Exactly, we even share the same ocean with the brits. I guess, they just don't think about it, because the image of Germany, which all foreigners have in mind, is Bavaria. Thanks to the US soldiers, I guess.
@@juwen7908 I agree he seems to have a certain image in mind (like when asking in another video if German apartments/flats really have balconies, despite it being 'so cold' in Germany), but I don't think it's really the American kind of image where it's all about Bavaria and the Alps. He also cleared it up in the video, why he came to think Germany didn't really have beaches.
Funfact: ^^ Who drinks more tea? A report from the German Food Association: Quote "On December 15, the world celebrates tea. And the world's number one tea drinker is not England, but can be found much closer to home. From the British as a well-known tea-drinking nation, to China as the cradle of tea culture, to the nomads of the Western Sahara - tea is popular all over the globe. The shared love of the hot drink is celebrated in many countries on December 15, International Tea Day. 500 cups per person on earth The world consumes a good 5 trillion cups - or five thousand billion - of the hot drink every year. That would be 500 cups per person on earth. Calculated down, that's just under 14 billion cups per day well over 9 million cups per minute. The Germans - a tea-drinking nation? Zooming in on Germany also provides impressive figures: Germany consumes as many cups as the whole world drinks in a day, i.e. over 14 billion cups, every year. That's almost 39 million cups a day. To give you a better idea of these figures: If all the tea that Germany drinks each year (that's around 19,500 tons) were stacked in containers, this tower would be twice as high as Mount Everest. A German region outshines the English When most Germans think of tea consumption and tea culture, the British Isles and England certainly spring to mind. However, we don't have to travel that far to find a region that is really crazy about tea: Around 550 kilometers from London, considerably further north, lies East Frisia. The average East Frisian drank 300 liters of tea last year. This puts the region in first place in the world rankings for tea consumption. By comparison. The average Englishman "only" drank 187 liters in 2016." best regards
@@gunwu9084Das liegt, so erklärte mir jemand aus der Hamburger Seefahrt, an dem langen Weg von 106km bis zur Mündung, dem Tempolimit, den Liegeplatzgebühren, der langen Fahrzeit etc, die den Standort so fern der Küste unrentabel machten. Deshalb war schon früh die Hamburg-Amerika-Linie nach Cuxhaven ausgelagert, wo Platz war und sofort offene See, wo man Tempo machen konnte. So wie heute nach England. Es ist rentabler, wenn die Leute sternförmig in eine Stadt wie Cuxhaven, Travemünde oder Warnemünde anreisen, um auf ein Schiff zu gehen, als ausgerechnet die hunderte von Passagieren täglich in einem eh schon verstopften Ballungsraum zu konzentrieren, um sie dann zu verschiffen. Und bei all dem Dreck und Ruß in der Luft und dem starken Verkehr auf den Straßen und der Elbe, auch ohne eine Fährverbindung nach UK, ist das vermutlich nicht schlecht. Die Alternativen Luft, Zug oder CUX sind besser und meist auch schneller. Und wäre HH ein rentabler Standort, hätten wir hier erst recht dann auch die Fähren nach Norwegen. Hier wäre vielleicht was los... 😨
That's right Dwayne, when the Romans left Britain after 410, Angles, Saxons and Frisians came from what is now northern Germany and Denmark and the Netherlands to settle there. In Germany today, there is a state of Lower Saxony. This is the heartland of ancient Saxony in Germany. In the Middle Ages they still spoke fairly similar languages. That changed over the centuries.
Unfortunately, I can't remember what the channel is called, but a linguist there compares, among other things, old linguistic roots of the English language with the "Nordic languages" (Dutch, Low German, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian). And if I remember correctly, English drifted in the 15th/16th. Century so far removed from the language family that English was introduced as a language class in the Hanseatic League.
theres a video where someone tries to speak to a frisian with old english. its pretty interesting. the video is called "The Frisian Perspective on "Talking to a Frisian farmer in Friesland with Old English" from history with Hilbert. its a different dialect than the one we speak in eastfrisia but its simmiliar enough to compare.
I lived about 10 years in North Germany just a few minutes from a beach away and what I agree with the most is the quality of the air. I got sick every time I visited my parents in Berlin. Also compared to Berlin the people were much friendlier (which isn't that hard)
to be honest, Berlin is traditionally also Northern Germany, being even further north than Hanover, having red brick architecture or Marchian Low German around.
Moin ut noorddüütschland vun de waterkant Bremerhaven😊 Yes, we have a lot of long, wide and white beaches. The geman coast is 1600 km long👍. We are located in the north on the North Sea and Baltic Sea. and we have over 40 islands in the North Sea and Baltic Sea. Take a look at northern Germany and its coast, islands and Hanseatic cities. allerbest un hool di wuchtig😊👍👍
You should definitely watch all four parts of this series from DW. So, also east, west and south. They are done very well... basically as always when Rachel was involved as the host. :)
Moin The beach with the high-rise building is not far from me and is in Travemünde, which is the overseas port of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. A beautiful city and the home of Lübeck marzipan. Oh, I almost forgot. Travemünde is on the Baltic Sea, but Schleswig-Holstein also has access to the North Sea. We even have our own anthem and, in addition to Low German, we also have Danish as languages. A lot of things in northern Germany are not that far removed from English things. We have very nice thatched roof houses here like in some English areas. And our landscape is not unlike the landscape in England. Kind regards from Schleswig-Holstein. Also mien Lieber mook wieder so un heff en schöön Dag.
der spinnt doch zu behaupten nicht zu wissen das wir Küsten und Strände haben. Ich bin gerade beleidigt und überlege mein Abo hier zu kündigen. So dumm kein kein Brite sein, oder doch!?
@@HenryAusLuebeck Ich denke es ist Briten nicht so wichtig. Viele Briten wissen tatsächlich nichts über Deutschland, was ja umgekehrt auch auf viele Deutsche zutrifft die nichts über England wissen, aber ja ich gebe dir recht, es war ein bisschen übertrieben von ihm. Deswegen würde ich aber kein Abo kündigen.
Yeah, at this point I just get really annoyed whenever I hear this.😅 A country that's bordering the sea will probably have beaches. Why is this such a surprise??? Edit: but at least he cleared up his mistake in the video.😅
@@stef987 I think, it is because most of the people locate Germany in the middle of Europe; they are not aware of Germany bordering the sea. But of course people from Britain should know!!!!🧐
@@noodleppoodle There was a time Germany had some, actually, but this was before the end of the 1st world war. So, his education is a little outdated...
Moin from Kiel! The Capital of Schleswig -Holstein, the part of Germany that shares a border with Denmark. It is called: „Das Land zwischen den Meeren“ (Land between the seas) because on one side it is bounded by the North Sea and on the other side it is bounded by the Baltic Sea. Both sides have beautyfull beaches, but on the North Sea part you‘re often missing the water because of the tide! 😁 The Baltic Sea is always there… 😍 And btw: I drink tea only if I‘m sick!
"I drink tea only if I‘m sick!" - Obviously, cuz you aren't in East Firsia up there. 😊 (Better Water quality in Schleswig and Holstein than in the low muddy areas of Frisia.)
@@wandilismus8726 Das Watt hat definitiv seinen Reiz, allerdings erinnere ich mich auch an ein paar enttäuschende Momente, wenn man von etwas südlicher in Niedersachsen "endlich mal wieder" an die Nordsee gefahren ist, in ziemlicher Vorfreude so schnell wie möglich zum Strand gegangen ist, um den Anblick des Wassers zu genießen und dann Ebbe war.😅
@@stef987genau, ich mag Wasser auch lieber, wenn es nicht wegläuft 😉 Grüße aus dem Berliner Umland (wir nennen die Ostsee nicht umsonst unsere Badewanne 😊)
Ja, stimmt schon. In SH ist Tee nicht so extrem, eigentlich wie überall sonst in Deutschland. Aber Friesland ist da wirklich heftig. Selbst bei Aldi & Co bekommt man Schwarztee im Kilopaket zu relativ günstigen Preisen, und der ist dann in spitzen Tüten abgefüllt, ähnlich wie ein Spritzbeutel oder einer altmodischen Gemüsetüte aus Papier. Das ist alles sehr traditionell und speziell und sehr typisch für die Gegend. Und auch wenn ich Tee liebe, so liebe ich Schleswig-Holstein definitiv mehr! Tee trinken kann man überall. Aber Schleswig-Holstein ist absolut unersetzlich und einfach wunderwunderschön. Ich lebe in der Heide, wo es schon relativ beschaulich zugeht und die Natur atemberaubend ist, und wo man wirklich für sich sein kann, wenn man es möchte, im Gegensatz zu Hamburg, wo man manchmal schon weiter weg muss von zuhause, um draußen, aber ohne Menschen sein zu können. Aber Schleswig-Holstein hat eine Vielfalt an unglaublich schöner Natur, unfassbar viele Wildtiere und die Menschen sind auch sehr viel netter, offener und entspannter als in der Heide. Obwohl man zB Ostholstein und Lüneburger Heide von der Besiedlung her vergleichen könnte. Und die Behauptung über die Menschen basiert auf eigenen Erfahrungen. Ob Winter oder Sommer: fahre ich in Ostholstein rechts ran, weil zB mein Telefon mal wieder nicht mit der Freisprecheinrichtung nicht gekoppelt hat und ein Anruf kommt rein (ich war beruflich fast anderthalb Jahre in OH), halten 8 von 10 vorbeifahrenden Fahrzeugen an und die Fahrer fragen, ob man Hilfe braucht und alles okay ist. Ich hielt gelegentlich an, weil ich einen sehr alten, inkontinenten Hund bei mir hatte, und wenn der fiepte, ging es um Sekunden. Anhalten, Tür auf, Hund auslaufen lassen und weiter. In 30 Jahren haben genau ZWEI Wagen in der Heide angehalten. Wenn ich also tatsächlich liegen blieb, konnte ich froh sein, wenn man mich nicht auch noch anhupte, was hier heutzutage übrigens sehr in Mode ist. Und übrigens nicht nur mich. Die Leute sind hier ziemlich aggressiv geworden seit Corona. In Ostholstein sind die Leute genau jetzt immer noch wahnsinnig lieb. Und überall an der Ostküste. An der Westküste ist es etwas reservierter, aber es sind grundehrliche Menschen in diesem großartigen Bundesland, das in mir nur noch mit Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ein wenig konkurriert, denn auch da ist es schön. Aber die Holsteiner sind meine Lieblingsdeutschen. Mit Abstand! ❤
well, I guess he was absolutely aware that we have access to two seas, but that doesn't automatically mean having "beaches" in a touristy sense. "Sandstrand". Some coastlines in the world are dominated by cliffs for example the English "White Cliffs Of Dover". Maybe he thought the German coastline would be more like that.
A shame that the video didn't show more of the islands in the north of Germany. They are wonderful. My first holiday "alone" with my best girlfriend at 17 (I'm 76 now) was to the island of Juist, on the North Sea, Just 17 km long and 500 m to 1 km wide (depending on the tides). No cars allowed, only one police car and one ambulance. Those who were not into walking, hired bikes. Beautiful sand dunes. Swimming, you needed a certain strength because of the strong current. We slept like babies because the air was so clean, and ate enormously, just losing weight (hi girls, place to go !). When we took the ferry back to the mainland, the smell of cars was horrific !!!!
@@danielkaufmann15 Thanks for the info !! I'm half German so I'm not offended...... Thanks also for the compliment (not photoshopped nor facelifted - must have good genes like my parents - my son took the photo but you can't see all the wrinkles - lol).
Red light district: you will find prominent red light districts in many old cities with a harbour and nautic history. Where sailors land, the world´s "oldest profession" will not be far. Edit.: 3 cups of tea seems to be similar to some customs in countries were traditionaly the mocca coffee is served. In Bosnia you will have the "docekusa" cup, meaning the "welcoming" cup, followed by the "raspricusa" cup, meaning the "conversation" cup and at the end the "odpracusa" cup, meaning the "farewell" cup.
as a german islander i'm offended by that intro :// jk edit: yes we do have a lot in common and I think the Hanse played a large role in that, connecting the UK and the old German states and whatnot.
Come on….have you EVER looked at a map?! Where THE HECK do you think the Angles and Saxons came from when they settled in England?! They lived exactly in the north of nowadays Germany!…setting off from sandy beaches, or mudflats….no pebble beaches here…yay!
That was my first thought. Sometimes the people are sure, that there was nothing before they were born. 😂 But Dwayne is such a nice guyand his videos are so funny. I like! 👍🏼
@@emmaerbsenbluete881 I know, I‘m also here for the good vibes… But…being German for a minute… He did have German in school, someone (like me) would hazard a guess that there was a map of Germany in the German book somewhere….right?!
Moin from Hansestadt Rostock the city where you saw thoses nice sand beaches with nudity areas and thoses "Strandkörbe" where you can relax in. And yes we have a lot in common with northern england and as you can imagine tea and fish to go is very typical here too. By the way the connection with Britain is historical due to the original tribes and also due to trade during the middle ages. The Hanse is the reason britsh, northern germans and the netherlands have simmilar ways and words.
I am originally from the east frisian area.🤣 when I visited Scotland I immediately felt home. The Scot’s were very much like not talking too much but always important things and being very honest and having a huge heart…. To me Scotland felt exact the same as northern Germany. ❤️
yeah northern germany isn't too far off from britain. We have a lot of custodies in common. Even the architecture is similar in a lot of places. Northern germany also was the british occupation zone after WW2, except for Mecklemburg-Vorpommern which was russian. But we adopted MeckPomm into northern germany after the reunification in 1990
Moin😊👍 Old English comes from Low German The Anglo-Saxons come from northern Germany and many Anglo-Saxons migrated to Britain (England- angelland , engeland) around 300-600 and drove out the Celts in what is now England. 90% of the English people in south britain ( England )area have German genes. I and my family also speak Low German. allerbest mien keerl👍 un mok dat god👍
not quiet. low german comes form old saxon like english did. Dived when the saxons go over to the british islands. In germany low german (plattdeutsch) developed in britain it was old english wich was influence in britain by there own language, latain from the romans left there, vikings from norway and sweden and later some french.
@@redzora80 moin!😁😁 The Old Saxons came from northern Germany and settled on the British island. the old English s the old Saxon from low Germany. Low German (Plattdüütsch) developed in northern Germany. In England, Old English (Old Saxon) was increasingly influenced by other languages, French, Latin, Greek, Danish and Fisian (Friesland is mostly in northern Germany, East Frisia and North Friesland and a small part in Northern Netherlands. Low German is spoken in northern Germany, central Germany and eastern Germany in the Baltic Sea
@@redzora80 Old Saxon *IS* Old low German in the germanic tree. *> The very 1st german germanic language point* > AFTER the Angles founded *Hamburg* they crossed over to Ængland founding it. How ever *The Saxons/Sachsen* had the most influence esp. related to *their old low german* language, which was made the national one. The other tribes had no say related to the language. > Any Northic word added are *Leanwords* > the *church* madeUp "modern ænglish" by changing *Old Ænglish* lit. total. *including erasing or downgrading "hated germanic/pagan" key words. Old ænglish had *3 articles* like german today. *"the"* was introduced by *the church.* *Deer* not only sound similar to german *Tier,* they actualy are the same. The church reduced the meaning of *Deer* down to 1 specific one, *and added a word "replacing it" from "their dead language Latin": *animal* *> small deer = small creature(s)* in old english. Also in writting: Old ænglish: *Dior* Old (low) german: *Tior* Lit. all ænglish endings with *-ry* or *-y* are fake and madeUp by the church. *> Hungry* was *Hungrig* in old ænglish. > The church switch lit. all endings with *-ig* with *-y* and *-rig* with *-ry* .... Same goes for *"High german"* is a fake version of german, *madeUp* by the church how THEY wanted german to be and sounds as well as *again* REPLACING germanic words with THEIR Latin words. *Ich* in german for ænglish "i" is a made up word by the church. *> There is no -ch in german germanic language.* But a germanic *-h* spoken as *-x* > Sachsen in High German, should be: >> *Saxen >Saxon* Back than, ænglish was considered a *"Old low German Dialect form"* ..until the church came and changed sh!t arround in this languages, with intent, to hide they are similar and orign of german & ofc to place in Latin words, so they do not disapear from history.
@@arnebollsen moin 🖐 Do ko *i* nix drgega saga! Liebr hählenga gscheid, wia oheimlich bleed 😏 An Gscheidr ko au vom a Domma lerna, abbr koin Dommr vom a Gscheida. Manchr isch so gscheid, dass’r nedd amol mergd, wenn’s regned! > So do wär des och gschwätzt. No' ebes... *"Ma ka et älles, ma ka koin Furz uff a Brettle nagla."* _(Man kann nicht immer alles (wissen), sowie man keinen Pfurz aufs Holzbrett fest nageln kann)_ In diesem Sinne... 🖐😎
I am born in Hamburg, lived more than 2 decades in the USA, am back in Germany. (Better that way) I would say the Frisians are not "long lost British" as you say, but Brits are the long lost Saxons and Angles (Angeln is north of Hamburg into Denmark) 😊
I always wonder.... as Germany does have a coast you can expect beaches... 😂 And yes... I live in Anglia in northern Germany close to Denmark and those were the folks that went to Britain. Angloes and Saxons... and that's why your language is called English (Anglish) as well, you know? 😉
I think that we have a coastline should be clear to every Brit, but not necessarily that we have very nice sandy beaches and chalk cliffs. For example, if you're British, you often know nothing about other countries. Or do you know a lot about Belgium or Luxembourg? Honestly, I don't know anything about these countries except that they are our neighbors. If I don't read up on these countries, I don't know anything about these countries. And I don't think Germany was important to him until now.
... about the last point ---> I drink at least 1,25 liters of tea every day - it's my "morning routine" and I'm even from Thuringia. (4 cups of tea and the day can start - don't even talk to me before the 2nd cup!)
"You guys have beaches?" - yes. of course! Why not? Germany has two coastlines (Nordsee, Ostsee) and of courses there are beaches. Dont you have beaches in the UK? Of course you have. A weird question.
My dad is from Schleswig-Holstein (the most northern state of Germany - the one neighbouring Denmark) so I grew up with that part of Germany being my "home" Germany. As a little kid I even thought of only Schleswig-Holstein and maybe Hamburg being North Germany and everything else as West Germany, East Germany, Central Germany and South Germany. :D It's so flat that I could see the TV Tower of the capital of Schleswig-Holstein - which was about 20-30 minutes by car away - and further from my room window. When we moved to South West Germany - to a very pretty little old town, like the typical old towns that are associated with Germany, which was located in between green forests and mountains - when I was 15 I missed the flat land so much that I felt so claustrophobic and got sick for the first 1-2 week(s) and completely missed school for that time. Now I'm back again living in the capital of Schleswig-Holstein (which sounds pretty fancy but it's not XD) and although I'm not as happy as I could be this is still home to me.
I really liked the video and your take on it. It's quite commonplace that many foreigners (and Germans alike!) don't know Northern Germany and how different it is to the South. I am from the South (or Central) part and I really like Bremen and Hamburg. You notice how much they have in common with other North Sea countries like the UK, the Netherlands or Denmark. For me coming from the South, it is really distinct and I like it very much.
Das ist lustig, daß Du das schreibst. Eine meiner engsten Freundinnen, wir sehen uns nur im Süden, wenn ich dort meinen Bruder besuche, versucht seit Jahren, mich zu einem Umzug zu überreden. Und sie versteht bis heute nicht, warum ich mich so sehr dagegen wehre. Ich mag den Süden, aber ab und zu hinzureisen reicht mir. Sie sagt, dort ginge der Frühling früher los und sei wärmer, weniger Stürme im Winter und keine Sturmfluten, Schnee im Winter usw. Aber das mit dem Schnee ist inzwischen ausgeglichen. Auch hier ist es inzwischen im Frühling früh alles bunt. Aber dafür haben wir im Sommer immer die Möglichkeit, uns am nächsten Gewässer abzukühlen, und ich meine nicht schwimmen. Als vor ca. 5 oder 6 Jahren, glaube ich, dieser katastrophal heiße Sommer war, in dem so viele Menschen starben, und wir selbst im Norden nachts im Binnenland, Hamburg, Lüneburger Heide usw, noch 35 Grad und mehr in den Häusern hatten, fuhr ich mit dem Transporter nach Feierabend ans Wasser und schlief dort, bei offener Schiebetür. In einer Nacht war mir bei 17 Grad sogar richtig kalt geworden. Die Menschen waren ungnädig miteinander, weil sie kaum schliefen. Ich liebe Wind, kühle Luft und Weite. Und als jemand mit Heuschnupfen bin ich froh, dem gut entkommen zu können. Zudem ist es zT hier oben günstiger zu leben, die Weute, die Natur, die dünnere Besiedelung... naja, und die beiden Meere vor der Tür und die vielen Seen... Wenn sie mich mal wieder überreden wollte, schrieb ich ihr, ich muss mal Gassi gehen, und schickte ihr dann ein paar Fotos von unterwegs. Mal die Elbe, mal ein See im Wald, ein kleiner Fluss, der durch ein Moor mäandert, Hünengräber, Heidelandschaft, manchmal mit Schnuckenherde, Wiesen mit Kranichen, Wildgänsen oder Störchen... Und sie staunte jedesmal und war fassungslos, daß das alles in der Umgebung ist. Sie hat den Bodensee, eine Hopfenplantage, einen Wald und eine Obststreuwiese. Und das wars leider. Schön, aber wenig Vielfalt. Sie flippt fast aus, wenn sie ein Reh sieht, knipst und schickt das ganz begeistert, hier stehen die Viecher im Garten rum und fressen meine Blumen und ich knipse mal einen Wolf und schicke ihn ihr. Mittlerweile denkt sie darüber nach, irgendwann mal hier Urlaub zu machen. 😉 Wie schön es hier ist, ist vielen Menschen nicht bekannt. Es gibt so einige Gegenden, die unterbewertet sind. Unter anderem zB auch Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, der Thüringer Wald oder auch das Ruhrgebiet. Früher ein Drecksloch, also vor 100 Jahren, aber heute sollte man, wenn man gerne paddelt, die Ruhr bepaddelt haben! Ein Naturparadies!!! Und auch unsere Mittelgebirge sind toll: der Harz, der Hundrück oder die Rhön. Wunderschön! ❤
I'm from Northern Germany. From Schleswig-Holstein to be precise - the Most beautiful Bundesland of the world. It's definetly worth at least one visit - as is Hamburg, too. Another beautiful spot to visit is the Hansestadt Lüneburg in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony). I actually did find it easy to learn English at school. 👋🏻
I'm actually from nothern germany like 10 Kilometers away from Hamburg, and it's an extremely beautiful city that you should definetly visit! And i agree that northern germany and England look very similar. I've often had the experience that i saw some video of british cities and streets and thought " this looks like a german city!" Haha
Not quite North German are considered friendly but rather quiet. For example, one would say "moin" as a greeting. If someone says "moin moin," they want to talk unnecessarily. 6:11 So first of all, the question should be whether English sounds similar to Old Saxon German. and not vice versa, as the Saxons migrated from Germany to England. Just kidding but it's the truth. :D and yes, but not to modern English but to Old English
High German actually developed further away from old Saxon than modern English from old English though. So modern English is nowadays closer to the original language if you will.
Moin from northern Germany. I am living near Lübeck (about 30 minutes drive by car). It really made it easier for to learn English at school for me to be grown up hearing Plattdeutsch speaking in my family.
Moin from Lübeck the Queen of the Hanse, at the Baltic coast..yes we have a bunch of beaches 😊 And btw do you think the first peoples in England come out of the earth🤭? All of them came once from the Mainland... We share the same roots of language and Culture🥰 Thanks for ur great Reactions✌
Leer and the surrounding area is my home, I grew up there and spent the first 30 years of my life there. That's why I really grew up with tea. Everyone in East Frisia drinks tea - several times a day. East Frisians drink tea at least three to four times a day, often more. It starts with breakfast, followed by the traditional morning tea at 11 a.m., not only at home, but also in almost every office, company or other workplace. Of course, tea is served again in the afternoon and usually again for dinner. It is important to realise that dinner in Germany is not a hot meal (which is served at lunchtime), but is usually bread with sausage, cheese or other spreads. People drink warm drinks with it, everywhere else probably coffee, children often drink cocoa, but in East Frisia everyone drinks tea, even the children. Children are practically brought up on tea; as soon as they are weaned off the bottle, they drink tea as a matter of course. When visitors arrive, tea is made immediately, and tea and cake are served at every family celebration in the afternoon. In every restaurant, in every café there is tea, of course, and even in hospitals, for example, where everywhere else in the world coffee is served for breakfast or in the afternoon, tea is served in East Frisia. Tea is the national drink of East Frisia - tea really is drunk everywhere and at all times. And I still drink tea, even though I haven't lived in East Frisia for over 30 years.
same here in Ammerland, what's 3 pm without a few cups of good old Thiele Tee. Also how am I supposed to get out of bed with a nice cup for breakfast and how am I supposed to have trouble falling asleep if it weren't for the cup in the evening :D
Moin! Dwayne! Du warst Überrascht das wir in Deutschland 40 Inseln haben!🤔 Ich auch! 😲Ja der Norden ist wunderschön. Ich trinke beim Frühstück Tee 500 ml Tasse also 180 Liter im Jahr.👍
@@danielkaufmann15 Ich bin selber auch kein gebürtiger Ostfriese. Aber dies hier ist definitiv meine Wahlheimat. Ich liebe sie und identifiziere mich mit ihr. Allerdings ist es als zugezogener relativ schwer in kleineren Dörfern Anschluss zu finden. Es ist da wichtig die ostfriesischen Gepflogenheiten zu kennen. 😂🤩
Take a look at Germany with Google Earth. From the overview down to the roads in cities and towns. And from the North- and Baltic Sea down to the Alps. In my opinion, this is the best and easyest way to find out, how Germany, and all other parts of the world es well, looks like.
@@alexanderpracher6753Ja, wohne in Radolfzell und kenne die alle....aber neee! Da hat die Elbe bei Hamburg bessere Strände. ruclips.net/video/E8XRN9fpm-0/видео.html ;)
i was born and raised in northern germany (10 years of that in hamburg) and i'm not sure if it was easier for me to learn english but what is definitely easier for me to understand is dutch because that's really similar to plattdeutsch (low german) so especially when it's written it's very easy to understand and the other way around my dutch friend said it's very easy to understand plattdeutsch. to me dutch sounds like a mixture of plattdeutsch, english and an interesting accent (which is why it's easier when it's in writing)
germany has lots of beaches at the baltic sea or northern atlantic coast. and they are full of tourists in summer. german coast holiday resorts are very expensive so only higher class travellers can affort it. best beaches germany has in the south lake chiemsee and other bavarian lakes
These videos by DW are really good, even if DW is "our" Tourism-advertisment channel. It is no wonder our northern citizens share a lot of traits and traditions. The enviroment ; that shaped; that traditions is pretty similar. Even before our age of mobility you could cross over to britain with a small rowboat in a couple of hours... on a good weather day. The tea is more a sailor tradition because "Ostfriesentee" is imported tea from india. We had no colonial outposts in India... rest peaceful, the eastfrisiean sailors definitivly got it from you and put their own twist on it. We have quite a lot of herbalteas in germany that are brewed from local herbs and/or beeries.
We have beaches in Berlin ... and several baths ... one of the first public transport railways was specifically built to transport "the masses" to the bath at WANNSEE for recreation. There was even a really popular song for that in the 1920s ... "Pack die Badehose ein".
@@danielkaufmann15 Yeah, I know. Also the landscape if you drive from Cologne via the B7 down to Frankfurt side by side the River Rhine or switched at the Deutsches Eck in Koblenz over to the River Mosel heading to Trier.
Northern germany is a kind of a hidden gem for foreign tourist, and that´s rather funny, because you will find lots of english speakers here and a traveller from GB or the US of A shouldn´t have any problem to get by. The sheer amount of sites and UN world heritages is simply amazing. It is definetely a location someone who wants to avoid the stereotypic sightseeing in southern germany, going rather for culture, art and nature.
I come from the coast. Vast sandy beaches and romantic dunes in Cuxhaven, the Frisian islands and all of the Baltic sea islands and northern Friesian islands. Really nice!
I'm from west germany (close to the netherlands) and our culture is very different, it was interesting for me to watch this video and learn about my own culture :D As a kid i was on Sylt with a vacation group called "Falken (Falcon)" and it was an amazing time. the island is so small you can walk around the beach in a couple of hours around the whole island, that was so crazy :D and it was such a cozy place, the people over there are so friendly not like in my hometown. everyone is so straight forward and direct, which i like too. the people say what they think if you like it or not but it's just another kind of open minded :D
I'm from Cuxhaven at the mouth of the Elbe. Ferries used to drive from here to England but unfortunately that has been discontinued. Now we only ship cars to England
I am from the southern part of lower saxony originally but live in the beautiful town of Lüneburg tody, which is quite close to Hamburg. If you visit Hamburg or northern Germany you must visit Lüneburg. It is another Hansestadt with really great architecture. And yes, northern Germany has similarities to Britain. If you are visiting a football match of St. Pauli you will probably meet guys from Glasgow because St Pauli and Celtic have a friendship. And the Hambuerger Sportverein has a friendhip with the Rangers. When Invisited Liverpool it was very close to Hamburg, I loved it. And Plattdeutsch is quite close to Dutch but all the same language family with english. I sae an quite intereseting video about the evolving of the language, which letters changed and how you can understand German as an english native speaker without knowing german by knowing these letter changes. It was really interesting. You have to visit northern Germany. It is beautiful and you will see so many similalarities to England. So we share the same ancestory and I would really like to know how you'd feel about that.
Moin from Rostock, baltic sea! The lovely beach you see where Rachel presented the beach basket is called "Warnemünde(r) Strand". Nearby there is a forest called "Gespensterwald/Forest of the ghosts" The trees are effected by the heavy salty wind growing in a bit strange way. It is told that the waving trees produce gloomy dark shadows in the wind. Especially when its foggy or rainy weather there is something magical in it. Its really relaxing walking at the beach or in the forest.
Hi, Northern German girl here! It's true, there are many many similarities between this part of Germany and parts of the UK! If you ever travel to Northern Germany, I'd recommend visiting Hamburg and Lübeck, as well as the island Sylt (easy accessed by train, beautiful beaches)! Nice video
Old Englisch, Lower Saxon, Frisian and Norwegian are languages with similar roots. I'm currently learning Norwegian and I'm fascinated by how many words I understand. And as for the beaches: you would be amazed at the beaches and the huge sandy reef of Juist, the small neighboring island of Norderney.
Moin, I´m also from Northern Germany greetings from Hildesheim. I also lived in the UK for about 7 years it really surprised me at first how simular Northern Germany is to the UK. The weather, the people I felt right at home in England.
There are many beaches in Germany - not only at the sea. 😉 But there are also some seaside resorts. Those at the North Sea are a bit rougher regarding weather conditions, but the island of Sylt and some seaside spas like St. Peter-Ording have become something like luxury destination for the wealthy and for the wanna-be elite. The weather at the Baltic coast is generally a bit friendlier and sunnier, and there are multiple classical seaside resorts to find, like Heiligendamm (est. 1793), Baabe, Binz, Sellin and others at the island of Rügen and so on. There are also not only the 40 islands in the north (one of them Helgoland, which was 1807 - 1890 ruled by the UK, but then traded with Prussia against Zanzibar), but also a handful in the South (admittedly not in the sea, but within lakes - however in some cases big enough for holding a town or multiple villages). 😁 14:25 Ostfriesland (Eastern Frisia) shares a border with the United Netherlands, of which West Frisia is a part, and many East Frisians worked back in the 17th century for the Dutch East India Company shipping tea to Europe. Until 1744 East Frisia was ruled by House Cirksena as an Earldom only subject to the German king (but no duke or prince), but as the last ruler of that House died, House Hohenzollern of Brandenburg-Prussia took over (by a contract of inheritance authorized by Emperor Leopold I). Elector Frederick II (since 1740 King in Prussia) first installed the "Royal Prussian Company in Emden to Canton and China" to start importing tea and other goods himself. That company however had only 4 ships, and the 7 Year's war damaged not only the business, it also led to the occupation of the port of Emden in 1757 by French troops during their invasion of Hannover. After the war the company was dissolved, and because importing tea meant now losing foreign exchange Frederick then tried to restrict tea import (the Prussian authorities proposed to drink instead tea from domestic herbs as well as more beer), which led to conflicts with the Frisians and their "Landstände", a parliament of delegates of towns and landholders, called the "tea war" (which included also large-scale tea smuggling). After 2 years they won. About 40 years later Napoleon decreed in 1806 the Continental Blockade against the British Empire, so the East Frisians went back again to smuggling tea (and other goods).
Feel free to come to Germany and visit Northern Germany. I live in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Vorpommern-Rügen district. In our community there is a car ferry to the island of Rügen, which can be used from spring to autumn. Otherwise you can get to the island from Stralsund via the Rügen Bridge or the Rügen Dam. There are many great beaches there, so we don't have to go abroad for a beach holiday in the summer. Rügen also has a cliff, chalk cliffs and, as an island, it is not entirely flat. I can also recommend a trip to the island of Hiddensee. It is car-free. You can only get there as a pedestrian or cyclist by taking a ferry.
You're 100% right about Old Saxon! You can see the similarities in the phonology as well as vocabulary: you have "Water" instead of "Wasser", "gif" (give) instead of "gib", "Appel" (apple) instead of "Apfel", "klock een" (one o'clock) instead of "ein Uhr",...
I'm a German born in the west and I thought I knew everything about my culture, but the video taught me wrong. I never heard of the tea tradition or the ceremony in East Frisia, and I'm as surprised as you've been, Dwayne.
Moin from Hamburg. Reeperbahn/(St Pauli) is not only a red district but there are the most bars and music clubs (+musical and theaters) concentrated in one area. It is the core party scene in Hamburg. Every weekend, tenth of thousands people are at this area. Before Brexit and when the flights from UK to Hamburg (via Ryan Air Lübeck) were cheaper, a lot of Brits spend their bachelor parties in Hamburg on the Reeperbahn. Was always funny to had some drinks and chat with the british lads. No curfew on the Reeperbahn, so you could theoretical party and drink from Friday till Sunday night non-stop in certain bars (and clubs).
No, my friend, tea is Indian! I've been to South India, and their tea just blew my mind. They drink it with lots of sugar made from sugar cane, and if you ever drank fresh sugar cane juice, that's bitter-sweet and addictive. Will give you diabetes sooner or later, but a tourist visa is only valid for half a year.
@@fawkesmorqueThat's because they make it like in India, where it is hot, and tea gives you energy while the sugar helps your body not to sweat too much. Also, cane sugar has a taste of its own, while the European white (or "refined") sugar is just sweet and nothing else. Spoils your taste buds if you have it too often.
I grew up near East Frisia. I love Low German, I love the East Frisian way of drinking tea and beware of anyone trying to explain to me that you drink black tea differently! Kidding. But yes, I also found it easy to learn English because it is so similar to my usual Low German. The beaches are also very beautiful and now that I live in North Rhine-Westphalia, I miss the beaches a lot. Somehow, lying by a lake or going swimming doesn't feel so wonderful to me. I'm sure if my life allows it, I'll go back to my Low German homeland.
You're spot on that Low German has a lot in common with English. It's still distinctly German, but with a twist that in some areas is audibly towards English.
Including the islands, Germany has a longer coast line then Portugal. And yes this includes some beautiful beaches, but we also have cliffs, like the Kreidefelsen on the island of Rügen. And as the north sea can be very rough, as you probably know, the lighthouses were very needed, I guess.
Love the interest in Germany! I love England and have lived there for several years as a student. Little fun fact: Labskaus the traditional Northern dish is the namesake for your very own Scousers ;)
Tea is consumed since thousends of years in Germany. In teh old times it was not fermented tea as we knew them today, the old Germans used other ingredients to give teh water flavor, like dried fruits, berries, rose hips, mint, elderberry, flowers and of course ingredients with medicinal properties, but the taste was not the focus there.
Moin from Cuxhaven, the most northern town of Lower Saxony! Yes, we have beaches and islands and seals and seagulls, and we love to sail and eat a lot of fish! There once was a time (12 000 years B.C) when one could walk from northern Germany to the British Isles via Doggerland, a dry land which sank 8000 years B.C. and is now part of the North Sea - maybe starting the long journey from what today is Cuxhaven... ;-) So there has been a prehistoric connection to Northern England even long before the Saxons arrived there. Maybe that could be where the similarity of our languages originally stems from.
Hello Dwayne, there is a video on you tube with a guy from the frisian islands had a conversation with someone from Britain who spoke an very old english from the medivial times. In the 70`s we had a ferry from Harwich to Hamburg. Greetings from Williams castle ( Wilhelmsburg ), the island right in the middle of Hamburg
The north of Germany, especially Hamburg, was very much oriented towards England. The model for Hamburg was and is London. The merchants in Hamburg were very much oriented towards the English lifestyle.
Yes you are right. Low German is like a bridge between High German and Modern English. But some vocabulary differs a lot between the regions but the overall "twang" is the almost same.
You really should visit northern Germany 😊 Greetings from Rostock, we not only invented the Beach Basket but we also have the widest beach on the German Baltic Sea coast ❤
Helgoland is a German island that was British at some point in history. I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to purchase some English tea on my holiday there.
6:26 it is in fact closer to English. I remember talking about dialects in German lessons a few years ago, and we had the example of „Appel“ (Plattdeutsch), which is Apfel in standard German. It‘s very easy to tell that the plattdeutsch version is closer to the English word apple. A lot of the ‚sharper‘ sounds in words come from the more southern regions of Germany
i'm original from Berlin, but i live for over 10 years in Itzehoe 60 km from Hamburg. So yes, we have beaches many of them . One came in my mind, it's called "Timmendorfer Strand" and it' s by the east sea (Ostsee), ah and i was with the Family at the " Sgt. Peter Ording" it's an big one , at the Northern Sea (Nordsee) , realy amazing. BTW A nice video , i love the topics and your reaction of the things about Germany .
I am from Hamburg. Yes it was not so hard learning English. Becaus a lot of words in our language are more ore less the same as in English. We here in Hamburg have a lot of Brittish Citizens, an Engish Church, Fish & Chips restaurants and "The old Commercial Tea Room". We used to ship a lot of Beer to England and had about 12.000 brewerys in the 16. century. Most of the ber went to you guys. I myself have Brittish frends who are living here in Hamburg. My English teacher is Canadian.
I never understand why people are surprised that we have beaches. We have two seas, of course we have beaches. 🤷
I live in Raahe Finland we also have beaches. Sea is about 3km from My House
Exactly, we even share the same ocean with the brits. I guess, they just don't think about it, because the image of Germany, which all foreigners have in mind, is Bavaria. Thanks to the US soldiers, I guess.
@@juwen7908 I agree he seems to have a certain image in mind (like when asking in another video if German apartments/flats really have balconies, despite it being 'so cold' in Germany), but I don't think it's really the American kind of image where it's all about Bavaria and the Alps. He also cleared it up in the video, why he came to think Germany didn't really have beaches.
i am born 200m away from Denmark and the Baltic sea!
most Brits or Americans dont know both!
Don’t forget the lakes! We have terrific beaches at the Lake Constance 😍
Funfact: ^^
Who drinks more tea?
A report from the German Food Association:
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"On December 15, the world celebrates tea. And the world's number one tea drinker is not England, but can be found much closer to home.
From the British as a well-known tea-drinking nation, to China as the cradle of tea culture, to the nomads of the Western Sahara - tea is popular all over the globe. The shared love of the hot drink is celebrated in many countries on December 15, International Tea Day.
500 cups per person on earth
The world consumes a good 5 trillion cups - or five thousand billion - of the hot drink every year. That would be 500 cups per person on earth. Calculated down, that's
just under 14 billion cups per day
well over 9 million cups per minute.
The Germans - a tea-drinking nation?
Zooming in on Germany also provides impressive figures:
Germany consumes as many cups as the whole world drinks in a day, i.e. over 14 billion cups, every year.
That's almost 39 million cups a day.
To give you a better idea of these figures: If all the tea that Germany drinks each year (that's around 19,500 tons) were stacked in containers, this tower would be twice as high as Mount Everest.
A German region outshines the English
When most Germans think of tea consumption and tea culture, the British Isles and England certainly spring to mind. However, we don't have to travel that far to find a region that is really crazy about tea: Around 550 kilometers from London, considerably further north, lies East Frisia. The average East Frisian drank 300 liters of tea last year. This puts the region in first place in the world rankings for tea consumption. By comparison. The average Englishman "only" drank 187 liters in 2016."
best regards
You are so interested in Germany and simply a nice guy. Stay like that!!!
And Nordic countries as well. Nice and He has great comments
I always find it interesting when you look at a map and realize that Hamburg is roughly on the same latitude as Liverpool and Manchester.
Hamburg was the port where all the ferries to GB were departing. Nowadays they are gone, I wonder why.
@@gunwu9084Das liegt, so erklärte mir jemand aus der Hamburger Seefahrt, an dem langen Weg von 106km bis zur Mündung, dem Tempolimit, den Liegeplatzgebühren, der langen Fahrzeit etc, die den Standort so fern der Küste unrentabel machten.
Deshalb war schon früh die Hamburg-Amerika-Linie nach Cuxhaven ausgelagert, wo Platz war und sofort offene See, wo man Tempo machen konnte.
So wie heute nach England. Es ist rentabler, wenn die Leute sternförmig in eine Stadt wie Cuxhaven, Travemünde oder Warnemünde anreisen, um auf ein Schiff zu gehen, als ausgerechnet die hunderte von Passagieren täglich in einem eh schon verstopften Ballungsraum zu konzentrieren, um sie dann zu verschiffen.
Und bei all dem Dreck und Ruß in der Luft und dem starken Verkehr auf den Straßen und der Elbe, auch ohne eine Fährverbindung nach UK, ist das vermutlich nicht schlecht. Die Alternativen Luft, Zug oder CUX sind besser und meist auch schneller.
Und wäre HH ein rentabler Standort, hätten wir hier erst recht dann auch die Fähren nach Norwegen.
Hier wäre vielleicht was los... 😨
@@alidemirbas6566Bin mir absolut nicht sicher, aber ich versuch es mal...
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That's right Dwayne, when the Romans left Britain after 410, Angles, Saxons and Frisians came from what is now northern Germany and Denmark and the Netherlands to settle there. In Germany today, there is a state of Lower Saxony. This is the heartland of ancient Saxony in Germany. In the Middle Ages they still spoke fairly similar languages. That changed over the centuries.
Unfortunately, I can't remember what the channel is called, but a linguist there compares, among other things, old linguistic roots of the English language with the "Nordic languages" (Dutch, Low German, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian).
And if I remember correctly, English drifted in the 15th/16th. Century so far removed from the language family that English was introduced as a language class in the Hanseatic League.
Lower Saxony is actually located in the place of the old Stem Duchy of Saxony, which was Christianized by Charlemagne after he defeated Widukind.
@@manub.3847 I think, RobWords does that. ruclips.net/video/VebSZrHmsI4/видео.html
theres a video where someone tries to speak to a frisian with old english. its pretty interesting. the video is called "The Frisian Perspective on "Talking to a Frisian farmer in Friesland with Old English" from history with Hilbert. its a different dialect than the one we speak in eastfrisia but its simmiliar enough to compare.
@@manub.3847 i guess you mean the channel "ecolinguist"
I lived about 10 years in North Germany just a few minutes from a beach away and what I agree with the most is the quality of the air.
I got sick every time I visited my parents in Berlin.
Also compared to Berlin the people were much friendlier (which isn't that hard)
to be honest, Berlin is traditionally also Northern Germany, being even further north than Hanover, having red brick architecture or Marchian Low German around.
The best "High German" is spoken in Hannover, the capital of Lower Saxony.
Moin ut noorddüütschland vun de waterkant Bremerhaven😊
Yes, we have a lot of long, wide and white beaches.
The geman coast is 1600 km long👍.
We are located in the north on the North Sea and Baltic Sea. and we have over 40 islands in the North Sea and Baltic Sea. Take a look at northern Germany and its coast, islands and Hanseatic cities.
allerbest un hool di wuchtig😊👍👍
You should definitely watch all four parts of this series from DW. So, also east, west and south. They are done very well... basically as always when Rachel was involved as the host. :)
Yeah, i just love Rachel, she is always so fun to watch. And i'm also always blown away when she speaks german since its just absolute perfect.
@@beldin2987 I love her, too. Ok, I'm married, but I think you know what I mean...
Moin
The beach with the high-rise building is not far from me and is in Travemünde, which is the overseas port of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. A beautiful city and the home of Lübeck marzipan.
Oh, I almost forgot. Travemünde is on the Baltic Sea, but Schleswig-Holstein also has access to the North Sea. We even have our own anthem and, in addition to Low German, we also have Danish as languages. A lot of things in northern Germany are not that far removed from English things. We have very nice thatched roof houses here like in some English areas. And our landscape is not unlike the landscape in England. Kind regards from Schleswig-Holstein.
Also mien Lieber mook wieder so un heff en schöön Dag.
der spinnt doch zu behaupten nicht zu wissen das wir Küsten und Strände haben. Ich bin gerade beleidigt und überlege mein Abo hier zu kündigen. So dumm kein kein Brite sein, oder doch!?
@@HenryAusLuebeck Ich denke es ist Briten nicht so wichtig. Viele Briten wissen tatsächlich nichts über Deutschland, was ja umgekehrt auch auf viele Deutsche zutrifft die nichts über England wissen, aber ja ich gebe dir recht, es war ein bisschen übertrieben von ihm. Deswegen würde ich aber kein Abo kündigen.
"You guys have beaches?????"😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂 wtf really? 👍🌞😂
Yeah, at this point I just get really annoyed whenever I hear this.😅 A country that's bordering the sea will probably have beaches. Why is this such a surprise???
Edit: but at least he cleared up his mistake in the video.😅
@@stef987 I think, it is because most of the people locate Germany in the middle of Europe; they are not aware of Germany bordering the sea. But of course people from Britain should know!!!!🧐
@@stef987 In fact we even border two "seas"!!!! 🤣
@@Winona493 Who are these "most of the people" ?
„You guys have beaches?!“ are you sure you’re European and not American?😂
When is your birthday? I’m gonna send you a map of europa
Eine Insel isoliert^^
seit Juni 2016 wissen wir das viele Briten dumm sind!
He's English, not European, showing the level of education in the UK 😜
British Education... he even thinks you have colonies in Germany 😂
@@noodleppoodle There was a time Germany had some, actually, but this was before the end of the 1st world war. So, his education is a little outdated...
Education... So important 😂
Greetings from Lübeck 👍
Moin from Kiel!
The Capital of Schleswig -Holstein, the part of Germany that shares a border with Denmark. It is called: „Das Land zwischen den Meeren“ (Land between the seas) because on one side it is bounded by the North Sea and on the other side it is bounded by the Baltic Sea. Both sides have beautyfull beaches, but on the North Sea part you‘re often missing the water because of the tide! 😁
The Baltic Sea is always there… 😍
And btw: I drink tea only if I‘m sick!
Moin aus Gaarden City. So schlimm ist das mit Ebbe und Flut nicht. Nur Ostküstler weinen rum 😅
"I drink tea only if I‘m sick!" - Obviously, cuz you aren't in East Firsia up there. 😊 (Better Water quality in Schleswig and Holstein than in the low muddy areas of Frisia.)
@@wandilismus8726 Das Watt hat definitiv seinen Reiz, allerdings erinnere ich mich auch an ein paar enttäuschende Momente, wenn man von etwas südlicher in Niedersachsen "endlich mal wieder" an die Nordsee gefahren ist, in ziemlicher Vorfreude so schnell wie möglich zum Strand gegangen ist, um den Anblick des Wassers zu genießen und dann Ebbe war.😅
@@stef987genau, ich mag Wasser auch lieber, wenn es nicht wegläuft 😉 Grüße aus dem Berliner Umland (wir nennen die Ostsee nicht umsonst unsere Badewanne 😊)
Ja, stimmt schon. In SH ist Tee nicht so extrem, eigentlich wie überall sonst in Deutschland. Aber Friesland ist da wirklich heftig. Selbst bei Aldi & Co bekommt man Schwarztee im Kilopaket zu relativ günstigen Preisen, und der ist dann in spitzen Tüten abgefüllt, ähnlich wie ein Spritzbeutel oder einer altmodischen Gemüsetüte aus Papier. Das ist alles sehr traditionell und speziell und sehr typisch für die Gegend.
Und auch wenn ich Tee liebe, so liebe ich Schleswig-Holstein definitiv mehr!
Tee trinken kann man überall.
Aber Schleswig-Holstein ist absolut unersetzlich und einfach wunderwunderschön.
Ich lebe in der Heide, wo es schon relativ beschaulich zugeht und die Natur atemberaubend ist, und wo man wirklich für sich sein kann, wenn man es möchte, im Gegensatz zu Hamburg, wo man manchmal schon weiter weg muss von zuhause, um draußen, aber ohne Menschen sein zu können.
Aber Schleswig-Holstein hat eine Vielfalt an unglaublich schöner Natur, unfassbar viele Wildtiere und die Menschen sind auch sehr viel netter, offener und entspannter als in der Heide. Obwohl man zB Ostholstein und Lüneburger Heide von der Besiedlung her vergleichen könnte.
Und die Behauptung über die Menschen basiert auf eigenen Erfahrungen.
Ob Winter oder Sommer: fahre ich in Ostholstein rechts ran, weil zB mein Telefon mal wieder nicht mit der Freisprecheinrichtung nicht gekoppelt hat und ein Anruf kommt rein (ich war beruflich fast anderthalb Jahre in OH), halten 8 von 10 vorbeifahrenden Fahrzeugen an und die Fahrer fragen, ob man Hilfe braucht und alles okay ist.
Ich hielt gelegentlich an, weil ich einen sehr alten, inkontinenten Hund bei mir hatte, und wenn der fiepte, ging es um Sekunden. Anhalten, Tür auf, Hund auslaufen lassen und weiter.
In 30 Jahren haben genau ZWEI Wagen in der Heide angehalten.
Wenn ich also tatsächlich liegen blieb, konnte ich froh sein, wenn man mich nicht auch noch anhupte, was hier heutzutage übrigens sehr in Mode ist. Und übrigens nicht nur mich. Die Leute sind hier ziemlich aggressiv geworden seit Corona.
In Ostholstein sind die Leute genau jetzt immer noch wahnsinnig lieb.
Und überall an der Ostküste.
An der Westküste ist es etwas reservierter, aber es sind grundehrliche Menschen in diesem großartigen Bundesland, das in mir nur noch mit Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ein wenig konkurriert, denn auch da ist es schön.
Aber die Holsteiner sind meine Lieblingsdeutschen. Mit Abstand! ❤
"You guys have beaches?" I mean, makes sense for a country with access to the north sea and the baltic sea, doesn't it? :D
😁 this is the part of Germany which is neglected by tourists, mainstream RUclipsrs and Expads!
Right? It's all mountains here. ^^@@biankakoettlitz6979
Kinda hurts a bit, because we really have some beautiful beaches and coastlines.@@biankakoettlitz6979
@@biankakoettlitz6979How lucky we are! 😂
well, I guess he was absolutely aware that we have access to two seas, but that doesn't automatically mean having "beaches" in a touristy sense. "Sandstrand". Some coastlines in the world are dominated by cliffs for example the English "White Cliffs Of Dover". Maybe he thought the German coastline would be more like that.
A shame that the video didn't show more of the islands in the north of Germany. They are wonderful. My first holiday "alone" with my best girlfriend at 17 (I'm 76 now) was to the island of Juist, on the North Sea, Just 17 km long and 500 m to 1 km wide (depending on the tides). No cars allowed, only one police car and one ambulance. Those who were not into walking, hired bikes. Beautiful sand dunes. Swimming, you needed a certain strength because of the strong current. We slept like babies because the air was so clean, and ate enormously, just losing weight (hi girls, place to go !). When we took the ferry back to the mainland, the smell of cars was horrific !!!!
You don't need glasses ! Unfortunately I don't know the place you are referring to - will have to check it out tomorrow.,..
@@danielkaufmann15 Thanks for the info !! I'm half German so I'm not offended...... Thanks also for the compliment (not photoshopped nor facelifted - must have good genes like my parents - my son took the photo but you can't see all the wrinkles - lol).
4:08 The Baltic Sea coast has beautiful beaches in every country that lies on the Baltic Sea coast. This is also my favorite holiday destination.
Also check out the videos about the other parts of Germany !!!
WoooW! She was in my hometown Rostock Warnemünde!!! 😍😍
Red light district: you will find prominent red light districts in many old cities with a harbour and nautic history. Where sailors land, the world´s "oldest profession" will not be far.
Edit.: 3 cups of tea seems to be similar to some customs in countries were traditionaly the mocca coffee is served. In Bosnia you will have the "docekusa" cup, meaning the "welcoming" cup, followed by the "raspricusa" cup, meaning the "conversation" cup and at the end the "odpracusa" cup, meaning the "farewell" cup.
Moin from Lübeck! Always fun watching you. So good you found the DW northern Germany series. 😊😊
as a german islander i'm offended by that intro :// jk
edit: yes we do have a lot in common and I think the Hanse played a large role in that, connecting the UK and the old German states and whatnot.
Come on….have you EVER looked at a map?!
Where THE HECK do you think the Angles and Saxons came from when they settled in England?! They lived exactly in the north of nowadays Germany!…setting off from sandy beaches, or mudflats….no pebble beaches here…yay!
Yea not to be rude but some people on YT never looked up some maps I guess :D I mean this is not a hard one
So ist es
That was my first thought. Sometimes the people are sure, that there was nothing before they were born. 😂
But Dwayne is such a nice guyand his videos are so funny. I like! 👍🏼
@@emmaerbsenbluete881 I know, I‘m also here for the good vibes…
But…being German for a minute…
He did have German in school, someone (like me) would hazard a guess that there was a map of Germany in the German book somewhere….right?!
Northern German here. :)
And a day without tea is a very sad one!
Moin from Hansestadt Rostock the city where you saw thoses nice sand beaches with nudity areas and thoses "Strandkörbe" where you can relax in.
And yes we have a lot in common with northern england and as you can imagine tea and fish to go is very typical here too.
By the way the connection with Britain is historical due to the original tribes and also due to trade during the middle ages.
The Hanse is the reason britsh, northern germans and the netherlands have simmilar ways and words.
I am originally from the east frisian area.🤣 when I visited Scotland I immediately felt home. The Scot’s were very much like not talking too much but always important things and being very honest and having a huge heart…. To me Scotland felt exact the same as northern Germany. ❤️
yeah northern germany isn't too far off from britain. We have a lot of custodies in common. Even the architecture is similar in a lot of places. Northern germany also was the british occupation zone after WW2, except for Mecklemburg-Vorpommern which was russian. But we adopted MeckPomm into northern germany after the reunification in 1990
well the norther parts of germany is where the angelsachsen caime from to colonise england ;P
Moin😊👍
Old English comes from Low German The Anglo-Saxons come from northern Germany and many Anglo-Saxons migrated to Britain (England- angelland , engeland) around 300-600 and drove out the Celts in what is now England. 90% of the English people in south britain ( England )area have German genes. I and my family also speak Low German.
allerbest mien keerl👍
un mok dat god👍
not quiet. low german comes form old saxon like english did. Dived when the saxons go over to the british islands. In germany low german (plattdeutsch) developed in britain it was old english wich was influence in britain by there own language, latain from the romans left there, vikings from norway and sweden and later some french.
@@redzora80 moin!😁😁
The Old Saxons came from northern Germany and settled on the British island. the old English s the old Saxon from low Germany. Low German (Plattdüütsch) developed in northern Germany. In England, Old English (Old Saxon) was increasingly influenced by other languages, French, Latin, Greek, Danish and Fisian (Friesland is mostly in northern Germany, East Frisia and North Friesland and a small part in Northern Netherlands. Low German is spoken in northern Germany, central Germany and eastern Germany in the Baltic Sea
@@redzora80 Old Saxon *IS* Old low German in the germanic tree.
*> The very 1st german germanic language point*
> AFTER the Angles founded *Hamburg* they crossed over to Ængland founding it. How ever *The Saxons/Sachsen* had the most influence esp. related to *their old low german* language, which was made the national one. The other tribes had no say related to the language.
> Any Northic word added are *Leanwords*
> the *church* madeUp "modern ænglish" by changing *Old Ænglish* lit. total.
*including erasing or downgrading "hated germanic/pagan" key words.
Old ænglish had *3 articles* like german today. *"the"* was introduced by *the church.*
*Deer* not only sound similar to german *Tier,* they actualy are the same.
The church reduced the meaning of *Deer* down to 1 specific one, *and added a word "replacing it" from "their dead language Latin": *animal*
*> small deer = small creature(s)* in old english.
Also in writting:
Old ænglish: *Dior*
Old (low) german: *Tior*
Lit. all ænglish endings with *-ry* or *-y* are fake and madeUp by the church.
*> Hungry* was *Hungrig* in old ænglish.
> The church switch lit. all endings with *-ig* with *-y* and *-rig* with *-ry*
....
Same goes for *"High german"* is a fake version of german, *madeUp* by the church how THEY wanted german to be and sounds as well as *again* REPLACING germanic words with THEIR Latin words.
*Ich* in german for ænglish "i" is a made up word by the church.
*> There is no -ch in german germanic language.* But a germanic *-h* spoken as *-x*
> Sachsen in High German, should be:
>> *Saxen >Saxon*
Back than, ænglish was considered a *"Old low German Dialect form"* ..until the church came and changed sh!t arround in this languages, with intent, to hide they are similar and orign of german & ofc to place in Latin words, so they do not disapear from history.
@@aw3s0me12 Moin👍😁,...dat is ja mal richtig goot verkloort. dar schall se ja hööftsächlich wat lehrt hebben.
allerbest un hool di wuchtig👍👍
@@arnebollsen moin 🖐
Do ko *i* nix drgega saga!
Liebr hählenga gscheid, wia oheimlich bleed 😏
An Gscheidr ko au vom a Domma lerna, abbr koin Dommr vom a Gscheida.
Manchr isch so gscheid, dass’r nedd amol mergd, wenn’s regned!
> So do wär des och gschwätzt.
No' ebes...
*"Ma ka et älles, ma ka koin Furz uff a Brettle nagla."*
_(Man kann nicht immer alles (wissen), sowie man keinen Pfurz aufs Holzbrett fest nageln kann)_
In diesem Sinne... 🖐😎
The dish "Labskaus" she mentioned is also the reason for the Term "Scousers" .... which surely you are familiar with.
Correct, Labskaus is Lobscouse in English.
I am born in Hamburg, lived more than 2 decades in the USA, am back in Germany. (Better that way) I would say the Frisians are not "long lost British" as you say, but Brits are the long lost Saxons and Angles (Angeln is north of Hamburg into Denmark) 😊
I always wonder.... as Germany does have a coast you can expect beaches... 😂
And yes... I live in Anglia in northern Germany close to Denmark and those were the folks that went to Britain. Angloes and Saxons... and that's why your language is called English (Anglish) as well, you know? 😉
I think that we have a coastline should be clear to every Brit, but not necessarily that we have very nice sandy beaches and chalk cliffs. For example, if you're British, you often know nothing about other countries. Or do you know a lot about Belgium or Luxembourg? Honestly, I don't know anything about these countries except that they are our neighbors. If I don't read up on these countries, I don't know anything about these countries. And I don't think Germany was important to him until now.
... about the last point ---> I drink at least 1,25 liters of tea every day - it's my "morning routine" and I'm even from Thuringia. (4 cups of tea and the day can start - don't even talk to me before the 2nd cup!)
"You guys have beaches?" - yes. of course! Why not? Germany has two coastlines (Nordsee, Ostsee) and of courses there are beaches. Dont you have beaches in the UK? Of course you have. A weird question.
So true. Even on Finland we Haven a plenty of those
My dad is from Schleswig-Holstein (the most northern state of Germany - the one neighbouring Denmark) so I grew up with that part of Germany being my "home" Germany. As a little kid I even thought of only Schleswig-Holstein and maybe Hamburg being North Germany and everything else as West Germany, East Germany, Central Germany and South Germany. :D It's so flat that I could see the TV Tower of the capital of Schleswig-Holstein - which was about 20-30 minutes by car away - and further from my room window. When we moved to South West Germany - to a very pretty little old town, like the typical old towns that are associated with Germany, which was located in between green forests and mountains - when I was 15 I missed the flat land so much that I felt so claustrophobic and got sick for the first 1-2 week(s) and completely missed school for that time. Now I'm back again living in the capital of Schleswig-Holstein (which sounds pretty fancy but it's not XD) and although I'm not as happy as I could be this is still home to me.
I really liked the video and your take on it. It's quite commonplace that many foreigners (and Germans alike!) don't know Northern Germany and how different it is to the South. I am from the South (or Central) part and I really like Bremen and Hamburg. You notice how much they have in common with other North Sea countries like the UK, the Netherlands or Denmark. For me coming from the South, it is really distinct and I like it very much.
Das ist lustig, daß Du das schreibst.
Eine meiner engsten Freundinnen, wir sehen uns nur im Süden, wenn ich dort meinen Bruder besuche, versucht seit Jahren, mich zu einem Umzug zu überreden.
Und sie versteht bis heute nicht, warum ich mich so sehr dagegen wehre.
Ich mag den Süden, aber ab und zu hinzureisen reicht mir.
Sie sagt, dort ginge der Frühling früher los und sei wärmer, weniger Stürme im Winter und keine Sturmfluten, Schnee im Winter usw.
Aber das mit dem Schnee ist inzwischen ausgeglichen. Auch hier ist es inzwischen im Frühling früh alles bunt.
Aber dafür haben wir im Sommer immer die Möglichkeit, uns am nächsten Gewässer abzukühlen, und ich meine nicht schwimmen.
Als vor ca. 5 oder 6 Jahren, glaube ich, dieser katastrophal heiße Sommer war, in dem so viele Menschen starben, und wir selbst im Norden nachts im Binnenland, Hamburg, Lüneburger Heide usw, noch 35 Grad und mehr in den Häusern hatten, fuhr ich mit dem Transporter nach Feierabend ans Wasser und schlief dort, bei offener Schiebetür.
In einer Nacht war mir bei 17 Grad sogar richtig kalt geworden.
Die Menschen waren ungnädig miteinander, weil sie kaum schliefen.
Ich liebe Wind, kühle Luft und Weite.
Und als jemand mit Heuschnupfen bin ich froh, dem gut entkommen zu können.
Zudem ist es zT hier oben günstiger zu leben, die Weute, die Natur, die dünnere Besiedelung... naja, und die beiden Meere vor der Tür und die vielen Seen...
Wenn sie mich mal wieder überreden wollte, schrieb ich ihr, ich muss mal Gassi gehen, und schickte ihr dann ein paar Fotos von unterwegs. Mal die Elbe, mal ein See im Wald, ein kleiner Fluss, der durch ein Moor mäandert, Hünengräber, Heidelandschaft, manchmal mit Schnuckenherde, Wiesen mit Kranichen, Wildgänsen oder Störchen...
Und sie staunte jedesmal und war fassungslos, daß das alles in der Umgebung ist.
Sie hat den Bodensee, eine Hopfenplantage, einen Wald und eine Obststreuwiese. Und das wars leider.
Schön, aber wenig Vielfalt.
Sie flippt fast aus, wenn sie ein Reh sieht, knipst und schickt das ganz begeistert, hier stehen die Viecher im Garten rum und fressen meine Blumen und ich knipse mal einen Wolf und schicke ihn ihr.
Mittlerweile denkt sie darüber nach, irgendwann mal hier Urlaub zu machen. 😉
Wie schön es hier ist, ist vielen Menschen nicht bekannt.
Es gibt so einige Gegenden, die unterbewertet sind.
Unter anderem zB auch Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, der Thüringer Wald oder auch das Ruhrgebiet. Früher ein Drecksloch, also vor 100 Jahren, aber heute sollte man, wenn man gerne paddelt, die Ruhr bepaddelt haben! Ein Naturparadies!!! Und auch unsere Mittelgebirge sind toll: der Harz, der Hundrück oder die Rhön. Wunderschön! ❤
I'm from Northern Germany. From Schleswig-Holstein to be precise - the Most beautiful Bundesland of the world. It's definetly worth at least one visit - as is Hamburg, too. Another beautiful spot to visit is the Hansestadt Lüneburg in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony).
I actually did find it easy to learn English at school. 👋🏻
Schleswig-Holstein is a beautiful state I give you that, but Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's baltic coast is much more beautiful than that of SH.
I'm actually from nothern germany like 10 Kilometers away from Hamburg, and it's an extremely beautiful city that you should definetly visit! And i agree that northern germany and England look very similar. I've often had the experience that i saw some video of british cities and streets and thought " this looks like a german city!" Haha
Not quite North German are considered friendly but rather quiet. For example, one would say "moin" as a greeting. If someone says "moin moin," they want to talk unnecessarily.
6:11 So first of all, the question should be whether English sounds similar to Old Saxon German. and not vice versa, as the Saxons migrated from Germany to England. Just kidding but it's the truth. :D and yes, but not to modern English but to Old English
High German actually developed further away from old Saxon than modern English from old English though. So modern English is nowadays closer to the original language if you will.
@@Akabei01 yes, definitely. Those who only speak High German understand almost no word.
Moin from northern Germany. I am living near Lübeck (about 30 minutes drive by car). It really made it easier for to learn English at school for me to be grown up hearing Plattdeutsch speaking in my family.
Moin from Lübeck the Queen of the Hanse, at the Baltic coast..yes we have a bunch of beaches 😊
And btw do you think the first peoples in England come out of the earth🤭?
All of them came once from the Mainland...
We share the same roots of language and Culture🥰
Thanks for ur great Reactions✌
Leer and the surrounding area is my home, I grew up there and spent the first 30 years of my life there.
That's why I really grew up with tea. Everyone in East Frisia drinks tea - several times a day. East Frisians drink tea at least three to four times a day, often more. It starts with breakfast, followed by the traditional morning tea at 11 a.m., not only at home, but also in almost every office, company or other workplace.
Of course, tea is served again in the afternoon and usually again for dinner. It is important to realise that dinner in Germany is not a hot meal (which is served at lunchtime), but is usually bread with sausage, cheese or other spreads. People drink warm drinks with it, everywhere else probably coffee, children often drink cocoa, but in East Frisia everyone drinks tea, even the children.
Children are practically brought up on tea; as soon as they are weaned off the bottle, they drink tea as a matter of course.
When visitors arrive, tea is made immediately, and tea and cake are served at every family celebration in the afternoon.
In every restaurant, in every café there is tea, of course, and even in hospitals, for example, where everywhere else in the world coffee is served for breakfast or in the afternoon, tea is served in East Frisia.
Tea is the national drink of East Frisia - tea really is drunk everywhere and at all times.
And I still drink tea, even though I haven't lived in East Frisia for over 30 years.
same here in Ammerland, what's 3 pm without a few cups of good old Thiele Tee. Also how am I supposed to get out of bed with a nice cup for breakfast and how am I supposed to have trouble falling asleep if it weren't for the cup in the evening :D
😃 Great reaction! Please do also the 3 other parts. Maybe they are not so "related" to Great Britan but still interesting.
Just brothers from another mother here Dwayne, sending love from Bremen. ;)
Moin! Dwayne! Du warst Überrascht das wir in Deutschland 40 Inseln haben!🤔 Ich auch! 😲Ja der Norden ist wunderschön. Ich trinke beim Frühstück Tee 500 ml Tasse also 180 Liter im Jahr.👍
me too
Of course we've got beaches. Have you not looked at a map of Germany before?
Tee is unser!! 😂 Schiet wat up. Wi Ostfriesen bünd all goode Teedrinkers. Tschüß 😝🥰
@@danielkaufmann15 Ich bin selber auch kein gebürtiger Ostfriese. Aber dies hier ist definitiv meine Wahlheimat. Ich liebe sie und identifiziere mich mit ihr. Allerdings ist es als zugezogener relativ schwer in kleineren Dörfern Anschluss zu finden. Es ist da wichtig die ostfriesischen Gepflogenheiten zu kennen. 😂🤩
Take a look at Germany with Google Earth. From the overview down to the roads in cities and towns. And from the North- and Baltic Sea down to the Alps. In my opinion, this is the best and easyest way to find out, how Germany, and all other parts of the world es well, looks like.
We also have beaches in the South. On Bodensee "Lake Constanz".
Hmmm....born in SH and living for 7 yrs in BW, I can confidently say: no, no beaches at the Bodensee, unfortunately 😢
@@nikolaimikuszeit3204 Unteruhldingen and maybe others
@@alexanderpracher6753Ja, wohne in Radolfzell und kenne die alle....aber neee! Da hat die Elbe bei Hamburg bessere Strände. ruclips.net/video/E8XRN9fpm-0/видео.html ;)
@@nikolaimikuszeit3204Bessere sehr wahrscheinlich. Aber es sind eben Strände da, am Bodensee. Wenn auch nicht so toll wie an Nord- und Ostsee.
@@alexanderpracher6753ok ok....."Strand, aus Sand, Geröllen oder (selten) Blöcken bestehende Uferzone eines Sees oder Meeres." dann ja. ;)
I am From the hanseatic city of Bremen, the most beautiful city of Germany ;-)
Na ja, die zweitschönste.Nach Hamburg😊
@@majav.4887 😂😂😂 lass ich mal so stehen 😉
i was born and raised in northern germany (10 years of that in hamburg) and i'm not sure if it was easier for me to learn english but what is definitely easier for me to understand is dutch because that's really similar to plattdeutsch (low german) so especially when it's written it's very easy to understand and the other way around my dutch friend said it's very easy to understand plattdeutsch. to me dutch sounds like a mixture of plattdeutsch, english and an interesting accent (which is why it's easier when it's in writing)
germany has lots of beaches at the baltic sea or northern atlantic coast. and they are full of tourists in summer. german coast holiday resorts are very expensive so only higher class travellers can affort it. best beaches germany has in the south lake chiemsee and other bavarian lakes
Yes when you can speak "plattdeutsch" you can learn english very fast. Many words are the same.
Some of the words, though more than 50% of English words are based on French and Latin, which have to learn whether you speak High or Low German.
Platt ( not Plattdeutsch) is a own language, its a sister from old english and dutch. And yes the UN say its a languge not a dialect..
That's correct!
These videos by DW are really good, even if DW is "our" Tourism-advertisment channel.
It is no wonder our northern citizens share a lot of traits and traditions.
The enviroment ; that shaped; that traditions is pretty similar.
Even before our age of mobility you could cross over to britain with a small rowboat in a couple of hours... on a good weather day.
The tea is more a sailor tradition because "Ostfriesentee" is imported tea from india.
We had no colonial outposts in India... rest peaceful, the eastfrisiean sailors definitivly got it from you and put their own twist on it.
We have quite a lot of herbalteas in germany that are brewed from local herbs and/or beeries.
We have beaches in Berlin ... and several baths ... one of the first public transport railways was specifically built to transport "the masses" to the bath at WANNSEE for recreation. There was even a really popular song for that in the 1920s ... "Pack die Badehose ein".
Labskaus tastes better - if good cooked - than it looks 😉
@@danielkaufmann15 Yeah, I know. Also the landscape if you drive from Cologne via the B7 down to Frankfurt side by side the River Rhine or switched at the Deutsches Eck in Koblenz over to the River Mosel heading to Trier.
Amazing. How can Germany have beaches even though it's not an island? 😲
a long coastlines (north- and balticsee) + 50 islands, yes germany have 50 islandns
Including the islands, Germany has a longer coast line then Portugal! 👀
Northern germany is a kind of a hidden gem for foreign tourist, and that´s rather funny, because you will find lots of english speakers here and a traveller from GB or the US of A shouldn´t have any problem to get by. The sheer amount of sites and UN world heritages is simply amazing. It is definetely a location someone who wants to avoid the stereotypic sightseeing in southern germany, going rather for culture, art and nature.
Well, Northern Germany are probably not "exotic enough" for British tourist who often want to experience something different from home.
11:02 : "Ostfriesentee"
Dwayne (as an english Person): "What Drink is that?"
Me: 😂
and yes , there was tea🫖 in the morning, afternoon and evening, I'm out of style and only drink coffee...☕
I was from Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, then moved to Hamburg and after that I moved to Norway and changed my citizenship.
I come from the coast. Vast sandy beaches and romantic dunes in Cuxhaven, the Frisian islands and all of the Baltic sea islands and northern Friesian islands. Really nice!
I'm from west germany (close to the netherlands) and our culture is very different, it was interesting for me to watch this video and learn about my own culture :D As a kid i was on Sylt with a vacation group called "Falken (Falcon)" and it was an amazing time. the island is so small you can walk around the beach in a couple of hours around the whole island, that was so crazy :D and it was such a cozy place, the people over there are so friendly not like in my hometown. everyone is so straight forward and direct, which i like too. the people say what they think if you like it or not but it's just another kind of open minded :D
Iam from Germany but not from Hamburg- Iam from Oldenburg about two hours away from Hamburg
I'm from Cuxhaven at the mouth of the Elbe. Ferries used to drive from here to England but unfortunately that has been discontinued. Now we only ship cars to England
I am from the southern part of lower saxony originally but live in the beautiful town of Lüneburg tody, which is quite close to Hamburg. If you visit Hamburg or northern Germany you must visit Lüneburg. It is another Hansestadt with really great architecture.
And yes, northern Germany has similarities to Britain.
If you are visiting a football match of St. Pauli you will probably meet guys from Glasgow because St Pauli and Celtic have a friendship. And the Hambuerger Sportverein has a friendhip with the Rangers.
When Invisited Liverpool it was very close to Hamburg, I loved it.
And Plattdeutsch is quite close to Dutch but all the same language family with english. I sae an quite intereseting video about the evolving of the language, which letters changed and how you can understand German as an english native speaker without knowing german by knowing these letter changes. It was really interesting.
You have to visit northern Germany. It is beautiful and you will see so many similalarities to England. So we share the same ancestory and I would really like to know how you'd feel about that.
Moin from Rostock, baltic sea!
The lovely beach you see where Rachel presented the beach basket is called "Warnemünde(r) Strand".
Nearby there is a forest called "Gespensterwald/Forest of the ghosts" The trees are effected by the heavy salty wind growing in a bit strange way. It is told that the waving trees produce gloomy dark shadows in the wind. Especially when its foggy or rainy weather there is something magical in it. Its really relaxing walking at the beach or in the forest.
Hi, Northern German girl here! It's true, there are many many similarities between this part of Germany and parts of the UK! If you ever travel to Northern Germany, I'd recommend visiting Hamburg and Lübeck, as well as the island Sylt (easy accessed by train, beautiful beaches)! Nice video
Come and visit northern Germany! This part of our country is really beautiful, but highly underestimated.
And the Reeperbahn is in Hamburg. There is even a very old song that is about it "Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins..."
Old Englisch, Lower Saxon, Frisian and Norwegian are languages with similar roots. I'm currently learning Norwegian and I'm fascinated by how many words I understand. And as for the beaches: you would be amazed at the beaches and the huge sandy reef of Juist, the small neighboring island of Norderney.
Moin, I´m also from Northern Germany greetings from Hildesheim. I also lived in the UK for about 7 years it really surprised me at first how simular Northern Germany is to the UK. The weather, the people I felt right at home in England.
Do people in Hildesheim really think they live in Norther Germany?
There are many beaches in Germany - not only at the sea. 😉 But there are also some seaside resorts. Those at the North Sea are a bit rougher regarding weather conditions, but the island of Sylt and some seaside spas like St. Peter-Ording have become something like luxury destination for the wealthy and for the wanna-be elite. The weather at the Baltic coast is generally a bit friendlier and sunnier, and there are multiple classical seaside resorts to find, like Heiligendamm (est. 1793), Baabe, Binz, Sellin and others at the island of Rügen and so on.
There are also not only the 40 islands in the north (one of them Helgoland, which was 1807 - 1890 ruled by the UK, but then traded with Prussia against Zanzibar), but also a handful in the South (admittedly not in the sea, but within lakes - however in some cases big enough for holding a town or multiple villages). 😁
14:25 Ostfriesland (Eastern Frisia) shares a border with the United Netherlands, of which West Frisia is a part, and many East Frisians worked back in the 17th century for the Dutch East India Company shipping tea to Europe. Until 1744 East Frisia was ruled by House Cirksena as an Earldom only subject to the German king (but no duke or prince), but as the last ruler of that House died, House Hohenzollern of Brandenburg-Prussia took over (by a contract of inheritance authorized by Emperor Leopold I). Elector Frederick II (since 1740 King in Prussia) first installed the "Royal Prussian Company in Emden to Canton and China" to start importing tea and other goods himself. That company however had only 4 ships, and the 7 Year's war damaged not only the business, it also led to the occupation of the port of Emden in 1757 by French troops during their invasion of Hannover. After the war the company was dissolved, and because importing tea meant now losing foreign exchange Frederick then tried to restrict tea import (the Prussian authorities proposed to drink instead tea from domestic herbs as well as more beer), which led to conflicts with the Frisians and their "Landstände", a parliament of delegates of towns and landholders, called the "tea war" (which included also large-scale tea smuggling). After 2 years they won. About 40 years later Napoleon decreed in 1806 the Continental Blockade against the British Empire, so the East Frisians went back again to smuggling tea (and other goods).
Feel free to come to Germany and visit Northern Germany. I live in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Vorpommern-Rügen district. In our community there is a car ferry to the island of Rügen, which can be used from spring to autumn. Otherwise you can get to the island from Stralsund via the Rügen Bridge or the Rügen Dam. There are many great beaches there, so we don't have to go abroad for a beach holiday in the summer. Rügen also has a cliff, chalk cliffs and, as an island, it is not entirely flat.
I can also recommend a trip to the island of Hiddensee. It is car-free. You can only get there as a pedestrian or cyclist by taking a ferry.
You're 100% right about Old Saxon!
You can see the similarities in the phonology as well as vocabulary: you have "Water" instead of "Wasser", "gif" (give) instead of "gib", "Appel" (apple) instead of "Apfel", "klock een" (one o'clock) instead of "ein Uhr",...
I'm a German born in the west and I thought I knew everything about my culture, but the video taught me wrong. I never heard of the tea tradition or the ceremony in East Frisia, and I'm as surprised as you've been, Dwayne.
Moin from Hamburg. Reeperbahn/(St Pauli) is not only a red district but there are the most bars and music clubs (+musical and theaters) concentrated in one area. It is the core party scene in Hamburg. Every weekend, tenth of thousands people are at this area. Before Brexit and when the flights from UK to Hamburg (via Ryan Air Lübeck) were cheaper, a lot of Brits spend their bachelor parties in Hamburg on the Reeperbahn. Was always funny to had some drinks and chat with the british lads. No curfew on the Reeperbahn, so you could theoretical party and drink from Friday till Sunday night non-stop in certain bars (and clubs).
No, my friend, tea is Indian! I've been to South India, and their tea just blew my mind. They drink it with lots of sugar made from sugar cane, and if you ever drank fresh sugar cane juice, that's bitter-sweet and addictive. Will give you diabetes sooner or later, but a tourist visa is only valid for half a year.
Tea originated in china not india my friend, the indians started more than 500 years later than the chinese
I've had indian tea and honestly it is way too sweet. It's more sugar than water and doesn't taste like tea should taste.
@@fawkesmorqueThat's because they make it like in India, where it is hot, and tea gives you energy while the sugar helps your body not to sweat too much. Also, cane sugar has a taste of its own, while the European white (or "refined") sugar is just sweet and nothing else. Spoils your taste buds if you have it too often.
I grew up near East Frisia. I love Low German, I love the East Frisian way of drinking tea and beware of anyone trying to explain to me that you drink black tea differently! Kidding. But yes, I also found it easy to learn English because it is so similar to my usual Low German. The beaches are also very beautiful and now that I live in North Rhine-Westphalia, I miss the beaches a lot. Somehow, lying by a lake or going swimming doesn't feel so wonderful to me. I'm sure if my life allows it, I'll go back to my Low German homeland.
You're spot on that Low German has a lot in common with English. It's still distinctly German, but with a twist that in some areas is audibly towards English.
like "Schietwetter" (sh*t weather) or "Waterkant" (coast line, literally water edge)
Moin from Stade/ lower Saxony at the river Elbe next to Hamburg
Including the islands, Germany has a longer coast line then Portugal. And yes this includes some beautiful beaches, but we also have cliffs, like the Kreidefelsen on the island of Rügen. And as the north sea can be very rough, as you probably know, the lighthouses were very needed, I guess.
Hamburg is calling.... it's interesting how less people know how further they away. but that was funny react! 🙂
Always happy to see someone realize how similiar us north-germans are compared to brits! We are pretty much brethren in some ways. :)
Love the interest in Germany! I love England and have lived there for several years as a student. Little fun fact: Labskaus the traditional Northern dish is the namesake for your very own Scousers ;)
Yes we do have beaches both on the North and Baltic Sea. A lot of them are pretty nice.
Tea is consumed since thousends of years in Germany. In teh old times it was not fermented tea as we knew them today, the old Germans used other ingredients to give teh water flavor, like dried fruits, berries, rose hips, mint, elderberry, flowers and of course ingredients with medicinal properties, but the taste was not the focus there.
Yeah, look at the map where country is situaded. Whe have wery long Sand
beaches In Finland too. And temperature can be over 30°C
30 is ok to me. But 40☹️ toi much. Greets to you Also.. now -1
In Venice bout 5 years ago was 38. Just a little bit too much, but were there just one week, so no problem.could stand it
Moin from Cuxhaven, the most northern town of Lower Saxony! Yes, we have beaches and islands and seals and seagulls, and we love to sail and eat a lot of fish! There once was a time (12 000 years B.C) when one could walk from northern Germany to the British Isles via Doggerland, a dry land which sank 8000 years B.C. and is now part of the North Sea - maybe starting the long journey from what today is Cuxhaven... ;-) So there has been a prehistoric connection to Northern England even long before the Saxons arrived there. Maybe that could be where the similarity of our languages originally stems from.
Hello Dwayne, there is a video on you tube with a guy from the frisian islands had a conversation with someone from Britain who spoke an very old english from the medivial times. In the 70`s we had a ferry from Harwich to Hamburg. Greetings from Williams castle ( Wilhelmsburg ), the island right in the middle of Hamburg
Great video and so interesting to see my home ( I am born in North Germany) thru your eyes.
The north of Germany, especially Hamburg, was very much oriented towards England. The model for Hamburg was and is London. The merchants in Hamburg were very much oriented towards the English lifestyle.
Yes you are right. Low German is like a bridge between High German and Modern English. But some vocabulary differs a lot between the regions but the overall "twang" is the almost same.
You really should visit northern Germany 😊 Greetings from Rostock, we not only invented the Beach Basket but we also have the widest beach on the German Baltic Sea coast ❤
Helgoland is a German island that was British at some point in history. I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to purchase some English tea on my holiday there.
I fully expected them to show video of Scheveningen when talking about the German beaches. :')
6:26 it is in fact closer to English. I remember talking about dialects in German lessons a few years ago, and we had the example of „Appel“ (Plattdeutsch), which is Apfel in standard German. It‘s very easy to tell that the plattdeutsch version is closer to the English word apple. A lot of the ‚sharper‘ sounds in words come from the more southern regions of Germany
i'm original from Berlin, but i live for over 10 years in Itzehoe 60 km from Hamburg.
So yes, we have beaches many of them . One came in my mind, it's called "Timmendorfer Strand" and it' s by the east sea (Ostsee), ah and i was with the Family at the " Sgt. Peter Ording" it's an big one , at the Northern Sea (Nordsee) , realy amazing. BTW A nice video , i love the topics and your reaction of the things about Germany .
I am from Hamburg. Yes it was not so hard learning English. Becaus a lot of words in our language are more ore less the same as in English.
We here in Hamburg have a lot of Brittish Citizens, an Engish Church, Fish & Chips restaurants and "The old Commercial Tea Room". We used to ship a lot of Beer to England and had about 12.000 brewerys in the 16. century. Most of the ber went to you guys. I myself have Brittish frends who are living here in Hamburg. My English teacher is Canadian.