Hello Dwayne, I grew up between the USA and Germany, constantly going back and forth. Now, I've been living permanently in Germany for over 20 years. I’m usually interested in RUclips channels by Americans who talk about the differences between the countries. I find it fascinating that you, coming from a country so close to Germany but no longer in the EU, see it as if it were on the other side of the world. Are the cultural differences really that big? I think it's a shame that your country has isolated itself so much. But I find it all the more wonderful that you're interested in the cultures around you. Your way of being is amazing; you seem like a very thoughtful and respectful person.
For the English! , Scottish far less….the Channel was always a cultural divide, unlike for us Europeans, who were beyond thankful that Schengen helped us all get to grow closer and exchange our views in school exchanges, rather than across battlefields. It‘s sad, really, but after the Empire, the British exceptionalism is nothing but a shell of empty promises.
1:35 the dude lived 3 years in germany and speaks ten times better german than the guy before him xD both are understandable but the 3 year guy is nearly perfect, his speach pattern is not flawless but damn thats absolutely ridiculous good.
yeah i couldnt get over that, being that good at learning a language should be illegal its just unfair :P i have no problem emediatly recognizing that all of them are foreigners EXCEPT for that one guy who is only here for 3 years? ....just insane.
Yes, his German is extremely impressive! Especially his pronounciation. With a few words you can tell he's not a native but if he learned that much in 3 years, I have no doubt that with another year or two he will sound 100% native.
Germany has compulsory health insurance. Like in the UK, there are expensive private healthcare providers but instead of a single equivalent to the NHS, Germany has a selection of free state funded health insurance companies such as AOK. I think Germany had the earliest example of universal healthcare, which was introduced in 1883 under Bismarck.
In Germany, Health insurance isn‘t ‚free‘, we all pay for it in our taxes, and the tax is being continuously raised…the wages, not so much! People who come here and take the benefit of ‚free healthcare‘, are essentially freeloaders
It's only free if you're unemployed XD Otherwise it's ~15% of your salary (where 7.5% comes out of your income and the other half is paid by your employer). As a previously self employed, I chose private insurance because it literally just cost 200€ per month, opposed to 600+€ for the government health care (as a self employed, you don't have an employer who pays half of it).
@@CookingWithCows When you get older private goes up and public health insurance becomes cheaper. Once private, you can’t go back when you think you now want to cash in on the cheaper option. Because you had decided to leave the alliance of solidarity.
The one commentator from Poland was stating that her lectures in law sounded ‘Chinese’. The German idiom for this is actually ‘Fachchinesisch’ about ‘occupational Chinese’. I think law students from many countries can relate to that sentiment.😂
Even German citizens sometimes struggle to make heads and tails of Juristical Big Speak….it‘s almost unintelligible to me as well, and I have a PhD, so I completely concur
My father was born in Poland and came to Germany, when he was 24 years old. Today he’s here for 43 years and says there is no more connection to Poland anymore for him. He told me years ago, that he felt settled here when he began to think and dream in German. He also told me, that it took about two years to start that, but about five to six years to complete it. That was the time he got married and I was born. He says that the best way to integrate is to be surrounded by Germans, to be forced to speak German all day and to be part of the everyday life at work and at home. About the differences between English in school and in a real conversation I couldn’t say there is a critical disparity. The English in school is sometimes a little bit artificial in contrast to the spoken language of a real person. But in most cases, there are listening comprehension exercises that are recorded by native speakers. In Germany the English lessons are often arranged around the British English, so listening to you sounds to me like the time back in school. And I love it. It feels a bit like coming home. I think for us as Germans and Brits there is a common background as a Germanic-European culture with many similarities and also many similarities in our languages. Together with the Dutch we are a naturally connected triangle in culture and language. So switching between our countries seems to be very easy, because it feels so familiar.
To hear these stories from all these people gives me some kind of "i'm proud to be german and proud of my country" which is really odd for a german 😅, we're not really known for showing proudness for our country publicly 😄 But yeah to hear that people feel welcome in Germany and that they can live their life the way they want shows that we're doing something right. Yes we have some serious problems in Germany but these stories are a nice change of view.
The German health insurance system is actually rather complicated. At first there is an obigation to have any kind of insurance, but to a certain degree you have the choice between different providers. I. Public insurance funds About 90 % of the population are "member" of a semi-public health insurance fund. (Let's just call it "public", nontheless.) There are about 100 of them in Germany. Their services are 95-98% legally mandated. The main differences are in respect of how services are supplied and, of course in respect of the 2-5 % which are less regulated. You can switch health insurance providers at any time with a notice period of 2 months. They can only reject your membership application for the following reasons: 1. They only work in a regionally restricted area like one or two specific states or 2. they only offer sevice to employees of defined companies. They are not allowed to reject you because of your health condition. Some insurance funds are known to be more lenient in matters of discretion when you apply for psychological treatments or for other kinds of therapies. But all in all, you can assume, that everybody in the public system can expect the same services. The 'membership fee' is 14,6 % of the individual income plus an insurance fund specific additional fee of around 0.5 - 2 %. (It should be noted, that you actually only pay half of it, since your employer has to shoulder the other half additionally to your official income.) II. Private insurance companies While members of public health insurance funds can secure additional services privately (such as higher-quality dental care or a one-bed room in the hospital) - German civil servants (which include police, most administrative officers of the state and about 90 % of all teachers), - nearly all self employed people and - employees with a montly income above ~5,800 € can opt to switch to the comprehensive private health insurance system. The insurance premium in the private system is independent of your income, but related a) to your health condition, at the time of applying for a contract and b) to the extent of coverage, that you choose. While in the public system young people with good income pay relatively more, in the private system people with pre-existing conditions and higher age often pay relatively more. The premium is independent of your income. It might increase over the years, and the private insurance does not care, if you can afford the price. Because the doctors are also paid differently for services they give to members of the public and customers of the private system, one of the most distinguishing points between the two systems is, that customers of the cprivate companies get faster access to medical specialists. (To be clear: As a private patient you do not get a liver transplant easier than a member of a public insurance, yet your hospital room might be more comfortable and the doctor might take more time to talk to you, if you wish so - depending on your private contract.) III. Some additional explanations I could tell you more datails. But I think the info given here, might suffice for the moment. ;) Very important to know is, that you need never change from the public system to the one of the private insurance companies. And even though you might save a lot of money while young, you SHOULD NOT switch for that reason. As an insurance councillor myself, I m very carefull in recommending the switch for self employed and for high income employees. (Which is a shame, since the brokerage fees for health insurances are the best, compared to other kinds of insurances). Yet, I am myself still member of the public system. I think it is more solidaric with poor people and people with pre-conditions. Also it is less risky if you get older and - for example - your pension reduces your income after leaving your profession. However: For state officials it is highly recommendable, in my view, to switch, since they really have a lot of disadvantages when staying in the public system, while - yes - they are very privileged in the private system, since the state pays 50 % of the most medical costs, anyway. So state officials do only have to choose a contract covering half of most medicl bills. In consequence, teachers have the choice, either to opt for a system which gives them a very privileged status, or to stay in the public system, which gives them significant disandvantages to the ordinary members, since in this case the state covers less, than private employers do by paying half the fee. I hope this presentation is clear and provides you with a comprehensible first overview of the German health insurance system. Greetings from Münster (Westfalia)
We have a dual public and private health insurance model, usually people who are employed get public health insurance and this is paid directly through the paycheck 50% you 50% employer. but if you run your own business or for whatever reason want to opt out of public health insurance you can get a private insurance too. we also have multiple insurance companies who offer public insurance there is not just one option.
Lived in a small community in Portugal sometimes go.There lived Portuguese, spanish, english,french ,dutch and german famillies. Most of them had kids inn the age from 3 to 12 years. These kids spoke all languages. Sometimes all mixed in one sentence. They understood each other perfectly. The adults got a bit of babylonean feeling at times..
Dwayne, I'm German and between 2012 and 2015 I've lived in London. I'm working in English the whole day and we speak English at home, so although we're living in Germany since 2015, I still dream in English.
I am german and I like to read books and watch videos in english. If I do that often, I start to dream in english as well. It kinda get's frustrating, if my mind can't find the right english word in my dream, so sometimes I wake up and have to google the correct english word so I can get back to sleep again. A bit weird. but it helps improving the english language.
I am French, 50 years old, and have lived in Germany for 30 years. My wife is from Gabon (age 39a😉) and came to Germany 21 years ago as a student. We have 7 children between the ages of 5 and ( from tomorrow) 17. On the whole, you can say that it really depends on the individual how long it takes to feel at home. On yourself, on the friends you make, on the region and the people there who have always lived there, I think a lot has changed in Germany. It was definitely easier to feel at home quickly 30/20 years ago than it is today. Today, the reservations among Germans are much greater and generalised xenophobia is becoming more and more widespread. The worst personal example: We have been living in the same town on the Lower Rhine in our own house for 11 years now, our children go to school here, we all speak perfect German (even if my wife has a slight but unmistakable accent)...and yet my wife and two of our children were insulted in a shop by a ‘native German’ as social parasites, applauded by several people. Mind you, the first time ever. So the question is: do we really feel at home in Germany? Answer: Actually, yes. But in the last 1-2 years, we have realised more and more that we are still seen as not belonging. And that by an increasing number of people. Maybe that's why I bought the family villa in my father's home country at the beginning of the year - and not just as a retirement home only - to prepare our "escape" from Germany? In any case, the idea of breaking down the tents in Germany is definitely there...
I‘m German and English always kinda came easy to me. I started watching the OV of movies I already knew in German at 13 and now, at 23, I‘m at a point where I have to „dial it back“ a little, because my spoken German is beginning to suffer. Watching movies and videos on RUclips in English was a factor, but when I also started reading and writing my own stuff in English, that’s when my German really went downhill. Nowadays, I dream in English more than I do not and my thoughts are equally split between both languages.
Das sind Berliner. Ich habe früher für 2 Jahre in einer deutschlandweiten Notrufzentrale gearbeitet und wir haben alle gestöhnt, wenn wir eine Berliner Vorwahl in der Leitung hatten. Viele Berliner sind verhältnismäßig unhöflich und "entitled" (gibt es da ein deutsches Wort für?).
I was in the US for 4 weeks through a school exchange program as a teenager. I had a short phase when I had problems to speak German or English and kept searching for words and mixing both languages in week 3 and started to dream in English in week 4. It's interesting how the brain works.
Health care is organized in a different way to the NHS. We have almost 100 public health insurances, as well as several private ones. One of the big hurdles for new arrivals is to choose which one of them is the best, and get the contractual details solved and such.
From my experience, it is an excellent sign when you dream in a foreign language that you are learning. Apart from English, I do that sometimes in Japanese or even Korean ... It shows that your brain is really working on it.
We had your British forces stationed here in my area in North Rhine Westphalia, also red brick and (admittedly) traditional wattle and daub half-timbered houses are somewhat predominant here. Maybe at leadt the housing wouldn't be as much of a culture shock here 😅
For voting, Unless you have a german nationality (or dual nationality) you can't vote in the big government elections. However, if you have residency, you can vote in local/communal elections.
The health insurance system in Germany In the German health insurance system, the majority of the population has statutory health insurance. Under certain conditions, certain citizens must or can take out full private health insurance. In the following text, we explain what this means. In Germany, citizens have either statutory or private health insurance. Almost 90% of those insured in Germany have statutory health insurance. Under certain conditions, some citizens have the choice of taking out private or statutory health insurance. This is the case, for example, for employees whose income is above the annually redefined compulsory insurance limit, as well as for civil servants and most self-employed and freelance workers. In certain cases, however, there is also an obligation to take out private health insurance. The so-called benefit-in-kind principle applies in statutory health insurance. This states that those with statutory health insurance do not have to pay the respective health care provider (e.g. the doctor) for the treatment costs in advance. Instead, the healthcare provider provides the desired service and subsequently bills the insured person's statutory health insurance provider, the so-called health insurance companies, for this. The scope of services is based on legal requirements. The various health insurance companies can offer additional services beyond this specified scope of services. However, more than 90 percent of the scope of services is legally uniform for all those with statutory health insurance. The principle of benefits in kind does not apply to private health insurance. For those with private health insurance, the respective healthcare provider issues an invoice after treatment. The amount of the costs for the individual services is determined by fee schedules. Normally, the patient pays the invoice, then submits it to their health insurance provider and receives the costs in full or in part.
i agree that a english person has it easier learning certain words, they also dont roll their R as hard as americans but its still english is still english and german gets really complicated if you want to learn it to its fullest the=der the=die the=das
Please consider watching “Dark”, one of very few good German shows of our modern times. It’s a German Netflix Original, has 3 seasons and has a mystery drama thriller sci-if theme (sometimes compared to Stranger Things but take that with a grain of salt because Dark is - well, darker and also a more complex). But PLEASE if you watch it do so with subs, not dubs.
When I was young a shared a flat with 4 irish guys and 24/7 english was so intense, I started dreaming in english after a couple of weeks. Same happened later, when I lived for about 9 years in the Netherlands. Started dreaming in dutch after a while. Brain´s funny, isn´t it?
It is possible, that she needs 10 hours to get to Bialystok in Poland. It is a 770 km long journey. There is a bus you can take. It is cheap and needs 10 h.
Language is the key..In particular, the respective technical language such as legal German. This can sometimes even sound like Chinese to Germans. It is perfectly normal that foreigners are only allowed to take part in local elections. Only German citizens are allowed to take part in state or national elections. I can't take part in the British parliamentary elections just because I live in London.
Heyo~ Friendly disclaimer that german tv shows and movies are kinda like if you order hollywood on wish XD Thats why we dub every single american (and british) show to german.
We have Krankenkassen, everyone needs a Krankenkasse. but if you dont! Work you can get it for free or günstiger. you nee a germany passboard Wählen zu können. it takes a lot of work to get a german Ausweis.
The Polish woman had studied German before, but she wanted to study law, and when she has been to her first lecture course the only heard Chinese. (Because the "Jura nomenclature" has a lot of terms and words you would never be taught in a "normal ervery day life German" course. And depending on where in Germany she lived, it is absolutely believable that it might have taken her 10 hours to get to Poland. I mean, I do live in Northern Bavaria and it would take me 8 hours to reach Berlin..... I once hat do drive someone to the Polish border which was a trip from Northern Bavaria to the Bayerischer Wald region, and it took me 6 hours, because Bavaria alone is that big and I had to cross through completely! So I wonder what makes it so strange for you to imagine that.
I am a german, living in germany. My thoughts are in english by default. Whether it's games, movies, researching topics or simply working in the IT branch, it comes with a lot of english content. If for example I want to watch documentaries on a specific species for every german documentary I find, I find 5 english documentaries. Wanna watch a movie? Most popular movies and shows are originally in english, so if I watch them in german I don't have the original voices and many jokes get lost in translation. Ofc there are gems only available on other languages as well, but english is currently the most widely spread language. If you lern german you lern "hoch deutsch". Each state speaks german differently. If I from north germany go to southern germany and they speak in their own dialect with me, I would have no clue what they are saying.
yeah you might assume that its sort of easy for an english speaker to learn german, then you hear things like "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod" and then you reconsider in a hurry.
I like the idea of watching you watch German shows, films etc.. It only might be difficult to find stuff that comes with English subtitles. I'm not a fan of German acting (I don't know why but it often times feels super stiff and not authentic to me, even though Germans are great at syncro foreign stuff into German) but there are some exceptions.
The only negative thing about the Easy German channel is that it's very Berlin centric, okay and she has no idea about food and cooking but hey! Janusz once told his story, very moving, as you can see here!
Voting for EU-Citizens: Not on the national level - not on the level of the "Bundesländer" / federal state. But EU-Citizens are allowed to vote in your town, your community, your municipality.
i hear that dialect thing alot from americans and brits, and both of you dont understand how different german dialects are because you compare it to what you know like from texas to new hampshire or scouse to liverpodlian, its very very much not the same, even the difference from "proper english" to scotisch" isnt as pronounced as the difference you can get in germany after 30kilomters :P...at least in my experience with my school english its not an issue after about 20 minutes of adjusting to the different pronounciations...thats not the case in german at all.
9:35 please dont do it. not without a german in discord or skype or whatever, who can explain it all to you. you will have question marks over your head the entire time and it feels like comment baiting to watch a video where you understand nothing and ask all of us to explain every single joke... if you find a german (doesnt have to be famous or what) then go for it. im sure its gonna be fun.
@@bring_marc_the_horizonja und obwohl schon so oft gehört hab ich mich auch bei Mert beinahe eingenässt als das Video im Hintergrund auf Deutsch lief. Hmm gibts eigentlich von lord of the weed also dem echten echten Original eins mit Eng Subs, das wäre doch was für Dwayne und Mert 😂😂
Move to Ireland, get the freedom to travel, than move to Berlin and experience the harsh, dark, wet winter and extremely unfriendly people - sounds like a perfect plan 😉
I don‘t know if you follow German news, Dwayne, but we‘ve just had another Islamist knife murderer (Syrian) kill 3 people and wound lots more at a Festival for the 650 years of the city Solingen. Before that, we‘ve had multiple instances of innocents getting stabbed by denied Asylum seekers from Muslim counties. It might be interesting to do a cross reference to the Notting Hill carnival stabbing?
Germans always love to watch foreigners checking out anything from germany, so tv shows as well. Just go for it.
Safe ist so.
Respect.They all speak quite good german one has to admit.
Janusz (the Easy German guy) is originally from Poland. He fleed his home country during communist times before the iron curtain fell.
Hello Dwayne,
I grew up between the USA and Germany, constantly going back and forth. Now, I've been living permanently in Germany for over 20 years. I’m usually interested in RUclips channels by Americans who talk about the differences between the countries. I find it fascinating that you, coming from a country so close to Germany but no longer in the EU, see it as if it were on the other side of the world. Are the cultural differences really that big? I think it's a shame that your country has isolated itself so much. But I find it all the more wonderful that you're interested in the cultures around you. Your way of being is amazing; you seem like a very thoughtful and respectful person.
For the English! , Scottish far less….the Channel was always a cultural divide, unlike for us Europeans, who were beyond thankful that Schengen helped us all get to grow closer and exchange our views in school exchanges, rather than across battlefields.
It‘s sad, really, but after the Empire, the British exceptionalism is nothing but a shell of empty promises.
1:35 the dude lived 3 years in germany and speaks ten times better german than the guy before him xD both are understandable but the 3 year guy is nearly perfect, his speach pattern is not flawless but damn thats absolutely ridiculous good.
yeah i couldnt get over that, being that good at learning a language should be illegal its just unfair :P i have no problem emediatly recognizing that all of them are foreigners EXCEPT for that one guy who is only here for 3 years? ....just insane.
Yes, his German is extremely impressive! Especially his pronounciation. With a few words you can tell he's not a native but if he learned that much in 3 years, I have no doubt that with another year or two he will sound 100% native.
Germany has compulsory health insurance. Like in the UK, there are expensive private healthcare providers but instead of a single equivalent to the NHS, Germany has a selection of free state funded health insurance companies such as AOK. I think Germany had the earliest example of universal healthcare, which was introduced in 1883 under Bismarck.
*1883 🌸
@@winterlinde5395 thanks!
In Germany, Health insurance isn‘t ‚free‘, we all pay for it in our taxes, and the tax is being continuously raised…the wages, not so much!
People who come here and take the benefit of ‚free healthcare‘, are essentially freeloaders
It's only free if you're unemployed XD Otherwise it's ~15% of your salary (where 7.5% comes out of your income and the other half is paid by your employer). As a previously self employed, I chose private insurance because it literally just cost 200€ per month, opposed to 600+€ for the government health care (as a self employed, you don't have an employer who pays half of it).
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When you get older private goes up and public health insurance becomes cheaper. Once private, you can’t go back when you think you now want to cash in on the cheaper option. Because you had decided to leave the alliance of solidarity.
Would love to watch the 'Deutschland' mini TV series with you, starting with 'Deutschland 83'.
The one commentator from Poland was stating that her lectures in law sounded ‘Chinese’. The German idiom for this is actually ‘Fachchinesisch’ about ‘occupational Chinese’. I think law students from many countries can relate to that sentiment.😂
Even German citizens sometimes struggle to make heads and tails of Juristical Big Speak….it‘s almost unintelligible to me as well, and I have a PhD, so I completely concur
he is also from Poland :-*
8:21 the guy is part of their team. he is from poland afaik. he also looks polish imho xd
Friends are the family you choose!
and the good compensation for the relatives 😜
My father was born in Poland and came to Germany, when he was 24 years old. Today he’s here for 43 years and says there is no more connection to Poland anymore for him. He told me years ago, that he felt settled here when he began to think and dream in German. He also told me, that it took about two years to start that, but about five to six years to complete it. That was the time he got married and I was born.
He says that the best way to integrate is to be surrounded by Germans, to be forced to speak German all day and to be part of the everyday life at work and at home.
About the differences between English in school and in a real conversation I couldn’t say there is a critical disparity. The English in school is sometimes a little bit artificial in contrast to the spoken language of a real person. But in most cases, there are listening comprehension exercises that are recorded by native speakers. In Germany the English lessons are often arranged around the British English, so listening to you sounds to me like the time back in school. And I love it. It feels a bit like coming home.
I think for us as Germans and Brits there is a common background as a Germanic-European culture with many similarities and also many similarities in our languages. Together with the Dutch we are a naturally connected triangle in culture and language. So switching between our countries seems to be very easy, because it feels so familiar.
To hear these stories from all these people gives me some kind of "i'm proud to be german and proud of my country" which is really odd for a german 😅, we're not really known for showing proudness for our country publicly 😄
But yeah to hear that people feel welcome in Germany and that they can live their life the way they want shows that we're doing something right. Yes we have some serious problems in Germany but these stories are a nice change of view.
The German health insurance system is actually rather complicated. At first there is an obigation to have any kind of insurance, but to a certain degree you have the choice between different providers.
I. Public insurance funds
About 90 % of the population are "member" of a semi-public health insurance fund. (Let's just call it "public", nontheless.) There are about 100 of them in Germany. Their services are 95-98% legally mandated. The main differences are in respect of how services are supplied and, of course in respect of the 2-5 % which are less regulated.
You can switch health insurance providers at any time with a notice period of 2 months. They can only reject your membership application for the following reasons:
1. They only work in a regionally restricted area like one or two specific states or
2. they only offer sevice to employees of defined companies.
They are not allowed to reject you because of your health condition.
Some insurance funds are known to be more lenient in matters of discretion when you apply for psychological treatments or for other kinds of therapies. But all in all, you can assume, that everybody in the public system can expect the same services.
The 'membership fee' is 14,6 % of the individual income plus an insurance fund specific additional fee of around 0.5 - 2 %. (It should be noted, that you actually only pay half of it, since your employer has to shoulder the other half additionally to your official income.)
II. Private insurance companies
While members of public health insurance funds can secure additional services privately (such as higher-quality dental care or a one-bed room in the hospital)
- German civil servants (which include police, most administrative officers of the state and about 90 % of all teachers),
- nearly all self employed people and
- employees with a montly income above ~5,800 €
can opt to switch to the comprehensive private health insurance system.
The insurance premium in the private system is independent of your income, but related
a) to your health condition, at the time of applying for a contract and
b) to the extent of coverage, that you choose.
While in the public system young people with good income pay relatively more, in the private system people with pre-existing conditions and higher age often pay relatively more. The premium is independent of your income. It might increase over the years, and the private insurance does not care, if you can afford the price.
Because the doctors are also paid differently for services they give to members of the public and customers of the private system, one of the most distinguishing points between the two systems is, that customers of the cprivate companies get faster access to medical specialists.
(To be clear: As a private patient you do not get a liver transplant easier than a member of a public insurance, yet your hospital room might be more comfortable and the doctor might take more time to talk to you, if you wish so - depending on your private contract.)
III. Some additional explanations
I could tell you more datails. But I think the info given here, might suffice for the moment. ;)
Very important to know is, that you need never change from the public system to the one of the private insurance companies. And even though you might save a lot of money while young, you SHOULD NOT switch for that reason.
As an insurance councillor myself, I m very carefull in recommending the switch for self employed and for high income employees. (Which is a shame, since the brokerage fees for health insurances are the best, compared to other kinds of insurances). Yet, I am myself still member of the public system. I think it is more solidaric with poor people and people with pre-conditions. Also it is less risky if you get older and - for example - your pension reduces your income after leaving your profession.
However:
For state officials it is highly recommendable, in my view, to switch, since they really have a lot of disadvantages when staying in the public system, while - yes - they are very privileged in the private system, since the state pays 50 % of the most medical costs, anyway. So state officials do only have to choose a contract covering half of most medicl bills.
In consequence, teachers have the choice, either to opt for a system which gives them a very privileged status, or to stay in the public system, which gives them significant disandvantages to the ordinary members, since in this case the state covers less, than private employers do by paying half the fee.
I hope this presentation is clear and provides you with a comprehensible first overview of the German health insurance system.
Greetings from Münster (Westfalia)
We have a dual public and private health insurance model, usually people who are employed get public health insurance and this is paid directly through the paycheck 50% you 50% employer. but if you run your own business or for whatever reason want to opt out of public health insurance you can get a private insurance too. we also have multiple insurance companies who offer public insurance there is not just one option.
They all have really great German speaking skills! I'm amazed👏
If you ever visit Germany, be aware that people's mentality is really different in different regions.
Lived in a small community in Portugal sometimes go.There lived Portuguese, spanish, english,french ,dutch and german famillies. Most of them had kids inn the age from 3 to 12 years. These kids
spoke all languages. Sometimes all mixed in one sentence. They understood each other perfectly.
The adults got a bit of babylonean
feeling at times..
Yeah, let's do this! I'll imediately subscribe......
About the friendlyness, it seems very different, depends on the area.
So when you visit B, don't think that's the way the germans are(:
Dwayne, I'm German and between 2012 and 2015 I've lived in London. I'm working in English the whole day and we speak English at home, so although we're living in Germany since 2015, I still dream in English.
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I am german and I like to read books and watch videos in english. If I do that often, I start to dream in english as well. It kinda get's frustrating, if my mind can't find the right english word in my dream, so sometimes I wake up and have to google the correct english word so I can get back to sleep again. A bit weird. but it helps improving the english language.
I know that. 😂
I am French, 50 years old, and have lived in Germany for 30 years. My wife is from Gabon (age 39a😉) and came to Germany 21 years ago as a student. We have 7 children between the ages of 5 and ( from tomorrow) 17.
On the whole, you can say that it really depends on the individual how long it takes to feel at home. On yourself, on the friends you make, on the region and the people there who have always lived there,
I think a lot has changed in Germany. It was definitely easier to feel at home quickly 30/20 years ago than it is today. Today, the reservations among Germans are much greater and generalised xenophobia is becoming more and more widespread. The worst personal example: We have been living in the same town on the Lower Rhine in our own house for 11 years now, our children go to school here, we all speak perfect German (even if my wife has a slight but unmistakable accent)...and yet my wife and two of our children were insulted in a shop by a ‘native German’ as social parasites, applauded by several people. Mind you, the first time ever.
So the question is: do we really feel at home in Germany? Answer: Actually, yes. But in the last 1-2 years, we have realised more and more that we are still seen as not belonging. And that by an increasing number of people.
Maybe that's why I bought the family villa in my father's home country at the beginning of the year - and not just as a retirement home only - to prepare our "escape" from Germany? In any case, the idea of breaking down the tents in Germany is definitely there...
Very sorry to hear that.😞 Poor racists... 😡
I‘m German and English always kinda came easy to me. I started watching the OV of movies I already knew in German at 13 and now, at 23, I‘m at a point where I have to „dial it back“ a little, because my spoken German is beginning to suffer. Watching movies and videos on RUclips in English was a factor, but when I also started reading and writing my own stuff in English, that’s when my German really went downhill. Nowadays, I dream in English more than I do not and my thoughts are equally split between both languages.
I‘m a Spaniard living in Germany and I have nothing to complain. The people in the video seem really bitter
it´s in Berlin 🤷♂
That is great to hear…how do you manage the winter, being from Spain? 🇪🇸
@@arnodobler1096 true…🤣🤣🤣🤣
Saludos.
Soy aleman viviendo en Espana y para me es lo mismo aqui. La gente de aqui son muy amables tambien.
Das sind Berliner. Ich habe früher für 2 Jahre in einer deutschlandweiten Notrufzentrale gearbeitet und wir haben alle gestöhnt, wenn wir eine Berliner Vorwahl in der Leitung hatten. Viele Berliner sind verhältnismäßig unhöflich und "entitled" (gibt es da ein deutsches Wort für?).
Stimmt schon Deutsch ist nicht wirklich leicht.
Vietnam is so beautiful I want to get there again as soon as possible.
I was in the US for 4 weeks through a school exchange program as a teenager. I had a short phase when I had problems to speak German or English and kept searching for words and mixing both languages in week 3 and started to dream in English in week 4. It's interesting how the brain works.
Health care is organized in a different way to the NHS. We have almost 100 public health insurances, as well as several private ones. One of the big hurdles for new arrivals is to choose which one of them is the best, and get the contractual details solved and such.
From my experience, it is an excellent sign when you dream in a foreign language that you are learning. Apart from English, I do that sometimes in Japanese or even Korean ... It shows that your brain is really working on it.
My Family lives in Poland and if you take the bus to Poland you often drive for 9- 13 hours.
We had your British forces stationed here in my area in North Rhine Westphalia, also red brick and (admittedly) traditional wattle and daub half-timbered houses are somewhat predominant here. Maybe at leadt the housing wouldn't be as much of a culture shock here 😅
We have the humor from Monty Python the life of the Brian, we love it😅
For voting, Unless you have a german nationality (or dual nationality) you can't vote in the big government elections. However, if you have residency, you can vote in local/communal elections.
The health insurance system in Germany
In the German health insurance system, the majority of the population has statutory health insurance. Under certain conditions, certain citizens must or can take out full private health insurance. In the following text, we explain what this means.
In Germany, citizens have either statutory or private health insurance. Almost 90% of those insured in Germany have statutory health insurance. Under certain conditions, some citizens have the choice of taking out private or statutory health insurance. This is the case, for example, for employees whose income is above the annually redefined compulsory insurance limit, as well as for civil servants and most self-employed and freelance workers. In certain cases, however, there is also an obligation to take out private health insurance.
The so-called benefit-in-kind principle applies in statutory health insurance. This states that those with statutory health insurance do not have to pay the respective health care provider (e.g. the doctor) for the treatment costs in advance. Instead, the healthcare provider provides the desired service and subsequently bills the insured person's statutory health insurance provider, the so-called health insurance companies, for this. The scope of services is based on legal requirements. The various health insurance companies can offer additional services beyond this specified scope of services. However, more than 90 percent of the scope of services is legally uniform for all those with statutory health insurance.
The principle of benefits in kind does not apply to private health insurance. For those with private health insurance, the respective healthcare provider issues an invoice after treatment. The amount of the costs for the individual services is determined by fee schedules. Normally, the patient pays the invoice, then submits it to their health insurance provider and receives the costs in full or in part.
airbnb in Berlin costs from 70€ - 170€ for a room ,the prices is like HOTEL Prices 😉😉😉😉
i agree that a english person has it easier learning certain words, they also dont roll their R as hard as americans but its still english is still english and german gets really complicated if you want to learn it to its fullest
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Please consider watching “Dark”, one of very few good German shows of our modern times. It’s a German Netflix Original, has 3 seasons and has a mystery drama thriller sci-if theme (sometimes compared to Stranger Things but take that with a grain of salt because Dark is - well, darker and also a more complex). But PLEASE if you watch it do so with subs, not dubs.
and Babylon Berlin too
Dwayne, you will be disappointed about the German TV shows since they are in (well guess ...) German language.
When I was young a shared a flat with 4 irish guys and 24/7 english was so intense, I started dreaming in english after a couple of weeks. Same happened later, when I lived for about 9 years in the Netherlands. Started dreaming in dutch after a while. Brain´s funny, isn´t it?
It is possible, that she needs 10 hours to get to Bialystok in Poland. It is a 770 km long journey. There is a bus you can take. It is cheap and needs 10 h.
Sometimes I talk to myself in English! :)
Language is the key..In particular, the respective technical language such as legal German. This can sometimes even sound like Chinese to Germans. It is perfectly normal that foreigners are only allowed to take part in local elections. Only German citizens are allowed to take part in state or national elections. I can't take part in the British parliamentary elections just because I live in London.
Heyo~
Friendly disclaimer that german tv shows and movies are kinda like if you order hollywood on wish XD Thats why we dub every single american (and british) show to german.
Almost nowwhere you can vote for the federal government without being a citizen.
We have Krankenkassen, everyone needs a Krankenkasse. but if you dont! Work you can get it for free or günstiger.
you nee a germany passboard Wählen zu können. it takes a lot of work to get a german Ausweis.
A very good german Show to watch would be dark on netflix ;)
Definitely thinking about watching some shows with you guys on Patreon :)
The Polish woman had studied German before, but she wanted to study law, and when she has been to her first lecture course the only heard Chinese. (Because the "Jura nomenclature" has a lot of terms and words you would never be taught in a "normal ervery day life German" course.
And depending on where in Germany she lived, it is absolutely believable that it might have taken her 10 hours to get to Poland. I mean, I do live in Northern Bavaria and it would take me 8 hours to reach Berlin..... I once hat do drive someone to the Polish border which was a trip from Northern Bavaria to the Bayerischer Wald region, and it took me 6 hours, because Bavaria alone is that big and I had to cross through completely! So I wonder what makes it so strange for you to imagine that.
I am a german, living in germany. My thoughts are in english by default. Whether it's games, movies, researching topics or simply working in the IT branch, it comes with a lot of english content.
If for example I want to watch documentaries on a specific species for every german documentary I find, I find 5 english documentaries. Wanna watch a movie? Most popular movies and shows are originally in english, so if I watch them in german I don't have the original voices and many jokes get lost in translation. Ofc there are gems only available on other languages as well, but english is currently the most widely spread language.
If you lern german you lern "hoch deutsch". Each state speaks german differently. If I from north germany go to southern germany and they speak in their own dialect with me, I would have no clue what they are saying.
yeah you might assume that its sort of easy for an english speaker to learn german, then you hear things like "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod" and then you reconsider in a hurry.
Janusz is from Poland
He comes from Polen I think and there are father and daughter
I like the idea of watching you watch German shows, films etc.. It only might be difficult to find stuff that comes with English subtitles. I'm not a fan of German acting (I don't know why but it often times feels super stiff and not authentic to me, even though Germans are great at syncro foreign stuff into German) but there are some exceptions.
Imagine: dreaming in English! How on earth can anybody? .-)
The only negative thing about the Easy German channel is that it's very Berlin centric, okay and she has no idea about food and cooking but hey! Janusz once told his story, very moving, as you can see here!
Watch Berlin Babylon. Berlin criminal stories from the 1920s
Voting for EU-Citizens:
Not on the national level - not on the level of the "Bundesländer" / federal state.
But EU-Citizens are allowed to vote in your town, your community, your municipality.
i hear that dialect thing alot from americans and brits, and both of you dont understand how different german dialects are because you compare it to what you know like from texas to new hampshire or scouse to liverpodlian, its very very much not the same, even the difference from "proper english" to scotisch" isnt as pronounced as the difference you can get in germany after 30kilomters :P...at least in my experience with my school english its not an issue after about 20 minutes of adjusting to the different pronounciations...thats not the case in german at all.
9:35 please dont do it. not without a german in discord or skype or whatever, who can explain it all to you. you will have question marks over your head the entire time and it feels like comment baiting to watch a video where you understand nothing and ask all of us to explain every single joke... if you find a german (doesnt have to be famous or what) then go for it. im sure its gonna be fun.
Are you sure about the Irish Passport/Citizenship? 🤔
No I thinkshe said in university she didn’t understand any word… she studies law…. Even lots of Germans don’t understand this weird legalese 😊
not sure if the irish will welcome english brexit refugees....
Well... let's find out if you're into German humor with this video, perhaps? ;)
Deutsche vs Polnische Handwerker (German vs polish craftmen ENG SUB)
Da hat wohl heute noch jemand das Video von Who is Mert gesehen.😅
@@bring_marc_the_horizon Ja, das Timing, ey. xD Wusste bis heute gar nicht, dass es das auf YT mit Subs gibt.
@@bring_marc_the_horizonja und obwohl schon so oft gehört hab ich mich auch bei Mert beinahe eingenässt als das Video im Hintergrund auf Deutsch lief.
Hmm gibts eigentlich von lord of the weed also dem echten echten Original eins mit Eng Subs, das wäre doch was für Dwayne und Mert 😂😂
Move to Ireland, get the freedom to travel, than move to Berlin and experience the harsh, dark, wet winter and extremely unfriendly people - sounds like a perfect plan 😉
I don‘t know if you follow German news, Dwayne, but we‘ve just had another Islamist knife murderer (Syrian) kill 3 people and wound lots more at a Festival for the 650 years of the city Solingen.
Before that, we‘ve had multiple instances of innocents getting stabbed by denied Asylum seekers from Muslim counties.
It might be interesting to do a cross reference to the Notting Hill carnival stabbing?
Recommendation for a German Netflix show that is dubbed in English (don't know about the quality though): Dark
Berlin isnt germany .
19:19 better he’s not allowed to! 🚫🟢🚫