American reacts to German translated LITERALLY into English
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„It’s all so literal“ - wait until he discovers „Durchfall“ 😂
Or "Bauchspeicheldrüsenentzündung" 😜
@@batonnetdecannelle belly saliva gland ignition!
through fall!
Almond inflammation 😮
oder Fernseh-Bildschirm (Far-See-Picture-Umbrella)
It's "fun brake", not "fun break" - like you're on the fun train together and one person steps on the brakes
A classic blunder of spelling that you see everywhere. I would not like have a breakjob done on my car.
How do people not realize the difference between words that sound the same? It's just like with your/you're and there/their/they're, each meaning something completely different from the other, I guess some people just don't care or have difficulty with language in general.
Why bother with translation if they dont even use the correct words...
It's not so simple in this case - break and brake are related...brake “an apparatus of diminishing speed,” it is a product of folk etymology, for the apparatus “broke” the motion.
"the words are all out of order" exactly what I was thinking when learning english
eben eben eben
@@markfromthefuture477genau genau genau
Yoda but backwards. And there we have it, as he said "alien", even that it not always means extraterestial life form. No not that cat eater.
"I think I am spinning" - spinne and Spinne are spelled almost the same so the joke is that they are using spider instead of spinning. It means "I think I am going crazy"
Correct would be „I believe i spinning“
spinning? *muahahaha*
Also worth pointing out that this would be spinning as in spinning thread, not the generic use for 'rotating'.
As always with every TikTok it's just stupid and trash
Wrong its comes from the Spider but its the verb making the web!
Hint for every beginner in learning German: If you have an object that you don't know the name of: Just describe, what it does, or what it looks like. In 65% of cases it's the (almost) correct word and in every other case Germans will understand, what you mean.
Also if it's really hard to describe it: Just say what it does and at "zeug" (thing) at the end of the word. Flugzeug (fly-thing) is the German word for aeroplane. Fahrzeug (drive-thing) is every land-based vehicle (bikes, trucks, cars, tanks included although there are specific words for each of those).
I know this comment is several month old, but I just had to add to this :)
"Feuerzeug", fire-thing, lighter
"Spielzeug", play-thing, toy(s)
"Werkzeug" work/factory-things, any tool that is used in handiwork
"Schreibzeug", writing-things, generalization for pens/pencils etc. when there's no need to specify
"Nähzeug" sewing-things, sewing kit
"Grünzeug" green-things, used for edible stuff that is green like salat, herbs, spices
"Knabberzeug" nibble-things, munchies
"my english is not the yellow from the egg"
"with me its not good cherry eating"
And my favourite:
"he made himself me nothing you nothing out of the dust."
Damn, i wanted to comment the egg thing 😏
Damn, ich habe zu lange gebraucht um das letzte zu checken😂
Legende.. 😂
Er macht sich mir nichts dir nichts aus dem Staub 😂
@@dernano5195 Verräter 😛
As a German who grew up speaking Plattdeutsch as a second language and learned English (from 3rd grade), French (from 5th to 8th grade), Latin (for 2 years) and Spanish (from 11th to 13th grade) in school, Arabic for 1 semester at uni it blows my mind how closed minded the brain is when it was never exposed to another language and therefore to another way of thinking and a different culture.
Just a tiny example: in English and German we say "i am 30 years old" but the French say "I have 30 years". Or how different languages have different ways of being polite and impolite. It just teaches you how there are so many different ways of living and seeing the world and the one you were born into is just one of many.
Exactly. It's a psychological attitude, as well, because if you speak a foreign language, you don't judge foreign speakers of your own language based on their language skills - as the British and the Americans often do. You will have the empathy and you know how to help them.
And the British habit of putting on a fake German, Russian etc accent when they act a foreigner or if they dub someone in a documentary - I find that offensive.
Fleisch translates literally to meat or to flesh. So tooth flesh would be a more fitting literal translation than tooth meat.
That was exactly my thought. And I am a bit disappointed, since Rosetta Stone is an educational facility and specialized on languages, so they really should have done better here!
Fun fact: Meat is a cognate of the (very infamous) Mett.
It's derived from Old Saxon "meti" meaning "food" in general.
flesh is being used for humans.
The difference between meat and flesh is like the difference between magma and lava.
It's the same material but on different places.
It's flesh as long as it's on the body but it's meat if you cut it of and processed it.
@@zelmawoodMat still means food in Scandinavia (and the English meat is a semantic glide from that "Viking" word).
My dear mister singing club, the video was an eyes willow.
Vakuum ist "Staubsauger" in german. Staub = dust, saugen = suck. "suck dust"
In Low german (an own language spoken in northern germany) it´s a "Huulbessen" in german "Heulbesen" and in englisch a "howl broom"
Also, "to dust" (stauben) would mean to spread/shed dust in German. We literally cannot use the English word.
I just became even more sympathetic towards my neice's German husband. He immigrated to Australia as a teenager. My neice already spoke fluent French, some Greek and some German when they met. He has been helping with her German. He's a sweet kind gentleman and definitely a cuddly teddy bear type. We all love him. A few years ago he took her back to Germany for a visit. A lovely couple invited them over for dinner. The three of them were speaking rapid fire German. She put her hand on his thigh and said "I can't understand what they're saying." To which he replied "Now you know how I feel."
My parents once picked up a Canadian at the airport on their way back from the US. His "plan" was to quickly buy a used BMW motorcycle and ride through Europe. To make a long story short: He stayed with us until my father found somebody who would sell his BMW. The Canadian then sent us postcards in German although he did not speak the language. He had translated them word-by-word from English. Then I had to translate it back into English to figure out what he meant to say.
As a German speaker, I was laughing so much. Thank you for your reaction. 🤣
1:00 Spinning was first used in the sense of making thread, because spiders can make threads. As for how it got the meaning crazy, there are several possibilities:
1. The work (make threads) is very monotonous (= you go crazy)
2. Parties in mental asylums had to do this work.
3. Alternatively, there is also an explanation of "spinning (spidern) sailor's yarn" (= making up stories or in other word make crazy stories)
Or spinnen in the sense of turning and getting dizzy / crazy
Depending on the situation, it also means something like: I can not believe that / I'm surprised.
You can also say "the machine spiders" = the machine makes crazy things = the machine doesn't work
I am pretty sure the reason it got its meaning is that the workers that made thread in the past told crazy/unbelievable stories.
This exact thing actually exist in English: "To spin a tale" - i.e. you make up something.
I think the root for both the English and German variant is in "making things up" - just as wool is made into thread by spinning.
So the German would be more akin to "Am I dreaming/imagining/making things up? Where did I put my keys?!"
Not just because it's monotonous, rather bc "it goes in circles" which is the opposite of logic.
I think Ryan got it! When he said "that´s why german words are so long" I thought "Yes! He understood."
This shows how important it is to learn a foreign language‘s sentence structure at first 😅
And yes there is some truth to your point that literal description is what makes many German words as long as they are.
Btw, this is part of why I find Rosetta Stone to be so utter useless - it doesn't teach you grammar.
Well, in the instances that normal translations were used with broken grammar, Ryan was able to piece together what the meaning was.
Even with some of the funky translations he got the general gist.
So the lesson of this video is, that as long as you know the correct translations for things, you will be able to communicate just fine.
Well as long as you can handle sounding a bit stupid because of broken grammar.
Exactly, that's why Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz is so long too 😂
Dutch does the same but has incoorperated alot of synonyms from French and English to make the flow smoother.
Ryan already speaks a foreign language 😉
and if you translate english to german literally, you get r/ich_iel 😂
Kein Weg!
Can me this someone please explaining?
r/ich_iel is the german reddit. There is only german allowed and every english word gets translated literally. The iel stands for im echten Leben which means in real life.
Thanks for the explanation!
@@FunnystersteIt's r/meirl but german
No, „Spaßbremse“ does not mean „FunBREAK“, its „funBRAKE“ :)
The biggest challenge for monolingual English speakers when they come to learn any foreign language is their lack of knowledge of basic grammar. In that respect it is easier to teach the Welsh and the Irish as they already have the grammar bit covered in their study of Welsh and Irish. And in addition they have already got the trick of thinking in a different language.
German words may be longer, but they are more descriptive. E. g. what is a vacuum? For once that's a latin word, and there it means an area with no air in it. But in German we just say Staubsauger - dust sucker. It's totally obvious what the device is supposed to do! Or think of the vet, that's short for veterinarian, and that's latin again. In Germany it's the Tierarzt, the animal doctor. Pretty easy, huh?!
Not to forget bra instead of brasserie, gas and gasoline, can instead of canister, cop from constable on patrol (strippes police fellow). But also I heard "inward buying car return station" for shopping cart station. Is that the correct american english term? Was a mix of german to me german and american (station) from the other person, which came halfway puperty to europe.
One of the hardest things for me when I was learning English was that the word order is different. It took me a long time to get it right, and even years later I still make mistakes.
Another thing, at least for me, is never to translate another language word for word.
I can see that! For a swede, not so much, but the grammar is harder. Like is/are, has/have, seem/seems, etc. etc.
(Our grammar is more simplified than in either German or English, and word order is something in between, but closer to English.)
Spinne when used as a verb means going crazy , Spinne as a noun means spider , big difference !
The order of words in German mean jibberish if they are transliterated in the same order in English !
If you were an American learning German you would probably say , "f!ck this sh!t !"
And "spinnen" means to weave, while "Spinnen" is multiple spiders.
Ironically "f1ck diese Sch3isse" actually works.
the verb noun confusion about spinne/Spinne really annoyed me. she is trying way too hard.
The verb "spinnen" primeraly means spinning garn.
@@stefanwild326it does not look good for a rosetta stone, a company for learning different languages that does not know this small but huge difference
@@SimonPertus I know but in this context she meant going crazy !
I love how you figured out at 5:30 how our language works.
We take words and if we need a word that includes both, we stick em together.
Example:
We have a law, called the "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz".
So lets split it in parts:
Rindfleisch = Beef
Ettikettierung = labeling
Überwachung = monitoring
Aufgaben = Tasks
Übertragung = Transfer
Gesetz = law/act.
So if you want to name a law that transfers the task of monitoring the labeling of beef to a specific person or company, you put all the words together and you get the BeefLabelingTaskTransferMonitoringAct or in german... Rindfleischettikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz - and no, this one does not even make it in the top 100 of our weirdest laws!
Yea have a look at the new law EnSikuMaV.
Its the shortcut for:
Kurzfristenergieversorgungssicherungsmaßnahmenverordnung
I laughed so hard,when i got a letter, where this word was actually used last year.
@@neutronenstern. The word was so long that the meaning for short was shortened off right in front of it? That is thoug to short grabbed. Is there even a "Regel" regulation for making administrative abbreviations the right way? Or just by mangling with the first letters of each word part until it is pronouncable and discarding what makes it unspeakable (the abrreviation)? Even those word monsters are an art to torture any lawyer, and theirs clerks.
One of your best reaction videos IMHO.
So confused by word-to-word translation and struggeling with german grammar.
Only seeing yourself as meme at ich/irl beats it at the moment for me.
I also love "You are on the wood way". To be on the Holzweg (wood way) means to be on the wrong path. The Holzweg is a path into the forest over which felled wood was transported and which ends in nowhere.
But now...Butter by the fishes!
@@larslacronimus3908 to the pencil...
"You've been lead down the garden path" in English. Same thing, different vegetation ;)
My dear gentleman's singing club, that was yes once again one nerve uprubbling experience. That can I not throughstand every day, whole honest!
it'd probably be "mister singing club" though
This makes you so fast nobody after
@@reliant_robin95you are all on the wood way and I cry me away
You know where the hare runs along!
now have we the salad ...I understood only trainstation
More of this, please! That was really funny. I must so laugh! 😂 And I think, so to speak, will my newest hobby become.
I assume you already speak German?!
@@TrangDB9 I am German.😂
This really gives me pain 😄
The way she combines German and English reminds me so hard on the first years of learning English as a German when you constantly need to focus on NOT speaking as she does 😄
So true!!!!! 😂
The vacuum cleaner looks like a Dyson, a brand from UK.
Yeah, likely, They always look like unnecessarily strong UFOs. I have never seem this... construct before.
Dyson V8, thank me later :)
@@xrecix I have a V10! 🤭
@@CarstenEisen V11 Absolute Extra Pro Here 😄
I thought it was Singaporese.
"Equally it goes loose!" 😂
"My lovely Mr. Singing-club!"
You are definitely able to learn German. You just don't see the forest because of all the trees (a German saying). It's a little easier than you think, in these videos the difficulties are exaggerated, you should try it out - the 'language of poets and thinkers' ☺️
In English the saying is "you don't see the forest FOR the trees".
@@hansmeiser32 ach so, das gibt's! Thanks 👍
"Language of poets"? Really?
If poets were sounding like rumbling rocks, then sure... :D
(Meant only as a friendly banter, please don't take it too personal...)
@@SalterThe of wich old-fashioned aesthetic school are you? Since modernism the ugly is the new beautiful. Real poets sound like rumbling rocks because the world does ☝️😑
@@jtabendland If modern poem should represent the fact that world is in shambles then I do have to agree that there are not many languages to represent that better then German :D (Close behind the language of Mordor and Vogon)
I learnt German for two years at high school many years ago..my favourite German word is "kugelschreiber". 😊 I just love saying it! When I had to do my spoken exam, my teacher got tears in her eyes because she said I spoke like a southern German and reminded her of home. Of course, I got the accent from her but I always remember that moment..and a song about coffee. "...nicht fur kinder ist der Turkentrank" (?)
Ballpoint pen in English .
I used to learn this song in school 20 years ago. Sadly, I don't remember the whole thing, it was something like "K-A-F-F-E-E, trink nicht so viel Kaffee..."
I remember it: "C a f f e e, trink nicht zu viel Kaffee. Nicht für Kinder ist der Türkentrank, schwächt die Nerven, macht Dich blass und krank. Sei doch kein Muselmann, der das nicht lassen kann". Nowadays you couldn't say/sing it like this anymore, so please don't judge me, I am only the messenger. 😆
Yes..thanks for that@@Winona493😊
Sorry for my bad english, but my last lesson was about 30 years ago and I really do not have that often te opportunity to practise. And yes, I am an old dinosaur... but here is a memory I would like to share, just fitting to the video.
When I was 15 we had a substitute teacher who required us to translate English sentences literally into German. Was... not his best idea. But "How do you do" translating as "Wie tust du tun" made him look priceless. He never asked us to translate literally ever again. Imagine his face... but we had a lot of fun in that hour.
But after all: the words in the video are all translated directly and even using the grammar. Does not make any sense, but still it is fun to listen.
I tried the Rosetta Stone software once. It didn't teach you anything about the grammar of the language (at least in the first lessons that I did), which makes these shorts even funnier..^^
"i think my pig whistles" was my first thought after this video.
spider is an incorect translation here. they do that on purpose.
I think i spider!
They around twistening it!
Incorect is incorrect too😂
Just clickbaiting
It means : I am going nuts…
Going nuts = ich (glaube ich) spinne
The animal ( spider) = die Spinne
Spinne (noun) = spider
spinnen (verb) = going crazy; to dream (but in more unbelieveable way)
It actually means the literal saying
must = müssen is alreay a verb in the German language; though words like "have to" or "need" would have also been correct. But then again it would not be a literal saying
Remember it goes both ways - so for us your order of words is the hard thing to learn 🙂
3:00 This is a Dyson vacuum cleaner, Dyson is an English brand and was invented by James Dyson.
About German describing words describing what an object is.
A good example is Kühlschrank, whcih means fridge. "kühl" means "to cool" and "Schrank" "cabinet"
"kühl" would just be "cool", "kühlen" would be "to cool"
@@tamadesthi156 No. "kühl" is the base for both, and when used without an ending in a compound word, it's the verb. Otherwise, it'd be a "kühler Schrank" (cool cabinet), not a "Kühlschrank" (cooling cabinet).
@@HenryLoenwindno the baseform is "kühlen", "kühl" as a verb would be the imperativ
@@tamadesthi156 The base or stem, not the base form. Those are different things.
On this regard german is a very simple and logical language. A cool cabinet is not too hrd to guess what it means.
Or a Flugzeug - flying thing (airplane)
Schildkröte - shield toad (turtle)
4:55 In the comic "Asterix in Britain" (in the German version) German words but English grammar are used
Teefax: "Lass uns schütteln die Hände!"
Obelix: proceeds hammering him into the ground
Teefax: "Splendid! Wonderful!"
XD
IIRC the French original does the same thing for the Brits. The English version just uses older English IIRC, like late Victorian or Edwardian - "Bally good show, eh what?"
There are so many good phrases which are common and weird the same time and would make no sense to you:
I think my pig whistles (WTF!)
You are heavy on the woodway (you didn't understand anything/you're totally wrong)
And much more 😂
@@TUBEED00 The "woodway" is a "garden path" in English. It's used a bit differently ("lead someone down the garden path"), but the meaning is the same.
Otto Waalkes fast the first i was hearing doing this....
Otto Waalkes
"Englisch für Fortgelaufene"
from the album ""
Englisch für Fortgeschrittene
English for run-aways
Peter, Paul and Mary are sitting in the kitchen.
Peter, Paul und Maria sitzen im Kitchen.
Plötzlich läutet die Glocke.
Oh! The bell rings!
Oh, der Hund ringt!
Here is a letter for you.
Hier ist eine Leiter für euch.
It is from the german chancelor Helmut Kohl.
He invites us to his garden-party.
Er lädt uns zu seiner Garten-Partei ein.
Hello, Mister vegetable!
Guten Tag Herr Kohl!
Aber Peter, Paul und Maria entdecken noch andere prominente Gäste.
Oh! Is this Henry Wau-Wau?
Ja, das ist Heinrich ...
i called my Staubsauger "Dustin" because there goes the dust in ... lol
I love that agressively emphasized "Hallo!" Exactly how we greet people we love
the tooth meat had me laughing out sooo oud!!!! It probably woke up my neighbor.
That vacuum was a british Dyson. Its basically the Apple brand of vacuums with jet motors.
"I think I spider" is actually a wrong translation for meme purposes.
"I think I'm weaving" is more accurate.
It is not accurate at all. Weaving means weben (make fabric). Spinnen (as verb) is translated as to spin (make yarn).
@@KerstinVomVulkan I hadn't the verb for spinnen (am Spinnrad) in mind. My apologies.
@@KerstinVomVulkan It depends. It could still come from a spider weaving its web. And the existence of the word "Hirngespinste" (crazy ideas/delusions someone's mind has woven like a spider's web) does suggest that "spinnen" could indeed stem from that context.
@@pitri_hub Actually, a spider has nothing to do with it. "Ich spinne" -> this does come from "Garn spinnen", as in "to spin yarn". There is also a kinda sad historical reason for this: The so-called "Spinnhäuser" ("Spinning Houses") of the 16th century.
Women who were judged to be mentally ill (mostly for being at odds with what society considered acceptable behaviour for women at the time), or homeless/too poor or accused of prostitution were brought there to make them "healthy members of society" again. They were regarded as insane. In order to occupy them - kind of a mix between occupation therapy and giving them work to "encourage discipline" - they were given stuff to do, usually spinning yarn. The idiom comes from "I think I must be spinning yarn in a spinning house", as in "I must be insane and imagining this." These houses later turned into "Zuchthäuser" and then evolved into what we call prisons today.
Of course most people don't know this anymore nowadays (unless you had to take history classes in uni that mentioned it 😂)
@@pitri_hub it comes from spinning, turning wildly, so the head spins
It's sometimes pretty funny translating sentences or words literally. I'm living in Spain right now and greet some colleagues with a friendly ¡Buenas mañana! Or at the end of my shift a ¡Fiesta tarde!
I missed "picture you not so much on"...😂
my favorite "nonesense" germen word consists of 2 parts: "Schnee" means snow, "Besen" means broom, but "Schneebeesen" (snowbroom) obviously is a whisk! enjoy our language :D
Because it is used to whisk eggwhites into fluffy snow and it used to be a tiny broom, before metal could be shaped into the form a Schneebesen has today. Just like the whisk has nothing to do with whiskers (I hope 😉).
Ich spinne = I spin (verb - not he noun "Spinne" = spider). It is used a bit like "to yarn" in English - to spin a yarn (ein Garn spinnen) was a winter evening occupation in the villages. To make the boring task more entertaining, they came together in one of the houses and told one another fairy tales and horror stories while doing the spinning. And because the stories were so imaginative, the word "spinnen" was then also used to describe people out of touch with reality.
"Keks" is etymologically more like "cake" than "biscuit" and can also be slang for "head" or "brain" ("einen weichen Keks haben", to have a soft cake, can be used as insult implying the medical condition "softening of the brain" aka encephalomalacia).
"Es tut mir leid" would be literally more like "it does me feel sorry" or "it does me grief". And word order is more complex in Germanic languages than in the simplified Anglo-Saxon-French-Normannic (in short: English) dialect.
"Auf dem Zahnfleisch gehen" (Walking on the tooth meat) means you are totally exhausted and near to a burn-out.
"sich auf die Socken machen" - colloquially for "sich auf den Weg machen" = hit the road, put on your socks. "Auf den Weg machen" however can be something totally else, especially if referring to a dog. It this happens with your dog, you have to immediately remove the poo.
"Hier steppt der Bär" originates according to linguists from the roaring 1920s, but refers presumably to the dancing bears of a century before the 1920s. (Before the 1920s "steppen" meant exclusively "to quilt" respectively a certain method of sewing, but not a type of dancing.)
Bravo! So much effort to explain these things to the non Germans! Selbst ich wusste nicht, wo das meiste herkommt. Danke Dir!
"how does anyone learn any language"
ryan has never been more american than right here..
I enjoy your videos a lot. Since I studied several foreign languages, I can easily see how people can have problems with those funny literal translations that make no sense at all. I composed a complete list of proverbs and sayings literally, such as 'you fall me on the alarm clock' (would be a translation made with the help of a dictionary), means nothing but 'you go on my nerves/back).
With regard to you fall me on the spider, this is also quite a killer. Means 'I think I am crazy or nuts'. ;-)
yeh Ryan you nailed it 🤣you are discovering of what the long words in german language are made of. They are just a concatenation of descriptions as opposed in englisch to be just one word of its own. Bra [en] vs Büstenhalter [de] aka bust holder. And to make things more fun, one often just uses the abreviations of the descriptive german words, so the "Büstenhalter" simply becomes "BH", somehow pronounced "IPA: [beːˈhaː]" 🤣🤣
(Next Objective : try the german "KFZ" ... hint: the english part ist "car") ... enjoy 🤣🤣🤣
I would love it if you would try to learn German, for example with Duolingo 😂
I love this video 😊❤
You walk me animally on the cookie - Du gehst mir tierisch auf den Keks
I think my pig pipes - Ich glaub mein Schwein pfeift
Sponge over! - Schwamm drüber!
I think I break together - Ich glaub ich brech zusammen
You are going me on the alarm-clock - Du gehst mir aufn Wecker
There you look stupid out of the laundry - Da guckst Du dumm aus der Wäsche
That is jacket as trousers - Das ist Jacke wie Hose
Only over my corpse! - Nur über meine Leiche!
enjoy :P
Damn i remember back when u had roughly 2k subs. Great for you! Have a great day everyone
5:34 if u find that already funny, in italian u "describe" things to as their name, but describing them LITERALLY, not nouns glued together, butasentence smooshedtogether xD ... a towel is not simply a "hand cloth" (as in german) but a _asciugamano_ "it.dries.hand" :D and many terms for things work like this XD
these words exist in german, too. Like Bust holder.
Or "Zigarrettenanzünder" (device to ignite a zigar)
"I am so broken. I walk already on the tooth meat" - "Ich bin so kaputt. Ich geh schon auf dem Zahnfleisch."
It works both ways.
If english speaker talk german with englich grammar it's also funny for germans
Hi. Acctually, it is the other way round...
She speaks english but with german Grammar. Additionally such things like Handschuh translated by the single words for hand and shoe or Mit-bewohner (room mate) Mit = with Bewohner = resident
because in german you can put words together as much as you want to make new words, often when something new was invented people just put 2 words togetehr that described it perfectly so there was no need for a new word, while in english you had to invent a new word because you cant do that (like handshoe)
Well, no. The word "glove" wasn't just made up. It stems from the old english word "glof" which stems from the proto germanic word "galofo" which itself is a combined word of "ge" and "lof" which means palm of your hand. The word probably was brought to England by the Vikings.
We do the same in Dutch. Two different words make one new word. We also have hand shoe, handschoen in Dutch. The English language left her Germanic heritage here. In The Netherlands we have what we call the English disease, in grammer. Young people under the influence of English and American videos, movies, games etc. write spaces between words which are one compound word, like handschoen, which they write as hand schoen. So irritating and a flagrant contempt of their own language. School standards keep getting lower and lower, so more people can pass.
An nice example is the german word for a car headlight: Scheinwerfer = shine thrower.
We learned english as well. It's only the other way around. "Listen and repeat." 😂😂
this is how all english songs sounded when i started to learn english vocabulary xD
Here in Germany I work in a company where we have working students from abroad and it is a very typical joke to give the students a mad look and say "I think I spider" whenever they are not sure if they are doing the right thing.
Or just say "you me too", but only if you already got to know each other well 😅
Hey Ryan, just to throw you completely of order:
diarrhea means Durchfall = through fall 💩
Hi Ryan, there is another Video of that kind, if you like to look into it or react to it it is the chanal of "NALF" which you already react to some videos. This Video is called "If English Was Spoken Like German".
English grammar used to be pretty similar to German grammar about one thousand five hundred years ago
I like how he thinks about her being in the park, but completely misses the tapping bear. xD
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That's so funny. I'm crying 🤣
I am studying German and it's syntax and grammer is very different, but what is interesting it sounds alot like the syntax of old English.
German is not easy and this is why, but it is interesting.
As far as words go, yes they mash a bunch of other words together to get a new word. I love their word for hospital....crankenhaus....literally sick house. Whole new feeling about hospitals!!!
The German adjective "krank" (meaning "sick" or "ill"; thus such a person is a "Kranker") is indeed cognate with the English adjective "cranky" which in the 18th century still carried the meaning "sickly" or "of poor health". Hence, a "Krankenhaus" (or, rephrased, a "Haus der Kranken") is a "house of cranky people" (i.e. a house of sick people; a hospital). A similar term is the Dutch word for "hospital" which is "ziekenhuis" ("house of the sick") and it is cognate with the old German term "Seuchenhaus". The German noun "Seuche" today means "plague" or "spreading sickness", but it is derived from the old German adjective "siech" meaning "infirm" or "of poor health" (compare with cognates Dutch "ziek" and English "sick"). And, because it comes up often, a "Krankenwagen" is -- in the same manner -- a "wagon of cranky people", thus an ambulance (car transport to hospital).
Enjoy your journey of further discovering and learning German, Abigail! 😊
1:11 The words "ich spinne" is a verb (meaning "I'm going crazy"), translated literally it would be "I'm spinning" (in the sense of spinning wool into yarn). The noun "Spinne" (f) means indeed spider.
It's no coincidence that some of this "sounds kinda poetic"... a lot of older/classical English poetry has a word order more akin to Old English, which is much closer to German.
Elephants (1) swimming(2) in a lake (3) unknown (4) to science (5) taught (6) in our universities (7)
in einem der in unseren Universitäten (7) gelehrten (6) Wissenschaft (5) unbekannten (4) See (3) schwimmende (2) Elefanten (1)
Now you may say that I have stretched both languages beyond the breaking point, but if you take them into a stress test German and English will produce an almost inverse order.
Elefanten (1), schwimmend (2) in einem See (3), unbekannt (4) der Wissenschaft (5), gelehrt (6) an unseren Universitäten (7) ...
Can you not make any language sound unnecessarily complex and bring out the most twisted sentence structure if you make the effort?
In German you can put sentences in any order, as long the predicate is in 2nd place (and sometimes parts of it last). If you want to stress something you simply move it to the beginning of the sentence.
"Ich bin hier zuhause"
"Hier bin ich zuhause"
"Zuhause bin ich hier"
"Hier zuhause bin ich" (this one's a bit cheating)
have only very subtle differences in meaning.
As a part of a sentence that can even turn into
"[weil] ich hier zuhause bin"
"[Denn] bin ich hier zuhause"
Also, your example is more of a clause than a sentence.
The structure of a sentence is different in other languages. That's why some people struggle with translations because they tend to translate it to their language and then back. And yes, in some (when not all) languages you can manipulate the places of some word structure.
The basic structure of a German sentence would be:
Subject + Verb + Object + Time + Manner + Place + Informal Verbs
The basic structure of a English sentence would be:
Subject + Verb + Object + Manner + Place + Time
So you see the only places changes are manner, place and time. That's why in your language a sentence might sound funny; but in the native language it's sounds alright. And visa versa!
And of course you have linking words like "also", "however" and so on that you can add in your sentence.
@@zelmawoodSame in Dutch, brother😅
@@SimonPertus I think I can. But I didn't do that. Nothing I did here is complicated. I just did a simple thing to an unisual degree.
This was awesome. I almost choke by laughing. 🤣🤣🤣
"how does anybody learn any language?" Ryan, enrol on a German language course. I speak 3 foreign languages (English is one of them), and I think that, if committed, you could pass a beginner's level exam after one year. To speak English like the average European does, we need ~5 years of hard work.
@Ryan Wass
When learning a language, you also learn expressions and how to say certain things, not only the words. Once one has a basic level and watches movies or just has conversations in the other language it becomes more natural and you don't need to pre-translate words in your head before speaking them. The brain is amazing really :D
So after all it does sound funny and unnatural to me as well as a german native. But yes those are mostly accurate besides some that people pointed out in the comments already.
Ryan Wass 'sich auf die Socken machen' is a european concept, US citizen (speaking German) would say 'sich auf die Reifen machen' ;) cheers
5:31 You got it! That's the insight of the day.
3:27 We also have a "fork shoe".....which is a fork extension for a forklift
We also have cable shoes. Litle tips you put over the end of a cable to better tighten it down. 😆
@@stuborn-complaining-german Damn, I forgot about them and there are 600 of them on my desk in front of me 🙈🤣🤣
But we don't have horse shoes ("Pferdeschuhe"), instead it's "hoof irons" (Hufeisen) XD
@@kosta_k_86 Maybe step aside, you may be standing on a hose.
That's why you start with learning whole sentences instead of learning single words.
Now we have the salad!
I think I'm spider!
Have you all cups in the cupport!
Have you a crack in the Bowl!
In English it doesn't even make sense anymore 🥲
Extremely funny!!! 😂(Or germanized: "Super funny"!) I guess, you would not use the word "super" in this case, would you?
For me it`s weird and funny, that you say "gum" for the flesh above the teeth! For me gum is chewing gum or gum as a material! 😆
Learning Deutsch: When your tongue is braking you`ve got perfect pronunciation! This is a part of a songtext (lyrics) from the song "Learning Deutsch" from the 80`ies band "Extrabreit".
Btw: Over time you will get a feel for the foreign language. We are linguistically “related”!
It's a direct translation of German to English, wait until you see a direct translation of Japanese to English. It'll your mind
I have heard somewhere that English speakers embarking on learning the German language must first un-learn the English language. Holds true for other languages as well. Makes perfect sense after watching this😊
As someone who has fair fluency in five European and two other languages, I must admit that German was the most difficult to learn. This isn't because of the words, where Cantonese is far more challenging, but because of the insanely complicated grammar.
Interesting. What do you think is easy to learn, beside english?
If you think German grammar's hard, try learning Hungarian 😂
@@MiaMerkur I don't think that English is at all easy, but as I began learning it at five, it was built into my linguistic DNA very early. Kiswahili is fairly easy, as there are rarely any exceptions once the rules of grammar are learned. Of the European languages in which I have gained some fluency, Castillian Spanish is far, far easier than French, and massivly easier than German.
German is not overly complicated when compared to Slavic, Baltic and Uralic languages. And Maltese of course (which is closely related to Arabic).
Now I have doubt about the quality of Rosetta Stone language learning platform, if they confound spider with spinning... 😂
Funny. As many already stated i spider is a wrong meme type translation. Spinne -> Spider; ich spinne - i spin (yarn/thread with a spinning wheel). It is strange that the activity of spinning a yarn is refering to a mental state in german (going crazy/nuts), but in the end in english it is kind of similar, like to put a spin on something or someone that turns around meanings is called a spin doctor. Which is funny in its own as it refers to the circular motion and that is exactly what a spin wheel is doing. So in german the animal that produces a thread is named exactly like the activity to produce a thread.
The video was really funny. In Germany there also the sayings instead of stept the bear, this is where the mail or luzie goes (Hier geht die Post oder die Luzie ab) when you`re having fun at the party. I would have gone to the party straight away.😅👍💞
Yeah, it least they said so in the 60s. 😉
The correct translation of "ich glaube ich spinne" is definitely not "I think I spider". “Spinning” is to be translated here in the old meaning, which is very close to the English meaning: “spinning/turning”. So: "ich glaube ich" means "I think I'm going nuts" and has absolutely nothing to do with a spider.
And German is a very literal language, no beating around the bush. No French kiss - kiss with tongue! End of story.
This reminds me of my school days: the first thing we learned in Latin was the following line: "Caesar ora classis romana." In German: "Cäsar Küste Flotte Römerin." In English: "Caesar coast fleet Roman (woman)." The teacher showed us how different word meanings and sentence structure can be in different languages!
Yoda on steroids 😂
Maybe Yoda in Star Wars (Original Version) speaks english but uses german grammar.
@@stepfathermonk4691 If I remember correctly Yoda uses Grammer like in Japanese. So Japanese translated literally into English.
Not really. Unlike in English you can change word order in German pretty arbitrarily as long as the verb stays where it needs to be (V2 or VL).
And Yoda uses OSV, while English is usually SVO.
@@aaliyah5347 Japanese tells the Subject/Topic first (SOV). Word Order Yoda not follows (OSV).
@@zelmawooddas kann ich bestätigen, ich lerne grad japanisch.
I believe that literal translations should still translate adjectives into adjectives and verbs into verbs.
This is just translated word by word
OMG mate! I laught so hard! thx for these kind of videos! *ROFL*
After watching this video, I forgot almost all of the English grammar I knew before
That was really "the yellow of the egg" 😂🎉
Das "Spinne" kommt nicht von Spinne, sondern "Seemannsgarn spinnen"
It's interesting because Old English grammar & word order is more like German. So, it just shows how much English has changed in the last 1000 years or so.
That was hilarious! I‘m crying. 😂😂😂😂 Thank you.
And now imagine how it is, if you have to speak english as a German. Same problem... ;-)
You HAVE to go to that party with the tap dancing bear. The pope's boxing in chain mail armour there!
This is SO funny! I'm German and sometimes it's really hard to understand when you're not reading the German original.