Why German Sounds So Aggressive
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German sounds harsh and aggressive. Why?
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This is a reupload. It came as a surprise to us that RUclips wants us so to show authoritarian dictators with their clothes on.
😂
RUclips 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
German doesn't really sound that aggressive.
It's basically just because people's main exposure is a certain Austrian war veteran who had been exposed to poison gas.
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 grew up bilingual, learning German and Hungarian as a child. My favourite German word is Geborgenheit. For me this word expresses a very deep sense of intimacy, feeling secure, like a parent lovingly carrying a child, who is slowly falling asleep.
yes Geborgenheit is a very beautiful german word, it makes me feel very cozy just saying or even thinking it
Interestingly it's hard to translate the word because it's the noun of the (nowadays rarely used) verb "bergen" which means retreating to a safe location (originally meaning retreating to a castle on a mountain - mountain being "Berg" in German) and eventually turned into the meaning of securely storing/retrieving/housing something or someone. It contains the security aspect intrinsically and was given a more and more intimate meaning over time :)
Oh mein Gott! Ich hoffe das Ungarisch Deine Muttersprache war, denn wenn wir über die kompliziertesten Sprachen der Welt reden, erblasst Deutsch regelrecht im Angesicht der ungarischen Sprache!
@@maxnova9763 Technisch gesehen ist Ungarisch meine Muttersprache, denn dies ist die Sprache die ich von meiner Mutter gelernt habe. Ich sehe beide als Muttersprachen, da ich auf beiden Sprachen reden gelernt habe. Ich lebe seit fast 30 Jahren in Ungarn, mein Ungarisch ist deswegen besser, als mein Deutsch (viellleicht sieht es man auch hier... mein Deutsch ist ein wenig eingerostet), aber ich formuliere meine Gedanken bis heute auf beiden Sprachen.
Geborgenheit ist wirklich ein schönes Wort. Magyarul úgy forditanám le hogy "meghittség".
German sounds aggressive, because you usually only hear it from comedians who think stereotypes by themselves are funny.
Listen to some sung Bach.
@@davidpowell3347 Listen to Beatles song sung in German. Profanity.
Frrr those comedians were not funny
Ahhhh nicht ganz, der Adolf ist auch a bissel schuld
Ahhhh not quite, Adolf is also a bit to blame
@@nickoblack8229 That is who those comedians are imitating.
hi, english speaker here, i find the german language to be incredibly beautiful! in fact, i have been obsessed with trying to learn it for the past two years now. it was honestly heartbreaking to see all of these examples of people hating on the language in this video, because it is genuinely one of my favorite things. german is such a gentle, poetic sounding language, and i wish more people would just give it a chance so that they could see that.
Thank u so much❤
Really don't understand why this myth persists. German sounds aggressive because people shout it in an aggressive voice that would make any language sound aggressive... I always found it rather beautiful and soothing.
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
People say German sounds angry, and do exaggerated voices, but whenever I hear actual people speaking German it sounds like they are very carefully setting the words down. I'll say that I think people have gotten the angry impression from Hitler and Rammstein, and the stereotypes that emerged from that, and that now they are just hearing what they expect to hear, but they just reject that and insist that it sounds impossibly angry.
There is a good Video in RUclips 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 🗣🗣
Fun fact: every language sounds agressive if you scream it!
Tasmanians sound angry to me.
French sounds more like passionate love the louder it’s spoken 😅
Except Spanish (specially Latibamerican) we sound as if we were singing in a very high pitch, expanding every intermediate vowel. And really mean it with the end point. We exaggerate the “p” and the “t”
@donmcatee45 French actually sounds like you're unsuccessfully trying to cough out phlegm for the entirety of your lifetimes, no matter the volume
If you want to tell someone that you love them and what thay mean to you.
Don't just tell them, shout it in there face in old German.
People find german angry because of that austrian man. But as a german learner, it sounds more cute than english for me
Just say hitler he is not Voldemort
As a German , i know german could sound very cute
Especially when you greet strangers
Yes, Germans are OK except this one Austrian who is even not a German.
Sung by a woman with clear brilliant voice it sounds soft and pleasant. ruclips.net/video/zOvsyamoEDg/видео.html
"Weltschmerz" was a word I needed to learn today. sigh.
I'm a german and i don't know this word 😂
@@der_nikolas das ist nicht dein ernst oder?😂
@@der_nikolas i agree 100%, hab das Wort noch nie vorher gehört xD
@@prodbysamir5855 Er ist wahrscheinlich 12, man lernt immer dazu.
Easy word, only 6 consonants in a row
Some other great german words:
1. Kabelsalat: literally cable salad, meaning a mess of cables
2. Schadenfreude: literally damage joy, meaning the joy of someone else's suffering.
3. Verschlimmbessern: literally worse improving, meaning trying to make something better, and the result is worse than what it was in the beginning
4. Ohrwurm: literally ear worm, meaning having a song in your mind you just cant forget, so you always sing it in your mind
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.
No it doesn't.
Every example where German sounds harsh it's because people are SCREAMING the words at you. Like if you yell BUTTTERFLY at someone, they're not going to consider your speech beautiful.
A certain Austrian Painter yelled in German, that’s why
The German language is soft and extremely suited for singing, especially classical music. Hitler tried to be agressive in German, it sounded silly.
This is why i think all people think german is aggressiv language, sadly.
Yes, Hitler was just a silly puppy so all Germany followed him.
@@marktwain5266 Following and hold at gun point are two different things.
Dictatorship isn't build up on the loyalty or all but the fanaticsm of a few.
At the height of the nazi party it had around 8 million members. Those people mostly were loyal to Hitler and they governed everything and were also the state police (to find and execute enemies of the NSDAP). But there were 70 million other germans living in germany during that time which had different opinions about the things that happened.
From people that really hated Hitler to people that adored him you could find all of them within those 70 million people.
However, very few openly stood against him because they didn't want to die. The Scholl-Siblings are a good example for this. What happened to people that dared to say something against Hitler and the Nazis.
He always shouted and yelled, and that harsh "rrrr" - until the 50s we had this harsh "rrrr" in our language, but step-by-step it has disappeared. Most people cannot speak this "rrrr" anymore.
Yes, think of the words to Schubert's Die Forelle (The Trout). Another beautiful example is a short poem by Goethe, 'Ueber allen Gipfeln ist Ruh/ In allen Wipfeln/ Spuerest Du/ Kaum einen Hauch/ Warte nur balde/ Ruhest Du auch. (I hope I've got the line-breaks right. I am quoting that from memory. Also, I've replaced the umlauts with an 'e', which makes the spelling look peculiar.)
I'm currently in the process of learning German and I've found the compound words to actually be really helpful. Being able to figure out what a word means based on the words it's made up of is much easier than having to learn an entirely new word. Great video!
Pro tip: It even works the other way around!
Say you can't remember a certain word or it sits just at the tip of your tongue but won't come to your mind. Then you can almost always build a compound to describe what you mean instead and people will get it. A really useful word in that context is "Ding".
For me, that's the beauty of our compounds: you can always invent your own on the spot. They don't have to be actual words that have been used by anyone ever before. People will still understand you (and sometimes might even find it hilarious) in the very same way you described: they simply deconstruct it and get it via the contextual relationship of its components.
You can even use this trick to address things of which you don't know the proper term. You know these triangular bars used at supermarket checkouts to separate one customer's items from the next one's? The actual term is "Warentrenner", I think. But you can just call them "Kassentublerone" and everything is clear.
@@lonestarr1490 aus der Sicht habe ich das noch nie gesehen, vielleicht ist Deutsch doch schöner als man denken mag..
@@lonestarr1490 "Kassentublerone" OMG I'm dying of laughter
I encountered it the other way around with English. There are many special words for things. Every doctor has a (mostly) greek label. We have these, too, but mostly use descriptive labels like "Augenarzt" eye doctor. Similar for animals. Or words in German which mean similar things or variations based on some word. In English there often are completely different words for this stuff which you all need to learn and which don't give a clue about the meaning.
@@AnonymousRUclipsr69 See, exactly what I said: you can do hilarious stuff with it :D
I have always loved German language. I’ve been to Germany, I love German people and their culture. I’m from Ukraine, and our language is considered one of the 5 most beautiful languages in the world. We call it “Nightingale language” and it is so. But I cannot explain why I have always been drawn to German language, it sounds so beautiful to me. I even took it in college and still try to learn it on my own. Pronunciation comes easy to me. Maybe I was German in one of my past lives?🙄😍❤️
I've heard that Ukrainian is very similar to Russian. Perhaps someday the Ukrainians, Russians and Germans can all speak peacefully with each other. But first the American and British languages should leave. Greetings; from a Canadian.
You might be right about this. I also have heard that you feel drawn towards languages/landscapes you know from past lives. In my case it's Welsh. There can't be another explanation because I have never been there.
@@chrisgillard6129you might be right 👍
@@chrisgillard6129 Why should they leave, You would take away English but leave its Sister German? Makes not one lick of sense.
im embarrassed to say it, but to me the german language sounds kind of adorable… it’s tentative and soft and polite, and this is part of why I’ve tried learning some of it (just enough to show off)
Thank you! Have you ever heard German folk songs (not the marches...) such as "Ännchen von Tharau" or Schubert's Lieder? They are really soft and smooth, not aggressive at all.
Short answer: it doesnt.
People just think it because celebreties who know some english always act like they are hitler when saying something in German
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.
There is a reason why many popular artists and writers were German in the past. German is a complex, yet very vibrant language. It is honest, well-structured, playful, full of love, and also dark at times. Whatever you want to express, you can express. This is the beauty that lies hidden in it
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.
I learned German in school in Sweden. After I visited southern Germany, like Munich, and also Austria and Switzerland, I realized that German language could sound quite different. There are dialects sounding much softer and some r and auch sounds that are completely different pronounced.
I fiddled with a shortwave radio as a kid. Couldn't tune in much, but once, or was it twice, in the middle of the night I caught a program in German - women talking about opera. I still remember their voices were beautiful, even though I didn't understand a word.
I have been learning German for 5 years and It really doesnt sound agressive, I quite like how the Vowels are so precise and each word has no tricks to how it is pronounced, It is such a logical language and that is what I love about it
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.
My favorite test for German pronunciation is "Tschechisches Streichholzschächtelchen" - if you can pronounce it correctly, you've mastered the language.
but what about "des Herbsts"?
Oh, even as a German, I struggled the first time 😅
@@criticaldamage4067so you still got a lot to learn my fellow german.
When I wanted to read this comment to my friend, I struggled with saying "pronunciation" but "Tschechisches Streichholzschächtelchen" came perfectly out. Well. xD
"Tschechische Chefchemiker auf Griechisch-Chinesischen Passagierschiffen"
Absolutely LOVE the sound of German. Es klingt gut zu mich! Currently learning it...and it is a pain but I'm one to not quit on anything I set out to accomplish! And I really love the video. Prost!
Wir würden sagen:
Für mich klingt das gut!
😊
Es klingt MIR gut ! please ?
@@johngardner4897 nein
When I started to learn "Deutsch Sprache" i found it unique for choosing words and very delightful in expressing feelings
German does not sound aggressive unless the person speaking is being aggressive.
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
Hey, here's a re-comment:
Honestly German is my 3ed language and I learned it in my mid-20s. And I think whoever thinks German is a harsh language has either watched a lot of TikTok/RUclips/.... videos making fun of the German language or hasn't been to Germany or a REWE and heard the cashier's "tschüüöüöüöüöüöüöss" 😌
who tf shops at rewe
@@nitolak2873 du anscheinend nicht, Geringverdiener :D
Tschöööö mit ö
@@nitolak2873 probably people which don't live under a stone
Made my day 😂😂😂
Even the Austrian painter had a normal speaking voice that did not sound aggressive, unlike his broadcast speeches. There's a RUclips video with audio of AH talking to a Finnish general. It's worth a listen.
To be specific you are talking about the Hitler-Mannerheim tape where Hitler visited Finnish field marshal Mannerheim in June 4th, 1942 which was marshal Mannerheim´s 75th birthday.
Idk man, when I visted Germany a few months ago, the people there were some of the nicest and gentlest people I've heard.
My daughter (15) is teaching herself German.
Sounds like she's walking around trying to clear her throat and is angry that she can't.
She's doing great tho. Danke!
Wait until you hear Swiss German
😂
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.
Septembermorgen
Im Nebel ruhet noch die Welt,
Noch träumen Wald und Wiesen:
Bald siehst du, wenn der Schleier fällt,
Den blauen Himmel unverstellt,
Herbstkräftig die gedämpfte Welt
In warmem Golde fließen.
Eduard Mörike
German is such a harsh and aggressive language.
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
I'm from Australia. I wouldn't say aggressive but perhaps authoritative is more what I hear. It's one of my favorite languages to listen to. So rich.
Ich bin Engländer und ich liebe die deutsche Sprache. We're all cousins from over 1000 years. And I'm glad that a lot of people feel the same way. Any language when spoken in any form of angry tone is going to sound aggressive. I rage at games from time to time and I scare the shit out of my mates
Some other german words:
Hoffnungsschimmer - Glimmer of hope
Liebestrunken - Drunk with love
Mucksmäuschenstill - Quiet as a mouse
As a czech person i really dont have a problem pronouncing "Ch"
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.
As a German, if you scream, yeah it will be agressive, but if you do normal accent then it could be normal
German doesnt sound agressive.
It sounds straight forward.
Filterless.
And thus, when angry, a german Sounds ANGRY.
Theres no holding back or faining calmness.
Deutsch ist keine aggressive Sprache, aber wenn man schreit oder aggressiv ausspricht, dann klingt es natürlich aggressiv.
Genau.
My brother has a Masters degree in German. Our Great Aunt Pauline was from Vienna. He has always told me that German is not the harsh language people claim it to be. I am about to study German myself. I wish had done so years ago. I find myself rooting for German and hope that more people realize it is not the ugly language they have been led to believe it is.
I used to hate German, never thought I'd ever wanna speak it... then I found Faun, Wolfsheim, And One, and more via Pandora. That's when I realized how beautiful it _can_ sound, and I found myself wanting to learn it so that I could truly listen to all these magnificent songs I'd found. It's one thing to listen to it and be able to read the lyric translations, but it's another to actually listen along and understand. I'm not there yet, but I'm learning.
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.
I moved to Switzerland when I was 9 years old. I reside in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, but I learned to speak German by watching TV, and French at school. Although French is now my primary language, I have always found it easier and quicker to learn and speak German. I enjoy speaking German; it feels more intuitive for me, both in reading and speaking, compared to French. Despite being fluent in French now, I faced significant challenges in learning it as a child, especially with writing.
French are pretentious snobs and Germans are Nazis so you must chose between two of them. Of course, you can combine them and be a pretentious Nazi snob which would make you simply French.
I am swedish and have lived in Germany for 10 years in Germany, the german language is clear and distinct but not aggressive. Germans in american films are mostly portrayed as evil and dominant and screaming but are they so in reality, no. I speak the language myself it is rich beautiful. Go and see and listen yourself.
As a native English speaker, I have always loved the way the German language sounds when spoken and looks when written. It was the first language I became interested in learning and led to my fetish for linguistics, in that I was so fascinated with the similarities between both Deutsch and English and the origins of the words in older languages.
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.
Prejudice is defintely the biggest factor, if not the main one. Whenever I hear people imitate German to mock it, their go-to 100% of the time is imitating Hitler, exaggerating the harsh sounds as much as they can. If you've ever heard a conversation between native German speakers or watched any kind of German media, you quickly come to realize that the language can sound surprisingly smooth and "normal."
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.
I'm one of those people who love German! ❤️ Since I was young I grew up watching my favourite TV series on German TV channels back in Bulgaria and even though I didn't understand a word, I always got excited just listening to the language. Because no matter what they were talking about, Everything. They. Said. just sounded SO. DAMN. COOL!!!! 😍
I've tried to understand why others think it sounds aggressive but I really think it's just because they can't stop making the associations with history. And that's it.
I find that German sounds mega cool, classy and darn sexy all at the same time! 😍😍 Just hearing someone speak German makes my knees go weak...
5:52 As a Norwegian I think the coolest part about German is actually understanding a lot of words (even long ones) while having studied almost next to no German. For example: the word "unabhängigkeitserklärungen" is "uavhengighetserklæringer" in Norwegian (declarations of independence). I didn't understand "-unverträglichkeit" but the first part "nahrungsmittel-" is very close to "næringsmiddel".
I do find German to be aggressive in some contexts, but I look at it like a kind of chameleon language, if you use it aggressively it will indeed sound very aggressive, but if you use it normally, it can sound pleasant, welcoming and even intellectual.
For some reason one of the most emotional sentences to me is "es tut mir leid" which means "i am sorry" but in its word for word meaning would mean 'its hurting me" or "its makeing me feel hurt" which so perfectly describes the feeling while also completely missing the point of it. :D
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
I remember my dad initially was disgusted when I told him that I was learning German because he thought it was harsh. But then, when we both visited Germany together, he actually changed his mind and thought the local Germans spoke softly.
Please make a complete video showing more examples of beautiful german words with such specific and precise definitions. All three words were really interesting and enjoyable. It's absolutely fascinating to capture such detailed concepts or feelings through singular words!
My all-time favorite German word is "ausgezeichnet," (AUZ-geh-SEIK-nit), which means "excellent." The word sounds really aggressive when pronounced alone by a non-native speaker, but is actually pretty soft when pronounced by a native German speaker as they have less trouble pronouncing it because they're used to the -ch being pronounced as a "k" unlike English who is more used to the -ch pronounced as a s-ch sound.
Unfortunately your pronunciation of ausgezeichnet is wrong for most Germans. From my experiences, the "ch" grapheme ist only always pronounced as /k/ in the Frankish dialect, otherwise it would be /c/ (IPA connotation, /c/ is more or less between "tr" and "s" in English).
@@cuongpham6218 the ch in ausgezeichnet is pronounced not like an English k but by holding your mouth in the position it would have just as you are about to say an English k then breathing out. At least that's my take as a non-native speaker.
The German "ch" sound is pronounced like "j" in Spanish. Ausgezeichnet, would be spelled "ausgetzaijnet" in Spanish.
@@lalogreinernope, j in Castilian is pronounced as a strong H.
Totally wrong, to say "ich" you can broaden your tongue between slightly open teeth so air is partially blocked, for native English speaker starting with "itch" then not pressing the tongue forward but holding back a little and dropping the t will naturally spread tongue and widen lips to make a passable soft aspirated long ch.
You may not be hearing the native speaker accurately because that (AUZ-geh-SEIK-nit) is also not getting the Z right and changed the last vowel.
I used to work with a German boss and didn't think he sounded aggressive at all. We talked about it once and he put it completely down to prejudice: "don't speak it like Hitler and it's fine."
Well that's no fun, is it? 😅
One German teacher here was reported once to ask the students in her class to speak more like normal people less like Hitler😂
Another beautiful word is "Habseligkeiten", basically meaning all the stuff you own, but if you take the word apart you have "hab" - "have" and "selig" - which means happy/blissful. So "Habseligkeiten" are the treasured things that you own that make you happy.
I had to move about 9 months ago and had to give up 28 years of my prized tools and possessians. My habseiligkeiten stuff. It broke my heart.
I've listened to some people giving German such an elegant and soft intonations and pronounciations, that I KNOW there are pretty and even sexy ways to speak German.
However, this idea of piecing so many words into one, still eludes me.
I find it no different than speaking the words separate from eachother.
Housepet is still House Pet.
I grew up bilingual English/German in my family. When I speak German on the phone and there is an English person around I often get told that German can sound very different to how people are used to it - in a good way.
I am an Arab and to me German is the best sounding European language, It sounds strong and proud.
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It's Italian
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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.
I fucking hate it when my friends ask me to speak German and then make fun of the language (they don't make fun of me don't worry) no one would ever mock a language like how people mock German, even though it is one of the greatest languages in my opinion
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.
the sound of German depends on the region. In vienna it sounds completly different then in Berlin or Hamburg. In Zurich too. That's like English in Manchester or in Texas.
Imagine your wifi passwort is Rindfleischettecketierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz.
The Hackers: Nope
WTF 😳
😅😅🤣🤣 oder :"Eisenbahnverkehrshauptknotenpunkt."
Klingon anyone?
@@HandyMan657 😅 Qapla'
Etecketierung? Was that a deliberate attempt at squeezing as many mistakes into one word as possible? 😵💫
My mother is German and I grew up in a bilingual household. Whenever I hear my mom talking on the phone to relatives & friends in Germany, she sounds graceful, clear, and almost delicate. Not at all aggressive.
I know exactly what you mean^^
Much love to you and your mom!
Delicate! That's the word!
When shouting all languages seem aggressive. When spoken calmly German sounds like any other language.
IDK I think German sounds specially harsh when spoken aggressively but under a normal tone I don’t find it hostile
Main reason why I started learning it. It sounded so cool in Red Orchestra 2, and turned out to even be interesting
German can be incredibly precise in joining metaphorical ideas jotted into one word, such as mutterseelenallein (left alone with your mother's soul), mucksmäuschenstill (silent like a mouse without the slightest wee bit coming out of the mouth), auf Nimmerwiedersehen (for a nevereverseeingagain), hirnverbrannt (brainburnt) and dozens more.
The language of Beethoven and Mozart can never be ugly. Ich liebe Deutsch. And I'm learning it.
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.
I'm an Indonesian who learning German. It's a wonderful language. I'm surprised that some words in German sounds familiar in my Indonesian ears, such as "Tante" and "Hemd". Well, German had the same language family with Dutch, and Indonesian borrow several Dutch words, so it's make sense that it sounds similar.
BTW, is "Fern" also a German word? It means "distant", right?
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
Rammstein ( a German band ) is loved by many metalheads. Even though the lyrics are in German, it is the way the lead singer sings that gets the attention. For example, in the song Du Hast, the way he just sings Nein! and Du hast mich is just so amazing and captivating for the listeners.
Let's be real, it only sounds like that of you speak it like that. for example we can shout the words Hospital, Ambulance, Butterfly, etc... and it will sound agrresive. The same way we can calmly say the words Krankehaus, Krankewagen, Schmetterling, etc.
Growing up in Wisconsin, surrounded by and steeped in German culture and phrases, I've always loved the sound of German. I was lucky enough to spend a college semester in Munich, where I learned German on the streets. Music to my ears.
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
@@amiromorningstar2913thats only partly true. Munich is in that aspect not Bavaria. A big chunk of the munic population is "zugereist" (immigrated) from other parts of Germany.
@@augustiner3821 I don't believe in that. Why should an average german like me live there?
Wouldn't like to be around people that believe in mighty ghosts , that's cringe and crazy
@@amiromorningstar2913 sorry, don't get your point.
Fun fact: if you shout in any language it sounds aggressive 👍👍👍
Weird fact: even if you shout German aggressively, you still won't sound like Hitler.
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@reassuring to hear!
This video was stunning beautiful in all aspects and earned a sub. Thanks mate.
As an Asian, German sounds charismatic rather than angry, especially when used for orations
German is not Asian.
I'm french and I love how german sounds, obviously how it's delivered has a huge impact on its perception I think
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
@@dragonsarebutterflies3663 French are pretentious snobs and Germans are Nazis. When Hitler came to France they accepted him immediately.
ich liebe die deutsche Sprache und ihre Nutzung. Allein die Möglichkeiten sich damit lyrisch auszudrücken ist so wunderbar. Nicht umsosnt die Sprache der Dichter und Denker genannt.
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 :)
This cliché reminds me of the time when I heard my German mother say that the Japanese language sounded ugly. She said this as we were watching _Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence,_ a WWII movie set in a Japanese POW camp. Needless to say, this wasn't a movie where you heard Japanese people having a friendly chat with neighbors or colleagues or friends. I suspect many of the people who think German sounds ugly have likewise mostly heard the language in the context of WWII movies, and never heard Germans having normal conversations.
I am these days trying to learn German a long time after I learned it in high school. I love the way German words are pronounced and how new ones are coined. You may well say French is a beautiful language but not in a way German is. German is surely a beautiful language in the opposite way to French. German is one of the best languages in the world.
This is not true. German was once THE language of mathematics, philosophy, and literature.
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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@@davegibson79Ah yes, who doesn't know all the famous arabic three thinkers who contributed so much to the enlightenment like.....and..........
If you think German sounds harsh it's because your only experience of german is an american basically doing an impression of Hitler. Noone talks like that.
Who is Noone? Is he a new Führer?
@@marktwain5266 Ja. Schlachtenhausen bräut Bierkraut gerne. Aber. Muss es gestrammen sein mit Schniegenschnagen? Hodensack! Und hier noch ein Furz zum Abschied!
I'm a native English and Spanish speaker, and have to date learned three more languages - French, German and Russian - and of all the languages I have any competence in, German is my favorite. I think the German "inside voice," which is to say when a few people are conversing amongst themselves, is quite soothing, nuanced and yes beautiful.
i love Mar Twains essay! It's so on point! And made me dream about the view from the Castle top of Heidelberg onto the city at night in the fin de ciecle.
thanks for mentioning ;D
My favourite word is "Dingsbums" the Allrounder 😂
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'
Years ago I took a couple classes teaching classical singing, and we learned a number of art songs in German. They were lovely to sing
The internationally so called "Lied"!
Do gift yourself with the opportunity to hear some Lieder by Mozart, Schubert or Schumann to gain a true appreciation of the possibility of the German language to sound no less than heavenly. I suggest renditions by a Dutch soprano Elisabeth "Elly" Ameling, such as this one: ruclips.net/video/RsKpbd7Ks5Y/видео.html
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I am German and so I am well aware of many of those songs. I love Schuberts "Winterreise“ and of course the "Erlkönig“. Also there are a lot more classical German "Volkslieder“ like "Ännchen von Tharau“ or "Muß i denn zum Städtele ’naus" as you know. Unfortunately these songs are more cherished abroad than in my country Germany today! Especially in Japan and other Asian countries.
@@markschoning5581in my opinion "Ännchen von Tharau" is one of the most beautiful love songs ever.
Since I’ve learned german, it’s my favourite language. It’s very expensive and at the same time very funny language. You can express things in an art, like nowhere else.
Das video als deutscher zu gucken ist ein etwas komisches Gefühl 😂
Nur so neben bei bin ich dein Account seit 2 tagen am durchschauen du erzählst die Geschichten so gut das eine halbe stunde wie im flug vergeht gefällt mir echt super daumen hoch und abo ist auf jedenfall da
I did German for 8 years in school. It's not an ugly language. People are just still influenced by WW2 propaganda. If all German you hear is from an angry guy with a moustache, no wonder you think all of it sounds angry. Listen to Goethe's poems or something for once. Watch some Mozart's operas. IDK.
I just started learning German. My friends say that I'm crazy and should learn a beautiful and useful language instead, but I find German interesting. This video just made me more motivated to learn, thank you! I find he compound words really interesting. I recently learned birthday present is Geburgstagsgeschenk. They're really cool imo
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.
Maybe find a video of Vilsmaier's "Stalingrad" movie in the original German?
The greatest sound is a Bach cantata sung in the original language.
that sponsor transition was SMOOTH. well done
As an American person, I can say wholeheartedly that German is one of the most beautiful languages I have ever heard in my life. Something about the way words are pronounced and "barked out" is just stunning to me.
Hopefully one day I can learn German.
It is never to late.
Es ist nie zu spät.
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@@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
Linguist in training here (I only have one semester under my belt rn, but I saw an opportunity to nerd out and just couldn't resist), and so I'd like to give some feedback on the linguistics part of the video:
First off, the section about morphological anomalies, specifically the infinitely recursive nature of composition, is great. No notes.
Furthermore, you correctly described the phonological process by which vowel-initial words in German are often subconsciously preceded by a glottal stop (also known by the name hard attack) and I would list this among the factors contributing to the impression that German sounds harsh, so good job. :)
However, I think your section about guttorals doesn't tell the full story. Arabic for instance has a lot of velar and uvular sounds, but it doesn't get classified as aggressive-sounding to quite the same extent as German does, as far as I know at least.
To make a long rant as short as I humanly can, the criterium I think you should've mentioned instead is the voicedness (Stimmhaftigkeit) of consonants. I'll elaborate if anyone asks me to, but right now I want to focus on my point, which is that whether or not a consonant is voiced in a word has a significant bearing on how softly that word is typically perceived by most.
To exemplify: German has a phonological process which English lacks (just like hard attack), called final devoicing (Auslautverhärtung) which basically makes any word-final consonant devoiced, EVEN IF (and this is important), the orthography has it spelled with the voiced equivalent. For instance, the majority of native German speakers will, without thinking about it or paying attention to it, pronounce 'Staub' as 'Staup', but only if that [p] is at the end of the word. When it appears in the middle of the word, for instance as in 'staubig', suddenly the b remains a [b], but the new final "g" now gets devoiced and becomes [k] (edit: or it gets softened and becomes [ç], [staubich], as a word-final g so often does in German). Anyway, I hope this makes it clear what I mean.
So yeah, that would've been my version of this script: two phonological processes (hard attack and final devoicing), which make German sound just a little bit less soft than English.
And yes, this isn't the full story either, I'm sure there's phonological processes other than these two, but I'd say two is a decent number to get the idea across to an average audience of non-linguists without boring or overwhelming them with too many details.
Very good observations here.
Some very good observations were made here, but I do want to say that as a (non-native) Hebrew and Arabic speaker, I definitely have been told that both of these languages sound harsh and aggressive. I think the main thing driving this is definitely the cultural aspect. People's exposure to Arabic has been through not so great circumstances, and Hebrew is perceived by many to be a mix between German and Arabic (which it is not, but that doesn't stop people from thinking so). They do attribute Arabic's harshness to it guttural and pharyngeal sounds, but also to how they perceive speakers, much like with German and even Russian (being used so often for movie villains)
My favorite thing about German is that you can express so much with a lot of precision (at least that’s the impression I get as a non-speaker of German who knows a few words.) I’ve always thought it sounded passionate and maybe a little silly at times, but not ugly.
I am trying to learn German myself. I have found that it is a quite beautiful language in what limited knowledge I have gained thus far. I am a LONG way away from being fluent, but I have enjoyed learning.
I have always been fascinated by foreign languages as an English speaking American. I have a little knowledge of Spanish, having learned quite a bit during my formative years.
As a native English speaker, German doesn't sound harsh, it's just an American Hollywood stereotype. And as an African whose story has always been told by Western media, trust me when I tell you that there are many western rhetorics that have minimal truths
Just gonna say this. German doesn't sound aggressive at all. It sounds tender and lovely!
For me as a german the glottal stops have spoiled me many years ago. My brain needs a moment to realize that there are no "pauses" between words in other languages when I hear them.
Lol
I think the fewer presence of the small gaps between the letters build up the tension. To make the same amount of noise with the lung already run out of the air, we might use our muscle to squeeze the air. That might increase the tone under consecutive word play.
Bro I challenge anyone to say Tschüss in an angry way it's impossible
Tschüssi
Ja alles klar TSCHÜSS
Too easy!
There is a common way to say "Tschüss" that actually means "fck off, right now!"
I think another factor that shaped this sterotype about german being an angry language (even tho it's probably a very small percentage) are the Rammstein songs. They sing in german with very harsh voice and accents, the instrumental part is also brutal and so the lyrics meaning. They are presenting german in a way as stereotypical as possible. But in the end it's all about the well known dictator with a moustache 🤷♀️
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
I’m currently learning German, and it’s a very cool language in my opinion! You just earned a new subscriber!!
Wow! I love your videos and channel: Thank You🤗
I've never heard anybody non-english speaking nations that german sounds aggressive. Including from native speakers of soft sounding languages. It's only from the US, UK and maybe Australia and Canada aswell and there for some reason almost everybody thinks so. I've also noticed that anytime people from those countries, including academics, speak german, after having learned it they actually do speak it in a very aggressive way. Like they're doing a moustachman impression. Again people from other nations don't do that.
I suspect that comes from those nation's only major exposure to german is from such moustachman movies, and the general hyperfocus of that short period of history, so now they think that military drill seargant type of speaking is how people actually talk.
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
I find German fascinating and incredibly challenging to master. I studied it years ago and was defeated by der, die, das. That said, I think people haven’t listened to it enough from native speakers in real life. More like they are criticizing a bad caricature. German is mellifluous and beautiful to MY ear and German people are meticulous, quirky, live like clockwork yet incredibly fun and often unpredictable despite a kind of measured existence. At least the German people I have met. Really cool country, people, culture. Folks have it all wrong.
As someone who went to a German school, has been to Germany, has a couple of German friends and is currently studying for a teaching degree in German, I’ve come across many beautifully sounding German speakers, especially women (I’m into men just in case, so nothing to do with sexual attraction) and children. Sometimes German can sound very cute and soft…
I got a different impression
I think it sounds very formal and fancy, not aggressive
There’s a lot of long words in German and some speakers like to stretch the vowels
Quite a language to read lectures in I guess