lifehack for the grocery store: place things they have to weigh or put an extra number in at the register (like fresh vegetables, bread etc.) in between the rest of your stuff to slow them down and gain some time lol (grew up in germany and it still makes me so nervous every time there is a line behind me)

"by the time this video goes up we'll know whos the president" hahahah no Nevada said hold my votes

the sweather, the video, the editing, the aesthetic, the plants, the everything. Tristan this is amazing, i think that you can really see how much you care about being real but bringing happiness into other people’s lives; we love and support you

The pace of the cashiers still traumatizes me and I'm living in Germany for 22 years now 😂

I really liked the end when you talked to people from other counties about how they view America and Americans. I think you should do a whole video like this, especially if you can bring in more people from different back grounds and maybe have them all discussing these topics. Would be so interesting to see where they conversation goes and how they all feel, individually and collectively, about us!

The part about the grocery shopping's trauma had me in tears 😂 I'm italian and I have experienced the EXACT same thing when I was living in Poland for some time. The rush. The stress. The looks. Omg finally someone said it

I live in Stuttgart and I know German can be hell but you‘ll get through it and we really don‘t judge with your grammar or pronunciacion

Grocery stores issue is similar in the Netherlands ;) Tips: be prepared, it's a battle, place the heavy items first on the belt and delicate items last, have you bags ready and start putting in the items directly after they've been scanned. It's hard work keeping up though and I secretly think all cassiers love it when they are done with your items and you're only halfway!

You're videos are the best! 🤍

The duolingo grind is real (also learning german but in the UK so no markets to practice in). Great video!

on the "die / das Mädchen" problem: "Mädchen" is actually a diminutive of "Magd" (maid) so originally it was "Mägdchen" but the Germans were lazy so they left out the "g" changing it to "Mädchen" . And in german all the diminutives have neutral pronouns so that's why it's "das Mädchen" But don't worry too much about articles, no one will judge you for it :))

It's "das Mädchen" because in German the grammatical gender has nothing to do with the sex 🤷🏻‍♀️ But your German sounds really cute and I love that you're at least trying to speak in the language of the country you live in. And German really is a difficult language, so don't worry ☺️ You're doing great!

I loved the grocery store anecdote XD I lived all over the world and the first time someone tried packing my groceries, I thought they were stealing. Everyone laughed so hard, big trauma.

Hello Tristan! "Kreuzschlitzschraubenzieher", a difficult word even for a German. Your knowledge of German is getting better and better Tristan, respect!

I studied a year in Switzerland and I totally understand how you feel, I was so frustrated I studied german every single day for about 2 hours and spoke as much as I could with my host family to practice, having awful anxiety all the time because I knew I could make grammar or pronunciation mistakes. Learning german is an actual hell, viel Glück!

13:21 😂 So relatable. Here in Finland they do the same. Too fast paced everything sometimes. 😂

Pro tip from a german potato: take a shopping cart with you and just throw everything in it as they scan, usually there are little tables or whatever at the exit where you can take your time putting your stuff in your bag 😅

Dein Deutsch ist so süß😍 und ich kann mir echt vorstellen, dass es schwer zu lernen ist. Ich mag Deine Videos ;-)

A tip for the grocery store. Take the basket or the cart when you enter the store. it is easier to put the stuff back during check out. after you pay you can leave the line and pack you bag on your own pace. i feel you

Hehe. I am from Germany. The only time I visited a farmers market was when I was living in Orlando/FL :-) Regarding German nouns. It is rather clear in respect to human beings. But as soon as you go to animals it gets complicated. A cat is "die Katze" (feminin), a dog is "der Hund" (male). But if you want to make sure you talk about a male cat, it's "der Kater" and (female dog) "die Hündin". For inanimate objects, you can just learn them. There are basically no rules. Der Zug, die Straßenbahn, das Auto. And (I talked to other non native speakers), when learning them, always learn nouns with their article. Edit: Das Mädchen (the -chen is a diminutive form, like also "-lein" in Fräulein). They are seen as neutral. Like "das Kind", "das Baby". But no rule without exception, der Junge. Edit2: Try to get the z sharper. Think about the Tsetse Fly... so. Enough teaching. :-P

Last but not least, a relationship with a german acter. Only acters and Tagesschau-Sprecher have a realy good pronunciation 😂

Ok😂 about the supermarkets Tristan, it’s the same as in Ireland but the stock is only replenished once a week and special items maybe once a month or every few months. Black beans and nutritional yeast is not popular or widely known here in « Europe » so the shops don’t sell it or see it as essential and about the till experience ... there is a certain system that we are used to where we have learned to pack very quickly and effectively or we fill our trolleys at the till and move to the packing bench to tidy our food into bags. It makes life so much easier!!

I didn’t know you were American! That’s cool! Take care and hope you are healthy and well Tristan! Love the videos as always ❤️

I'm a German living in the Netherlands and things you said about the grocery stores apply here as well!! Especially not finding black beans!!

about groceries: I've gotten accustomed to doing my own "packing" and have reached the point where I think I do it better than any of the grocery store clerks, but of course this is in Canada, not Germany. I always bring my own bags! I make sure I keep at least one in my car just in case I spontaneously end up at the grocery store.

You’re a gem Tristan, especially when you go into rant mode - really enjoy sharing some of your experiences. No Aldi in Tasmania but struck them in Western Australia last year for the first time and THOSE CHECKOUTS!! Glad to see you being exposed to life from an Aussie perspective as well - you have a lot of our keep it real & down to earth attitude. Keep well & safe.

I've been living in Germany my whole life and I feel you with the black beans. I never saw them anywhere.

How cute you’re trying to speak German, love the effort🥰 btw it’s „eine Zucchini“ and Not „ein Stück“, the same for broccoli☺️ love u🧡 I have to say that’s so true what you said about German grocerie stores, mainly the stressful check out, paying experience😂😂

Omg i‘m german and hearing you talk in german is literally so cute 🥺

“Die Mädchen“ is used when referring to a bunch of girls not just one

for black beans you should try and find a "unpackaged shop", they originally started in berlin (that one is called "original unverpackt"), but they should actually have one where you are. you can prettifying much always find beans there. in stuttgart the shop is called "Schüttgut"

i am living for ‘Tristan in Suttgart!!!’ always so excited when your new videos come out :))

Yess I've always been wondering about the black beans too especially because every time I think I found them they end up to be in some weird chili tomato sauce

Omg LOVE your videos. Give me so much joy in this stressful time.

Keep up the good work learning German Tristan...it all takes time..keep well and happy and love your videos xxx

ahahaha as a German I can confirm - shopping is stressful!! especially now in times of Corona, they have to wait for you to be finished and left the cashier point before they can start scanning the products of the next person

I live in Stuttgart and I love your videos ❤️

Omg, I can't stop laughing about the "scan, scan, scan" 😂 😂 So funny

This was such a cute video! i need to see more of your day of life vlogs and omg UR EDITING IS AMAZING! Love you Tristan! x

i have been living for your life abroad videos!! love u!!

I really like the view of you as an American citizen living in Germany, because sometime its really funny to hear your experiences in e.g. the grocerie Store. (especially If its a “normal“ thing for us(German citizens)/me)). And i wanted to say you are doing pretty good as an American struggling with the German prounanciation. Because especially as a non native speaker German is really difficult to learn ....🙄🤷🏾‍♀️so dont give Up🌸 Ach ja, wer kommt auch aus Deutschland ? (By the way, who is also from Germany?)

Tristan one class act.

haha i laughed so hard at your story about the cashiers scanning so fast- thats so on spot😂😂

I have the exact same experience in the grocery store. Since COVID you pack your own. They go so fast that if an item is on sale and they charge you the regular price you don't catch it unless you check the receipt after they are on to the next customer. BTW I live in NYC not Germany.

When I was in University, here in the US, my parents were in West Germany, in Konigstein close to Frankfurt. So I lived there for 2 summers and 2 winter holiday seasons. I only learned what we all called "grocery store German". Like you I could food shop, order in restaurants, basic social manners like good morning and thank you and happy birthday, but that was about it! But I made the most of traveling and enjoyed it all very much. Great video, it's fun to hear what other people think about Americans overseas!

Love this video! 🧡 Especially because I´m german. And actually I don´t think that your german is that bad, it´s just weird hearing you speak german (I don´t know why). I´m studying to become a german teacher and let me tell you: It is a COMPLICATED language! 😂 The thing about the grocerie stores is true, I get anxiety every time. But ones you figured out a system, it´s ok 😅

OMG please make more videos of you commenting on Duolingo stories 😂 I can’t even

Hi there, here is a tip for finding black beans. We always get our beans from the Asian supermarket.

Tip for the grocery store: put vegetables in between of the other things because the cashiers have to weight it so you have some more time to keep up :D

I love the way you talk with your hands....they dance all around you

That was fun. Thanks

I liked your take on going to the grocery store when I travel anywhere I love going to a grocery store just to see what different things they have .

Love your videos! Also, as a German, your German pronounciation is really good. I know a lot if people how are struggling with that a lot. Much support :)

I lived and worked in Germany for almost a decade. It is a great country with great people. I do miss Germany a lot. I hope that you will enjoy your time in Germany Tristan.

all words with -chen are neutrum . -chen is a form of minimization or diminution . And Mädchen is the diminutive form of "die Magd" ( the maid)

I agree with everyone about the grocery store stress at checkout. But while black beans may be a staple in California, the are not a staple in Germany, or in many parts of the USA. Many other beans are more common.

What a awesome life

my all time fave. periodtttt. I'm in need of some merch. If there's one person that I know who would make the best merch, it would be you.

What a LEGEND!!!!!

A lot of diminutives ending in "-chen" or "-lein" use "das" (together with an umlaut). E.g., der Baum => das Bäumchen der Hahn => das Hähnchen (used mostly for food) das Buch => das Büchlein das Haus => das Häuschen der Mann => das Männlein (used in fables or derogatory) der Schirm => das Schirmchen die Schale => das Schälchen

4:15 she said have a nice weekend and it's very friendly (probably not just in Germany) when you say it back like "danke, auchso" (thanks, same to you) 👍🏼😅

OMG the church bells and the ambulance... It’s truly traumatizing lol

Greetings from Stuttgart 🥰 So funny haha I’ve been following you for a long time and now you make a video about living here. Such a coincidence 😅😊 Hope you’re having a great time here

Stuttgart Liebe! 🤍🤍 i was born in Stuttgart and it is so interesting to see your perspective on life here..thank you!

I‘m german and I also hate the checkout at the grocery store sooooo much! It stresses me out and I always feel so bad for the other people waiting in the line!😡😂

YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD WITH THE GROCERY STORE CHECKOUT! I'm American but my boyfriend is German and lives in Munich so I go to Germany 3-4 times a year for long amounts of time. I kid you not my groceries be flyin' and I'm over here counting Euros to seem more German by not paying with card but they can see my lack of efficiency in bagging. Everybody be staring at me like "He's not one of us". :'( got me rollinnnnn

In Germany you do not put your groceries in a bag after thef are scanned, you just throw them in your shopping cart and then after paying you can put them in your bag.

Go to DM they mostly have black beans and are way cheaper than at REWE,edeka... :)

i can totally relate to the grocery store situation.. it's really stressfull and I hate it too

Omg I love this Video, und dich😜😂😇

I want a video of the first big snow , please!!!!!🤗🤗🤗🤗

my king

Love your videos! 💕

the cashiers don't really care if you take some time to pack stuff away (obviously not too much) but they're timed on how fast the scan (from first to last item, the timer stops then), it's an efficiency thing i guess and one of the reasons they can keep the prices so low, this is also why stuff sits on the shelves and i'm pretty sure why they're out of stock a lot of the time. The people who stock the shelves do it during the day (usually) because the employer has to pay you a bonus when you work at night, so they just have the ones who also work the tills do it throughout the day, so they might not have gotten to restocking something yet, which is why it seams like they're out of stock (unlike in American were I think they restock at night, so unless you go really late in the evening, everything should be stocked)

Love to hear you speaking German.

Very cool! I love the variety of topics you've been putting up. Cheers!

Great video! your eyes and your hands drive me crazy (I love them)!

I absolutely adore your videos! It’s nice to see you enoying European life and doing what you love the most for living. Greetings from Poland, you’re basically my neighbor now hah 😅 Also, I don’t speak German at all but you sound nice and very legit, I can tell! 🤭

It was a really nice video and I know that probably all the Germans already wrote this but it’s ‘eine Zucchini’. ‘Ein Stück Zucchini’ would be ‘a piece of Zucchini’ so like only a piece out of the whole one. It’s really amazing that you try to learn German and I really get you. I’m living in Japan and try to learn the language but if you only have foreign friends it’s really hard to practice the language. So don’t give up! You’re doing great and it’s cool that you try to learn it rather than giving up completely 😊

I saw you in stuttgart a few weeks ago and I was unsure where I knew you from. this is so cool

your German's pretty great and your pronounciation ist pretty impressive!!

I struggle with anxiety a lot and I've been living in Germany my entire life and I get a literal panic attack every time I'm at the check-out at the grocery store

there was a time about 20 years ago when German Professor types discussed getting rid of "der-die-das" entirely, but the traditionalists won out! Who knows what might happen with the next generation! The most challenging aspect of reading German is that, in a long sentence with a subordinate clause (or two or three clauses), the operative verb ends up at the very end of the sentence, and you have to go through a lot to get to where you understand WHAT the author is trying to say. Thomas Mann was infamous for lengthy sentences ... one notorious sentence started at the top of the left-hand page and ended halfway down the right hand page, by which point I had to go back to the left hand page, with the verb in mind to "get" what he was trying to say!

Lovely video!! As an Austrian who lived as an exchange student in Canada for a year I absolutely still remember how different it was from living at home. And it was so funny cause so many people there understood "Australia" instead of "Austria" when I told them where I am from and I was just like "well I really appreciate that you think my English is that good that you think I come from an English speaking country" haha Ah yeah and tip for the grocery store: I also hate the rush at the checkout, so I always take one of those baskets at the entry and then you can throw your stuff in there quickly, pay and then take your time with packing it after ;)

Try Asian or Turkish grocery stores for black beans if you can't find them at Rewe.

I live in the northern Germany and in the supermarkets is never something out of stock

It would be "Eine Zucchini, bitte". You'll help yourself a lot by learning the article along with the word! (Der, die, das... German's a pain in the ass)

you're THE cutest speaking German 🧡

Ich komme aus den Niederlanden, und ich habe durch fernsehen deutsch gelernt. Die Mainzelmännchen waren meine Favoriten. Am meisten habe ich von Ihnen gelernt ; ) War ein Scherz 5 Jahre harte Arbeit auf Gymnasium und ich hab immer noch mühe mit die Sprache, aber verstehe fast alles.

Hey Tristan. I come from Stuttgart and I think it's so cool that someone like you is walking around here in Stuttgart and is commenting on the proceedings and everything. I just think it's really interesting what you think about the city and the people. And just dare to speak German, some people here might not always be nice, but others (like me, when I stand in line behind you :)) are happy about it. Mach's gut und vielleicht sieht man sich ja mal auf dem Markt! :)

We have the same issue here in the UK, with German supermarket chain ALDI scanning groceries faster than we can pack them away. Some have evolved tactics to slow the cashier down. Personally, I just pile them back into the trolley then spend the next half hour at the back getting stuff packed efficiently for the journey home on the bus. LMAO.

I've been living in Austria my whole life, and yes, I can conform that the grocery store experience is sooooo damn stressful. I start to shiver even when i'm just thinking about it. But i don't know it any different..😂

supporting you the best way I can...watching every one of your video's from start to finish.......squeaky ducks!

some German pronunciation pointers (only if you care, I think you're really easy to understand, so it's fine either way, just thought I'd offer :)) - The ü (eg as in 555) is basically the same sound as a German i (english ea or ee?) but with rounded lips. Try saying vier but making your lips round for the vowel sound (as if you were saying o) but keep your tongue position the same, you'll end up saying für - German has something called "Auslautverhärtung", which means that a voiced plosive (b, g, and d) at the end of the word is pronounced unvoiced, so when saying "fünfig", the g is pronounced like a k (b->p / g->k / d->t) - The ch (as in "Streichholzschächtelchen", she spelled that wrong btw) is often said to not exist in English but it does in words like huge (try saying the h slowly). Try practising that sound and you've got the ch sound that appears in "ich" and than the other ch sound [as in "acht" is pretty much the same except pronounced "further back" (hope this makes sense lmao, i don't really know how to explain it) --> the "ich" ch sound is used after i, e, ä ö and ü, the "acht" ch sound after a, o and u - the German r is just the voiced version of the "acht" ch sound

"this shit got me fucked up," is literally the quote of this video. the quote of this year. the quote of the century

omg just really had the best laugh when u were trying to say the weird german words hahaha! totally get why german is so hard hihi :))) absolutely love ur new aesthetic filming and editing style!!!

I'm trying to learn French right now, for like the 20th time. I feel your pain lol

thanks for being a good person.

Thank you for a good content. All the best!

For like 6 months of COVID they wouldn't bag groceries here (NY). Packing bags quickly and correctly, light stuff on top of heavy and what not, is way harder than it looks! It's not weird for me now, but I also remember being surprised that you had to bring your own bags in Germany.