As a German, I have a few things to note: Guns: Germany does allow guns, but to own a gun you need to jump through a bunch of hoops. So while it's a lot easier to get guns in the US, it's not like owning a firearm is illegal. Compound words: Misspelled as "Mehrdrutig", Mehrdeutig means ambiguous. However, while writing the script they must have gotten a bit mixed up because ambiguity isn't central to the idea of compound words. Compound words use some simple words, prefixes and other "building blocks" to create words with new meanings. Autobahn for example consists of "Auto" (car) and "Bahn" (track/path/tracked vehicle; here you can actually see a word block with some ambiguity). So an Autobahn is a "Carpath". A Straßenbahn is a tram, "Straße" means street, and as "Bahn" can also mean a tracked vehicle (like a train), it's essentially a "Streettrain". This means that compound words rarely get confusing, as they don't all have unique meanings. Vergangenheitsbewältigung absolutely doesn't have anything to do with lingering guilt. It means something like "tackling the past". This kinda feeds the misconception that Germans still feel super guilty today. We don't feel guilty as such, almost none of the Germans alive today played an active role in WWII. But we have inherited a responsibility to ensure we never go down that path again. Owning Mein Kampf isn't illegal, however displaying Nazi-associated symbols publicly, denying the holocaust, or promoting genocide will get you into a lot of trouble. "Volksverhetzung" doesn't have to do with denying past atrocities, instead, it refers to hate speech directed at a people, as in promoting violence or abuse towards a group. As an example, a call to assault all Buddhists would count as a case of Volksverhetzung. About the tornados: It may be technically true that Germany has the most tornados in Europe, but to be frank, Europe just doesn't have a lot of tornados to begin with.

German dubbing is extremely good. Most of the time you really think the movie is in German. Foreign stars often dubbed by the same person in different movies. This way you get the feeling that the actor is really speaking like that. It even sounds strange to here their actual voice the first time.

no, the dialects are not frustrating. you mostly get what its about and if you dont get a dialect word, you just simply ask what it means.

I liebe Deutschland so sehr, dass ich Sprache gelernt habe. (I love Germany so much I learned the language).

I worked as a bricklayer in Germany Koln Bonn Düsseldorf area’s,I loved it great country and great people.🍻

Hello to any German who reads this, we love you efficient fellows 👍

Fun fact: the Brit in the Inglorious Bastards pub scene was played by Michael Fassbender, a Irish Brit whose father is actually German!

Hey, german here: The Scene from Inglorious Bastards is pretty realistic, imo - Micheal Fassbanders Character only speaks in very short sentences, during the whole situation and he can pronounce the single words correctly - suddenly he bursts out and tells the drunken german (the first stranger that came to the table) to behave - this is when the SS Officer first noticed it - he just sounds super clunky. At this point, if he would have come up with a story that would have explained why hes sounding weird, I think he could have fooled the SS guy. Because there were foreigners in the Wermacht - whole Regiments.He could have just told him, that he was a german, raised in England and that he came back to fight for Germany. Thats not unrealistic. Instead he told him that hes from a small village near the Pitz Palu Mountain, in Switzerland and that its the local accent - that was a big mistake. Swiss accents are suuuuper recognisable for germans and he sounded nothing alike. When he ordered the beer with the wrong gesture, it was just the last hint the SS guy needed, to be sure hes fake.

19:53 no its not frustrating, its pretty cool because germany is so diverse, which makes this country so great. Everywhere u go u can learn things, its never get boring. :)

19:56 no it’s not really frustrating because you can understand most words everywhere and also lots of the dialects kinda get lost by the time

I live in the UK and my dad owns a sniper rifle for target shooting at a club. This might surprise you...but you can actually get guns in the UK. You jump thru a few bureaucratic hoops and a police inspection of your safe and you can actually buy a gun.

Regarding the "dubbing everything part", it's true and I must say, that Germany is really good at dubbing. You usually won't get into an "uncanny valley" situation where Lips and Words won't match. It's because we try to translate the scripts to find words or phrasings and/or timing to match the Lips in the Show/Movie. It's hard work, and sometimes Jokes or extensive meanings get lost in translation or to the fact that it wouldn't match as well. Sometimes, especially in some older productions, if they couldn't find a "good" translation to match they would "cut" the Show/Movie to not showing the Lips in that moment, e.g. cut back to a frame of the Person being talked to or use a zoom. It's barely noticeable unless you watch a Movie in 2 Languages on 2 Monitors at the same time. (Or know one version of a Movie by heart.)

I'm British and live in Germany, that should make a mess of your demographics *lol* . What might interest you is, politics here is boring as hell, the PR system they have ensures endless coalition governments, so everything is a compromise... It might be shits and giggles if you have Trump or Johnson, but it's taught me to love boring politics, the world needs more of it.

10:35 The "Tornado" situation is actually not that bad. It's rather realy heavy storms then real tornados. Since much of Germany is not consitent of flat crop area, Tornados do not realy get to take up much force, but the floods in the north can get rather dangerous some times. Also, since german infastructure is build to last, the damages are usualy only minor.

A small correction: The 300 kinds of bread are a vast underestimate. We have over 3200 officially recognised kinds of bread. Oh and regarding your bot having a big army, that is about to change as the budget for it was just lately immensely increased to, I think, the 4th largest military budget of the world and a brand new tank was announced, the KF 51 Panther.

I lived in Bielefeld for 3 years as a kid ,,love Germany (and I’m English) they are good bunch 👍

My grandfather died in a concentration camp. He fell out of the watch tower.

the "holy roman empire" was not a unified german state. It was a conglomerate of hundreds of kingdoms and dukedoms, ruled by a king elected by the rulers of those territories. All those territories stayed independent to each other, but obliged to a common ruler.

18:37 the people in the masks are celebrating Swabian-Alemannic Fastnacht, their traditional version of carnival. It’s so traditional that women are not allowed to participate in the parades. All the people in masks are men.

To this day, Cameroon in Africa speaks 3 languages, English in the north, French about everywhere, and German in the south-east. It is not rare to meet someone who speaks all three, nor is it rare to meet someone who only speaks one or 2.

Seen half and thoroughly enjoyed this! Work calls, but I will resume the rest later. I have visited the Austrian side of the Danube in the past but have yet to visit Germany. Brilliant video and reaction thank you! Some fascinating facts here! Ok back again! Fully agree about the subtitles, and with any dubbed media there seems to be a huge difference in litteral translation. Sometimes having subs and dub on at the same time shows just how open the interpretation is! (not that subtitles are perfect either) And wow those masks from the street party, yep stuff of nightmares wow! Brilliant reaction, learnt so much! And yep followed Geography Now :)

19:00 that’s a form of carnival they do there (called Fasnet) where they kind of dress up as their local tales, usually witches, devils or other creepy shapes

4:07 As a German, I am glad that Americans, Brits, Germans and French have integrated all these principalities, kingdoms, provinces between 1945-1991 into 16 states and brought them into an order. This would be the nightmare of every political candidate in federal or state elections. The German state budget already has problems to finance 16 state parliaments. We can be happy that we do not have 300+ states like in the Holy Roman Empire. It was also sensible that West Germany introduced the municipal reform, which merged individual villages in the 16 states into one municipality to make them economically efficient. For comparison: I come from a village in the state of Bavaria, and we form a community with 8 smaller villages.

19:04 is the kind of traditional carnival - quite similar to the Swiss carnival (allemanisch) - "Fasnets Umzug" (carnival parade) - with groups of different similarly dressed people organized in clubs. I guess the crazy masks were traditionally created to scare the Winter season away - as carnival is usually in January / February

21:42 Dubbing in german is a national art. Lip Sync and authenticity is very highly looked upon. Some say otherwise, but i think german dubbing is pretty good in most regards.

Germany has more than 3.000 different kinds of bread, not 300 😉 And the Roulade is normally made from beef, not pork 🤓 Also there are no bears living in Germany (sometimes a young male bear crosses the green border from Poland or the Czech Republic to GER, when he’s on its way to new hunting grounds), but many Wolfes. 🐺 BTW: it’s legal to buy “Mein Kampf” in GER. You must be at least 18 years old and the bookstore isn’t allowed to promote the book.

We're not crazy, we just learn how to drive properly :p

Barbarians yeah! I love that a German show Is being watched by international viewers! And also that they actually made the romans speak Latin, that’s amazing. That one main Roman guy is actually Italian too

Drinking beer with 16 or driving as fast as you want... completely insane!! Everyone can have a gun... completely normal :D

I am German and I have never ever seen a real Tornado! Been living in the north, Hessen and Bavaria. No movie like Tornados ever.

"They were part of the Holy Roman Empire at some time." - Ehm, no. We *were* the HRE for 1,000 years.

The low national pride in Germany has few to do with WW2 but a lot with what you've seen earlier in the video. The Germany we know today is pretty young and the first time Germany became a unified state was in 1871. Before that Germany was a loose community of small kingdoms and tribes that all had their own culture and language that sometimes heavily differed from the common german language. I'm from Saarland for example. It's the smallest german non-city state and the 1 million people here speak 6 different recognised dialects with at least 6 more mixed dialects and 12 different words and/or pronounciations of "potato". Depending on where you are in my state the german word for "you", "DU", can be pronounced LU, LAU, DU, DAU, DE or DA. It's a lot of regional pride and even within the state there is more local pride than national or state pride. It's like when people from New York call people from New Jersey wannabe-NYers. But in Germany it's on a whole different level like the difference between sports fans in the USA and in Europe. It can be difficult to understand other germans when they speak in their regional dialect but we germans can switch between our dialect and "common german" on the flight. And that's what we do if we recognise that someone isn't from the area and usually you speak in common german to people when you are in another state so they immediatelly know that they have to speak in common german too. They will still speak in their regional accent and sometimes a dialect word slips in but you will understand 99% of what they are saying.

You need to see an episode of Fawlty Towers...Don't Mention the War...absolutely hilarious.

ah, our tornados in europe are really small compared to the ones in the US. They don't do much damage (well, some they do but in most cases they just take the roofs and some lose things around with them). One of the more powerful ones from this year: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kNdmZMiTp7OqqWQ.html

To be or not to be a horse rider. That is equestrian

Interesting fact for you, i guess... Germany is starting now to invest a lot of money in the military. They are in the NATO like the US and a lot of other countries and one rule says: You have to invest 2% of your GDP into your military. Germany never wanted to do that and only invested around 1,2%. Why? Well, if we spend only 2% of our GDP it is so much money that we will be BY FAR the most dominant force in the EU, because we have such an high GDP. But now with the situation in Russia we invested these 1,2%+2% in one go and after that we will always invest 2% or maybe more... So i think in the next 5 years Germany will be "freaking strong" and most of the germans (including me) dont really want that, because we are still haunted by the things from the past even if our generation was no part of it! We are confronted with this in school A LOT and also in the media at certain channels, we try to learn from our past. So i hope that makes it a little bit clearer. Have a good one! Greetings from Saarland (Germany)

we build houses with bricks not wood. so a tornado is okay^^

Our Tornadoes are not as big as the ones in the US and we normaly don't name them tornado, we call them Windhose. Only now, we begin to call them tornado.

Hi mate, ask your German fans about ' Dinner for one ' An old English comedy sketch that's shown every year mostly in Germany, classic stuff 🇩🇪

14:40 short remark: One American, One Brit and One German Hugo Stiglitz played by Till Schweiger is a german character.

Great video, much love from Germany 😊

Been following Geography Now from the start, he's working his way through the countries of the world alphabetically and has just finished Trinidad and Tobago,

Oh and yeah we had a mini tornado in Shropshire in England. It was tiny but it did throw down half a massive sycamore tree 2 feet in front of Mt window. So that was much fun, but obvs way less scary than the crazy tornados you get there!

You should do more reactions from this channel 👍🙌

Germany is great. I like it.

Yes, this year we had two tornados in the city of paderborn. How many tornados have the US ?

20:00 Like he said almost everybody in Germany speaks (high-)german (dude its just regular german we dont call it high german that often anymore) so Hallo and Tschüss are basically our hello and bye.

Many Americans who identify their ancestry as English, were descended from Anglo Saxons who came to England from Saxony and displaced much of the English natives to Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

9:15 okey so normaly it´s like 120 or 150 the "no speed limet sign" is really rare, but even so ther some peaple that just go nutts on the Autobahn

U should start a series where u do every country

i never seen a tornado and i am from cologne. i never heard that there are tornados in Germany

I am from Germany, Bavaria. I think it’s entertaining watching Americans realize that there country isn’t the best or just the culture difference. It’s kinda funny tbh.

26:02 ahhhh yes, thinking of Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Major General of the continental army. with the famouse quote as he inspected what was explained to him as the American continental armed forces: "With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army."

Great video dude- I also have a piece of very nice pottery that is marked West Germany, so circa 1946- 1989 I think. Didn't 007 use the Walther PP?

Fun fact. When the Declaration of Independence was written it is said that there was a vote on which language would be used. If 3 people had voted another way then King Boomer would now be speaking High German. 😊

As a german, being 30 years old: never saw a tornado here.

If you've got a few drops of English in you that does count as German in around about kind of way. You've got some Anglo-Saxon in you 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍

I am 28 years old and i never see any tornado Here 😀 Best wishes from Germany 🌴

Never heard of a tornado here, seriously. Props from Berlin.

Check out some videos about german inventions. I mean: Not only the car was a german invention, but also the computer etc. And Coca Cola's "Fanta" is a german drink, too.

Germany = Tornado Alley?!? I'm 67, have lived in central Germany all my life, and have never, EVER experienced a tornado here. Heavy storms, yes. Flooding, okay. Volatile weather in general, yup. But tornadoes? Not even on the news. Once.

Don't worry. We have a ton of firearms too 😅

Hay a German here ^^ Dude i like you, and you are really simpatico ^^ i like your reaction :D Supp from me :D

I liked “Over There” best. Greetings from the Black Forest.

20:00 Only the most obscure local dialect spoken by someone who is virtually 150 years old will be unintelligible. Unless people are Swiss and then they'd just speak their standardised version of German instead. But I'd argue I can hold a conversation with any person speaking some form of German. I mean, Low German and Luxembourgish are classified as distinct languages and I can still mostly understand them. Dutch and Frisian are a bit more difficult but one can get the jist of things. Now if even distinct languages can kinda work, dialects are not an issue. And the North really only speaks one dialect (Standarddeutsch) and variations thereof (Ruhrdeutsch, Berlinerisch, etc.), minority languages aside, of course. People sound distinct, which is quite interesting, seeing as you can sometimes identify the exact city someone is from, originally but intelligibility is not an issue.

How much can I drive on the Autobahn? Although there is no general speed limit on German autobahns, there are recommended speeds of 130 km/h. These apply to motorists and motorcyclists. September 22nd, 2021

My mom still has a big caramel brown bowl and on the bottom it says manufactured in DDR (east germany) she was born and raised there now living und the 'west' ern area

UK actually has the most tornadoes in the world, but they are so small that no one notices.

Finally some culture ! But best played at 75% speed, with the added bonus of our Brian sounding drunk!

Hello there. Regarding the highway and lack of speed limit. In order to get your driver's license here in Germany, you go to a driving school for a while. You have multiple driving lessons including night driving, country road driving and freeway driving. As of course several driving hours in the city.You have to be at least 18 years old to drive alone after the test and with 17 years an experienced co-driver has to be present. And yes, it's very fun to drive 200km/h. great fun.🤘

Geography Now is amazing and is doing every country they are up to Trinidad and Tobago. I would love you to react to Geography Now New Zealand

The Netherlands next?

The dubbing is really a big thing in Germany and the experience in it brings some quality, of course with some exceptions like the famous subway sandwich from the Simpsons, when the responsible translator obviously didn't know the fast food chain, that needed some time in Germany to become a thing. So the German Simpsons fans thought that Homer had the idea of dying some day because of a "U-Bahn sandwich" (by choking or what?). The difficulties with different ways to say goodbye is the biggest exaggeration. If you don't know how to say goodbye to a German, then use "Tschüss" or "auf Wiedersehen" That funny letter that looks it a bit like a capital B is something that doesn't really make sense. Why not just use the classical double s? Instead we need a new letter for a double s when it follows a long vowel or diphtong. Another interesting bit might be the following video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nb2Jh9GUnNOdnXk.html It is about the construction of Airport Berlin Brandenburg AKA The deathbed of German efficiency.

Mmh living 35 years in the North. But never saw a tornado. I think , if it’s happened, they are very small

We do not have really tornados...

About that West-Germany thing... You should know that this stamp is rather the exception than the rule. In pretty much every way West Germany declared itself to be just "Germany" after ww2, the position that they were the sole legitimate Germany was an official policy. East Germany was never recognized as a country, which is for example why the east didn't have an official embassy in the west, just some pseudo thing which pretty much did the job of an embassy but couldn't be named "embassy". You could also see this in many other day to day things, for example the east and west both had a football league. And whoever won the west german league was called "german champion" with nobody even wasting a thought on the fact that this was not quite accurate. This is also why reunification played out the way it did, with the east german states simply joining the west german system. And frankly this west german mindset that they alone were german and we easterners weren't, laid the groundwork for all the issues that came with reunification... So your gun was not really made in a country that doesn't exist any more, sorry. I however was... 😅😉 About tornadoes: I think he's exxagerating a little here. I dob't think you can compare tornados here and in the US both in frequency and intensity. Still we usually build our homes from stone or concrete, not wood and drywall ... so we're good... 😅😜

Great reaction 👍🏻👍🏻 try geography now - austria 🇦🇹

15:30 You mean the "I didn't talk to you Obersturmführer "Munich" and also not with you Obersturmführer "Frankfurt" (Calling them out by their accents) i am speaking with the Hauptsturmführer "Nowhere" scene? yes, very well known and beloved in germany ^^

That's a good educational presentation . Sounds typically 100mph yank commentary but we'll presented and I actually understood and retained a fair bit of the information . Germany is as well thought of as any other Country nowadays , in my youth not so much . They are still the team we love to beat at football , but mainly because they are consistently among the best at World cups . As for colonies I refer you to Al Murray . A few more of these videos might be a good idea .

16:52 we work on that hahah we are now the 3rd biggest spender in the world after the us and china so we rearm

Upto the 1980 census the largest ancestry group was English, when 'american' was introduced German became the largest as Americans whose ancestors came before 1776 started identifying as American Rather than their European ancestry which mostly affected the English ancestry

Life's good here, if you are well educated and have a good job. Education is basically free, so there is no excuse for stying on the lower end of wages.

I still don’t know about the weird tornado part, I’ve never seen or heard of a tornado in my life.

The few tornadoes in Germany are in no way comparable to those in the USA. There are around 20-60 tornadoes in Germany each year (USA around 1100/Europe 300-500), with mostly only damage to property. Very rarely do they go beyond F3 strength. Calculated over the past few decades, there has been an average of one death from tornadoes in Germany every year.

I just was born into this country - I didn't choose it. But I like it here - there could have been worse places to grow up. ~_~

What about Geography Now Switzerland?

I’m subscribed to Geography Now myself, after being introduced to the channel by McJibbin.

Geography Now did a very funny and informative video on Ireland, I think you would enjoy it .:)

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If you want to learn more about gun ownership in Germany, check out Joerg Sprave from the Slingshot Channel, he made a in detail video about it.

Maybe that is where the yellow brick road is lol

i also didn't know, that Germany is the tornado alley of europe, and i AM german. so, i wouldn't call it tornados, like what you have in the US, just storms. also, our housed aren't made of paper, so they don't care about some wind outside. to the inglorious bastards thing: that finger counting thing is just something we learn here, it's natural etc. so that major may have been very keen about that, but no german would ever count 3 like that, it's just habit and against our "nature". to the "big army now": the last 2 times we had one, we world didn't really like it, remember? ;) but yeah, we're about to start that again, this time with approval of all our neighbours :) to swabian culture, carneval and the masks: that's just heritage. remember all the old Grimm tales and fairy tales? Hänsel and Gretel? the witches are also part of that.

You should check out the joke about Spain. You will love it.

Hi im from Baden Württemberg and and I wanted to write something about those people with the witch masks. One of them run to a woman and took her with them. Another year they took my mother and they were of and another one took something out of my hair run away and i never saw that again. 🤣

No bears!😙

Germans sometimes can´t understand other Germans properly when they speak their regional dialekt. Especially when 2 people from north and south speak to each other. Therefore it´s good that there is "HOCHDEUTSCH" :)

My Husband photo in Icon was stationed there he loves the German people

That pistol is cool. I wish I had a part of History. We are not crazy we are efficient. I am from Bavaria to be exact, I still don’t drink alcohol and I am vegan. We don’t need a big army, we have many friends, that’s our army. NATO, EU, as well as these friendly relationships, Just think about it. It’s not frustrating, context and so on.

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