😂

KZfaq is full of garbage with its censorship.

If their words and thoughts can't be contained at least their appearances might be I guess XD

If you want to make another video on a horrible language and no dictators, do Dutch.

lol

Except in French, there you gonna sound romantic always 😂😂😂(jk)

@@optimist_introvertiert_nam7271 Clearly you never heard an angry Quebecois 😆

@@theoriginalcatchie8255Quebecois is not real French!

Not Argentinians. lol che

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.

yes Geborgenheit is a very beautiful german word, it makes me feel very cozy just saying or even thinking it

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 :)

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!

@@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.

Geborgenheit ist wirklich ein schönes Wort. Magyarul úgy forditanám le hogy "meghittség".

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!

Yup, when you feel krank, you take the Krankenwagen to the Krankenhaus (hospital) to see the Krankenschwester (nurse) in the Krankenflügel (hospital wing) 😂

​​@@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.

fellow helluva fan. nice

Similar as "rumah sakit" derived from dutch "zukenhuis" Zuken: sick (sakit) Huis: house (rumah)

I'm from Germany. Yet, I can't understand the people from the south, too... 😂 except the saarlandic dialect...

Did you know for the German translation of Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn’t allowed to play himself because his accent was considered too rural?

You can talk like a SS officer in any language and it will sound harsh.

​@@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

this is the most untrue statement i have ever read in my entire life@@tfaltermeier

English by a drill sergeant is not an especially nice sounding language.

It does

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

@@GlaceonStudios Ah, alright, didn't know that🙂👍

Schadenfreude roughly actually means damage joy

@@kargakargakarga you're right, forgot about that Word haha

Interesting we call Kabelsalat "Rat's Nest" in English, far more metaphorical.

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.

All AH audio tapes are worth a listen. Kappaklaus :)

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.

@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.

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.

@@lonestarr1490 aus der Sicht habe ich das noch nie gesehen, vielleicht ist Deutsch doch schöner als man denken mag..

@@lonestarr1490 "Kassentublerone" OMG I'm dying of laughter

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.

@@AnonymousKZfaqr69 See, exactly what I said: you can do hilarious stuff with it :D

There is a good Video in KZfaq 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.

Exactly! Thanks for your comment.

exactly it doesn't sound angry or aggressive at all... it's no good for singing though

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.

Rammstein mentioned 🦅🦅🇩🇪 FEUER FREI 🗣🗣

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?

well it makes sense that you thought so if 3/4 of your languages were Latin Based and one has heavy influence from Latin to see it that way at first

I think the most beautiful thing is,German has a word for almost everything xD sometimes I'm confused there's actually a word for something that I only knew in English.. even as a German,I still learn new words xD

I'm a german and i don't know this word 😂

​@@der_nikolas das ist nicht dein ernst oder?😂

@@der_nikolas i agree 100%, hab das Wort noch nie vorher gehört xD

@@prodbysamir5855 Er ist wahrscheinlich 12, man lernt immer dazu.

Easy word, only 6 consonants in a row

A certain Austrian Painter yelled in German, that’s why

Uf I will yell angry in English or Russian, people shall think that language is a harsh and military.

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!?!?

To be fair. As a german I do think that the german word for butterfly is an excellent word to be yelled.

@@SpielkindFR the difference between english and german is english words sound like what they mean. german words could mean anything...

Wir würden sagen: Für mich klingt das gut! 😊

Es klingt MIR gut ! please ?

@@johngardner4897 nein

Fuer mich, Deutsch klingt wie Musik.

@@valerietaylor9615 we don't structure sentences like this in German. Für mich klingt Deutsch wie Musik. No comma

Insert The Office Thank You-GIF here. :D

thank you!!!! I agree 100%.

Trust me, dirtytalk in german is awful! "Des geht gar net"

It's not a myth. Have you watched the video? How many songs in German do you know?

Standard German without any accent or anything is rather beautiful

Listen to some sung Bach.

@@davidpowell3347 Listen to Beatles song sung in German. Profanity.

Frrr those comedians were not funny

Ahhhh nicht ganz, der Adolf ist auch a bissel schuld Ahhhh not quite, Adolf is also a bit to blame

@@nickoblack8229 That is who those comedians are imitating.

this

same can be said about any other language.

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.

@@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

@@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.

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!

As in any other language 👍🏻

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

especially when austrian painter say it.

Arabic languages do actually sound harsh

Yep, it's just a stereotype that came up this way.

Thats so true.

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.

Jein.

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.

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).

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

Die Gabel Das Messer Der Löffel So logical 😵‍💫

​@@svdwellenU vergeet de tweede, derde en vierde naamval 😅

@@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.

who tf shops at rewe

​@@nitolak2873 du anscheinend nicht, Geringverdiener :D

Tschöööö mit ö

@@nitolak2873 probably people which don't live under a stone

Made my day 😂😂😂

There's a video showing the German background voice production for BF1, they really gave it their best

Ich liebe Battlefield 1. :) 👍👍

Damn. Now I'm installing BF1 again.

cause they got ACTUAL german natives to voice it and not americans shouting the 3 words of german they know

omg! I love it too! the Americans in BF1 are grating!

but what about "des Herbsts"?

Oh, even as a German, I struggled the first time 😅

​@@criticaldamage4067so you still got a lot to learn my fellow german.

When I wanted to read this comment to my friend, I struggled with saying "pronunciation" but "Tschechisches Streichholzschächtelchen" came perfectly out. Well. xD

"Tschechische Chefchemiker auf Griechisch-Chinesischen Passagierschiffen"

Find ich auch

SEPP TEM BERRR MORR GEN! 😂😂

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.

This is a really beautiful poem. I didn't know it before, though, I am an Austrian. Haha

Hey, danke, dass du diesen Gedicht mit uns geteilt hast. Gefällt mir echt gut

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.

Faun is in my opinion an amazing example how soft German can sound.

Du schaffst das :) zieh durch! Could you read that?😂

Viel Erfolg beim Lernen :)

tbh, was not expecting to find Faun in these comments.

Wait until you hear Swiss German

😂

Viel Glück zu ihre Tochter! Ich habe Deutsch gelernt, aber jetzt ich will nicht lernen das Sprache. Ich lerne English jetzt, weil mein Englisch ist, doch es ist gut, noch nicht gut für meine Planen. Ich will auf Englisch Bücher lesen. Meine Grammatik ist schlecht und auch meine Genders. Mein Vokabulary ist klein. Doch ich kann auf Deutsch etwas schreiben. Langsam aber ich kann. Deutsch ist meistens einfach, doch sometimes (I don't know how to say sometimes in German) es ist nicht einfach. P.S. Try to learn German, it is somewhat easy if you already speak English. Although Eglish is not my native language, I've learned how to speak German more or less nicely after a year of learning. Now my German is still bad, but I can express simple thoughts. My English is not comparable with German, though. My German level is A2, my English level is B2, and I am trying to improve my English every single day. And I consume a lot of content in the language, more than I do in my native language. German sounds beautiful once you get used to it! However, there are languages that sound even more gorgeous. Spanish, for example, or Polish.

​@@AivirfoTlareg-nc8ygsometimes = manchmal

Sometimes ist manchmal auf Deutsch.

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.

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.

​@@RyugaruSenbitypical german behaviour, correcting people left and right 😄 aber du hast recht

It would have been nice if he actually would have showed how German sounds. Instead of doing that he didn't speak properly and showed the most aggressive words and comedians he could find. His pronounciation was overdone. If German would be so harsh there would not be a need to do that. Also "fauchen" (to hiss) is one of the most aggressive words in German. It sounds aggressive because it is an onomatopoeia, a word that sounds like what it represents. If he would have used all day German words like "achso" and "natürlich" it would sound soft. But that wouldn't support his narrative so he used the most aggressive words he could find. Sorry to vent a bit, but that is really frustrating. Especially when you can feel the spit from the American actors and comedians that do not even say German words. But they do it with the utmost aggressivness they could find.

Why i always get a plenty of likes on a comment in a format like this uuuuuh

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."

I mean, the only Czech sound I struggle with as a German (I don't speak Czech, I just try to sound out words when I'm on holiday) is ř.

@@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.

@@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.

それ多分演技よ

Thank u so much❤

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!

Agreed

Specially if you read Rainer Maria Rilke.

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.

Just say hitler he is not Voldemort

As a German , i know german could sound very cute

Especially when you greet strangers

Yes, Germans are OK except this one Austrian who is even not a German.

Sung by a woman with clear brilliant voice it sounds soft and pleasant. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sLWmptyS0tWpdJs.html

Justin case anyone cares, I took 5 years of German, and I think it's a lovely language!

Genau.

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.

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 😅

Well that's no fun, is it? 😅

One German teacher here was reported once to ask the students in her class to speak more like normal people less like Hitler😂

Funnily enough, Czechs, Slovaks and English speaking people might already know some German words, without even knowing it.

@@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.

IDK I think German sounds specially harsh when spoken aggressively but under a normal tone I don’t find it hostile

And let’s not forget most great “classical music”.

Dingsbums, the german cousin of french truc machin!😆

Try to explain my favourite word "Doch" to a non German speaking person - difficult...🙃

Bums-Dings😂

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.

'Gutemine und der Dingsbums sind da'

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.

@@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

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@@slavsit7600 ze language

​@@davegibson79Ah yes, who doesn't know all the famous arabic three thinkers who contributed so much to the enlightenment like.....and..........

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.

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

​@@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.

@@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

@@amiromorningstar2913 sorry, don't get your point.

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.

People exaggerate the harsh sounds because all these harsh sounds being that is what's funny about it.

And even if people shout angrily, they still don't sound like Hitler.

@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"

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.

Tasmanians sound angry to me.

French sounds more like passionate love the louder it’s spoken 😅

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”

​@donmcatee45 French actually sounds like you're unsuccessfully trying to cough out phlegm for the entirety of your lifetimes, no matter the volume

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.

Weird fact: even if you shout German aggressively, you still won't sound like Hitler.

😂😂😂

​@reassuring to hear!

Saxon dialect is not qualified to sound harsh. If a Saxon is yelling angrily you feel pity.

Viel Glück 🍀

Viel Glück

German grammar makes me want to scream daily i can’t handle conjugation 😭

@@ConfuzzledClockwork One thing and one thing only: Practice practice and more practice

@@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.

Yes, it does indeed mean 'distant'. Greetings from Germany, I am glad you like our language!

Die Ferne is the distance

U could also say 'far' (Far Places = Ferne Orte)

I Not sur but I think Indonesia was for short a German colony

I dont think so, they explained already. German colonies in the Pacific were what is now Papua New Guinea, the Salomon Islands​ and Samoa@@user-ld2ox3ml9t

Who is Noone? Is he a new Führer?

@@marktwain5266 Ja. Schlachtenhausen bräut Bierkraut gerne. Aber. Muss es gestrammen sein mit Schniegenschnagen? Hodensack! Und hier noch ein Furz zum Abschied!

@@HiroKone Was zum Henker

@@marktwain5266 Nah, he's just trying to get back to Penelope.

Very good observations here.

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)

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.

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

Ja finde ich auch (Ps schweizer/in??)

@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. 😉

Ich wünsche wir würden immer noch Gebrauch von diesem Talent ziehen!

@@mintysan es steht dir frei deine Gedanken in schönen Texten zu formulieren und diese mit deinen Mitmenschen zu teilen :)

What languages do they speak? If they don't speak anything except English, they should really "hold the ball flat" (den Ball flach halten).

Agreed. Germany doesn't deserve all the fun that's made of it.

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.

@@LS-Moto What do you mean by that? In school they learn French and englisch, I think that’s enough.

@@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.

I know exactly what you mean^^ Much love to you and your mom!

Delicate! That's the word!

Yes

It's Italian

@@userre85what?

IIRC Arabic and German share some throaty constanants no?

@@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.

Tschüssi

Ja alles klar TSCHÜSS

Too easy! There is a common way to say "Tschüss" that actually means "fck off, right now!"

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

@@gewittertorte English essentially has compound words. They're just written with a space inbetween. An example would be "compound word".

@@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.

@@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.

Maybe find a video of Vilsmaier's "Stalingrad" movie in the original German?