9 English words Germans can't pronounce
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- Alice is out in the streets of Berlin to test people on the most difficult English words to pronounce :)
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Surprised "squirrel" didn't come up. It's so funny watching Germans try to say it XD
Ben DuMonde Wait for part II ;)
+Easy Languages I want part II!!!
I said the word "squirrel" sometime in 78, when I first arrived here. The woman did not understand what I said, I used to find it a difficult word. But yes, it is funny!
squirrel in German ist also quite difficult to pronounce
Squirrel is a word in english I am not really able to pronounce. But I am very good at saying this sentence very fast: If two witches watched two watches, which witch would watch which watch. I am so proud of myself
love that Dutch guy, in Germany, flawless repeating "red lorry, yellow lorry" with his face in "is this supposed to be difficult?"
he wasnt dutch he just said that he knew a dutch word she probably cant pronounce listen carefully
AF mabro NDBZOP as a dutch person myself in a reltionship with a german and knowing a lot of germans, his pronunciation of dutch and english words make me believe he is dutch. Or he is able to speak dutch without a german accent, which is rather tricky (same goes for dutch people speaking german)
He was definitely Dutch. You can tell by how he perfectly pronounced "Scheveningen".
Back in WW2, it was the trick for Dutch people to find out whether someone was a German spy or not, because Germans have a hard time with that word too.
No, the Dutch "r" is very similar to the "r" sounds in German. I just think the average Dutchman has plenty of experience with speaking English. (Especially when someone is abroad like the guy in this video, it makes sense that their English is better than that of the locals)
According to the map on the wiki page of the guttural "r" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttural_R) Apparently it's not used in Dutch that often, but I think pretty any Dutch person can pronounce it anyway. But I should also mention that the "r" we do use is not the same as the one in American English.
Some say he’s still trying to pronounce “brewery”
I wouldnt blame him cause the letter "w" is pronounced as "V"
Actually, after pondering and wondering he settled to rest at a beer garden brewery where the consumption of copious amounts of hops untied his twisted tongue to say brewery just as it should
in fairness the 'english' speaker has a fuckoff strong accent
Always impressed by European second language capabilities
Well, if you think about it a little bit, it becomes obvious why we should have an advantage in Europe. Sadly however, although the US for example is mainly comprised of europeans, they very effectively deleted any feeling or comprehension for foreign languages from their gene pool.
@@GERntleMAN Yes, it used to be that there were whole towns spoken with German (particularly in Penssylvania) then WW1 happened and sauerkraut became liberty cabbage.
@@GERntleMAN Countries to them are smaller than different states to us.
You sound American. Multilingualism is the norm in the Global South.
@@9nk3
Yeah, but English skill is always piss poor in the "Global South" (I HATE that term).
In Europe, ESL speakers are often indistinguishable from native English speakers.
they did a good job
Oh, well. They can't all be winners. Lol.
go back to Vietnam burning kids
I'm not responsible for anything my grandparents did when I wasn't alive. I only feel responsible for not letting it happen again.
usa did worse combined all their shit
bugsbunny2022
everybody in the world had slaves since men walked the earth. just some (the US) refused to give slavery up after all those you listed stopped it.
and twice the amount of Europeans were enslaved by Muslim Barbary slave traders than Africans were by Europeans.
Should've had them say:
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if the woodchuck could chuck wood
Anonymous That's not hard at all
Its actually: "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
Its actually: "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
That is so fucking easy.
They were having trouble with some of the simple words so I really doubt they would find tongue twisters easy especially if you have to say it quick. I don't think you guys understand how difficult even a simple tongue twister can be for foreigners if they are not comfortable with the language.
Doctor - Okay you have high blood pressure. From now on you need to take this medicine regularly.
German Guy - 0:55
underrated comment !
@@leonwahl_official haha. Your comment is underrated as well.
@@corinnabuck-lachenmann54 yours too!
I cant stop laughing
This is why I watch you tube for comments like this
German is hard to pronounce for everyone else, that’s what makes that language so beautiful
It really isn't.
Except Scots who have the glottal stop as in Loch.
Ha,ha English 🤪
Do you realy think So?
I found These very intresting.
I'm not gonna learn dutch first cause it's easier, I'm going all in. lol.
It depends on what your native language is. The Japanese spoken by English speakers is terrible. No matter how many years English speakers live here, they can't get rid of their strong accents. But they make fun of other countries' English pronunciations.
haha the dutch dude with his "scheveningen" 😂😂😂
Rikki Sjoeberg its hottentottentententheatertentoonstellingstereinen but nice try hahha
doggislove ... bedankt ...en nu...alleen voor jou... sju hundra sjösjuka sjömän skötes av sjuttiosju sjuksköterskor
orla mahony It's a city in Holland. The beach of The Hague.
I'm an English girl but I have a Dutch friend and when he met me he told me to try to pronounce it and I was like bruh. But now I can kinda pronounce it since I've been trying to learn Dutch
Skinny Dipper scheveningen doesn't mean anything. it's just a city in the netherlands
Just about every German word is hard for me to pronounce
pushup daisies Cannot be
pushup daisies It is so eaay
pushup daisies
" hallo "
KruemelCrafter If you did this same thing in England or the USA most would just pronounce it as they would say Hello.
Ironically, the English language comes from and is made up of about 80% the Germanic language. The way we form our sentences, the way we pronounce the words, and the cadence of our conversation is actually Germanic in nature. We borrow a lot of words from the Latin roots with sprinkling of the Romance languages such as French and Italian, but the majority is Germanic. :)
Germans seem to be a very friendly people!
Ginjou yeah its the Prenzlberg the people here 'are so Belin'
Fr6Eak6zSho6w seen Is that suppose to be funny?
Why? are they bad people?
Fr6Eak6zSho6w seen You're joking about something that involved millions of deaths. Are you that desparate for attention?
Fr6Eak6zSho6w seen Bless your little heart.
Try to pronounce "Rindfleischettiketierungsüberwachungsaufgabenüberwachungsgesetz"
(Edit: Fixed the Word its actually longer.)
Hairy Potter got it
Wtf is that
@@gecelerdendevrim7090 a german Word.
Da fehlt ein "übertragungs" in der Mitte.
das gibt es wirklich?
Random Dutch dude uses The Scheveningen Attack! It was very effective.
esmayrainbow Scheveningen. -- that’s easy, lol.
Can’t speak Dutch anymore, but I went to the local school in Rijswick when I was seven yrs old.
Rijswijk :-) I lived in Den Haag for a few years also. Funny enough, I lived in Scheveningen for a year or so during that time. Allegedly the Dutch Resistance during WW2 using Scheveningen as a type of password, on the basis that German speakers could never pronounce it correctly, so filtering out spies in their ranks.
+Liam Evans
My (American) girlfriend: You people have a beautiful language!
Dutchman: Yeah, right.
🇳🇱
Zeker
What does it mean?
Isn't Scheveningen Dutch?
AkasakaS2000 Scheveningen IS a place in the Netherlands. Its a beach area in "Den Haag" (the Hague). Very
popular whenever the weather is good (read 2 days a year).
AkasakaS2000 yes
2 days a year is a very accurate description
I'm not even Close to German and I'm just sitting here watching people speak English better then me.
Are you native English speaker?
@@calebware5809 my guess by her name is she’s Hispanic. She actually made a common mistake most native English speakers make. The sentence shouldn’t end “better then me”. It should end “better than* I*”. If you end with “me” it’s as though you’re saying better than “me do” rather than “I do”. 85-90% of Americans won’t catch this mistake.
@@fezzik7619 maybe I'm part of the problem (am an American) but "better than I" sounds a bit off to me. don't know enough about the english grammar to say for sure though. Usually if something is done by 85%-90% of a population it is just considered part of the language. What do you think?
*than
I can tell.
@@fezzik7619 wow, well i'm russian but it seems like i only met it the wrong way and like never the right (which i would have thought is mistake) way at all.
That lady in the background at 0:19 went from 100 to 0 really fast as far as smiles are concerned lol.
omg I saw it too xD
Haha That face 😂
That's German sense of humour for ya
Lmao
The last one was Dutch not german
He did say "Dutch" LOL
Deutschland fool. Since the first part of Germany is Deutsche, or "Dutch" for all they know.
+Ubermenschi dutch is someone from the netherlands
InCOnSistEnT caPitaLIZaTIoN.
Don't act stupid. :D
As an English and French speaker trying to learn German for the last few years, this sort of made me feel better about my questionable pronunciation of German words :P
Hope you'll get better ;)
As long as you don’t fluff up “computer”, you should keep your spirits high and your hopes up
I avoid big words like the plague when attempting to type in German. Some letters I'm like what the hell is that! Hopefully the sentence structure is simular.
The one guy nailed "Damn". That was pretty good.
0:56 my face when my teacher makes a pun
im american and cant even pronounce regularly
twentyonejoshduns and tylers lol, I just say regulaly :D cut R out
I am croatian, I just pronounce it as r e g u l a r i l y
Say rural
twentyonejoshduns and tylers Reg-you-lair-lee
Jamanik Jones Just pronounce it like all lazy English speakers. /'reg ju lí/
Thesaurus what an amazing ENGLISH word *irony intensifies*
Κωνσταντινος Γιαννακακος We have the same word in German actually.
Hello wiki my old friend: The word "thesaurus" is derived from 16th-century New Latin, in turn from Latin thēsaurus, which is the *Latinisation of the Greek θησαυρός* (thēsauros), "treasure, treasury, storehouse".[2] The word thēsauros is of uncertain etymology. Douglas Harper derives it from the root of the Greek verb τιθέναι tithenai, "to put, to place."[2] Robert Beekes rejected an Indo-European derivation and suggested a Pre-Greek suffix *-arwo-.[3]
'must say! my life has been much enriched by that little snippet of info!
The Thesaurus went extinct when the big asteroid hit Earth.
The duch guy is just like every random bavarian abroad. "Can you say Oachkatzlschwoaf" (Tail of a squirrel)
Oak cat, lol.
0:55 "Reguloli" LMFAO!!!🤣😂🤣😂
Ah reoli? (jisung flashback)
@Chan's Orange juice LMFAO I FOUND A STAY
He's my favorite
REGULAHRY?!
Where is that squirrel word? i was waiting to hear, i just wasted 2:09 mins of my life.
Anthony Fig squirrel isn't hard to pronounce
Anthony Fig Eichhörnchen?
There should be a contest between Germans saying squirrel and English speakers saying Eichhörnchen. Ha!
Anthony Fig squirrel is einhorschen or something like that
Tay i tried to say squirrel in German and it gave me a headache because it's hard to say it
doesn't help that the woman speaking English has the shittest English accent ever. I'm from England and hearing her say brewery was hard enough to understand myself.
i barely got that too lol
Q8ee I didn't think it was that bad and I'm from America if anything it should be hard for us because that accent is closer to the British accent.
What's ironic is that a huge chunk of English is germanic in origin. Her accent was pretty shit though. It sounded like she had a mouth full of marbles. I'm like "None of those are hard to say, sorry." Brevery? Was that brewery? Cause she fucked that.
She couldn’t even pronounce “you” correctly, let alone brewery. 😒
Q8ee
Im german and im pretty impressed how much that even matters for you... I mean we have british and american and other immigrants in our country too, and they all pronouncing german language more or less badly or with imperfect grammatical understanding, and yet the most of us really has not a care in the world.
Imagine you would say that to a german tourist you just met.
How bad his pronounciation skills are.
Imagine how awkward the whole situation would turn out, if you'd realise in the same moment, that you were just trying to tell a foreigner that his inability of correct pronounciation is pretty bad.
And i know there are many german tourist in England!
I hope for you that you wont encounter any of them, it seems you dont like accent😅
And sorry for my bad english, its not my native language...
I taught high school English in an American public school and saw a lot of exchange students over the years. The best and friendliest were always German.
Very common trait of Germans throughout history too. always open to new people!
one of my brother's best friends is a German guy he met when he was an exchange student at my brother's school! they still keep in touch :)
It's stupid to say these types of things. What percentage of the German population do you meet? The number of people an individual can meet is very small. Those people do not represent the entire nation.
If you were unlucky enough to meet a bad German, you would have gotten the opposite impression. If I meet a few racist Americans, can I say that about the entire nation? Good people and bad people are the same all over the world. Things like this can be understood if you think about it a little. I know you don't mean it in a bad way. but
@@novrinkov0053 Jeezuz!! I was just trying to say something nice about my teaching experience and you feel you need to talk shit. What a pathetic bum.
I’m British and Germans are some of the most nicest people I’ve met 😊 🇩🇪
The "Scheveningen" guy wasn't even German
Roy Hoeksema he said that he has a hard word for her in dutch so...
He is Dutch or Flemish
Im german...and that was easy as fuck
eben
ich bin ein hamburger
Würst
Etzy az fluque....
what else, after all most Germans are not raving idiots
1:09 is me pretending I know what I’m doing in language class
I have to say that as an English speaker learning to speak German, and word with an ö is extremely hard. Epsecially eichörnchen. But I asked the German exchange student at my school to help me pronounce it, and she said that squirrel was one of the hardest words for her to pronoucne, so I guess it goes back and forth.
ö is like the o in "work" . So you know how to say it. 😊
i suck more at pronouncing my own language, English, than they do.
FunctionTek
Sad
They all moved in to their next words and that one gut is still on "brewery" 😂😂
English is way harder than German to pronounce.
It's alright...there's about 6000 german words I can't pronounce
why hello, random person scrolling!! Have a groovy day!
Thanks. ;P
im not random
Didn't you wish me a nice day on some other video about a week ago? 😊
Hello Mac
But it's NIGHTTIME 😭😭😭
What gets me are the endings in words like 'clothes', 'depths' etc. That 'th' + 's' combination is really tough to pronounce clearly. I heard, however, that some natives pronounce 'clothes' as 'cloze' kinda. Not sure if that happens with other words of the kind though
I can't speak for the rest of us in the U.S. But here in Texas mostly everyone I hear says it like "cloze". Otherwise it sounds like you have a lisp. "Clothes" lol
xNeverm1ndx The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick
***** In England we pronounce them as they are spelled. But I have heard people pronounce sixth "sikth" which I think sounds funny.
+Yara T I'm English and find that amongst native speakers "sixth" is the most difficult word for us to get our tongues around.
I can pronounce it fine, but you hear all kinds of weird pronunciations like "sick" "sixeth" "six" "sikth".
It's because of where the "TH" falls after an "S" sound. But if you can say "six" and "th" separately, you should be able to put the two together eventually as "sixth".
Also, many people here are loosing the ability to pronounce "TH" sounds, they're more "V" or "F" now, like Think becoming 'fink' and the becoming 've'.
I believe the "th" sound is rare in most languages and is very difficult to say if you don't learn it as a child. Adding the "s" at the end just compounds the trouble.
They can probably say "red truck, yellow truck" easier. But either way, Germans can pronounce English words pretty well! Most Germans know English.
The "regularly" guy hahaha 😂
0:56
Lol yeah! 😂 I was waiting for this comment tbh
that was a meme level reaction
REG-YOO-LAR-LEE!?
I really didn't understand her accent when she first started speaking. 😂
I love this concept, I could watch something like this all day! Not to mention I'd love to take the challenge!
In American English we say "red leather, yellow leather." Somehow "lorry" never got into AE!
Daniel Roberts We do red linoleum, yellow linoleum where I'm from in the US.
Daniel Roberts from your first part, I thought she was German, then I realised she is Scottish, like me...
Her own accent is hilarious.
Evil Pagan not funnier than yours
@@user-of5wu4gi3s You've never heard em speak
Also that was basically the kindergarten argument
"No you"
Honestly it reminds me a bit of UK accents not English but more the Scotland and Welsh styles
When she said at the start that she was a native speaker of English, I thought "Oh, come on! You're Scandinavian or something, surely?" Then I realised she must be from the Emerald Isle.
Thought her accent was enjoyable.
now try going to the American streets and finding enough people that knows German for this video...see, you can't
Or get people from rural Louisiana and ask them to pronounce English words.
English is an international language, German is not
Raquel Robin yeah, theres a reason for that. English is international, dipstick.
Hubert Bieniek
True. Not all languages are equal.
Also that fact that we dont have a dozen or so languages in one small space, if everyone on europe spoke fluent German you wouldn't really bother with English would you?
Me, a german: seeing the title
My brain: don't underestimate my power
As someone who has troubles pronouncing w's, r's and L's , "red lorry, yellow lorry" will be the nightmare fuel for my next 20 nights
Two words that are impossible for me to pronounce as a german are "squirrel" and "Jewelry". 😂
Seems to be tough for French speakers too!
I had a problem with both of these word too but it's easy if u don't look at the words and try to pronounce them like 'Jewlery' and 'squrl'
english people: oh we have soo hard words, no one can pronounce these
Germans: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
The hardest English word for me as a German is the word kilometer (American pronunciation). There are a lot of hard words like reciprocal or gastroenterologist, but kilometer (AE) is especially hard ;) Also something as simple as "three" is hard because of th followed by r.
Im German and i can pronounce every word! You need to ask younger people!
Maximilian Rühl Or older ones.
@@jucoyu7460 For example this older one right here.
Wow impressive
It's amazing that a loooot of people can speak english in Germany. ❤️❤️
Can I just say, that for non-native English speakers to repeat words given by a woman with a thick Scottish accent and get most of them right is amazing. A lot of English people find Scottish accents hard at the best of times but they did well. The ultimate test would be do they know how to pronounce all the different sound variations of one vowel combination: Though, Brough, Through, Tough, Borough, etc?
Oh beautiful video
I have started learning basic German words from my eldest sis, settled in Langen🥰
I am loving it👌
When he said regulolly I died 😂
Video: contains German
Germans: Diese kommentarsektion ist jetzt teil des deutschen Kaiserreichs
... und der Witz langsam alt.
Two of them had Dutch accents, Schevening is patently Dutch, and English proficiency of the rest indicates they were Dutch. Not to mention the bike density was way more in line with NL than GER.
My German boyfriend refuses to say 'ridiculous' he really struggles with this word, it's so cute. 😂
That made me laugh@ Ever since my German husband learned to say the word ridiculous, he uses it ALL the time... and I mean all the time! He uses it to describe things mildly annoying to incredibly annoying and everything in between! It's become a running joke for the past 25 years... because the kids know papa is going to answer anything annoying or controversial with "It's ridiculous!"😄😅😅😂😂🤣
@@denisesf5 Did he make you say Oachkatzlschwoaf yet
100+ german words English people can't pronounce
The word I struggle most with is "strategy", and unfortunately this a word you need from time to time at work. And the best strategy presentation becomes ridiculous if the presenter even can't pronounce that word :-)
And "through" ist also bad... So start your show with "Through our strategy" and you can forget the rest.
strat - uh - gee You can do it! 😁
Try statistic. I can hardly say it!
stuh - tiss - tick
Heinz Kessler Pronounce "through" as throo
+ClassyJessie that won't help. My problem is navigating my tongue from the "th" to the "r". I have no problem saying "Froo" or "though", but the combination of "th" followed by an "r" puts a knot into my tongue.
"Regulary" trips me up too and in a native speaker. I might be over thinking that word
Get some English speakers say "February". Or "Library" (I recently read that "libary" is now an accepted pronunciation :D)
English speaker here...I've been learning German for 4 months now, and I'm glad to see that this happens to Germans too. 😂
those are definitely not Germans , but rather Dutch
Why would she only encounter Dutch people in Berlin? Or do you think she was lying about being on the streets of Berlin?
dlwatib One guy said he knew a difficult word in Dutch for her to pronounce and she didn't subtitle that so.
The brown car in the background has a license tag from Berlin...
Alot of us dutch visit Germany so its actually pretty common to find dutch people in Germany.
And alot of German people visit the Netherlands aswell. Also, you can find dutch people almost everywere because alot of dutch people like to travel and explore different countries.
they were Dutch
The one that had the most trouble pronouncing brewery is honestly so attractive
Lol hey Cas😏
I found a liquor store and I drank it Oh hey Cas
Nah the one that pronounced it right was more attractive.
I was always told that for native English speakers that German would be a very easy language to learn. My mom was a native speaker of Spanish, (the Mexican variety) but unfortunately she never taught me to speak it. The r after t in Spanish was something I just can't do.
Which language is harder to pronounce for Anglophones? French or German?
You should hear a Chinese person trying to say 'wool'. Priceless.
woor
You should hear someone from Aberdeen trying to say "wool." "Is this an aa oo (all wool) sweater?"
Vooooool
🤣
In parts of Scotland, it's pronounced "oo."
"dirty" with american accent is very difficult for me
Thank you for trying! German is difficult, especially when words are joined together.
Lol I’m laying here correcting them like they can somehow hear me
I understood these people perfectly. They have learned a difficult language and are better skilled than us lazy English! French and Spanish should be taught from childhood
Jon Hurst I don't think it's a question of the English being lazy. They're just not taught foreign languages from an early age. English is taught in Germany, Holland and other European countries from a very young age.
No, it's only because the Brits don't care about learning a new language as everyone speaks english. You see, you 're writing in English, not in German etc...
Alex Noon Du bist richtig, aber du hast auf Englisch geschrieben. Warum soll ich auf Deutsch, Französisch oder einandere Sprache schreiben?
Weil ich nicht weiss, ob der dem ich schreibe deutsch versteht. Und auch, weil es einfacher war weiter auf englisch zu schreiben. Ich habe aber deutsch gelernt und ich denke es ist immer wichtig so viele Sprache wie möglich zu können (auch wenn es nicht perfekt, wie ich).
Alex Noon. I think we have demonstrated that not all English people are too lazy to learn another language. It is the system that is at fault, not the people.
He opens the Mouth but Words won't come out
everybody is jokin' now 😂
A lot of Germans have trouble with any "th" word and usually replace it with "z" or "d". At least with German words, if you can see the spelling you know how to pronounce it.
After hearing the guy say it and reading the word "Scheveningen" is not hard to pronounce at all. It is spelled exactly how it sounds and you only have to find out whether the beginning has an "eh" or "ay" sound to it.
Do more of these! they're so fun! Maybe a french with english words one?
That man that refuses to accept the English 'w' 😄
No problem to pronounce these words.
The only English word that is always hard to pronounce for me is toddler.
The guy at 1:28 has me dying😂😂😂
Most of my classmates fail at every single word that contains a th... 😂
The thallowthoxinated thillowtheasel is a vicious rodent that's known to attack those with bad pronunciation. Be aware of it as you walk through paths thick with thistles or you will be thrashed by this thing no matter your strength. Thick clothing covering the thighs is no match for those teeth, each one sharper than a thousand thorns. Even youthful healthy athletes should thank me for this truthful rule of thumb. Although as we know, squirrels are even more deadly.
fis is/sis is/zis is
@@colt-one Zis vas ferry good!
"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is probably one of my favorites. And, yes, I do have a dictionary that has this word in it.
Du meinst Superkalifragilistischexpialigetisch?
@@Jack_TheFlipper :D
this channel is amazing because many german people look like UPSET , BUT they are friendly people
"Now I'm dead" funny af my gigantic German friend.
squirrel and rural get me everytime.
keeponrockin most English speakers can't say rural tbh
So basically anything with a bunch of “r” sounds. Lol, you missed a perfect opportunity to get in a 30 Rock reference by asking them to say “Rural Juror”.
Ms. really interesting.
Because of I can speak Hindi, Punjabi, Assamese & English. Now French is my new language.
The one poor guy still trying to pronounce brewery through the whole video...
When the guy tried saying regularly I was crying 😂😂😂
Me a bilingual:
_P A T H E T I C_
I realize this comment is 5 years late, but I just came upon it. Thank you, Alice, for attempting to make us native English speakers feel better: the truth is that every German I know (I work for an international company) speaks impeccable, beautiful, perfect English and has pretty much perfect grammar. Beyond the "w" and "v" swap, it's very humbling, frankly. Not only is the best word in the world - backpfeifengesicht (look it up, it's - yes - the best word in the world) - German, but Germany's citizens also put everyone else to shame.
Prejudice is French. Deterioration is French. Thesaurus is Latin. Brewery is Frisian.
they look like nice people
For me it is "Parallelogram" and I am British....
How about "meteorological'? (or meterology for that matter)
Oscar Martin
No problem with that.
As an American, I’ve noticed that we mostly think of our history and culture as an extension of that of Great Britain. And for good reason. However, when I watch these videos, I feel like the majority of American caucasians have more German blood than British. If they didn’t have an accent to betray them, these people look exactly like what you would find in, say, a Californian university, or a grocery store in Georgia. Their facial features and expressions look incredibly American to me (as someone who has never been to Germany). I can’t really say the same for the British, who generally look distinctly (what I would think of as) English. Which is interesting because I feel like we assume we are closer to their heritage than to those elsewhere in Europe, like Germany. Just one guy’s observation.
As a native English speaker it can be hard to understand thick accents (Irish, Scottish), so I think these Germans are doing just fine.
Ironically, I grew up speaking English in America but I'm incredibly good at repeating German words.. it just comes easy upon me for some reason..
Try Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
Well, who gave you the feedback that you are doing well?
When I lived in Germany I noticed how the Germans struggled with "Squirrel" and "Village".
never heard people have problems with these words here. americans actually have problems pronouncing those.
@@konnokyo
I'ts pretty common, there are videos with German people pronouncing 'squirrel' and none of them can make it sound right.
As for 'village', most Germans still seem to struggle with the different pronunciation of 'v' and 'w', either they do the 'v' like 'w' or they pronounce all of it like a 'v', just as in German, some even get it completely mixed up and pronounce one as the other all the time, so I've heard.
Only 9? We can't pronounce ANY German words.
It is ridiculous, giving non-English-speakers tongue-twisters designed to be difficult for native English speakers.
what the hell is a lorry
Andrew Logan The British word for 18-wheeler.
Andrew Logan A truck.
ah okay thanks
truck as in commercial eg van.
I am Italian. To me, the words impossible to pronounce are neither german nor english. Actually, to me, the words impossible to pronounce are DUTCH ! I find impossible to pronounce the " ui " vowels in such words as "Duitsland", "huis", "uitspraak", "uit", "zuid", etc. :-)
maksim5078 Scheveningen is also a Dutch word.
maksim5078 I cant really speak Dutch, but I live not too far from the border in north west Germany if that counts :D
Isn't it similar to the German "ü" sound?
19Mellon73 In some eastern Dutch dialects the ui is pronounced like ü. Dütsland, hüs etc. But this is not the standard pronunciation. According the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) the Dutch vowel "ui" is [œy̯]
Girvid Yes it is. I know about the pronounce of "sch" in dutch that is different from "sch" in German... I've recently been in Enschede and landed in Schiphol Airport. Pronounce: Ens chedé, S chipol (S + german sound "ch").
Girvid Oh, O.K. thank you. Didn't know that. Seems only eastern Dutch people talk to me :D
I was surprised that most people in Germany speak English and speak it very well.
In my limited experience, Germans struggle with simply pronouncing "the".
And further, I struggle with pronoucing most anything in German. It is incompatible with my 40+ year old East Texas drawl.