She was „German girl in America“, got problems with someone who claimed that name and so she had to change her name and take it out of all her old videos, too. I like your differentiation between accent and wrong pronunciation. I agree. But I have often heard, „that’s just how we pronounce it here“ when Americans totally butchered a name from a different language. Not even trying.
Lufthansa is the founder of "Star Alliance", which means you book Lufthansa (Germany-Australia), but you only fly with Lufthansa to Singapore and the connecting flight to Australia is taken by another airline. (I think there is no direct flight from Germany to Australia or vice versa) Lufthansa is the largest European airline (passenger & cargo). The Lufthansa-Group includes Brussels Airlines, Swiss International Airlines, Edelweiss, Air Dolomiti, Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa Cargo, Lufthansa CityLine, Eurowings, Discover, etc. Lufthansa-Technik also provides technical support for competing companies at many locations in Europe.
many brand names are artificially created to have a unique name instead of a common word from a specific language. this also helps not using another reserved trademark, and also internationally when a nice word in one language might sound like a curse word in another. funny example: there is a german schnaps named "Küstennebel" (translates to "coastal fog"), but another company had huge problems with their schnaps that people seemed to dislike when they imported it to germany. its name was "mist" which in german means "manure" :-) ps: the name "puma" sounds completely german to me. it is the scientific and german (and probably less the english/american) name of the animal that is also shown in the company logo, and is also known by many (40+ in english alone) other different names, among them _Berglöwe_ (mountain lion), _Bergkatze_ (catamount), _Silberlöwe_ (silver lion), and also cougar _(Kuguar)_ which is part of the scientific name for the subspecies of northamerican pumas "Puma concolor cougar", thus americans probably mostly generalize cougar for all pumas. they also call them panther (eg florida panther) although pumas are completely separate from genus "panthera" (that consists of tiger, lion, (snow)leopard, jaguar; we use _"Panther"_ only for the black variant of leopards)
Hello! Regarding 24:45: I'm from Austria, so I'm not even a native English speaker, but I do know that "learnt" is the British and therefore most likely also the Australian spelling, whereas "learned" is the American one. At least that's what I learn-t/-ed (😉) back then, when I was at school. 😊
i _learned_ english in my school in germany, and thus english *for me* is a _learned_ language, but when speaking about languages in general, i would oppose native languages to _learnt_ languages. of course i am neither native english speaker nor a teacher ...
We are just very good at combining words and making new words out of them. For example: kindergarten (Kinder - Garten) A combination of children and garden It also happens that a word has several meanings, depending on the context in which it is used. Motorschraube (Motor - Schraube) motorised screw. This word can also mean different things in different contexts. Separately it is the motor and the screw. Together it can mean the propeller of a boat or a propeller plane, or in some cases the motorised screw can also be a part of the engine.
22:00 That is a way to come up with a brand name which was used a lot in Germany. I don't know about other countries. It was simply taking the first steps into marketing. Like IBM = international business machines. So inventors who wanted to find a name for their contraption took the function and made it into an acronym: put engravings nicely in lines = pencil.
21:39 The Swedes can do that too. One example is IKEA. IKEA is made up of the initials of Ingvar Kamprad (The founder), his parents' farm Elmtaryd and the village Agunnaryd.
I lerned what is known as oxford english at school. This very, very "british english" with this weird emphasis. Your english sounds to me like a german speaks english. It is easy for me to understand you... 😀 I have subscirbed your channel, greetings from germany...
it is interesting to learn that you learnt "Oxford" English at school, yet 98% of Germans who have learnt or studied "English" at school speak with a very pronounced American accent and use almost exclusively American idioms etc. It's most strange. I always claim that kids and students in Germany don't learn English, they are deliberately taught American at school.
@@cosmicdebris2223 I started learning English at school in 1974 and, as I said, we learned Oxford English there. But it was also very difficult for me and many others to speak the correct intonation. So many learned English with a strong German accent. I don't know what is learned in English lessons in German schools today. American English topic: I had a classmate who spoke American English fluently and he had real problems in German English class because he couldn't speak or write Oxford English. Today: The "Internet" is full of American English, perhaps that's why many Germans speak American English. I'm not a linguist, so of course this is just a guess on my part. Greetings from Germany
@@Triple_U_e It's a fair guess and I think you certainly bring up a very valid point regarding _"Today: The "Internet" is full of American English, perhaps that's why many Germans speak American English."_ . My feeling is that the internet, specifically YT, has substantially accentuated that phenomena indeed, but it was always apparent. It's a pity since spoken American to a native Brit who may be older than, say, 40 it seems like an extremely sloppy and lazy way to articulate oneself... in English. Also greetings from an expat Brit who has lived 80+% years of his (my) time in Germany, spreche also auch, mehr oder weniger, einigermaßen Deutsch. :D
yes, this goes for everyone in the world who speaks a different language and attempts to speak a foreign language, or just words in those foreign languages.
So I watched several reactions on this video. And what I can say, only Americans pronounce these brands wrong. Nesrly the whole time. The british and australian reactors normally say it right.
Of course you British colonists speak the more correct English. And we in Germany also learn classic Oxford English. Btw... Do we actually still say filling station? I think we can all agree that the British will always be better at pronouncing German than a peanut farmer in Alabama, to use a cliché...
it cannot be that kids and students are taught "Oxford English" at school. EVERY German I know and hear ALWAYS speaks with a very strong American accent. I'd say that less than 2% speak English. American is always preferred and deliberately taught.
die deutsche sprache ist ja auch nicht wirklich entfernt wurden.sie wurde einfach nur ersetzt.siehe britisches royal system oder belgisches oder nierderländisches.
She was „German girl in America“, got problems with someone who claimed that name and so she had to change her name and take it out of all her old videos, too.
I like your differentiation between accent and wrong pronunciation. I agree. But I have often heard, „that’s just how we pronounce it here“ when Americans totally butchered a name from a different language. Not even trying.
Lufthansa is the founder of "Star Alliance", which means you book Lufthansa (Germany-Australia), but you only fly with Lufthansa to Singapore and the connecting flight to Australia is taken by another airline. (I think there is no direct flight from Germany to Australia or vice versa)
Lufthansa is the largest European airline (passenger & cargo). The Lufthansa-Group includes Brussels Airlines, Swiss International Airlines, Edelweiss, Air Dolomiti, Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa Cargo, Lufthansa CityLine, Eurowings, Discover, etc.
Lufthansa-Technik also provides technical support for competing companies at many locations in Europe.
many brand names are artificially created to have a unique name instead of a common word from a specific language. this also helps not using another reserved trademark, and also internationally when a nice word in one language might sound like a curse word in another.
funny example: there is a german schnaps named "Küstennebel" (translates to "coastal fog"), but another company had huge problems with their schnaps that people seemed to dislike when they imported it to germany. its name was "mist" which in german means "manure" :-)
ps: the name "puma" sounds completely german to me.
it is the scientific and german (and probably less the english/american) name of the animal that is also shown in the company logo, and is also known by many (40+ in english alone) other different names, among them _Berglöwe_ (mountain lion), _Bergkatze_ (catamount), _Silberlöwe_ (silver lion), and also cougar _(Kuguar)_ which is part of the scientific name for the subspecies of northamerican pumas "Puma concolor cougar", thus americans probably mostly generalize cougar for all pumas. they also call them panther (eg florida panther) although pumas are completely separate from genus "panthera" (that consists of tiger, lion, (snow)leopard, jaguar; we use _"Panther"_ only for the black variant of leopards)
You can rely on Australians. 😂
Hello! Regarding 24:45: I'm from Austria, so I'm not even a native English speaker, but I do know that "learnt" is the British and therefore most likely also the Australian spelling, whereas "learned" is the American one. At least that's what I learn-t/-ed (😉) back then, when I was at school. 😊
i _learned_ english in my school in germany, and thus english *for me* is a _learned_ language, but when speaking about languages in general, i would oppose native languages to _learnt_ languages. of course i am neither native english speaker nor a teacher ...
We are just very good at combining words and making new words out of them.
For example: kindergarten (Kinder - Garten)
A combination of children and garden
It also happens that a word has several meanings, depending on the context in which it is used.
Motorschraube (Motor - Schraube) motorised screw.
This word can also mean different things in different contexts. Separately it is the motor and the screw.
Together it can mean the propeller of a boat or a propeller plane, or in some cases the motorised screw can also be a part of the engine.
Great video! You could react to Feli from Germany ‚5 Disney Fary Tales and their cruel German origin
who is gary?
22:00 That is a way to come up with a brand name which was used a lot in Germany. I don't know about other countries. It was simply taking the first steps into marketing. Like IBM = international business machines.
So inventors who wanted to find a name for their contraption took the function and made it into an acronym: put engravings nicely in lines = pencil.
21:39 The Swedes can do that too. One example is IKEA.
IKEA is made up of the initials of Ingvar Kamprad (The founder), his parents' farm Elmtaryd and the village Agunnaryd.
To be fair, I'm American, and, I have NEVER heard anyone pronounce Audi as "Aw-dee". Everyone I have ever met says "Ow-dee".
I lerned what is known as oxford english at school. This very, very "british english" with this weird emphasis. Your english sounds to me like a german speaks english. It is easy for me to understand you... 😀 I have subscirbed your channel, greetings from germany...
it is interesting to learn that you learnt "Oxford" English at school, yet 98% of Germans who have learnt or studied "English" at school speak with a very pronounced American accent and use almost exclusively American idioms etc. It's most strange. I always claim that kids and students in Germany don't learn English, they are deliberately taught American at school.
@@cosmicdebris2223 I started learning English at school in 1974 and, as I said, we learned Oxford English there. But it was also very difficult for me and many others to speak the correct intonation. So many learned English with a strong German accent. I don't know what is learned in English lessons in German schools today. American English topic: I had a classmate who spoke American English fluently and he had real problems in German English class because he couldn't speak or write Oxford English. Today: The "Internet" is full of American English, perhaps that's why many Germans speak American English. I'm not a linguist, so of course this is just a guess on my part. Greetings from Germany
@@Triple_U_e It's a fair guess and I think you certainly bring up a very valid point regarding _"Today: The "Internet" is full of American English, perhaps that's why many Germans speak American English."_ . My feeling is that the internet, specifically YT, has substantially accentuated that phenomena indeed, but it was always apparent. It's a pity since spoken American to a native Brit who may be older than, say, 40 it seems like an extremely sloppy and lazy way to articulate oneself... in English. Also greetings from an expat Brit who has lived 80+% years of his (my) time in Germany, spreche also auch, mehr oder weniger, einigermaßen Deutsch. :D
Before Porsche made cars, Porsche made tractors and they are worth a lot today.
in Europe (except Ireland and UK) we r saying like germans does :)
Aren't Australians pronouncing most English and American brands somewhat wrong?😂😂❤
yes, this goes for everyone in the world who speaks a different language and attempts to speak a foreign language, or just words in those foreign languages.
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Come to Germany. Learn the german pronouncing of everything from the native speaking peoples. You are welcome. 👍😁
So I watched several reactions on this video.
And what I can say, only Americans pronounce these brands wrong. Nesrly the whole time.
The british and australian reactors normally say it right.
Of course you British colonists speak the more correct English. And we in Germany also learn classic Oxford English. Btw... Do we actually still say filling station? I think we can all agree that the British will always be better at pronouncing German than a peanut farmer in Alabama, to use a cliché...
it cannot be that kids and students are taught "Oxford English" at school. EVERY German I know and hear ALWAYS speaks with a very strong American accent. I'd say that less than 2% speak English. American is always preferred and deliberately taught.
@@cosmicdebris2223 Well, kid... Have a look at the books for English class in Germany. You would be surprised...
To Speak the Name " Aldi's " it is a Cincinnati Slang !
OK.....all rigtht so Long !
die deutsche sprache ist ja auch nicht wirklich entfernt wurden.sie wurde einfach nur ersetzt.siehe britisches royal system oder belgisches oder nierderländisches.
bin ja neulich umgezogen an die grenze zu frau antje...ich liebe diese menschen einfach
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