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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

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 🗣🗣

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 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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

It is never to late. Es ist nie zu spät. :D

@@ronsn8071*too ;-)

Hi.. Greedings from north germany.. Nixda,, (No!!!) or.. Go me aff,, (leave me alone).. Are north german,, Dialekt.. (more dutch /english/scandinavian).. Try some german music.. To hear ,, Broilers - wie weit(how far) "" ,, Jennifer Rostock - ich kann nicht mehr"(I, m sick and Tiere).. *enjoy

Very good observations here.

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.

The internationally so called "Lied"!

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.

Wait until you hear Swiss German

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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 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.

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

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.

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

Yes, to English speakers, languages like Spanish, Italian or French might be soft and sing songy while German and Dutch may sound harsh or aggressive. Especially in the USA and Canada where Spanish and French dominate as 2nd most spoken languages respectively. 10 million Canadians speak French or 30% of their population. In the USA, 58 million Americans speak Spanish or 15% of the US population.

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.

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.

WTF 😳

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

😂😂😂

​@reassuring to hear!

no, thats exactly how it is. these people are all wrong :)

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.

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

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..........

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'

Ha! Im german and i love how french sounds when spoken by a native. Incredibly beautiful language. Not that i could understand anything y'all say after 6 years of learning french lol

@@dragonsarebutterflies3663 fr

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 :)

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.

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.

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

Tschüssi

Ja alles klar TSCHÜSS

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

But so many get in love with german, after really listening to one or more of there songs ;)

@@Ninjai1971 totally aggre. In fact they made me like the german language

Honestly you cant expect much from a metal band. Needless to say, one of the many reasons I took German as a class is my love of Rammstein and getting sick of Spanish

Its done mainly for humour. US, UK, and Aussie humor is mainly lighthearted sarcasm, jabs, and such. Its less about being hurtful and more about different cultures misunderstanding eachothers love language

So It means the Filipino language is only gentle?

Für den Satz hasst dich jeder der kein Deutsch kann hahaha

@@louis5216 Jaaa! >: )

Vor allem wenn man "ch" korrekt und nicht als "k" oder "sch" ausspricht macht es "griechisch-chinesischen" schon knifflig

I’ll never use that word 😅😅

Okay, then I'm curious how you feel about the sound of a German musician like Alligatoah. Especially when you listening him in two different styles: 1. Alligatoah feat. Sido - Monet 2. Santiano feat. Alligatoah - Wie Zuhause