I'm a German wife of a Greek husband and we live in Greece. In Germany I was always considered unorganized, was never on time and very much into giving out compliments. Here in Greece I get told a lot how structured, organized and reliable I am. I love living in Greece, the bar is so low for a German 😂
@@marcstein2510 ah yes. Everybody finds what they are looking for. Thruth is I prefer the way Greeks handle time. I think it's healthier and more natural. I've been living in Greece for nearly 20 years now, because I adore the culture and the people. I had a hard time learning to be at least closely as warm and welcoming as Greek people are so naturally. Every culture has many characteristics and according to how you look at it each of them can be a flaw or a strength. I might be arrogant, have never been told that yet, but am willing to learn. So I'll think about it. Thank you for pointing out how you perceived me. ☀️
I’m a 21 year old who moved out to Germany 2 years ago for studies & to get married to my high school sweetheart (foreign exchange student); we had been in a long distance relationship for 2 years. We’ve been married for almost a year now, but because I was in Germany on a student visa and changed my course of study, I’m now back in the states to get my “Visum zum Zwecke des Ehegattenachzugs.” Needless to say, I had a huge culture shock coming back to the states, & I miss my wife, German culture, and German food:( can’t wait to get back to Saxony!
33years married to a German,wake up almost every morning to the sound of the vacuum cleaner and a nice dose of minus 10 deg C coming through the bedroom window
@@-esox-3714 I have friends (not American) who are also: that was the "best" meal (or whatever) ever" and that often... As a result I don't mind much on their opinion to something. But I think we are not much different to ourselves. I don't do much cooking but once I made something exactly as it should be. When I thought to myself: "this is perfect", that really was a bit off and I evaluated it again. Astonishingly it was perfect 🙂.
@@reinhard8053 I think one can find some logic in there. If one mentally adds that the emotion expressed does only refer to the very moment it is been said. At that moment he feels satisfied and really content so he desires nothing more. And since long term thinking does not exist in the American mind the term "ever" means the time span of 10 minutes before and 10 seconds after the event.
My former German girlfriend and now German wife just watched this together and fully agree with your take on our relationships! From reading; to walking a LOT and the lack of compliments, it is definitely a change for an American when dating a German. No BS, which is so refreshing in a relationship!
@@beatrixpastoors1104 Nun, die deutsche Übersetzung wäre KS - das Zeug, das hinten aus einer Kuh heraus kommt ;). (Sowohl RUclips als auch die anderen großen amerikanischen Medienseiten sind manchmal etwas pingelich, was solche Wörter angeht - die Abkürzung ist nicht nur einfacher zu schreiben, es ist so auch weniger wahrscheinlich, das der eigene Kommentar zensiert wird.)
@@Garagantua danke. Genau das hatte ich auch zuerst vermutet, nur für mich machte es im Kontext des letzten Satzes überhaupt keinen Sinn. War jetzt BS im Sinne von sugarcoating gemeint?
I am German and married to an American. He sometimes says that the way I say things is rude and I'm always trying to explain that we just talk like that. Maybe I'm not the only one. 🙈
“Rude” often just means you don’t fit into American social norms and he judges you for that. Which is kind of toxic. If it’s clear that you didn’t mean to offend him or make him feel bad I think he should try to understand you more not shame you for not adhering to “normative behavior”
I am born Chinese but grew up in Austria and I am more Austrian than I am Chinese, which annoys the hell out of my grandma. I am very blunt and I do call out BS when I see it. My granny likes to cause drama and she is a person that doesn´t like when people younger than her question her "authority". Ergo, she is very conservative. When I called her out on her BS, she will say that I am not Chinese enough and that is not what Chinese women do. Well, I told her that I am not living in China, so I don´t have to behave like a Chinese. I can respect the culture, but I am not going to change who I am just because she doesn´t like it. Also acting the way she wants, is the reason, why Chinese women and girls are being harassed in school and the workplace overseas. (Which I experienced personally.) Being obedient and quiet might get you somewhere in China, but not in Austria. And I live in Austria, not in China. However, the neat part is more my partner than me. He is Austrian, Viennese to be exact, and god he is organised and neat. That drives me crazy because he always cleans up my desk, every time I visit my mum in Graz and the end result is that I can´t find my stuff. I had a designated place for my Bluetooth keypad and he just store it away, when I was at home during the holidays. I couldn´t find my keypad for two months and finally found it, yesterday! I was livid!!! 😅
So true . I am from South America, live in USA and have been married with a German for 35 years. Now I laugh watching the video about not getting compliments and planning everything, very stoic etc.... but that was very difficult for me at the beginning. In my Latin culture we are the opposite : warm, a lot of PDA, loud, spontaneous, disorganized etc.... so just imagine how complicated that was. But we compromise and made it.
So when I was a kid for my 7th birthday I got this game as a present. The goal was to sort the trash properly and bring it to the recycling site. Action cards went like: Congrats, you collected old newspaper and recycled them, jump ahead a few steps. Or: you didnt bring a bag to your grocery shopping and used single plastic, go back and pick up a trash card. I am not kidding, I loved this game 🤓
I'm guessing Laura is from Bavaria and taught you "Brotzeit"? You're in Swabia, Nalf, and it's called "Vesper" (pronounced Feshpa). 😀 Great video again. Thanks for the fun.
Not offering compliments is a special trait of the Schwaben. They even have a saying "Ned gschimpft isch globt gnua" or in High German "nicht geschimpft ist gelobt genug." English translation: "not complaining is enough praise." I have been living with my German wife for 25+ years in Schwabenländle and can confirm.
As a Swabian I concur, although in Germany we're usually conservative and skeptics. Now if you're invited somewhere for dinner, you may compliment the food or whatever it may be if it truly was that good. At least you'll be polite and say thanks. Also when dealing with kids or mentally ill you'll find Germans to be more liberal with their praise.
I am from Northern Germany and we we don't give compliments either. But we're also famous for not talking at all. But when I was in Finland, I was the talkative one. That was strange for me 🤣
@@alrunh.5998 yes, the Northern Germans rarely give compliments, because you rarely speak in general. 😉😀 But I love that. When a Northern person says something you know they mean it. I always experienced you as quiet, but very caring.
Last week it was 25 years since I moved to the US. And I still can not give American compliments. I just can't use the American excitement range. The German range from 1 to 10 is Crap(1) to Good (Or maybe Great)(10). I would go up to Great but that needs true greatness. That is where I put my compliments. The American range is from Fantastic (1) to Best in the universe times infinity(10) That makes no sense since there is always something better and if I use high superlatives often then I have to use higher ones when better. That is how "Super Awesome" was created. If you had just used "Awesome" sparingly then you would not need something higher than awesome. OMG... I am more German than I realized. 🤷🤦
Hehehe!! Funny video. I'm not German, or from U.S but from Sweden. I was just struck by how similar the German 'mentality' seem to be to how we Swedes are.
This is hilarious 😂! I think the trash organizing and planning thing might be European traits in general. I'm American and my husband is Romanian and he hates the wishy washy nature of Americans. Europeans follow through with their plans. And yes, he separates all the different trash types 😱
I'm also from Romania, but belonged to the Hungarian-German minority and have been living in Germany for 33 years. I had a Catalan girlfriend for 5 years and I have to say that they are very similar to the Germans. I'm organized too, but she was on a whole different level. When a friend asked her if she was free for a coffee next week, for example, she pulled out her calendar and answered that in 5 or 6 weeks I would have 1 hour on Saturday afternoon. Such unspontaneity and being over organized was unusual even for Germans.
As an American grandchild of German grandparents…I think 2 of the most noticeable traits were: Be on time, or die!! And also, don’t waste food (because during the war, there was none). Also, that Blockbuster hat is awesome.
That is so right. I was born in the 80s and whenever there was a food fight in an originally American show on TV, I was shocked and apalled. I still am. Way worse than any nudity or PDA!
I think the "don't waste food" is most european grand parents to be fair! Especially in both the UK and Germany as Germany's main cities were basically flattened by the war and rationing in the UK would continue for another 9 years after the war. Its pretty wild to think that for people like my Grandma they wouldn't have been rationed their entire life (as far as they could remember at least) until they were 18.
I don't think that's a generational thing. Most people I know dislike waste. I was always appalled when someone scraped leftovers into the bin or sink in movies.
Nalf, please start distinguishing between German culture at large, and Swabian culture in particular. Especially that last bit about paying compliments, or rather the lack thereof, that is absolutely a Swabian thing. When it comes to complimenting someone's cooking, famously the best you can hope for from a Swabian, is "It's edible.", which essentially means it's great. Same with the staring in your other video. At least in my experience, you will get a lot less stares in places like Cologne or Berlin.
Ja, da hast Du Recht. Deutsche (speziell Frauen) möchten es geplant sehen - das Leben... und es muss effizient sein was Du machst. Verschwende keine Zeit für "unnütze" Dinge. was ist Dein Ziel? Schöner Beitrag Nalf - sehr schön.
I saw you're reading Ken Follett's the Pillars of the Earth. Just wanted to let you know that there is also an outstanding video game adaptation of Pillars of the Earth, which was also made and published by a German company. It has both English and German voice acting and an art-style that I really like myself! If you're into visual, interactive novels and are interested in playing though the story, I would highly recommend it!
I love growing cactus as well and they are very hardy. They can withstand under freezing and very high temperatures. Careful though the bigger the pot you put them in the bigger they grow.
I my case - I am German and my girl (wife) is American - but we have no problems the way we organize our individual life and behavior. We are only married now for 66 years.
5:56 "Our plastic got separated, Nicolas" ... I can relate so much to this. The "our" and "we" ... my wife uses these when she means "you", but in a polite forceful way which I can't disobey. The extra exclamation mark is the trailing first name at the end of the sentence. You know this when you have a wonderful girlfriend, Nicolas.
Germen bluntness, hahahaha. I am Dutch. Never can get used to the sheer amount of words needed by Germans to express their thoughts.😂 (Love these neighbours though❤).
"Nicht geschimpft ist Lob genug" - not shouted is enough compliment. Place nice stones in the flower boxes, like my father did, so you have never problems with water the flowers.
9:30 The fact, that your live is exactly planned does not mean, that you KNOW the plan. "No, we can not play the game abc with our kids tonight. We are vitising XY." "Eeemmm" "You did not know? Oh! Now you do."
Still Not german anymore. God, this american thing of saying „I‘m this and this“ just because Someone immigrated to the US oder a century ago does not make you that nationality. Why are you so obsessed with this?!
@@unwichtig5884 well it's how she was raised. Look at it this way: 98% of Americans don't have a 'nationality', there is no such thing as hundreds or thousands of years of 'American mannerisms'. We're the product of whatever past we had. Now, I'm a mutt. So there was no predominant 'belief system' I was raised with. But she was raised the way her dad was raised, who was raised the way his parents were raised, who were raised like their German parents.
Regarding the reading: Germans and Americans, you do your thing. It was just nice to see that, as expected, Australians read a *lot* more than Brits. AND a bit more than either Germans or Americans, but the main game is to beat the UK.....
Man.., thank you so much for your videos. They ae always inspiring and motivating (among other things in terms of sports and movement) but at the same time calming and 'balanced' to me. They often make me think "lifes good". Hope you get what i mean. Also, i sometimes feel like you definately figured out what life's all about.😊 Ahh.. maybe that last comment was weird, but yeah, All the best.
So you’re going all out for the video sponsorships to get enough money to pay for the big diamond engagement ring & big wedding that Laura want so much. Why not a gofundme & ask your patrons too ?
I think when Americans say dating, they mean, sleeping with another person. They are just afraid to say it. in Germany, people will say that they have slept with someone. I have never heard the term dating in German.
What I can say of all the German women that I know: the have really much energy and if they are not complaining ever more about little things, then it is time to fight for them. If not they divorce you as fast you can only wonder (I'm female btw)
Very nice appartment Nalf, but you might need some airconditioning in summer, living right under the roof😁🥵 Talking about German reluctance to exuberant compliments, in Franconia about the highest you can get is "basst scho" translating to about "well, its okay"
i stopped the video at 00.45 - i will continue though. and give you my thought at the end.i am married to an american girl, woman so to speak, and probably there is not that much of difference. let's go :-)
of course i watched it through the end. again, i said it in another comment, your girlfriend rocks. she takes you through and also your friend are gorgeous - i am happy you like living here. i used to be in schwäbisch hall years ago for the festival, but never been back in years. maybe i should visit your german city again pretty soon. good job nalf, great videos, wonderful to see how you developed over the years.
German bluntness was too much for me. My ex-girlfriend seemed to pick the worst times to be blunt with me. In America, we call it being rude, lol. Your girlfriend seems nice; I wish the best for you both.
TBF: The 80% top notch is a man-woman thing. I have two brothers. For all of us it's the same. We are happy with 90% clean and our wives are like "there, there and there". :D
I'm a German wife of a Greek husband and we live in Greece. In Germany I was always considered unorganized, was never on time and very much into giving out compliments. Here in Greece I get told a lot how structured, organized and reliable I am. I love living in Greece, the bar is so low for a German 😂
I need to move to Greece.
relax... sit back and enjoy the sun!the Greek way is something like this: the deadline is due two days from tomorrow no need to panic.
Same in Austria
Wow the famous german arrogance - packed in a nice joke so you can deny it.
@@marcstein2510 ah yes. Everybody finds what they are looking for.
Thruth is I prefer the way Greeks handle time. I think it's healthier and more natural. I've been living in Greece for nearly 20 years now, because I adore the culture and the people. I had a hard time learning to be at least closely as warm and welcoming as Greek people are so naturally.
Every culture has many characteristics and according to how you look at it each of them can be a flaw or a strength.
I might be arrogant, have never been told that yet, but am willing to learn. So I'll think about it. Thank you for pointing out how you perceived me. ☀️
I’m a 21 year old who moved out to Germany 2 years ago for studies & to get married to my high school sweetheart (foreign exchange student); we had been in a long distance relationship for 2 years. We’ve been married for almost a year now, but because I was in Germany on a student visa and changed my course of study, I’m now back in the states to get my “Visum zum Zwecke des Ehegattenachzugs.”
Needless to say, I had a huge culture shock coming back to the states, & I miss my wife, German culture, and German food:( can’t wait to get back to Saxony!
This is really sweet. Blessed guy.
Saxony! That's where I'm from. I miss it too, I moved to the UK
When you miss saxony, you have to love Germany a lot
Aww
33years married to a German,wake up almost every morning to the sound of the vacuum cleaner and a nice dose of minus 10 deg C coming through the bedroom window
😂😂😂
Hope you love it. Cleaning. Yes cant control the world...but can beautify your own with cleanliness....jap
❤ hai good morning
The best you can hope for is:"Da kann man nich' meckern!" - "There's nothing to complain about!"
Then you know you made it.
For as long as I can remember, me saying "nicht schlecht" is about the best rating eg. a meal can get.
@@-esox-3714 I am of German extraction, and my father used to say that. Now, I know where that came from!
@@-esox-3714 I have friends (not American) who are also: that was the "best" meal (or whatever) ever" and that often... As a result I don't mind much on their opinion to something.
But I think we are not much different to ourselves. I don't do much cooking but once I made something exactly as it should be. When I thought to myself: "this is perfect", that really was a bit off and I evaluated it again. Astonishingly it was perfect 🙂.
@@reinhard8053 I think one can find some logic in there. If one mentally adds that the emotion expressed does only refer to the very moment it is been said. At that moment he feels satisfied and really content so he desires nothing more. And since long term thinking does not exist in the American mind the term "ever" means the time span of 10 minutes before and 10 seconds after the event.
interesting perspective! sounds so true.
My former German girlfriend and now German wife just watched this together and fully agree with your take on our relationships! From reading; to walking a LOT and the lack of compliments, it is definitely a change for an American when dating a German. No BS, which is so refreshing in a relationship!
Immer dieser Aküfi! Was ist BS?
@@beatrixpastoors1104 Nun, die deutsche Übersetzung wäre KS - das Zeug, das hinten aus einer Kuh heraus kommt ;).
(Sowohl RUclips als auch die anderen großen amerikanischen Medienseiten sind manchmal etwas pingelich, was solche Wörter angeht - die Abkürzung ist nicht nur einfacher zu schreiben, es ist so auch weniger wahrscheinlich, das der eigene Kommentar zensiert wird.)
@@Garagantua danke. Genau das hatte ich auch zuerst vermutet, nur für mich machte es im Kontext des letzten Satzes überhaupt keinen Sinn. War jetzt BS im Sinne von sugarcoating gemeint?
@@beatrixpastoors1104 Ich vermute, genau so ist es gemeint: redet keinen BS um den heißen Brei herum, sondern sagt, was Sache ist.
"....and the lack of compliments"
As they say "Net g'schimpft isch g'lobt g'nug!"
Laura deserves a whole hand to hold.
Yes. Don‘t be a jerk! 😌
I'm sure she gets a whole lot more. Everyone chill.
War es eigentlich ein Finger oder etwas anderes?😅
@@jinsvunsolvedoh wie originell🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼
@@susannabonke8552 Das jemand auf so eine Stuss antwortet ist kaum zu verstehen!
I am German and married to an American. He sometimes says that the way I say things is rude and I'm always trying to explain that we just talk like that. Maybe I'm not the only one. 🙈
“Rude” often just means you don’t fit into American social norms and he judges you for that. Which is kind of toxic. If it’s clear that you didn’t mean to offend him or make him feel bad I think he should try to understand you more not shame you for not adhering to “normative behavior”
My opinion as a German who has spent a little bit of time in the US
I think he is right. We are often very rude. Maybe the next generation will be more polite.
Wait for the summer in that apartment.
I am born Chinese but grew up in Austria and I am more Austrian than I am Chinese, which annoys the hell out of my grandma. I am very blunt and I do call out BS when I see it. My granny likes to cause drama and she is a person that doesn´t like when people younger than her question her "authority". Ergo, she is very conservative. When I called her out on her BS, she will say that I am not Chinese enough and that is not what Chinese women do. Well, I told her that I am not living in China, so I don´t have to behave like a Chinese. I can respect the culture, but I am not going to change who I am just because she doesn´t like it. Also acting the way she wants, is the reason, why Chinese women and girls are being harassed in school and the workplace overseas. (Which I experienced personally.) Being obedient and quiet might get you somewhere in China, but not in Austria. And I live in Austria, not in China.
However, the neat part is more my partner than me. He is Austrian, Viennese to be exact, and god he is organised and neat. That drives me crazy because he always cleans up my desk, every time I visit my mum in Graz and the end result is that I can´t find my stuff. I had a designated place for my Bluetooth keypad and he just store it away, when I was at home during the holidays. I couldn´t find my keypad for two months and finally found it, yesterday! I was livid!!!
😅
For Chinese it's even tougher.
My wife is German and I am retired Army and we live in Weimar, Germany so I can relate :)
So true . I am from South America, live in USA and have been married with a German for 35 years. Now I laugh watching the video about not getting compliments and planning everything, very stoic etc.... but that was very difficult for me at the beginning. In my Latin culture we are the opposite : warm, a lot of PDA, loud, spontaneous, disorganized etc.... so just imagine how complicated that was. But we compromise and made it.
Oh wow latin American and a German, those are like 2 polar opposite cultures 🤣 How did/do you 2 ever find the middle ground???
@@jackigroebel9463 let see and stress it even more Latin America and Finnland ...
Same history here Claudia 😂, I’m from Colombia with a German wife in US, I understand u, we are a PDA with steroids, saludos desde tejas
Please let Laura know she has done a wonderful job decorating your apt.
So when I was a kid for my 7th birthday I got this game as a present. The goal was to sort the trash properly and bring it to the recycling site. Action cards went like: Congrats, you collected old newspaper and recycled them, jump ahead a few steps. Or: you didnt bring a bag to your grocery shopping and used single plastic, go back and pick up a trash card.
I am not kidding, I loved this game 🤓
really appreciate you let us be part of your journaling, it felt so intimate. very touching
Enjoyed the video and I can relate. Next month is my 35th wedding anniversary with my wife from Germany.
I had two weeks of vacation in Schwäbisch Hall last year because of Nicks videos :). Great time and now I recognize all the little places
We need to buy "Übertopf"...immediately hooked :)
Nalf did not know he needs an "Uebertopf". 🤣 How could he live... all these years without an
Uebertopf? 🙄Hi from Canada❣
The space looks so cozy 👌
Loved your insights. Now ... how about you film a video with Laura's point-of-view on dating an American? That should be interesting too! 😁😄
I'm guessing Laura is from Bavaria and taught you "Brotzeit"?
You're in Swabia, Nalf, and it's called "Vesper" (pronounced Feshpa). 😀
Great video again. Thanks for the fun.
We call it Abendbrot in my region (North Germany)
Where I live in South Germany we also say Vesper to the Brotzeit a kid takes to school or the food we make when we go hiking 😊
Brotzeit sounds outdated and or like its from the south of Germany... never used it in the north or west^^
Pronounced more like "Feschb(e)r"
Not offering compliments is a special trait of the Schwaben. They even have a saying "Ned gschimpft isch globt gnua" or in High German "nicht geschimpft ist gelobt genug." English translation: "not complaining is enough praise." I have been living with my German wife for 25+ years in Schwabenländle and can confirm.
As a Swabian I concur, although in Germany we're usually conservative and skeptics. Now if you're invited somewhere for dinner, you may compliment the food or whatever it may be if it truly was that good. At least you'll be polite and say thanks. Also when dealing with kids or mentally ill you'll find Germans to be more liberal with their praise.
@@B.A.B.G. of course there is a special Swabian complement for good food: Mann kann's essen
I am from Northern Germany and we we don't give compliments either. But we're also famous for not talking at all. But when I was in Finland, I was the talkative one. That was strange for me 🤣
@@alrunh.5998 yes, the Northern Germans rarely give compliments, because you rarely speak in general. 😉😀 But I love that. When a Northern person says something you know they mean it. I always experienced you as quiet, but very caring.
That new appartment looks impracticle but very cozy. I love the vibes.
Last week it was 25 years since I moved to the US. And I still can not give American compliments. I just can't use the American excitement range.
The German range from 1 to 10 is Crap(1) to Good (Or maybe Great)(10). I would go up to Great but that needs true greatness.
That is where I put my compliments.
The American range is from Fantastic (1) to Best in the universe times infinity(10)
That makes no sense since there is always something better and if I use high superlatives often then I have to use higher ones when better. That is how "Super Awesome" was created. If you had just used "Awesome" sparingly then you would not need something higher than awesome.
OMG... I am more German than I realized. 🤷🤦
In Germany we say:"Not being scolded is praise enough.!"
What I love best ?
Walking hand by hand with my wife.
I'm so proud of her .
Hand in hand... 💕
Hehehe!! Funny video. I'm not German, or from U.S but from Sweden. I was just struck by how similar the German 'mentality' seem to be to how we Swedes are.
What's so strange about holding hands in public? It's so cute and romantic ☺😘
Of course we say that when someone has done a good job. It’s kind and motivating…
This is hilarious 😂! I think the trash organizing and planning thing might be European traits in general. I'm American and my husband is Romanian and he hates the wishy washy nature of Americans. Europeans follow through with their plans. And yes, he separates all the different trash types 😱
I'm also from Romania, but belonged to the Hungarian-German minority and have been living in Germany for 33 years. I had a Catalan girlfriend for 5 years and I have to say that they are very similar to the Germans. I'm organized too, but she was on a whole different level. When a friend asked her if she was free for a coffee next week, for example, she pulled out her calendar and answered that in 5 or 6 weeks I would have 1 hour on Saturday afternoon. Such unspontaneity and being over organized was unusual even for Germans.
For Cody: 800 meters is about half a mile. The Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, is 830 meters tall.
As an American grandchild of German grandparents…I think 2 of the most noticeable traits were: Be on time, or die!! And also, don’t waste food (because during the war, there was none). Also, that Blockbuster hat is awesome.
That is so right. I was born in the 80s and whenever there was a food fight in an originally American show on TV, I was shocked and apalled. I still am. Way worse than any nudity or PDA!
I think the "don't waste food" is most european grand parents to be fair! Especially in both the UK and Germany as Germany's main cities were basically flattened by the war and rationing in the UK would continue for another 9 years after the war. Its pretty wild to think that for people like my Grandma they wouldn't have been rationed their entire life (as far as they could remember at least) until they were 18.
I don't think that's a generational thing.
Most people I know dislike waste.
I was always appalled when someone scraped leftovers into the bin or sink in movies.
Nalf, please start distinguishing between German culture at large, and Swabian culture in particular. Especially that last bit about paying compliments, or rather the lack thereof, that is absolutely a Swabian thing. When it comes to complimenting someone's cooking, famously the best you can hope for from a Swabian, is "It's edible.", which essentially means it's great.
Same with the staring in your other video. At least in my experience, you will get a lot less stares in places like Cologne or Berlin.
I would say "Southern". Franconia is not that different. Mind, Schwäbisch Hall is Hohenlohe, so almost Franconian.
I lived in Schwäbisch Hall 40 years ago and I was so excited to see it has a hipster coffee shop now! Absolutely beautiful Altstadt.
It's not about to find the girl that pleases you the most, it's about to find the one that annoys you the least.
Your hand
NALF.... ist immer interessant!!!!
Ja, da hast Du Recht. Deutsche (speziell Frauen) möchten es geplant sehen - das Leben... und es muss effizient sein was Du machst. Verschwende keine Zeit für "unnütze" Dinge. was ist Dein Ziel? Schöner Beitrag Nalf - sehr schön.
I saw you're reading Ken Follett's the Pillars of the Earth. Just wanted to let you know that there is also an outstanding video game adaptation of Pillars of the Earth, which was also made and published by a German company. It has both English and German voice acting and an art-style that I really like myself!
If you're into visual, interactive novels and are interested in playing though the story, I would highly recommend it!
There was also a TV show! I can't remember if it was any good though.
Jep even though the author is american, reading this particular book itself is very German😅
@@blablaklabautermann7578 Ken Follett is Welsh.
Thw two of you make a lovely couple.
Best wishes!!
Yeah and he really seems to like the changes she brought to his life. That's a good basis
Like when I cleaned the fridge at my German ex's house, Her only response was ''you put the cheese back in the wrong place'' :(
Sounds like an engineer
You guys are one of the cutest couple I’ve ever seen!
Mach weiter so! Mega informative und unterhaltsame Videos! Great work Nick!
Schön, dass es noch mehr Leute gibt die Höhenangst haben 😅 kann nicht über die 4. Sprosse einer Leiter hinaus 🤫
I love growing cactus as well and they are very hardy. They can withstand under freezing and very high temperatures. Careful though the bigger the pot you put them in the bigger they grow.
I always love the "Bird View" of Schwäbisch Hall. Do you always have to ask for a permit or have you done some with one take off?
I my case - I am German and my girl (wife) is American - but we have no problems the way we organize our individual life and behavior. We are only married now for 66 years.
5:56 "Our plastic got separated, Nicolas" ... I can relate so much to this. The "our" and "we" ... my wife uses these when she means "you", but in a polite forceful way which I can't disobey. The extra exclamation mark is the trailing first name at the end of the sentence. You know this when you have a wonderful girlfriend, Nicolas.
Germen bluntness, hahahaha.
I am Dutch. Never can get used to the sheer amount of words needed by Germans to express their thoughts.😂 (Love these neighbours though❤).
Nick, you should adopt that cat or one from the shelter cause I noticed a scratch pole in your apartment!
As a German in Germany but without a girlfriend this video is very informative
8:23 The TV Tower on Alexanderplatz is Berlin's most prominent landmark and the tallest building in Germany. 368 m
Nice to see Nalf visiting his parents again :)
Yeah, it needs a village (or at least a bunch of adults) to raise that child.
It was surprisingly moving to see them again. I hope he visits them often and calls on the weekends 😄
There I am asking bout Cody and Speedy in the Q&A… and only minutes later… there they are😄
Best German compliment: "Hm-m. Can't complain."
"Nicht geschimpft ist Lob genug" - not shouted is enough compliment.
Place nice stones in the flower boxes, like my father did, so you have never problems with water the flowers.
"the best you can hope for is - 'Hmmm - not bad' " Died laughing. Felt like i'm looking into a mirror. 😂🤣😂
I loved this!! You two are absolutely adorable together ❤
Happy wife - happy life ...
I like Laura, she seems to be a great person :)
Ehhh the types of books being read in the US vs Germany might be more revealing than total books read.
ditto!
In fact, Germans all read Einstein papers and Americans mostly Kim Kardashian biography
"I think I have to go" 3:47 That´s some serious Alfieri energy :D
Servus, my women and i like your videos. We're both from Ellwangen near Schwäbisch Hall 😊
- Not bad und weiter so!
9:30 The fact, that your live is exactly planned does not mean, that you KNOW the plan.
"No, we can not play the game abc with our kids tonight. We are vitising XY."
"Eeemmm"
"You did not know? Oh! Now you do."
Northern Germans be like: WTF is Brotzeit?!
My Pfalzer wife asked the same question?
Clutching my Franzbrötchen
my wife's family immigrated to America from Germany over 100 years ago but she has all of these same traits
Still Not german anymore. God, this american thing of saying „I‘m this and this“ just because Someone immigrated to the US oder a century ago does not make you that nationality. Why are you so obsessed with this?!
@@unwichtig5884 well it's how she was raised. Look at it this way: 98% of Americans don't have a 'nationality', there is no such thing as hundreds or thousands of years of 'American mannerisms'. We're the product of whatever past we had. Now, I'm a mutt. So there was no predominant 'belief system' I was raised with. But she was raised the way her dad was raised, who was raised the way his parents were raised, who were raised like their German parents.
@@robletterly6679 Genau❣
Regarding the reading: Germans and Americans, you do your thing. It was just nice to see that, as expected, Australians read a *lot* more than Brits. AND a bit more than either Germans or Americans, but the main game is to beat the UK.....
always fun to watch ^^
I had such cactus plants, because they afe easy to handle... a few
months later they died :(
Man.., thank you so much for your videos. They ae always inspiring and motivating (among other things in terms of sports and movement) but at the same time calming and 'balanced' to me. They often make me think "lifes good". Hope you get what i mean.
Also, i sometimes feel like you definately figured out what life's all about.😊
Ahh.. maybe that last comment was weird, but yeah,
All the best.
So you’re going all out for the video sponsorships to get enough money to pay for the big diamond engagement ring & big wedding that Laura want so much. Why not a gofundme & ask your patrons too ?
Their engagement & wedding videos will be pretty good.
I think when Americans say dating, they mean, sleeping with another person. They are just afraid to say it. in Germany, people will say that they have slept with someone. I have never heard the term dating in German.
What I can say of all the German women that I know: the have really much energy and if they are not complaining ever more about little things, then it is time to fight for them. If not they divorce you as fast you can only wonder (I'm female btw)
Brotzeit als Metapher.... darauf muss man mal kommen!!!! CHAPEAU....
Why is Cody hairless? Love the remarks on sweats, brotzeit and so much more. Integration has started on level 2.0. Mine was 'Mahlzeit'
No complain might be the best you get from a german.
I am german and often i wish it would not be like this.
On the reading statistics...US graphic novels (comics) do not count towards this statistic in Germany...^^
PS: Great video... :)
Dude your Dachgeschoss is incredible
Looks fucken great
F.........?????????
"That's why i get these cactus plants now..." 😂😂😂 Hillarious. Good, entertaining video. 😁 Thank you guys. You are awsome! 🍀
Very nice appartment Nalf, but you might need some airconditioning in summer, living right under the roof😁🥵
Talking about German reluctance to exuberant compliments, in Franconia about the highest you can get is "basst scho" translating to about "well, its okay"
Net 'gschelt is 'globt gnug
du bisch klasse, dei Freindin au😁😁
Uploaded , taken down then re- uploaded
Congratulations! You two look amazing together!
10:44 „It’s 80% top notch!“ 😂
On the account of reading: i bet US Americans consider looking at comic books "reading" ;)
If I was American I would be offended by this. They’re not ACTUALLY all stupid morons. Your comment is very ignorant and offensive
i stopped the video at 00.45 - i will continue though. and give you my thought at the end.i am married to an american girl, woman so to speak, and probably there is not that much of difference. let's go :-)
of course i watched it through the end. again, i said it in another comment, your girlfriend rocks. she takes you through and also your friend are gorgeous - i am happy you like living here. i used to be in schwäbisch hall years ago for the festival, but never been back in years. maybe i should visit your german city again pretty soon. good job nalf, great videos, wonderful to see how you developed over the years.
congratz to that beatiful woman
If you ever move out of the apartment let me know :P
Get in line behind me. ;)
@@mojojim6458 Hehe
German bluntness was too much for me. My ex-girlfriend seemed to pick the worst times to be blunt with me. In America, we call it being rude, lol. Your girlfriend seems nice; I wish the best for you both.
How did you two meet (Became a couple) ?
Bzgl. LOB ... typischer schwäbischer Spruch: "Nicht geschumpfen, ist genug gelobt."
Jedes Töpfchen findet sein Deckelchen. 😘
Maybe Germans walk bc. there are too many mountains to bicycle. Idk.
When do we get to hear from Laura and Speedy(?)?
You are not afraid of heights, you are afraid of falling and splashing.
2:49 promises made, promises kept 🙂
The only reason why my son survied living with me when he was a baby in comparison to flowers: He was ably to cry when he needed something. 😅👍
Both lucky to have each other indeed ❤
Couldn't help but notice ken Follett
TBF: The 80% top notch is a man-woman thing. I have two brothers. For all of us it's the same. We are happy with 90% clean and our wives are like "there, there and there". :D
Da da da 😂
...I walk around hand-in-hand with my sister very often! In the State's - and nobody seems to care...