The town I live in the Midwest US was settled by German immigrants and still has a strong German culture. PlattDeutsch is still spoken here by the older generation, but I’m afraid will soon be gone as they pass away. My ancestors also spoke PlattDeutsch, so it’s interesting to hear about it. I walked through a local cemetery the other day and used Google translate to translate some of the old German inscriptions on the tombstones. Very fascinating to me. I want to go translate more of them. This town is rich in German history and culture. Enjoyed the discussion!
Selters is actually a little town in midwest Germany on the Lahn river where they have a mineral spring. Hence the name Selters Wasser. Just like Appolinaris is a named spring in the now infamous Ahr Valley south of Bonn.
Matjes is fermented herring while Bismark, Rollmops and Bratharing is pickled. Matjes, Bismark and Rollmps is raw while Brathering is dusted in flour and pan fried before pickling.
1:55 is actually a Baja Hoodie, Jerga is the name of the cloth is made off (I've heard is comes from misspronouncing "haircloth"). Then the other Jerga can be translated as slang, but really means "Jargon" as in Computer Jargon, Medical jargon, etc.
The word is Grotto in English which means the same thing, a cave near water or a cave that was inhabited or used by humans rather than your average bear.
The work life Niklas describes depends on the company culture and also what boundaries you set for yourself. I work at a large tech company and I don't work in the evenings or on weekends or during vacations, unless I choose to. I did not set the expectation that I will be responsive during those times so the expectation is not there. Some of my colleagues are the same. And then some of my colleagues do respond or send messages in the evenings or over the weekend or on vacation. But it's a personal choice and not an expectation. On the contrary. There's a big emphasis in the company on wellbeing and taking time to relax and recharge and disconnect from work.
You make me really mad; I have just planned to settle down and now you are coming up with this video which I have to watch although it is 3 a.m. in Germany. Just a question to ya'll: do you know what "Kalsarikännit" is all about? I still wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
The outfit that Josh was wearing I have seen for sale in Fargo, North Dakota (U.S.A.) at a Stamart truck stop off Interstate 29 and 12th Ave. North I believe exit 66. So that outfit can be found in many places.
Super fun podcast and Nicklas has a really interesting view of work culture in both countries, so thanks to him for the insights. Incidentally:I do agree local dialects are losing importance in day-to-day life in the big cities. More's the pity, because I like hearing different dialects (yes, Sächsisch too :-)).
Germany is to a large extent a product of the great migration of the ancient world. This is reflected in the high number of dialects, depending on where the Germanic tribes of that time settled.
In English we have the word "grotto" which means a picturesque cave or an environment that simulates a cave. As kids we were taken to Santa's Grotto to sit on his knee and have our picture taken.
Very good podcast. The boundary between Bavaria and Prussia is called white sausage equator. It's in my area the river Main. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
You can get Matjes Herring in the US, but here it's a particular kind of pickling for the fish. It's a salty brine, as compared to other prepared herring in, for example, sour cream or sweet/sour. In Denmark they have many other variants, I particularly recall a mustard based sauce.
Grotten sind mMn meist kleiner oder bestehen lediglich aus einem "Raum". Höhlen hingegen sind größer, ausgedehnter oder können oftmals sogar als ein System verstanden werden, inklusive Gänge, verschiedenen "Etagen" etc.
I always enjoy your podcast. I been recently enjoy watching Annie the Musical in German sing along in 2019. It was well done. The person who played Annie was so so good.
1:39:20 Exactly! I was home from karaoke night at about 2.20 am, and it’s a good time to fall asleep… Unless some crazy Germericans decide to upload a new episode of the best podcast in the world. 🙈 It was great to see you again, Niklas! All the best to you and your wife (and the doggy) for the restart in Germany! And merry Christmas and a good slide (😉) for all of you! 🤗
Exiting the US pre-9/11 was the same (at least for Germans). You got a piece of the green entry form (today the I-94W) attached to the passport and it was removed by the airline staff when boarding the plane leaving the US.
Grotte sounds like grotto in English. I kinda think we used to call tho. se tops you got ponchos (though ponchos are a bit different). I wore one for a few years. They can be really comfortable if they are well made
The sweater is called “canguro” in Mexico. Surfers made it popular in the 60s/70s. The origin of the clothing is from the state of Tlaxcala. Is it an artisanal item? I am not sure. There is a debate among people in Mexico.
At 1:19:31 about local TV and local accents, in West Virginia the capitol Charleston has a number of local TV stations, however most of the presenters don't have the local accent, because they're not locals. Why? In media there's a ladder you climb. You're from New York or Los Angeles but unless you're very lucky you can't start your career there, and you have to travel to a small media-market for your first job. When these outsiders arrive in the Charleston media market the first thing they have to be taught is how to pronounce Kanawha and Appalachia, which they always say wrong.
Sooo cool. Erinnert mich total an meinen Trip zu meinem Kumpel in Mexico City. Wir waren auch in teotihuacan und la gruta etc. :) Wäre lustig gewesen dich dort zu treffen hahah
I think the seat reservation is sometimes not available these days because the airlines might want to change the airplane type or combine flights because most of them are not fully booked. They don't like people to have an entire row on their own 😔😉 Budni had an agreement with DM that Budni sells DM products and DM won't open stores in Hamburg. This changed when DM started to open stores in Hamburg 😂 Now Budni has an agreement with Edeka and they are expanding all over Germany. So you might be able to find a Budni in Munich soon. ☺️
The codesharing thing is not right. Codeshare is nothing but the right of one airline to sell tickets on flights operated by another. It is typically rather due to insufficient capacities. I could for example not book a Lufthansa ticket to Cinci, as they don't have flights there. If Feli had a United ticket on Lufthansa, it is purely Lufthansa's decision if they will operate the flight. They will never "merge" or so. It is an IT problem. United simply does not have exactly the same seat map in their system. If you contact Lufthansa well enough before the flight you may make it, but it is tricky, as United just blocks the capacity at Lufthansa, but they have the ticket. In general, whenever you fly to Europe and the European airline is operating, you should book the ticket at the European airline if the price is similar, by the way. The key reason are European passenger rights, which are way stronger than US-American ones.
Food: In Baden-Württemberg the "national" meal is Spätzle and acually I think we eat much more pasta than potatoes. But all this was softened and levelled outl. My grandma e.g. had Weißwurst and Brezn at Heiligabend, we have homemade Pizza. Obazda fun fact: One of our neigbours in my home village stood in for the theory that, as one of the ingredients of a proper Obazda are cooked eggs, the "O" comes form the bavarian word "Oar" for eggs, and he always called it "Oarbatzter".
Thats the difference between employee mentality vs owner mentality. As an owner, I need to be always available. Ive even taken business calls from a Seadoo!
Low German has a rough history from being the lingua franca for North Europe during a good chunk of the Middle ages and then falling from grace in favor of Early High German and the individual native languages in the rest of northern Europe in the 16th and 17th cent. After that there was significally less Low German written and it was pushed for a high German standard variation as the cities in the south gained more influence in cultural, social and economic fields. In the early 20th cent. was another push back for speaking Low German as people were deemed uneducated if they spoke dialect. So grandparents might have spoken still dialect, their children wouldn't speak but understand dialect but their children, like myself, would not be able to even understand it very well. I'm from the Ruhr area and we had historically Low German dialects, too, and still have some sunstrate from it in modern day Ruhr German: we say 'wat' and 'dat' and 'nich' and 'wech/Wech' instead of 'was' and 'das' and 'nicht' and 'weg/Weg' for example. As someone who studied Low German I think it's pretty sad that this once distinctive language was surpressed so much it's now considered a dialect of Standard German.
as far as american hiring and firing practices goes. look up "work at will" in Georgia. I live in Georgia. Also look up "right to work". In a nutshell, in Work at will states you can be fired any time, but customary is 2 weeks. same for quitting. Right to work means that you can't be forced to join a workers union as a requirement of a job. Sounds good at first, but is really designed to keep unions from forming in the first place. which then leads to stuff like work at will, no required vacation, PTO which means sick time and vacation time is the same. If you get sick, you just don't get a vacation that year.
_Kurze Hosen aus Leder_ used to be worn all over Germany (and Central Europe) on farms and in industry, whenever that extra protection was needed during warmer weather. The word _Lederhosen_ became attached to the highly decorated version worn during celebrations in Southern Germany and, with the post-WWII tourist trade, has become singly associated with Bavaria. Because local, dialect-associated costumes were celebrated during the Hitler time, after the war such things were avoided or even discouraged, as German integration into the particular political/economic sphere became more important than German regionalism. And, the final bust-up of the territories of the old kingdoms, grand-duchies, etc., post-war broke the population's cultural ties with those long-time regions: only "mainland" Bavaria emerged largely unscathed, un-reorganized in West Germany. (Part of my family came from Rhenish Bavaria "Bayerischer Rheinkreis" [separated from Bavaria, itself, by the Grand Duchy of Baden and the Kingdom of Württemberg], which was absorbed post-war into Rheinland-Pfalz [part of the French zone of occupation], thus losing its [American-zone] Bavarian cultural connection.)
The slip you had in your passport in earlier years was likely the I-94 something, the Immigration form you had to fill out. It has more or less been replaced by the ESTA. Regarding codeshare flights: that's always a wired combination. At a frequent traveler, i would never book a United and lufthansa codeshare based on a United ticket for that reason. Happens in many combinations. Just few really work well..E g. American Airlines and British Airways (but you don't want to fly the later for other reasons nowadays..)
Feli, I have never bought a ticket for a Lufthansa flight from United Airlines because every time I checked, seat assignments were never available. This was no matter where the U.S. flight originated (I checked for Detroit, Chicago, and Houston). After finding the same result throughout 2018 and 2019, I stopped considering Lufthansa flights sold by United. I only fly Delta to Germany.
I hope that Niklas stays in Hamburg or nearby and that you, Josh can complete your kultur trip of Germany 🙂before 2020 the ultimate trip to Hamburg was: Dom, party ung all night long and nursing your hangover on the Fischmarkt, Luebeck: the hole town with its history plus Niederecker Marzipan. Brunsbuettel:Nord-Ostsee Kanal, the North see, Nordseekrabben. This is the short version 😁
Cool! I'm glad you enjoyed your trip. And well, not everyone uses that kind of sweater but it is normal to see people using it here in Mexico , it's just considered "fachoso", wich means... I'm not sure how to translate it, but it is like "not elegant"? haha 😂 Oh, and I love La Gruta, it has delicious dishes and desserts. Like Sopes with crickets.
The dialect thing: There was a recent study done that dialects are dying out, because for a long time they were precieved in all of Germany as being uneducated. On top you have more mobility between places and than of course media.
LInguists have found the opposite has been happening in the USA, dialects becoming more divergent. For example there's a town in Texas where nearly a century ago recordings were made of the speech of local African-Americans, many of them former slaves, or the children of former slaves. Their speech is closer to Standard English than the speech of their grandchildren and great-grandchildren living in the same town today, things like the invariable "be" found in much current African American speech.
1:17:00 From my experience Bavarians have an attitude. They are proud of themselves and that goes also with being proud of their dialect. That does not apply to any region in Germany that I have been to. As being from Hamburg, raised speaking standard high German, I learn as much as I have about low German from listening to radio and theater (Ohnsorg). But the latter is not really strict low German. But here nobody is proud of speaking dialect because he is not giving any thought about it. When I was in a group which was trained for my business that came from all corners of Germany the only time this Bavaria vs. the rest of the world issue came up when a Bavarian colleague mentioned it. Nobody gave a rat's a## during the whole time of where you were from. But he brought it up. Didn't make him an outsider or any different from my perspective even afterwords. But for him it seemed to be a thing. Not that it showed in any shape or form but it was in his mind that Bavarians are different. For me that was a hint that there must be a complex of inferiority that is buried deeply inside the Bavarian soul. And it goes beyond just feeling proud of your native area which I think is natural.
Der Film "Der Schuh des Manitou" ist ungefähr so "bayrisch" wie der "Kömödienstadl" als Fernshformat. Anders sieht es vielleicht aus mit "Wer früher stirbt, ist länger tot" und ähnlichen spezielleren Filmen.
The movie title is „Der Schuh des Manitu“ If you like to watch Bavarian dialect you could ld try ARD (thats a broadcasting station) Mediathek series „Hubert und Staller“ or „Eberhofer Krimi“ Eifel region „Mord mit Aussicht“ and more north „ Morden im Norden“ have fun!
The "no vacation during the trial period" thing is an unwritten rule that is firmly stuck in many heads. Actually, you are legally entitled to take 1/12 of your annual vacation for every month you have completed on the new job. And if you are on good terms with your boss, anything is possible. I always encourage new colleagues to plan their vacation early, even during the trial period. Because neither the company nor the employee will be happy if the employee is forced to take their entire annual vacation in November and December.
Probezeit ist eine Angelegenheit, die im Arbeitsvertrag geregelt wird. Man kann auch vereinbaren, dass es keine Probezeit gibt. Aber üblich sind 3 bis 6 Monate, je nach Berufserfahrung, ... 9 Monate höre ich jetzt zum erstenmal. Die Probezeit soll dazu dienen, dass der Neue und die Firmal sich erst mal besser kennenlernen können und dass es einfacher ist, sich bei Nichtgefallen wieder zu trennen. Man wird weder in der Probezeit noch am Ende ohne Vorwarnung das Arbeitsverhältnis lösen, sondern es bestehen die gesetzlichen und vertraglichen Kündigungsmodalitäten. Die Kündigung muss lediglich nicht begründet werden, was nach dem Ende der Probezeit gar nicht mehr so einfach ist, da es nur wenige zulässige bzw, wirksame Kündigungsgründe gibt.
I was born in East Berlin and still live there. I somewhat neither identify with East nor West Germany. But I guess in my heart I'm somewhat more East German, but with the Berlin perpective. We have a Berlin slang, not a really strong dialect which non-Berliners wouldn't understand.. It has a rather negative connotation these days, at work you wouldn't hear it much and not even in other occasions I hear it a lot nowadays. When I was a child it was normal that all people around me spoke Berlin slang. Maybe today this slang, which by the way is very present in the Brandenburg region, vanished because there are so many people in Berlin who are not originally from Berlin. I have never been to Bavaria ;-)
Interestingly, bookstores in Germany count as shops for daily needs like supermarkets and therefore unvaccinated people can still shop there despite the 2G rule.
Why not use the english word? No false friend - grotto. In many "English" Landscape Gardens or Parks I have seen both in England and in Germany there are artificial grottoes as garden gimmicks. In these cases wet is usually right, but not necessarily. At many catholic Chapels e.g., there are Fatima Grottoes with a copy of the Fatima Statue of the Virgina Mary inside and in there no water is involved at all.
As there is no "employment act" the law regarding employment is all over the place. § 4 Bundesurlaubsgesetz is the legal foundation for the 6 month wait before claiming holidays. Probezeit is a maximum of 6 month according to § 622 Abs. 3 BGB. For your collection of dialects: Kleverländisch - ruclips.net/video/Ai20VsV0Je0/видео.html Enjoy! And there is a history to it too: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleverländisch
A "Grotte" is like a cave at the water with stalagmites and stalagtites. In the german language, we also have the word "Kaverne", which is mostly an artifical cave.
I agree the word definitely implies that there is a high humidity and I also associate it with stalagmites...not sure about the 'close to water' aspect...so sure some underground water hence the humidity but above ground you might not realise that's there..atleast I've usually been to them in mountain areas where there wasn't necessarily water close by?
@@FrauTietze42 Stalagtites come to be by the drps of water forming as they are from lime left by the water droplets. And therefore there are the stalagmites directly below them. Anyway. Without nearby water, there is no humidity. And the water reservoir has to be big enough to make the humidity in the whole grotto possible.
I've been living in SoCal for many years now, we're in the middle of one of those linguistic border regions where a proportion speak only English, a proportion only Spanish, and many are equally fluent in either. You can hear conversations in Spanglish all the time. It's a daily experience where I'm the only person in the room (queue at a market, in a shop, in a restaurant) that doesn't speak Spanish. About that Mexican hoodie, here they're stereotypical surfer-dude attire, as well as stoners. About Mexican food, here there's a vast number of restaurants, and the full spectrum between authentic and heavily Anglicised. And it's not just Mexican, there are tons of restaurants specialising in food from Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala, El Salvidor, Brazilian, and pretty much every other Latin American country.
Regarding the dialects, I feel that it is nice if people speak them, as long as they also speak proper German... E.g. look at some of the German skiing athletes, which speak Bavarian in TV interviews.. That is really bothering in my point of view. Thanks for teaching me that "ocean" in English is also equivalent to "Meer" in German. Feli talking about two _oceans_ being at the German coasts sounded extremely silly to me at first sight (they are two "Meere" in German, but of course just part of one "Ozean" - the Atlantic Ocean) in Germany. Would be interesting if British people use the word "ocean" the same way - as they have different "seas" next to the British Isles, but of course just one "ocean"...
Sorry, but for a Texan, it sounds like Josh just went to San Antonio. Das wäre auch vielleicht besser, da diese Stadt an der Grenze vom deutschen Bergland von Texas ist: "Wie geht's, y'all?" (Der Großteil der Bevölkerung San Antonios war von 1850 bis in die 1920er Jahre deutsch.) Eine Grotte is usually "grotto" in English: in both languages the word quite often refers to a human-made cave (which can have multiple rooms), or possibly a tunnel. In the case of Italy's "Blue Grotto" the word is taken directly from the Italian "Grotta Azzurra."
In Mexico jergas are not associated with drug use at all equitable to a traditional poncho. In the US white people associated drug use them aka stoners wear them along with leather huarache sandals as laid back beach wear
"The stoners in school"= die Kiffer! Aaaha! Thanks a lot and again what learned. Edit: in my opinion back then (not nowadays) they were concurrently the stunners. But please don't confuse with stoners!😂
Really enjoy your podcast, and discussion of differences between N and S Germany. My grandparents came from N Germany (Fohr and Basbeck). The treat we always looked forward to at Christmas was a bar of Leubeck Marzipan. We cut off a small slice to enjoy each day between Christmas and Jan. 1. Keep up the good work!!
I miss the herring in Hamburg: Bismark herring, Rollmops. The only thing close to it that I can get here is Matjes from Lithuania (of all places)
Niklas is an amazing guest, so it would be amazing to have him as a guest another time!
With farmers it also depens if they have lifestock (which makes harder) or if it's "only" plants.
The town I live in the Midwest US was settled by German immigrants and still has a strong German culture. PlattDeutsch is still spoken here by the older generation, but I’m afraid will soon be gone as they pass away. My ancestors also spoke PlattDeutsch, so it’s interesting to hear about it.
I walked through a local cemetery the other day and used Google translate to translate some of the old German inscriptions on the tombstones. Very fascinating to me. I want to go translate more of them. This town is rich in German history and culture.
Enjoyed the discussion!
Can I ask where?
Very small town of Cole Camp, Missouri
@@zaram131 Cool, thank you.
Selters is actually a little town in midwest Germany on the Lahn river where they have a mineral spring. Hence the name Selters Wasser. Just like Appolinaris is a named spring in the now infamous Ahr Valley south of Bonn.
Matjes is fermented herring while Bismark, Rollmops and Bratharing is pickled. Matjes, Bismark and Rollmps is raw while Brathering is dusted in flour and pan fried before pickling.
Update with Niklas - great👍😀
My man Josh playing the long game. Respect. 💪
1:55 is actually a Baja Hoodie, Jerga is the name of the cloth is made off (I've heard is comes from misspronouncing "haircloth").
Then the other Jerga can be translated as slang, but really means "Jargon" as in Computer Jargon, Medical jargon, etc.
The word is Grotto in English which means the same thing, a cave near water or a cave that was inhabited or used by humans rather than your average bear.
The Legend is back :D
Great show.
The work life Niklas describes depends on the company culture and also what boundaries you set for yourself. I work at a large tech company and I don't work in the evenings or on weekends or during vacations, unless I choose to. I did not set the expectation that I will be responsive during those times so the expectation is not there. Some of my colleagues are the same. And then some of my colleagues do respond or send messages in the evenings or over the weekend or on vacation. But it's a personal choice and not an expectation. On the contrary. There's a big emphasis in the company on wellbeing and taking time to relax and recharge and disconnect from work.
Thanks for clearing that up :)
Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas.
You make me really mad; I have just planned to settle down and now you are coming up with this video which I have to watch although it is 3 a.m. in Germany. Just a question to ya'll: do you know what "Kalsarikännit" is all about? I still wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
The outfit that Josh was wearing I have seen for sale in Fargo, North Dakota (U.S.A.) at a Stamart truck stop off Interstate 29 and 12th Ave. North I believe exit 66. So that outfit can be found in many places.
Super fun podcast and Nicklas has a really interesting view of work culture in both countries, so thanks to him for the insights. Incidentally:I do agree local dialects are losing importance in day-to-day life in the big cities. More's the pity, because I like hearing different dialects (yes, Sächsisch too :-)).
The christmas market in kassel is still open and should be until 30.12
Germany is to a large extent a product of the great migration of the ancient world. This is reflected in the high number of dialects, depending on where the Germanic tribes of that time settled.
In English we have the word "grotto" which means a picturesque cave or an environment that simulates a cave. As kids we were taken to Santa's Grotto to sit on his knee and have our picture taken.
Very good podcast. The boundary between Bavaria and Prussia is called white sausage equator. It's in my area the river Main. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
You can get Matjes Herring in the US, but here it's a particular kind of pickling for the fish. It's a salty brine, as compared to other prepared herring in, for example, sour cream or sweet/sour. In Denmark they have many other variants, I particularly recall a mustard based sauce.
The Harry Potter trio haha :D Great episode, guys! Grüße aus Sachsen :)
Grotten sind mMn meist kleiner oder bestehen lediglich aus einem "Raum". Höhlen hingegen sind größer, ausgedehnter oder können oftmals sogar als ein System verstanden werden, inklusive Gänge, verschiedenen "Etagen" etc.
That "Tschüssi" at the end sounded so East German. Something you picked up in Erfurt?
I always enjoy your podcast. I been recently enjoy watching Annie the Musical in German sing along in 2019. It was well done. The person who played Annie was so so good.
grotte- Grotto like at the playboy mansion. In Mexico they are called cenotes.
1:39:20 Exactly!
I was home from karaoke night at about 2.20 am, and it’s a good time to fall asleep…
Unless some crazy Germericans decide to upload a new episode of the best podcast in the world. 🙈
It was great to see you again, Niklas! All the best to you and your wife (and the doggy) for the restart in Germany!
And merry Christmas and a good slide (😉) for all of you! 🤗
Niklas’ American accent has improved a lot 👌
Exiting the US pre-9/11 was the same (at least for Germans). You got a piece of the green entry form (today the I-94W) attached to the passport and it was removed by the airline staff when boarding the plane leaving the US.
Grotte sounds like grotto in English.
I kinda think we used to call tho.
se tops you got ponchos (though ponchos are a bit different). I wore one for a few years. They can be really comfortable if they are well made
The sweater is called “canguro” in Mexico. Surfers made it popular in the 60s/70s. The origin of the clothing is from the state of Tlaxcala. Is it an artisanal item? I am not sure. There is a debate among people in Mexico.
At 1:19:31 about local TV and local accents, in West Virginia the capitol Charleston has a number of local TV stations, however most of the presenters don't have the local accent, because they're not locals. Why? In media there's a ladder you climb. You're from New York or Los Angeles but unless you're very lucky you can't start your career there, and you have to travel to a small media-market for your first job. When these outsiders arrive in the Charleston media market the first thing they have to be taught is how to pronounce Kanawha and Appalachia, which they always say wrong.
Die Uhrzeit!!!! 😂
Sooo cool. Erinnert mich total an meinen Trip zu meinem Kumpel in Mexico City. Wir waren auch in teotihuacan und la gruta etc. :) Wäre lustig gewesen dich dort zu treffen hahah
I think the seat reservation is sometimes not available these days because the airlines might want to change the airplane type or combine flights because most of them are not fully booked. They don't like people to have an entire row on their own 😔😉
Budni had an agreement with DM that Budni sells DM products and DM won't open stores in Hamburg. This changed when DM started to open stores in Hamburg 😂
Now Budni has an agreement with Edeka and they are expanding all over Germany. So you might be able to find a Budni in Munich soon. ☺️
The codesharing thing is not right. Codeshare is nothing but the right of one airline to sell tickets on flights operated by another. It is typically rather due to insufficient capacities. I could for example not book a Lufthansa ticket to Cinci, as they don't have flights there. If Feli had a United ticket on Lufthansa, it is purely Lufthansa's decision if they will operate the flight. They will never "merge" or so. It is an IT problem. United simply does not have exactly the same seat map in their system. If you contact Lufthansa well enough before the flight you may make it, but it is tricky, as United just blocks the capacity at Lufthansa, but they have the ticket. In general, whenever you fly to Europe and the European airline is operating, you should book the ticket at the European airline if the price is similar, by the way. The key reason are European passenger rights, which are way stronger than US-American ones.
Food: In Baden-Württemberg the "national" meal is Spätzle and acually I think we eat much more pasta than potatoes. But all this was softened and levelled outl. My grandma e.g. had Weißwurst and Brezn at Heiligabend, we have homemade Pizza.
Obazda fun fact: One of our neigbours in my home village stood in for the theory that, as one of the ingredients of a proper Obazda are cooked eggs, the "O" comes form the bavarian word "Oar" for eggs, and he always called it "Oarbatzter".
Thats the difference between employee mentality vs owner mentality. As an owner, I need to be always available. Ive even taken business calls from a Seadoo!
Hwy guys what was the movie name at 1:11:06?
Low German has a rough history from being the lingua franca for North Europe during a good chunk of the Middle ages and then falling from grace in favor of Early High German and the individual native languages in the rest of northern Europe in the 16th and 17th cent. After that there was significally less Low German written and it was pushed for a high German standard variation as the cities in the south gained more influence in cultural, social and economic fields. In the early 20th cent. was another push back for speaking Low German as people were deemed uneducated if they spoke dialect. So grandparents might have spoken still dialect, their children wouldn't speak but understand dialect but their children, like myself, would not be able to even understand it very well. I'm from the Ruhr area and we had historically Low German dialects, too, and still have some sunstrate from it in modern day Ruhr German: we say 'wat' and 'dat' and 'nich' and 'wech/Wech' instead of 'was' and 'das' and 'nicht' and 'weg/Weg' for example. As someone who studied Low German I think it's pretty sad that this once distinctive language was surpressed so much it's now considered a dialect of Standard German.
as far as american hiring and firing practices goes. look up "work at will" in Georgia. I live in Georgia. Also look up "right to work". In a nutshell, in Work at will states you can be fired any time, but customary is 2 weeks. same for quitting. Right to work means that you can't be forced to join a workers union as a requirement of a job. Sounds good at first, but is really designed to keep unions from forming in the first place. which then leads to stuff like work at will, no required vacation, PTO which means sick time and vacation time is the same. If you get sick, you just don't get a vacation that year.
JFTR,
Germans (at least older ones) distinguish "Weihnachten" (Christmas 25/26 Dec) and "Heiligabend" (Christmas Eve, 24 Dec).
_Kurze Hosen aus Leder_ used to be worn all over Germany (and Central Europe) on farms and in industry, whenever that extra protection was needed during warmer weather. The word _Lederhosen_ became attached to the highly decorated version worn during celebrations in Southern Germany and, with the post-WWII tourist trade, has become singly associated with Bavaria. Because local, dialect-associated costumes were celebrated during the Hitler time, after the war such things were avoided or even discouraged, as German integration into the particular political/economic sphere became more important than German regionalism.
And, the final bust-up of the territories of the old kingdoms, grand-duchies, etc., post-war broke the population's cultural ties with those long-time regions: only "mainland" Bavaria emerged largely unscathed, un-reorganized in West Germany. (Part of my family came from Rhenish Bavaria "Bayerischer Rheinkreis" [separated from Bavaria, itself, by the Grand Duchy of Baden and the Kingdom of Württemberg], which was absorbed post-war into Rheinland-Pfalz [part of the French zone of occupation], thus losing its [American-zone] Bavarian cultural connection.)
The slip you had in your passport in earlier years was likely the I-94 something, the Immigration form you had to fill out. It has more or less been replaced by the ESTA.
Regarding codeshare flights: that's always a wired combination. At a frequent traveler, i would never book a United and lufthansa codeshare based on a United ticket for that reason. Happens in many combinations. Just few really work well..E g. American Airlines and British Airways (but you don't want to fly the later for other reasons nowadays..)
Well, Josh, do not say: "I decided to f*** off", just say: " I decided to bugger off." ;-)
Feli, I have never bought a ticket for a Lufthansa flight from United Airlines because every time I checked, seat assignments were never available. This was no matter where the U.S. flight originated (I checked for Detroit, Chicago, and Houston). After finding the same result throughout 2018 and 2019, I stopped considering Lufthansa flights sold by United. I only fly Delta to Germany.
I hope that Niklas stays in Hamburg or nearby and that you, Josh can complete your kultur trip of Germany 🙂before 2020 the ultimate trip to Hamburg was: Dom, party ung all night long and nursing your hangover on the Fischmarkt, Luebeck: the hole town with its history plus Niederecker Marzipan. Brunsbuettel:Nord-Ostsee Kanal, the North see, Nordseekrabben. This is the short version 😁
Cool! I'm glad you enjoyed your trip.
And well, not everyone uses that kind of sweater but it is normal to see people using it here in Mexico , it's just considered "fachoso", wich means... I'm not sure how to translate it, but it is like "not elegant"? haha 😂
Oh, and I love La Gruta, it has delicious dishes and desserts. Like Sopes with crickets.
So my boss in Germany is a small buissnes owner and she does take vacation 3 weeks at once twice a year. We are 5 people in total.
This episode made me hungry.
The dialect thing: There was a recent study done that dialects are dying out, because for a long time they were precieved in all of Germany as being uneducated. On top you have more mobility between places and than of course media.
LInguists have found the opposite has been happening in the USA, dialects becoming more divergent. For example there's a town in Texas where nearly a century ago recordings were made of the speech of local African-Americans, many of them former slaves, or the children of former slaves. Their speech is closer to Standard English than the speech of their grandchildren and great-grandchildren living in the same town today, things like the invariable "be" found in much current African American speech.
1:17:00 From my experience Bavarians have an attitude. They are proud of themselves and that goes also with being proud of their dialect. That does not apply to any region in Germany that I have been to. As being from Hamburg, raised speaking standard high German, I learn as much as I have about low German from listening to radio and theater (Ohnsorg). But the latter is not really strict low German. But here nobody is proud of speaking dialect because he is not giving any thought about it.
When I was in a group which was trained for my business that came from all corners of Germany the only time this Bavaria vs. the rest of the world issue came up when a Bavarian colleague mentioned it. Nobody gave a rat's a## during the whole time of where you were from. But he brought it up. Didn't make him an outsider or any different from my perspective even afterwords. But for him it seemed to be a thing. Not that it showed in any shape or form but it was in his mind that Bavarians are different. For me that was a hint that there must be a complex of inferiority that is buried deeply inside the Bavarian soul. And it goes beyond just feeling proud of your native area which I think is natural.
random note ... Feli hat eine coole, charmante Lache. Nice feat.
Der Film "Der Schuh des Manitou" ist ungefähr so "bayrisch" wie der "Kömödienstadl" als Fernshformat. Anders sieht es vielleicht aus mit "Wer früher stirbt, ist länger tot" und ähnlichen spezielleren Filmen.
English has "grotto" as well. A cave by the water.
We also have "cavern".
We should have taken over the Swiss model of TV stations in all the dialects I would love to pay for the GEZ too
Okay... what's the name of the Bavarian dialect movie?
The movie title is „Der Schuh des Manitu“
If you like to watch Bavarian dialect you could ld try ARD (thats a broadcasting station) Mediathek series „Hubert und Staller“ or „Eberhofer Krimi“
Eifel region „Mord mit Aussicht“ and more north „ Morden im Norden“ have fun!
Could you discuss how Americans with German ancestry can learn how to research their German ancestors who lived in Germany and Prussia before 1870.
Deluxe Mexican Baja Hoodie Sweatshirt Pullover jerga material, or “ Drug Rug. “
The "no vacation during the trial period" thing is an unwritten rule that is firmly stuck in many heads. Actually, you are legally entitled to take 1/12 of your annual vacation for every month you have completed on the new job. And if you are on good terms with your boss, anything is possible.
I always encourage new colleagues to plan their vacation early, even during the trial period. Because neither the company nor the employee will be happy if the employee is forced to take their entire annual vacation in November and December.
Probezeit ist eine Angelegenheit, die im Arbeitsvertrag geregelt wird. Man kann auch vereinbaren, dass es keine Probezeit gibt. Aber üblich sind 3 bis 6 Monate, je nach Berufserfahrung, ... 9 Monate höre ich jetzt zum erstenmal. Die Probezeit soll dazu dienen, dass der Neue und die Firmal sich erst mal besser kennenlernen können und dass es einfacher ist, sich bei Nichtgefallen wieder zu trennen.
Man wird weder in der Probezeit noch am Ende ohne Vorwarnung das Arbeitsverhältnis lösen, sondern es bestehen die gesetzlichen und vertraglichen Kündigungsmodalitäten. Die Kündigung muss lediglich nicht begründet werden, was nach dem Ende der Probezeit gar nicht mehr so einfach ist, da es nur wenige zulässige bzw, wirksame Kündigungsgründe gibt.
I was born in East Berlin and still live there. I somewhat neither identify with East nor West Germany. But I guess in my heart I'm somewhat more East German, but with the Berlin perpective. We have a Berlin slang, not a really strong dialect which non-Berliners wouldn't understand.. It has a rather negative connotation these days, at work you wouldn't hear it much and not even in other occasions I hear it a lot nowadays. When I was a child it was normal that all people around me spoke Berlin slang. Maybe today this slang, which by the way is very present in the Brandenburg region, vanished because there are so many people in Berlin who are not originally from Berlin. I have never been to Bavaria ;-)
Back in the ‘90s we called them a baja. (The drug rug 🤣)
Niklas: do you eat/like Bohnen, Birnen und Speck or Lapskaus?
Я молодой Немецкий из Восток-Германии и я говорю по русский.
Just felt like letting everyone know that the Anglicized pronunciation of Feli's name can technically be spelled "Feighleigh" in English.
Ha! That looks pretty much like Gaelic spelling, though in Scottish Gaelic it might be Feilidh (as in ceilidh "visit").
@@RichardDCook yeah, I can imagine. These complicated spelling rules are mostly the extent of the Celtic influence on English to begin with, anyway.
es wird langsam zeit, really means that it has been time to leave for some time. Maybe think of it as "really time"
Some Americans, especially girls, will use a flowery long high-pitched "bye", like "Byyyyeeee!!!"
Interestingly, bookstores in Germany count as shops for daily needs like supermarkets and therefore unvaccinated people can still shop there despite the 2G rule.
Flower shops and shoe stores aswell
If you were famous enough even the rolling R was accepted in German TV, Caroline Reiber lässt grüßen :)
Grotte: a smaller type of cave mostly formed by nature and very wet.
Why not use the english word? No false friend - grotto. In many "English" Landscape Gardens or Parks I have seen both in England and in Germany there are artificial grottoes as garden gimmicks. In these cases wet is usually right, but not necessarily. At many catholic Chapels e.g., there are Fatima Grottoes with a copy of the Fatima Statue of the Virgina Mary inside and in there no water is involved at all.
As there is no "employment act" the law regarding employment is all over the place. § 4 Bundesurlaubsgesetz is the legal foundation for the 6 month wait before claiming holidays. Probezeit is a maximum of 6 month according to § 622 Abs. 3 BGB. For your collection of dialects: Kleverländisch - ruclips.net/video/Ai20VsV0Je0/видео.html Enjoy! And there is a history to it too: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleverländisch
A "Grotte" is like a cave at the water with stalagmites and stalagtites.
In the german language, we also have the word "Kaverne", which is mostly an artifical cave.
I agree the word definitely implies that there is a high humidity and I also associate it with stalagmites...not sure about the 'close to water' aspect...so sure some underground water hence the humidity but above ground you might not realise that's there..atleast I've usually been to them in mountain areas where there wasn't necessarily water close by?
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Stalagtites come to be by the drps of water forming as they are from lime left by the water droplets. And therefore there are the stalagmites directly below them.
Anyway. Without nearby water, there is no humidity. And the water reservoir has to be big enough to make the humidity in the whole grotto possible.
I've been living in SoCal for many years now, we're in the middle of one of those linguistic border regions where a proportion speak only English, a proportion only Spanish, and many are equally fluent in either. You can hear conversations in Spanglish all the time. It's a daily experience where I'm the only person in the room (queue at a market, in a shop, in a restaurant) that doesn't speak Spanish. About that Mexican hoodie, here they're stereotypical surfer-dude attire, as well as stoners. About Mexican food, here there's a vast number of restaurants, and the full spectrum between authentic and heavily Anglicised. And it's not just Mexican, there are tons of restaurants specialising in food from Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala, El Salvidor, Brazilian, and pretty much every other Latin American country.
Regarding the dialects, I feel that it is nice if people speak them, as long as they also speak proper German... E.g. look at some of the German skiing athletes, which speak Bavarian in TV interviews.. That is really bothering in my point of view.
Thanks for teaching me that "ocean" in English is also equivalent to "Meer" in German. Feli talking about two _oceans_ being at the German coasts sounded extremely silly to me at first sight (they are two "Meere" in German, but of course just part of one "Ozean" - the Atlantic Ocean) in Germany. Would be interesting if British people use the word "ocean" the same way - as they have different "seas" next to the British Isles, but of course just one "ocean"...
Can you write down the Mexican city names?
Ciudad de México (Mexico City), Teotihuacán, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Querétaro
Sorry, but for a Texan, it sounds like Josh just went to San Antonio. Das wäre auch vielleicht besser, da diese Stadt an der Grenze vom deutschen Bergland von Texas ist: "Wie geht's, y'all?" (Der Großteil der Bevölkerung San Antonios war von 1850 bis in die 1920er Jahre deutsch.)
Eine Grotte is usually "grotto" in English: in both languages the word quite often refers to a human-made cave (which can have multiple rooms), or possibly a tunnel. In the case of Italy's "Blue Grotto" the word is taken directly from the Italian "Grotta Azzurra."
In Mexico jergas are not associated with drug use at all equitable to a traditional poncho. In the US white people associated drug use them aka stoners wear them along with leather huarache sandals as laid back beach wear
Wir sollten langsam gehen - I'd translate that into: It's about time that we leave.
I bought a baja jacket for 20 bucks at a music festival
"The stoners in school"= die Kiffer! Aaaha! Thanks a lot and again what learned. Edit: in my opinion back then (not nowadays) they were concurrently the stunners. But please don't confuse with stoners!😂
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Plattdeutsch ist kein Dialekt, es ist eine Sprache. 😉
If they get pig or something from the butcher they eat the whole thing..........that sounds not very polite.....
Nick der Fischkopp geht mir auf die Eier.
Really enjoy your podcast, and discussion of differences between N and S Germany. My grandparents came from N Germany (Fohr and Basbeck). The treat we always looked forward to at Christmas was a bar of Leubeck Marzipan. We cut off a small slice to enjoy each day between Christmas and Jan. 1. Keep up the good work!!
Josh has lost weight and Feli is even more in love with him and jealous hell marry a mexican or french girl
I don't think Feli's worried much about that.
@@DougWinfield Are u kidding it's all she can think of wants to sell her house and go back to Germany But He keeps running away
@@fusion451 Projecting much?
The cyclones are a ECHL team (AA hockey league) they are affiliated with buffalo
"Wir sollten langsam gehen."
Das "langsam" ist ein Modalpartikel.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modalpartikel
Josh, there's the Alliance Française in Munich if you need to improve your french.