There is a difference between "wanderlust" and "fernweh". I would describe the difference between "wanderlust" and "fernweh" as follows: “Wanderlust” is the love or desire to be and move in nature. It consists of the words "Wandern" and "lust" and thus describes the love for a hike (in nature) and this can be quite close proximity. In modern German, the term was strongly influenced by Romanticism: "Hiking, yes, hiking is my pleasure" - as in the student hiking songs by Joseph von Eichendorff and later by Joseph Victor von Scheffel. It was institutionalized in the hiking clubs of the 19th century and in the Wandervogel after 1900 and was so popular through the songs and writings of the youth movement that it was also adopted as Germanism in English and has been documented there since around 1902. “Fernweh”, on the other hand, is something completely different, it describes the desire to leave your own living space and in particular to experience other, foreign regions, countries and cultures. This is not limited to nature, even if it is included, but also includes cities, cultural sites and events, foreign people and peoples. It's simply the addiction to experience something new far away from home. It is also the escape from the usual, boring, maybe stressful home environment.

My German teacher in school translated "Schadenfreude" as "malicious joy" - the joy you feel at the failure of others - usually people you don't like.

Wow finally a video made by a local. Hope this catches on with the Aussie series.

Ah, Americans... Woefully oblivious to linguistics, culture, and the world outside their own country in general. 😜 Good on you for being curious and willing to learn! This world could use more Joels.

Stein also comes from the word Steingut. And Steingut is a category word for certain kind of pottery. English uses stoneware. The word Schauspiel in German is used for a kind of live acting on a stage. Mainly when it's a spoken performance (in contrast to operas which are sung). Wiener Schnitzel is a dish made from calf (sometimes also pork) wich is breaded and fried. Breaded cutlet is a distant cousin. Schedenfreude is felt in particular, when you tell someone not to do something and the person does it despite your advice... and then you have Schadenfreude. "Told you so!"

Hello Joel. Some of this comes via Yiddish. Both UK and US had Jewish and German immigrants, looking to escape to better lives. At school we learned in German class that Wiener Schnitzel ('Viennese cutlet') is a thin, breaded, pan-fried veal cutlet. We also studied a kid's book "Fridolin: ein Dackel" about a dachshund. My girlfriend's Austrian relatives say I speak German like a German, but I think there is an Austrian joke in there somewhere. Do not ignore that Austria and Switzerland both use German. I was watching Scotland History Tours about a Burns poem, it being close to Burns Night and the Scots words, like old English, reminded me of German. Some words in English come from the same roots as German to begin with.

Many years ago I got a puppy and took him to obedience/socialisation classes, it was called Kinderbarken.

There's also kitsch (or did she mention that?) and schmaltz, yes? German is actually my favourite language to listen too. I tend to listen to the musicality within any language. German sounds so soft to me. It has a well rounded sound to it. And just because the word "snorkel" sounds German to me, I just looked up its derivation, and guess what ...

"Angst" is an interesting one. The german word derives from the latin "angustia" which originally translates to "confinement" or "narrowness". The medical term "Angina" (as in "Angina Pectoris") has the same root. So the german word "Enge" (narrowness) and "Angst" are linguistically related. In english, the adjective "anxious" is also related to the latin "angustia". And in French there is the word "angoisse" also deriving from the latin word.

I took German in high school and so was aware of many of these words

A Wiener Schnitzel is a breaded veal cutlet, not fish and chips 😂

Stuhl also has a different meaning too: Human waste (Sch....).

I was impressed by her English, but I was surprised that I wasn't aware at all of a few of the words being used in English.

I spent four years learning German at high school here in Australia. Really fun and interesting to wrap my head around the gender of German nouns. Stood me in fairly good stead when I visited West Germany way back in '86.

10:33 that's not fish and chips, that's a schnitzel. A schnitzel, as far as I am aware, is traditionally a crumbed and shallow fried piece of meat - traditionally veal, I believe. My knowledge of German food is very limited, though. Wikipedia may have more information. From what I have heard as well, English is classified as a "Germanic" language - in that our language derives from German, so it's probably not surprising that there are a number of similar, or even loan words from German in the English dictionary.

Wunderkind Joel, I knew them all except "kitsch" and "zeitgeist." In Canada, we use "spiel" same as US, but also use "bon spiel" for winter games competitions. Wiener schnitzel is common here. Finally, "kindergarten" was my five best years in school!! AND yes, let's do German food! Great video. John in Canada

Schadenfreude is the most honest form of compassion.

Kindergarten is the same year here in Australia as Germany. In fact, kindergarten (or kindy) and preschool can be interchangeable words here.

there is also a saying in Germany Schadenfreude ist die beste art der freude which translates to the joy of someone getting harmed or fail is the best kind of joy

i kinda love how she says "but it has a germanic origin" so like 70% of the english language? ^^ Fun fact the closest relative to the german language is english and english was considered a german dialect until about 900 AD.

Do they not have schnitzels in America?!?!??!?!?! 😳 They are a go to menu option at any pub here in Australia 🤣 especially with the parmigiana topping!!!

Many of these words are the same in Yiddish which, with the post war migration of Jews particularly to New York. Watching the nanny they often use German words. I this is how they have over the years become part of your language.

Feli has about the best US/German video sites in KZfaq. I recommend you look at others of hers. I know that modern foreign languages are not as popular as school subjects in the US as elsewhere in the world. However, isn't having a HS pass in at least one foreign language a requirement for university in the US? It is just about everywhere else I know. Most common, in addition to English, are Spanish, French & German.

Hey from England 😁 How she explained kindergarten made so much sense to me. We don’t use this word in England, but I always thought of it as preschool, not actual school age. This is really interesting 😁

16:23 😂😂 you crack me up Joel !

Stool doesn't come directly from modern German like most of these other examples but comes from Middle English and Anglo Saxon, which is why the meaning has deviated slightly from the original German Stuhl(chair)

No. 2 Gezondheid, also in Dutch, used the same way as in German No 7. Stoel is also a Dutch word with the same meaning No 11. Angst, same in Dutch No 16. Tijdgeest, same meaning as the German Zeitgeist No 18. Wonderkind in Dutch I think many words came to the US with immigrating Jews from Europe. Most of them spoke Jiddisch, which is very close to German.

Blitzkriegmädel(Steffi Graf, Las Vegas Nevada). Do you know the film "Das Omen" or "Der Exorzist" .Lots of Americans have their roots in a part of Germany like the English or the Irish. These were the biggest groups of the first Americans, now the Hispanic group is getting bigger and bigger.

Stool isn't a loan word, it is from old English, which of course is a germanic language, its just that they survived in both languages in similar forms. In English chair came later from the French and so we use two words for slightly differently things.

i really like ur attitude to learn learn learn

That´s quite interesting indeed! Some of those words however, may have entered (American) English via Yiddish. That´d be the language of the ashkenasi Jews, basically deriving from middle high German and interspersed with a whole lot of hebrew words. "Schmutz" is such an example, also "Shvitz" (from German schwitzen = to sweat) meaning a traditional steam bath. "Schlepp/ Shlepp" is another example, comming fron the German word "schleppen", meaning to drag around heavy things. Yiddish hebrew words beeing used both in German and American English are "Schnorrer/ Shnorrer", meaning scrounger or freeloader, and "massel" which is another word for luck or being lucky, and meshugge/ meschugge meaning crazy, not right in the head.

English and German have a lot of words in common and both languages can be traced back to the Nords and Vikings etc. We had kindergarten until the term was replaced with pre-school.

If thou aret interested in German cuisine / German cooking, you have to keep in mind that Germany is a federal country. So the cooking of all parts of Germany differs. Take a specialty of my homeland Northern Germany "green cabbage" (Grünkohl). Nobody knows this in Bavaria, where Feli (from the video) comes from. Or another example: Offal can be a separate dish in southern Germany, while in North Germany it's only worth to add into the sausages (as meat) Germany is the country of bread (more than thousand different types), of sausages, of beer (despite Belgium and Czechia) of cakes, A speciality from the North German Coast are "Krabben" (English. sandy shrimps). Never seen in any other part of the world. Very small and very delicious (because of the cold water of the North Sea) And thou may considerst that there is a north-south frontier between former protestant and catholic areas, which totally different customs, par example on holidays like Christmas

13:00 In Britain "blitz" means bomb raid, which is a meaning it doesn't have in German. Likely that shift is due to WW2 newsreels where "Blitzkrieg" was mentioned, and the general public adapted the word to what was currently going on.

Australia has K to 12 and pre school for tinies. German is the easiest language to learn. Speaking English helps. My Granddaughter took a Gap year off from University to be an Au pair in Germany. The lady she worked for paid for a year of German lessons and bought her a new car. When she came back to University she could prove she had done one year of German so she could add it to her classes. She is a research Scientist with two extra degrees in Biology and German. She did another year of Honours after she got her Bachelor’s degree. Then she was asked to do her Masters degree and her Doctorate. She should graduate before August and Australia will not fund her research. America and Canada have been trying to take her for three years. Now she knows Germany will fund her. She is happy to leave to live and work there. We aren’t but we are happy that she will be. You should really go to Germany.

It's like Santa's reindeer names, the last 2....Donner and Blitzen....Thunder and Lightning.

Do you have a link for the original video...I think I'd like to watch more other stuff. Very informative and right to the point

I can imagine that giving someone a "Spiel" in sales situations, means like "playing/spielen" with someones mind to sell your crap to him.

2:47 yes and it's because children often need to harvest cocoa beans or something in some countries and the Kinder chocolate is against that if I'm not mistaken

Many words came from German via Yiddish to the USA.

Weinerschnitzel is a breaded, deep fried meat served with sauerkraut and/or other vegetables. Sometimes German potato salad. (Different from American potato salad)

English is full of words from other languages. It's not really a surprise.

Fun fact: two of Santa's reindeer are named Donner and Blitzen, which mean Thunder and Lightning (Flash) in German.

I'm a bit surprised that she didn't bring up the other similarity of the usage of "stool"/"Stuhl": in both languages it can also stand for "feces".

5:30 i only heard that one time when i watched old episodes of Andromeda Ascendant in english around 2015 in the internet age, 15 years later 6:20 already knew that in 2000 when i played Baldur's Gate 1 from 1998 10:15 even older than the other ones, learned that early 90's in an episode of The Simpsons

Some of the German words came into (American) English via Yiddish rather than directly from German (schmalz, for instance). Others (like angst) came from specialist fields, in this case: psychology. I would think Zeitgeist is also from such a specialist area (literary criticism?). Interesting that Joel doesn‘t know Gesundheit. I grew up (in the States) always saying Gesundheit! to someone who sneezed. Perhaps a regional thing? There are a lot of German-origin settlements in Texas that could have brought that in, as is also the case in the Midwest (around Chicago, for instance).

The adjective " standfest" is also used from time to time.

'Schnaps'coming from north --Germany I used it more as a deskripsjon of brands of liquor,f.eks. Korn.

In the UK, our concept of 'pre-school' is actually closer to the German version. (We also use the term 'the Blitz' to refer to the German bombing of our cities.)

I have looked across the comments and couldn't find it so here I go "Kitsch" or "kitschig" also has a different meaning that is used more commonly used then the one used in the video, as in "overly" romantic in a way that is obviously not completely serious but does depict your feelings for your partner or crush.

How do words and meanings diverge in different languages? That's often the result of different circumstances. I give you a few examples and a few preliminary explanations. English, French, German, Czech, and Russian are all Indo-European languages and developed from a common ancestor language called Proto-Indo-European (PIE) that was spoken some 4 or 5 thousand years agp but belong to different branches (Russian and Czech- Slavic, French - Romance, German - Germanic, English - a weird hybrid of Germanic and Romance with strong substrates of Latin, Greek, and a bit of Celtic). 1. Stool - Stuhl: both describe devices to sit on. When the Normans conquered England in 1066 they replaced the Anglo-Saxon nobility (speaking Anglo-Saxon, which is a West-Germanic language) with Normans who spoke French, which is a Romance language. The nobility used fancy devices to sit on which often had backrests and were upholstered and they referred to them with a French word which today is "chair". The "normal" people who were craftsmen and farmers only had simple devices without backrests. As they continued to speak Anglo-Saxon (before the languages eventually merged a few centuries later) they used the word "stool" for their sitting devices. That's also the reason why animals have Germanic names while the meat of the same animals have French names as the farmers and hunters that handled the animals spoke Anglo-Saxon while the nobles who ate the meat spoke French. 2. *grd: English garden - German Garten - Czech hrad (castle) - Russian gorod (town). The PIE word "*grd" (the asterisk states that this word is a reconstruction from modern languages to PIE) had the meaning of "area of land parted from other lands by a (wooden) fence". The "r" in the middle was syllabic. In Germanic languages, this developed into the concept of a piece of land near a house, separated from the street by a fence. In the Slavic languages, the wooden planks became longer/higher and were placed around a settlement (like a medieval city-wall) as the Slavic settlements often had to defend themselves against invaders. In Czech they took the meaning of castles and in Russian of towns. 3. *brg: German Berg (mountain) - Russian bereg (riverbank). In PIE *brg meant a high point in the landscape. You'll find mountains in the areas where the Germanic tribes originated (mostly Scandinavia) so the highest points (mountains) were called "Berg". In Northeastern and Eastern Europe where the Slavs originated, you don't find mountains. The highest points in the landscape are steep riverbanks. These words that originated from a common ancestor are called "cognate" in linguistics. If you can spot them in another language and they have different meanings then you think about them and you'll most likely be able to find the common root/meaning.

Excellent video.

7:40 Rheinland-Pflaz was part of the american occupation zone after ww2. there you go. we also have steinkrüge. mugs made of stoneware.

8:42 She's wrong on that one - it is a loan word from German. The difference is that it is not a loan word from High German, it is in fact Low German (Plattdeutsch). Stool is the low german word for Stuhl/chair.

I am currently watching new girl in english and I was sooo confused when thy said "I needed a schwitz" I mean I can imagine the meaning in enlish because they used it in a similar way. Schwitz or schwitzen literally translates to "sweating"

Watch some of You Tuber ‘Rob Words’. He explains about English being based on German/French so that’s why it has carried over to USA

Poor Joel... Yet another Video with the mention of spiders.... lol

You are welcome- Good job.

Ey, anyone remembering the word "Fahrvergnügen"? It came along with a ad by Volkswagen in the 1990ies, and I was really flashed about Americans pronouncing this complicated word perfectly!

This was interesting, but I’m glad you don’t take as long to get to the start of the video as she does.

English is a montage of multiple languages. Germanic and Latin based languages are most prevalent.

To come back to the photo at the beginning, it wasn't fish'n'chips but a Schnitzel. Interestingly, there is no real equivalent of schnitzel in English, as it is translated as cutlet. In German, however, a cutlet (Kotelett) is a piece of pork with a bone on it, while a Schnitzel is boneless and basically breaded. can also be unbreaded. The the English word Chops means something similar to the German word Kotelett but is not the same.

And btw if you are talking about the type of sausage which is thin and boiled you have to know that this sausage is called at Germany "Wiener" (Vienna sausage), but if you are visiting Austria (the country where Mozart came from) then you call the boiled thin sausages "Frankfurter". And going further, if you are visiting Frankfurt at Germany and ordering "Frankfurt" then you will get a sausage from a pan or barbecue grill

Stein and the influence in america was from ww2 where americans occupied that region where it was used for a liter. That and the language barrier mde it so the "Bierkrug" the liter was called stein so that was a miscobseption back then

Joel, may you find things that don’t make you kapooped 😂

The word Wiener reminded me of the fact that many Germans learning English struggle with the pronounciation of w and v in English. I know many Germans who try to sound native by saying Darth "Wader" because they are aware of the ubiqity of the w sound in English, but are unsure about the distinction between v like in Vader and w like in water.

I feel Feli's reaction to german words in english. I remember when watching a show in english and one of the characters said "Gesundheit" i was like "wait.. what? Did she just talk german?" and the same with the word kaput, i think i read this one in a subtitle and was like "is this a correct translation?" lol

Stool is also a word for faeces in English. We get the word for stool being a seat for a single person from the old english by way of proto germanic. We get the word stool in terms of a bowel movement from the French as that is essentially what became our modern toilet, a stool with no arms and a "short back" (15th century derivation.)

10:48 She just explained that "Wiener Würstchen", "Wiener Schnitzel" and "Wiener" is a geographical indication meaning "from Vienna (Wien)/ Viennese". So it's Austrian food and not German.

Stuhl has a double meaning in Germany: It means both poop and furniture. 😂 A Stool Sample is a "Stuhlprobe". 😁

schadenfreude = translates more like "schaden" as bad luck and "freude" = joy

I am joining you from Austria and I speak german too - sometimes 😂 Love from Austria/Europe 🇦🇹

Fernweh is more of a sad feeling, while Wanderlust has a more positive tone.

Schnitzel is a German specially made from either pork, veal or chicken meat which is usually pan fried and served with potato salad, fries or dumplings.😍

It starts in the fifth century, when the Saxons entered Britain and brought the German language with them. That's when the languages of Saxons and Angles and Britons began to mix. But many German words came to America by German migrants in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. And of course not least by the GI's that were stationed in Germany.

Kapooped Hahaha!

Kinder bars are Italian (made by ferrero) they also make nutella. I guess they chose Kinder because it's a more recognized word meaning children to an international market. bambini/bambino/ l figli surprise just doesn't have the same ring to it :)

Yes, it does look like fish and chips at first glance, doesn't it? but it is, in fact, wiener schnitzel ( and chips). Wiener schitzel is a crumbed fillet of veal ( baby milk-fed calves). To the Germans and Austrians, this dish is as common as Fish and Chips are in Britain, Aussi or New Zealand.

many of these German words were of course imported by German immigrants, who mostly ended up in the mid-west, BUT many of these are actually Yiddish words imported by earlier Jewish immigrants. Yiddish and German have the same roots and share some similarities.

Spiel in German is also used for situation where u have room to do something (etwas hat spiel)

Schadenfreude ist more of a concept of satisfaction that someone has been taught a lesson after doing something stupid. Say you drive along a narrow road, at night, in the snow and another car overtakes you at a speed that is much too high and then has an accident (i.e. they did something really stupid and the accident taught them to drive more carefully). It's not inherently malevolent, we'll still stop at the accident site and provide help etc. But deep inside you think to yourself "they deserved that for doing such an incredibly dumb thing". That latter thought is the essence of Schadenfreude.

Also didn’t realise that we used quite a lot of these words in Scotland too. Shocked to see that Spiel is German I thought I was a Doric word but meaning the same thing.

Feli is awesome

Stein: There are several US military bases in Rheinland-Pfalz, maybe some American soldiers heard this work from the locals.

the ramones ... blitzkrieg bop a punk rock group from ny .. early 70,s

She forgot about 'fubar'. A term that the US forces adapted in WW II from the German word 'furchtbar" which means 'awful' in English.

Kindergarten and pre-school are the same in Australia as in Germany. Before "spiel" meant "glib speech" it meant "to play circus music". It's from the German "spielen" (to play). Old German "spilon" and Old Englush "spilian". It's understandable that the "glib speech" would be used to get people to buy their goods as that is part of the game of selling.

Love the aus videos

i know that "Schadenfreude" is technical bad, but it`s so funny when you watch other people getting scared by playing horror games

JOEL. Have a German channel and a Australian channel. Two different parts the World 🌎. Ìn Australia we use alot German words.

Funny how she pronounces the "g" at the ends of "Krieg" and "kitschig" differently. The "right" one would be the one she used with "kitschig". Most people I know do it the other way for all words ending in "g". So "Honig" (honey) would be "Honich", or "König (king) "Könich".

The wonder of the English language which has evolved over 100's of years. Made up of German, Latin, French, Italian etc. Have fun exploring.

Ok that Blitzkrieg-thing really bothered me, because the intresting part about the word Blitzkrieg is, that it never had been used in german. The British came up with that word. The german bombing raids on london were called the Blitz by the british media. (Because it was very surpriunsing and hit you like a lightning) Krieg was just added later after the fall of france. The concept of the Blitzkrieg is called Bewegungskrieg in german. Churchill called it the turtle neck tactic, the german aquivalent woulkd be Schwerpunktbildung. Blitzkrieg is a combination of two german words that never had been used in that sense until the end of WW2

Gernmans call it "Wiener Würstel" and Austrians call it "Frankfurter"😂 love it every time I think about it

Funfact: In Austria we use "Stuhl" only for refering to feces. The German "Stuhl" in Austria is "Sessel". :)

you should go to sydney i dont live there but its the best place to visit ps i live in WA

As far as I know, it was Patch Adams, the Clown-Doctor, who introduced the word "Gesundheit" into the english culture, as name of his clinic, because he loved the meaning "health" that Germans use when someone sneezes.

Blitz actually means flash. That can be a lightning flash, but also the flash of a camera, or simply an electric flash.

Wiener = German equivalent of “Viennese” (from Vienna). So a Wiener Schnitzel is a Viennese Schnitzel. Also - did you catch the German word for “phone?” Modern technology generally has English names in German, but German-speakers also like to shorten words/use abbreviations. So therefore, a “mobile phone” / “hand-held phone” became a “Handy”. With Schadenfreude, a German teacher once described it as being happy that you got the job (even though it means that your friend did not)

maybe its said before, but i cant find it in the comments, spiel ist Spiel = Game in german, but in english it is more related to Schauspiel = a play, on broadway for example. it also relates to a saying, dont play the same thing again = Spiel nicht die gleiche Leier nochmal. Leier is an very old instrument which also the greeks used back then. so in her example with the university = its something you heard before over and over again. Spiel itself can also be used to subscribe something playful in english and german. play with words etc.