American Takes REAL German Citizenship Test - Could You Pass It?
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- After moving to Germany and living in Germany, suddenly we might be able to get German citizenship with the proposed new German citizenship laws. The current laws on naturalization in Germany does not allow us to get dual citizenship, but that is one of the major proposed changes that could possibly give us the chance to gain a German passport! But in order to do that...we would have to prove our general knowledge about Germany and pass the German Einbürgerungstest. So, can I pass the German citizenship test already? Find out here! 😊
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00:00 - Intro
0:28 - Proposed New German Citizenship Laws
3:51 - Citizenship Test (Einbürgerungstest)
19:39 - Bloopers
How did you do at this test?? Could you pass it or which questions stumped you? 😅
29/33 right. 3 i read wrong because i skimmed over stuff, for 1 i didn't know the right date.
I had all questions right, even as somebody from Bavaria. you did not do the test for Rhainland-Pfaltz, you did the test for Berlin. You could now say "ich bin ein Berliner" like JFK maybe,lol.
I pased with flying colors even tho I'm Saxon and don't like nor care for Berlin. The last question tripped me up tho .. Coke or Pepsi? .. hm the German in me wants to go with Sinalco, but I guess I'll go with Cherry Pepsi Max? The test was a bit weird tho. Why would someone working a job in IT need to know what is required to open a restaurant? And what's with all the CDU propaganda? :v
I did Bremen's test and got 32/33. A voting age question caught me out.
I was not sure about the question how often the EU Parliament is elected.
There is a good trick to remember about the basic rights in the Basic Law.
Your own rights basically stop where you start to curtail other people's rights or somehow violate people....
Therefore, the question of what you have the right to is relatively easy to answer.
Fun fact: Wer im deutschen Einbürgerungstest die Fragen mit Satzzeichenfehlern, z.B. das Deppenleerzeichen in Frage 29, findet und korrigiert, wird auf der Stelle eingebürgert
The question about what „CDU“ stands for is kinda funny because „Club Deutscher Unternehmer“ sums it up to well 😂😂
hahaha yeah, me and my daughter watched the video together and we were both laughing that this totally SHOULD be considered to be the correct answer.
@@hopejohnson6347 I was laughing at "Völker, hört die Signale..." as the German national anthem.
I would rather translate "beschimpfen" with "to insult" than "to abuse". You really did a good job! I am German but would still have had one question wrong :)
the thing is though to abuse can be used in such a way too, but that is why good translators offer up more than 1 translation all the time, so you know roughly where to put the word into context.
You can be Proud of your knowledge about German culture, our Language and the Democratic System and History. Well Done!
Thanks so much! 😃
Beschimpfen isnt really abuse, its more like insult someone verbally
For us Germans "to abuse" is a false friend, because we immediately think of sexual abuse. But without the "sexual" the word to abuse really means "beschimpfen".
@@michaelschuckart2217 That's interesting - didn't really know that. My first contact with that word was in a Eurythmics Video: "Some of them want to abuse you" ;)
Half way through your video I was stunned of how you a) read German and understood it correctly b) how you’ve put one and one together and got to this amazing result! Made me smile 😮😊 Hats off 🎉
Thanks! 😃
...or c) the questions were rather intuitive😂
Oh don't belittle your language skills! Your German is pretty good already! :)
Thank you! 😃
Glückwunsch zum bestandenen Einbürgerungstest! Aber bitte keine Leute auf der Straße beschimpfen ☝🏼🤭
As a former US citizen, giving up my citizenship of birth as a permanent resident in Germany was actually one of many motivations that I had to gain German citizenship. It has become increasingly precarious to manage finances as a U.S. citizen abroad. So if I were to become a German citizen without giving up my American citizenship would have left a massive problem unresolved for me. Keep in mind that I made this decision in the context of my intention to spend the rest of my life here.
And that is the primary reason why I am skeptical of making dual citizenship so widely available. There are certain limited cases where I believe that dual citizenship is justified, but definitely not as a right for everyone in all cases. I believe that becoming a naturalized citizen is an active commitment to the adopted home country, and I find it generally problematic to have dual alliances. I also generally don’t think people should become citizens while only being partially committed, leaving the option to „return home“ sometime in the future. Becoming a citizen should imho be a full commitment, with all related consequences. „Home“ should unambiguously be the country of your citizenship.
Dual-citizenship usually is a good solution for many migrants. The US is special in this regard, as they force US citizens, who live abroad, to still pay US taxes. Most countries don't do that.
Agree, dual citizenship is dangerous, especially for the EU. Able to vote several times because of course the bureaucracy of different nations can't figure out how to communicate with each other is a prime example.
At the very least, one nationality would have to be declared to be the active one and the others would be resting ones.
@@michaelkensbock661
Actually, being able to vote in more than one country isn’t something that I would consider as being „dangerous.“ Being a citizen of a country means by definition having all the rights and responsibilities that everyone else has in that country. I can’t imagine any legitimate reason why a citizen shouldn’t be able to vote in the country of their citizenship. Accordingly, someone who is a dual citizen would naturally have the right to vote in both countries that they are citizens of. I can’t even fathom why this would be a problem.
@@michaelkensbock661 Oh, and FWIW any citizen of a country in the EU can move to another EU country and become a citizen of that country without giving up their birth citizenship. When I became a naturalized German citizen, at the reception celebration of new citizens, the mayor honored a Greek citizen who was an elected member of the city council and became naturalized that year. I hadn’t even realized that it was possible for EU citizens of other countries could be elected to the city council. The comment that the mayor made was that basically no one on the city council was aware that their Greek born colleague wasn’t a German citizen until that year, and it didn’t bother anyone. It really doesn’t matter, and it’s a central feature of the European Union. The freedom of movement and to work and reside anywhere in the EU is an amazing privilege.
I agree. A citizenships comes with certain rights, but also with certain responsiblities. Dual citizenship opens the door for people trying to claim the rights without taking on the responsibilities. A recent example: People reclaiming their German or Irish citizenship in the wake of brexit not because they intended to go back to the country, but because they wanted to retain the right to travel and work freely within the EU. Not that I am angry with them for doing so, I would have taken the opportunity, too. But it would be fatal if double citizenship because something one can easily obtain. There are naturally cases in which it is necessary for one reason or another, but those should stay the exception, not the rule.
American living in Berlin, there is a HUGE Vietnamese population here, such that the most common type of restaurant cuisine I see is Vietnamese by a considerable margin. It was a big surprise to me when I first moved here, but after 2+ years of living in Berlin the answer to that DDR question was obvious :)
So, can you get your hands on some bot ngot (MSG) or a bowl of pho (Vietnamese noodle soup) there?
Vietnam was the biggest source of work emigrants in the GDR.
Both German Chef and English chef are derived from French chef where it means boss. (It's a cognate of English chief and Spanish jefe).
In German it retains that meaning, whereas in English it is actually a contraction of chef de cuisine (head of the kitchen). A bit like English for some weird reason cut off maître d'hôtel and turned it into maitre d'.
Jeff. Ich heiße Jeff!
@@schorschkatalinsky9405Nice joke, but the Spanish "J" is pronounced like the German "ch".
That means a head chef in a kitchen is just the equivalent of a boss boss
As a German, I would have made two mistakes: I wasn't sure about the EU parliament and would probably have chosen "every 5 years", even though your reasoning was sound. I also wasn't sure about the title of the mayor of Berlin.
When it comes to the immigrants to the GDR, I was quite sure about Vietnam and Poland, but I was kind of thrown by Mozambique...(and I live in East Germany).
You did great!
@Ginnilini You are totally right about the 5 years! Donnie got 29 questions correct, but not this one (the number has a red border after the results). Kind of unfortunate it wasn’t corrected by the end of the video 🤷♀️. I was also confused, but yes “Alle fünf Jahre finden Europawahlen statt.”
@@theresam-xo6hd Thanks for clearing that up! I wasn't sure, but I thought I vaguely remembered it being 5 years.
They were all communist at some point? I’m assuming that Mozambique was when East Germany was at least for a while.
East Germany had a work-exchange program with Mozambique. A good number of them lived and worked in the GDR for some time. Mozambique was poor and needed money. If you would have met a black migrant in East Germany, right after the reunification, chances where pretty high, that they came from Mozambique.
There is even a dispute regarding these times ongoing, because the Mozambiquian government cheated these workers for their promised salary, while the GDR paid properly to the government of Mozambique. But officials in the GDR knew at some point, that their guests were cheated by their own government and didn't tell them and continued with this program anyways. That's why victims claim Germany responsible for this as well.
@@chrisk5651 a lot of African countries were or are "socialist" at some point. Vietnam... well, America lost and the communists won the war, didn't they? And Poland being a member of the "Warsaw pact" shoudln't really come as a surprise, either...
Looking at taking the test in April, waiting for the law to change to have dual citizenship. Trying to get ahead of it. Did all 300 questions and only missed 8 😅. I think the US test is a lot harder… No such thing as a good softdrink. They are all bad for you. Stick to beer😂
What about Tamarind lemonade?
No added sugar or sweetener, just water, mint leaves, citrus fruit, and tamarind paste.
Viel Glück!
Viel Erfolg.
I was so confused at question 14 when you translated 'chef in einer Bank' as 'cook in a bank'. Chef in German is a 'false friend', it's a 'boss'' not a 'chef'. But I was amazed how little the big compound nouns flustered you, your German is really good, it's a difficult langugage to learn.
I said “definitely not a Boss of a Bank - not a cook in a Bank. Classic” I said what it was and then said the second thing + classic to point out the classic false friend as a joke 😊
Actually, the insignia number two in your first question is the insignia of the Vatican. You did a great job. 29 of 33 is fantastic, even more so since you are here for only three and a half year and German isn't your first language. Congratulations! Don't mind, as long as it is coca cola or pepsi zero/light. I became a German citizen in 2020 and they asked me, if I also wanted to keep my Austrian citizenship (which I declined). I think you can keep two citizenships as long as they are both from the EU, but I'm not sure. As you said, it is super complicated.
Thanks! 😃
It is NOT the Vatican's sign. All christian churches use it. And this "P" and the "X" are in fact greek letters. "X" is "Ch" and "P" is "R". So it makes "Chr", the first letters of "Christ".
@@michaelschuckart2217 Yep, it's called Christogram
@@apmoy70 Thank you.
@@michaelschuckart2217 Ah thank you, I always thought that was the symbol of the Vatican. I didn't know what other churches use it as well.
The US fought in Vietnam to stop the spread of communism. They failed, so Vietnam is communist. Vietnam as well as the USSR had armed conflicts with China, so here they were on the same page too. The GDR was part of the Soviet block -> Vietnamese people went to the GDR first to study, later others for work. Or maybe it's easier to remember that France, Mexico and Chile never were part of the Soviet Block
Always remember: After the Vietnam war, Vietnamese people were send to east Germany. After the Korean war South Koreans were sent to west Germany!
but there are also many north koreans in former east germany.. i think they are mostly something like exchange students ?
First south korean president wife was fro austria.
@@ClaudiaG.1979 There were refugees from South vietnam in West Germany, and a lot from North Vietnam that came there to train/work after the war.
The best softdrink is of course Afri Cola, as „alles ist in Afri Cola“
dass ihr zwei, drei absolut keine überraschung seid, so beliebt zu sein.
nicht nur in deutschland.
das ist so grandios.
mehr an worten, fehlt mir und meiner familie.
wir sind stolz auf euch. danke. danke.
donnie, deine frau, ihr drei ist, seid so warmherzig, was seid ihr wunderbar.
Good Job 👍🏻 Some tricky questions there
Well done!!!👍👍
If you really are to take a citizenship test one day, the last couple of questions will look different - they will be about Rheinland-Pfalz instead of Berlin.
Well done!🎉
5:14 They should have made „ Deutschland, Deutschland über alles“ the fourth option and give you a scoring penalty if you chose it
Good job!!
Some countries simply doesn't let their people go (eg. Brazil), so if you cannot get rid of your second citizenship, you can have two. Also, if you are born with 2 citizenships, you can keep both, eg. you are born inside the USA (Birthright citizenship) and your parents are German.
My cousin's oldest son was born in Germany. My cousin is German and his father was an American G.I. The boy had dual citizenship until age 18 when he had to choose between German and American citizenship. Since he was raised in Germany he chose German citizenship. He could technically apply for his American citizenship in addition to it. There are also ex-pats like myself who were forced to give up their German citizenship in order to become US citizens. This law has now been changed and if someone files the retain citizenship paperwork prior to taking the US citizenship test they are allowed to keep their German citizenship and do not have to give it up.
Well done mate👍
To your question at the end. Neither Coke or Pepsi, it gives very good German brands, like Sinalco, Afrika Cole and so on.
If you want to obtain double citizenship you should be aware of the fact that you might be forced to do military service twice and you will have to pay taxes in both countries. Since the US and Germany do not have an agreement for double taxation but both countries will tax you on all your income independent of where you earned it that might be tough. Since the time Germany and US exchange data (for tax fraud examinations) many US citizens who have never lived in the US got a nasty surprize when they suddenly had to file tax returns with US authorities...
Very well done! 👏 I‘m not even kidding!
Well done! You are pretty good at this. You know definitely more about Germany than I know about the U.S.. But to be fair: I have only been there as a tourist a couple of times.
No brainer: Coke!!!
Pepsi has a weird bitter additive in there that makes me just go "bläh".
You did great on the test! I think I would have missed the exact same questions, to be honest.
Pepsi ist das Beste ich vermisse die Pepsi crystal 🥰
Well done,btw!
15:15 as a native german speaker I had to chuckle a bit here for your translation of "Lehrstellensuche" - because it's something different than a teaching position but just looking at it that could totally be case and confusing this I would no one fault for that. I would never think of that though because the word "Lehr" here references "Lehrling" (or "Lehre"), which translated is an apprentice or trainee.
The "Lehre" is an educational system in Germany (and Austria), normally starting after someone finishes mandatory school at around 15 or 16 (maybe 14?), can be between 2 and 4 years long, in which time the 'Lehrling' works for a company (needs to be official recognized by the government) and goes to the 'Lehrschule' (school for Lehrlinge). Since those Lehrlinge are just starting in the craft and getting an education, the state subsidises the company for doing so. Afterwards there is a 'Lehrtest' and if the Lehrling finishes that positive, he becomes a 'Geselle' (journeyman) in that craft with a certificate. This system is widely known and practically everyone knows what a 'Lehrstelle' or 'Lehrling' is (because quite a high percentage is or was one), so for a native speaker the translation for having to do with help someone find a teaching position was quite eye opening.
Lehrschule? Lehrtest? Was sind denn das für Wörter? Die gibt es nicht, jedenfalls nicht in deutschem Deutsch. Und, je nach Beruf, ist man nach der Lehre und bestandener Abschlußprüfung "Kaufmannsgehilfe/-gehilfin".
29 out of 33 You did AWESOME. Your German is fantastic & you know an impressive about Germany!
As usual, great video! I love your jokes and German! So proud of you, son❤😉
Pepsi☺️
Good Job with the Test! I am a born german and only knew about the DDR/Vietnam Question because of a video from the channel "Geography now". I never learned this at school. ^^
Well done! Pespsi is the best!
Heh, I did know the question with Vietnam, and was glad of it.... There are a bunch of people of Vietnamese ancestry in Germany for similar reasons to having a bunch of folks of Turkish ancestry, and selfishly - they open more restaurants I can actually eat at than original native Germans do. Kein Wurst oder Rindfleisch, bitte. :P
But so many of the ones you got I had no solid idea on. Well done!
I knew because I knew all 3 of these countries used to be communist.
I only knew mozambique because of their distinct flag though, iirc they were the ones with the ak47 on the flag
Pirates Logo, so true 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Small thing about the "since when does the FRG have its current borders?" question.
1971 was the date West Germany offcially relinquished all of its claims on former german-now polish territories
I was wondering if that date was something about the acceptance of the "Oder-Neiße" Grenze or if it was West Germany accepting the GDR as a state.
Pepsi Light (not Max, not Zero, not Original)... Underrated!
You did very well on the test! The one with the EU parliament was the only mistake that I made. The DDR-question is very tricky, though, even for me being born in 86 in Saxony - I guessed that one right because I remembered when I looked at my mothers photoalbums from back then, there were some pics of welcoming vietnamese guest students and doing a little parade for them, stuff like that. Also, many Vietnamese opened shops here and for years those were the only "ausländische" businesses in the former eastern block (aside from the obvious one like Polish, Russian, etc.)
Wow, well done
The best softdrink is beer, of course!
Greetings from Lübeck,
Marcus
Way to go! Well done 🎉 I became a German citizen in 2012 with 32/33. I didn’t get to keep my Surinamese citizenship though, but that’s totally fine 😊
Ok, Hermann.
"Lehrstellensuche" is looking for an apprenticeship (known as "Lehre"). Looking for a teacher position could be rendered "Lehrerstellensuche" but would likely not appear in this context. (We're short on them anyway. If you have the qualifications, you likely won't have to look very far)
Not to be confused with "Leerstellensuche" which would be looking for open spots in general.
Pepsi light for me. I can't stand the sugar versions of either (they always leave a bad aftertaste for me), and i prefer the taste of Pepsi over Coke.
First of all congratulation in passing the citizenship test! I can not imagine how it is like for a foreigner, but some questions require high language skills and inside knowledge, well done! And for me it is Coke over Pepsi, although I do not mind if Pepsi is the only option at hand.
Well done!!! Wirklich gut gemacht. Dein deutsch ist schon ziemlich gut. Viele Grüße aus dem Norden von Rheinland-Pfalz
Well done on the 88%. The one about Vietnam I actually saw in a documentation about the GDR, they had lots of guest workers there, few even stayed (the state actually were more keen on keeping up on the agreed duration of the stay of guest workers and send them back when time was up. If I remember right there was one Vietnamese lady who opened a restaurant n the Harz mountain region then.
The better softdrink is of course Apfelschorle!
Good job!
Just want to correct the other two mistakes not addressed at the end. Question 12: “In einer Demokratie ist eine Funktion von regelmäßigen Wahlen, … nach dem Willen der Wählermehrheit, den Wechsel der Regierung zu ermöglichen.” It actually isn’t mandatory to vote as a citizen.
Question 23: “Das Europäische Parlament wird regelmäßig gewählt, nämlich alle … 5 Jahre.” The Last Eurowahl was in 2019 and the next one will be 2024. Maybe by then you, Donnie and Aubrey, will be able to take part in that one, too.
You could know about the vietnamese etc by going to Berlin and looking at how many vietnamese restaurants there are 😊 it’s definitely a nice excuse to go and eat phô ❤
Oh boy, I tried this test when it was introduced (all 300 possible questions were printed in our local paper) and I stopped after 200 and only 2 mistakes (and both dealt with the differences between Bundedtag and Bundesrat, which I KNOW I always get wrong lol).
Mostly it's a typical multiple chouce test, where, if you aren't completely clueless, you can easily dismiss 2 or even 3 of the answers, so to me it shows your understanding of German more then your knowledge of Germany ;)
So rather easy I'd say.
Coke or Pepsi? We ask "Pest oder Cholera" instead (but that actually has a prettx obvious answer and is therefor as useless as most sayings are)
8:25 Watching this in a low resolution, the percent symbol looks like it could be 1/2 and I briefly thought "wait, they bumped it up a little?"
I visited the DDR as a US citizen in 1974 with my teenage son. We drove up to a cafe in the Wartburg where Luther translated the bible. I asked one of the guests where they were from and she said Vietnam. This is the first time I had heard that Germans visited and lived in Vietnam.
Wrong way round buddy. It's Vietnamese people that moved to Germany for university and for more advanced trades.
The GDR invited workers from other communist countries, many Vietnamese, Cubans and Africans came but they were only allowed to stay for a few years. Many of course met young women and fathererd babies. We have a TV program where quite often now these children are looking for their fathers whom they've never met bc the dad had to leave when they were too young to remember him. The GDR was ruthless that way.
Peter Scholl-Latour erwähnt in "Der Tod im Reisfeld" andauernd irgendwelche DDR-Bürger in Vietnam, aber praktisch keine Deutschen.
If you think about it-there was the vietnam war and poland is the direct neighbour(question was migrants,not only refugees)france doesn't make sense.but the most difficult question ,a lot of people from chile had to flee their country ,too and the daughter of Honecker married a guy from Chile,if I'm not wrong
19:00 Well, thats pretty obvious because Poland is next to the GDR
Im from germany and managed almost all questions fairly easily, but the one with DDR Immigrants really threw me off.. I was pretty sure it was either the one with Poland or Hungary but as someone who has not been born during the time of the DDR and doesnt know anyone who lived in the DDR it was a 50/50 guess at best. Fairly weird that they pose these oddly-specific-to-one-part-of-germany questions in the general citizenship test. Still, fair play to you and great to hear that there are people who want to become german citizens :)
Since there were a lot of very Berlin focused questions, I wouldn't be surprised if this is an example test that one would get in Berlin. They might have some more local variants based on the state?
Maybe in a western state you would get questions to where the local Gastarbeiter in that time came from.
@@franziska1007 True, that sounds reasonable
I also believe it was a question intended to test the general historic knowledge of the applicant, as obviously all 3 named countries had to have been communist, and only vietnam, poland and mozambique fulfilled that criterium and the other 3 listings did not.
30 here. Nailed one or two of your misses :-) This saud as a Norwegian who has never lived in Germany, and only speaking basic German. I had to pause and decipher some of the questions, but German logic prevails. Interest in history and culture helps. And a bit of luck. Still, never heard about Rosenmontag or BiS.
19:15 The best way to remember this is to remember that east germany still has a ton of excellent vietnamese restaurants
So new time for posting videos? Missed you on friday :) Your German sound really good from what I heard. Really impressive, just like your score. Prügelstrafe is physical/ corporal punishment (beating your kids). Zwangsarbeit = forced labour.
Actually corporal punishment is not restricted to beating children. In some "civilzed" countries like Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and even Singapore its more or less common to cane adults for "lesser crimes"
Well, we’re out of the country and fell ill which made it difficult to get our video out on time this week😅
@@ireneprobst8354 no shit, Sherlock.
@@archiegates650 'Prügelstrafe' only specifies the nature of the punishment as well, not who it applies to. It's just that it doesn't really come up much anymore since any form of corporal punishment is illegal in Germany.
@@Llortnerof I was only referring to Marie's explanation "...(beating your kids)..." where she did not add a "e.g." . So it looks like that corporal punishment ( die Prügelstrafe) only applies to beating children.
And although many "grown ups" still think that a good spanking is valid educational instrument, nobody thinks that whipping is not an appropriate senctencing in a criminal court of law.
Well done. I was impressed that you knew about the "Reichs-Kristallnacht". I'd bet that even some Germans don't know what happend back then. You surely would be a great citizen. 🙂
Although we don't call it "Reichskristallnacht" anymore. It's called the "Reichsprogrome" or "Reichsprogromnacht"
7:28 I would say, we are not far from option 4.
15:15 it's not a teaching position, it's a "learning position" 😉 or Ausbildungsplatz
I reckon, it was hard for people with no knowledge of German to follow your thought process, as you didn't translate most of the answers. Still: You did an amazing job at the test, as you're pretty aware of how the country is organized. If you apply for citizenship after the five years waiting period, you're going to be a model citizen, for sure.
Foreign workers in the GDR were guest workers/students who were not integrated into society. They mostly lived for themselves. They were partly cheap labor and partly they were supposed to acquire skills to help shape their own country later.
17:50 Reagierender Bürgermeister
I have passed it on first try at VHS Oldenburg in 2019
Hochschule actually Translates to university so thats not a school for children. We also got universities so thats a little tricky. The difference is that Hochschulen teach practical (applied science) and universities focus more on theory and research.
Actually, universities are considered "Hochschulen" as well, "Hochschule" is a general term for institutions for tertiary eduction. Universities are specifically those that are allowed to grant doctorates.
Hochschule means _any_ kind of university. Universitäten are Hochschulen, but not every Hochschule is an Universität.
Universities for applied sciences are *Fachhochschulen.*
Universität are those that can also confer doctorates ('Promotion') and formally declare somebody capable of teaching at universities, known as 'Habilitation', in addition to research and teaching theoretical sciences.
Forschungsuniversitäten focus largely or exclusively on research and have little to no teaching (and if, usually advanced post-graduate courses).
The first choice of question 10 actually translates to harrassing people on the street. You translated it to critice people on the street which would be a correct answer to the question if it stood there.
4:15 Meanwhile I would chose number 4... the times are over, where this question was easy answered with the eagle.
Pepsi (though i know Coke is more popular in Germany). Also if you ask me Sinalco, Vita Cola, Afri Cola and Fritz Cola are far superior to both brands.
Got all of them correct except the EU parlament one. Thought it was 5 years. I knew about the GDR having a lot of people from Vietnam from a documentary i watched years ago and polish people were a no-brainer.
Gotta say you´re pretty fluend in the german Language imo. Well done on the test, 29 from 33 is great and there were some tough questions in there.
Coke. Funny slip: A Lehrstelle is not a position as a teacher but a position as an apprentice.
you apparently did the test for a person living in berlin, the last 3 questions are normaly about the bundesland you are living in.
Congratulations! Random: Coke off course. I ordered Coke in Restaurant in Mainz and the waitress replied "sorry we only have Pepsi" me I better go for a ginger ale. 😀
North Vietnamese were studying in the GDR. Almost all left in 1990. During the US Vietnam War, orphaned children were brought from Viatnam to West Germany. Today they have German citizenship
After more than 30y of being a civ.servant I have to samefully confes I had one unsure moment.
Wow, really well done! It was basically a few vocabulary glitches that messed up the 100% 🎉🎉. After the retreat of US troops Vietnam became a socialist „brother country“ of the GDR and quite a few peaople were sent to industrial centers to work there, like Rostock Lichtenhagen. They were housed in big blocks and in 1992 one of these houses was attacked and set on fire. And: neither of both! Will always go for Fanta 😇
Definitely missing some cultural questions:
Was schwebt in Peter Schillings Lied "Major Team" völlig losgelöst von der Erde?
a) der goldene Reiter
b) 99 Luftballons
c) das Raumschiff
d) die Sennerin vom Königsee
6:59 ok, when I remember, how it was to vote the Bundestag, I would choose "special"
I could have eliminated your answer to the migration question about the gdr because france came up. There you can exclude all western countries at that time.
"Freude schöner Götterfunke" kommt in der Europahymne vor. Der Text kommt von Friedrich Schiller, es ist aber auch Beethovens 9. Sinfonie.
Frage 10 ist heutzutage schon eher mit "solange ich der Regierung nicht widerspreche" zu beantworten 😅😭😭😭
really well done! I admit I do not know about the EU-Parliament... Even though I voted every time. It was always combined with some German vote. Have to look it up.
I hold three citizenships. German/US and UK. :-) I guess I'm a part of those 3.5% you mentioned then. Interesting. Good job on the test though. ;-)
Random Q: weder noch!
Yeah, I could have passed the test, but I've lived in A close to 45 years now. We know a lot about our neighbours in G. I wish our Parlaiment would reconsider changing immigration requirements. Plus it is quite expensive to get the Austrian citizenship nowadays.
US citizen: "Migrants in communist East Germany? probably they came from communist countries... no, Vietnam doesn't seem right "
- And I thought that the first thing that a US citizens would think when reading "Vietnam " would be "communists!"
That there were many Vietnamese immigrants in the DDR is definitely not common knowledge.
Your German is already quite good! Americans sound so cute when they speak German 🙂 Well done with the test!!
I'm from the former GDR and I knew the answer to the immigrant question. The GDR and Vietnam had ties dating back until the 1950s where they would educate children in schools and later jobs as an exchange program. It was seen as an honor in the exchange countries as the GDR was seen as very progressive and these children should establish the socialism after their return to their home countries. Later, in the 1970s, they hired them as contract workers as the GDR needed the workers (They didn't build the wall just for keeping "capitalism" out, It was because people were fleeing and to keep them in).
The foreign workers though had to live in seperate homes, weren't allowed to have contact to the locals , not even to speak of maybe a love affair. If they didn't follow the rules the were at risk to beeing sent back to their home countries. About 60.000 Vietnamese workers lived in the GDR at the end and only 17.000 stayed after the end of tht GDR. It took until 1997 until the residency conditions were sort out.
Whenever I watch videos like these I realize how tricky and full of twists my native language of zee German is. What did it for me this time it was the word _Lehrstellensuche._ "Lehrer" is teacher, "lehren" is to teach. But the "Lehrstelle" is not a teaching position but counter-intuitively it is a position where you get taught how to do a job. So "Lehrstelle" is best translated as apprenticeship. How would anyone ever possibly be able to deduct this from the word? Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache. That statement still rings very true. That's why I could never be mad at Mark Twain for his essay "The Awful German Language" 😄
Wenn man schon mal Lehrling ist, lernt man doch eher für den Erwerb eines "Berufs", nicht für einen "job", denn Job bezeichnet ja die Arbeit eines "Ungelernten", eines "nicht Ausbildungsfähigen", wie das auf schlecht amtsdeutsch heißt.
About the DDR question, I didn't knew the answer but my thoughts were:
The iron curtain would have made it very difficult to anyone from the West to settle in East Germany, especially when it is one of the other occupying forces in West Germany. So France would be out.
NK, Mexico and Egypt seems too far off. I never heard about Mexico having a close relationship with the DDR or the USSR.
Generally the largest group of immigrants in a country would be from one of its neighbours. (neighbours of the DDR not BRD) Also many Germans fled from the former eastern territories of Germany like Lower Silesia or East Prussia which became Polish territories after WW2. So Poland sounds like the right answer. Even though I have no clue about Mosambik. Plus I knew there a lot of Vietnamese immigrants in Germany.
Chile and Hungary was my second possible answer. I was thinking about Pinochet, the coup in the 70's and all the political refugees that fled to Europe that were mostly members of the communist party. But the population of Chile is really small and even though Hungary sounds right I would have been really surprised if there were more immigrants from Hungary than from Poland tbh. Again no clue about Simbabwe (my apologies to all African countries for being so ignorant about your history 😅)
I passed the test. I'm not German and don't even live in Germany. I'm Dutch and living in the Netherlands.😂😂
I actually think this test is to easy. They should increase the percentage of right answers that you need to give. It should be atleast 75% or higher to pass.
50% zu einfach
Too easy
for renouncement of citizenship: in your case it is easily circumvented IMHO as it is ofc possible to naturalize just one of you. the US ciziten of you is entitled to stay in germany by virtue of being a legal spouse of a german citizen and same should work for USA for german citizen as spouse of the US one
that whats cdu stands vor is a mean question club deutscher unternehmer is the most fitting to reality name
most assuredly coke before pepsi
however that is only when we are talking about the standard variants.
sugar free pepsi max tastes significantly better than coke zero or light. i still dont know how, but i swapped from a very coke heavy diet to drinking almost exclusively sugar free, and all the other sugar free cokes taste like licorice, be it some nameless brand, sinalco or coca cola zero.
I did pretty well on the test, considering you went fast & I'm at about A2-B1 German. The question about immigrants into the DDR -- look for countries that were (are) communist. You have 2 in the 1st answer and Vietnam faced a lot of turmoil during the '60s-70s.
Oh, and the better Softdrink is simply Paulaner Spezi !!!
When I lived in Colorado the Pepsi tasted the best and I couldn't stand coke., however when I was in Mexico the coke diffentely tasted better than the Pepsi. Therefore I think it depends alot on the water that it is made with. It somehow makes them taste differant. I atually perfer diet Dr. Pepper. I wish I could speak German as good as your are. I knew about maybe 8 of the questions and that's all. You did great.
Oh brilliant. So now non-EU citizens will be able to have dual nationality. Hundreds of us Brits rushed to get their German passports before Brexit as dual nationality wouldn't be allowed after the UK left the EU. We needn't have bothered.
As I and many of my friends are over 60 and have lived in Germany for decades, we were exempt from taking the test. I went through a few questions with some colleagues at work when the test was first announced - Germans in their 20s and 30s. Simply by dint of having lived through the Wende (but not the third Reich!) the answers were all obvious to me, but the younger German kids weren't always sure.
So there are German citizens who don't know enough about their own country to be citizens. To be fair, though, this, in my experience, is true of most countries.