The toilet buttons mean: Big one=complete flush with all the water in the tank. Small one: A third or so is flushed. That's for, when you just peed and didn't take a dump. To save water.
I'm German and in 40 years never heard that you should bring slippers to a party. That's weird! Most Germans that never spend time in the UK or the USA will speak a mix of BE and AE.
In northern Europe we mostly use ground water, thats why there is so much calcium in the water but it's always clean water without any bacteria and we can drink the water directly from the tap 🚰 Greetings from Denmark, like your chanel 😉
Tap water is never without bacteria. There are always a certain amount of bacteria present but in general the amounts are low and usually they’re harmless.
@@palantir135 Don't know where you live but my tap water is clean like most of the water in Denmark. One of my best friends works in a well drilling company so yes I know what I'm talking about Although traces of pesticides or E. Coli are found in the drinking water a few times a year, the Danish drinking water is generally of high quality and is considered healthy and clean and much cleaner than botteled water
@@Ikkeligeglad i think you don’t understand me. Bacteria are everywhere. It’s almost impossible to get tap water without any bacteria in it. The water you get out of the tap in Denmark contains bacteria. Certain species live in the water tubes. It’s still clean and safe to drink water because the amounts are very low and usually the types of bacteria are harmless (in low amounts). Ever heard of Legionella bacteria. They are almost always present in water. Because you use water daily and the water temperature is quite cold, they won’t multiply enough to be harmful. If you’ve been away for a week or more and the water in the tubes got the chance to warm up considerably (because it’s stays in the same tube), they will multiply to huge amounts. When you then take a shower without flushing the pipes (safely) you will breathe in these bacteria and there’s a chance you will get infected with legionaries disease. I am a learned laboratory technician specialized in microbiology by the way.
@@palantir135 No problems with legionella bacteria cause the temperature in the soil is around 8 degrees so you know that there is no problem and I get the water directly from the borehole,.The only thing between the borehole and my tap is oxygenation of the water
Yes. you can easily dsrink the tap water, The tap water ist strictly controlled, and the legal requirements for allowed pollutions and so on are even harder than that for bottled water you can purchase.
The "hardness" of water measures the mineral content (mostly from calcium and magnesium carbonates). In the North German flatlands you find in general rather "soft" water (less than 1.3 mmol/L of CaO or CaCO3), while in the more mountainous regions in the South the water is mostly rather "hard" - a big part of the Alps as well of the lower mountain regions consist of much limestone, chalk and gypsum. There are some exceptions to that rule - parts of the Black Forest for example have relatively "soft" water due to the geology of those mountains. Bottled water is by the way often "hard" mineral water, so more minerals make it even "healthier" (except if those are the false minerals...). Tap water in Germany is highly monitored and often even healthier than bottled and "branded" water you can buy in the shop.
8:56 The toilet hangs on the wall on 4 big beams of steel, it won't break or fal off. And the water is just as in northern part of Netherlands, indeed much minerals but also lots of calcium, and that makes the residu when you don't wipe it off immediately. But you can drink it from the tap and it is very healthy, no fluoride and chloride in it
The Europeans learn British English not because of its proximity, but because British English is the original form of the language. American English is simply a dialect.
I think the same. :) And I guess that in EU countries most of recent generations were learning English from this British institution known as British Counsil which is all around Europe and its about learning British English.
And about matresses - some people need hard matress and others need soft matress, or a matress of medium hardness, and the choice of matress depends on the person's health (for example to ease the pain from spine curvature) and on their weight (the more the weight of the person the more firm matress they need) - so thats why its IMO more practical to have 2 matresses even in double bed :)
0:25 remember the Dutch video you two reacted to where sheep maintain the dike/ That is Ijssel lake..formerly a saltwater inlet, now a freshwater lake, that is more then half used for Dutch as driningwater. Other water comes from aquafers in the ground, natural cisterns, thwere the water has lots of calcium, like the water dripping from cave ceilings.
Well, it's not that strict - I've NEVER had to bring house shoes with me when I'm visiting somewhere, just walking around the apartment in socks is enough! The downside to using ONE mattress is that one person's movement while sleeping is transferred to the entire mattress, which can disrupt their partner's sleep! This problem does not exist with two mattresses! Another advantage of using TWO mattresses is that everyone can choose the mattress that suits their personal sleeping habits - some like a soft mattress, others prefer a firmer one - so everyone can choose the most comfortable mattress for them! If you also have individually adjustable slatted frames under the mattress, THAT is of course ideal! It's the same with the duvet - if you have ONE duvet together, it can happen that the duvet is pulled away from one person or the other due to movements at night and something is constantly exposed! You get cold feet and you have to keep adjusting the duvet so that everything is properly covered! If everyone has their OWN duvet, it doesn't matter how much you roll around in bed, everyone will be snuggly covered! There are not only radiators, but - especially in more modern houses - underfloor heating! Water pipes are laid in serpentine lines on the floor in every room, through which the warm water that is used for heating flows! These pipes are laid in the raw floor of new buildings and later covered with screed, on which the floor covering (tiles or carpet) is finally laid! Another variant are electric heating coils; They are suitable, for example, if you want to easily switch to underfloor heating. Since the electrical cables are much flatter, there is no need to tear up the floor!
Just use to blankets, instead of one. To each his own blanket, and you sleep so well. Nobody that takes the blanket away in the middle of the night. ^^
Sure you can use AC to keep the house cool, but there is a reason, why the US is the biggest polluter in the world. We use the shutters (not blinds) on the outside of the windows to keep the heat in in cold winter times (and have some privacy, aditionally too), but they also work fine in the summer time to keep the sunlight and the heat outside. I always come home to a decent temperatured house in the summer without AC. But this only works, if the rest of the house, so walls and roofs, are insulated well, too. Energy is very expensive in Germany, compared to the US or Brazil, so AC is a luxury, not an everyday item.
7:15 Big button for poop and small button (less water) for pee. This is a law in Germany to save water. 9:25 In Germany we have the best tap watter to drink. Thatt's because opf the minerals. And because we want really good drinking water, we have to add a little bit for dishwashers and clean the shower a bit more. But I think that's the best way around. And the most countries in Europe do it (amost) like this. Puting chemicals in the water like the US to make it softer results in very bad drinking water. In the US you have to filter the water beforde you can drink it our you will drink a lot of chlorine and other stuff. 12:45 This type of window was invented in Germany and now used all around Europa and some other countries. The call the tilt "auf Kipp". And airing out the flat (Durchlüften) is a biiiig thing in Germany because we don't have AC. 16:30 We call it "Rolladen" (with two L). You can let them down as far as you want. If they are completely down, some light still comes through the gaps. But you can let them "down" even further and the gaps will close completly and it becomes completely dark, even on the brightest day. 17:47 Oh, you are not on the same continent as the US. North America and South America are two different continents. 18:15 We don't need AC that much. We have hot summer for only 1,5 - 2 months a year. For this it is to bad for the enviroment (consumes to much energy) and costs way to much. But the summers are getting hotter, so AC/mobile AC maybe will get bigger in the next years. And yes, this is for private homes. In hotels, supermarkets and a lot of public places there is AC.
One reason to have your own kitchen are se elektro appliances . Elektricity is expensive and the Stove and Fridge are the Biggest Power user in most homes . So to buy high quality Things save real money in the long run ...
I love these kind of windows - its bc I can open them a bit even in winter and not make the room too freezing but just a bit refreshed :) and its the same in hot weather, I can open it just a bit and not make the room tropical :) and yet clean the air a bit.
The hardness of water in Germany varies from region to region (depending on where the water comes from). In my case it comes from a dam, which means that I have very good water quality (drinking water quality). But if the water comes from the Ruhr area it is very calcareous water.
I grew up in a region with extremely soft water. Tasted great because it was ever so slightly carbonated fresh from the spring. But that's what also made it corrosive, and was damaging to all kinds of appliances. Washers and Dishwashers needed constand repairs, and coffee machines lasted maybe 3 years before they leaked. Today they actively harden the water there, by running it through marble gravel.
9:41 You can drink the tap water in every house or apartment in Germany, because there are VERY strict regulations on tap/drinking water quality. (You might want to stay away from public fountains/wells though, because their water keeps revolving and isn’t subjected to the drinking water quality regulations.)
In social housing in the Netherlands, the kitchen is always present. You have to provide the carpeting and wallpaper. We usually have a separate freezer and fridge or the two are combined in one device. We have the same types of toilets; standing or floating but the inside is different. In german ones, what you produce falls in the water below; you could get splashed. In dutch ones, what you produce falls onto a plateau above the water. Very handy because you can control for abnormalities in color or consistency and you can easily get a specimen of stool for your doctor if needed. When you flush, it all is transported into the sewer. We often have a central ventilation system but it’s not used for heating/cooling. Everything else is more or less the same as in Germany, Belgium etc.
A. kitchens often come with the apartments in Germany, especially in cheaper/smaller apartments. The fridge/freezer might be missing though. B. I think it is the same in Germany, at least with rented apartments. The flooring must be done and there has to be wallpaper/a decent wall. When you move out the walls have to be white, so moving out might mean that u also have to paint. Walls, floors etc. get checked for spots/dmg and need to get fixed C. Fridges usually have a freezer included. Smaller fridges have a freezer inside the fridge (so u have to open the fridge first to get to the freezer), bigger fridges have a freezer in a separate compartment, so direct access to the freezer- like in the video. More rural areas and businesses might also have big frezzer-boxes that are opened at the top. D. The toilet in the video is pretty modern. The poop doesn´t fall directly into the water but hits the tilted ceramic parts and slides into the water. Less exposure to the air means also less surface to produce smell. You usually do not get splashed. American-toilet-designs are similar, but there the poop falls directly into the water, and you might get splashed. So... American design: more splashing/less cleaning. German (?) design: less splashing/more cleaning. Usually u don´t need stool samples or check poop for abnormalities. When you do, that is still doable with other toilet-designs. Poop shelves might actually contaminate stool samples ?🤔
"Plateau" toilets in NL have become a vary rare sight in NL over the past few decades. They are mostly found in older homes that havn't been renovated in the past 25 years or so.
@@chipdale490 Germany the same… Mostly installation before the 1980s. Also "stand toilets" without the step are also a common sight on fittings before the 2000 or 2010s. Only annoy with this new style: If you've trouble with the flushing, the access to the flush tank is very restricted and if you're to remove it, you've to redo the tiling on-top. Don't make sense to me…
Regarding kitchen: I've never rented a flat without a kitchen. But it depends on area and customs. In the area of Stuttgart it is in parts normal not only to remove your kitchen and furnishing and repaint the whole thing - I learned that you even strip all wallpaper and flooring. With carped I can understand in parts, but only the Landlords and God knows what this nonsense is with the wallpaper and other flooring material…
I guess that in most parts of central Europe the AC (air conditioning) was not very popular till recent 2 decades. And IMO it was becouse of such factors : - first is, that we dont have as many hot days as in USA and usualy long, snowy winters, - second is, that most houses around me are old, brick houses or stone houses, so its cooler in hot weather there than in modern houses (build in American style and with modern synthetic materials I guess). Until recent years we could survive during hot weather without AC becouse brick house is cooler and the old houses have like 40 - 50 cm walls like in my house. And we got thick courtains. So until recent years (maybe 15 years) we were ok without AC becouse when there was 30 - 32 C outside the coolest of our rooms got 20 - 21 C :) And the green foliage around gives a lot shade. I can feel the difference now, when I dont have as much trees and bushes around my windows as I got years ago. This was realy nice to feel the difference between walking around the city in hot days of summer and returning home to lots of trees and bushes shadowing my windows :) It was like 30-32 outside and 20-21 inside, but without as many trees as I got in my garden around now its like 30-32 outside and 23 - 24 C inside in the coolest north-western room. In other rooms its realy hard to stay during summer bc there can be 26-27 C on hot days there. So now I need AC :) - third is that until recent times the AC machines were simply too expencive. And IMO the 4th thing is I guess that in some of the old houses (mine is 120 years old) the instalment of such a machine was not possible due to the kind of cunstruction of such house.
I think that the thing with wearing slippers even by our guests comes from times of our grandmas :) when we did not have such effective solutions for cleaning and our grandmas got huge amount of work with cleaning floors for holidays :) Before vacuum cleaners (I guess in Poland these were popular only in the 60 - 70s) the only way to clean a carpet was to bring it outside to shake it (beat it). And a carpet for big room is heavy (or was heavy before modern synthetic textiles). And sometimes you need to move a piece of furniture to take the carpet from it. And in an old house the floor is usualy made of wood so it can be hard to clean it well without destroy it by some chemicals. The same custom is here in Poland - we often have slippers for guests or they bring their own slippers to show respect for the work of women who cleaned the floor before they arrived :) But now a days its realy not a problem to clean well a room with vacuum cleaners, synthetic carpets and synthetic floors (I still have wood floor thats why I can not use strong chemical solutions on it) so this custom is actualy oldfashioned IMO :) All this thing with slippers IMO become used in poor families who did not have money to hire a servant. In rich families as mother or grandmother was not the one to be expected to housecleaning IMO we can expected that they were used to wear shoes in house. :)
Water quality depends on the source. In north germany we pump water from wells some kilometers deep that has trickled and been filtered naturally through layers and layers of sand. Obviously you cant do that in locations where clay layers block that trickle down. In the south its water from mountain springs. Both are very good quality. In areas where neither is available they sometimes have to use surface water from rivers which will be chlorized to be safe. Dependending on the source, the water contains very different amounts of calcium oxide, making it more or less hard. That varies greatly by location in germany. It used to be only a few days with unbearable heat in german high summer, but the climate is changing. Public transport, hospitals and most modern shops are beeing upgraded with aircon for new-builds. Modern housing is being build with heating that uses heat pumps and floor heating, which also supports some moderate cooling in summer. Of course in southern europe, they have much hotter summers and aircon is much more common.
5:34 German tap water is AFAIK usually really hard in cities and urban areas - and incredibly soft in extremely rural areas, close to rain water. The reason is probably that the rural tap water comes almost always from small wells close to the surface and has a rainwater quality to it, whereas the necessarily bigger volume wells for urban areas are usually deeper, vastly bigger - and often below chalk sediment.
I m used to do it in Poland too - to open all windows at once to air out all of the flat. Its good thing in early spring or early autumn, esp with full house cleaning. I like to do it when there is good warm weather (in March or April or September) but not very hot and not freezing. :) And of course I dont do it in windy day :)
the most irritating thing with "hard water" for me is this need to clean coffee mashines sometimes from the residue of calcium - apparently we have water with lots of calcium. we clean it not with some speciphic chemicals though becouse these are labeled on their labels as very toxic, so we clean it with vinegar. vinegal cleans calcium residue very well. :)
Hello my Dears - in Germany there is something called "shock ventilation" - which means that in the morning when it is a little cooler outside, you open all the windows completely to let the house air out. After 10-20 minutes, the air in the rooms is clear again and more receptive to the heat from the radiators. In between, we use the tilt function of the windows to create a cycle. We have few air conditioners here; our type of ventilation and our climate are perfectly sufficient (normally) to make it comfortable. In fact, our water in Germany is almost always hard because it mostly comes from springs in the mountains or from groundwater. It is filtered and examined several times in waterworks (water is the most frequently checked "foodstuff" in our country - that's why we can drink our water straight from the tap. More and more water, e.g. rainwater, is being stored in cisterns and large (sometimes underground) barrels to be used in the garden or similar (recently also for flushing toilets), so that precious drinking water is not used for this. One more word about the shower cubicles: if "normal" glass is used for this, it is clear that the panes will easily get a layer of limescale. Either you have the better "panes with LOTUS effect" installed immediately or you use a spray that makes the glass walls "water-repellent". It is sprayed on, left to dry and then polished, after which it has this lotus effect. Positive - you don't have to do any more work because the water drops just roll off. The additional heating element on the wall of the bathrooms is a small luxury - indeed - but most of the newer bathrooms have underfloor heating and an additional line to the separate "towel warmer" is no big deal and is connected in an incidental manner. The newer bathrooms also have these modern "rain shower heads" installed on the ceiling in the showers plus massage jets on the walls; the showers have become larger and are at ground level (barrier-free) and in many places "bidets" are also installed next to the regular toilets.
We learn british english in Germany because it's the original english language, the others are just cheap rip offs. ;) And british english has his roots in the germanic language.
@@yves2932 Pal, we've learned british english in school way before there was such a thing as a "EU". ;) It just makes more sense learning direct from the source, IMHO. And I highly doubt it would make a big difference if we've learned "american english", we would still be able to talk to the brits. 🙃
I think it's not a US vs. UK English - UK (with its Dependencies Gibraltar, Channel Islands, Military Bases on Cyprus) and Irland are simply geographical nearer than the USA or Canada. Also we've with Malta and Zyprus two additional former UK-Colonies as member states, which speaks mostly English. On top before the Brits made their economical harakiri move, it would be a no-brainer to jump over the Pont - so more if the only target was to visit a English speaking nation. You jump on a plane in Bucharest and approx. 4 h later you could look up Nelson's Column on Trafalgar Square… To do the same with New York you would need 10 to 12 h - and in worst case you will have to apply for a visa in advance. Have fun with that…
@@toraxmalu Maybe it was just easier to do a year in UK. I understand our english teachers had to do a year in an english speaking country in their studies.
@@toraxmalu Based on my own experiences, I would say that there are a total of 3 main reasons for the (predominantly) British English in German schools: 1. It is the country from which the language comes, that is an important point. 2. Geographical (and cultural) proximity. 3. Cooperation between the countries, which was supported by the state, for example through language studies by prospective teachers in Germany. Even when I was at school, I could see a change in the higher classes and schools, where people were increasingly using “American English” or “business English”. My teachers back then had all spent some time in England, but today it will certainly vary more. But I still think Oxford English is a good starting point. ;)
I think that doorhandles are more practical than doorknobs. Its becouse when you bear smt heavy or hot in your hands (like big hot pot, or a stack of books or water bucket) you can use your elbows or wrists to open the door which is impossible in the case of doorknobs :D
I'm a sixty year old german, and I never heard of or experienced that Slippers-at-Party thing. May be a regional thing in Northern-Austria (or Bavaria, as some may call it). The hardness of water depends on the regional water source. Where I live, it's actually quite soft. Tap water is almost always drinking water, even the toilet water is. Tap actually is one of the most highly regulated food items in Germany. Maybe in the outdoors, you will find a tap that's not drinking water, but those will be especially marked.
In the northern half of Europe the number of really very hot days where you need airco is too small to afford airco for. In the southern half of Europe you see airco a bit more but ... they also have 'siesta' or 'controra' to manage the hottest hours of the day😆
The two buttons are basically to save water. The bigger button is a total flush of the water reservoir for the big business. The tinier button is for the little business, which does not need the entire water reservoir to be emptied. Also... tap water is perfectly safe to drink. It's highly regulated.
In Germany you do not need air condition because the temperatures are not like in Brazil. Usually, Summers are warm but not really hot for more than a few weeks, Winters can be very cold. From about Oktober to May, you need heating, sometimes longer. Only July and August usually are quite warm, but not often more than 30°C. German houses are built quite solid and you can keep the temperature low by opening the windows by night, when it is cool outside, and close it in daytime, when it is hot outside. I also have got a fan, but I needed it only for about 4 days this year.
Since the hardness of the water depends on the type of rock in the soil, there are differences in water hardness in Germany. For example, when rainwater seeps into the soil, different amounts of minerals dissolve in the water depending on the type of rock, which influence the water hardness. Since the soil and types of rock in Germany are not the same everywhere, there are naturally sometimes large differences in water hardness.
There is a good reason why there are no kitchens in new apartments. Very few Germans want to prepare their food in a kitchen where they don't know what has happened in it before. Tap water is the most strictly monitored food in Germany. You can drink it anytime and anywhere without worrying. The hardness of the water can vary from region to region, depending on which source the water is taken from. Sleeping is really one of the things I love about Germany. No matter how restless your partner sleeps, it's just her mattress that moves and she doesn't keep stealing my duvet because she has her own. I find American beds terrible. A continuous mattress. When your partner turns over, you jump up and down on your side. And then the continuous duvet is gone because your partner has curled up in it. Terrible. This type of window is not a new invention. I learned to be a carpenter as a young man and we built windows like this in the 70s. The mechanism was a little different and the windows were made of wood and not plastic like today. But the option to open the window fully or just tilt it already existed back then.
In Poland I think its generaly safe to drink tap water. I dont recomend to do it day by day but its safe to do it when you for example forget to do shopping and dont have other drinks, like tea and coffee or juice in house. You dont get sick with drinking it sometimes :) But I realy prefer to boil tap water before I drink it :)
Every region in Europe have different type of water.For example in Cracow we have rich in minerals tap water,higly recomendance to drink.This German flat is very basic European standard.
1:47 Actually, iirc from my high school days, the German preference for British English is due to the more „classic“ / stricter rules of British English, and the predominance of the English as defined by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge - who are the leading academic institutions with regard to languages not only in the United Kingdom, but probably even worldwide.
The language thing... I think, the main reason why English is one if the most popular second language in Europe is, that it is relativly easy to learn for most Europeans and - at least after WW2, there was a massive influence from the USA, economical as well as cultural. As a German kid, I first came in contact with the English language as lyrics of British and American music. For the same reason, the preferred second language for many Germans in the eastern part was Russian. To communicate with people, who dont share your mother tongue, basically any language will do. I remember a little business meeting many years ago (no translator available) where a German, a Britain and a French discovered, that the only language they all knew was Latin. That was a funny meeting! 😂
It is 'lingua franca" now - the world's business language. So it is always taught as first foreign language at school, with a few exceptions. When I went to school in the 1980s, there were only a few schools starting on French, or if you lived in Eastern Germany (the GDR), it was Russian. Those were often put as a second or optional third one into the curriculum. (I took Latin, my sister French, which I learned too, when going on a familiy holiday later.) Every international project I work on, is in English now. British English was just established as the standard through time because of proximity, getting teachers over and the ability to travel there by yourself and try out what you learned. But that might change now with new opportunities to learn and use the language, i.e. Internet.
Minerals are what make waters taste but some are very high in nitrates and kind of salty, some salt is needed not good to drink salt free water it´s actually dangerous.
Drinking water safety - The most important thing Drinking water safety definition: Measures and processes to ensure the quality of drinking water for human consumption. Measures to improve drinking water safety: Use of filtration, disinfection and quality testing to purify water. Importance of drinking water safety: Avoidance of health risks such as diarrheal diseases and serious infectious diseases. Water treatment techniques: Filtration, disinfection (chlorination, UV treatment), reverse osmosis. Groundwater protection measures: Avoidance of harmful chemicals, promotion of sustainable practices, adequate drainage systems. Effects of pollutants in water: Health problems such as cancer, neurological and reproductive disorders caused by heavy metals and toxins. We take this very seriously in Germany. That's why you can drink water straight from the tap.
we learn english at school and it is british english. we can't choose. my teacher was even pissed when I used an american accent, because I was grown up with a lot of us military in my neighourhood ps: about the windows, you have to be carefull with pets if the window is tilted, because it happens that cats will try to use it as an escape, got stuck and sadly die
Yeah multiple languages are normal, I personally also speak three languages, German of course, english and Russian because of my fathers family side. But now I am even better at russian than my Russian father himself. A few things are different in my apartment, like the toilet, which is not installed on the wall but on the ground like for most other, but everything else fits in with my apartment. Every apartment is different but you definitely share some things. Yes, you can drink tap water everywhere in Germany, In fact, it is often of better quality than water in the store. This also applies to every EU country, it's drinkable. The body also needs the minerals in the water, otherwise it would be distilled water and not drinkable. These tilt windows are also good because no one can break in if you leave the house like this. So you can always ventilate your apartment. It is very practical in many ways. Yes, in many things Brazil is similar to Europe. When it comes to the economy, it's about the politicians who have to set rules and order. Many South American politician have messed this up. The rules, order and culture is something that makes countries how they are. Your culture is not the bad guy in your situation.
You can Brake in very easy in with the Windows part open (auf kipp),and yes i did it a few times because i forget much,like my key in the house and then i closed the door 😅
The hard water Here IS explained because more Minerals in IT Like calcium and magnesium. The water IS Tap water and drinkable. ITS better than botteled water.
She forgot about the shower heads. If I remember correctly shower heads in America are non removeable while in Germany you can Take the shower heads off to get the water where it is needed 😂
A. Brazil isn´t a third world country ;) B. European countries are very different from each other. In Germany it can get hot, up to around 35° Celsius during summer. But most of the year the temperature is way lower. The houses usually have solid brick walls and good isolation, so it would take some time for room to heat up. Usually it is enough to put something in front of the window to reflect the sunlight and use a ventilator. Air conditioning is only used in some shops etc. and ofc in the cars, not at home. It is considered a waste of energy and also unhealthy (sudden switch of temperatures and spread of bacteria etc.) C. I am German and I have never heard of a party where guests have to bring their house shoes, usually socks are fine. D. People in Germany often move around and rent apartments. A kitchen is pretty expensive, so people who invested thousands of Euros/dollars into it might want to take it with them. Often the kitchens are sold with the apartments/come with the rented apartment though. Apartments without a kitchen are usually those in newly build or renovated houses. E. The outside blinds can mostly be found in rural areas with smaller houses. Apartments in bigger houses in cities do not have the blinds outside, but inside. Kinda makes sense, since the windows there do not need as much protection since they are less exposed to the elements
then you haven't educated your cats, in the first couple of tries by my young cats - i was around every time the window was tilted and narrowed the crack as they tried to fit their heads inbetween. Cats can fit through everwhere their head can fit first, if you 'show' them it is dangerous to peak in this crack they will not try again, even left alone. Now i left the house for hours of work with tilted balcony-door without fearing. Of course you shouldn't make it easy for them to climb from above into the widest part, like from a cat-tree, shelf and similar.
@@Blazeor2 I’m not talking about *my* cats. I’m talking about cats in general that are noisy and may want to get into the house. Or in someone else’s house.
Your houses can be more similar to European than to USA houses maybe becouse south America is more like connected to continental Europe (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany), while north America is more connected to UK and Ireland. I mean in their styles, inventions and architecture.
German windows are freaking expensive! Well, they last forever, if taken care of. A tilted window can kill your cat. The cat tries to jump out trough the slit, doesn't manage it and then strangulates herself in the slit. That's why there are inventions to prevent that.
I think ist´s not a thing between 3erd and 1rst World. It´s only a differende about Cultures. Yes , you can drink all Tap Water in Germany. And How hard a Wate is, different from Region to Region.
The hard Water isn´t in all Germany, whre i Live we got no add in the Dish Washer at all. Just the Soap-Tab-Thing. That while having absolute drinkable Tabwater. I´ll dink it all my Life.
Every immigrant kid speak their mother tongue, German and English. Every German speaks German and English. Well, about 65% are fluent in English, which makes about 56 million people.
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She doesn't seem to know much German. I wonder how long she has been living here? Personally I can't imagine moving to another country without learning at least some basics of the language.
@@GrouchoEngels - I've been living in Germany since 1996. Never came across a flat which was up for rent and hadn't at least a kitchen and a bathroom already in place so far.
@@duketgg I'm a German landlord since 50 years. I let more than 20 flats/apartments and houses. *NONE* of them comes with a furnished kitchen. Same applies to my colleague landlords.
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The drinking water in my German city is of higher quality than the water you can buy in the supermarket.
yea - but the tap water is really hard in some regions with a lot of minerals. Mostly if it is ground water…
The toilet buttons mean: Big one=complete flush with all the water in the tank. Small one: A third or so is flushed. That's for, when you just peed and didn't take a dump. To save water.
Yes, common in northern Europe for decades now.
Its literally for number one and number two.
At least we don't use three seashells …
I'm German and in 40 years never heard that you should bring slippers to a party. That's weird!
Most Germans that never spend time in the UK or the USA will speak a mix of BE and AE.
machen wir andauernd. ein beutel geschenk, ein beutel schuhe
In northern Europe we mostly use ground water, thats why there is so much calcium in the water but it's always clean water without any bacteria and we can drink the water directly from the tap 🚰
Greetings from Denmark, like your chanel 😉
Tap water is never without bacteria. There are always a certain amount of bacteria present but in general the amounts are low and usually they’re harmless.
@@palantir135 Don't know where you live but my tap water is clean like most of the water in Denmark.
One of my best friends works in a well drilling company so yes I know what I'm talking about
Although traces of pesticides or E. Coli are found in the drinking water a few times a year, the Danish drinking water is generally of high quality and is considered healthy and clean and much cleaner than botteled water
@@Ikkeligeglad i think you don’t understand me. Bacteria are everywhere. It’s almost impossible to get tap water without any bacteria in it.
The water you get out of the tap in Denmark contains bacteria. Certain species live in the water tubes. It’s still clean and safe to drink water because the amounts are very low and usually the types of bacteria are harmless (in low amounts).
Ever heard of Legionella bacteria. They are almost always present in water. Because you use water daily and the water temperature is quite cold, they won’t multiply enough to be harmful. If you’ve been away for a week or more and the water in the tubes got the chance to warm up considerably (because it’s stays in the same tube), they will multiply to huge amounts. When you then take a shower without flushing the pipes (safely) you will breathe in these bacteria and there’s a chance you will get infected with legionaries disease.
I am a learned laboratory technician specialized in microbiology by the way.
@@palantir135 No problems with legionella bacteria cause the temperature in the soil is around 8 degrees so you know that there is no problem and I get the water directly from the borehole,.The only thing between the borehole and my tap is oxygenation of the water
@@Ikkeligeglad and how do you get warm water out of the tap? Boiler or something is often the cause.
Yes. you can easily dsrink the tap water, The tap water ist strictly controlled, and the legal requirements for allowed pollutions and so on are even harder than that for bottled water you can purchase.
The "hardness" of water measures the mineral content (mostly from calcium and magnesium carbonates). In the North German flatlands you find in general rather "soft" water (less than 1.3 mmol/L of CaO or CaCO3), while in the more mountainous regions in the South the water is mostly rather "hard" - a big part of the Alps as well of the lower mountain regions consist of much limestone, chalk and gypsum. There are some exceptions to that rule - parts of the Black Forest for example have relatively "soft" water due to the geology of those mountains. Bottled water is by the way often "hard" mineral water, so more minerals make it even "healthier" (except if those are the false minerals...). Tap water in Germany is highly monitored and often even healthier than bottled and "branded" water you can buy in the shop.
8:56 The toilet hangs on the wall on 4 big beams of steel, it won't break or fal off. And the water is just as in northern part of Netherlands, indeed much minerals but also lots of calcium, and that makes the residu when you don't wipe it off immediately. But you can drink it from the tap and it is very healthy, no fluoride and chloride in it
Typically the floating toilet in Europe should withstand a load (!) of 400 kg so no worries.
The Europeans learn British English not because of its proximity, but because British English is the original form of the language.
American English is simply a dialect.
I think the same. :) And I guess that in EU countries most of recent generations were learning English from this British institution known as British Counsil which is all around Europe and its about learning British English.
And about matresses - some people need hard matress and others need soft matress, or a matress of medium hardness, and the choice of matress depends on the person's health (for example to ease the pain from spine curvature) and on their weight (the more the weight of the person the more firm matress they need) - so thats why its IMO more practical to have 2 matresses even in double bed :)
Regarding temperatures. Germany is as far away from the equator as Patagonia… soooo… I guess you get the general idea with our temperatures.
0:25 remember the Dutch video you two reacted to where sheep maintain the dike/ That is Ijssel lake..formerly a saltwater inlet, now a freshwater lake, that is more then half used for Dutch as driningwater. Other water comes from aquafers in the ground, natural cisterns, thwere the water has lots of calcium, like the water dripping from cave ceilings.
Well, it's not that strict - I've NEVER had to bring house shoes with me when I'm visiting somewhere, just walking around the apartment in socks is enough!
The downside to using ONE mattress is that one person's movement while sleeping is transferred to the entire mattress, which can disrupt their partner's sleep! This problem does not exist with two mattresses! Another advantage of using TWO mattresses is that everyone can choose the mattress that suits their personal sleeping habits - some like a soft mattress, others prefer a firmer one - so everyone can choose the most comfortable mattress for them! If you also have individually adjustable slatted frames under the mattress, THAT is of course ideal! It's the same with the duvet - if you have ONE duvet together, it can happen that the duvet is pulled away from one person or the other due to movements at night and something is constantly exposed! You get cold feet and you have to keep adjusting the duvet so that everything is properly covered! If everyone has their OWN duvet, it doesn't matter how much you roll around in bed, everyone will be snuggly covered!
There are not only radiators, but - especially in more modern houses - underfloor heating! Water pipes are laid in serpentine lines on the floor in every room, through which the warm water that is used for heating flows! These pipes are laid in the raw floor of new buildings and later covered with screed, on which the floor covering (tiles or carpet) is finally laid! Another variant are electric heating coils; They are suitable, for example, if you want to easily switch to underfloor heating. Since the electrical cables are much flatter, there is no need to tear up the floor!
Air out the house is called "lüften".
And the idea is that the thick stone walls hold the temperature. Quickly replacing the air doesnt impact that much.
Just use to blankets, instead of one.
To each his own blanket, and you sleep so well.
Nobody that takes the blanket away in the middle of the night. ^^
Sure you can use AC to keep the house cool, but there is a reason, why the US is the biggest polluter in the world. We use the shutters (not blinds) on the outside of the windows to keep the heat in in cold winter times (and have some privacy, aditionally too), but they also work fine in the summer time to keep the sunlight and the heat outside. I always come home to a decent temperatured house in the summer without AC. But this only works, if the rest of the house, so walls and roofs, are insulated well, too. Energy is very expensive in Germany, compared to the US or Brazil, so AC is a luxury, not an everyday item.
7:15 Big button for poop and small button (less water) for pee. This is a law in Germany to save water.
9:25 In Germany we have the best tap watter to drink. Thatt's because opf the minerals. And because we want really good drinking water, we have to add a little bit for dishwashers and clean the shower a bit more. But I think that's the best way around. And the most countries in Europe do it (amost) like this.
Puting chemicals in the water like the US to make it softer results in very bad drinking water. In the US you have to filter the water beforde you can drink it our you will drink a lot of chlorine and other stuff.
12:45 This type of window was invented in Germany and now used all around Europa and some other countries. The call the tilt "auf Kipp". And airing out the flat (Durchlüften) is a biiiig thing in Germany because we don't have AC.
16:30 We call it "Rolladen" (with two L). You can let them down as far as you want. If they are completely down, some light still comes through the gaps. But you can let them "down" even further and the gaps will close completly and it becomes completely dark, even on the brightest day.
17:47 Oh, you are not on the same continent as the US. North America and South America are two different continents.
18:15 We don't need AC that much. We have hot summer for only 1,5 - 2 months a year. For this it is to bad for the enviroment (consumes to much energy) and costs way to much.
But the summers are getting hotter, so AC/mobile AC maybe will get bigger in the next years. And yes, this is for private homes.
In hotels, supermarkets and a lot of public places there is AC.
One reason to have your own kitchen are se elektro appliances . Elektricity is expensive and the Stove and Fridge are the Biggest Power user in most homes . So to buy high quality Things save real money in the long run ...
I love these kind of windows - its bc I can open them a bit even in winter and not make the room too freezing but just a bit refreshed :) and its the same in hot weather, I can open it just a bit and not make the room tropical :) and yet clean the air a bit.
The hardness of water in Germany varies from region to region (depending on where the water comes from). In my case it comes from a dam, which means that I have very good water quality (drinking water quality). But if the water comes from the Ruhr area it is very calcareous water.
I grew up in a region with extremely soft water. Tasted great because it was ever so slightly carbonated fresh from the spring. But that's what also made it corrosive, and was damaging to all kinds of appliances. Washers and Dishwashers needed constand repairs, and coffee machines lasted maybe 3 years before they leaked. Today they actively harden the water there, by running it through marble gravel.
9:41 You can drink the tap water in every house or apartment in Germany, because there are VERY strict regulations on tap/drinking water quality. (You might want to stay away from public fountains/wells though, because their water keeps revolving and isn’t subjected to the drinking water quality regulations.)
In social housing in the Netherlands, the kitchen is always present.
You have to provide the carpeting and wallpaper.
We usually have a separate freezer and fridge or the two are combined in one device.
We have the same types of toilets; standing or floating but the inside is different. In german ones, what you produce falls in the water below; you could get splashed. In dutch ones, what you produce falls onto a plateau above the water. Very handy because you can control for abnormalities in color or consistency and you can easily get a specimen of stool for your doctor if needed. When you flush, it all is transported into the sewer.
We often have a central ventilation system but it’s not used for heating/cooling.
Everything else is more or less the same as in Germany, Belgium etc.
A. kitchens often come with the apartments in Germany, especially in cheaper/smaller apartments. The fridge/freezer might be missing though.
B. I think it is the same in Germany, at least with rented apartments. The flooring must be done and there has to be wallpaper/a decent wall. When you move out the walls have to be white, so moving out might mean that u also have to paint. Walls, floors etc. get checked for spots/dmg and need to get fixed
C. Fridges usually have a freezer included. Smaller fridges have a freezer inside the fridge (so u have to open the fridge first to get to the freezer), bigger fridges have a freezer in a separate compartment, so direct access to the freezer- like in the video. More rural areas and businesses might also have big frezzer-boxes that are opened at the top.
D. The toilet in the video is pretty modern. The poop doesn´t fall directly into the water but hits the tilted ceramic parts and slides into the water. Less exposure to the air means also less surface to produce smell. You usually do not get splashed. American-toilet-designs are similar, but there the poop falls directly into the water, and you might get splashed. So...
American design: more splashing/less cleaning.
German (?) design: less splashing/more cleaning.
Usually u don´t need stool samples or check poop for abnormalities. When you do, that is still doable with other toilet-designs. Poop shelves might actually contaminate stool samples ?🤔
"Plateau" toilets in NL have become a vary rare sight in NL over the past few decades. They are mostly found in older homes that havn't been renovated in the past 25 years or so.
@@chipdale490 really? Do you have proof?
@@chipdale490 Germany the same… Mostly installation before the 1980s. Also "stand toilets" without the step are also a common sight on fittings before the 2000 or 2010s. Only annoy with this new style: If you've trouble with the flushing, the access to the flush tank is very restricted and if you're to remove it, you've to redo the tiling on-top. Don't make sense to me…
Regarding kitchen: I've never rented a flat without a kitchen. But it depends on area and customs. In the area of Stuttgart it is in parts normal not only to remove your kitchen and furnishing and repaint the whole thing - I learned that you even strip all wallpaper and flooring. With carped I can understand in parts, but only the Landlords and God knows what this nonsense is with the wallpaper and other flooring material…
You can have fridges with bigger freezer compartments. Some people also have a freezer only appliance in their basement.
I guess that in most parts of central Europe the AC (air conditioning) was not very popular till recent 2 decades. And IMO it was becouse of such factors :
- first is, that we dont have as many hot days as in USA and usualy long, snowy winters,
- second is, that most houses around me are old, brick houses or stone houses, so its cooler in hot weather there than in modern houses (build in American style and with modern synthetic materials I guess). Until recent years we could survive during hot weather without AC becouse brick house is cooler and the old houses have like 40 - 50 cm walls like in my house. And we got thick courtains. So until recent years (maybe 15 years) we were ok without AC becouse when there was 30 - 32 C outside the coolest of our rooms got 20 - 21 C :) And the green foliage around gives a lot shade. I can feel the difference now, when I dont have as much trees and bushes around my windows as I got years ago. This was realy nice to feel the difference between walking around the city in hot days of summer and returning home to lots of trees and bushes shadowing my windows :) It was like 30-32 outside and 20-21 inside, but without as many trees as I got in my garden around now its like 30-32 outside and 23 - 24 C inside in the coolest north-western room. In other rooms its realy hard to stay during summer bc there can be 26-27 C on hot days there. So now I need AC :)
- third is that until recent times the AC machines were simply too expencive.
And IMO the 4th thing is I guess that in some of the old houses (mine is 120 years old) the instalment of such a machine was not possible due to the kind of cunstruction of such house.
I think that the thing with wearing slippers even by our guests comes from times of our grandmas :) when we did not have such effective solutions for cleaning and our grandmas got huge amount of work with cleaning floors for holidays :) Before vacuum cleaners (I guess in Poland these were popular only in the 60 - 70s) the only way to clean a carpet was to bring it outside to shake it (beat it). And a carpet for big room is heavy (or was heavy before modern synthetic textiles). And sometimes you need to move a piece of furniture to take the carpet from it. And in an old house the floor is usualy made of wood so it can be hard to clean it well without destroy it by some chemicals. The same custom is here in Poland - we often have slippers for guests or they bring their own slippers to show respect for the work of women who cleaned the floor before they arrived :) But now a days its realy not a problem to clean well a room with vacuum cleaners, synthetic carpets and synthetic floors (I still have wood floor thats why I can not use strong chemical solutions on it) so this custom is actualy oldfashioned IMO :) All this thing with slippers IMO become used in poor families who did not have money to hire a servant. In rich families as mother or grandmother was not the one to be expected to housecleaning IMO we can expected that they were used to wear shoes in house. :)
Water quality depends on the source. In north germany we pump water from wells some kilometers deep that has trickled and been filtered naturally through layers and layers of sand. Obviously you cant do that in locations where clay layers block that trickle down. In the south its water from mountain springs. Both are very good quality. In areas where neither is available they sometimes have to use surface water from rivers which will be chlorized to be safe.
Dependending on the source, the water contains very different amounts of calcium oxide, making it more or less hard. That varies greatly by location in germany.
It used to be only a few days with unbearable heat in german high summer, but the climate is changing. Public transport, hospitals and most modern shops are beeing upgraded with aircon for new-builds. Modern housing is being build with heating that uses heat pumps and floor heating, which also supports some moderate cooling in summer. Of course in southern europe, they have much hotter summers and aircon is much more common.
5:34 German tap water is AFAIK usually really hard in cities and urban areas - and incredibly soft in extremely rural areas, close to rain water. The reason is probably that the rural tap water comes almost always from small wells close to the surface and has a rainwater quality to it, whereas the necessarily bigger volume wells for urban areas are usually deeper, vastly bigger - and often below chalk sediment.
I m used to do it in Poland too - to open all windows at once to air out all of the flat. Its good thing in early spring or early autumn, esp with full house cleaning. I like to do it when there is good warm weather (in March or April or September) but not very hot and not freezing. :) And of course I dont do it in windy day :)
the most irritating thing with "hard water" for me is this need to clean coffee mashines sometimes from the residue of calcium - apparently we have water with lots of calcium. we clean it not with some speciphic chemicals though becouse these are labeled on their labels as very toxic, so we clean it with vinegar. vinegal cleans calcium residue very well. :)
This opening of the Window is called "auf kipp".
And the full opening for a short time is called "Stoßlüften". (push-air-through)
Hello my Dears - in Germany there is something called "shock ventilation" - which means that in the morning when it is a little cooler outside, you open all the windows completely to let the house air out. After 10-20 minutes, the air in the rooms is clear again and more receptive to the heat from the radiators. In between, we use the tilt function of the windows to create a cycle. We have few air conditioners here; our type of ventilation and our climate are perfectly sufficient (normally) to make it comfortable.
In fact, our water in Germany is almost always hard because it mostly comes from springs in the mountains or from groundwater. It is filtered and examined several times in waterworks (water is the most frequently checked "foodstuff" in our country - that's why we can drink our water straight from the tap.
More and more water, e.g. rainwater, is being stored in cisterns and large (sometimes underground) barrels to be used in the garden or similar (recently also for flushing toilets), so that precious drinking water is not used for this.
One more word about the shower cubicles: if "normal" glass is used for this, it is clear that the panes will easily get a layer of limescale. Either you have the better "panes with LOTUS effect" installed immediately or you use a spray that makes the glass walls "water-repellent". It is sprayed on, left to dry and then polished, after which it has this lotus effect. Positive - you don't have to do any more work because the water drops just roll off.
The additional heating element on the wall of the bathrooms is a small luxury - indeed - but most of the newer bathrooms have underfloor heating and an additional line to the separate "towel warmer" is no big deal and is connected in an incidental manner.
The newer bathrooms also have these modern "rain shower heads" installed on the ceiling in the showers plus massage jets on the walls; the showers have become larger and are at ground level (barrier-free) and in many places "bidets" are also installed next to the regular toilets.
We learn british english in Germany because it's the original english language, the others are just cheap rip offs. ;) And british english has his roots in the germanic language.
I dont know if thats the reason. But it certainly helped communication with the brits, who used to be members of the EU.
@@yves2932 Pal, we've learned british english in school way before there was such a thing as a "EU". ;) It just makes more sense learning direct from the source, IMHO. And I highly doubt it would make a big difference if we've learned "american english", we would still be able to talk to the brits. 🙃
I think it's not a US vs. UK English - UK (with its Dependencies Gibraltar, Channel Islands, Military Bases on Cyprus) and Irland are simply geographical nearer than the USA or Canada. Also we've with Malta and Zyprus two additional former UK-Colonies as member states, which speaks mostly English. On top before the Brits made their economical harakiri move, it would be a no-brainer to jump over the Pont - so more if the only target was to visit a English speaking nation. You jump on a plane in Bucharest and approx. 4 h later you could look up Nelson's Column on Trafalgar Square… To do the same with New York you would need 10 to 12 h - and in worst case you will have to apply for a visa in advance. Have fun with that…
@@toraxmalu Maybe it was just easier to do a year in UK. I understand our english teachers had to do a year in an english speaking country in their studies.
@@toraxmalu Based on my own experiences, I would say that there are a total of 3 main reasons for the (predominantly) British English in German schools: 1. It is the country from which the language comes, that is an important point. 2. Geographical (and cultural) proximity. 3. Cooperation between the countries, which was supported by the state, for example through language studies by prospective teachers in Germany. Even when I was at school, I could see a change in the higher classes and schools, where people were increasingly using “American English” or “business English”. My teachers back then had all spent some time in England, but today it will certainly vary more. But I still think Oxford English is a good starting point. ;)
I think that doorhandles are more practical than doorknobs. Its becouse when you bear smt heavy or hot in your hands (like big hot pot, or a stack of books or water bucket) you can use your elbows or wrists to open the door which is impossible in the case of doorknobs :D
i love you both, greet´s from FFM Germany
I'm a sixty year old german, and I never heard of or experienced that Slippers-at-Party thing. May be a regional thing in Northern-Austria (or Bavaria, as some may call it).
The hardness of water depends on the regional water source. Where I live, it's actually quite soft.
Tap water is almost always drinking water, even the toilet water is. Tap actually is one of the most highly regulated food items in Germany. Maybe in the outdoors, you will find a tap that's not drinking water, but those will be especially marked.
In the northern half of Europe the number of really very hot days where you need airco is too small to afford airco for. In the southern half of Europe you see airco a bit more but ... they also have 'siesta' or 'controra' to manage the hottest hours of the day😆
The two buttons are basically to save water. The bigger button is a total flush of the water reservoir for the big business.
The tinier button is for the little business, which does not need the entire water reservoir to be emptied.
Also... tap water is perfectly safe to drink. It's highly regulated.
Much love to you from Germany, you are really lovely people! 😘
In Germany you do not need air condition because the temperatures are not like in Brazil. Usually, Summers are warm but not really hot for more than a few weeks, Winters can be very cold. From about Oktober to May, you need heating, sometimes longer. Only July and August usually are quite warm, but not often more than 30°C. German houses are built quite solid and you can keep the temperature low by opening the windows by night, when it is cool outside, and close it in daytime, when it is hot outside. I also have got a fan, but I needed it only for about 4 days this year.
Since the hardness of the water depends on the type of rock in the soil, there are differences in water hardness in Germany. For example, when rainwater seeps into the soil, different amounts of minerals dissolve in the water depending on the type of rock, which influence the water hardness. Since the soil and types of rock in Germany are not the same everywhere, there are naturally sometimes large differences in water hardness.
There is a good reason why there are no kitchens in new apartments. Very few Germans want to prepare their food in a kitchen where they don't know what has happened in it before.
Tap water is the most strictly monitored food in Germany. You can drink it anytime and anywhere without worrying. The hardness of the water can vary from region to region, depending on which source the water is taken from.
Sleeping is really one of the things I love about Germany. No matter how restless your partner sleeps, it's just her mattress that moves and she doesn't keep stealing my duvet because she has her own. I find American beds terrible. A continuous mattress. When your partner turns over, you jump up and down on your side. And then the continuous duvet is gone because your partner has curled up in it. Terrible.
This type of window is not a new invention. I learned to be a carpenter as a young man and we built windows like this in the 70s. The mechanism was a little different and the windows were made of wood and not plastic like today. But the option to open the window fully or just tilt it already existed back then.
In Poland I think its generaly safe to drink tap water. I dont recomend to do it day by day but its safe to do it when you for example forget to do shopping and dont have other drinks, like tea and coffee or juice in house. You dont get sick with drinking it sometimes :) But I realy prefer to boil tap water before I drink it :)
unfortunately it doesn't lower the blinds completely, when they are closed the room is completely dark, even in the middle of the day
Every region in Europe have different type of water.For example in Cracow we have rich in minerals tap water,higly recomendance to drink.This German flat is very basic European standard.
1:47 Actually, iirc from my high school days, the German preference for British English is due to the more „classic“ / stricter rules of British English, and the predominance of the English as defined by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge - who are the leading academic institutions with regard to languages not only in the United Kingdom, but probably even worldwide.
The language thing...
I think, the main reason why English is one if the most popular second language in Europe is, that it is relativly easy to learn for most Europeans and - at least after WW2, there was a massive influence from the USA, economical as well as cultural. As a German kid, I first came in contact with the English language as lyrics of British and American music.
For the same reason, the preferred second language for many Germans in the eastern part was Russian.
To communicate with people, who dont share your mother tongue, basically any language will do.
I remember a little business meeting many years ago (no translator available) where a German, a Britain and a French discovered, that the only language they all knew was Latin.
That was a funny meeting! 😂
It is 'lingua franca" now - the world's business language. So it is always taught as first foreign language at school, with a few exceptions.
When I went to school in the 1980s, there were only a few schools starting on French, or if you lived in Eastern Germany (the GDR), it was Russian.
Those were often put as a second or optional third one into the curriculum. (I took Latin, my sister French, which I learned too, when going on a familiy holiday later.)
Every international project I work on, is in English now.
British English was just established as the standard through time because of proximity, getting teachers over and the ability to travel there by yourself and try out what you learned.
But that might change now with new opportunities to learn and use the language, i.e. Internet.
Minerals are what make waters taste but some are very high in nitrates and kind of salty, some salt is needed not good to drink salt free water it´s actually dangerous.
Drinking water safety - The most important thing
Drinking water safety definition: Measures and processes to ensure the quality of drinking water for human consumption.
Measures to improve drinking water safety: Use of filtration, disinfection and quality testing to purify water.
Importance of drinking water safety: Avoidance of health risks such as diarrheal diseases and serious infectious diseases.
Water treatment techniques: Filtration, disinfection (chlorination, UV treatment), reverse osmosis.
Groundwater protection measures: Avoidance of harmful chemicals, promotion of sustainable practices, adequate drainage systems.
Effects of pollutants in water: Health problems such as cancer, neurological and reproductive disorders caused by heavy metals and toxins. We take this very seriously in Germany. That's why you can drink water straight from the tap.
we learn english at school and it is british english. we can't choose. my teacher was even pissed when I used an american accent, because I was grown up with a lot of us military in my neighourhood
ps: about the windows, you have to be carefull with pets if the window is tilted, because it happens that cats will try to use it as an escape, got stuck and sadly die
Yeah multiple languages are normal, I personally also speak three languages, German of course, english and Russian because of my fathers family side.
But now I am even better at russian than my Russian father himself.
A few things are different in my apartment, like the toilet, which is not installed on the wall but on the ground like for most other, but everything else fits in with my apartment.
Every apartment is different but you definitely share some things.
Yes, you can drink tap water everywhere in Germany, In fact, it is often of better quality than water in the store.
This also applies to every EU country, it's drinkable.
The body also needs the minerals in the water, otherwise it would be distilled water and not drinkable.
These tilt windows are also good because no one can break in if you leave the house like this.
So you can always ventilate your apartment.
It is very practical in many ways.
Yes, in many things Brazil is similar to Europe. When it comes to the economy, it's about the politicians who have to set rules and order.
Many South American politician have messed this up.
The rules, order and culture is something that makes countries how they are.
Your culture is not the bad guy in your situation.
You can Brake in very easy in with the Windows part open (auf kipp),and yes i did it a few times because i forget much,like my key in the house and then i closed the door 😅
The hard water Here IS explained because more Minerals in IT Like calcium and magnesium. The water IS Tap water and drinkable. ITS better than botteled water.
She forgot about the shower heads. If I remember correctly shower heads in America are non removeable while in Germany you can Take the shower heads off to get the water where it is needed 😂
A. Brazil isn´t a third world country ;)
B. European countries are very different from each other. In Germany it can get hot, up to around 35° Celsius during summer. But most of the year the temperature is way lower. The houses usually have solid brick walls and good isolation, so it would take some time for room to heat up. Usually it is enough to put something in front of the window to reflect the sunlight and use a ventilator. Air conditioning is only used in some shops etc. and ofc in the cars, not at home. It is considered a waste of energy and also unhealthy (sudden switch of temperatures and spread of bacteria etc.)
C. I am German and I have never heard of a party where guests have to bring their house shoes, usually socks are fine.
D. People in Germany often move around and rent apartments. A kitchen is pretty expensive, so people who invested thousands of Euros/dollars into it might want to take it with them. Often the kitchens are sold with the apartments/come with the rented apartment though. Apartments without a kitchen are usually those in newly build or renovated houses.
E. The outside blinds can mostly be found in rural areas with smaller houses. Apartments in bigger houses in cities do not have the blinds outside, but inside. Kinda makes sense, since the windows there do not need as much protection since they are less exposed to the elements
Tilted windows are actually very dangerous for cats. I only use them where I have a fly screen on the outside.
then you haven't educated your cats, in the first couple of tries by my young cats - i was around every time the window was tilted and narrowed the crack as they tried to fit their heads inbetween. Cats can fit through everwhere their head can fit first, if you 'show' them it is dangerous to peak in this crack they will not try again, even left alone. Now i left the house for hours of work with tilted balcony-door without fearing. Of course you shouldn't make it easy for them to climb from above into the widest part, like from a cat-tree, shelf and similar.
@@Blazeor2 I’m not talking about *my* cats. I’m talking about cats in general that are noisy and may want to get into the house. Or in someone else’s house.
Your houses can be more similar to European than to USA houses maybe becouse south America is more like connected to continental Europe (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany), while north America is more connected to UK and Ireland. I mean in their styles, inventions and architecture.
@@psilovecybin5940 IKR :) but I suppose that the european styles of architecture are much older in Argentina than this emigration of Germans :)
I have only watch 5 minutes, but the fridge youn can buy and change! There are bigger available
German windows are freaking expensive! Well, they last forever, if taken care of.
A tilted window can kill your cat. The cat tries to jump out trough the slit, doesn't manage it and then strangulates herself in the slit.
That's why there are inventions to prevent that.
Not much more expensive than good quality wooden windows, and they indeed will last a long time, with very little and inexpensive maintenance.
@@KeesBoons German windows come in all materials, wood included.
@@Kivas_Fajo I know that these type of windows come in wood as well, but very much more common is the "plastic" type.
I think ist´s not a thing between 3erd and 1rst World. It´s only a differende about Cultures. Yes , you can drink all Tap Water in Germany. And How hard a Wate is, different from Region to Region.
That's not a regular Apartment.The rent is pretty expensive for sure.
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just come over to germany - you can stay at my place for a fewa days if you want.
The hard Water isn´t in all Germany, whre i Live we got no add in the Dish Washer at all.
Just the Soap-Tab-Thing.
That while having absolute drinkable Tabwater.
I´ll dink it all my Life.
You guys are actually not on the same continent as US, since that is North America & Brazil is in South America. All the best from Denmark ❤
The old discussion.
Every immigrant kid speak their mother tongue, German and English. Every German speaks German and English. Well, about 65% are fluent in English, which makes about 56 million people.
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Hm. Not all what she told is in evey Part of Germany.
She doesn't seem to know much German. I wonder how long she has been living here?
Personally I can't imagine moving to another country without learning at least some basics of the language.
Funny that you said people from first world countries are so practical... She comes from USA (the richest third world country in the world) 😂
Omg she is in so many s way wrong, please don't believe her
Actually when you rent a flat in Germany, 99% of the flats have at least a kitchen and a bath already in place.
This is *not* true.
@@GrouchoEngels - I've been living in Germany since 1996. Never came across a flat which was up for rent and hadn't at least a kitchen and a bathroom already in place so far.
@@duketgg I'm a German landlord since 50 years. I let more than 20 flats/apartments and houses. *NONE* of them comes with a furnished kitchen. Same applies to my colleague landlords.
@@GrouchoEngels- then you and the likes of you are shitty landlords.