Why I Became Interested in Germany? The Answer Might Surprise You 🙈
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Hi! I lived in Germany for 2.5 years where I studied a semester abroad, a 2 year masters program and took intensive German classes in Hamburg and Oldenburg. I am on youtube to share my love of learning about other cultures: specifically, German culture. I plan to make many videos where I compare American and German culture, including some videos where I will practice German. Please subscribe, like the video, and follow along every week for a new video. :)
In this video I talk about the culture shocks I experienced in Berlin, Hamburg, and oldenburg. I talk about small and big differences including food, personalities, hobbies, friend making, nudity, naked culture, sauna, staring, diet, bread.
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Busdrivers in Berlin are famous in Germany for their foul mood!
True enough - even though of course not all are the same, there are some really shitty people among them. Like seeing a person running for the bus letting them come close and then closing the doors right in their face and driving off. I have witnessed that several times for myself and other people.
hehe, in Berlin the BVG (public transport company) even celebrate this fact for thier fun marketing thing ^_^
@AB. B. There is a difference between the "Berliner Schnauze" and acting like a dick.
Ran0r That happened to me too, but instead the driver let me on and yelled at me lmao
Funny thing he might only have said something like: " Na wat denn nu Froilleinchen? rinn oder russ? Ick hab nich'en janzen Tag Zeit! Weihnachten essen wir zuhause zeitig!"
Just sounds a little bit scary to the foreign ear. Last time I went to Berlin I directly got: "Nich mit den Fahrrad inn'en ersten Wajjon!" (U-Bahn) I instantly had to think about the Kurt Krömer story and thought: Home sweet home. I think we Germans call that Style: ruppig. One can find the same style of talking in the so called Ruhrgebiet. It's kind of German directness 2.0 enhanced edition.... I love it! And I love people getting offended by it.
Sauna is awesome. I usually go early and stay the whole day. It's expensive but it's really really relaxing, like a good vacation. I especially recommend saunas with an "Aufguss" ceremony. It creates a bond with the other participants, even if you don't talk to them. Take a good book with you (not into the hot steamy sauna itself of course), get in a hot sauna, cool down and then go to the relaxation area and read your book, maybe take a nap. Repeat until the sauna closes. In between eat something and have a drink.
The English skills of germans correlate mostly with 3 factors. Education level, age and place. If you are in a bigger city, you are much more likely to meet an English speaking German. Also people below 50 yo. The higher the education, the more likely someone speaks English, or is not afraid to do so. In the company I work, we are about 40 people. About 8 people speak english, or are comfortable doing so.
True. Additionally, 'place' also matters because those who grew up in Eastern Germany pre-1990 had very little opportunity for learning English, and even those who did would have been taught by teachers who due to the Cold War had never spent time in an English speaking country themselves. So among Eastern Germans born before approximately 1975, even the highly educated urban ones are far less likely to speak good English.
I live in Germany, in my company, out of 80 employees, 76 speak English. Some sound horrible of cause, but they can get along. Among my friends its also much more than half of them that can speak English.
In bigger cities in Germany with a lot of Tourist like Berlin , Cologne, Hamburg, Munich, Heidelberg or cities having a university in town you'll find a very high percentage of People speaking english or even unterstands what you want. When i lived in munich i get in Touch with nearly every Person having a City map with them und seemed to find out where to Go. I made so many nice friendly and unforgetable experience. Once i Met an older couple he was an american Professor at a university in america. I ask him whether i can help him. He said yes i want to Go to that area and than to that museum. It was much to complecate to explain him the right way. I said ok come on follow me i'll Show you the right way. During the walk we had such a nice and friendly Konversation i'll never forget. Same experience wirh a Young man and his young daugther from china. He exakt me round about 4km far from hofbräuhaus the way to it . I showed him and he invited me for a late Dinner. We had a nice and for me a unforgetable conversation. Ok some questions i was a little bit annoyed because it was all about the dark histotry of Germany. Like hitler was a good person a good leader of Germany wasn't he. So i explained him the cruel deeds of hitler. Ja had no idea about German history. So i had the Chance to Hallo it to one Chinese guy. And maybe he will tell his experience with me to his family, to his friends and his colleagues. This two experiences i will never forget.
German live hack regarding the "postal situation": If you have a store on the ground floor or if there are some people (maybe elderly) in your house which are constantly home, you can tell the DHL or most other delivery services to leave your packages at that store or at the other apartment for you in case you are not home. But you should ask the store owners or the elderly people first obviously :DD
Hey LambLike, I've lately found your channel and as a german citizen myself I'am wondering how big your german viewerbase is. Your content is truthful and it's really comfortable to view you vids as they are not provocotive like the vids from other youtubers who were in germany and confronting their friends back home. You are uploading awesome content and I love it that you clean up some rumors about germany.
So wow great moves keep it up, proud of you
I lived in Berlin for twenty years. the busdrivers from BVG are known for their unfriendliness ...
Not only the busdrivers, a lot of Berlin people sounds unfriendly, but that is there culture slang calls "Berliner Schnauze". 😅
@@b.wartree3678 agreed. not pleasant. I witnessed the following short scene personally: I was on a bike on the Kudamm. at a red trafficlight a "taxi" had to stop behind a car from switzerland. the driver was obviously a bit intimidated by the big city and didn´t start immediately, when the lights turn green. so the taxidriver put his head out of the carwindow and yelled: "ey! Wilhelm Tell! the apple doesn´t get any greener!"
@@CaffeineNightOwl this sounds like Berlin 😂
I can't complain about them after a very friendly bus driver explained to me how to get home after I got lost very drunken at night on trip to Berlin. He saved me from wondering around for hours and was very helpful and understanding.
Berliner Schnauze seems to me like an excuse for people to act like assholes if they feel like it. It‘s not charming, it’s just rude..
Once you get over the hurdle of everybody being naked and learn to accept that we're all the same in principle. with individual variations that only matter to people attracted to each other - you'll be able to enjoy the sauna and the sun on your body. Body positivity follows naturally, and you'll feel liberated, shedding the burden of body shaming and forced modesty. Just be yourself, and everybody else will accept you.
Jens Goerkhe: you know the Puritanism of and in the USA?
Blow Job to a President, most Rapists and Murders in the whole Wide World.... But no naked humans allowed?!
That's it.... It's all a big Lie!
This is a destroyed Nation, and that is not brutal of me, I 'm not a bad willing Person, but also not someone which is blind for Reality!
I hope, that this Governement will become better and look inside of themselves! WE in Germany and Europe will be strong enough to stand against this Bad Influences froh the US-CULTURE! 🍀🍀🍀👍😊
Some of the North Sea beaches have compulsory nudity -the so called "textil-frei" places, some things (such as multi-generation badminton games) cannot be un-seen...
Love your videos! Just want to add one small detail: in Germany we mostly have mailboxes at out front door as well. But it seems to become more common to get packages delivered to a nearby post office so that the mailman doesn't have to drive all around (especially b/c they are not paid by time but by the number of deliveries made, I believe). Also, when you're not home the mailman is not allowed to drop off the package at your front door but has to do the delivery all over again the next day (which is just annoying for both sides)
Yeah, Berliners are known for being rude: rude to tourists from abroad, but also rude to anyone not from Berlin, particular Swabia.
Haha berliner sind do eingebildet, die nerven voll mit ihrem Fernsehturm! 😂
I can confirm that. I am German (from Baden-Württemberg, the southwest) and while I was in Berlin people immediately went from friendly to rude as soon as they realised I wasn't from around there. If you want to experience superb German hospitality you need to visit the southwest.
Ah yes the "Berliner Schnauze" attitude.. I have found that when you bark right back at them that strangely de-escalates things.
@@philipp1736 which cities can be find in southwest?
@@philipp1736 You may also experience a generally friendly and open minded attitude of the people in the western part of Germany like Cologne, Bonn or Düsseldorf.
Berlins Tempelhof Airport has been permanently closed a couple of decades ago, and turned into a public park.
EDIT: correction - it closed on 30th October 2008. I remembered this incorrectly. Sorry about that.
@@Neidhard-von-Blaufels ach ok das hatte ich irgendwie falsch in Erinnerung. Ich dachte das sei schon wesentlich länger her.
Tegel will "soon" be another airport-not-used-as-an-airport whenever the debacle airport (aka BER) opens supposedly now later this year. We'll see how good it will be, as it's kind of far from the city center
Emre Nickname wird der jetzt doch 2012 fertig?
Yeah, Tempelhof airport was closed permanently because the shiny new BER airport was to be opened but turned out to have a ten year delay.
I had the impression that 'Berlin has become a cosmopolitan city where English is spoken as frequently as German. It's supposed to have a large population that is international which explains
the common use of English among its residents.
yeah.. kind of.. mostly... not the busdrivers^^
True, usually on my way to work, english stands out in the underground
*By non-english speaking countries nearby" - I meant near to California*
So I’ve talked about all of these points before at least once on my RUclips channel from 2 years ago so I already know in general what you all will comment below in regards to most of these points 😁 but the ww2 topic is something I haven’t talked too much about on my old channel. So let me know your thoughts on that subject below or teach me something I may not know about one of these points. 😊
moin 'Lamblion, schön, dass du deine Erwartungen mit uns teilst. Das erweitert auch meinen Blick auf die USA.
Jaja, Paprika Chips.. Dfür gibt es hier nicht deinen geliebten FIREBALL, ich weiß! XD
Zweiter Weltkrieg:
Ich erinnere mich noch, dass es in meiner Kindheit in Hamburg noch viele kaputte Häuser gab. Und an die Warnung meines Vaters, dort drin nie zu spielen! Weil die Ruinen einstürzen könnten. Oder dort drin eventuell noch ein Blindgänger, also eine nicht detonierte Bombe liegen könnte!
Und ich erinnere mich an viele Kriegsverletzte in den Straßen. Viele Männer mit nur einem Arm, einem Bein, oder auch ganz ohne Beine. Oder die im Rollstuhl saßen.
Auch heute werden wir ja ständig an diesen furchtbaren Krieg erinnert. Es vergeht ja kaum eine Woche, in der nicht in irgendeiner deutschen Stadt ein Blindgänger gefunden und entschärft werden muss.
Es sollte für alle Menschen eine Warnung sein!
Oldenburg kenne ich übrigens von meinen Tandemtouren etwas. Zumindest kenne ich die Jugendherberge und den Schloßpark der Stadt.
LG Ben
Hi LambLike, I would say we germans in generell have a difficult relation to our history. Great Philosophers, Poets, Composers and other Artists and also Scientists. But on the other side wars and cruelties since 2000 years, with the (hopefully final and worst of all) Holocaust and WWII. So it´s difficult to say I´m proud to be a german. I recently saw the very impressing Video from the Band Rammstein named "Deutschland" on YT. Sure it´s provoking but leads to the same conclusion. It should be taken for history classes and tells a lot about the relation of most of the germans to our history in a very provoking way. It´s a piece of Art for me.
Have a nice day!
Dedttmar
Hope you did a ww2 bunker tour in Berlin. ;)
Wow, when I discovered your channel just now, I did NOT expect you to have lived right next to my hometown! (I went to school in Oldenburg and study linguistics in Bremen.) I really enjoyed the videos I've watched so far and I'm quite impressed by your German pronunciation. New subscriber!
congrats on reaching your subscriber goals early.
I live in an area where I have 6 foreign languages in a 2.5 hours drive radius(3 of them only 1 hour or less). I think that's such a wonderful thing about Europe. Because you drive over a border and you know that after that moment almost nobody speaks your mother tongue and every country is so different to your home.
Interesting video. My family left Germany several generations ago in about 1880. I went to Munich for Octoberfest 7 years ago and liked it a lot. The idea of free University, for my kids is very compelling.
The reason many small businesses don't accept credit cards is because the credit card readers are really expensive (about 5000€ or so) and I think shops need to pay a monthly subscription fee to the credit card companies and/or they have to pay a fraction of the payment to the credit card company. Also they obviously need an internet connection (so definitely no credit cards for e.g. a small kiosk).
For many small businesses the investment doesn't really pay off or not that much.
Shops are closed on sundays I think in all over Europe. It's a christian thing ("God rested on the seventh day")
but how come you can pay with credit card in other random european countries like slovenia etc.. even the smallest stores take credit cards there.
@@ag4444 in germany we use more debit cards because thats the default bank account you get.
Kreditcard is diffrent account and costs a fee so germans stay with the cheaper debit account. So for small shops its an expensiv service to provide for travelers
@@ag4444 each country has its own rules and fees. And as Buddy correctly says, debit cards are much cheaper in Germany (for shops and also for customers), which is why they are much more common than credit cards
Nice video.Nice honest person,not really introverted.Glad to see you´re well and best wishes.
Well, you can't change a country, the country changes you. Or even places. How would you compare people from Hamburg to Berlin?
I actually never been to a sauna and I don't really like that concept either. Don't know why many people think in Germany we like doing that. I certainly don't.
Sauna is geil.
You're one out of thousand, maybe.
Your stories are just awesome. I love them!
Now … in Germany credit cards are not so accepted. It’s getting better but compared to US it is still at the beginning. The fees are to high for most of the stores. But EC Cards (electronic cash) are accepted almost everywhere and this since a lot of years.
I live in Germany and either pay with credit card or cash. I never pay with EC card. I think credit card is as accepted as EC card. no one has ever told me I cannot pay with my credit card (unless places that exclusively take cash)
What most people don't know about what the main problem with credit cards was in Germany back in early 21st century or earlier is, that they were HELL OF EXPENSIVE for the shops offering the payment (unlike for huge international concerns ofc.) ... in our shop we would have had to pay 4% to 6% costs for basically nothing compared to accepting cash or the "EC card" (debit card).
For most little shops that basically is, from what they live and exist, while in the USA it was late 20th century already costs of under 1% as i was told.
It got way cheaper today and therefore you see more and more shops accepting credit cards.
Thanks for the honesty :-D
I'm from Berlin, and it is true that our,,, uhm,, attitude is a little bit different from the one in southern or western Germany. It is partially because we see thousands of faces every single day, and because we're kinda individualistic and focus on what we have to do. If you compare that to South Germany, people are a lot more talkative there. Bavarians, Swabians and other south Germans also hug you as a greeting, while we prefer a firm handshake, (or nothing due to Corona) They also love scamming us! o.o Anyway, sorry you were shocked like that though, most bus drivers here are in a very bad mood because they have to deal with so much noise.
Haha I watched one video that is quite similar to that one and youtube spams me now with differences of Germany and America :) but I'm glad to find your channel, so hey you have a new subscriber
greetings from Austria
haha welcome to my channel :D That's too funny! I know youtube does that to me too. I watched one ASMR video and now my whole feed is ASMR videos XD now I'm just tempted to always take naps and watch these sleep-inducing videos... xD
It is of course difficult to compare England and Germany that way.
Next time you are in England, try speaking German to the bus driver and see how friendly he is...
You should try sauna. If you do so search the Internet for "Saunalandschaften" (that's like a big pool area with several different types of saunas I one).
... but be careful don't go to a "Saunaclub" (that is something like a brothel).
If you are in, just act normal... people there are used to nudity so they won't stare... you also should not 😉.
Have fun and enjoy.
Greetings from Cologne, hope your mom liked it.
@@pt3800 All closed since months!
My first experience with England and People my age i made when i was 14 years oid. I was on a seaside vacation with a Group of germans. We want To do sailing on a small sea. Suddently a Group of Young english People came right up to us rising up their arms and shouted Heil Hitler. We all had nothing to do with that time, because we all had born more than 20 years after World war 2 ended . So is that friendly? But i am Not angry about
Englisch People. Because i made many other nice and friendly experience
Ha ha - Rob - that's the point!
Hello from Germany. I know, I am not the first german writing a comment under one of your videos. I just wanted to tell you, that I like, how you talk about your experiences.
It's very interesting to see Germany through the eyes of someone else.
A recommendation regarding documentations and so on, because you like them: There is a swedish metal band singing nearly only about historical things, especially the world wars, without glorifying anything. Sabaton, maybe you will like them.
Great video as always thanks for sharing your thoughts with us that watch your channel. Your nails look good. Nice colour.
Hi from Hamburg, Germany. I loved that video of you. Was the 1st one I saw from you. I watched "Passport Two" who are a US couple who live in germany now and u were advertised to me.
I like that u are an introvert. Thats because u r very empathic. maybe even a bit clairsentient (too. i am VERY).....
can't wait 2 watch your other videos.... following u with an private account ^^
and yeah we got great techno music ( I love Goa) and here in hamburg we aren't as social and open to others as in other parts of germany. and I don't mean strangers from other countries. I mean also from the same city ;)
Hamburg citizens are totally open to other people. It just depends on how you are acting to them. The most open and liberal city in Germany
Paul Kalkbrenner favorites: 1. Aaron 2. Atzepeng
Thanks for another Vlog. Love your pov on German behavior etc. It is true what you mention, Germans often let you know in what mood they're in pretty straight forward. It's nothing personal : )
There is always a pharmacy with emergency service. It is changing all few days wich one is in service and they charge extra 2€.
Germany mainly uses EC/Maestro card for store payments which is a debit card issued by Mastercard. Credit cards are not common mainly due to the high transaction rates and the fact that credit cards are not really that prevalent anyway. Everyone will have an EC card that will work throughout Europe at stores and ATMs.
Don't be ashamed of how your interest in Germany started. Hopefully this made you experience everything else about the country when you finally went there.
You have to go to a sauna. It is great, healthy and nobody would look at you. Bädergärten Eibenstock in Saxony or Therme Erding in Bavaria are really great
Loreen Lutze i wouldn't say nobody look at u. I always check the girls out. Sorry for that !
I think everbody look around the same way, as you sit on the marketplace and watch people, but i guess most people think, if they go to sauna, they are the only naked and everbody will stare, but everyones is nude, so you get lost in nudity ;)
Thank you for the music suggestion ❤️ I did not know Paul Kalkbrenner but I love this kind of music. I highly recommend listening to "Schiller". He falls in the same genre - kind of - but most albums are a composition throwing you up and down and mixing in poetry.
just stumbled over your channel. it's really interesting to hear about your stories as for me it's the same experience just the other way around. I was born in Germany, but lived in the states for many years. ^^
Hi from Hamburg. Nice u been here.... Just found your channel and will follow ;)
And regarding the structure of university programs:
Everyone finds it extremely stressful. There is actually a not-talked-about pandemic going on right now where many students get addicted to performance enhancing drugs like amphetamines or speed, jist to keep up with the pressure to perform.
Also, it's almost impossible to finance a university degree on your own if you're young, since tax laws forbid a full time student to work >20h per week. And most living situations are more expensive than whatever amount of money you could possibly earn under these restrictions.
And, as you noticed, university is excessively difficult in many disciplines. Especially the STEM fields.
It's very common for people to either burn out due to the constant pressure and stress, or either quit their degree or finish it late. Some of the people I met took upward of 12 semesters to finish a Bachelor's degree that *on paper* is designed to last 6 semesters.
The history behind this extreme pressure is what's known as the "Bologna Prozess" in Germany, a reform to make degrees from Germany more internationally comparable. In the past, Germany didn't use the Bachelor / Master hierarchy. Instead we had what's called a "Diplom", which historically was designed to take 8 to 10 semesters time. Due to the Bologna Prozess, universities got pressured into compressing their degrees into this Bachelor / Master system. But in many disciplines this compartmentalization just doesn't make for an adequate education. Quite annoying.^^
Well, i believe that the situation with the drugs and with the limitations by the tax laws strongly depends on the field you are studying in. I am studying Wirtschaftsinformatik (Computer Science and Business Management) and i would say most of my friends are able to finance their studies on their own and as an alternative you can still just get Bafög to finance your degree. Also i never met anyone in my field of studies who takes drugs to enhance their performance. But i have heared that this is more common amongst law and medicine students.
It also makes for a worst education imho. We desperately need to reverse those reform. In the past, students might have needed a little bit longer to finish, too, but when they did, they had learned to actually USE the knowledge retained. Nowadays a lot of students suffer under "lern bulemie"...meaning they cram a lot of information into their brain for a test, but they forget it immediately after they have it "ausgekotzt". The old system which was largely based on holding referates and writing papers was more difficult to compare, but it actually was the basis for the creative thinking German engineers are known for. We are already running into problems due to those reforms, because they actually lowered the quality of those who finish university.
It is not all Bologna (though I am the first to say it is stupid.) Take the study of another country e.g. Japan. Their writing system isn't the easiest in the world, so under the old 4 year Magister you were expected to learn it in the first two years (and of course do other stuff) and after that your real study would begin, with primary sources. How to do that in 2 years? First Semester onyl language, nothing else? Pure hell!
But back to the point: A reason many people are overwhelmed is also because instead of the top 10% of students like a few decades ago, you now have 30%, and of course the 20-30% part is a lot less able than the top 10%. Not to mention the financial side - it is good to have poorer people in University, but those have it additionally hard.
5:00 / 9:00 Creditcards
Yes not nice but true. Sometimes u only can pay cash. The gates came up as more and more thiefs where steeling foods and other stuff also at small stores. So u have to get throu the checkstand so they can see u got nothing to buy. But it is not in every store like that. At the most stores u will not find such a gate mostly at the "discounter".
6:00 English is the first foreing language u learn at fourth grade
7:00 Signs the great "S" (S-Bahn/Stadtbahn) stands for the citytrain which ist comparable with the Metro or the Underground signed with a great "U" (U-Bahn/Untergrundbahn). Also u can find the "DB" sign standing for "Deutsche Bahn" signing the trainstations for interregonal transportations. All three trainsystems are usable by buiing only one ticket if u only ride in Berlin, but of course its much more complcated, its Germany.
8:00 The City is not prepared for such an amount of tourists and therfor everybody is simply irritated about the foreingers. Sorry for that but we are working hard to fix this.
10:00 Sunday is for timeout and taking breath for the next week and its in the most of the other countries of the old world that way i think. Its the heritage of the Religion to rest on sundays for praying and saying thanks to our gods.
The US should do it to, may be there will another president if the people would rest one time a week and go to vote seriously on that day like we do...sorry
11:30 Education is one of the mayor basic needs and therfor its free for all and u only have to pay a lil amount of money if u can. If not u get financial help from the state. (Bafög, Bildungsförderung)
14:00 Uber is challanging the Taxidriver and therfore Uber isnt common in germany that time but it grows and more and more citys accept that Uber is needed for puplic transportation.
15:10 Tempelhofer Feld / Flughafen Tempelhof
Here the allied planes called "Rosinenbomber" where suppling food and stuff for nurishing the germans at West Berlin at the blockade of West Berlin by the Russians. Now the field is closed and open for the public since 2010.
17:20 Starring
Just wave, smile and say "Hello" to the staring Germans. But but some of use may be a lil bit on edge of the many foreingers.
But the germans does have not a good opion from the US Amaricans esspecially since they voted for Trump.
My picture of a typical US Amarican people: Fat, lazy, stupid, ugly in style and dont have any clue about what is going on in other cultures ... sorry for starring
20:00 Im not shure which soccer game u might have been watching at. In 2015 u have possiblly seen the Women's Worldcup but Italy was not qulified for this.
20:40 Vacation/Urlaub
The Lecturer who are teaching in the Universities may be teaching at full time or it is only one of he or she's job.
Sometimes its a professor who is an employee of the university or guest professor or it is someone who only teach as a parttime job. It depends.
So they have some days by law to make vacations. I dont understand ur point.
To be on time
is still a good thing to show ur professors how earnest ur wish is to learn something.
But it is also coming up that u dont have to visit the lessons for exam.
I know about many students who learn by their selve or in groups and have many time for their jobs and so on.
21:10 U can also buy BBQ Chips here in Germany everwhere so i dont know why u made this expersience.
And more and more "fat" things are coming from the US but also many vegitarian and vegan food is coming up these days.
22:27 Mail - Yes it would definitly helps a lot if we could have a mailroom in every house but in fact there is no space at the most buildings for that. Especilly at the apartment or mansion blocks. It looks like we never have planned with that amount of mail only with letters. But u can choose a parcel box where the delivery service can place it and where u can pick it up.
26:00 Sauna
To be naked is more common in Germany as in the US of course. But this is how we all are and humans look simply that way. What is the problem? It is a part of our culturall heritage and esspecally more common in east germany - google for FKK .
Also the Nazis have linked this cultural fact to their ideology and missused it for theire own goals.
so concerning pharmacies: did you find out later on that there is round the clock "Notdienst"? emergency pharmacist roster(?). it rotates through the different pharmacies in your area.
Yes I knew about this which is why in this video I said I knew we could've found an open pharmacy if we wanted to. Someone taught me this on youtube a year ago :) Thank you though for checking^^
In germany we dont use creditcards as much as americans. We just use EC-Cards so normal electronic cash cards.
And on sundays and at nights there are some pharmacies open, they have the notdienst (emergency) so you can look up which one is open. They will usually just have an window where you tell your order.
Nothing wrong about being interested initially because of WW2 history (I'm very interested in that, as well). Everyone has his or her own "spark" to get interested in a different country. I agree, that making friends is not easy in Germany. But, if a German calls you friend, he or she usually really means it and will be there for you, if you have a problem. At least that's what I experienced throughout my life. The credit card thing I find also interesting. I think one of the reasons, aside the high cost for companies to just offer the choice, is that Germans really don't like to be in debt. So it's not a matter of refusing technology, they just like to be in control of their money and this works best with cash and the EC card. You don't want build up a huge debt on your normal bank account because the interest rate is extremly high (10%+). By the way, I was in Tokyo last year and Japanese are actually using cash even more than Germans do. So we are not the only ones. :D
You must visit Hallstatt, Austria, their is everything written in English, Chinese, Korean, Arabic
Hi, well said even I faced same this when I was arrived, but I would say it was great learning and Germany really tells how to be resilient because you may have a big surprises on everyday life of Germany. 😄
The thing about Germans and their English skills is mostly pretty straightforward: If you're young, say, under maybe 30-35, most likely you speak at least basic English. Once you go over that threshold, my experience has been that most older people either never bothered or had the chance to learn English, or just forgot everything they learned in school.
I’ve heard that stereotype too which I think in general seems to be true... but also, living in a smaller town in Germany... and on the outskirts of the city center... I found it to be not true. Which I don’t mind one way or another, the less English, the better for me :D since I want to actually use the German I studied haha.
@@HiFromHamburg Not true in the sense that older people speak English or that young people don't? I'm from a village near Trier (southwestern Germany), so I'm genuinely curious about how English skills are dispersed in other regions.
Did people in the DDR learn Russian as a second language? Maybe older people from the east don't speak English?
@@TheNotoriousDUDE I've come across many young people that don't speak English, mostly those who don't travel (also because of financial reasons, so not necessarily their fault)
@@linusfotograf Yeah my parents lived in the DDR and they learned russian at school. But they are also 100% fluent in english these days because of their jobs :)
1) In Germany we‘re happy, when the bus drivers speak german that we can understand, english would be a nice to have, but we take, what we get. ;)
2) Credit Card is still not a thing in Germany. We have electronic cash cards, that get used more and more, but credit cards like Visa or American Express are still for online shopping and big companies only. Smaller hostels, shops and restaurants don‘t want to afford the risks and costs coming with using credit cards.
Most grocery stores take credit card or mobile payment.
The problem with credit cards is, that in America the customers finance the credit cards through high interest rates. In Germany there is a law against such practice called "Zinswucher". So to compensate for the lower interest rates the credit card companies charge the stores with a fee for every transaction. And that's why small stores don't accept credit cards, because it's too expensive for them.
@@Zero29596 Really? Where do you live? In places where I lived, most stores (ALDI, Edeka, whatever) accept EC debit cards, but not credit cards...
@@skayt35 NRW. I exclusively pay with credit card and not once had a problem paying at a grocery store chain like Aldi, Lidl, Kaufland, Edeka etc. All of them also take mobile payment with smartphone or smartwatch and accept Apple Pay. Same goes for Hamburg and Berlin where I’ve never had a problem paying with credit card. Can’t really comment on other states since I have no experience grocery shopping there.
@@Zero29596 thanks for the information!
My culture is my identity and personality, it gives me spiritual, intellectual and emotional distinction from others. But Having friends from other cultures makes me more creative. In fresh ways about space and how people create their own world and environment. It is best way to connect between creative thinking and cross-cultural relationships.
Hey
I am a german myself
I got interested in your videos because at some point in time I want to go to America
And I want to share fun
So if you are looking for a hobby, try looking up "Segelflugplatz"
Segelflieger I belief in englisch are called gliders
Well they are planes without an engine and fly with "Thermik" wich is something like thermal updraft
So they are only flying with mother nature, it is pretty interesting
And even if it won't be your hobby I would like to see a video how you react if you would take a flight with one
These are mostly hobby pilots, you get to know really nice and crazy people
And surprisingly a flight about an hour cost mostly only 20 Euro
And most of the time at least one crazy head does know some aerobatics
And if you want mostly even the aerobatic planes have two seats so, take the seat and have some fun
(only if you wan't, there is always the option to only get a normal flight cause even the usual ones are amazing)
And if possible try to get a "Windenstart" this is one of the best parts for the people wich didn't knew this bevor
But if you want to do aerobatics it could be that a second Plane with engine will get you to the safety height.
Maybe you have them in america or not, but I belief it's not this casual as it is in german
But even the most german don't know this, I belief
Well that's a really crazy and funny hobby I want to share, so pls look it up
And see ya
If you havnt yet, next time ur in berlin, check out the berlin underground tours. they r offered in a bunch of languages. english language tours go every few hours( not that u need id but hey, take fam of friends along). u get to check out one of the old FLAK towers, a bunch of cold war ear bunkers and other noteworthy sites below the streets of Berlin. iv done most of their tours with my father and i can highly recommend them
Hamburg is the best city in Germany hands down. Berlin is very different to Hamburg.
There is a car-ride app called Mitfahrgelegenheit to hop on rides with drivers that log a route in advance.
The ICE train between HH and Berlin gets you from end to end in about 2h. ...saving at least 1h compared to driving.
usually your mail in germany does go to your mailbox and not some post office. You can order your mail to go there but it's definitely unusual.
I teach German to foreigners - level B1 is amazing. You must be very good at learning languages 👍🏼
Hey Lamblike, those insights were very nice and fun to hear... in case you ever come to the Lower Rhine area and want to couchsurf, drop me a line... I can also get you into the hobby of boardgames, rpgs, or some cooking (although I tend to cook "un-german" mostly), or show you a nice sauna if you care to dare this truly great experience. ^^
I think the football/soccer event you watched was in 2016(euro), Germany played Italy that year
Instead of looking for a pharmacy that is on duty, you can ask friends, neighbors, or someone on the street if they can give you a headache pill. That should generally work.
ok you got me at 12:30 where you said you love the german techno musik and stuff :D
I live in Germany (Berlin) and I like to watch your Videos 😄
Pls don’t go to Berlin when going to Germany... Berlin is the least „German“ place in the whole country.
That's like telling overseas tourists to not visit New York City when visiting the United States, because New York City is too different from the rest of the Country. Same goes for Paris, London, Tokyo, etc..
If you ever want to try out a Sauna, go in the summer time. In summer you will not see a lot people there and it is still wonderfull. I would especially recomend the Graft Therme in Delmenhorst. It has a wide open space outside. It's like public open air bath, but with no people their :-D The OLantis in Oldenburg is also good, but in summer I would prefer the Graft Therme.
10:18 Notfallapotheken sind immer offen!
So, you aren't in Germany right now? Will you come back again? What are your plans?
9:18 Penny hat zu der Zeit Kreditkarten akzeptiert aber nicht die von Visa (nur wenige Pennys haben die von Visa akzeptiert)
Haha, the hands when you said 'Bayern', perfect German put-down!
Stores usually aren't cash only (an exception would be bakeries), but I think having credit card isn't THAT common in Germany, or at least using it in your everyday life. Everyone uses a debit card and you also don't have to worry about cash when shopping for groceries when you have that.
Interesting shocks. My first cultural shock almost had me washing dishes. It was in 1965 and I had been posted by the US ARMY to the former East-west German border to monitor Russian military communications. On my first day off, I explored the nearby city of Luebeck. While there, I went to a restaurant and ordered a roast chicken dinner. Waiting to be served, I ate 3 or 4 delicious broetchen. When it came time to pay, I was shocked to see charges for all the bread I had had. I barely had enough
cash with the addition of the bread charges to the bill
There was actually no big soccer event in 2015. Maybe it was 14 or 16?
Ohh yea. This was 2016 not ‘14 oops :)
15:13 "the airport that was closed" ... The airport, where the freedom of Berlin was defended by Amerika against Russias attempt to take over the Allied Parts of Berlin(West) into East Germany after WW2. Thanks a lot for that, Amerika!
As you said your are interessed in history: the de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftbr%C3%BCckendenkmal (Hungerkralle ) is one of Berlins monuments to remember the airbridge de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_Luftbr%C3%BCcke
Without that the small Gaulish village, who knows how things would had tuned out - look to todays Hongkong.
The Mail issue. In my area in the past 10 years only one package delivered by DPD arrived at my door, and that was while corona shutdown. The other times not even a notification was there. Only noticed via email that it is at the pickup place. Hermes, DHL always arrive here or put a notice.
Bus drivers are not really nice in Berlin. But compared to the UK, prices for public transport are great.
I surely hope you do get to move to Europe again. It'll be a win for Europe.
It is really nice to hear that you initially got interested in Germany because of world war|| and especially Berlin offers a lot of cultural and historical information for that topic.
But as a German, I think what actually annoys us about the American mindset, when they think of Gernany is that a lot of people are still judging the Country and it’s people by the fact it has been one of the causes of world war|| and then, aren’t interested to learn anything original ore authentic about us
Sundays for "chillin":
Yeah, I agree. That's pretty cool. Or at least it is when it's a *cultural* thing. When it's the *law* , it takes on the flavor of Jim Crow laws that existed half a century ago in America. The reason we had those laws was that many establishments would have let blacks in if those laws didn't exist and those establishments would make more money than the racist ones. Blacks were the primary riders of public transportation and if there were no Jim Crow laws that forced blacks to move to the back of the bus, then a competitor would have allowed blacks to sit wherever and they would have overwhelmed the government transportation. In Germany, I hear there are laws that force all businesses to close at a certain time of day. This prevents some establishments with high energy owners or owners who are more competitive from staying open longer and making more money than their competitors. Those laws are designed with anti-competition in mind. They are about constraining business from offering what customers want so that other businesses don't have to work any harder to be competitive.
I really wonder what soccer tournament you’re talking about. They are every 2 years European championship and World Cup, but always in even numbered years. And Germany played against Italy in 2016.
Go to a Sauna in another city. No tutors etc. but true healthy life. Can't imagine you not likeink Sauna life.
I would say in a youth hostel it's cash only and anywhere else you can pay with plastic money... as long as it is not a ridiculously little amount... and about the rudness of the bus driver... he probably didn't know English and since you did not know German yet... he probably said that he is the driver and not the tourist info the 1000st time of the day :-) Germans are very friendly and they need their dark crispy bread :-) btw very good pronunciation! no need to be scared of speaking it... and in my country (also German speaking) we make business in the sauna... meaning business deals are discussed in the sauna ;-)
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IT must have been in the year 2016. Because the big Soccer tournament was 2016
English and Germany: it depend were you are, because in the eastern part they had russian in school in the time before reunion and of cause, we have 25% migrant rooted people in Germany that also often didn`t learn english in school...
Schönes Video. :)
once you did sauna, you want to do it again, well as it went for me (as german)
2015 was no major soccer event where the various countries participate.
You got the European Football Championship and the world cup both of them are every 4 years.
World cup 2014
European Football Championship 2016
World cup 2018
European Football Championship would've been 2020
So there is an offset of 2 years. But please don't call it soccer in Europe ;) its football ;)
I love Paul Kalkbrenner. Nice to see you like it too. =) Check out his brother Fritz Kalkbrenner as well! Also Boris Brejcha is just amazing. Love from germany!
Do you happen to have a cold ? The area between nose and upper lip seems to be a little bit red. It looks cute though.
2018 or 2019 was the first year in germany where we germans payed more with credit/debit cards than with cash. So yeah, it's slowly changing.
Hopefully the trend will change and go back to cash!
I haven't any idea why your friend told you everyone in Germany speaks English. No we don't.
Most Germans have never spoken English their entire life. There ist no need unless you have
interests in American tourism or business. Most other Europeans don't speak English either.
I seldom speak English unless I'm on American social media. Yes, English ist taught in our
secondary schools, but it ist a less popular elective than European languages of study.
Most Europeans are not mono-literate though, und speak 1 or more other languages quite well,
und many different bi-lingual border dialects well enough.
Germany has many bordering countries with many different German ethnic groups who
speak bi-lingual dialects.
You should hear someone living in Bratislava speaking Austrian German Slovak dialect. :-)
For me it's exciting to learn how crazy US americans are about sauna...nearly as keen as the people from finland ! Because nearly every one of the youtubers from US that I have watched are talking about their sauna experience in Germany. As a German, I was never very interested in sauna and I went there only one time as it's part of my gym contract...and I have maybe one friend that can be named a "sauna fan" as he goes there more frequently after his workout. But the US people...wow they are really crazy for it !
my favourite experience about Germany: me, as Hungarian exchange student, with a fairly good command of English, and much worse German, coming out of a public swimming pool or something, when a guy about my age (16) with Down syndrome stops me if I have cigarettes, I said no, we exchanged a couple of wordws, and as he found out I was a foreigner, he started speaking better English than me.
Eh gut das du das machst
How did you decide on going to Germany, and did you considder different Europese countries like Netherland for instance ?
"Squishy" elastic bread is high in gluten. Gluten is not good for you whether or not you have Celiac Disease.
So you can pick up your male at the male office. Sounds convenient. btw didnt you promise a Paul Kalkbrenner link? Thx in advance. Your videos are actually nice and well prepared. Also, I think that couriosity is the same as "starring". So you are actually German in the heart, and i think its a good thing.
Hi thanks for the nice comment ☺️ the link to the Paul Kalkbrenner song is in the description box under the first paragraph/text :) I’m glad to be a curious person than a non-curious person :)
@@HiFromHamburg Hey, Thank you. Was my bad, i had some plugin active ( YT classic ) and it did not show your text/description. H.A.N.D.
Was this joke intended ? What's a male office ? Kind of an escort agency ?
I like talking zweideutig.
Hi, ja, ich hab mal einen Vorschlag für di. Mach mal einen Ausflug nach Österreich :)
True...Germany still has many places where you can only pay with a bank card...or even cash...and not a credit card...BUT...Germany has been far more advanced in eCommerce than the US...I remember doing online banking and paying bills online back in 1992. Ask someone for a cheque and they'll wonder what you're talking about...haven't existed for eons.
So bus drivers in Germany are often... Uhm not that nice. Of course not everyone, i think most of them are just very direct but i have to say some bus drivers are so rude!
As a German i think it's funny especially the way Berlins act and talk, i just like the directness, it's kinda funny! But for foreigners i can understand why they are shocked by that. But often it's not meant to be rude or insulting so if you get to learn German and get used to this way you will be fine.
every shop accepts EC cards, but credit cards are rare because of the fees they have to pay
If you are back in Germany and still being interested in (German) history, what about joining a "Living-History/Reenacting" group ?
It's also a way to meet people and find friends .... ;o) ...
If you need hints, please let me know.
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in the 70 ties I was a student and a taxidriver uber is a nightmare for taxis
in the 50 ties when I was a little boy America Soldiers often gave me dollar it was 5 Marks I could live a whole week maybe I loved American Soldiers until today
Thank you for your honest experiences.
About the bread... the whiter the bread the quicker you're dead.
The dark one has to be chewed very often.
Ich wünschte wir wären offener, also gastfreundlicher, gegenüber Mitbürgerinnen, Mitbürgern und Fremden.
20k subs by 2021... i think you ment 100-150k :D