I'm from Russia and this site is not opening. Are there some restrictions about the country the user comes from?...

@@AnjaLerntDeutsch yeah you either have to stop the war or buy nord VPN to change your county location. F putin and fascism.

@@indigofranz8845 haven't thought about VPN, thank you. The other part sounds rude to me. Not gonna argue here though. Thanks for your advice anyway.

That part hit home way to hard

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Truth. The German native speakers I knew refused to speak German with me. The best explanation I got was "I don't want to become someone's walking dictionary."

@@necron881 Sorry for that. I had dinner yesterday with an American expat and would have been quite happy to speak German, as I think I embarrassed myself with my broken English. But he only knows a few German words yet. So, we had no choice. Maybe in the future.

@@hape3862 Indeed. Hoping for the best.

It sorta became a meme to say "Sorry if my english is not perfect" after you uttered the most eloquently formed and grammatically perfect sentences

I raise you a "Streichholzschachtel"

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Fahrrad?😂😂😂😂😂

His English is even better than how native speakers used to speak.. 🥴

Demoralising! Been there. Fight through it...keep replying in German 😎

When the Appolo-Soyuz mission was lunched, americans spoke in Russian and soviets in English))

i would too but id try to comfort you and make it easier for you to communicate. if you want to practise german, tell me that and ill help you. if corrections are wanted id do that too

Unfortunately Germans and Austrians often lack a loyality towards their language and don't see it as a way of communicating with foreigners, one has to endure that and keep trying

That's why I won't learn german

Don't forget Icelandic.

so right!

Wir machen die Witzlein in Büro und zu Haus (c) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pd9iidR1zprXdps.html :)

And also from Rammstein. Apparently there's one member of the band that jokes and plays up all the time. He's also the second oldest and the shortest in height. He's like Gelsomina in La Strada. There was a sketch on Monty Python where a German tells a joke but it is so funny you would die when you heard it.

Sad you don't have a better example than Rammstein. They're Schmutz. But I find it funny how you talk about them like a quartett card game. I don't get the Gelsomina part at all though. What has Fellini to do with Rammstein or Paul Landers? Would you like to explain, please?

Then speak English only, if you're not fully confident in German, and see the language they're willing to practice 😉 That's how I learned greetings in the morning (guten Morgen) or in the evening (guten Abend) 🙂🙏 That may say a lot about their will to welcome you as well

when you type it i can immediately tell you are either a foreigner or partyiing - if you meet someone for the first time youd say "freut mich SIE kennen zu...." the "du" is usually reserved for children, people you know well or in a very casual or intimate setting like a swinger club.

@@OrkarIsberEstar thanks for the tip

@@OrkarIsberEstar While what you're saying isn't false, "Sie" is very formal and usually puts a distance between you and the person you're talking to. It is mostly used if you talk to elderly people, in a work environment or if you're talking to people of public service, just to be more respectful. On the other hand if you're young and talk to people of around the same age as you, it would sound very unnatural to use "Sie" towards them.

@@schlafen I always started conversations with people I don't know with Sie and the first thing that people around my age said was "please! Say Du! Sie is very weird!". Even in more formal situations, like talking with staff in the university, if the person was younger, they would rather use du with me. I still start with Sie most of the time to avoid any embarassment , but it's confusing.

I'm learning Ancient Greek and I swear this shit is about three times harder than Latin, the absolute get-a-new-form-for-anything bitch. Also I never thought cases or grammatical gender were a problem anywhere too, you learn the grammatical gender with the word and the cases will come with a lot of reading/listening/speaking/writing. The bigger problem is vocabulary for me, I cannot remember that shit.

Thank god, in South Asia we will never give objects genders. All objects are neutral.

@@adsfornothing3146 Have you tried looking into Anki for mass learning vocabulary?

@@giftapfel Nope, maybe I should

в русском и украинском тоже 3 гендера для слов:) Но там есть правила как легко понять гендер слова

yeah at some point i just started saying a new country

@@georgyekimov4577 oh, it’s not just me, then? Thanks, although I’m sorry for you, it’s good to know!

Well - makes sense. A few decades ago most English-speakers were US soldiers. But now, with lots of refugees and migrants, and English being somewhat of an universal language, it's not that easy anymore...

which one, step5 or 7?^^

@@RadicalLiving I think its 5 :( :(

The reason is „Berlin“… 😂

NOONE picks German up easily... except maybe if they already speak Dutch.

@@moonhunter9993 thank you . I’m going to keep trying !

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Das Ungeheurechen zerstört die Stadt, und es hat ein Wasserstoffbömbchen dabei XD

Guten tag ich mochte ein Kuchchen, Kekchen, Kaffeechen, Weinchen und wo kann ich ein taxi fahrerchen finden?

@@shamicentertainment1262 close but here comes the complicated weird part as Kuchen already has a CH and Kuchchen doesnt would it becomes -lein instead so Küchlein (remember vowel change) Meanwhile in Fahrer and Taxi...there is no change to an umlaut so Taxifahrerchen is correct

Sehr gut! Mein Glückwunsch! 😄

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just gotta overpower them^^

Level up by saying "nicht besonders gut" (nicht so gut is not wrong, however)

Oh, und probier mal "...ist total gut", und warte auf das "ach ja? Dann lass mal hören!"

Because of the association with Hitler and then from the 60's the German tourists in Spain who could neither speak English or Spanish and have a bit of reputation there though they will never match the British for drunkenness. Never ever. They would just be a little tipsy compared with British tourists. At least the German tourists in France can speak either English or French or both.

Omg that's next level insane 😂

Nice, but the German cases are actually numbered differently: swap Genitiv (2. Fall) and Akkusativ (4. Fall) 😉

I agree. German is bad but there are plenty of languages that are more challenging : like Arabic where you only write consonants and have to guess the vowels... haha.

@@moonhunter9993 Actually you don't have to guess the vowels. Yes, there is no vowel as letters but we have other alternative which is sth we call harakat ( they are a little signs we put on or under the letter to know the sound ) , ex The letter B in Arabic is ب So Ba in Arabic writien as بَ Bo = بُ Be = بِ And so on... but the problem may be that we write these signs only in children book cuz as you get older you don't need them anymore because you can know how to pronounce the words ( accept some times when you have two words that are written in the same way but pronounce differently and some other words that may be hard to pronounce) For ex: For children : I know that For adults: I knw tht Thou I still think Arabic is a hard language even for natives .

@@rawaaimad Thanks for the details. I did mean that the vowels aren't always printed (in newspapers etc.)

only 5 more to go whohoo!

Best of luck!

@@RadicalLiving Vielen Dank! Love your videos 😍

Me too, the best steps ... "cry" and "cry more" ... I dominate those two points 😜😜

same, why is it so hard😭😭

Thanks 😄 you're welcome!

Kein Bier vor vier 🍻

Love you right back 👊😊

I'd say it's typical for native speakers to be almost completely ignorant about theoretical rules of their respective language.

Hmm that is interesting I wasn't aware of any of those points. Yes as a native English speaker I find genders very challenging (I am learning German). I am curious, does having genders for everything allow things that English doesn't? In descriptions or poetry for example, I mean a way to play on words that we don't have?

@@misterr3083 I'm learning German too, and it's even more challenging to memorize how German noun gender is different from the Russian one. I'd say, grammatical gender has zero practical purpose, but probably can add some extra dimension in poetry, metaphors etc.

No worries, even native Germans struggle with them.

what about „fälle“? i imagine that those would be even more of a challenge than memorizing the gender of the words. Oh, and then there is those two in conjunction…

Thank you too

Trust me: wherever you live its better than in germany.

You have a wonderful name.

@@LaureninGermany Thanks! You too girl!

*no longer too short 😄

So as a native German speaker I can recommend you to train your tongue and your larynx. Sounds strange but you need good "r", "st"; "ck" "ch" and so on and most of the sounds are spoken with the throat

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Hablo español pero estoy estudiando alemán se me hace muy estético la pronunciación es díficil pero me encanta el Alemán es mi lenguaje favorito

@@Alex-ce1os digo lo mismo. Mi lenguaje favorito por sus sonidos. La pronunciación es dificil, pero mas reglamentada que la inglesa y una vez que se aprende la fonetica, no hay problema! Pero la gramatica....... 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

😄 have fun!^^

It drives me nuts that my former British jail of a country is now a US vassal state, and when I go to Europeans for some culture I get not the English of their actual neighbour, but the American stuff. I'm used to Asians who aren't from former British colonies being Americanised, but I thought that was down to them only learning English en masse quite recently. And yet random Brits pronounce French better than me...

thanks Juan! 😄

that's why i put it there, only for you 😘

Warte... Geruch oder Gerücht?

@@NicolaiCzempin Gericht

in the villages it's true yeah

You're welcome 😋

Sehr geil 😂

Der Nachteil wenn man Englisch in der Schule lernt

You're welcome 😸

@@RadicalLiving go 2 israel;;;

Hey, thanks!

good strategy. Even German kids struggle in school.

My husband forced me to learn the Rhabarberbarbara thing for a show. We are now divorced. (No we’re not)

Welcome to five-and-twenty, though 😉

Schon cool wenn man da Muttersprachler ist 😂 (I am a German too)