This is a reupload. It came as a surprise to us that KZbin wants us so to show authoritarian dictators with their clothes on.
@BoomBoomy3207 ай бұрын
😂
@Max_Skogr7 ай бұрын
KZbin is full of garbage with its censorship.
@Scoutter7 ай бұрын
If their words and thoughts can't be contained at least their appearances might be I guess XD
@andan22937 ай бұрын
If you want to make another video on a horrible language and no dictators, do Dutch.
@dark_elf_wizard7 ай бұрын
lol
@PeteTheWargamer7 ай бұрын
I'm currently in the process of learning German and I've found the compound words to actually be really helpful. Being able to figure out what a word means based on the words it's made up of is much easier than having to learn an entirely new word. Great video!
@lonestarr14907 ай бұрын
Pro tip: It even works the other way around! Say you can't remember a certain word or it sits just at the tip of your tongue but won't come to your mind. Then you can almost always build a compound to describe what you mean instead and people will get it. A really useful word in that context is "Ding". For me, that's the beauty of our compounds: you can always invent your own on the spot. They don't have to be actual words that have been used by anyone ever before. People will still understand you (and sometimes might even find it hilarious) in the very same way you described: they simply deconstruct it and get it via the contextual relationship of its components. You can even use this trick to address things of which you don't know the proper term. You know these triangular bars used at supermarket checkouts to separate one customer's items from the next one's? The actual term is "Warentrenner", I think. But you can just call them "Kassentublerone" and everything is clear.
@Marmeladenschleifmaschine7 ай бұрын
@@lonestarr1490 aus der Sicht habe ich das noch nie gesehen, vielleicht ist Deutsch doch schöner als man denken mag..
@AnonymousYoutuber697 ай бұрын
@@lonestarr1490 "Kassentublerone" OMG I'm dying of laughter
@reinhard80537 ай бұрын
I encountered it the other way around with English. There are many special words for things. Every doctor has a (mostly) greek label. We have these, too, but mostly use descriptive labels like "Augenarzt" eye doctor. Similar for animals. Or words in German which mean similar things or variations based on some word. In English there often are completely different words for this stuff which you all need to learn and which don't give a clue about the meaning.
@lonestarr14907 ай бұрын
@@AnonymousKZbinr69 See, exactly what I said: you can do hilarious stuff with it :D
@TheUntypicalGerman7 ай бұрын
News flash: When you yell you sound aggressive, no matter the language.
@Optimist-Nolan17 ай бұрын
Except in French, there you gonna sound romantic always 😂😂😂(jk)
@catchie-plays7 ай бұрын
@@Optimist-Nolan1 Clearly you never heard an angry Quebecois 😆
@InventorZahran7 ай бұрын
@@catchie-playsQuebecois is not real French!
@notsocrates95297 ай бұрын
Not Argentinians. lol che
@Pit-o5f7 ай бұрын
As a german its often funny, course if you know the words, the actors shout in the movies, you realise it often doesnt make sense. So the words seems to be only chosen course they sound more aggressive.
@paulfoss53857 ай бұрын
People say German sounds angry, and do exaggerated voices, but whenever I hear actual people speaking German it sounds like they are very carefully setting the words down. I'll say that I think people have gotten the angry impression from Hitler and Rammstein, and the stereotypes that emerged from that, and that now they are just hearing what they expect to hear, but they just reject that and insist that it sounds impossibly angry.
@sarahmann47537 ай бұрын
There is a good Video in KZbin from feli from Germany about this. She also has one audio part in it, where you can hear Hitler 'regular' voice instead of the well known parts that sound military and harsh. Totally crazy to hear this difference.
@andreah.33927 ай бұрын
Exactly! Thanks for your comment.
@cabezadepija73187 ай бұрын
exactly it doesn't sound angry or aggressive at all... it's no good for singing though
@TriggerTail7 ай бұрын
YES, I've been learning German (and live in an area that has been the second one to get occupated by Germans, so I do have some bias against them), but never have I heard a not mad German sound aggressive.
@toastbrot__7 ай бұрын
Rammstein mentioned 🦅🦅🇩🇪 FEUER FREI 🗣🗣
@sdweston82 ай бұрын
As a native German speaker I can tell you that German sounds harsh mostly in Hollywood movies
@lesliesheppard25032 ай бұрын
Boycott offensive films. Don,t pay to be insulted.
@loisen2 ай бұрын
No it sounds hard. When you can speak a couple languages you hear the hardness of German.
@One_with_bodie2 ай бұрын
Suuuuuuure
@HeinrichDerGrosse12982 ай бұрын
@@One_with_bodieyea actually No real German speaks like the "germans" in movies And also the examples in the beginning, I couldn’t understand what these "Germans" were saying, they were just speaking in gibberish with a slight but exaggerated German accent If you would actually hear real Germans speak, you might still think it sounds harder than something like French But it definitely doesn’t sound as hard as in Hollywood movies
@Iamaduck20782 ай бұрын
yes for example in marvel movies😂
@Emil-v1k7 ай бұрын
Some other great german words: 1. Kabelsalat: literally cable salad, meaning a mess of cables 2. Schadenfreude: literally damage joy, meaning the joy of someone else's suffering. 3. Verschlimmbessern: literally worse improving, meaning trying to make something better, and the result is worse than what it was in the beginning 4. Ohrwurm: literally ear worm, meaning having a song in your mind you just cant forget, so you always sing it in your mind
@GlaceonStudios7 ай бұрын
I think Ohrwurm has been calqued into English as "ear worm," which basically means the same thing. Kabelsalat is very cool though, I like it
@Emil-v1k7 ай бұрын
@@GlaceonStudios Ah, alright, didn't know that🙂👍
@Groemfontein7 ай бұрын
Schadenfreude roughly actually means damage joy
@Emil-v1k7 ай бұрын
@@Groemfontein you're right, forgot about that Word haha
@Croz897 ай бұрын
Interesting we call Kabelsalat "Rat's Nest" in English, far more metaphorical.
@GeekmanCA7 ай бұрын
"Weltschmerz" was a word I needed to learn today. sigh.
@der_nikolas7 ай бұрын
I'm a german and i don't know this word 😂
@prodbysamir58557 ай бұрын
@@der_nikolas das ist nicht dein ernst oder?😂
@Marmeladenschleifmaschine7 ай бұрын
@@der_nikolas i agree 100%, hab das Wort noch nie vorher gehört xD
@lilnoir42137 ай бұрын
@@prodbysamir5855 Er ist wahrscheinlich 12, man lernt immer dazu.
@commieTerminator7 ай бұрын
Easy word, only 6 consonants in a row
@whitehawk40997 ай бұрын
German doesn't really sound that aggressive. It's basically just because people's main exposure is a certain Austrian war veteran who had been exposed to poison gas.
@tfaltermeier7 ай бұрын
You can talk like a SS officer in any language and it will sound harsh.
@hamoodkorwinhabibike93597 ай бұрын
@@tfaltermeieryou could roast the living shit out of me in english even in typical hitler way and it still won't sound as intimidating as it would in german
@loganrh7 ай бұрын
this is the most untrue statement i have ever read in my entire life@@tfaltermeier
@reinhard80537 ай бұрын
English by a drill sergeant is not an especially nice sounding language.
@quentinlcs7 ай бұрын
It does
@Wichtxg2 ай бұрын
8:48 "doch" is missing it is basicly a uno Reverse card
@pearlflash479524 күн бұрын
Existiert aber tatsächlich auch in anderen Sprachen :D
@Buerstenpinsel_yt4 күн бұрын
@@pearlflash4795 si zum beispiel
@ze_baronkrigler76117 ай бұрын
I have been learning German for 5 years and It really doesnt sound agressive, I quite like how the Vowels are so precise and each word has no tricks to how it is pronounced, It is such a logical language and that is what I love about it
@Kanisterschaedel7 ай бұрын
I have a french roommate here in Germany, and she said it's the most pragmatic language there could be... there's a Cupboard (a Schrank) that cooling stuff (kühlt) so that's a Kühlschrank (fridge or verbatim: "Cooling cupboard"). Every time she doesn't know a word in German, she tries to describe it with other words, and stumbles into the word she was looking for by accident and it's hilarious. like Fußgänger Überweg (pedestrian crossing), or Schreibtisch ((writing table) desk).
@Gebirges7 ай бұрын
That's a great indication that German is easy to learn. Words are clear and if you don't remember, you can figure it out fast or use other words. Both from Germanistic and Latin origin. @@Kanisterschaedel
@svdwellen7 ай бұрын
Die Gabel Das Messer Der Löffel So logical 😵💫
@marleenstukkien53847 ай бұрын
@@svdwellenU vergeet de tweede, derde en vierde naamval 😅
7 ай бұрын
@@svdwellen The moon is female in English… not used these days outside poetry (like song lyrics), but it still is a thing. Of course, the sun is male. English way back had genders for words just like all the other germanic languages, and most still do. As do the romance languages.
@schwarzerritter57244 ай бұрын
German sounds aggressive, because you usually only hear it from comedians who think stereotypes by themselves are funny.
@davidpowell33474 ай бұрын
Listen to some sung Bach.
@marktwain52664 ай бұрын
@@davidpowell3347 Listen to Beatles song sung in German. Profanity.
@p1edpiper3 ай бұрын
Frrr those comedians were not funny
@nickoblack82293 ай бұрын
Ahhhh nicht ganz, der Adolf ist auch a bissel schuld Ahhhh not quite, Adolf is also a bit to blame
@schwarzerritter57243 ай бұрын
@@nickoblack8229 That is who those comedians are imitating.
@rickcharon11973 ай бұрын
I once had the chance to hear a poem, recited by a young German woman, and let me tell you that I was captivated, not because I understood what she was saying ( thank you for the subtitles for that ), but because she had this sweet way of pronouncing words, as if singing a lullaby to a child. So no, German is an aggressive language only for those who confine themselves to the past. Tschüs
@cliffgaither2 ай бұрын
@rickcharon :: I like the G-language precisely for its power and "aggressive" sounds. The extremely long words are very fascinating, yet, difficult for a non-speaker. Like any language and the vast differences between them ... when the time comes to translate Shakespeare's plays, there is a world of difference between everyday words, rhythms and inflections ; but, when the time comes for a dramatic and aggressive scene, the German language gives Shakespeare his power with words of force.
@KimDare75Ай бұрын
A language of the past? "Dearest creature in creation, Studying english pronounciation, I will teach you in my verse sounds like corpse, corps, horse and verse..."
@yourDecisi0n7 ай бұрын
There is a reason why many popular artists and writers were German in the past. German is a complex, yet very vibrant language. It is honest, well-structured, playful, full of love, and also dark at times. Whatever you want to express, you can express. This is the beauty that lies hidden in it
@maxxanox37287 ай бұрын
this
@gulliverthegullible66677 ай бұрын
same can be said about any other language.
@hmvollbanane12597 ай бұрын
No it can't. E.g. Bahasa Indonesia doesn't have a concept of time or singular and plural. You can express some by adding to the sentence extra words but singular and plural has to be guessed from context. "Bapak minum teh" - the father/s is/ was/ has been/ will be drinking/ drank/ has drunken/ will drink one tea/ multiple teas.
@yourDecisi0n7 ай бұрын
@@gulliverthegullible6667 Not really, there are words in German that does not simply exist in other languages. Of course, you are able to explain basically everything in all languages, but how you explain it may differ by language
@gulliverthegullible66677 ай бұрын
@@yourDecisi0n then again, German lacks words that exist in other languages. I am German and fluent in English and Spanish, I also remember some of the French I learned in school. I find words in any of those four languages that describe better how I feel than the other three.
@xoxrvn7 ай бұрын
Hey, here's a re-comment: Honestly German is my 3ed language and I learned it in my mid-20s. And I think whoever thinks German is a harsh language has either watched a lot of TikTok/KZbin/.... videos making fun of the German language or hasn't been to Germany or a REWE and heard the cashier's "tschüüöüöüöüöüöüöss" 😌
@nitolak7 ай бұрын
who tf shops at rewe
@PeterLustig-ms3lp7 ай бұрын
@@nitolak du anscheinend nicht, Geringverdiener :D
@alexanderrhode7 ай бұрын
Tschöööö mit ö
@Soziop4th7 ай бұрын
@@nitolak probably people which don't live under a stone
@gregormahler51927 ай бұрын
Made my day 😂😂😂
@mentalmoves60324 ай бұрын
I learned German in school in Sweden. After I visited southern Germany, like Munich, and also Austria and Switzerland, I realized that German language could sound quite different. There are dialects sounding much softer and some r and auch sounds that are completely different pronounced.
@hakkin2.0193 ай бұрын
I'm from Germany. Yet, I can't understand the people from the south, too... 😂 except the saarlandic dialect...
@nobilesnovushomo583 ай бұрын
Did you know for the German translation of Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn’t allowed to play himself because his accent was considered too rural?
@Jan-qm1cm2 ай бұрын
Bavaria is more conformity Austria and Switzerland than Germany 🤣
@eliah-uf1vo2 ай бұрын
Austrian and Switz German can be sometimes nearly Impossible to understand even for Germans because they have pronunciations that sound a bit like if you get strangled.
@vielefische83212 ай бұрын
oh ye the southern.... its like another germany for the germans in the north
@oytuuuuuuuuuu3 ай бұрын
A friend of mine, who grew up in Germany, told me that the word formation is pretty literal. She told me that "Krankenwagen" (ambulance) is literally the combination of "sick" (krank) and "car" (wagen). I found it lovely.
@minngael2 ай бұрын
Yes, I am intrigued to learn more German words at least...not sure if I want to deal with the grammar! One of my favorites is their word for birth control "anti-baby pills" Gotta love that bluntness!
@onionbubs3862 ай бұрын
Yup, when you feel krank, you take the Krankenwagen to the Krankenhaus (hospital) to see the Krankenschwester (nurse) in the Krankenflügel (hospital wing) 😂
@onionbubs3862 ай бұрын
@@minngaelI don't blame you, I've been studying this language for like half my life and the grammar still gets me. Though to be fair, I live in an area where there are practically no native speakers, so I don't get a lot of practice. I understand way more than I can speak. But I just love the language and despite how intimidating the grammar can be, I'd suggest you go for it.
@BlackMysteries12 ай бұрын
fellow helluva fan. nice
@rasoratic54202 ай бұрын
Ironically enough English often takes on Latin words or words from other languages that then took them from Latin and well Latin did the same thing German does now.
@DarsusD7 ай бұрын
Short answer: it doesnt. People just think it because celebreties who know some english always act like they are hitler when saying something in German
@TriggerTail7 ай бұрын
Yep, it's just a stereotype that came up this way.
@Hayley_the_Nemo_fangirl7 ай бұрын
Thats so true.
@zumogerstubchen23406 ай бұрын
There's a recording of Hitler with his normal voice. The thing about the roughness of his speeches was due to the limitations of the tech of his era. He copied it from Mussolini and that guy too did it just so his voice could be recorded by very primitive tech during the 20's and 30's.
@DBecks096 ай бұрын
Jein.
@rogertoaster93855 ай бұрын
Did you even bother to watch this video that explains why it may sound harsh? I get that you're German and you want to try to discredit the fact that your language may sound harsh but blaming it all on people not having an accurate impression of what German sounds like is just wrong. I've lived in Germany and to me German just sounds more harsh and abrupt than other foreign languages. If you were born in Germany and that's all you know of course it's going to seem perfectly natural and not harsh but this is about foreigners impression of German, and yes, foreigners know what German sounds like aside from Hitler and screaming German celebrities.
@Killersanchez2567 ай бұрын
Battlefield 1 the German side sounds very nice and helped me see German in a new light.
@werdschonwersein7 ай бұрын
There's a video showing the German background voice production for BF1, they really gave it their best
@GhostFreeman20777 ай бұрын
Ich liebe Battlefield 1. :) 👍👍
@theshinken7 ай бұрын
Damn. Now I'm installing BF1 again.
@mats74927 ай бұрын
cause they got ACTUAL german natives to voice it and not americans shouting the 3 words of german they know
@AetherXIV7 ай бұрын
omg! I love it too! the Americans in BF1 are grating!
@RachelRhiarti7 ай бұрын
Really don't understand why this myth persists. German sounds aggressive because people shout it in an aggressive voice that would make any language sound aggressive... I always found it rather beautiful and soothing.
@Fridoking17 ай бұрын
Insert The Office Thank You-GIF here. :D
@mb33917 ай бұрын
thank you!!!! I agree 100%.
@awehTimo7 ай бұрын
Trust me, dirtytalk in german is awful! "Des geht gar net"
@perplexed767 ай бұрын
It's not a myth. Have you watched the video? How many songs in German do you know?
@Chris-gx1ei7 ай бұрын
Standard German without any accent or anything is rather beautiful
@kerim.s88012 ай бұрын
"Why German Sounds So Aggressive" Short Answer: Propaganda Long Answer: Anti German Propaganda by the allies.
@soilmanted7 ай бұрын
German does not sound aggressive unless the person speaking is being aggressive.
@starseed80877 ай бұрын
And unless the Germans stop telling the world that their language is harsh. Don't know why they do it. I love the german language!
@CR-zb7bb7 ай бұрын
As in any other language 👍🏻
@PowerEd86 ай бұрын
In animated movies like Sing and Frozen, German accented characters sound friendly and goofy, yup! German has a high potential to sound aggressive beyond just because prejudice and people intentionally speaking that way. The "Ach"sounds, etc - the complex grammar, long words - can make it sound sweet and goofy or harsh and aggressive imo
@ottovonbismarck93236 ай бұрын
especially when austrian painter say it.
@yodukenukem6 ай бұрын
Arabic languages do actually sound harsh
@franciskafayeszter41387 ай бұрын
I grew up bilingual, learning German and Hungarian as a child. My favourite German word is Geborgenheit. For me this word expresses a very deep sense of intimacy, feeling secure, like a parent lovingly carrying a child, who is slowly falling asleep.
@toppsizfckd7 ай бұрын
yes Geborgenheit is a very beautiful german word, it makes me feel very cozy just saying or even thinking it
@psychoedge7 ай бұрын
Interestingly it's hard to translate the word because it's the noun of the (nowadays rarely used) verb "bergen" which means retreating to a safe location (originally meaning retreating to a castle on a mountain - mountain being "Berg" in German) and eventually turned into the meaning of securely storing/retrieving/housing something or someone. It contains the security aspect intrinsically and was given a more and more intimate meaning over time :)
@maxnova97637 ай бұрын
Oh mein Gott! Ich hoffe das Ungarisch Deine Muttersprache war, denn wenn wir über die kompliziertesten Sprachen der Welt reden, erblasst Deutsch regelrecht im Angesicht der ungarischen Sprache!
@franciskafayeszter41387 ай бұрын
@@maxnova9763 Technisch gesehen ist Ungarisch meine Muttersprache, denn dies ist die Sprache die ich von meiner Mutter gelernt habe. Ich sehe beide als Muttersprachen, da ich auf beiden Sprachen reden gelernt habe. Ich lebe seit fast 30 Jahren in Ungarn, mein Ungarisch ist deswegen besser, als mein Deutsch (viellleicht sieht es man auch hier... mein Deutsch ist ein wenig eingerostet), aber ich formuliere meine Gedanken bis heute auf beiden Sprachen.
@andorkruppi16127 ай бұрын
Geborgenheit ist wirklich ein schönes Wort. Magyarul úgy forditanám le hogy "meghittség".
@mousermind7 ай бұрын
I used to hate German, never thought I'd ever wanna speak it... then I found Faun, Wolfsheim, And One, and more via Pandora. That's when I realized how beautiful it _can_ sound, and I found myself wanting to learn it so that I could truly listen to all these magnificent songs I'd found. It's one thing to listen to it and be able to read the lyric translations, but it's another to actually listen along and understand. I'm not there yet, but I'm learning.
@stuffandthings6177 ай бұрын
I can recommend you the band ASP, they do have some english songs but as the singer said himself (on bonus tracks from one album) that he loves the english language but that his own perfectionism blocks him sometimes because in english he can't reach always the high standard he has for himself.
@Hamurator7 ай бұрын
Faun is in my opinion an amazing example how soft German can sound.
@AlexSpielkind_33917 ай бұрын
Du schaffst das :) zieh durch! Could you read that?😂
@alle_namen_schon_vergeben7087 ай бұрын
Viel Erfolg beim Lernen :)
@maximilianschug62717 ай бұрын
tbh, was not expecting to find Faun in these comments.
@horse_chestnut23592 ай бұрын
I've been to Germany, and as an American who is learning German, I can say it's very soft and not at all harsh-sounding when natives speak it in daily life. It is very fun to speak once you've gotten the hang of the new sounds, too, and after getting much more used to it, I love it.
@ChrisTian-rm7zm7 ай бұрын
Septembermorgen Im Nebel ruhet noch die Welt, Noch träumen Wald und Wiesen: Bald siehst du, wenn der Schleier fällt, Den blauen Himmel unverstellt, Herbstkräftig die gedämpfte Welt In warmem Golde fließen. Eduard Mörike German is such a harsh and aggressive language.
@zeeesea7 ай бұрын
Find ich auch
@peteralthoff69207 ай бұрын
SEPP TEM BERRR MORR GEN! 😂😂
@nightmare_13377 ай бұрын
Back in school we had to choose an autumn themed poem to learn and 90% of the class chose that one because it was the shortest.
@ar0ly_or_num0x7 ай бұрын
This is a really beautiful poem. I didn't know it before, though, I am an Austrian. Haha
@Feuerelfe13316 ай бұрын
Hey, danke, dass du diesen Gedicht mit uns geteilt hast. Gefällt mir echt gut
@Nuschel7 ай бұрын
For some reason one of the most emotional sentences to me is "es tut mir leid" which means "i am sorry" but in its word for word meaning would mean 'its hurting me" or "its makeing me feel hurt" which so perfectly describes the feeling while also completely missing the point of it. :D
@RyugaruSenbi7 ай бұрын
Afaik sorry comes from sorrow. I am sorry also means just means I feel bad. Also Leid would more closely translate to suffering. Hurt is better translated as verletzt. Example: Es tut mir leid dass ich dich verletzt habe= It causes me suffering that I hurt you.
@mikemike58115 ай бұрын
@@RyugaruSenbitypical german behaviour, correcting people left and right 😄 aber du hast recht
@asteria95017 күн бұрын
As someone in Germany I just realized that now 😀 thank you btw
@cgardner853 ай бұрын
I came back from a two week vacation in Germany and one of my favourite things was to listen to the German language spoken in public. I find it so intellectually fascinating and stimulating to my ears.
@fureuropa-gegennwo12592 ай бұрын
So, did it sound aggressive to you? I really think that is a stereotype that is not true. What did you think it sounded like?
@cgardner852 ай бұрын
@@fureuropa-gegennwo1259 not at all the speakers tone were casual and free flowing not aggressive at all. Well except for that pesky security guard at the Green Vault in Dresden, but that’s another story.
@HatiBlackwolf7 ай бұрын
My favorite test for German pronunciation is "Tschechisches Streichholzschächtelchen" - if you can pronounce it correctly, you've mastered the language.
@capitaen_proton94807 ай бұрын
but what about "des Herbsts"?
@criticaldamage40677 ай бұрын
Oh, even as a German, I struggled the first time 😅
@Kibo_ooo7 ай бұрын
@@criticaldamage4067so you still got a lot to learn my fellow german.
@plueschpudding7 ай бұрын
When I wanted to read this comment to my friend, I struggled with saying "pronunciation" but "Tschechisches Streichholzschächtelchen" came perfectly out. Well. xD
@WhyDoIBeHere7 ай бұрын
"Tschechische Chefchemiker auf Griechisch-Chinesischen Passagierschiffen"
@maplewind40257 ай бұрын
every language sounds aggressive if you scream in it and if you try to pronounce every letter as hard as you can
@Jonaelize7 ай бұрын
Another beautiful word is "Habseligkeiten", basically meaning all the stuff you own, but if you take the word apart you have "hab" - "have" and "selig" - which means happy/blissful. So "Habseligkeiten" are the treasured things that you own that make you happy.
@robertshorthill68364 ай бұрын
I had to move about 9 months ago and had to give up 28 years of my prized tools and possessians. My habseiligkeiten stuff. It broke my heart.
@goldenegg10632 ай бұрын
As an englishman i can Absolutely say germans do not sound agressive when they talk . Most Indian languages sound like they are always shouting and arguing with each other to me
@irgendwassh7 ай бұрын
Deutsch ist keine aggressive Sprache, aber wenn man schreit oder aggressiv ausspricht, dann klingt es natürlich aggressiv.
@david97833 ай бұрын
Genau.
@MonicaHelton3 ай бұрын
My brother has a Masters degree in German. Our Great Aunt Pauline was from Vienna. He has always told me that German is not the harsh language people claim it to be. I am about to study German myself. I wish had done so years ago. I find myself rooting for German and hope that more people realize it is not the ugly language they have been led to believe it is.
@onionbubs3862 ай бұрын
Fast jeder Deutschsprachige, den ich kennengelernt habe, war echt leise gesprochen. Außer Frau Brost 😂 Sie hatte einfach eine natürliche laute Stimme Tut mir leid, wenn meine Grammatik stimmt nicht. Deutsch ist meine zweite Sprache 😅
@Fish14og2 ай бұрын
Stimmt
@leander_1037 ай бұрын
Some other german words: Hoffnungsschimmer - Glimmer of hope Liebestrunken - Drunk with love Mucksmäuschenstill - Quiet as a mouse
@elouan.onirio2 ай бұрын
I used to suffer from prejudice against German and Dutch/Flemish languages as a Belgian French speaker, it's sadly part of the culture I was raised in. But once I discovered the beauty of both languages and the cultures attached to them I literally fell in love. I even considered moving to Germany or to the Netherlands but I'm probably moving to Flanders. Knowing is a first step to love.
@Czekytcze7 ай бұрын
As a czech person i really dont have a problem pronouncing "Ch"
@Czekytcze7 ай бұрын
Why i always get a plenty of likes on a comment in a format like this uuuuuh
@TriggerTail7 ай бұрын
Souhlasím, pro nás to těžké být nemusí, jelikož náš jazyk byl němčinou ovlivněn (např.: "Knedlík" vznikl z německého slova "Knödel," což má stejný význam jak v ČJ, tak v NJ), ale pro ostatní země to může být stejně těžké, jako naše "ř." Translation to English for those, who don't speak Czech: I agree, for us it might not be difficult, because our language has been affected by German (for example: our word "Knedlík" became from the german word "Knödel," which means the same thing in both Czech and German), but for other countries, it can be difficult the same way, like our "ř."
@TheVirdra7 ай бұрын
@@TriggerTail I'm learning Czech currently and it took me 2 months to pronounce " ř " partially correct. I've been listening to many explanations by native speakers who made videos on "how to pronounce ř ". Most of them suggested, learners should say it like r and ž combined. So "rž". I'm still trying to get better, but sadly there're not as much Czech speakers in my area and less to none teachers. It's also hard to get one online, who happens to speak my native (German) fluently, to explain things much better. I made the experience that Czech is way harder for English natives then mine.
@TriggerTail7 ай бұрын
@@TheVirdra That is true, Czech is one of the hardest languages in the world. Fun fact: As a German, you can notice some of the words in Czech were created from German.
@TriggerTail7 ай бұрын
@truegemuese Yeah, it's not difficult a lot to us, but it may be difficult to foreigners.
@graceisinhell4 ай бұрын
hi, english speaker here, i find the german language to be incredibly beautiful! in fact, i have been obsessed with trying to learn it for the past two years now. it was honestly heartbreaking to see all of these examples of people hating on the language in this video, because it is genuinely one of my favorite things. german is such a gentle, poetic sounding language, and i wish more people would just give it a chance so that they could see that.
@esna83913 ай бұрын
Thank u so much❤
@vinceturner38633 ай бұрын
I agree that getting your tongue round the German poetry is great. Du bist die Ruh, der Friede mild, die Sehnsucht Du and was sie stillt,...it's so beautiful and romantic. Gives me goosebumps!
@aaausername3 ай бұрын
Agreed
@currentofthesnake84863 ай бұрын
Specially if you read Rainer Maria Rilke.
@ashepherd62563 ай бұрын
Absolutely! I'm Canadian, so yeah... first (and pretty much only) spoken language, at least for me, is a less slightly bastardized version of English. I really wish I had taken the initiative to learn other languages in school. In elementary school, we did learn French (Canadian French that is...) not that I have retained much of it at all. In high school, I think German was still being taught along with a few other languages to choose from.
@suryahitam35884 ай бұрын
Even the Austrian painter had a normal speaking voice that did not sound aggressive, unlike his broadcast speeches. There's a KZbin video with audio of AH talking to a Finnish general. It's worth a listen.
@FinnishDragon4 ай бұрын
To be specific you are talking about the Hitler-Mannerheim tape where Hitler visited Finnish field marshal Mannerheim in June 4th, 1942 which was marshal Mannerheim´s 75th birthday.
@RWLN508D3 ай бұрын
All AH audio tapes are worth a listen. Kappaklaus :)
@-danR2 ай бұрын
I wouldn't call his conversational tone aggressive, but he was something of a natural stentor; his voice was dominant, penetrating, commanding. And I can imagine in a less ideal setting in private, the man could have been quite intimidating.
@LuckyBaby1239Ай бұрын
Верно. Я слышала записи Гитлера, его диалог с каким- то подчинённым .. была удивлена насколько красивый, глубокий, размеренный и чарующий голос у Гитлера, когда он говорит спокойно. Его голос был как гипноз.
@Lunakunbaby2 ай бұрын
Literally no language deserves hate or criticism. Every language is beautiful in its own way. 💜
@YouDeserveAllOfThisАй бұрын
Not arabic Allahu Akbar 🗿💀
@LunakunbabyАй бұрын
@@YouDeserveAllOfThis well I don’t know if what you said was good or not because I’m offended since I’m Arabic
@yannickingermany7 ай бұрын
As a native English speaker, German doesn't sound harsh, it's just an American Hollywood stereotype. And as an African whose story has always been told by Western media, trust me when I tell you that there are many western rhetorics that have minimal truths
@Ayxan_Eyvaz4 ай бұрын
People find german angry because of that austrian man. But as a german learner, it sounds more cute than english for me
@mmm429584 ай бұрын
Just say hitler he is not Voldemort
@centralfbi.4 ай бұрын
As a German , i know german could sound very cute
@centralfbi.4 ай бұрын
Especially when you greet strangers
@marktwain52664 ай бұрын
Yes, Germans are OK except this one Austrian who is even not a German.
@thorstenjaspert93943 ай бұрын
Sung by a woman with clear brilliant voice it sounds soft and pleasant. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIDZpKyXotR4esk
@steeviebops7 ай бұрын
I used to work with a German boss and didn't think he sounded aggressive at all. We talked about it once and he put it completely down to prejudice: "don't speak it like Hitler and it's fine."
@ChineduOpara4 ай бұрын
Well that's no fun, is it? 😅
@A-broken-clay-jar4 ай бұрын
One German teacher here was reported once to ask the students in her class to speak more like normal people less like Hitler😂
@df2892 ай бұрын
2 German females whispering or talking kindly to one another is the sweetest calming sound I have ever heard.
@TheGarrymoore7 ай бұрын
When shouting all languages seem aggressive. When spoken calmly German sounds like any other language.
@protocetid6 ай бұрын
IDK I think German sounds specially harsh when spoken aggressively but under a normal tone I don’t find it hostile
@Swampdragon1027 ай бұрын
It's been 27 years and I've never thought that much about my mother tongue before. Thanks!
@dmonvisigoth16517 ай бұрын
As a native English speaker, I have always loved the way the German language sounds when spoken and looks when written. It was the first language I became interested in learning and led to my fetish for linguistics, in that I was so fascinated with the similarities between both Deutsch and English and the origins of the words in older languages.
@TriggerTail7 ай бұрын
Funnily enough, Czechs, Slovaks and English speaking people might already know some German words, without even knowing it.
@dmonvisigoth16517 ай бұрын
@@TriggerTail I found that I did, indeed. It was the flow and structure of the sentences when spoken that I found most familiar, i.e. Das ist gut = That is good. or Was ist das? = What is that? Helped ease into it before all those massive compound words came up.
@kurtjanssen38872 ай бұрын
I'm Dutch and love the German language. Mostly thanks to German TV I watched as a child (Sendung mit der Maus, Hallo Spencer, Bud Spencer, sesamstraße, Löwenzahn.......) Und vielleicht auch, weil ich in der Provinz Limburg wohne und unser Dialekt der deutschen Sprache sehr ähnlich ist 😉
@Jan-qm1cm2 ай бұрын
Für mich ist es ein Vergnügen holländisch zu hören, nicht nur zuletzt weil die Menschen einfach meistens so nett sind 😊 kennt man bei uns im Ruhrgebiet nicht mehr so 👍🏼
@cille0102 ай бұрын
Ich habe in seit meiner Abschlussfahrt in Amsterdam, die Niederländische Sprache ein wenig für mich entdeckt.❤ Unteranderem auch, weil Plattdeutsch meine Muttersprache noch vor Hochdeutsch ist und ich dadurch einiges verstehen und lesen kann.😊
@HuckPlaysАй бұрын
Great shows!!!
@BasKie2211Ай бұрын
For me it's the opposite way 🙃 Came to the Netherlands 15 years ago, first for study and stayed for work/kids. I do speak Dutch fluently, but people cannot pinpoint where I'm from. They either say Limburg or Belgium, guess also depending on my Tagesform. Dutch is very cute in its own way, especially when you know German. I loved all those TV formats you mentioned, wehmütige Erinnerungen.
@sword_of_damocle57 ай бұрын
Prejudice is defintely the biggest factor, if not the main one. Whenever I hear people imitate German to mock it, their go-to 100% of the time is imitating Hitler, exaggerating the harsh sounds as much as they can. If you've ever heard a conversation between native German speakers or watched any kind of German media, you quickly come to realize that the language can sound surprisingly smooth and "normal."
@danielbensch16637 ай бұрын
My experience is like 50/50, it's either the aggressive Hitler imitation, or it's the "Hallo zere" "Sank yu" spoken in a whinerly tone.
@definitelynotofficial73507 ай бұрын
People exaggerate the harsh sounds because all these harsh sounds being that is what's funny about it.
7 ай бұрын
And even if people shout angrily, they still don't sound like Hitler.
@danielbensch16637 ай бұрын
@telynotofficial7350 That's fine by me, but some people don't have to go the extra mile calling the language "ugly" and "the language nobody wants and should learn"
@Gurfi284 ай бұрын
That’s especially infuriating since the Hitler voice they imitate was his speech technique, if you listen to the recordings of the meeting between Hitler and Mannerheim, you‘ll hear the everyday Hitler.
@HiroKone7 ай бұрын
If you think German sounds harsh it's because your only experience of german is an american basically doing an impression of Hitler. Noone talks like that.
@marktwain52664 ай бұрын
Who is Noone? Is he a new Führer?
@HiroKone4 ай бұрын
@@marktwain5266 Ja. Schlachtenhausen bräut Bierkraut gerne. Aber. Muss es gestrammen sein mit Schniegenschnagen? Hodensack! Und hier noch ein Furz zum Abschied!
@ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTER3 ай бұрын
@@HiroKone Was zum Henker
@davidshaffer5113 ай бұрын
@@marktwain5266 Nah, he's just trying to get back to Penelope.
@TomMannis7 ай бұрын
Growing up in Wisconsin, surrounded by and steeped in German culture and phrases, I've always loved the sound of German. I was lucky enough to spend a college semester in Munich, where I learned German on the streets. Music to my ears.
@beasley12324 ай бұрын
I remember someone who came to the USA (Miami) from Argentina to learn English, and they were SHOCKED when they stepped off the plane and everyone in Miami spoke Spanish lol.
@amiromorningstar29134 ай бұрын
In Munich they don't speak German. You learned the bavarian language. Similar in some parts,but not German. It's like your english and scotish or irish
@augustiner38214 ай бұрын
@@amiromorningstar2913thats only partly true. Munich is in that aspect not Bavaria. A big chunk of the munic population is "zugereist" (immigrated) from other parts of Germany.
@amiromorningstar29134 ай бұрын
@@augustiner3821 I don't believe in that. Why should an average german like me live there? Wouldn't like to be around people that believe in mighty ghosts , that's cringe and crazy
@augustiner38214 ай бұрын
@@amiromorningstar2913 sorry, don't get your point.
@hannofranz79733 ай бұрын
German can be incredibly precise in joining metaphorical ideas jotted into one word, such as mutterseelenallein (left alone with your mother's soul), mucksmäuschenstill (silent like a mouse without the slightest wee bit coming out of the mouth), auf Nimmerwiedersehen (for a nevereverseeingagain), hirnverbrannt (brainburnt) and dozens more.
@Kraflyn7 ай бұрын
This is not true. German was once THE language of mathematics, philosophy, and literature.
@davegibson797 ай бұрын
That's irrelevant to how it sounds to speakers of other languages. And it wasn't THE language of these things. At the peak of German contributions to philosophy, Britain was more dominant with France not far behind, and at the peak of German literature, the Russians, British and French were probably more influential. Sure, German was a world leader in these things, just like they were a world leader in making watches, but they were still behind the Swiss and the British in this respect. Either way, German sounds aggressive to many speakers of other languages due to the phonological system, particularly regarding harsh phonemes, choppy prosody and deeper pitch. Russian and Arabic does too, and both contributed greatly to the fine arts and the sciences. In fact, we wouldn't have had the Enlightenment without the Arabs, so your argument that German cannot sound harsh because they are a very civilised nation does not logically follow.
@Kraflyn7 ай бұрын
@@davegibson79 Err... Let's see... Beethoven, Mahler, Mozart, Haydn, Bach, ... Then Gauss, Dirichlet, Riemann, Hilbert, ... Then Kant, Hegel, ... Then Schroedinger, Heisenberg, Einstein, ,,, They all wrote in German, so if you wanted to read what they wrote, you'd have to read German. And read they did. Peeps spoke at least two languages back then, bourgeoise and aristocrats that is, but who else read anything at all back then? German didn't sound harsh to them. They read it just fine. Now to make this clear, because peeps tend not to connect the dots themselves, do notice that Schroedinger, Heisenberg, Einstein made huge breakthroughs no one else could even foresee. Muricans had to send Oppenheimer to Germany to learn Quantum Mechanics. Oppenheimer himself being German. Or Boltzmann being German too, no one understood his Statistical Mechanics so the guy hanged himself. Then, who would you compare to Gauss? Or Dirichlet? Or Riemann? Yes, there were Euler, the Swiss, and Cauchy, the French, but that is it. Gauss and Riemann started working on curved spaces when no one believed space can be curved. Russian literature? It is an easy reading compared to Germans. Then Kant started the revolution in philosophy by his Copernican Turnabout: it is not that object revolves about you, instead you actually revolve around the object, so that observing something from different angles empirically is superior to seeing just one side of something, thus killing religion and metaphysics in a single sentence, paving the way to empiricism that then spawned the english clones. And... Arabs you say? What on Earth did they do? There was some breakthrough about primes, and some Arab guy completed some proof of Euklid. However, The Euklid proof was just the last step, Euklid did everything leading to that last Theorem, which is strange, since it follows logically right away, and the Arab guy who did that infinite series - well, Indians did exactly that some 500 years before. What on Earth did Arabs do? The crazy schizophrenic psychopath killed all the smart Arabs who naturally wouldn't join his cult, so when you look at the world IQ map, the lowest IQ regions today are all muslim countries. Wikipedia has one world IQ map I believe. Muslims did the opposite of the natural selection. Natural selection kills the weak and the stupid, leaving the strong and the smart alive. Islam did the opposite: the strong and the smart wouldn't join in, but the weak and the stupid did join in. So the muslims killed the strong and the smart. Finally, sounding harsh is subjective. English is even worse in that regard, because the English growl as they speak. The ancient Greeks would certainly called them barbarian - the ones who bark when they speak. And don't get me started on French! :D
@slavsit76007 ай бұрын
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@Kraflyn7 ай бұрын
@@slavsit7600 ze language
@Cookie_857 ай бұрын
@@davegibson79Ah yes, who doesn't know all the famous arabic three thinkers who contributed so much to the enlightenment like.....and..........
@SomeRandomNerd146 ай бұрын
Fun fact: every language sounds agressive if you scream it!
@johnearle14 ай бұрын
Tasmanians sound angry to me.
@donmcatee454 ай бұрын
French sounds more like passionate love the louder it’s spoken 😅
@Oh_DeER_1_1o1_14 ай бұрын
Except Spanish (specially Latibamerican) we sound as if we were singing in a very high pitch, expanding every intermediate vowel. And really mean it with the end point. We exaggerate the “p” and the “t”
@chingizzhylkybayev85754 ай бұрын
@donmcatee45 French actually sounds like you're unsuccessfully trying to cough out phlegm for the entirety of your lifetimes, no matter the volume
@knutzzl4 ай бұрын
If you want to tell someone that you love them and what thay mean to you. Don't just tell them, shout it in there face in old German.
@jerentino7 ай бұрын
My favourite word is "Dingsbums" the Allrounder 😂
@babettestaiger58567 ай бұрын
Dingsbums, the german cousin of french truc machin!😆
@SHuber49187 ай бұрын
Try to explain my favourite word "Doch" to a non German speaking person - difficult...🙃
@flo085167 ай бұрын
Bums-Dings😂
@haklbarry26 ай бұрын
Well it basically is a word which can mean many words considering the context. It can mean "it is", or "for sure", or "still". Context is all here, but it is translateable all of the times.
@BLexl6 ай бұрын
'Gutemine und der Dingsbums sind da'
@amirmjei2 ай бұрын
Nicely done. As a newbie to german language i find it wonderfully well structured, enabling one to express the subjectivity quite clear. Altgough the learning curve is other than i imagined :)). Heute hab ich "Fern" entdeckt lrute. Prima ist es👌🙌
@darthplagueis137 ай бұрын
I think part of it is also just where people hear German for the first time. Usually, it's not gonna be a casual conversation, at least not if you live in the US. Instead, the first instance of spoken German you ever hear might be something like Hitlers meltdown in "Der Untergang". And even before that,you might have heard parodies, maybe you'd have watched that episode of South Park or something simular. That aside, as a german myself, the funniest thing about native english speakers trying to pronounce german words is the fact that they seem to have an innate drive to want to combine several syllables into a single sound. I think it's in part because they're trying to emulate that thing you get in english where some vowels are actually silent and actually just change the sound of the previous word (for example, an -e at the end of most words). But german is actually far simpler than that. All you need to do to at least get somewhat of an approximation of correctly pronounced german is to take it slow, read one syllable after another and never assume that any letter is silent. Just take it step by step, instead of trying to just skip across as many syllables as possible whilst aiming for the ending.
@LS-Moto7 ай бұрын
When learning a new language, people don't have any knowledge and experience yet, so they will pronounce it in their native way. In case of English speakers, that combination comes from their own illogical spelling mess. For instance the word "thought", where half the letters are not pronounced. But German isn't just "letter by letter" pronunciation. German does have combos which produce certain sounds "ei, sch, st, ie, chs, ch"
@darthplagueis137 ай бұрын
@@LS-Moto It does have combos, and sure, some of them are tricky to pronounce, but they still don't require you to read the letters out of order. Besides, most of them have an english counterpart or actually occur in german leanwords. If you know how to pronounce the Sch in Schadenfreude, then it follows that you can also pronounce the one in Schneeschaufel. Even if you don't know how to pronounce a combination, you can still get pretty close if you just respect the order of letters and syllables. I feel like a lot of english speakers just panic when they are asked to pronounce a lengthy german word and come up with a jumbled mess instead of actually trying to guesstimate how it might sound.
@undeadwerewolves94637 ай бұрын
It’s funny to me as an English person learning German. I’d love to know what we sound like, I’ve worked so hard on my pronunciation that I can normally pronounce things really well when I know the word. But… things like „Fräulein“ or „Häuser“ though, anything with „äu“ still throw me off… Also recently I was corrected on „Schwerer Sack“ I pronounced the word „Sack“ like „tsack“… No idea why but my English brain could not hear the difference between S, Z and Ts. My friend said Sack is a soft S. (to my brain S is s) but he meant Z! The zzzzz noise like the boys name Zack! I think my brain couldn’t compute the change from pronouncing „Schwer“ to „Sack“ for some reason. (Reading it in a Game and seeing two capital S‘s together confused me basically) 😵💫 That was a funny moment to me when he explained it and I finally understood and practiced it and got it right. Another one I had was „Ameisen“ (Ants) and „Weizen“ (wheat) I use to switch the „ei“ the other way around. Surprisingly learned my W‘s to V‘s, V‘s to F‘s quickly too 👀
@LS-Moto7 ай бұрын
@@undeadwerewolves9463 Please don't say Fräulein. This is old German for an unmarried woman. Today, it is incredibly rude to adresse a woman with that. So be aware of that. Use Frau instead.
@darthplagueis137 ай бұрын
@@undeadwerewolves9463 That's really interesting to read, thank you. I find it a bit surprising that äu out of all things is giving you difficulties, since that's a sound that also exists in english, in the form of oi/oy and nearly pronounced the same as the much more common eu. Then again, just looking at the involved letters, it is a rather unintuitive that they would produce this particular sound, and slightly odd things that don't quite make sense tend to be one of the most common things to trip you up when you're learning a new language.
@alaraby4387 ай бұрын
I am an Arab and to me German is the best sounding European language, It sounds strong and proud.
@cheerful_crop_circle5 ай бұрын
Yes
@userre854 ай бұрын
It's Italian
@squeakermcgee4 ай бұрын
@@userre85what?
@TheGreenPig3214 ай бұрын
IIRC Arabic and German share some throaty constanants no?
@peterfunfstuck80944 ай бұрын
@@TheGreenPig321 True - a few of my colleagues here are native Arab speakers with a very high level of proficiency when it comes to German. With some of them the only thing that is the tell tale sign is using "sch" instead of the soft "ch". In general though Arab seems to be a fairly good base to learn solid German pronounciation.
@TheMightyShrimp7 ай бұрын
Fun fact: if you shout in any language it sounds aggressive 👍👍👍
7 ай бұрын
Weird fact: even if you shout German aggressively, you still won't sound like Hitler.
@viertklassigsindwir.28287 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@paleoph61686 ай бұрын
@reassuring to hear!
@Jan-qm1cm2 ай бұрын
Listen to Rammstein that’s sounds familiar to him….
@goonhoongtatt18837 ай бұрын
The language of Beethoven and Mozart can never be ugly. Ich liebe Deutsch. And I'm learning it.
@Shaytan.6667 ай бұрын
Viel Glück 🍀
@kompetenteBanane6 ай бұрын
Viel Glück
@ConfuzzledClockwork4 ай бұрын
German grammar makes me want to scream daily i can’t handle conjugation 😭
@goonhoongtatt18834 ай бұрын
@@ConfuzzledClockwork One thing and one thing only: Practice practice and more practice
@beasley12324 ай бұрын
@@goonhoongtatt1883German grammar is very tricky for native English speakers. For an English speaker, Spanish will be the easiest language to learn, only taking at most 3 weeks to master Spanish grammar and Speech.
@ThatOneHacker3057 ай бұрын
I fucking hate it when my friends ask me to speak German and then make fun of the language (they don't make fun of me don't worry) no one would ever mock a language like how people mock German, even though it is one of the greatest languages in my opinion
@LS-Moto7 ай бұрын
What languages do they speak? If they don't speak anything except English, they should really "hold the ball flat" (den Ball flach halten).
@ambergris57057 ай бұрын
Agreed. Germany doesn't deserve all the fun that's made of it.
@TriggerTail7 ай бұрын
Yeah, German has been mocked a little too much, all that's said about it is a lie, it's a great language, true, it can be difficult, but when you'll learn it, it is great to know.
@Flutter_Dragonz7 ай бұрын
@@LS-Moto What do you mean by that? In school they learn French and englisch, I think that’s enough.
@LS-Moto7 ай бұрын
@@Flutter_Dragonz In the UK or America, they don't really focus on another language. Sure, they might have it for a year, but that's about it. Non-English speaking countries learn English for like 7 - 10 years. That's quite the difference.
@chriswarrington70662 ай бұрын
German isn’t remotely ugly or aggressive. If you learn it you’ll soon realise that.
@ghirzaprimanda7 ай бұрын
I'm an Indonesian who learning German. It's a wonderful language. I'm surprised that some words in German sounds familiar in my Indonesian ears, such as "Tante" and "Hemd". Well, German had the same language family with Dutch, and Indonesian borrow several Dutch words, so it's make sense that it sounds similar. BTW, is "Fern" also a German word? It means "distant", right?
@chevalierdupapillon7 ай бұрын
Yes, it does indeed mean 'distant'. Greetings from Germany, I am glad you like our language!
@Einsamoeve7 ай бұрын
Die Ferne is the distance
@xyza46 ай бұрын
U could also say 'far' (Far Places = Ferne Orte)
@TobyGerstenecker6 ай бұрын
I Not sur but I think Indonesia was for short a German colony
@fabianreusch48706 ай бұрын
I dont think so, they explained already. German colonies in the Pacific were what is now Papua New Guinea, the Salomon Islands and Samoa@@TobyGerstenecker
@yogsothoth83897 ай бұрын
My mother is German and I grew up in a bilingual household. Whenever I hear my mom talking on the phone to relatives & friends in Germany, she sounds graceful, clear, and almost delicate. Not at all aggressive.
@xSoulhunterDKx4 ай бұрын
I know exactly what you mean^^ Much love to you and your mom!
@TTTzzzz4 ай бұрын
Delicate! That's the word!
@gigigonzal07 ай бұрын
ich liebe die deutsche Sprache und ihre Nutzung. Allein die Möglichkeiten sich damit lyrisch auszudrücken ist so wunderbar. Nicht umsosnt die Sprache der Dichter und Denker genannt.
7 ай бұрын
Die Sprache der Denker ist es, weil es auf Englisch schwerer ist, einen Satz über eine ganze Buchseite zu "strecken". Niemand ;-) macht Schachtelsätze so gut wie wir. :D
@Hayley_the_Nemo_fangirl7 ай бұрын
Ja finde ich auch (Ps schweizer/in??)
@rp81336 ай бұрын
@Tatsächlich kann man deutsche Texte auch in kurzen Sätzen formulieren. Und gerade bei technischen Sachverhalten sollte und kann man das machen. Das hebt die Verständlichkeit enorm. 😉
@mintysan6 ай бұрын
Ich wünsche wir würden immer noch Gebrauch von diesem Talent ziehen!
@gigigonzal06 ай бұрын
@@mintysan es steht dir frei deine Gedanken in schönen Texten zu formulieren und diese mit deinen Mitmenschen zu teilen :)
@sharendonnelly77703 ай бұрын
My mother was Pennsylvania Dutch, and German words and phrases were common in our household. I never thought of them as being harsh or aggressive, simply expressive in a way that wasn't English. German is uniquely it's own expression.
@eliaskoskinen16877 ай бұрын
Fern is one of my favorite channels, the details and presentation of these videos is amazing.
@m.s.53707 ай бұрын
Linguist in training here (I only have one semester under my belt rn, but I saw an opportunity to nerd out and just couldn't resist), and so I'd like to give some feedback on the linguistics part of the video: First off, the section about morphological anomalies, specifically the infinitely recursive nature of composition, is great. No notes. Furthermore, you correctly described the phonological process by which vowel-initial words in German are often subconsciously preceded by a glottal stop (also known by the name hard attack) and I would list this among the factors contributing to the impression that German sounds harsh, so good job. :) However, I think your section about guttorals doesn't tell the full story. Arabic for instance has a lot of velar and uvular sounds, but it doesn't get classified as aggressive-sounding to quite the same extent as German does, as far as I know at least. To make a long rant as short as I humanly can, the criterium I think you should've mentioned instead is the voicedness (Stimmhaftigkeit) of consonants. I'll elaborate if anyone asks me to, but right now I want to focus on my point, which is that whether or not a consonant is voiced in a word has a significant bearing on how softly that word is typically perceived by most. To exemplify: German has a phonological process which English lacks (just like hard attack), called final devoicing (Auslautverhärtung) which basically makes any word-final consonant devoiced, EVEN IF (and this is important), the orthography has it spelled with the voiced equivalent. For instance, the majority of native German speakers will, without thinking about it or paying attention to it, pronounce 'Staub' as 'Staup', but only if that [p] is at the end of the word. When it appears in the middle of the word, for instance as in 'staubig', suddenly the b remains a [b], but the new final "g" now gets devoiced and becomes [k] (edit: or it gets softened and becomes [ç], [staubich], as a word-final g so often does in German). Anyway, I hope this makes it clear what I mean. So yeah, that would've been my version of this script: two phonological processes (hard attack and final devoicing), which make German sound just a little bit less soft than English. And yes, this isn't the full story either, I'm sure there's phonological processes other than these two, but I'd say two is a decent number to get the idea across to an average audience of non-linguists without boring or overwhelming them with too many details.
@hannesfrischat71386 ай бұрын
Very good observations here.
@largedarkrooster63714 ай бұрын
Some very good observations were made here, but I do want to say that as a (non-native) Hebrew and Arabic speaker, I definitely have been told that both of these languages sound harsh and aggressive. I think the main thing driving this is definitely the cultural aspect. People's exposure to Arabic has been through not so great circumstances, and Hebrew is perceived by many to be a mix between German and Arabic (which it is not, but that doesn't stop people from thinking so). They do attribute Arabic's harshness to it guttural and pharyngeal sounds, but also to how they perceive speakers, much like with German and even Russian (being used so often for movie villains)
@アンドレーエフ貝2 ай бұрын
I agree. But there are a few more aspects and this make this video quite unbearable for me. He used an onomatopoeia as an example for a guttoral "fauchen" (to hiss) which literally is one of the most aggressive sounding words in German. I mean ... makes sense ... hissing is aggressive and harsh sounding. If he would have used everyday words like "achso" or "natürlich" he would have not been able to bring his point across, as they are actually very soft (like most words that have ch in it). Also he didn't speak properly while he was reading out the phrases. We . don't . make . stops . between . every . word . This . would . just . be . exhausting. Also if this was as distinct in German as he said in the video, he just could hava spoken normal German. People would have been able to hear it. But what makes me real mad is the display of stupid Americans bastardising German by not even saying one German word. But the lack of German they compensate with shouting. Also the rest of the world does not think that German is especially harsh and ugly. It's mostly English speaking persons and of them mostly Americans. That is hardly the rest of the world.
@Yusuketh4432 ай бұрын
i dont speak german but i find voiced consonant very hard and take alot more effort to pronounce at the end of a syllable (except if it a nasal)
@johnnywishbone8315 ай бұрын
I'm from Australia. I wouldn't say aggressive but perhaps authoritative is more what I hear. It's one of my favorite languages to listen to. So rich.
@spicy110Ай бұрын
I am English and have to say German can sound wonderful, Fairy tails read in German are what I would call beautiful.
@smeegy14 ай бұрын
No it doesn't. Every example where German sounds harsh it's because people are SCREAMING the words at you. Like if you yell BUTTTERFLY at someone, they're not going to consider your speech beautiful.
@colmanyeah18283 ай бұрын
A certain Austrian Painter yelled in German, that’s why
@MilkOktober3 ай бұрын
Uf I will yell angry in English or Russian, people shall think that language is a harsh and military.
@fex1443 ай бұрын
Butterfly? What do you mean? It is called a Flutterby. Yes really. How on earth did that ever change to that lousy reverse lettered "Butter - Fly" ?? A fly in butter. WHAT!?!?
@SpielkindFR3 ай бұрын
To be fair. As a german I do think that the german word for butterfly is an excellent word to be yelled.
@jgunther33983 ай бұрын
@@SpielkindFR the difference between english and german is english words sound like what they mean. german words could mean anything...
@czechistan_zindabad7 ай бұрын
I remember my dad initially was disgusted when I told him that I was learning German because he thought it was harsh. But then, when we both visited Germany together, he actually changed his mind and thought the local Germans spoke softly.
@mleszzor68667 ай бұрын
Just gonna say this. German doesn't sound aggressive at all. It sounds tender and lovely!
@carlosesteban560117 күн бұрын
You forgot the main reason: most peoples exposure to German isn't from a native speaker but overexaggerated bad guy screaming in media that often sounds incomprehensible to someone who actually understands the language.
@anasssoulimani92887 ай бұрын
I love the subtle Cello in the background!
@Hannes18967 ай бұрын
Bach Cello Suite No.1, if you want to hear it;)
@justanotherpiccplayer35117 ай бұрын
Bro I challenge anyone to say Tschüss in an angry way it's impossible
@rang69.7 ай бұрын
Tschüssi
@Micaniker4 ай бұрын
Ja alles klar TSCHÜSS
@philspam20874 ай бұрын
Too easy! There is a common way to say "Tschüss" that actually means "fck off, right now!"
@supermario97484 ай бұрын
Absolutely LOVE the sound of German. Es klingt gut zu mich! Currently learning it...and it is a pain but I'm one to not quit on anything I set out to accomplish! And I really love the video. Prost!
@tabby734 ай бұрын
Wir würden sagen: Für mich klingt das gut! 😊
@johngardner48973 ай бұрын
Es klingt MIR gut ! please ?
@tabby733 ай бұрын
@@johngardner4897 nein
@valerietaylor96153 ай бұрын
Fuer mich, Deutsch klingt wie Musik.
@tabby733 ай бұрын
@@valerietaylor9615 we don't structure sentences like this in German. Für mich klingt Deutsch wie Musik. No comma
@Yaman.H1Ай бұрын
Finally, a good impression to change the famous stereotype. I started learning German 3 years ago and now I am studying software engineering in German. Although my whole school journey was in English, I'm really glad that I had the opportunity to learn and speak this beautiful and very veeery strong language. Not to mention, I have started giving German language courses too!
@darkscythe38747 ай бұрын
I just started learning German. My friends say that I'm crazy and should learn a beautiful and useful language instead, but I find German interesting. This video just made me more motivated to learn, thank you! I find he compound words really interesting. I recently learned birthday present is Geburgstagsgeschenk. They're really cool imo
@gewittertorte4 ай бұрын
Actually as a German I’m very confused how everyone else gets along without compound words. I was very sad when I learned some Turkish, tried it and everyone was like that’s not a real word 🙂 More Words are Geburtstagskind, Geburtstagsparty, Geburtstagslied
@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit4 ай бұрын
@@gewittertorte English essentially has compound words. They're just written with a space inbetween. An example would be "compound word".
@JesusChristTheHoly4 ай бұрын
@@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit thats literally just two words dude the whole point of a compound word is it's two words combined. Hes not an idiot and two words with a space exist in german too.
@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit4 ай бұрын
@@JesusChristTheHoly didn't think Jesus Christ would be this hostile. Anyways, the main thing about compound words is that they take two words and combine their meaning. "Compound word" is indeed two words, but they essentially get used as if they were one. There's really no meaningful difference between "compound word" and "compoundword". It's just that the typical way to write in English is to keep the space between the two halves of what is essentially a compound word. You could easily do the same in German. "Die Waschmaschine" and "die wasch Maschine" would still be understood the same way (due to context that would be common knowledge if we wrote the way English gets written). Tl;dr: the difference between a compound word and two words that combine their meaning is the way you write them.
@davidpowell33474 ай бұрын
Maybe find a video of Vilsmaier's "Stalingrad" movie in the original German?
@musiqtee7 ай бұрын
As a 🇳🇴, learning (and clumsily using) German back in the early 80’s opened up three main areas of experience over time - Linguistics, culture and time passed (social anthropology & history). Of course, they are merely aspects of a larger whole, but that’s the journey of life - slowly ingesting knowledge, then insights and maybe a little wisdom. We need to “speak” across boundaries and borders, for so many reasons… 👍
@xoxrvn7 ай бұрын
Should we write the comments again?
@fern-tv7 ай бұрын
yes please, we are afraid this might hurt the video's performance. And it was quite a bit of work ...
@xoxrvn7 ай бұрын
@fern-tv Say no more 😈 I'll comment first 10 times 😂💚
@mysterycrumble7 ай бұрын
@@fern-tv i didn't comment on the original can i still comment here?
@R18jura7 ай бұрын
Comment for the re-upload.
@lilnoir42137 ай бұрын
@@mysterycrumble No you had your chance loser.
@callmebymyname3669Ай бұрын
German is not aggressive, it's just about how you pronounce the words
@Maouww7 ай бұрын
Another word we blatantly stole from germans and then applied our own nuance to is "gestalt". German is such a cool language - and I think the precision of your language keeps everyone very grounded. That's my experience of germans, at least.
@sadistoftorment90834 ай бұрын
Ich bin Engländer und ich liebe die deutsche Sprache. We're all cousins from over 1000 years. And I'm glad that a lot of people feel the same way. Any language when spoken in any form of angry tone is going to sound aggressive. I rage at games from time to time and I scare the shit out of my mates
@Para-Phrase3 ай бұрын
Lieber Cousin, deine Worte sind Balsam. Football and debates. No more brother wars.🙏
@EddieReischl29 күн бұрын
I've been starting to learn German, and like my native English, I find it to be a very poetic language. To be able to take a complex concept and distill it down to a single word is a philosopher's dream, and German does this as well as any language, giving it a metaphysical beauty.
@bx_h237 ай бұрын
"Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön" from Mozart's The Magic Flute will prove you wrong.
@parodic65727 ай бұрын
I'm french and I love how german sounds, obviously how it's delivered has a huge impact on its perception I think
@dragonsarebutterflies36635 ай бұрын
Ha! Im german and i love how french sounds when spoken by a native. Incredibly beautiful language. Not that i could understand anything y'all say after 6 years of learning french lol
@xSoulhunterDKx4 ай бұрын
@@dragonsarebutterflies3663 fr
@marktwain52664 ай бұрын
@@dragonsarebutterflies3663 French are pretentious snobs and Germans are Nazis. When Hitler came to France they accepted him immediately.
@There.Is.Only.Now.7 ай бұрын
0:46 sounds dutch and not german, bros making fun of the wrong germans 🤦🏻♂️
@axisboss1654Ай бұрын
True but it’s similar enough
@kristoferhellmann6676Ай бұрын
Side note: the ß ("eszett") is a sharp, hissing s after a long vocal. For a sharp, hissing s after a short vocal we use "ss". I love how someone thought "our language is so complicate for non-natives ... let's make it easier by adding an extra letter."
@555mek4 ай бұрын
I fiddled with a shortwave radio as a kid. Couldn't tune in much, but once, or was it twice, in the middle of the night I caught a program in German - women talking about opera. I still remember their voices were beautiful, even though I didn't understand a word.
@parkermitchell20893 ай бұрын
How did you figure out they were talking about opera?
@yicongfang84353 ай бұрын
@@parkermitchell2089 He used magic I guess
@PhilemonJackProductions3 ай бұрын
The word 'opera' is exactly the same in German as it is in English
@Efdbewe7 ай бұрын
5:06 It means "Cattle Identification Meat Labeling Supervision Task Transfer Act"
@MilProductions4 ай бұрын
I’ll never use that word 😅😅
@phil094496 ай бұрын
Imagine your wifi passwort is Rindfleischettecketierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz. The Hackers: Nope
@beasley12324 ай бұрын
WTF 😳
@qI.Djadakanehl4 ай бұрын
😅😅🤣🤣 oder :"Eisenbahnverkehrshauptknotenpunkt."
@HandyMan6574 ай бұрын
Klingon anyone?
@qI.Djadakanehl4 ай бұрын
@@HandyMan657 😅 Qapla'
@zaphodbeeblebrox67954 ай бұрын
Etecketierung? Was that a deliberate attempt at squeezing as many mistakes into one word as possible? 😵💫
@Boris_Chang3 ай бұрын
I always thought of French as the most beautiful, romantic sounding language. And German as a cold, technical language. Having taught myself Mandarin Chinese, I note that one thing they have in common is the way they build new words by combining existing words. Both Chinese and German refer to an airplane as a flying machine, and an airport as a flying machine field. In a way, it is logical and keeps the vocabulary from exploding. BTW, my favorite German word is Schnitzel.
@XmarkedSpot3 ай бұрын
"Both Chinese and German refer to an airplane as a flying machine, and an airport as a flying machine field." - Not quite and not at all. Airplane: Flugzeug = flying _thing_ --- Airport: Flughafen = flight harbor/ port. Schnitzel comes from _schnitzen_ = to carve. Gives a hint to it's origin _Schnitt_ = a cut.
@jimtoner96023 ай бұрын
When I lived in Germany,an attractive German woman speaking German accented English would melt me every time.
@PecanBun4 ай бұрын
im embarrassed to say it, but to me the german language sounds kind of adorable… it’s tentative and soft and polite, and this is part of why I’ve tried learning some of it (just enough to show off)
@eryr_llwyd4 ай бұрын
Thank you! Have you ever heard German folk songs (not the marches...) such as "Ännchen von Tharau" or Schubert's Lieder? They are really soft and smooth, not aggressive at all.
@djb15627 ай бұрын
Favourite German word is "Feierabend", it's quite unique to the German Language
@dennistomsen58224 ай бұрын
Not really. In Danish we have the word "fyraften" which means exactly the same thing. It originated from the Middel Old German or Old Saxon word viravent, not the modern German equivalent feierabend.
@marcwolf602 ай бұрын
My favorite German word is 'Morgenmuffel' or Morning Grouch..
@katybechnikova28217 ай бұрын
I did German for 8 years in school. It's not an ugly language. People are just still influenced by WW2 propaganda. If all German you hear is from an angry guy with a moustache, no wonder you think all of it sounds angry. Listen to Goethe's poems or something for once. Watch some Mozart's operas. IDK.
@scattypetty7 ай бұрын
German is a very slow language and people don't yell in a normal conversation. You wanna call a language aggressive? Italian is right there lol.
@coffeepie7 ай бұрын
but there are such lovely sounding words, too, like Schmetterling, Schnuckelig and Schlawiner.
@Operator44063 ай бұрын
German only sounds angry when you yell it 💀
@davidliu22434 ай бұрын
Idk man, when I visted Germany a few months ago, the people there were some of the nicest and gentlest people I've heard.
@Iriton13 ай бұрын
❣ You should also visit Switzerland and Austria.
@アンドレーエフ貝2 ай бұрын
You would be astouned how many people, especially Americans (I wouldn't know why) say that. I really dislike the video. He is German and used a stereotype and proved his point by showing the most aggressive content he could find. Including using the most aggressive examples like "fauchen" which is an onomatopoeia and has the purpose of representig a sharp, aggressive sound. It's hissing, hissing is aggressive that is the nature of that action and also the word. If he would have used "achso" oder "natürlich" as an example, which are words we actually use everyday, they would have sounded soft. Also, when our language would be this aggressive, why the need for emphasising glottal stops. It's absolutely correct, that we have them, but we absolutely do not use them between every word. That . would . be . exhausting. Cheers mate, I am glad that the overal opnion in this comment section is that it's not aggressive. It is so tiresome to hear that all the time with aggressive Americans yelling who knows what into your face.