end lol This was hard enough.

[@BatsiraiMusuka]

@@TheDemouchetsREACT l saw it🤣 All l can tell you is that, the fact that a lot of words are similar to Englisch makes the fact that sentences are approached in what would be broken English manner mind boggling 🤣🤣🤣 “I play every day like football” literal translation there (l like to play football every day) so you constantly feel like you are a fool while thinking what you want to say🤣🤣

[@winterlinde5395]

@@BatsiraiMusuka Do you know „If English was spoken like German“ by Nalf? You will love it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnTFgHmHdtOMfZo

[@BatsiraiMusuka]

@@winterlinde5395 let me check it out 🙏🏾😀

[@BatsiraiMusuka]

@@winterlinde5395 Love it! 🤣🤣 Hope you suggested it for The Demouchets to react?

[@juampisito]

I'm Spanish but that was a very interesting video. I can use those swaps too because it is more effective than trying to find similarities in Spanish, since latin was already very different + we have many words with arabic ethymological roots, from the times Spain was controlled by them.

[@thomasvieth578]

I'm German and I am impressed how you did on your first try. It's like being thrown into cold water to swim. Congratulations, dear people

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

Thanks! 😃

[@earthlymelodies]

As a German, I have to say that german is known for being one of the hardest languages but once you know the basics it's not that difficult. The three genders and the German "the" are the hardest part so he, she, it would be er, sie, es or der, die, das. In English you say a lot of "you" whereas in german we are a bit more specific. For example Sie, pronounced "Zee" is the female pronoun but also how you talk to someone or a group formally. Die, pronounced "Dee", is also female but used mostly for objects such as "Die Blume" meaning "the flower". German is a very gendered language and the amounts of words Germans have for "the" and "you" is definitely the hardest part of learning German. Once that's figured out, it's quite easy because English came from ancient german, they are both Germanic languages and thus have many similar sounding words. For me, Danish, Dutch, Belgian, Norwegian etc. are easy to understand since they are all so much alike because they're all Germanic languages. That's why Italians, Portuguese, Spaniards etc. usually understand each other's languages quite a bit since they're all roman, latin languages.

[@BatsiraiMusuka]

Yup! I had a German Oma when l was a toddler. I’m now decades later after her passing, trying to learn meine “Omasprache”, Deutsch. Und “Die”, “Der”, “Das”, (and now “Den”) are kicking my butt. Also “Wanderer“, „Wandert“, „Wanderst“ somehow sometimes get me in a twist. 😅😩

[@shogunsan6429]

Dude, try Japanese…then u know what’s really hard….especially the writing is a killer coz Japanese are using three (!) different writing systems. And Japanese language has a completely different grammar, u can’t compare it with German/Western grammar. I must say German language is not sooo complicated…comparing to Japanese (or other Asian languages) it’s easy😉

[@Blanko1998]

Das schwerste am deutschen sind unsere verschachtelten Sätze und nicht der die das :D der die das kann man auch einfach falsch machen und jeder versteht einen... Die komplizierten langen Sätze, die man in der deutschen Sprachen bilden kann, lassen sich allerdings nicht so leicht umgehen.

[@earthlymelodies]

@@Blanko1998 Welche genau meinst du?

[@Blanko1998]

@@earthlymelodies Laut Duden ist ein Schachtelsatz ein “langer, kompliziert gebauter Satz mit mehrfach untergeordneten Nebensätzen”. Anders ausgedrückt sind mehrere Satzteile ineinander “verschachtelt”.

[@derwolf9670]

Next Monday...written test

[@jekokoje8592]

And once you've got that "high German" (Hochdeutsch) down, let's start learning each of the 380+ different dialects spoken throughout the country. Way to confuse people, lol. Not sure about other countries but in Germany it is not uncommon for Germans from the north not being able to understand Germans from the south (Bavaria or Baden Württemberg) and vice versa. It is too funny sometimes when we have to remind our fellow country people to speak high German so we can actually communicate with one another. German is awesome!

[@winterlinde5395]

German a is like the French a. Same with e and i. We pronounce those similar, too. German u is French ou German o is French eau ☺️ German ei is like English i German ie is like English e Ö like in French neuf or œuf German ü is the French u Ä like the ai in vraiment Z always ts. Like in its. I think our ch sounds like the r in quatre. If it doesn’t follow e or i. Then it’s like the y in yes but without the voice. There you have it. Now you can pronounce German🤗 Ah, wait. Sch is like sh. And s before t or p is sh, too. Viel Spaß!! (Feel shpaass)

[@hyenalaughingmatter8103]

The French language is a mixure between the Frankish language mixed in with Latin after the Rom,ans took over the Frankish tribe which was Germanic also...

[@carribeanbratzguyanesequeen997]

I got apple,coffee and water i- this is harder for someone who knows more than 2 language

[@caresereth3611]

I am from Austria and we also speak German. As a native speaker, I have to tell you that you pronounced almost every word incorrectly. But I understand, German is a pretty difficult language.

[@bajanroyalty5935]

Can wunna do barbados next🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

Sure!

[@bErLiNTrigun81]

U both do a great Job...🤜🤛👍

[@stephanterblanche4597]

Move to South Africa. Learn Afrikaans. And Dutch and German will be easy peesy! Come now, we are waiting for you! Love your channel!

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

Afrikaans wasn’t as easy for us to try😂

[@stephanterblanche4597]

@@TheDemouchetsREACT you need a good teacher! Services offered.

[@Fedja-2210]

To be honest. It's easier to ok earn dutch or the friesian language for a native english speaker. Because of the closer connection to the old english.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

What a surprise...

[@juwen7908]

If you had a little bit more expierence in german as we germans had with english, you'll probably see these similarities are really obviously. 😎

[@Microtubui]

you both are to cute^^ greetings from germany^^

[@Sizzlik]

Bone apple tea

[@cellevangiel5973]

A note to all English speaking. How difficult do yo think it is to learn English, to pronounce and write it correctly. So don't complain, we had to learn English.

[@carribeanbratzguyanesequeen997]

English is hard for me too expectly grammar 😅.

[@naimapeukert8575]

Super 👍 liebe Grüße aus Germany ❤❤

[@lemmyjay2546]

Bitte shön 🤝

[@renatewest6366]

Zunge pronounced soonger

[@queenarawelo0]

Please react to this is Somalia

[@FreezingFx]

Funny how the video is about translating something and you take it as how to pronounce stuff half of the run time. It doesn't work like that.

[@raineramelung7380]

Hi😃😃check out,, Jennifer Rostock - Kaleidoskop"*... How to speak,, typical aggressive,,... ((just a stereotype👍

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

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