Germans normally do not like to get filmed without their approval. It is legal to film at public places but it is a bit rude, too. I recommend to choose filming angles in which it is difficult to get into by accident, like standing in front of a wall and the camera filming towards it. It is not because you are not geman, most germans understand english so those people will probably know what you were talking about. It is only about getting filmed without a way to escape it. If you do not want to film towards a wall, then just film half the street so people can just go on the other half to prevent getting filmed, it worked to me in the past. Germans are super serious about their rights and getting treated respectful. Getting catched in a film is not respectful. But if you ask them, most germans will allow you to film then.
Wolters World I love your confidence in front of camera when a lot of people are walking by. I'd usually be shy if I'm in that situation or would find a "quieter" (if that's a word) area.
Hi, The knocking on tables is mostly practiced in university circles, everywhere else applause is more common. Thanks for your videos and Merry Christmas! :-) Roni
That might be true where you live, but back when I was working in a big company in Lower Saxony, everyone only used to knock on their tables after a presentation or after a speech. That was 2006 to 2010, so nothing recent. (I left to go to university and ended up in a 2-man company, so I haven't experienced any presentations in a company for a long while since then. But I bet it's the normal thing to do in most companies.) A quick Google search also shows me results like this: "Kennen Sie bestimmt, wenn Sie in einem Unternehmen tätig sind: eine Konferenz, ein Workshop, eine Projekt-Präsentation oder ein Arbeitstreffen. Jemand trägt vor. Am Ende klopfen die Anwesenden auf den Tisch. " (www.lr-online.de/nachrichten/wirtschaft/wirtschaftswoche-wer-klopft-denn-da_-38158036.html)
@@scelestion Kann schon sein, Unternehmenskulturen sind auch ihre eigenen Welten, aber generell bei einer Aufführung mit Publikum oder ähnlichem wird geklatscht. lg Roni
We do the same thing for good luck in Sweden. Crossing fingers in Sweden means that you are lying/joking (depending on the situation). So we say: Håller tummarna - Holding thumbs Jag håller tummarna - I'm holding my thumbs
Mazoox500, crossing your fingers behind your back while saying something also means you are lying in the USA. It would be more something a child would do when they are promising something when they intend to do the opposite or if they are swearing what they are saying is true.
Adam Long l knew kids like that when I was a child. Crossing fingers seems medieval, like maybe holding crossed fingers up when you express a hope is giving you a cross to pray in front of when you can't get to the cathedral, while crossed fingers held behind your back means you are turning your back on Christ/virtue/truth. I know there are sociologists who study how cultural practices can survive for centuries by being passed to little kids from slightly older kids, even though almost everyone abandons those practices in adolescence. Like "Ring around the Rosie," which started in the black plague and keeps going even though modern children who play it have no idea what it is about (thank God).
Knock, knock, knock! How wonderful to learn something about a country that you wouldn't find in a travel book! This shows your intimacy with the culture. Thank you.
The knocking on the table instead of clapping the hands thing is actually less of a "German" thing and more of a student/university thing. For whatever reason (It apparently is an old tradition, but I don't know where it comes from.), they tell you on your first day at university to knock on the table instead of clapping your hands for applause and to hiss like a snake instead of booing to show disapproval. I grew up in Germany, but never heard about that before my first day at university. It really is something you usually don't encounter outside of universities, especially not the hissing thing.
Mockbaboy: In China people are staring at you filming or not, so you get used to it. Probably they going to start filming you while you are filming a Video. Love 🇨🇳 people
When I first learned about the counting on fingers, I actually accidentally just started naturally counting thumb first, and now I sort of use whichever feels right at the time. I may only be learning German, but I'm fluent in hand-counting!
Fun fact: depending on where you are in Germany, if you want to "press your thumbs" for someone you put your thumbs inside the hand OR on top of it. Where I'm from, putting your thumb inside the fist was considered bad luck because your luck "falls down the well". But as anything in Germany, this might be a very regional thing so I'm pretty sure at least three other Germans will correct me under this comment saying that they've never heard of this :-D
ParticleFairy here next to Hamburg, there's actually no strict rule. Sometimes we press it inside, sometimes outside, sometimes we do something different....didn't even knew there are people who got like a strict code for it here in Germany
I know almost nothing on German culture and I have never been there, but from my very, very limited experience on dealing with Germans and reading and hearing about their hand gestures, I get the impression that many things are regional and vary from different parts of Germany. For example about counting with their fingers, it's true all of them signal three with their thumb, however I have seen Germans signaling 1 with their index and 2 with their index and middle fingers, without using their thumb for those.
I wouldnt be surprised if several of them are in use in just about any country bordering German-speaking countries, or at least the border parts of each surrounding country.
Well, since the Mongols conquered and decimated Poland all those centuries ago before retreating, one way for the polish nobles to get the country back on it's feet was to persuade german farmers to go and plow the fields of Poland and hence become landowners. So yes, a lot of "german" influence on Poland :p Btw, loved your Hussars.
We love watching your videos. They move quickly and are so cheerful, positive and again, informative . Continued success and happy holidays to you and yours.
The knocking on the tables instead of clapping your hands is mainly (to my knowledge: exclusively, but Germany can be quite divers, so I don't know for sure) a university thing. Normally applauding is the usual way to show that you think someone did a good job or that you liked a performance, a concert etc. Otherwise we would have to carry tables into the theatre for example...^^ Another situation in which knocking on the table is quite common is when you come to a pub, sometimes a restaurant, where you meet friends who are already there. Instead of shaking hands with each and everyone (which can take an annyoing amount of time you can spend better by drinking beer with said friends...) you can knock on the table like two times. Usually this is accompanied by a phrase like "Ich mach mal so" (="I just do this"). Naturally this only applies to informal meetings with people you know well.
Knocking on top of the table is a way of saying hello when coming to the bar in Bavaria and greeting the gang already sitting there, dont´t ever do that in Denmark though as it there means that you wish somebody bad, there it is knocking UNDER the table.
Great videos Mark! I'm watching your videos for quite a few months and there is always a good mix of fun and information! By the way...your german is awesome ;-) Grüße aus Deutschland, Timo
We are handclapping as well as knocking for a good presentation. It depends on where it happens. Good to have a friend in Braunschweig. because it's the place where I was born. Happy New Year for you and more funny videos of a traveller like you Ralf from Cologne
Right - you'd hear the knocking after a lecture or so also elsewhere, but it is typically the "academic" kind of applause - and it obviously only makes sense if there is some kind of table in front of you.
its funny. sometimes i smile, sometimes i try to just focus on the camera. the best is in germany and austria and switzerland people will come up behind the camera and look through it. its kind of funny.
These gestures are the same in the Czech Republic. Also the "knock on wood" is so that the luck lasts, that is the meaning. In other words if you don´t knock on wood it may not last.
As a German, I can't agree with the last one. In Germany it almost always just means "ok", and sometimes kids use that gesture while playing a game. If you look through the hole, they are allowed to hit you once on the shoulder. But I guess you don't mean that with your negative association towards that gesture due to the fact that this behavior is common to children in elementary school. :D
Do one about the word "madre" in Mexico. Sooo many meanings... hahaha.... Mark, you are one of a kind! Best vlogger in the world!!!!! Great job, as always.
Hier klopfen wir auch auf den Tisch wenn man in einen Raum ( Meeting, Feier etc.) kommt in dem viele Menschen sitzen und man nicht jeden persönlich begrüßen kann/möchte. Oder wenn man zu spät kommt und keine großen Umstände machen möchte, klopft man leise auf den Tisch und hebt die Hand zum Gruß. Ich komme aus Niedersachsen/ Hannover
I don't know if people practise this in other countries but a double or triple knock on a table with people already sitting there (maybe you are late to the Biergarten) means a short hello to everyone or goodbye when you are leaving.
Actually you can also count like this: 1 = thumb, 2 = thumb and index finger, 3 = thumb, index and middle finger, 4 = index finger, middle finger, ring finger and pinkie ( your thumb in on your palm)
Yes, especially if you are one of those people who cannot raise the ring finger while keeping the pinkie down. For some, this is impossible - and so they cannot do the "four" sign with thumb extended and pinkie down (me, for example :-) ).
The "knocking on your head" gesture works similar to "flipping the bird". It just means you "got a bird", ie. a bird in your brain (or just that you're a bird brain).
As a German I would never ever put the thumb inside my hand because that means bad luck - I always wish luck by forming a fist and putting the thumb on the index finger. Knocking on the table to say "good job" is only done by people with higher education because it is a practice common at university. Poking your head is short for "you must have a bird living inside your head".
cave felem from the German part I'm coming from it can also mean that you're having a loose screw or that you don't have anymore all cups inside your cupboard.
"I press my thumbs for you"… and I ever only *said* it, not made any gesture. Why would I? I already said it, so all the information has been conveyed.
Interesting in South Africa we both cross fingers and hold thumbs - more of the hold thumbs than the other. The wave hand in front of the face means you think the guy is stupid. The pointing finger at the head, sometimes with a twirl means crazy. Interesting how the differences work.
Interesting. I didn't know any om them. I was in Berlin a week ago and didn't see any of them, but perhaps they' did it about me anyway :) I used my long finger to signal one ticket, table for one and so on. It did work, but next time I will use my thumb.
The "knocking on the desk" instead of clapping your hands is apparently a "reversed" tradition among academics and students; several articles and documents hint that it originally was a way of booing out a newbie in student fraternities, during the 18th and 19th century, which has been reversed into approvement of (any kind of) lecturers. Also see: www.spektrum.de/frage/warum-bekunden-studenten-ihren-beifall-durch-klopfen/589114 de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beifall#Schlagen_und_Klopfen sciencev1.orf.at/science/ays/76206
I realized, that I do not count like that. mostly I order two things with my index and middle finger up and order one with only my index finger. As a German this confuses me now and makes me question my .... German...es? Great video, thanks and greetings from Braunschweig!
I didn't know the sign for sarcasm. For crazyness, I knew another gesture: Drawing a circle with the index finger in front of your forehead, similar to the sign for stupidity.
us Dutch also go 12345 like the Germans do but 'one' seperately is still done with your index finger :D. Two is index and middle, three is index, middle and ring, four is index, middle, ring and pinky. Yet when we count, thumb, index, middle, ring pinky :D. We do the poking your head (center of forehead actually) here but it means 'you're an idiot' or 'you're crazy'. It's generally considered quite rude. The eyelid thing works here too but it's quite retro, hahaha. I think they stopped doing it in the eighties. You forgot to edit something out, haha. Bleh.
4 with all fingers except the pinky is only used when you count in Germany. When you want to show the number 4 alone you may use all except the thumb as well. Tapping your forehead is called "Einen Vogel zeigen" (showing a bird) and means that you are a complete idiot. It is quite rude. I have never seen the eyelid gesture being used except maybe in RUclips videos. It isn't really common (anymore?).
The amount of people who looked over and thought "What the hell is this American doing?"
Honestly, I have the most crazy looks when I film in Germany :) but i have had some nice people come up and chat with me which is always cool
Germans normally do not like to get filmed without their approval. It is legal to film at public places but it is a bit rude, too. I recommend to choose filming angles in which it is difficult to get into by accident, like standing in front of a wall and the camera filming towards it. It is not because you are not geman, most germans understand english so those people will probably know what you were talking about. It is only about getting filmed without a way to escape it. If you do not want to film towards a wall, then just film half the street so people can just go on the other half to prevent getting filmed, it worked to me in the past. Germans are super serious about their rights and getting treated respectful. Getting catched in a film is not respectful. But if you ask them, most germans will allow you to film then.
Wolters World I love your confidence in front of camera when a lot of people are walking by. I'd usually be shy if I'm in that situation or would find a "quieter" (if that's a word) area.
Is it an "one way" street? Does everybody come from the same place?
@@l3p3 yet another Ignorant american not respecting Germans' privacy by filming them
Do one on Italian hand gestures. It'll take about thirty minutes.
Gerry Zapiain not the italian hand meme again
haha
Metatron already did.
Gerry Zapiain pls
Hi,
The knocking on tables is mostly practiced in university circles, everywhere else applause is more common.
Thanks for your videos and Merry Christmas! :-)
Roni
That might be true where you live, but back when I was working in a big company in Lower Saxony, everyone only used to knock on their tables after a presentation or after a speech. That was 2006 to 2010, so nothing recent. (I left to go to university and ended up in a 2-man company, so I haven't experienced any presentations in a company for a long while since then. But I bet it's the normal thing to do in most companies.)
A quick Google search also shows me results like this: "Kennen Sie bestimmt, wenn Sie in einem Unternehmen tätig sind: eine Konferenz, ein Workshop, eine Projekt-Präsentation oder ein Arbeitstreffen. Jemand trägt vor. Am Ende klopfen die Anwesenden auf den Tisch.
" (www.lr-online.de/nachrichten/wirtschaft/wirtschaftswoche-wer-klopft-denn-da_-38158036.html)
@@scelestion Kann schon sein, Unternehmenskulturen sind auch ihre eigenen Welten, aber generell bei einer Aufführung mit Publikum oder ähnlichem wird geklatscht.
lg Roni
Knocking on the table is a subtle variation of applause, yes, but knocking on wood means wishing yourself luck.
Learning the hand gestures for counting is extra important if you're a British spy in a WWII movie.
We do the same thing for good luck in Sweden. Crossing fingers in Sweden means that you are lying/joking (depending on the situation).
So we say:
Håller tummarna - Holding thumbs
Jag håller tummarna - I'm holding my thumbs
Mazoox500, crossing your fingers behind your back while saying something also means you are lying in the USA. It would be more something a child would do when they are promising something when they intend to do the opposite or if they are swearing what they are saying is true.
Cool. I didn't know that. Thanks!
Adam Long l knew kids like that when I was a child. Crossing fingers seems medieval, like maybe holding crossed fingers up when you express a hope is giving you a cross to pray in front of when you can't get to the cathedral, while crossed fingers held behind your back means you are turning your back on Christ/virtue/truth. I know there are sociologists who study how cultural practices can survive for centuries by being passed to little kids from slightly older kids, even though almost everyone abandons those practices in adolescence. Like "Ring around the Rosie," which started in the black plague and keeps going even though modern children who play it have no idea what it is about (thank God).
I don't have aclue what ring around the Rosie is. Only heard it once in a horror movie. Not a thing here in Sweden (that I'm aware of).
Crossing fingers behind your back in germany actually also means that you're lying :P
I am Swiss and I thought these gestures were universal 😂😂
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Pulling down the eyelid can also mean "You can´t fool me." or "I know that you´re lying."
Knock, knock, knock! How wonderful to learn something about a country that you wouldn't find in a travel book! This shows your intimacy with the culture. Thank you.
The knocking on the table instead of clapping the hands thing is actually less of a "German" thing and more of a student/university thing. For whatever reason (It apparently is an old tradition, but I don't know where it comes from.), they tell you on your first day at university to knock on the table instead of clapping your hands for applause and to hiss like a snake instead of booing to show disapproval.
I grew up in Germany, but never heard about that before my first day at university. It really is something you usually don't encounter outside of universities, especially not the hissing thing.
Who thought of 'Inglourious Basterds' when he showed how to count in German?
That popped into my head after i edited the video :)
Haha me too :) "drei gläser!"
ya ya me too
Yup.
First thing I thought of; it's what got Lt. Hickox and crew whacked. If only he had Prof. Wolters...
My son will be studying in Regensburg for five months, so I shared this with him. Thank you!
I only know the knocking-on-table from university and it was new for me there, everywhere else I think we clap just like everyone else.
Seriously how do you deal with all the people staring at you? Have any ever interrupted you?
sometimes it gets me, sometimes i just ignore it :)
I think it was the worst in China for them hahaha
Pascal Gorke Stare back
Mockbaboy: In China people are staring at you filming or not, so you get used to it. Probably they going to start filming you while you are filming a Video. Love 🇨🇳 people
if you are bothered about that you should not be a youtuber.
I watch this video for an assignment, and your explanation is very clear!! Thank you
When I first learned about the counting on fingers, I actually accidentally just started naturally counting thumb first, and now I sort of use whichever feels right at the time.
I may only be learning German, but I'm fluent in hand-counting!
Fun fact: depending on where you are in Germany, if you want to "press your thumbs" for someone you put your thumbs inside the hand OR on top of it. Where I'm from, putting your thumb inside the fist was considered bad luck because your luck "falls down the well". But as anything in Germany, this might be a very regional thing so I'm pretty sure at least three other Germans will correct me under this comment saying that they've never heard of this :-D
+ParticleFairy now I understand why my friends did it different ways. Thanks for the heads up! Danke!
I put my thumb between index and middle finger. It literally allows me to squeeze my thumbs. Ich bin ein real Berliner.
ParticleFairy here next to Hamburg, there's actually no strict rule. Sometimes we press it inside, sometimes outside, sometimes we do something different....didn't even knew there are people who got like a strict code for it here in Germany
I know almost nothing on German culture and I have never been there, but from my very, very limited experience on dealing with Germans and reading and hearing about their hand gestures, I get the impression that many things are regional and vary from different parts of Germany. For example about counting with their fingers, it's true all of them signal three with their thumb, however I have seen Germans signaling 1 with their index and 2 with their index and middle fingers, without using their thumb for those.
I will be visitng Germany for work tomorrow. These videos are helpful!
Quedlinburg - such a sweet city! Enjoy your stay
I liked the looks on people’s faces going by watching your hand gesture explanations
I love your videos! So informative and respectful. I'd love to see one on hand gestures NOT to do!
Thanks! Cheers from Colombia!
Eins zwei drei vier funf. Ah vielen dank fur die tipps. Thanks. Useful info as I am heading to Deutschland in the new year. Wonderbar!
Awesome. Have a great time!
Love your videos. Its not only about the content, but also your nice, positive and funny presentation.
Culture is so fascinating!
Thanks again for a job well done!
Always love your video. Thank you for your useful advices.
Hi Mark! In Sweden we also press the thumbs for good luck, but we say that we "hold the thumbs" instead.
1:11 Knocking on table means "heaven forbid" in the Philippines and at 1:53 pulling your eyelid down is also sarcastic we called it "pikat" in Bisaya.
Some are also used in Poland :) suprise suprise as we are neighbours :P
Cool.
I wouldnt be surprised if several of them are in use in just about any country bordering German-speaking countries, or at least the border parts of each surrounding country.
medowucha could be, I agree :)
Welche denn?
Well, since the Mongols conquered and decimated Poland all those centuries ago before retreating, one way for the polish nobles to get the country back on it's feet was to persuade german farmers to go and plow the fields of Poland and hence become landowners. So yes, a lot of "german" influence on Poland :p
Btw, loved your Hussars.
We use some of these gestures in Italy too
Helped a lot for my presentation, thanks :D
very close to my hometown, hope you had a nice time
We love watching your videos. They move quickly and are so cheerful, positive and again, informative . Continued success and happy holidays to you and yours.
Thank you Jack!
The knocking on the tables instead of clapping your hands is mainly (to my knowledge: exclusively, but Germany can be quite divers, so I don't know for sure) a university thing. Normally applauding is the usual way to show that you think someone did a good job or that you liked a performance, a concert etc. Otherwise we would have to carry tables into the theatre for example...^^
Another situation in which knocking on the table is quite common is when you come to a pub, sometimes a restaurant, where you meet friends who are already there. Instead of shaking hands with each and everyone (which can take an annyoing amount of time you can spend better by drinking beer with said friends...) you can knock on the table like two times. Usually this is accompanied by a phrase like "Ich mach mal so" (="I just do this").
Naturally this only applies to informal meetings with people you know well.
2:17 Lol, reingeguckt! 😂
thank you mark thumbs up for you!
Great that you are in Quedlinburg. We are going next year, so it would be OK if you talked a little about the city.
Knocking on top of the table is a way of saying hello when coming to the bar in Bavaria and greeting the gang already sitting there, dont´t ever do that in Denmark though as it there means that you wish somebody bad, there it is knocking UNDER the table.
Informative and well done. Thank you sir.
Thanks Jack!
Great videos Mark! I'm watching your videos for quite a few months and there is always a good mix of fun and information! By the way...your german is awesome ;-) Grüße aus Deutschland, Timo
Danke schoen!!!
Off topic but you have the Singapore skyline as your cover photo, that's amazing :)
I love your videos, always interesting, relevant and personal!
+AmandaPaige thank you Amanda :)
We are handclapping as well as knocking for a good presentation. It depends on where it happens.
Good to have a friend in Braunschweig. because it's the place where I was born.
Happy New Year for you and more funny videos of a traveller like you
Ralf from Cologne
Great video. Merry Christmas Mark to you and your family.
+Kelly Sun&Serenity thank you! Merry Christmas!
Nettes Video. 👍
Knocking on a table to say “Good job !” is something we generally only do at universities and after s.o. gave a speech in a professional environment.
+Dixel that would explain why I heard it all the time at university :)
Right - you'd hear the knocking after a lecture or so also elsewhere, but it is typically the "academic" kind of applause - and it obviously only makes sense if there is some kind of table in front of you.
We actually do that in school too. It always depends on the school tho.
And in conferences/meetings at work.
This was very interesting.
You should come to a bar in Wisconsin, this explains everything we do here lol
You had me at BAR :)
I’ll be there in Frankfurt tomorrow, could be awesome to see you Walt
Always awesome content 🙌🏻 thanks for these gems, always useful 💝
+April Escamilla that's really nice to hear April. Thank you :)
I've been learning German and these are some good stuff you can't learn from a book 😄 thanks a lot Wolter
+Mert Aydoğan bitte :)
People are looking at you like you just killed someone 😂 How do you deal with that? lol
Thats typical german. They´re famous for staring.
its funny. sometimes i smile, sometimes i try to just focus on the camera. the best is in germany and austria and switzerland people will come up behind the camera and look through it. its kind of funny.
These gestures are the same in the Czech Republic. Also the "knock on wood" is so that the luck lasts, that is the meaning. In other words if you don´t knock on wood it may not last.
So John Cena has been telling us all just how crazy wrestling is this whole time. Good to know!
+Zach Gardner mind blown, right?
Zach Gardner well yeah I guess lol 😂
Zach Gardner not wrestling, but WWE
Sehr Gut DR Woltewrs!!!!!
+Brian Shull danke schoen
As a German, I can't agree with the last one. In Germany it almost always just means "ok", and sometimes kids use that gesture while playing a game. If you look through the hole, they are allowed to hit you once on the shoulder. But I guess you don't mean that with your negative association towards that gesture due to the fact that this behavior is common to children in elementary school. :D
I love this channel! Awesome video man :)
+Vulnette thank you so much.
Do one about the word "madre" in Mexico. Sooo many meanings... hahaha.... Mark, you are one of a kind! Best vlogger in the world!!!!! Great job, as always.
Very interesting!!
+D Lish thank you
Knock on table for this video Mark!!
knock on wood
Layth Alkhaer it's knock on wood in the US. Touch wood is UK.
Germans are funny. Your sense of humour is very good.
thank you
I,ll give you two thumbs up!!
Hier klopfen wir auch auf den Tisch wenn man in einen Raum ( Meeting, Feier etc.) kommt in dem viele Menschen sitzen und man nicht jeden persönlich begrüßen kann/möchte.
Oder wenn man zu spät kommt und keine großen Umstände machen möchte, klopft man leise auf den Tisch und hebt die Hand zum Gruß. Ich komme aus Niedersachsen/ Hannover
Its a great video . I would like to know more about Italians hand gesture's .
If you could make a video about it ; its gonna be great.
I am back in Italy next year so I will do one on those too don't worry :)
I don't know if people practise this in other countries but a double or triple knock on a table with people already sitting there (maybe you are late to the Biergarten) means a short hello to everyone or goodbye when you are leaving.
Actually you can also count like this: 1 = thumb, 2 = thumb and index finger, 3 = thumb, index and middle finger, 4 = index finger, middle finger, ring finger and pinkie ( your thumb in on your palm)
Yes, especially if you are one of those people who cannot raise the ring finger while keeping the pinkie down. For some, this is impossible - and so they cannot do the "four" sign with thumb extended and pinkie down (me, for example :-) ).
Wish I would have known this stuff back in when I was in Germany a few years back haha!
Very funny. Good to know.
+Vlog18rodas thanks :)
nailed it, Mark!
(still travelling through Germany for business myself .. who knows, one day we'll meet up for a good cold Wolter Pils)
+g00fy heck yeah :)
Hey Mark can you make a video about buses in Europe? Talk about is it worth taking a bus from one city to another or from one country to another.
The "knocking on your head" gesture works similar to "flipping the bird". It just means you "got a bird", ie. a bird in your brain (or just that you're a bird brain).
+medowucha cool explanation. Danke!
@Wolters World:
Which is why that gesture can be accompanied by saying: "Bei dir piept's wohl?!" (Ther's ss.th.chirping in your head.)
Thank you for making my days better and also you replied to me last week and the week before that so truly danke
Bun that was Romanian and Gerann
+Sully Cook cheers Sully
A High five with straight arm up may land you in Jail 😂😂😂
Is it okay to do it when I see my friend, Al, and say Hi, Al!
Probably not, huh?
nope..
You will NOT go to jail. Stop believing those stereotypes!
L3 P3 It's a German law not stereotype.
L3 P3 Not the jail,but this cost a money :)
Love your videos "Vive la difference" :0)
The "stupid sign" and "pushing (we say 'holding') your thumbs for good luck" go for Sweden as well.
As a German I would never ever put the thumb inside my hand because that means bad luck - I always wish luck by forming a fist and putting the thumb on the index finger.
Knocking on the table to say "good job" is only done by people with higher education because it is a practice common at university.
Poking your head is short for "you must have a bird living inside your head".
cave felem from the German part I'm coming from it can also mean that you're having a loose screw or that you don't have anymore all cups inside your cupboard.
@@asmylia9880 having a lose screw is usually the gesture with the rotating index finger right next to the head
You just knock on table as applause when you sit in front of one. If there is no table, you clap. Except you clap to a song in a Bierzelt.
Now you know, when things get a bit crazy, just do a little Tony Yayo
I always use my index finger to order beer, and yes I often get 2. But let's be honest... Two beers are always better than one, right? LOL
+René van Oyen damn straight 2 beers > 1 beer :)
I ❤ Quedlinburg! The first capital of
"I press my thumbs for you"… and I ever only *said* it, not made any gesture. Why would I? I already said it, so all the information has been conveyed.
Interesting in South Africa we both cross fingers and hold thumbs - more of the hold thumbs than the other.
The wave hand in front of the face means you think the guy is stupid. The pointing finger at the head, sometimes with a twirl means crazy.
Interesting how the differences work.
Go to the faroe islands, its a very beautiful place
+FarmLucky I want to go. I met a couple who went there a couple years ago and they just raved about it.
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Dang, besides the counting, I thought all the other gesturers were universal 🤣
Interesting. I didn't know any om them. I was in Berlin a week ago and didn't see any of them, but perhaps they' did it about me anyway :) I used my long finger to signal one ticket, table for one and so on. It did work, but next time I will use my thumb.
i have the same experiences :)
Your "long finger"? I hope, your middle finger isn't the longest...
Don't be mistaken, the thumbs up thing is the same over here in Germany!
Hahaha the Germans in the background
Germans: was zum teufel machst du
You're the one!
The "knocking on the desk" instead of clapping your hands is apparently a "reversed" tradition among academics and students; several articles and documents hint that it originally was a way of booing out a newbie in student fraternities, during the 18th and 19th century, which has been reversed into approvement of (any kind of) lecturers.
Also see:
www.spektrum.de/frage/warum-bekunden-studenten-ihren-beifall-durch-klopfen/589114
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beifall#Schlagen_und_Klopfen
sciencev1.orf.at/science/ays/76206
Don't really see a problem with accidentally getting 2 beers lol
Ангелина Суворова you're beautiful
Madara Uchiha うちは thank you so much! I'm sure you are beautiful too! :)
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Ангелина Суворова you actually never drank German beer otherwise you would know.
And by beer I mean *_REAL GERMAN BEER_*
There is a different system of finger counting gestures in Spain according to friends, and you may get 2 or 5 beers if you get it wrong.
+Bruce Lee well... is 5 beers ever truly "wrong" ;)
Dont of visiting north korea
+DenZeGamer I will see about that one ;)
just don't visit north korea :D
really ?? phones are not allowed there ??? damn
table knock
Your sing for "ok" here in Brazil is also offensive like it is in Germany. It means something like " Go f.y."
What if you count to three by holding the RING finger down with the thumb?
I'm sure that I never used my thumb to indicate one, I always use my index finger.
I realized, that I do not count like that. mostly I order two things with my index and middle finger up and order one with only my index finger. As a German this confuses me now and makes me question my .... German...es? Great video, thanks and greetings from Braunschweig!
I didn't know the sign for sarcasm.
For crazyness, I knew another gesture: Drawing a circle with the index finger in front of your forehead, similar to the sign for stupidity.
us Dutch also go 12345 like the Germans do but 'one' seperately is still done with your index finger :D.
Two is index and middle, three is index, middle and ring, four is index, middle, ring and pinky.
Yet when we count, thumb, index, middle, ring pinky :D.
We do the poking your head (center of forehead actually) here but it means 'you're an idiot' or 'you're crazy'.
It's generally considered quite rude.
The eyelid thing works here too but it's quite retro, hahaha. I think they stopped doing it in the eighties.
You forgot to edit something out, haha. Bleh.
4 with all fingers except the pinky is only used when you count in Germany. When you want to show the number 4 alone you may use all except the thumb as well.
Tapping your forehead is called "Einen Vogel zeigen" (showing a bird) and means that you are a complete idiot. It is quite rude.
I have never seen the eyelid gesture being used except maybe in RUclips videos. It isn't really common (anymore?).
What's the meaning when they raise their right arm high?
I'm German but I don't get why the last thing would be offensive
Leander Dato in the UK it's also known as the "wanker sign"