Brüh

True i thought dat to as a German

Üngläüblich lüstïg

Its more like Türkisch 😅

@@FlyingEyes27 deutsche sind schlimmer als die Türken mit dem Ü/Ä/Ö xD

just like Indonesian, grammar police mode on 😂

​@@marielamariela5971 yeah

True

Same in Korea🤣

@@_HannaH__ 😂

But if only you knew how badly native speakers in the US and UK speak English. 😂 The fact that he used the word predicament in this short puts him miles beyond most native speakers I know.

So true

Exactly!!! This is so me and many Germans I know.

​@@jmas43 Really? 😂

@@jmas43 He obviously did that to exagerate the joke.

Dankeschäin* 😊

i'm american and that's how my dad pronounces it lmao

@@aleksandarvremenik9784 i know how to spell it, i just did as a joke bc thats how they pronounced it in the video.

@@mauku1270 that's not how you spell it, that's how you spell it the way they pronounced it

@@aleksandarvremenik9784 i know how to spell it right, i typed it like how they say it in the video on purpose.

That about sums it up. I do speak English at a B2-C1 level (European language framework), but I still say that I only speak „enough to get by“.

😂 I still say i don’t speak english properly and have done all of the above !

I qualify for most of these things (only my uni program was in English not English itself) I akways reply with not as good as I should.

Why do you need to be an "L2 German speaker" to speak English? 😂😅

@@jbruck6874 You don't. But if you aren't, you don't get to say that you speak English 😂

That´s because in german scool you will be teached Oxford English.

​@@EnnovonSchwerin stimmt

@@EnnovonSchwerin taught

@@aunthyacinth9652 Hahahaha...

that's easy cos Shakespeare is dead 😛 Also his English partly sounds like German (verb conjugation)

Those are fun in job interviews. Don't apply for jobs asking for some level of English proficiency and be surprised if the interview is conducted in English.

The people who surprise you may be engineers. They DO speak perfect English because English is the language of engineering, but engineers often don't look like "professionals", whereas corporate people are just leeches anywhere in the world.

​@@alexnohandlethe opposite is true. It's mostly engineers who overstate their proficiency, they're usually not really good at languages

​@@RandyMahnkeI know that's true in America, engineers can't even spell their own language correctly!

Oh god, now I'm reminded of that one speech of Günther Öttinger when he failed upwards into the EU commission... "on ze wonn händ ze kraises rewiehlt zätt zerr is ä nieht for mor govermänt reguläschn."

This 😂

no they did not :D

You hit it! Damn right...they always do that, however bad your German could be!...be positive, and take it as an encouragement rather than anything else😉

@@tareksyrian2423 Honestly though. People outside of Germany think Germans are harsh because of how our language sounds to them and how they perceive us, but when it comes to it most often than not you will find someone as respectful and nice as they can be 😂 Seen some people where I thought to myself "Better not say anything stupid" and when they open their mouths they sound and act like they've known you for years with how respectful they are.

@@Fuerwahrhalunke 😊😊Positiv zu denken ist einfach eine Hingabe, welche nicht jeder hat...bin mittlerweile schon seit 22 Jahren wohnhaft in Deutschland, und erfreulicherweise eingebürgert 😉😉

It’s also really similar to a comedy sketch from Big Train - BBC called “Do you speak English?”

...Liam Carpenter. 👍👍👍 I love his vids.

Probably some of the germans are too shy ...

Liam der König Carpenter

Das Englisch könnte besser sein. 😂

Sign language goes a long way...

​@@AZ-rg3rf😂

only one language counts in a relationship 🐶🍆🐱💦

Body language ❤

Hahaha I can relate I don’t don’t English either 😂

After they told us "we're German" (because some great-grandfather came from Germany, not because they'd know anything about country, culture or language).

@@bibliopolist1/16 German btw 😂

True

Äbsölütëlï

indeed it döes

trüe

Ssere was anosser ssing…let me ssink about…omg it’s like almost on my tongue😄

Why is they no translate button? I only speak Slovak and this KZfaq is mean. Where is the translate button.

@@southerner_ it should be in light grey letters under the comment

@@nox6855 oh I only speak Slovak I am using a translator. by the way I have been to Birmingham 18 times and to New York 19 times. Red 9 books in English,

@@southerner_ that's interesting, I speak some Spanish and German and have been learning them for a while, and I always wanted to try to learn a Slavic language but I'm not sure which one is right for me yet

So what's you point ? Just because some German wrote 20 books in English, reads 2 books in English every month, Visited London 5 times, is married to an American wife, works as an air traffic controller in germany (where the job interviews are always done in English) and regularly visits his father in-law in the US every year, that does not mean that he automatically speaks more than a tiny little bit of English... I don't know what kind of argument you are trying to make... 🌝

As a native German speaker who has learned 50% of his English in school and the other 50% from pop culture and media I have a lot of trouble with register. I use all the fancy four syllable words while simultaneously cursing like a sailor, something I don't even do in German. Add to that that my accent makes me sound like a villain in an Indiana Jones movie and I'm instant entertainment for Americans.

@@RoonMian I can only speak for myself, but I love hearing people with very distinctive/unique word choices and turns of phrase. One of my best friends says 'huzzah' and 'verily' completely seriously and in a grammatically correct context, despite those being very archaic words that most people only imagine in very over the top (to the point of being campy) medieval movies or something. It's spread to our whole friend group and has become part of our friend group's 'dialect', so to speak. There's not enough people who speak like movie villains in the world, in my opinion!

Finally. Respect is accepted.

@@ninjabgwriter Haha, yeah. As I said, instant entertainment :D

@@ninjabgwriter I love your way you reflect yourself and that you became aware of what it's like to learn an other language. Really love your modesty :) I think we all could be more like that and cheer others up that mistakes are totally ok :) And now I need to apologize for my english :D

He said "Gesundheit!".

People ask for help, no one thinks or judge here about anything 🤷‍♀️

​@@dinahassan4320 we are very critical towards ourself

Unfortunately that is typical German and many foreigners think Germans cant speak English though most of the ppl do. (except for the ones who were bad at English during Hauptschule or some of the elderly) It's a pity because the random Person at the street doesnt expect you to do a presentation about politics

@@Cuteemogirl94 I think it is more being critical about fellow countrymen, countrywomen if you want, and the resulting hesitation aka missing guttts to just swim even in front of others ~

In Germany there are still a lot of Nazis

Oh yeah! I noticed that too

I speak only enough French to make French speakers laugh. My go-to ✌️sentence✌️ is: Je ne parle pas Français, mon chat parle plus Français que mois.

@@JohnnyV83 I just googled the second sentence and fell off my chair 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yeah same with me, my french is really bad BUT I seem to have a no obvious german accent. So french people think I speak well and fire ahead once I admitted that "Je parle un peu" ... and I am lost.

Omg jaaaaa Eclairs sind einfach liebe 😂😂

On german: "Liebesknochen"

She was probably just trying to help you by giving you an opportunity to practice ^^

Well...as language teachers we know that practice makes perfect! 😜

Not going to get it for free Buddy.

That's actually very good of her. The Dutch always answer you in English giving you no chance to practice your Dutch, then complain about foreigners not learning Dutch. Even worse in the Randstad they respond in English to other Dutch native speakers from Belgium or Dutch Limburg.

I thank God, in my Area everyone even though They speak Englisch, they speak with me in German

because people always make fun of our accent when we speak in english, so the most german people say they dont speak english, i caught often myself in that situation as well :D

@@stecher1995 no one would made fun while he or she needs help.

​@@ThomasVWorm you know that she faked her cv, don't you? Check it out. She said she made a bachelor at university twenty years ago. Find out when bachelor was invented at German universities.

​​@@ThomasVWorm Well, her accent is terrible, but almost no politician seems to have a good pronunciation. It seems like having a terrible pronunciation in English is a requirement to becoming a German politician. I haven't studied at an English uni, and my pronunciation is way better than hers. I'm astonished how bad you can pronounce things after having lived in the respective country.

​@@ThomasVWorm yeah it's always these toxic elitist people who try to feel like better humans because they spent their whole life on hiding their origins. To me it always looks like they have some personality issues...

gotta to be an expert to speak a language it seems at Aachen

Tbh just talk to some of us rwth students, many of us have the time and the will to give you a chance.

It's similar to when my father wants to speak in Dutch in the Netherlands. Usually, they will answer in German. 😅 Maybe those people in Aachen you are talking to, think your German skills are quite good and this is why they speak fast, because they think you're language level is good enough to understand it.

You could try talking to older people, they tend to have the singsongy slow talk of the dialect and normally can't speak english.

@@kailynn4483 Well no, some seem to think it's bad enough to respond in English and the ones that don't speak too fast for me 😂

I think the main problem is other Germans. Let's face it. A lot of our fellow countrymen like to be very critical of other Germans' English skills - even when somebody speaks it fluently. Any detectable accent is bad - according to them. Which is ridiculous, because having an accent when speaking a foreign language is very normal. A lot of Germans also seem to think that having any kind of detectable accent, that is actually detectable as German, means that you have a strong accent, which is also nonsense. Not having one at all is rare. People don't know what a strong accent is. I've seen Germans tell other Germans to not speak English because it supposedly sounded embarrassing - even though it did not. And how are you ever going to improve your pronunciation if you're not ever allowed to speak it?

@@EmmaHope88 everything has to be flawless otherwise it's not görman

It works in reverse. Visitors get brain freeze over the language or are terrified they'll sound like a moron. Or get the words the wrong way round.

I mean that is knowing a language. Just knowing words for things.

@@adolfhitler8946 idc what an art school reject has to say

@@adolfhitler8946 never wanted to anyway lol

@@adolfhitler8946 doesn't matter either, won't remember what I've made anyway lol

@Adolf Hitleryour profile is not funny

🎶🎵🎶Bei mir bist du shayne...🎶🎵🎶

He activated his trap card. 😂

what does that mean

@@DaNoobrobloxNoobIsBest "Ich spreche kein Deutsch" in German means "I don't speak German" in English. He answered "But you're definitely speaking German"

Horrible thought 😅

I mean Clint Eastwood in German.

I taught myself to say the sentence "Or we could have this conversation in [language]" in 10 different languages to fuck with Americans criticising my English. "What, you don't like my English? Okay, dann könnten wir dieses Gespräch auch auf deutsch führen, wenn dir das besser gefällt. Ou nous parlons en francais. O potremmo parlare Italiano..." When somebody comes at you stupid you have to go back at them way stupider.

More like narcissism. Normal people around the world would rush to help out of goodness of their heart and empathy. Germans would rush to help just to 'be nice' and present themselves in a good light. It's all about themselves which is why they will stop to think about how it will make THEM look when it should be just about offering help where possible. Ridiculous

@@ThomasVWorm Insane Xenophilia

​@@ThomasVWorm And the Dutch!!!! Germans love the Dutch accent!!!

This may seem like an odd question, but do you recognize some medical terms loaned from German in to Japanese, and (assuming you live in Japan) if so does that make going to the hospital and talking to a doctor in Japan any easier?

私も。日本語が少しを話します。😅

私も。日本語が少しを話します。😅

at least you take the opportunity to learn other languages :)

He was last seen in Baden Baden, still hasn't found the castle

yeah but even though it is being tought in school doesn't mean ppl remember what has been tought. also some people had 5 yrs of english (5. through 10. grade) and some 10 yrs (3rd through 12th) depending on the schools they went to and/ or which Bundesland they live in

@@Lunch2391 I realize that, Germans are just dicks though

we´re used to listen to english, because of english music, movies etc. we´re used to write and read english, because we were taught that in school... but speaking english is sth completely different. imagine you can read and understand a language (almost) perfectly, but you never had the opportunity to speak it. you would be aware of every single mistake you made ... but you would be unable to implement your knowledge. this would lead to you being very self-conscious... and thats exactely why germans say, that the only speak a "little" english. we dont speak english on a daily or even yearly basis... and "speaking" english wasnt taught in school at all. all that matters is writing english.

@@MrNukedawhales true. I can understand almost everything but have a hard time speaking the language since my own vocabulary is so small or everything sounds "denglish" in my opinion.

It's easier to read too. I play some games in english and don't have any problems but I have a hard time to understand other people and start to panic if someone talks to me 😅

what

„A river dirt shit“

DANKESCHÖN ,not danke shine .

@@tirexx4629 he said "shine", I know how it's spelt

Took a sewing Anfängerkurs. I was the only one who didn't have years of experience and then the teacher got annoyed that I didn't know the basics.

Are you refering to Anglo-saxons?

The english language came from the Greeks. The word ‘Alphabet’ is just the 2 first letters of the greek alphabet, alpha and beta, put together

​@@JustinSawyer-ji5wmYes and no it was also the Norse langugue that was dominant over most of the modern day Germany, Britian France and Scandiniva. It is not just the settlers that brought over the langugue it is also the Vikings themselves that brought them over.

​@@ZorbaplayzAnd? There are multiple influences of langugue in the world and this one is like many a remanant of the Roman Conquest. That does not make the whole langugue of England a Greek one does it? English has been more influenced by French then Greek even. But the point is that Norse or Old Germanic was the dominant part when Old English was born. You can even google it.

@@actualiygod6782 First of all, french has not had anywhere near as much influence on the english language. If anything the english have had a large impact on the french. Approximately 35%-ish of English words are from Greek derivation and the French also have many similarities. Secondly, i never said that the whole english language is another Greek language, i said that it ‘came from the Greeks’ meaning that the early forms of the language were from greek derivation. (Sorry if I didn’t make it clear). You also say that nordic was the dominant part of English when it was born however what is defined as born? There were many dialects before Ye Olde English and most took inspiration from greek terms. Although Hengist and Horsa (Scandinavians who had a huge influence on England) may have affected these many dialects and formed a main one, there were still large parts filled with Greek words. You may be able to look up that the English language was from nordic descent however much of the Greek spoken influenced this nordic dialect forming English as we know it. P.S. sorry for the essay.

Thats the reason why we learned every English in school. Problem is that you mix them all together at some point. Most prominent for me is mixing British and American. Makes me sometimes wonder if I even have the right word😅

Well. You would be lost, if you learned German, and then encounter Bavarian and Saxxon...😅

Divided by a common language

Mein Englisch ist auch mies aber verstehen tu ich alles.

Anything helps I can promise you that, and a lost tourist will not judge you, they will be appreciative of the help ❤

@@hikikomoritv1326 Yes, same here. Numerous individuals of German origin found themselves bereft of the ability to articulate thoughts with a degree of fluency comparable to their anglophone counterparts. I think it is imperative to acknowledge that the rudimentary English instruction imparted in schools lacks the sophistication requisite for the nuanced expression essential to effective communication in the English language. Personally, I would not have responded with such eloquence; however, I would have diligently endeavored to extend assistance by facilitating the engagement of an interlocutor proficient in the English language. It is crucial, nonetheless, not to overestimate the command of English possessed by individuals of German descent. But I can understand everything perfectly fine.

for me its enough to talk "Simple Englisch" or Denglisch I dont know. I can express myself and say what i want to englisch speakers. No matter for me too talk like an Englisch Teacher. What do you understand perfectly German? Or do you mean our German Englisch also Denglisch? 🙂

Put your tonge between the front teeth if you want to pronounce a th.

✅

Germans are known for not having humor at all 😂

@@PvoordeW My Oma has no humor whatsoever haha. She just laughs at jokes but never makes them and is super serious a lot.

@@ResiderOfEvil this video is copy content not original at all

@@KOSOVOisSERBIA222 K

😂😂 I loved that show..... I think the original point they were making is that english people always ask a foreign person if they can speak english but they don't do it in the language of the country they are in rather they ask in english......my takeaway from this is that americans do the same 😂

@@skrich9690I think if you need help in a foreign country, asking in the language you speak is acceptable. If you know how to say the equivalent of “excuse me” in the local language that’s better, but obviously anyone who speaks English well enough to help should be able to understand the person in need, so this doesn’t seem terrible to me. Are you implying it is terrible?

Thats because, sadly, literacy is declining in america and comprehensive reading levels are going down across the country (source: american board of education and linguistics). The average american household owns 3.6 books.

My high school German exchange student classmate in my French class spoke perfect American accented English on a native speaker level. It’s only when he starts to not understand some older cultural references that you start to clue in.

It’s almost like English is the dominant language in the world 🤔🤔🤔

@@sauce6534 Judging by your ability to read comprehensively and your egotism about speaking a language and being this ridiculously proud about it, you must be american.

It's because in order to learn a language, you really need to understand the grammar. I was told if you are an American with grammar issues - learn another language. It will then force you to understand how it works. Americans use awful grammar as a general rule. He done it, I'm going to go lay down, I ain't done nothing, etc. It's hard to listen to sometimes on tv shows....because nonnative speakers of English just don't make these mistakes, so I'm not sure to hearing these types of mistakes where I live in Poland.

I work at a store in a part of Berlin, where we get all kinds of tourists from around the world, mostly american though. Mumbling a german greeting to me and not saying anything after, makes me think, that you speak german but you're just a quiet or shy person. I will then proceed to normally talk in german to you and at some point I'll realize, that you did not understand a single word, I've just said. Memorizing and using a few basic words and phrases of a country's language you're travelling to, is fine, if you're just gonna use it on the street and there are no further words exchanged. But if you're in a situation, where you have to utter more than 3 words, then it's just better to let me know, that you don't speak my language. Greet me clearly in english for example, don't use "hi" for that purpose, because it's used everywhere in the world, basically but any other english greeting will work or for the case, that you can only think of "hi", you could also just tell me, that you don't understand my language. I'd appreciate that even more although I get, how it could feel a little clunky to you. This way, it's way easier for both of us. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice gesture but in cases, where you actually have to talk to each other, it's highly impractical

Monthy Python vibes.

the ß can never be at the beginning of a word, nice try tho

The damned vocabulary yes?

Florida is not a country lol

In Japanese by the way.

Except they can’t respond in English. So we have to learn a few words and phrases of Japanese

I worked for a company that is based in Germany. I felt so humbled during the daily telcos that were conducted in English. Global telcos that were attended by colleagues and vendors from non-English speaking countries on every continent except for Antarctica.

Well, then things have changed in 30 years because we did visit Germany before internet was everywhere and we couldn't find anyone who spoke English - for real. McD's - the kids in school were able to communicate but anyone over about 30 - don't even try to get help. They certainly weren't this conversational, even though I thought they all had it in school.

@@beckypetersen2680 Well, people in the East learned Russian up until the Fall of the Berlin wall, so 1989. The problem is that even if you learn a language (or anything else really) at school, it doesn't mean that you retain all of that after graduation, which is probably why most people over 30 didn't speak it with you. Nowadays, that is a bit different because of the internet and streaming, etc. However, I'm not really a friend of the whole, everyone learned it at school thing, because even though that is true, there are massive differences between different countries as far as proficiency goes. In some countries in Europe, only around 20% can hold a basic conversation in English with you, even though they learned it at school, and then you have the other extreme, the Netherlands, where over 90% are able to do so. And the reason for that is not that they learned it at school.

Maybe your people should have learned to shoot straight HOO-FUCKIN-RAH!!! 🇺🇸