Why German is such a beautiful language

[@nsimba_777]

Finally someone who really appreciates it... I'm german, and used to people always ruining the reputation of the language

[@acomathes]

once the people see the word itself instead of just hearing, they go like "Okay then it doesnt seem that rude of a word". Deutsch: the more you learn, the more you love (except for Artikels!)

[@nsimba_777]

+Ahmet Polat So true, and yeah, all foreigns struggle with the articles 😂😂 It's possible to learn it though.

[@acomathes]

Nsimba S. Yeah ich habe das schon gelernt, deshalb freue ich mich darüber :D Jetzt kann ich ohne auswendig zu lernen die Artikelen wissen, ich glaube dass ich wie einen deutscher denken kann

[@nsimba_777]

+Ahmet Polat Für mich klingst du wie ein Deutscher (Im chat zumindest xD) Finde das echt nice 😉 hast du die deutsch studiert?

[@acomathes]

Nsimba S. Ja, für zwei Jahren im Gymnasium, und ich lerne noch weiter

[@PedoFranck]

Wie hier sich Deutsche auf englisch unterhalten. Lustig.

[@celinel.6964]

Ist einfach so😂

[@slummymind]

please don´t think germans dislike your accent when they ask you about it! It´s pretty sure just curiosity. (I would even say most germans like to hear somebody speak german with an american or dutch accent. for sure I do)

[@palomino73]

+slummymind Agreed; I also love hearing german being spoke in all the worlds dialects - sometimes so exotic !

[@J0J0McM0M0]

mal abgesehen von slawischen/arabischen akzenten stimme ich dir vollkommen zu ;)

[@Mel-id7yq]

Somtimes a englisch accent sounds really aggressive, but that is not why i ask

[@Mel-id7yq]

***** funny

[@linguaphilly]

+Carsten Diesterbeck Social conditioning

[@menacetosociety471]

German should be considered a love language considering the beauty of it. I love the way it sounds. I love it so much.

[@eduschwartz]

i'm from Brazil and i am trying to. learn German by myself. i love so much the sound of the language and the culture.

[@laurenski3379]

Nice to hear

[@finsternis1986]

+Eduardo Schwartz Good for you! You can do it; I taught myself.

[@eduschwartz]

+Doge Chan ich habe gelernt 1000 Wörter mit Memrise Software und Einige Sätze auch. Danke für die Nachfrage.

[@sylt6065]

+Eduardo Schwartz Well, your surname ist German (if that is your real surname here), so you can definitely try it!

[@robertheilmeier2671]

+Eduardo Schwartz Weiterhin viel Freude und Erfolg damit!

[@businessentiel573]

I love German and I'm gonna do my Business Master in Germany to learn the language in the meantime (I'm French)

[@daniellaaudish2400]

I agree, people just make stereotypes against the German language, because of an incident that happened almost 80 years ago. I am 13 years old, and am pushing myself to speak German. Most people at school tease me, but I love the language. What should I do?

[@jkek1993]

daniella Aüdisch Learn and love the language! learning a language in the modern world (especially German) can be highly beneficial for the future :)

[@OpenGL4ever]

daniella Aüdisch If your people at school tease you, make them aware of the following fact. Germany has a history of over 700 years, but Nazi Germany was in power for only 12 years. 12 years can't stand for a country that has a history of over 700 years.

[@kamradt]

daniella Aüdisch Just be your awesome self and keep doing it! If that doesn't help remind them that it is important to say open minded when it comes to other countries . And that what language you choose to speak is you buisness. Also you could say that the USA nearly voted German as their native country language. So people all over the world nearly would have had to take German lessons instead of English.

[@daniellaaudish2400]

Thanks!

[@s.hoffmann5616]

daniella Aüdisch Well I'm not trying to defend anything that we Germans did in WW2 but anybody who still judges us generations later should please take a look at his own country's history. The way Native Americans and Native Africans were handled just a few decades ago wasn't that gentle either. I can surely say that Germany today is definitely a less if not one of the least racist and patriotic countries. Learing German as a second language is a challange that only few accomplish. You'll be one of them. If anybody wants to discourage you ask him how many languages he speaks, because in Germany he couldn't even graduate high school without being fluent in at least three. (German, English and one of his own Choice.) Speaking more than one language is a good investment in your future. You'll be able to study abroad (most German Universities have no tuition fee), you'll have a greater selection of jobs even in other countries and if you end up working for a one of many big German international Companies like Siemens, Miele, etc. you'll have good chances to get a good payed international position within that company.

[@Ottiliemo]

As a Persian-Iranian, I LOVE AND ADORE THIS LANGUAGE. however I can recognize just some simple words and sentences but I really would love to learn this brilliant language. The sound is PERFECT

[@davidberlant5096]

Ich habe Deutsch für vielen Jahren studiert. Ich liebe auch diese Sprache!

[@celinel.6964]

Ich komme aus Deutschland. Ich finde meine Muttersprache langweilig.😂😂😂😂

[@eterusilvers3919]

Your videos are great! Usually when people talk about german language on the internet they just make fun about how brutal it sounds to them (especially people from the states tend to do that), but they never really learn it and have no clue of how brilliant, poethic and versatile it actually is

[@Celisar1]

That's very true. So nice to finally meet someone who appreciates the german language instead of making fun of it. I once saw an interview with that blonde girl who had a leading role in "Scrubs". She has german roots and claimed to have some knowledge of German but claimed, everything in German had to be shouted and barked, what she then demonstrated with a lot of non- existing words, mere gibberish. I really felt highly offended. It's ok not to like German, but you at least have to KNOW it!

[@hmalhotra2504]

German language is a eloquent language in its nature. I am learning german from last 1 years and realy I love it.

[@Purple.Tentacle]

German spoken with a dutch accent actually sounds so cute and funny to most of us. Also, i don't know people who dislike foreign accents here, though they might ask just for curiousity.

[@Schneeeulenwetter]

I like how calmly you are speaking!

[@frieda2413]

I never met a german who disliked the dutch accent. The opposite is true. We love the dutch accent ;) Just look at Rudi Carrell, Linda de Mol and Mareike Amado....also all the old Schlager Songs from 70's/80's...gotta love them ;)

[@AerisShenlin]

here's a wonderful example of how beautiful my language can be Der PantherIm Jardin des Plantes, Paris Sein Blick ist vom Vorübergehn der Stäbe so müd geworden, dass er nichts mehr hält. Ihm ist, als ob es tausend Stäbe gäbe und hinter tausend Stäben keine Welt. Der weiche Gang geschmeidig starker Schritte, der sich im allerkleinsten Kreise dreht, ist wie ein Tanz von Kraft um eine Mitte, in der betäubt ein großer Wille steht. Nur manchmal schiebt der Vorhang der Pupille sich lautlos auf -. Dann geht ein Bild hinein, geht durch der Glieder angespannte Stille - und hört im Herzen auf zu sein. Rainer Maria Rilke, 6.11.1902, Paris

[@blackstaff1993]

Das ist echt gut^^ Ich meine ich bin kein großer Fan von Gedichten aber Rilke war schon ein guter^^

[@Hagalazii]

I only recently realised how great german is. as you said. it can be very eloquent and specific. also it's great to express subtext. there just always seem to be infinte ways to express something. also so many wonderful, almost lyrical words. like wanderlust, fernweh. and so many funny insults also.

[@thomasmoeres8372]

Thanks for sharing your experience with us Germans/Austrians. I think I have seldomly heard a better analysis of the dialect-identity relation of the German culture. Pleasure to listen to

[@LifeyApp]

Thomas Moeres Thanks for watching!

[@OEMMELGOEMMEL16]

***** Actually almost everyone in Lower Saxony speaks High German...

[@blessthe90s60]

Thomas Moeres same oppinion here...

[@7madonna7]

Thomas Moeres you forgett the swiss people ):

[@MaliciousMarvel]

+7madonna7 Is the Swiss version really "German"? ^^ Just kidding. It's another interesting dialect and a hard-to-understand one, if you're not used to it. But I guess that counts for several others as well. I'm quite a bit surprised that an English native speaker understands the value of having more grammatical options that clearly. Yes, we lack the broad variety of vocabulary that English has to offer. There are in fact fewer words in German than in English. But I think that a healthy mix of grammar and vocab variety offers the most options to express yourself. Maybe German is focussed a bit too much on grammar. But still no comparison to Latin.

[@DJKLProductions]

German and English are near related because the Anglo-Saxons move to current England during the Roman era. They came from the region where Saxony is today. You see England --> Anglo(-Saxony) --> german state Saxony. Theoretically English people are related with current Saxons but the seperation is long ago. Nonetheless many words are almost the same. Sometimes the meaning has changed a little bit. A few examples: German "Fleisch" is similar to/related with "flesh" which means in German "Fruchtfleisch" oder "Menschenfleisch". German "Karre" is sometimes used as synonym für "Auto" which is the word for "car" and "car" is similar to "Karre. Many "C" in German are changed to "G" in English: e.g.: Nacht = Night (okay the "A" is also changed) Macht = Might (Power) Licht = Light Other similarities: Ich = I Du = You Wir = We Flug = Flight Montag = Monday Freitag = Friday Sonntag = Sunday Ja = yeah (almost the same pronunciation)/yes Nein = no scheu = shy Schule = school müssen = must haben = have and so on. Don't have any fear of learning Germany!

[@bacunajagua]

DJKLProductions The region "Angeln" in northern Germany is said to be the home of the anglo-people who went to England. The language spoken in Angeln (Plattdeutsch or lower german) has a lot of similarities with the english language.

[@DJKLProductions]

bacunajagua Yeah, that's right. The Anglo-Saxons were an combination of the ethnic peoples: Saxons and Angles. Now we have in Germany three Bundesländer (states) which are called Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony. Look at northern Germany, there live the two peoples very closed. They went during the Völkerwanderung (Migration Period) to the island of the current UK and live together. I now how similar Lower German and English. Netherlandic/Dutch is similar too.

[@ertz141]

DJKLProductions I speak german and I can understand danish and dutch a little bit :D Germanic languages are simply the best.

[@DJKLProductions]

. Haha ^^, but I think that a language family/stock isn't better than another. What makes a language family/stock better? The simplicity?

[@ertz141]

DJKLProductions I just like how Germanic languages are straight forward and kinda manly :D

[@16-BitGuy]

there are many german who in fact do like american and dutch accent

[@muece]

Ich mag das Video echt gerne:-) er hat's schön gesagt und wenn jemand über deine Muttersprache spricht, fallen einem plötzlich wieder Kleinigkeiten auf, auf die man sonst ja nie achtet.

[@MaximKretsch]

I don't think that we Germans don't like an alien accent when we just ask where a person comes from. It is more some kind of true interest. Maybe it is also a result of the mentioned wide diversity of German dialects. If they have to ask about the origin of your accent it already means that it isn't too "thick". And after all: Being able to express yourself in a foreign language always leads others to the conclusion that you are an intelligent, educated person.

[@clare2385]

I totally agree!

[@MaximKretsch]

***** Do you mean subordinate clauses? They exist in other languages as well. In my eyes the main specialty about the German syntax is that the verb is at the end, for the main clause as well as for any subordinate clause. Since a verb is the predicate of any clause it must be difficult to figure out the meaning when a sentence becomes too long, or some subordinate clauses form a nested sentence with a cluster of participles in the end, and you have to sort out in real-time which verb belongs to which clause. Mark Twain, whose German was close to native level, gave us some awful examples of that. On international meetings interpreters usually turn very nervous when a German delegate rises to speak.

[@MaximKretsch]

My own experience from staying abroad: From the way someone talks to foreigners you can tell of his own language skills thus intelligence and educational background. Since I speak several foreign languages I'm aware of this problem and do what any polite and perceptive person would do when talking to obvious foreigners of whom they don't know the language skills: pronouncing clearly, using simple vocabulary and forming plain sentences. But that is probably not what many Germans would think of first. What we certainly won't do is to change our grammar. I hope you don't expect that. :-)

[@robertheilmeier2671]

+Maxim Kretsch I just wanted to add the very same things you wrote about Mark Twain, it really comes to mind exemplifying some of the apparently daunting challenges people are facing when they begin to learn German. Greetings

[@MaliciousMarvel]

+Helga Haper I am able to imagine how difficult learning other languages can be. Especially when your native language is English. No offense meant, but almost anything that has to do with grammar will be new to you. I really felt for the guy from the US who had to learn basic Latin in order to improve his status at work. If you're not used to the concept of grammatical cases at all, it is much more difficult to handle a language like Latin, which basically consists of grammar, more grammar and yet even more grammar. There are other difficult-to-learn languages, though. Hungarian, for example, is said to be even harder to learn than German. I don't know about that. But still, I always keep telling my fellow Germans that German is one of the most hardest-to-learn languages in the world. One problem is that we keep some grammatical things to our language that are actually outdated. Few people really know where those things originated from. But we keep them, 'cause we're used to them. Like the prefix "ge-". Other Germanic languages abandoned it long time ago, although it was used there in former times as well. Back then it had its meaning. About having things in common... I think you're missing something there. When you compare languages it makes a huge difference whether you want to see things in common (or just similarities) or not. I think regarding our language we assimilate things fast and abandon them very slowly. By the way, I noticed some relation between "Learn some proper German first" (which is addressed to refugees or immigrants in general by those who oppose immigration into our country) and the ability to use German with native speakers. The louder that sentence is yelled (meaning, the more that person demands you to learn that "proper German", which ironically isn't spoken by many Germans) the poorer their own German speaking abilities. Which could mean - and I really hope it does - that those who speak some better German will forgive mistakes made using our language more easily. I know there are people who are sympathetic towards German learners. But I'm just afraid there aren't that many of us.

[@Levus97]

what are you talking about? :DD many germans think a dutch accent is soo cute !!!

[@linguaphilly]

aw thanks bae

[@xxxcolabinexxx]

that's true! an american accent also makes me feel comfortable but the british one really gets me going! Love that one! a very nice comment about our language, by the way ...

[@SnorriSnibble]

I am german and since my childhood I spent my summers in Bavaria because my dad grew up there but even for me it's hard to understand bavarian people even if they speak 'high' german. And when they speak bavarian I feel like I am in a foreign country, I don't know why.

[@xLeoYu]

+Alicia Chiara I can relate to that. I live in Baden-Württemberg, but I can only speak high German. I rarely hear someone talk Schwäbisch and I know very few people that actually speak Schwäbisch, (it's mostly elderly people), but that might be because I live near Stuttgart? I don'tknow :D

[@SnorriSnibble]

***** where I spend my vacation most of them speak bavarian or have a bavarian accent. It's a small village in Oberfranken.

[@schneeroseful]

+xLeoYu I live near Bodensee and the people who live here speak Schwabian very much/strong.

[@upai990]

+Snorri Snibble bayerisch ist ein schöner Dialekt :D hod da Bayer gsogt ^^

[@PreciousLena]

+Snorri Snibble well i cant speak bavarian that good although i live in Bavaria :D but It is actually not that difficult :3 and +Arkturos uhh xD isnt it Bayrisch? or is that just me.. was weiß ich :33

[@quantummath]

Very interesting video, I have been learning German for the past few weeks, and I really feel lucky to have the chance to learn it in Hamburg where "hochdeutsch" is the predominant dialect.

[@z3lop59]

Hochdeutsch ist einfach mit das geilste an der Deutschen Sprache. Geh irgendwo hin und du wirst alles verstehen und wirst überall verstanden😂

[@quantummath]

Das ist sehr gut und hilfreich. Ich habe besucht Hamburg drei mal und ich denke die Deutsch in den Nachtrichten und die Deutsch in Hamburg sind ahnlich. Ich habe begann vor 51 Tage die Sprache zu lernen und ich denke ... es ist ein langer Weg vor mir. Vielen dank für deine nachricht. all the best A.M.G. P.S. sorry about the bad grammar, it's still an unfinished product. Zelop

[@z3lop59]

A. M. Goudarzi Wow, Dein deutsch ist schon ziemlich gut. Und du lernst wirklich erst seit 51 Tagen deutsch? Ich habe englische Freunde, die schon seit mehreren Jahren Deutsch lernen, mehrfach in Deutschland waren und trotzdem nicht annähernd so gut sind!!!

[@Fuerwahrhalunke]

Ich schaue mir diese Videos an um daran erinnert zu werden wie schön die Deutsche sprache und Kultur eigentlich ist. Ich selbe lebe in Deutschland und verliere, vor lauter Kulturwirrwarr das zur Zeit im eigenen Land abgeht, andauernd die Liebe zur eigenen Sprache und zur eigenen Kultur, die leider sehr unter zu gehen scheint.

[@sarakaster]

+Luey Mich fasziniert die lokale Definition von Humor sehr. Von Bundesland zu Bundesland enorme Unterschiede. Mit Sarkasmus und schwarzen Humor stößt man in vielen Bundesländern auf komplettes Unverständnis und seltsame Blicke. Andere findet man mit ihren fast schon kindlich bildlichen, simplen Humor komplett einsilbig und lächerlich...

[@sarakaster]

***** Damit hat Du vollkommen recht. Viele schmeißen auch die ganze Zeit in ihrer Runde mit "Insider-Jokes" um sich. Wer sich hier nicht auskennt, schaut blöd. Humor ist vielschichtig. Er integriert oder exkludiert Dich in einer Gruppe. Vor allem aber ist er für mich ein Indikator für Intelligenz. Schnelle Comebacks, assoziativ clevere Wortspiele etc. - was gibt es Schöneres ;) Für manche allerdings ein Buch mit sieben Siegeln...

[@marvmarv89]

It was so interesting to listen to your experiences about my language :) Thanks for the video!

[@ariagaranai8106]

FreShDoGZ dein ernst?

[@ariagaranai8106]

FreShDoGZ dein ernst?

[@beuz_8692]

This video is outstanding! Thank you for sharing!

[@ThePerfectRed]

When I learned as an apprentice in Munich it was the only school for my trade in Bavaria so pupils from all regions came together. We sometimes 'collected words', like what do you call the end piece of a loaf of bread? We often came up with more than a dozen words for the same thing.

[@flobbos]

Thanks for sharing your insights. German is indeed, like you said, a very precise and eloquent language with a colorful range of dialects. It's just plain beautiful.

[@Mittelassi]

You are very right about dialects in Germany. Even in Bavaria there are about 5 main dialects and plenty of variations of these. Its a difficulty to unterstand every word of the dialects if you didn't grow up with 'em, especially for a foreign human :D

[@gerritlange6265]

Artizal Right, but I'd like to add that "high-German" is replacing the dialects more and more. I grew up in a high-German area and my wife did also. Now we live in Freiburg where people use to speak "Badisch" or a bit further south "Alemannisch". These dialects are only rarely spoken by the young people nowadays and will die out in the future (eventually). And: it's not only about different vocabularies or different pronunciations but also different grammar which differs pretty much in some cases from high-German. Unfortunately, a lot of kids don't speak the dialect as such any more but they are sticking to the faulty grammar (which is a pain when it comes to oneself as a parent having its own kid in school where it needs to write proper high-German but picked up "faulty" badisch-German during kindergarten-time).

[@Mittelassi]

Gerrit Lange Yes I think we can totally agree that 'high-German' is replacing other dialects. I'm 18 and, I live in lower Bavaria about 50km away from Munich and in my town many young people speak the lower bavarian dialect but you can kind of look at the bavarian dialect losing 'control' of peoples mouths.

[@ertz141]

Nice to hear opinions of foreigners about German and Germany! I'm a native German speaker, but I'm more and more trying to improve my English since I believe that English is the most beautiful language in the world (and it sounds incredible). Schönen Tag euch allen noch (:

[@G31M1]

+. Schleimer :D :P Nein Quatsch Englisch ist wirklich eine schöne und coole Sprache und es ist einfacher als Französisch (finde ich zumindest). ^^

[@ertz141]

i_Plagi Stimmt. Außerdem ist die Aussprache im Französischen extrem schwierig.

[@mty1]

+. I'm English, we like German girls here, uber schoen :)

[@TheSanraphael]

"High German" is the language of the writing/paper, dialect is the language of the heart. Thats a little saying where i come from :) (horrendous translation lol)

[@imaginareality]

You should have come to Switzerland, we have a lot of dialects here :-) And some towns (like Biel) are bilingual which I think is super cool. I love languages and dialects and all that stuff :-)

[@Svanrige]

Swiss is very difficult to understand for people learning German and it also isnt very recommended to learn swiss-german first, or hear it - because it is so different from German it could be a different language. Not even Germans understand Swiss, if they speak with dialects. I think that is the reason people avoid Switzerland for learning German.

[@imaginareality]

Ragnar Lothbrok Swiss people actually don't consider their language to be a german dialect. They see it as a different language. So, I agree, that you can't really learn german in switzerland (although we do have what we call "standard german" and that's like the german in Germany - it's our official, written language). I just meant that for somebody who loves different dialects Switzerland is a good place to go because we definitely have those :-)

[@J0J0McM0M0]

+imaginareality ich war schon mehrmals in der schweiz - umgebung luzern - und muss sagen, dass ich probleme damit habe, schweizerdeutsch zu verstehen :X mal abgesehen von den vielen 'fremdartig' klingenden wörtern und dem 'ch' laut. grützi :D nein nein, es heißt grüezi x'D

[@maria-melek]

Ich bin lerne Deutsch, und Ich finden die Deutsche Sprache ist sehr schön. Grüße aus Amerika 😊 🖤❤️💛 *I’m sorry for my bad German, I’m just learning.* I’m learning German, and I find the German language to be very beautiful, the way it sounds is so beautiful, when Germans speak English with a German accent it’s beautiful. It bothers me a bit when people exaggerate the German language, even though it’s a bit funny. Don’t be ashamed to know/be German. Nobody should be ashamed of their language/culture/customs…etc. Estoy aprendiendo Alemán y en mi opinión es una de las lenguas más hermosas del mundo. If any German has any tips or is willing to be my friend, that would be wunderbar :))) Und danke Edit: Btw my I speak: 🇲🇽(🇪🇸), 🇺🇸(🇬🇧), learning 🇩🇪 In that order, my main Language though is English.

[@MarvinNeumannOfficial]

Very interesting to hear all of it...although (me as somebody from Germany) I don't really mind of somebody is not from Germany and has a very accent while speaking German...I actually find it fascinating and I really do appreciate it!

[@iValtex]

Love your point of view on german, thank you for sharing! I know people in their late 50's/early 60's that first learned high german when they got into school and had to speak it, because they only spoke the dialect ( Münsterländer Platt in my case), which is practically an own language and does absolutely not sound like high german at all. My grandparents for example only use the dialect, they rarely speak in high german with me and never do so with their friends, simply because everybody spoke the dialect in their everyday lives. A Westphalian would never understand a Bavarian and vice versa if they'd speak in their dialects :)

[@daniellaaudish2400]

OpenGL4ever and Tiana Morgen, thanks, I am from Australia with German nationality

[@OpenGL4ever]

@5:40 The city and surrounding area where High German is spoken in Germany natively is Hanover. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanover

[@user-kn3uz4vs8y]

I'm from Germany!:) I live in Baden-Württemberg near Tübingen

[@paratino19]

You should have gone to north of Germany and speak some Plattdeutsch. Bavaria and Austria are very alike but Plattdeutsch is really different. And I as a German would say that if you put a guy talking Bavarian in a room together with a guy talking Plattdeutsch they would not understand each other at all. :D

[@TheSaifear]

+SwatTeamExit und wieder etwas komplett neues gehört, also das ist an sich nicht unnormal - höre jeden Tag was neues, aber von Dingen wo ich dachte ich kenn mich aus? nice1 :D

[@shotdownbird]

as a person who speaks german (Bernese), french, swiss italo, spanish and swahili(suaheli) german is no fun. no room for mistakes.

[@Warwipf]

As a German this was very interesting to me. It's cool to see how people from other nations view our language and I was surprised when you mentioned Tübingen, because I actually live near there in a city called Ulm. I've been to Tübingen quite often, especially 2013 and this year. Maybe we've actually seen each other in real life. Anyway, I have to add something to your video: The closer you get to the bigger cities, the less people speak in their dialect. If you live in a bigger city almost everyone under the age of 40 speaks high german. Dialects are often seen as something undesirable and most young people try to get rid of their own dialects, because high german sounds more sophisticated.

[@slothfromthegoonies8201]

I've heard German spoken by hundreds of people from all different walks of life, and nothing will ever convince me that it's a beautiful language. I'd like to make it clear that it's just my opinion, before any of you get triggered.

[@erick-gd7wo]

i studied in Austria for 6 years, i love the language, may be 20 years back the native would have recognize my austrian accent. i read some literature to hold my german still intact

[@Iampowerful8]

I like and love German aswell..!

[@chrisconrad234]

Danke für dein Video :-)

[@wmf831]

Don't worry, we are open to all kinds of accents :-) We're just very curious and direct. There are actually regions where there isn*t really a dialect. I grew up without one.

[@clare2385]

My mom is from Switzerland and my dad from Tübingen but of some reason I always spoke high german and as time went by my parents accent has gotten more high german too. But I do can speak in my mums softened Switzerland accent and perfectly understand a strong one, my friends can't and that's kind of cool! You said every person in Germany has an accent but actually I only know a few people with accents and most of them are over 40 y.o. In my grade, f.e., there is only one person who speaks with an accent even though at least half of the kids have parents with an accent. I really, really liked this video! It's kind of the first time I've heard something positive about German on the internet.

[@Tiybara]

Saskia H. That is most probably not true. Having had language training from early on to loose any accent and speak flawless high German I was pretty sure that I had no accent. And I never heard any accent with my classmates and later friends and colleagues. So it took me by surprise when travelling to another spot of Germany nearly everybody placed my whereabouts in the north of Germany because of my accent! To this day I can swear neither I nor people around me have one. But it seems my ear being used to it can just not detect it.

[@eg8al]

apparantly you understand the nature of the german language really well. gratuliere! :)

[@vertexrikers]

I grew up in Göttingen which is located in the central region of Germany at the south tip of Lower Saxony. If you want to learn or listen to pure High German - go there. Give the most kissed girl of Germany, dem Gänseliesel, a bright smile and my best lovely greetings :-)

[@Lea-cr8sq]

I love your video! i am from vienna and sadly i can only speak high german :/ i think it's quite interesting to see what someone who's native language isn't german thinks about it :)

[@Keyuser1972]

I like the dutch accent :)

[@ruvstof]

Is a very cultivated language and has a very rigorous structure. You can be clearer in German than in English. But you can be more obscure too.

[@robertheilmeier2671]

+Claudio Costa Very interesting observations on my mother tongue, thanks!

[@stewland1]

I guess that I don't think of Germans ad LDS. I,grew up in Minnesota among German Catholics. Beer and polka Mass are such a part of our culture .

[@Джейн-ъ6ж]

To be honest i know arabic,english,korean and now im personally very interested in german! Im hopefully going to enter courses for this beautiful language,but i do wonder if there are accents in german(the language itself)?

[@shoopdawhoop8730]

Germans love the other german dialects actually... but there is a culutural rivalry between all of them so its normal that people act like their dialect/region is a bit better. if the accent is too heavy it is of course expected that the person atleast tries to speak high german so everyone can understand and if thats not the case well then we germans dont like that! I for my part love it when people learn german and try to speak it :)

[@G31M1]

+shoop dawhoop Der Ossi-Dialekt ist echt lustig :D Ich versuche den immer mit meinem Papa nachzumachen ^^ Und meine Eltern haben gesagt, dass es echt schön in Dresden ist.

[@ScotchMacDuff]

Wow, your Umlaute are really good

[@LoveBerry13]

I am from Vienna and if I would go to Innsbruck I would also have trouble understanding them

[@sarakaster]

+gretchenishere ...and get completely lost in Vorarlberg! ;)

[@LoveBerry13]

***** ich verstehe nicht mal wirklich wienerisch und lebe schon mein ganzes leben dort

[@greenroofs]

+gretchenishere zarcher unsinn dude, im from northern germany studying in innsbruck and i can easily understand native innsbruck people, as long as they grew up in the city, but thats the innsbruck accent, if you go to countryside, there has every single valley its own accent and belongs not to innsbruck.... shame on you as being an native austrian ant knowin so little about your country

[@sarakaster]

greenroofs Shame on you for .) lecturing .) being full of yourself .) not recognizing sarcasm Other than that: Wow, you are such a great dude! Must be great to be that awesome!

[@DJYungHoxha]

+greenroofs shame on you for being so high up on your horse. ist doch scheiß egal ob man jeden Akzent in Österreich oder Deutschland verstehen kann, also ich bin Wiener und versteh fast alle Dialekte (außer den Vorarlberger Dialekt vielleicht) aber ich rühme mich nicht deswegen. Und nur weil du Deutscher bist macht dich das noch lange nicht "cooler" weil du unsere Akzente verstehst. nächstes mal mit ein bisschen weniger Cocky-ness.

[@sabis6377]

I love the video! Oh and btw Germans like all kinds of accents!!

[@ChaosNe0]

Wow I really like that video because it's so bloody construcive! (And it also showed me a new, positive perspective. :) )

[@kahzee]

Personally, I don't mind an accent. although I do prefer some accents to others. The Dutch accent sounds very cute and I really enjoy eastern European accents when speaking German. But, even though your grammar and pronunciation might me perfect, the thing that usually tips us off that you are a foreigner is the use of modal particles such as "ja, denn, halt, doch, eh, aber, mal, auch, nur, so, schon...". I guess getting a grasp on these useful little words takes a long time living with the language since they add an emotional aspect to a sentence depending on the context.

[@mrbox5526]

Yay Tübingen ! Just a perfect spot ! The Swabian Dialect is the best ;) Schwäbisch isch ebbas ganz ganz feis ! ;) Great Video Greetings from germany and all swabian persons !

[@mini00mind11]

Mr Box schäbisch is soo lustig :D

[@grummelgurke4065]

+Mini00Mind Das ist grauenhaft

[@spartacuswienham1540]

In America if someone speaks English with an accent, as long as their English is understandable, we often find their accent charming and enjoy listening to it. Is it true that Germans don't like German being spoken with an American accent?

[@Celisar1]

No, really not true as you can read in quite a lot of comments here.

[@G31M1]

I'm from Saarland and I live very near to France. We do use many words from the french language but the way we pronounce those words sounds like we are raping those words XD We use the french word "Merci" to say thank you but the way we pronounce it sounds like "Messi" :D :D :D

[@celinel.6964]

Erinnert mich an den Fußballer Messi😂

[@VJDanny1979]

If I like the person, I'm fine with the accent. :) And I like to help if the person has trouble with the language.

[@blondkatze3547]

Yes it is interesting that so many different dialects are spoken from northern to southern Germany in the zone in northern to southern Germany on the border to the Netherlands (East Friesland) High German and Low German are spoken which has a lot in comon with Dutch in my father`s family High German and the Brandenburg dialect of East Germany are spoken and in my mother`s family High German and Low German in East Frisia when my mother is with her famliy she only speaks Low German she grew up with it as a child but at school she only spoke High German.🥰👍

[@mgtowp.l.7756]

The United States has no official language act ..50% of Americans are of German origin and 25% of Americans are of Irish origin..Americans have Coffee, beer, and German pretzels..The Unites States has very little in common with the British Commonwealth. English tea, Marmite , HP Sauce , Coronation Street on TV and the Queen's Christmas message on TV are more British Commonwealth .. High German would be a good languageAmericans in the United States than English.. Viel Glück

[@Johannludwigamadeus]

German is eloquent - right. My English is said to be close to perfect - but when it comes to closely analyse - whatever - I prefer German, and I know why. The language of Goethe, Hegel, Nietzsche ... countless philosophers.

[@Jasmic0137]

4:40 I live about 10 mins car drive away from Tübingen. :) Nice vid!

[@movieflex5112]

Finally i can speak now German language, i love German language 🇩🇪

[@rdh31]

I actually live in Baden Württemberg, right next to Tübingen . What a interesting coincidence :)

[@hijtohema]

2:32 Goes the other way round as well. Dutch with a German accent isn't always liked by every Dutch person either.

[@SeverityOne]

If you want a challenge, try Swiss German (Switzerdütsch).

[@CrackCECKer]

There's just no way you can dislike this video

[@Fr0zenKaos]

I love schlager :) So I went to Germany for a year as an exchange student lol

[@amanduswestin9211]

Plattdüütch!!! :D

[@JuhaBaxton]

Moin, nice - But if I recognize an acent of other areas, like dutch or austrian - I DO like it. Because there are many many different cultures behind. For instance the austrian people are so cool inside, they are very calmed never really in a rush. If in germany someone is like "Get to it, hurry up - we need to get it done now!", the austrian look at you and just say "das geht sich scho aus" - what makes in the first place in its meaning no sense, but means something like - "It will work - don't worry, be happy!" - I like that pretty much!

[@ketandeshmukh017]

4:58 i had the same exact experience when i moved from Graz to Munich....and i sad the same center. "Wow i understand people here" lol.......

[@thisismyname007]

A dialect is more than an accent. An accent is a small few changes in sound that you can learn quickly. It's like the people who have an aunt where the au sounds like caught. It's quite minor. A dialect is something that pretty close to prevents a conversation.

[@DKBoerner]

Thank you for your interest in the German language! 🙂👌👍

[@derwolf9670]

Great analysis...and funny as well

[@Takemysenf]

Woah, clever guy with a great voice... :)

[@Larrypint]

Die Sprache der Dichter und Denker!

[@markusass]

The Low German that the North Germans (Saxons) speak has many ties to Old English, unlike High German that forms the basis of modern German.

[@TheSassi14]

I am from Germany and I love the Swizerland accent.

[@31337flamer]

there were 2 guys going around trying to find things all kingdoms have in common.. they tried to unite all the languages spoken here.. and tried to create a list of "german" things they never ended their work.. but what they left is a book full of stories... u should know who im talking about.... brothers grimm!

[@hemiolaguy]

It's a pity that the overwhelming majority of people nowadays don't know any 19th-century German Lieder (songs) by such composers as Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Hugo Wolf. Often these composers set to music poetry by the best German poets like Goethe, Schiller and Heine. The combination of lyrical German poetry and gorgeous music is intoxicating and appealing, at least to me! If you're intrigued, check these out on KZbin for a start: "Wie Melodien zieht es mir" by Brahms; "Die Forelle" and "Erlkönig" by Schubert; and "Ich grolle nicht" by Schumann. Bis später!

[@lucasm4299]

I know and love Shubert and Schumann. I have their Lieder for piano.

[@henkei3]

You are so right. Even old German folk songs (Volks Lieder) fit in the category of poetry and appealing music. Many of the composers you mentioned plus Friedrich Silcher and many more Volks Musik composers created wonderful music.

[@NoahRobertGraves]

Okay, Jim Brewer. :-)

[@thegoodlydragon7452]

I'm not sure the process of language homogenization (with respect to German) can be accredited to Hitler. I'm sure he did something in the way of continuing the process, but it had been ongoing since the German translation of the Bible made by Martin Luther started the process of standardizing the German language, creating a formal and less regional variety known as Hochdeutsch (High German). However much Hitler advanced this in his day, it started long before him, and continued after his death right up until the present.

[@DerNesor]

Awesome , I try to get ridd of my accent but it sounds almost ridiculous to speak high german when everyone else doesn't...

[@martinschmid797]

the great thing about german is that you can convey many different meanings through variation of syntax. But there aren't nearly as many words you can use to express certain things. In english, there are sometimes 3-4 words with slightly different meanings that all translate to ONE german word. That's probably because there are a lot of different roots in english: german, french/latin, greek. German normally uses german words in everyday-language and words with latin roots for jargons.

[@FelixMediaBoard]

+Martin Schmid As far as I speak both langues native, I disagree,.. U will always find 2-3 variatons to express a word in German - funny, my former English teacher (may he rip) told us the same bour German langues like what u r posting here...

[@martinschmid797]

I don't intend to be rude, but frankly it doesn't sound like you're advanced at speaking english. I have this impression of german and english since I tried to translate a poem from english to german. The poet used several words for the same thing, and when I tried to translate these different words, I noticed that they're from different linguistic roots and that there's only one german word for it.

[@fremejoker]

+Martin Schmid German and English have the same roots. They are Germanic languages. Why do you think that the language is called English? The name origined form the people called Angles. They came from the north of Germany/south of Denmark or let's say the area of the former Duchy of Schleswig. English was influenced by French and Latin, but they don't have the very same roots. I'm able to write and say things in German in many ways, without using everytime the same nouns, adjectives, verbs and other kinds of words. Your argument 'translating a poem' is not convincing. In German poems you use special, often outdated German words, that you barely use in spoken German. Also the syntax is often different. I give you some examples: machen (to do) can mean bewerkstelligen (to manage) can mean erreichen (to accomplish) can mean ankommen (to arrive) can mean beliebt sein (to be popular) If you add a suffix you can get many different meanings, e.g. stellen abstellen, anstellen, aufstellen, ausstellen, bestellen, beistellen, darstellen, einstellen, entstellen, erstellen, hinstellen, nachstellen, überstellen, unterstellen, umstellen, unterstellen, verstellen, vorstellen, wegstellen, zustellen, zusammenstellen From English to German: to manage - verwalten, managen, steuern, schaffen, handhaben, bewältigen, leiten, führen, auskommen, regeln etc. From German to English: stellen - to set, to put, to place, to stand, to arrange, to put in An English guy said once In a TED-talk: "You can translate words, but never the meaning." I think he is true.

[@MAYERMAKES]

I'm offensive and I find this austrian..... Just kidding thanks for talking nice about us.

[@xavierwarren9799]

Interesting stuff

[@sejv21]

I love the German language - never been lucky enough to study it at school but I now self teach n dream of speaking german fluently one day.

[@Takemysenf]

PS: There ARE many Germans, like me, who learn first and formost the high German... You got to go into either the countryside or talk with folks who've been living in their regions for many generations, then they are thick on their dialects. I would also say, the higher the grade of educaion, the more probable someone speaks just high German. I have been living in every part of Germany during my life and this seems to be true pretty much everywhere here

[@Einbeere]

Have you ever crossed the "Weißwurst-Equator' marked by the river Main? You mentioned the Swuabian, the Bavarian, the Austrian dialects: All 'Oberdeutsch'. So you didn't come across all the 'Niederdeutsch'-dialects. No Platt, no Hamburgian, no Frisian. You missed half of the fun! And you missed Hannover: a city where actually 'High-German' is spoken.

[@Einbeere]

+ abc Well, you mustn't. Since the 'Weißwurst Equator' is a means for localists to show how little they care about things like logics or geography there might be 'Northern Lights' trying to highjack the phrase with the result that they insult towns/regions/cities like Oldenburg, East-Frisia, and Cologne by calling them 'Bavarian', which ruins the joke by inflation.

[@somgesomgedus9313]

during the thirty years war two german war leaders met on the battlefield before the battle and they couldn't understand each other so they had to speak french, even though they were both german. That was because their dialect was so different

[@Broockle]

"....German in Germany was different, clearer...." I'm Austrian. I definitely believe you with that one xD We love obscuring the truth and make fun of people more than the German's. They always want everything clear and transparent. It's fun watching them interact.

[@EngelinZivilBO]

Iam german but i speak a other language its frisisch.. Its much older than german and english... Both languages are developed from friesisch ;)

[@TFlexxx]

Sie können das Wetter auf Deutsch besprechen, und für uns klingen Sie alle wie Leute in einem Leni Riefenstahl-Film…oder in der „Deutschen Wochenschau“.