I'm French, I was in love with a German many years. It has been the greatest experience of my life. Thanks Germany, thanks friendship, thanks love, thanks schnitzel.
If France and Germany can be friends, so any other two country in the world can be. They have so many conflicts and differences in their history and culture.
Well, we can speak more about rivalry, but the three aren’t so different. Elites/Nobles in England comes from France and therefore English has so many french/latin words and therefore is sometimes considered as a “creole” language. French is the most german latin language and German invasions influenced the evolution of French and its pronunciation. Finally, a lot french huguenots fled into Germany. We can see with these small exemples, that the three countries are quite connected.
Baba Bugmann Nobody considers English a “creole” language; it’s taken thousands of years for it to evolve, not a few decades. English is considered to be West Germanic. Over 60% of English words have Germanic roots while (in descending order) old Nordic languages, Norman French, French, Italian and Spanish contribute about 80% of the remainder. The rest - but not all - are mainly from India, the Far East and Africa.
Ivor Morgan Nobody apart some linguists, but I completely understand, that it creates a controversy. It’s literally called “creole hypothesis”. Finally, your percentage of german words is false. I just checked after you asserted “60%” and it seems, that the consensus is around “26%”. Ps: it is sometimes hard to distinguish if a loan word comes from French or Latin, but the first one gave around 29% and same for the second one. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_language_influences_in_English
Baba Bugmann No serious linguists consider English to be a Creole language either. Apart from a brief period after the Norman Conquest during which the literate class rapidly absorbed some Norman words and phrases, many of which are now obsolete, English has largely evolved by gradual absorption. Also, you should do more than rush to grab a supporting figure from Wikipedia before you post. The article I think you are quoting does not correctly categorise language roots. If you read the talk page (as you always should on Wikipedia) you will see it is a point that is raised. If you take the time to search google scholar instead, you’ll find many journals and monologues that point to a far higher percentage of word with Germanic roots.
The Germans seemed to admire the French in some ways whereas the French were generally dismissive of the Germans seriousness and food. How French of them.
Wolf Chen well that's a way to see that. you can also see quite a bit of despise from the Germans towards the French. but if the germans really look at it critically, they ll see that France is actually their best ally in history. and reciprocally.
Maybe one of the reason, it's because France is a place where germans make holidays, they spend nice time there. And in the 20th century Germany made war to France twice... even if it's a long time ago, it does not help to say nice things about their neigbourgh ;)
@@piejac9600 I think very few people (maybe some elders here and there) resent Germany on the subject of war. My grandmother knew WW2, she saw German soldiers pass the streets of her village, and yet she speaks of them without any dislike. So you can imagine younger generations hold no grudge either, at all.
@@Nekoala I mean it's clearly not the main reason, but for example there are still a lot of recent films about the 2ww showing nasty german nazi, I think it does have an impact some people minds. I am not criticising this kind of film, just try to find the reason of this "unbalance" relationship between both group of people.
It was interesting to see how the Germans were very hesitant to make any claims that would be considered clichés or generalizations about the French, and multiple times said it only applied to some of them, whereas the French seemed to make those generalized statements without worry in the other video.
Even both sides’ points of focus are different. The French interviewees focused more on sex and romance. Germans focused more on politics. The French talked more on impressions and intuitions. The German focused more on details and on the social structure that shaped the culture.
unfortunately, yes, you're right. Knowing well both of the countries, i think we aren't that different, and that there is a trope : these two videos have not been made by the same people, so let's not forget that it wasn't the same interviewer, and therefore differents questions were asked. For example, the german interviewer clearly said to the fisrt lady "please don't bring up clichées" : What if he told that to every other participants off-mic ? We french also enjoy a lot talking about politics, but you will notice that in the french video, the interviewer asked for personal experiences, therefore people are more likely talking about their school exchanges with germany or intimate relations...
Yes but in the same time, naked saunas exist in Germany, not in a so-called liberal country like France I think France openness to sex is just a façade They are catolic and Catholics are a bit more conservative than protestants like Germans and other Nordic countries
@@livics610 German is at least half catholic! The majority is catholic! Especially in southern Germany, the majority is so catholic and I think much more as in France they are close-minded.
Interesting that they mentionned the way we are auto-sufficient in France in terms of culture and food and a lot of other things. As a French I never saw it that way but they are very right ! France is like a world on its own compared to a lot of other countries that receive much more foreign influences. Thank you for this lovely video !
Thats because if someone is french they can find almost everything not to exotic while remaining somewhat in France if want a more Germanic culture you can head in the north and east if you want a more italian one to the south east and more hiberic one youd go southwest and if you want a more celtic british one youd go to britain. If you prefer holidays to the sea we have that and if you prefer holidays to the mountain we have that as well. You can even go to the carribean and stay in France. So for most people they can find what they prefer without having to leave the country and learn other language or whatever. Only the really more open people with more specific travelling desires will take the trouble of adventuring out of France and learn languages etc. We have almost everything people would want so there isnt much reason to go elswhere
I think the US has a lot more influence in Germany compared to France, and France was the world power culturally with language, cinema, fashion, war, colonialism, etc. Germany wanted to reach that level, but it never did, and a lot of the people that could’ve contributed to this fled. France never lost that colonialist mentality like the US. A lot of people find France to be a culture hub next to Anglo-American and Japanese culture.
i'm french and i think the franco-german friendship is the greatest thing ever. I think french children should learn the german language, and german children should learn the french language. It is so weird to speak english between us ^^
Beaucoup des allemandes apprennent le Français à l'école, mais la plupart ne sont pas très bien à le parler (moi y compris) x) Mais on aime la France et les Français
Ich bin Franzose und hab' 4 Jahre in Deutschland, Frankfurt am Main, gelebt. Ich hatte keinen Kulturschock wirklich. Wir haben ja ziemlich viele Ähnlichkeiten oder die Unterschiede sind nicht so krass. Als erstes finde ich die deutschen nicht besonders pünktlicher, ordentlicher oder sauberer (Frankfurt ist dreckiger als Paris ohne Witz), dennoch nehmen sie viel mehr Rücksicht auf die Fahrräder und Fussgänger. Deutschland ist definitiv multikultureller als Frankreich, von daher scheinen die meisten damit mehr umgehen zu können (Sprachbarriere, toleranter, usw.). Die Deutschen sind direkter und pragmatischer. Sie meckern genauso viel wie die Franzosen aber in der privaten Sphäre, nicht öffentlich. Aber klar sie haben nicht diese Protest- und Demonstrationskultur. Allgemein ist die Erziehung in Deutschland lockerer und die Kinder wertgeschätzt. Die Beziehungen sind generell weniger angespannt (schwieriger Hintergrund in Frankreich mit gelbwesten und sozialrechten). Als zurückhaltender Mensch fiel es mir ziemlich schwer, mit den deutschen ins Gespräch zu kommen und das Eis zu brechen, sie stehen nicht auf smalltalk, was anders ist in Frankreich (insbesondere in Südfrankreich).
Ich denke auch das die deutschen multikultureller sind, ich hatte das gefühl das die franzosen mittlerweile viel nationaler (ohne das negativ zu betonen) sind, also die gemeinsamkeiten im vordergrund sind, bei uns versucht man mehr die differenzen zu definieren um niemanden da "auf dem schlips zu treten"
Also naja, Paris, da hab'ich schon Sachen gesehen die viel dreckiger waren als in Frankfurt! Um die Platanen rum, Kippen und Hundekacke, yikk, ich hab da sogar ein Foto von gemacht. Ansonsten finde ich es verdammt doof, dass die Franzosen , was die Regierung anbetrifft, sich aufführen wie ein Königshaus. Der Prunk im Elyseepalast und in Matignon sind schon echt krass, wenn man bedenkt, wie die Merkel so wohnt! Was die französische Organisation abnbetrifft, also da, das ist ein Volk von Individualisten reinsten Wassers.Ich war schon ein paar Mal in französische kulturellen Kommites und was mich jedesmal total genervt hat, war wie unorganisiert die Leute waren. Erstmal fingen die ganzen Meetings erst um neun Uhr abends an und dann gab's erstmal zwei Stunden Smalltalk bevor es zur Sache ging und dann, anstatt richtig zusammen zu arbeiten , wollte jeder sein eigenes Süppchen kochen. Teamwork ist definitiv nicht die Stärke der Franzosen. BEISPIEL: Es geht um die Verbesserungen der Französich-Spanischen Verkehrsverbindungen zwischen Zarragossa und Toulouse. Die Spanier haben ruck- zuck ohne Ende Infrastrumkturen bis zum Tunnel durch die Pyrenäen aufgebaut, Straßen ausgebaut und waren in zwei Jahren mit ihrer Seite fertig und bei den Franzosen steckt das heute noch in der Planung fest. Oder, als wir unsere Telefonlinie zu unserem Haus gelegt bekamen, da hab'ich mich echt ohne Ende kaputtgelacht. Das Team war zu fünft auf den Plan getreten, ein Pfosten prop Tag, mehr ging nicht und jedesmal wenn wir an dem Team vorbei fuhren, machten sir gerade Picknick Pause. Und wenn mal nicht, dann arbeitete einer und die anderen standen rum und kommentierten. Find ich nicht schlimm, eher cool, nicht so stressing wie bei den Deutschen, wo alles immer so zackig abgehen muss. Aber noch was, wenn ihr glaubt, der Amtsschimmel wiehert nur in Deutschland so laut, dann wünsche ich Euch allen viel Spaß mit der französische Adnministration, da werdet ihr wie ein Manegengaul immer schön in der Runde rum geschickt. Zuständig ist immer jemand anderes..... zum Haare ausreißen. Aber sonst finde ich Frankreich supertoll, liebe es und würde niemals woanders leben wollen!!! Allein das Essen hier ist so viel besser und nicht so teuer und die Märkte in den kleinen Städten sind das echte Schlaraffenland, allein die ganzen lokalen Käsesorten, und das tolle Gemüse, was hier lokal angeboten wird. Wir haben in unserer Lokalmetroplole ( lächerliche 7653 Einwohner) einen Wochenmarkt, da kommt kaum ein deutscher Markt mit, ich habe mal die Imbissstände gezählt, volle dreiundzwanzig Stände, von Pizza bis veganen Sushi, Thai, Chinesisch, Vietnamesisch, Spanisch, Marokanisch, Indisch, drei Stände mit Rotisserien, bei denen man Hähnchen aus Bodenhaltung, Schweinshaxen, Enten, Wachteln und Kaninchen vom Spieß bekommt, usw, usw.....und etliche Kleinbauern und Biostände mit richtig guten, frischen Produkten, die nicht dreimal um die Erde gekarrt wurden. Gemüse, und Biofleisch zu kompetitiven Preisen. Ja, ich Liebe Frankreich und manchmal geht es mir auch auf den Keks, vor allem die Zunahme von diskretem Rechtsextremistmus á la Lepen und der oligarchichen Haltung von König Macron, der zunehmenden Polizeigewalt und dem Abbau von sozialen Errungenschaften, die auf Kosten der ärmeren Bevölkerung geht und die Schere wird auch hier immer größer, was zu den völlig völlig berechtigten Demonstrationen der Gelbwesten geführt hat, aber das ist wohl ein europaweites Problem.
@@太守苏定交趾 Are you crazy to speak about winning ? You're stupid to say that, I don't care who win, we don't need this hate relationship anymore with the Germany, i'm french and i love their language, and their country, Love German ❤
As a French I like Germany. People should communicate more with each other. Individuals are the same in all countries. Unfortunately, most of the time it is the medias that have a harmful influence on people, distorting reality and spreading often false stereotypes.
What I (a French) like the most about Germany : - their ability to be serious when it is required - their Castles - their cars and rigor engineering overalls We might have fought many times by the past (and not only world wars), but it has reinforced our respect for you. Vive la France 🇨🇵🤝🏻🇩🇪 Es lebe Deutschland
I think we french can be extremely serious when it is required. You can't do ariane company or Airbus factory and ex- eurocopter or Dassault, or nuke sub or 52 nuke powerplants without any incident during half a century or TGV without one single passenger lost in regular service and so on. The problem is our curious mindset, especially above the middleclass, depending on how we think what we do will harm people or not. Under the line of pure safety or quality of production, we think we don't have to be rigorous, that sort of things are not "really" important, that our boss can't force us to be as expected, by them, to be, and so on. The same TGV has and will never have accident, and even so, probably will never kill someone. But it will never be on time too, cause from the SNCF workers's point of view , this part of the job is not serious. Believe it's not concerning all the french, yellow Jacket épisode showed us how the country is cut in half. Probably climate of defense instilled by the Communist Party after the Second World War in the ranks of the workers and encouraging the already positive image of the rebel and revolutionary work in France. But most of us are pissed off by these guys and the image they are giving of all of us.
I lived in France for 5 years and now in Germany, and it’s fun to watch these two videos and say “true true true!!!” as I experience the two cultures first hand as a foreigner. 😆😆
On peut déjà noter la différence entre les deux rien qu’en regardant les deux vidéos. On remarque que les allemands ont pris la question beaucoup plus sérieusement, leurs réponses sont très réfléchies et moins clichées.
During my first visit to France (I was living in Germany for one year and I am American), the first thing a French man told me is: in German there are two verbs: leben and wohnen. Die Deutsche wohnen in Deutschland, aber die Franzosen leben in Frankreich.
That's because citizenship is earned by living and paying taxes in France, or being born or by blood. Whereas in Germany it's inherited by blood. That's why french people are a political people bound by a social will to be part of the community, whereas german people are an ethnic people.
Jérémie Marion so your french obviously haha so hello neighbor😂 the thing is it’s hard for Germans to be proud about there country (I was born in Iraq but raised in Germany) i don’t if I can conceder my self as a german...I think i should because I was raised here but I don’t wanna make anybody feel uncomfortable. So I Love France and in Germany you can decide what language you wanna learn besides English. I choosed French haha it’s pretty hard tho. I‘m 14 so if your around my age I’d love to chat with you via Snapchat. Bisou (hope I spell it Right)😂😂
@@nooneaskedbutimstillhere439 Hi! I might be way too old for this, i don't even have snapchat ^^. Well on the topic at hand it's just part of German history this is the great divide between the Roman empire where you belong and are citizen if you're part of the city whereas for Germans and all eastern countries they got more tribe based origins and you have citizenship if you have blood and speak the language. I doubt Germans would be offended most of them at least, but it's not part of their traditions. This is why Germans don't doubt they're Germans whereas French people have some identity crisis cause being bound by ideals is cool but it's rather vague ^^. You spelled it right ! Good luck on learning.
Ich mag den neuen Deutsch-Französischen Austausch. Das ist wirklich interessant und man hat außerdem auch Spaß beim Erlernen der beiden Sprachen. Ich hoffe, ihr werdet noch andere Videos dieser Art drehen. Danke Easy German und Easy French😘
I am from Paris, and I love Germany! So many sweet people, always on time and serious in their relationships, very important qualities in friendship (that might be a cliché but from my own experience I find it very accurate)! And I love your literature and music: so deep, so dramatic and so beautiful! And not to mention the Christmas markets, and Christmas trees, the best in the entire world! Ich liebe die Deutschen! 🥨❤️🍻
I'm french and french love Germain for the social system, the education, the respect. For example in my College we have two choise for the first foreign language : English or dutch!
it's quite incredible to see how French and Germans like each others now... this is an impressive video, we can feel the intelligence and cultural knowledge of the german people.
I love germany ( j’aime l’allemagne / Ich liebe Deutschland / Ich liebe Europa ) Ich liebe dich Deutsche ! Europe is what we are ! If we are all together we gonna run the world ! Love Germany, love France and love The European Union ! My patri is Europe 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
Of course, we are all people and all of that stuff, but it's... it's just makes video a little bland and boring. Because there are always this small interesting habits, traditions (methods sometimes, if you will). That's what makes voyage and interaction with other people truly fascinating.
Thanks - I learned two new words. I didn't know "überheblichkeit" (it's easier as an American to just say "Arroganz"), and I certainly had never heard "Obrigkeitsgläubigkeit"!. Having said that, you may have poorly translated when the guy was talking about Napoleon bringing the "Einingungsprozess" to Germany. He was referring to the fact that Napoleon created larger consolidated regions which was a first step in forming modern German borders (and later allowed Bismark to further consolidate). But the translation says "Settlement process" instead of "Unification process".
C'est hyper intéressant d'entendre ça. Moi j'suis allemande mais j'aimerais savoir si la langue allemande a réellement une mélodie moche et dure comme presque tout le monde le dit🙈
I’ve never been interested in Germany before, and I’m slowly starting to learn new things about one of our neighbor country (Yeah I’m a proud and mean and arrogant French lol). Guys, just want things to be clear for y’all, in the opposite video (French talking about Germans) a lot of French talked about Germans’ strictness and strict organization, that they were a bit less talkative or stuff like that. Coming from a French I don’t think it is a criticism, it’s just a remark. Germans here too said that French were less strict... it’s maybe just a cultural thing ! French are always ALWAYS very negative, trust me, when we « criticize » Germany for example, we criticize 10 times MORE our own country. We are never satisfied and we LOVE to complain. That’s once again, a cultural thing ! We like you guys, no worries ! Baguette x bretzel for the win !
By that habit to complain about everthing you clearely see that french and germans orginate of the same kind, as complaining about everything is still the No1 leisure activity on both sides ;D
Ich glaube, dass Französisch immer leichter als Polnisch bleibt😂. Ich bin Franzose und habe versucht, Polnisch zu lernen. Leider werde ich nie verstehen ihren Vokativ, Lokativ usw. Ich wünsche dir viel Glück towarzych!
@@axllbill1123 Naja, Polnisch ist extrem stark, aber ich fühle das natürlich gar nicht als Muttersprachler :) Französisch scheint ein bisschen schwieriger als Englisch und Deutsch zu sein. Das ist jedenfalls mein erster Eindruck. Ich sehe schon, dass ich groooße Schwierigkeiten mit Aussprache haben wird. Ich bin aber willig für diese Herausforderung.
What we can see in the comments is that some germans take things more seriously. the French video was lighter and the recurring thing was that germans are more rigorous and respectful (that is not a bad cliché in my opinion). Whereas a few germans thought the French were arrogant. must be cause I am French and could tell in the way they spoke that it was more casual... Anyway it goes to show that people in general make their mind up easily about a whole population based on limited experience, I guess it is human nature, or maybe human culture.. I was actually pleasantly surprised by both videos as they were mostly positive :)
I have just looked at both the German and French versions of this question. I could already see the difference in the way they answered the question. The French answered this question with a bit of fun and humor, whereas the Germans took it very seriously and seemed a bit awkward. In my experience, Germans like to have serious, in-depth conversations which I like.
I'm french and my boyfriend is German, no matter the distance we still find ways to see each others and we've been together for a year and 9 months for now ^^
It's kind of funny cuz I'm French and last summer I decided to make a tour of Belgium, the Netherlands and going through Germany by bicycle. In Belgium and the Netherlands everyone spoke English perfectly. But when I arrived in Aachen, no one could answer me anymore, even youngsters. But somehow it was even better, it's kind of boring when you understand everything when you are in a foreign country ahah. Anyway people were really nice !
@@CD-uu8pb Ah bah oui parce que tous les français sont des abrutis donc ils ne peuvent pas parler anglais ? My girlfriend is Russian and was actually surprised to see that most of the french youngsters spoke English. Personally, my friends and cousins speak English, my parents and grandparents don't. I'm pretty sure the situation is similar in Germany?
@@victorfranfrankrike6126 Fais pas genre, la tres grosse majorité des Francais ne parle pas Anglais (cela inclus les jeunes). En France on est pratiquement les plus nuls en Anglais des pays Européens (seul l'talie est pire que nous). Y'a rien de vexant dedans, c'st juste que la plupart des Francais ne vois aucun intérêt à apprendre l'Anglais vu qu'ils ont google traduction. L'Anglais était une des matière ou j'étais la meilleur (je suis bien meilleur en Anglais qu'en maths) et tous me monde me disaient tous le temps que ca servait a rien. Les Francais jeunes et vieux sont nuls en Anglais c'est un fait, y'a pas de quoi être énervé.
@@natsukimomoi334 En 2012, plus de personnes parlaient anglais en France que le nombre total de locuteurs Australiens. On entend sans arrêt que les français ne parlent pas anglais, mais de ma propre expérience ce n'est pas du tout le cas. Après l'accent c'est une autre histoire...
Alsace is maybe the best exemple of the absence of real differences between different people and in particular french and germans, and it reminds us that conflicts come more often from the leaders than the people
Bon and gut. They did a good job of naming several differences while maintaining lots of respect for each other. I predict that Germany and France will not have a war with each other for quire some time.
Similar cultures? Really? German peoples are so distant and cold, so serious. Dor what? They don’t know to live, they only exist. Peoples in France are so fill of joy, of life. I can’t understand The mentality of germans.
@dianasofi6565 yeah, for you maybe, it isn't my experience from Germany.. maybe because I am talking about Bavaria. I am french and live in England and I can tell you I feel much better in Germany
@@benjaminblabla Yes, the german peoples from Bavaria are much warmer, much more humane than those in the rest of the country. I forgot to specify that. Ihave the impression that they are not Germans. They made a good impression on me.
As a French, I know that we share a lot of things with our German neighbors on which we must focus and strengthen for a better future. and for those who think that the French are arrogant do not base your judgment on your experience in Paris. France cannot be reduced to the eccentricities of the city of lights.
I'm French an I loved Berlin, my brother is occurently living in Berlin. Every time German friends come to Paris, we showed them good music, good parties, good food. Finally French people from the countryside that don't know Germans will stay focused on clichés and WWII whereas urban French people more open to the world and "globalized" will be most of the time more open minded. Everytime I have met Germans they have always been really kind, fun and respectful. French can be proud, teasing, flirting. But finally we still had a lot of fun talking about clichés and spent good time together. Finally our differences are basically differences between latin cultures (Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, etc) and germanic cultures (Deutsch, German, Austrian, etc) But finally with just a bit of open mind, communication, respect we will always be able to find good and interesting sides in every culture. Chears to German friends !
Vivre à la campagne ne signifie pas être ignorant, nous ne vivons pas dans des bourgades au bout d'une route de terre éclairer à la lampe à huile, tu as des sacrés préjugés dit moi !
You are absolutely right! When I travel in Germany there are big differences between the lander, there's not much in common between Saarland and Saxony or Bavaria with Schleswig Holstein. In France the differences do exist but aren't so strong I think, at least everyone speaks the same french.
@@Brumairevideo Big differences in France too. In France we have Basque people in the south west. Not far from the Catalans in the Perpignan region. In the north west there is Brittany, on the opposite in the east you have Alsace-Lorraine which looks like Germany. We also have Corsican, Marseilles, mountainous regions like the Alps (close to Switzerland / Italy). The nord pas de calais with Lille who look alike Belgium/netherland city.And I don't even speak of overseas regions like Guadeloupe, Guyana, or the new region calledonnie. All these regions are very different from each other, nothing to do with cities like Paris, or Bordeaux for example. Each region has a strong identity. The French language has been made compulsory to unify all these different territories. The regional languages are almost all dead.
Eins finde ich bisschen ungerecht: in Afrika gibt es mehr Französisch sprechende Länder (21 von 54 Ländern) als auf der ganzen Welt aber keiner spricht davon. Man redet immer nur von Frankreich oder Kanada. Ich persönlich bin leider mit Französisch aufgewachsen als Muttersprache, obwohl meine Eltern eine Muttersprache haben.
This evening I looked at photos of small German cities I had never seen before like Ansbach, Kaufbeuren, Memmingen, Landshut (all in Bavaria here) and I realized how beautiful they are.! Over the years I had visited many German towns and villages more or less famous such as Freiburg, Aachen, Heidelberg, Tuebingen, Rothenburg, Saarbruecken, Karlsruhe, Konstanz, Ulm, Worms, Speyer, Bochum, Duesseldorf, Koeln, Frankfurt, Hannover, Hamburg, Muenchen, Stuttgart, Nuernberg, Bayreuth , Garmisch, Passau, and more like Husum and Kiel... Berlin was when I was 22 doing my Military service near Tegel Airport in the "Quartier Napoleon"! I really think, I can say this country is a second home for me. Many people I know there. All my fellow French who went to Germany also enjoyed much their stay! I remember driving with a friend from Cambrai in Northern France in an old Renault 4 without windscreen because a lorry had projected gravel on it and arriving in Aachen after midnight and 250 km in full wind.!
I feel like all the prejudices the french hold against the germans were proven true. Especially the first one asked in this video shows how serious we are... 😢
(I am French). I can reassure you: your seriousness is actually seen as something more positive than negative. It makes you a realiable and trustworthy country on many aspects. A lot of French admire the strong German economy and your reliable engineering (that are in fact positive consequences of your rigor and seriousness). For example, if you tell a French from any object "this is made in Germany", the French would definitely think "then this must be outstanding quality". This maybe sounds a bit cliché, but thats true. So, be proud of your seriousness!!
I went to the Mosel region in Germany and I found very different people. People who don't take things seriously and serious people. The thing beeing that French and Germans have different way to show their seriousness !!
@@antoinemozart243 the ppl in the Mosel region are quite different…a special kind of Germans live there. They have some french influence there due to history.
I think most of the misunderstanding between Germans and French come from the fact that French people are a political people built on citizenship like a social contract towards a set of ideals if you pay taxes live and speak the language you can be a citizen, or being born or inhireted by blood. Whereas Germans are an ethnic people citizenship is inherited by blood. So when the Germans like order stability and continuity, French people tend to set the bar as high as an ideal which makes them more prone to be depressed or to protest social orders and fight harshly for political reasons. The guy at 7:20 gets it.
what i like about france: - the history: french revolution and napoleon era. very intersting. - the sound of the language - baguettes - Art and Architecture what i dislike about france: - dont ask them about art, they won't stop talking xD - the language is too hard to learn - u cant play video games with them. its always chaos.
For the working hours, the legal working hours in France are 35 hours a week, but the most people do work more than the legal time. There are conventions in companies or in the public service telling you how many hours you make a week and what benefits you can get/expect from working more than the legal 35 hours. This does not include all those that work in companies that give them more work than is doable in the weekly hours and so force them to bring work back home so they can keep up with their schedule without getting paid for the overtime. The statistics about effective working time in France are not really true... I don't know about the real working time in Germany though.
Very positive perceptions, as a french living in germany that really warms up😊 You guys also have cool culture and mentality, the appreciation is mutual, salut!
If France and Germany can be allies, everyone can. We had like 4 big wars in the last 200 years alone, killed each other many times and now - only 75 years after the last one - we are one of the closest allies and stick together on many important geopolitical topics, have open borders, no tarrifs and many exchange programms. So everyone with a notorious hate towards one of his neigbour countries, come take a look and think twice.
France is my favourite country to spend my holidays! You can get great food and wine everywhere, it's a beautiful country, and if you speak a little bit of French (mon francais est vraiment mal...) and avoid the worst tourist spots, people are very nice, funny and original. Liebe Grüße aus Mannheim
In 1979 I was in the North in Husum near Denmark. On a saturday night the Nice secrétary of the school I was in with Kids Led me to a Kneipe Where we met one of her friends. At first sight he seemed rather indifferent but as soon as he realized I could speak German, he was very positive !
I'm Brazillian and I have lived in France for 1 year, and visited Germany for a couple of weeks. From this video and my (fairly limited) experience, it seems that german people tend to be more positive and interested towards different cultures, while french people seem indifferent. I found that the two countries are waaaaay more different than I would expect, and I loved both. Both France and Germany made me feel very welcome, whereas in the US, for example, I felt like I was in the wrong place everytime. If I had to move outside Brazil, I'd definitely make an effort to move either to Deutschland or France =] Greetings from BR!
Hey ! Great video, It's interesting to know how french are seen somewhere else, especialy when they are judged by our neighbours ! I personaly have some German friends, and I often taunt them about that (beer is flowing in their veins, german isn't a beautiful tongue and many other stuff), but I think it can be considered as a game. As a french, don't know why, I HAVE TO be proud of my culture and tell them mine is better, even though I don't think so ... :) But I have to admit I'm very jealous about 3 things in your country : 1. Beer. We have some great brewery to be proud of, but definetely not as much as you have. 2. Open mindness. Even though you are more respectful about laws in general, I really think germans in general are more open minded about other culture, or just other people. That's why I like spending times with germans. 3. World cup trophies. We only have 2 of them, it's not enough !
I was now reading an autobiography of Manfred von Richthohen. "The French are passionate but cunning and lacking in patience.The British are brave and rushing, that's it.We Germans are best suited for battle." I can't help but agree with you, Baron.
All Germans with a French name ( Matthieu carrière, De maizieres, Galland, Marseille, even Klaus Barbie ( not the doll but the killer) come from Huguenot. I heard the king of Prussia was happy to welcome them after the putrid Louis XIV rejected them.
I lived in Germany 4 year and im from france so what i noticed between frankreich und Deutschland that Germany is beautiful country and people there are nice 🇩🇪🇩🇪
I'm a Brazilian (portuguese native speaker), French teacher, watching a German video with subtitles in English... LOL I'm searching for some ideas that I could use in my French classes!
I agree with the brown jacket guy and i'm french, people go in the street for nothing. We are too individualistic people just care about their consumer lives they don't care about the common well being or the country they just want to work less and be richer
They want to get their head out of the water. That may be individualistic, but it's not illegitimate. They're not on the street for nothing. Furthermore, the strikes reach far beyond those individualistic claims, with a growing thirst for real democracy.
C'est un peu la faute de l'éducation française qui est TROP TROP élitiste et individualiste. Dans les autres pays le travail de groupe et autres sont privilégié.
ouais... ou alors c'est juste qu'on a un peu plus conscience qu'on se fait entuber par le capital , le mondialisme , le modèle économico-américain qui relève de la folie , du toujours plus, qui veut tout marchandiser et qu'on a pas envie de se faire sucrer nos privilèges sociaux que les anciens ont gagné au prix de luttes parfois violentes contre une bourgeoisie pleine aux as qui traitait les gens comme du bétail , ( ce qui est toujours le cas si tu as une certaine conscience politique et historique ) je trouve ça plutôt naturel sain et révélateur d'une force de conscience de ne pas accepter cette forme d'esclavagisme .
Je suis Française et j'adore le Peuple Allemand ! Ils sont très.. très sympathiques. Je trouve que les 2 cultures se marient bien ! I love France and Germany! Die deutsche Sprache ist sehr schön! I love to speak German! Autrefois on avait les guerres, aujourd'hui on a le Covid19. Vous voyez bien que derrière tout ça... il y a des intérêts 😱 !
I met some German students on exchange and honestly i found them intimidating. They were so serious about every topic we discussed. But I do find them much more sincere than the French. French people just brush off conversations.
In 1991 i was 12 in summer holidays in east germany, some of my best childhood memories, very cool people and i remember everybody wore Nirvana t-shirt at this time (YEAH), love from an arrogant French from Dunkirk to our Germans friends
Phew, that was all relaxed. I must see 'Easy English' asking English people ( esp. outside London & the cities) the same question about the French & Germans, well anyone but the Irish , Welsh, Ozzies, Kiwis.. ( spot the link..).
My God, the first woman. Just say what you think are the differences, not everybody gets offended by everything. Unnecessary political correctness drives me crazy. She must be fun at parties.
1:00 Oh, come on woman... you're boring ... You could have said literally anything, like french love bread and cheese. It's the most true fact I have ever heard. Haha Spending more time at work is not a small thing. Nore it is working till you are 67. I was surprised hearing that some people see it like it was nothing.
35 hours week is not for everybody in France, I personally never worked 35 hours but a minimum of 39. 4 extra hours are written in the contract and it's like this for millions of people. I very often worked up to 45 hours per week until 2020. Don't confuse the law and how it is applied, it's two different things in France.
in fact i don’t know why french people claim to be latin when they are clearly closer to the germanic culture and the french language is a mix of vulgar latin and germanic language
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The most German thing was when the first female being interviewed replied with “In regards to what?” German precision 😂
So true 😂
Yes, lovely.
I was thinking the exact same thing. But I love that they consider nuances of humans.
She simply did not want to go down stereotype road, which is not such a bad thing imo.
After watching the Easy French episode, I burst out laughing when she said "in regards to what?"
So true!
I'm French, I was in love with a German many years. It has been the greatest experience of my life. Thanks Germany, thanks friendship, thanks love, thanks schnitzel.
Geo, what happened with your German love?
So beautiful. It is only a dream for me to feel so in love.
@@saritaberger6641 the absence of projects
same same same just with switzerland/France
Austrians seething
Who else come from easy french to see the continuation of this loving story lol
Welcome welcome 👋
I come from France
Me
lmao me
me haha
If France and Germany can be friends, so any other two country in the world can be. They have so many conflicts and differences in their history and culture.
If French and the British*
Well, we can speak more about rivalry, but the three aren’t so different.
Elites/Nobles in England comes from France and therefore English has so many french/latin words and therefore is sometimes considered as a “creole” language.
French is the most german latin language and German invasions influenced the evolution of French and its pronunciation.
Finally, a lot french huguenots fled into Germany.
We can see with these small exemples, that the three countries are quite connected.
Baba Bugmann Nobody considers English a “creole” language; it’s taken thousands of years for it to evolve, not a few decades. English is considered to be West Germanic. Over 60% of English words have Germanic roots while (in descending order) old Nordic languages, Norman French, French, Italian and Spanish contribute about 80% of the remainder. The rest - but not all - are mainly from India, the Far East and Africa.
Ivor Morgan Nobody apart some linguists, but I completely understand, that it creates a controversy. It’s literally called “creole hypothesis”.
Finally, your percentage of german words is false. I just checked after you asserted “60%” and it seems, that the consensus is around “26%”.
Ps: it is sometimes hard to distinguish if a loan word comes from French or Latin, but the first one gave around 29% and same for the second one.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_language_influences_in_English
Baba Bugmann No serious linguists consider English to be a Creole language either. Apart from a brief period after the Norman Conquest during which the literate class rapidly absorbed some Norman words and phrases, many of which are now obsolete, English has largely evolved by gradual absorption. Also, you should do more than rush to grab a supporting figure from Wikipedia before you post. The article I think you are quoting does not correctly categorise language roots. If you read the talk page (as you always should on Wikipedia) you will see it is a point that is raised. If you take the time to search google scholar instead, you’ll find many journals and monologues that point to a far higher percentage of word with Germanic roots.
The Germans seemed to admire the French in some ways whereas the French were generally dismissive of the Germans seriousness and food. How French of them.
Wolf Chen German seriousness is not a criticize
Wolf Chen
well that's a way to see that. you can also see quite a bit of despise from the Germans towards the French. but if the germans really look at it critically, they ll see that France is actually their best ally in history. and reciprocally.
We aren't exposed to German culture at all that's it but most have a very positive opinion of Germany. I love the country personally.
The French video was full of regurgitated stereotypes whereas the German responses were actually thoughtful.
@@lc1715 Again we aren't exposed to German culture at all but for those who are, mostly from the East of France (And Paris) love them
it's pretty sad how germans have so many nice things to say about France whereas french say a lot of negative stereotypes on Germany
Maybe one of the reason, it's because France is a place where germans make holidays, they spend nice time there.
And in the 20th century Germany made war to France twice... even if it's a long time ago, it does not help to say nice things about their neigbourgh ;)
If you do the same kind of itw about France and Spain, french will be very positive about Spain, and a lot of spanish will find the french arrogant.
@@piejac9600 I think very few people (maybe some elders here and there) resent Germany on the subject of war. My grandmother knew WW2, she saw German soldiers pass the streets of her village, and yet she speaks of them without any dislike. So you can imagine younger generations hold no grudge either, at all.
@@Nekoala I mean it's clearly not the main reason, but for example there are still a lot of recent films about the 2ww showing nasty german nazi, I think it does have an impact some people minds. I am not criticising this kind of film, just try to find the reason of this "unbalance" relationship between both group of people.
@Belén Trujillo Soy francés y no comportó de está manera cuando estoy en el extranjero ;)
It was interesting to see how the Germans were very hesitant to make any claims that would be considered clichés or generalizations about the French, and multiple times said it only applied to some of them, whereas the French seemed to make those generalized statements without worry in the other video.
la classe à la française
Even both sides’ points of focus are different. The French interviewees focused more on sex and romance. Germans focused more on politics. The French talked more on impressions and intuitions. The German focused more on details and on the social structure that shaped the culture.
unfortunately, yes, you're right. Knowing well both of the countries, i think we aren't that different, and that there is a trope : these two videos have not been made by the same people, so let's not forget that it wasn't the same interviewer, and therefore differents questions were asked. For example, the german interviewer clearly said to the fisrt lady "please don't bring up clichées" : What if he told that to every other participants off-mic ? We french also enjoy a lot talking about politics, but you will notice that in the french video, the interviewer asked for personal experiences, therefore people are more likely talking about their school exchanges with germany or intimate relations...
Yes but in the same time, naked saunas exist in Germany, not in a so-called liberal country like France
I think France openness to sex is just a façade
They are catolic and Catholics are a bit more conservative than protestants like Germans and other Nordic countries
very keen
of course french are superficial and everything on the feeling... its like the cliché of Hollywood movie...
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German is at least half catholic! The majority is catholic! Especially in southern Germany, the majority is so catholic and I think much more as in France they are close-minded.
Interesting that they mentionned the way we are auto-sufficient in France in terms of culture and food and a lot of other things. As a French I never saw it that way but they are very right ! France is like a world on its own compared to a lot of other countries that receive much more foreign influences. Thank you for this lovely video !
Thats because if someone is french they can find almost everything not to exotic while remaining somewhat in France if want a more Germanic culture you can head in the north and east if you want a more italian one to the south east and more hiberic one youd go southwest and if you want a more celtic british one youd go to britain. If you prefer holidays to the sea we have that and if you prefer holidays to the mountain we have that as well. You can even go to the carribean and stay in France.
So for most people they can find what they prefer without having to leave the country and learn other language or whatever. Only the really more open people with more specific travelling desires will take the trouble of adventuring out of France and learn languages etc. We have almost everything people would want so there isnt much reason to go elswhere
I think the US has a lot more influence in Germany compared to France, and France was the world power culturally with language, cinema, fashion, war, colonialism, etc. Germany wanted to reach that level, but it never did, and a lot of the people that could’ve contributed to this fled. France never lost that colonialist mentality like the US. A lot of people find France to be a culture hub next to Anglo-American and Japanese culture.
@@kristopheralemanFrance also has huge influence of american culture maybe not as much as Germany or Spain but still it is visible
i'm french and i think the franco-german friendship is the greatest thing ever. I think french children should learn the german language, and german children should learn the french language. It is so weird to speak english between us ^^
Beaucoup des allemandes apprennent le Français à l'école, mais la plupart ne sont pas très bien à le parler (moi y compris) x) Mais on aime la France et les Français
Lingua franca is nothing but pragmatism.
Fr speaking english with Europeans is weird😂
Ich bin Franzose und hab' 4 Jahre in Deutschland, Frankfurt am Main, gelebt.
Ich hatte keinen Kulturschock wirklich. Wir haben ja ziemlich viele Ähnlichkeiten oder die Unterschiede sind nicht so krass.
Als erstes finde ich die deutschen nicht besonders pünktlicher, ordentlicher oder sauberer (Frankfurt ist dreckiger als Paris ohne Witz), dennoch nehmen sie viel mehr Rücksicht auf die Fahrräder und Fussgänger. Deutschland ist definitiv multikultureller als Frankreich, von daher scheinen die meisten damit mehr umgehen zu können (Sprachbarriere, toleranter, usw.).
Die Deutschen sind direkter und pragmatischer. Sie meckern genauso viel wie die Franzosen aber in der privaten Sphäre, nicht öffentlich. Aber klar sie haben nicht diese Protest- und Demonstrationskultur.
Allgemein ist die Erziehung in Deutschland lockerer und die Kinder wertgeschätzt. Die Beziehungen sind generell weniger angespannt (schwieriger Hintergrund in Frankreich mit gelbwesten und sozialrechten).
Als zurückhaltender Mensch fiel es mir ziemlich schwer, mit den deutschen ins Gespräch zu kommen und das Eis zu brechen, sie stehen nicht auf smalltalk, was anders ist in Frankreich (insbesondere in Südfrankreich).
Ihr Deutsch ist hervorragend.
T'as résumé tout mon cours d'enseignement interculturel dans ton témoignage
Ich denke auch das die deutschen multikultureller sind, ich hatte das gefühl das die franzosen mittlerweile viel nationaler (ohne das negativ zu betonen) sind, also die gemeinsamkeiten im vordergrund sind, bei uns versucht man mehr die differenzen zu definieren um niemanden da "auf dem schlips zu treten"
Frankfurt ist nochmal ein ganz anderes Pflaster :D
Also naja, Paris, da hab'ich schon Sachen gesehen die viel dreckiger waren als in Frankfurt! Um die Platanen rum, Kippen und Hundekacke, yikk, ich hab da sogar ein Foto von gemacht. Ansonsten finde ich es verdammt doof, dass die Franzosen , was die Regierung anbetrifft, sich aufführen wie ein Königshaus. Der Prunk im Elyseepalast und in Matignon sind schon echt krass, wenn man bedenkt, wie die Merkel so wohnt!
Was die französische Organisation abnbetrifft, also da, das ist ein Volk von Individualisten reinsten Wassers.Ich war schon ein paar Mal in französische kulturellen Kommites und was mich jedesmal total genervt hat, war wie unorganisiert die Leute waren. Erstmal fingen die ganzen Meetings erst um neun Uhr abends an und dann gab's erstmal zwei Stunden Smalltalk bevor es zur Sache ging und dann, anstatt richtig zusammen zu arbeiten , wollte jeder sein eigenes Süppchen kochen. Teamwork ist definitiv nicht die Stärke der Franzosen. BEISPIEL: Es geht um die Verbesserungen der Französich-Spanischen Verkehrsverbindungen zwischen Zarragossa und Toulouse. Die Spanier haben ruck- zuck ohne Ende Infrastrumkturen bis zum Tunnel durch die Pyrenäen aufgebaut, Straßen ausgebaut und waren in zwei Jahren mit ihrer Seite fertig und bei den Franzosen steckt das heute noch in der Planung fest. Oder, als wir unsere Telefonlinie zu unserem Haus gelegt bekamen, da hab'ich mich echt ohne Ende kaputtgelacht. Das Team war zu fünft auf den Plan getreten, ein Pfosten prop Tag, mehr ging nicht und jedesmal wenn wir an dem Team vorbei fuhren, machten sir gerade Picknick Pause. Und wenn mal nicht, dann arbeitete einer und die anderen standen rum und kommentierten. Find ich nicht schlimm, eher cool, nicht so stressing wie bei den Deutschen, wo alles immer so zackig abgehen muss.
Aber noch was, wenn ihr glaubt, der Amtsschimmel wiehert nur in Deutschland so laut, dann wünsche ich Euch allen viel Spaß mit der französische Adnministration, da werdet ihr wie ein Manegengaul immer schön in der Runde rum geschickt. Zuständig ist immer jemand anderes..... zum Haare ausreißen.
Aber sonst finde ich Frankreich supertoll, liebe es und würde niemals woanders leben wollen!!!
Allein das Essen hier ist so viel besser und nicht so teuer und die Märkte in den kleinen Städten sind das echte Schlaraffenland, allein die ganzen lokalen Käsesorten, und das tolle Gemüse, was hier lokal angeboten wird. Wir haben in unserer Lokalmetroplole ( lächerliche 7653 Einwohner) einen Wochenmarkt, da kommt kaum ein deutscher Markt mit, ich habe mal die Imbissstände gezählt, volle dreiundzwanzig Stände, von Pizza bis veganen Sushi, Thai, Chinesisch, Vietnamesisch, Spanisch, Marokanisch, Indisch, drei Stände mit Rotisserien, bei denen man Hähnchen aus Bodenhaltung, Schweinshaxen, Enten, Wachteln und Kaninchen vom Spieß bekommt, usw, usw.....und etliche Kleinbauern und Biostände mit richtig guten, frischen Produkten, die nicht dreimal um die Erde gekarrt wurden. Gemüse, und Biofleisch zu kompetitiven Preisen. Ja, ich Liebe Frankreich und manchmal geht es mir auch auf den Keks, vor allem die Zunahme von diskretem Rechtsextremistmus á la Lepen und der oligarchichen Haltung von König Macron, der zunehmenden Polizeigewalt und dem Abbau von sozialen Errungenschaften, die auf Kosten der ärmeren Bevölkerung geht und die Schere wird auch hier immer größer, was zu den völlig völlig berechtigten Demonstrationen der Gelbwesten geführt hat, aber das ist wohl ein europaweites Problem.
Germany and France
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French=losers Germans=victors if their heavy army groups wasn’t smashed into pieces by Soviet Union
@@太守苏定交趾 Are you crazy to speak about winning ? You're stupid to say that, I don't care who win, we don't need this hate relationship anymore with the Germany, i'm french and i love their language, and their country, Love German ❤
@@太守苏定交趾 French kill soviets and are the most courageous.
Its not a Hate-love.
An American living in Lyon for 8 years with a German mother from Altenberge. Absolutely loved this. Thank you!
As a French I like Germany. People should communicate more with each other. Individuals are the same in all countries. Unfortunately, most of the time it is the medias that have a harmful influence on people, distorting reality and spreading often false stereotypes.
Thanks, exactly what I'm feeling.
What I (a French) like the most about Germany :
- their ability to be serious when it is required
- their Castles
- their cars and rigor engineering overalls
We might have fought many times by the past (and not only world wars), but it has reinforced our respect for you.
Vive la France 🇨🇵🤝🏻🇩🇪 Es lebe Deutschland
Vive la France🇫🇷! Greetings from Germany🇩🇪
And Oktober/Fruhlingfest !!! So good! PROST German freunden!!!
Hugo... les chateaux françaises sont super super beaux aussi❤️❤️❤️
@@lapernice6978 Oui, y a pas mal de Français ici (château de Neuschwanstein) ...
I think we french can be extremely serious when it is required. You can't do ariane company or Airbus factory and ex- eurocopter or Dassault, or nuke sub or 52 nuke powerplants without any incident during half a century or TGV without one single passenger lost in regular service and so on.
The problem is our curious mindset, especially above the middleclass, depending on how we think what we do will harm people or not.
Under the line of pure safety or quality of production, we think we don't have to be rigorous, that sort of things are not "really" important, that our boss can't force us to be as expected, by them, to be, and so on.
The same TGV has and will never have accident, and even so, probably will never kill someone. But it will never be on time too, cause from the SNCF workers's point of view , this part of the job is not serious.
Believe it's not concerning all the french, yellow Jacket épisode showed us how the country is cut in half.
Probably climate of defense instilled by the Communist Party after the Second World War in the ranks of the workers and encouraging the already positive image of the rebel and revolutionary work in France.
But most of us are pissed off by these guys and the image they are giving of all of us.
I lived in France for 5 years and now in Germany, and it’s fun to watch these two videos and say “true true true!!!” as I experience the two cultures first hand as a foreigner. 😆😆
Which country do you enjoy most?
@@marialeonorcobo8962 his own
@@leroiarouf1142 what last name does his sound
je suis un étudiant chinois qui regarde cette vidéo allemande avec un sous-titre anglais en France😂
Bravo! 👏
Super ! 😂 Tu m'as fait rire tellement !
durand une session de mukbang d'une enorme portion de sushi
loooooool
Mdr, j'avoue, c'est surprenant!
Respekt für unsere deutschen Freunde aus Frankreich !! Es lebe die deutsch-französische Freundschaft
On peut déjà noter la différence entre les deux rien qu’en regardant les deux vidéos. On remarque que les allemands ont pris la question beaucoup plus sérieusement, leurs réponses sont très réfléchies et moins clichées.
Peu de français connaissent vraiment l'Allemagne, combien y sont déjà allés ?
@@papatango5085 pareil pour les allemands
During my first visit to France (I was living in Germany for one year and I am American), the first thing a French man told me is: in German there are two verbs: leben and wohnen. Die Deutsche wohnen in Deutschland, aber die Franzosen leben in Frankreich.
deep
Deep shit man deep shit
Edit: Oh and i‘m from Germany
That's because citizenship is earned by living and paying taxes in France, or being born or by blood. Whereas in Germany it's inherited by blood. That's why french people are a political people bound by a social will to be part of the community, whereas german people are an ethnic people.
Jérémie Marion so your french obviously haha so hello neighbor😂 the thing is it’s hard for Germans to be proud about there country (I was born in Iraq but raised in Germany) i don’t if I can conceder my self as a german...I think i should because I was raised here but I don’t wanna make anybody feel uncomfortable. So I Love France and in Germany you can decide what language you wanna learn besides English. I choosed French haha it’s pretty hard tho. I‘m 14 so if your around my age I’d love to chat with you via Snapchat.
Bisou (hope I spell it Right)😂😂
@@nooneaskedbutimstillhere439 Hi! I might be way too old for this, i don't even have snapchat ^^.
Well on the topic at hand it's just part of German history this is the great divide between the Roman empire where you belong and are citizen if you're part of the city whereas for Germans and all eastern countries they got more tribe based origins and you have citizenship if you have blood and speak the language. I doubt Germans would be offended most of them at least, but it's not part of their traditions.
This is why Germans don't doubt they're Germans whereas French people have some identity crisis cause being bound by ideals is cool but it's rather vague ^^.
You spelled it right ! Good luck on learning.
Love u Germans from Italy 🇮🇹 see u this summer, u are 50% of our millions of tourists! Love from Florence 🇮🇹
Love you Italians too 🇩🇪🇮🇹
P.S.: We love to occupy your beaches xD
and in the next war you guys run to the allies again after we helped you over the years 🙃
Ich mag den neuen Deutsch-Französischen Austausch. Das ist wirklich interessant und man hat außerdem auch Spaß beim Erlernen der beiden Sprachen.
Ich hoffe, ihr werdet noch andere Videos dieser Art drehen.
Danke Easy German und Easy French😘
Ich stimme dir absolut zu! :D
Sehe ich auch so
I am from Paris, and I love Germany! So many sweet people, always on time and serious in their relationships, very important qualities in friendship (that might be a cliché but from my own experience I find it very accurate)! And I love your literature and music: so deep, so dramatic and so beautiful! And not to mention the Christmas markets, and Christmas trees, the best in the entire world! Ich liebe die Deutschen! 🥨❤️🍻
I'm French and I'm a fan of the Germans 🇫🇷💖💖🇩🇪
Idem 🇩🇪❤🇫🇷
🇨🇵🇩🇪♥️♥️♥️
I'm french and french love Germain for the social system, the education, the respect. For example in my College we have two choise for the first foreign language : English or dutch!
You mean Deutsch right? Because Dutch is the language of The Netherlands 😅
@@Dbutnoneed yes ! Of course. Nobody would be inept enough to choose Dutch.
Ich bin Französin und finde es toll, dass die Deutschen insgesamt sehr organisiert und freundlich sind.
Love to Germany from France! ❤️
it's quite incredible to see how French and Germans like each others now... this is an impressive video, we can feel the intelligence and cultural knowledge of the german people.
I love germany ( j’aime l’allemagne / Ich liebe Deutschland / Ich liebe Europa ) Ich liebe dich Deutsche ! Europe is what we are ! If we are all together we gonna run the world ! Love Germany, love France and love The European Union ! My patri is Europe 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
Ich liebe die Deutschen und j'aime les français!!! :-)
Which one ??? I'm curious !!!
Pas moi
France and Germany, regardless of the past and present differences, are best friends; Both carried and still carry the European Union today
Long live French-German love affair! 🥰
non merci. nous sommes latines et les allemands n sont pas pour nous. a mon avis.
Ooooh really ??? Can you tell me when this love story will begin pls ????It's a bit like : "Je t'aime.... Moi non plus..."
@@lukethomeret-duran5273 Mauvaise argumentation! Je suis Suisse, nous embrassons nos différences!
Non! C'est Vive l'amittiée franco-allemande!
Well let's hope that it will never end...
I love the thing the girl at the beginning said: There are no differences between Germans and France, just the language
She was being difficult
Of course, we are all people and all of that stuff, but it's... it's just makes video a little bland and boring. Because there are always this small interesting habits, traditions (methods sometimes, if you will). That's what makes voyage and interaction with other people truly fascinating.
Thanks - I learned two new words. I didn't know "überheblichkeit" (it's easier as an American to just say "Arroganz"), and I certainly had never heard "Obrigkeitsgläubigkeit"!. Having said that, you may have poorly translated when the guy was talking about Napoleon bringing the "Einingungsprozess" to Germany. He was referring to the fact that Napoleon created larger consolidated regions which was a first step in forming modern German borders (and later allowed Bismark to further consolidate). But the translation says "Settlement process" instead of "Unification process".
J'adore l'allemand c'est trop beau 💙
Ça dépend où mdr
C'est hyper intéressant d'entendre ça. Moi j'suis allemande mais j'aimerais savoir si la langue allemande a réellement une mélodie moche et dure comme presque tout le monde le dit🙈
Roza Jiyan Tout le monde dit ça mais pas moi, je trouve que cette un belle langue 😊
@@rozajiyan1747 Moche je dirais pas ça mais les sonorités de la langue ne sont pas très harmonieuse et les mots semblent compliqués selon moi ^^
@@rozajiyan1747
Oui c'est vrai.
I’ve never been interested in Germany before, and I’m slowly starting to learn new things about one of our neighbor country (Yeah I’m a proud and mean and arrogant French lol).
Guys, just want things to be clear for y’all, in the opposite video (French talking about Germans) a lot of French talked about Germans’ strictness and strict organization, that they were a bit less talkative or stuff like that. Coming from a French I don’t think it is a criticism, it’s just a remark. Germans here too said that French were less strict... it’s maybe just a cultural thing !
French are always ALWAYS very negative, trust me, when we « criticize » Germany for example, we criticize 10 times MORE our own country. We are never satisfied and we LOVE to complain. That’s once again, a cultural thing ! We like you guys, no worries !
Baguette x bretzel for the win !
So Who's the Dummy Now? Cool
By that habit to complain about everthing you clearely see that french and germans orginate of the same kind, as complaining about everything is still the No1 leisure activity on both sides ;D
In English you can use the word “cynic” to describe the French. Germans maybe, “self-righteous.”
I could listen to Germans talk all day. Nice sounding language.
I am German and I love my french friends 😍👍
In guter Zeit, ich beginne am Mittwoch den Kurs in Französisch :) Das wird meine dritte Fremdsprache sein und ich freue mich sehr darauf.
@@dheomodi Englisch und Deutsch (ich bin Pole)
Ich glaube, dass Französisch immer leichter als Polnisch bleibt😂. Ich bin Franzose und habe versucht, Polnisch zu lernen. Leider werde ich nie verstehen ihren Vokativ, Lokativ usw.
Ich wünsche dir viel Glück towarzych!
@@axllbill1123 Naja, Polnisch ist extrem stark, aber ich fühle das natürlich gar nicht als Muttersprachler :)
Französisch scheint ein bisschen schwieriger als Englisch und Deutsch zu sein. Das ist jedenfalls mein erster Eindruck. Ich sehe schon, dass ich groooße Schwierigkeiten mit Aussprache haben wird. Ich bin aber willig für diese Herausforderung.
@@ziolekcch Du sprichst sehr gut Deutsch!
While we aren't very exposed to German culture I had very pleasant experiences with the few germans I met :)
What we can see in the comments is that some germans take things more seriously. the French video was lighter and the recurring thing was that germans are more rigorous and respectful (that is not a bad cliché in my opinion). Whereas a few germans thought the French were arrogant. must be cause I am French and could tell in the way they spoke that it was more casual... Anyway it goes to show that people in general make their mind up easily about a whole population based on limited experience, I guess it is human nature, or maybe human culture.. I was actually pleasantly surprised by both videos as they were mostly positive :)
I have just looked at both the German and French versions of this question. I could already see the difference in the way they answered the question.
The French answered this question with a bit of fun and humor, whereas the Germans took it very seriously and seemed a bit awkward. In my experience, Germans like to have serious, in-depth conversations which I like.
I'm french and my boyfriend is German, no matter the distance we still find ways to see each others and we've been together for a year and 9 months for now ^^
It's kind of funny cuz I'm French and last summer I decided to make a tour of Belgium, the Netherlands and going through Germany by bicycle.
In Belgium and the Netherlands everyone spoke English perfectly. But when I arrived in Aachen, no one could answer me anymore, even youngsters.
But somehow it was even better, it's kind of boring when you understand everything when you are in a foreign country ahah.
Anyway people were really nice !
@@arvedludwig3584 🤣
Das einzige was mich überrascht hat das ein Franzose sagt er kann englisch !😂😂😂
@@CD-uu8pb Ah bah oui parce que tous les français sont des abrutis donc ils ne peuvent pas parler anglais ?
My girlfriend is Russian and was actually surprised to see that most of the french youngsters spoke English. Personally, my friends and cousins speak English, my parents and grandparents don't. I'm pretty sure the situation is similar in Germany?
@@victorfranfrankrike6126 Fais pas genre, la tres grosse majorité des Francais ne parle pas Anglais (cela inclus les jeunes). En France on est pratiquement les plus nuls en Anglais des pays Européens (seul l'talie est pire que nous). Y'a rien de vexant dedans, c'st juste que la plupart des Francais ne vois aucun intérêt à apprendre l'Anglais vu qu'ils ont google traduction.
L'Anglais était une des matière ou j'étais la meilleur (je suis bien meilleur en Anglais qu'en maths) et tous me monde me disaient tous le temps que ca servait a rien.
Les Francais jeunes et vieux sont nuls en Anglais c'est un fait, y'a pas de quoi être énervé.
@@natsukimomoi334 En 2012, plus de personnes parlaient anglais en France que le nombre total de locuteurs Australiens. On entend sans arrêt que les français ne parlent pas anglais, mais de ma propre expérience ce n'est pas du tout le cas. Après l'accent c'est une autre histoire...
Alsace is maybe the best exemple of the absence of real differences between different people and in particular french and germans, and it reminds us that conflicts come more often from the leaders than the people
Vielen Dank für das tolle Video..so schön wieder Manuel zu sehen. :)
Bon and gut. They did a good job of naming several differences while maintaining lots of respect for each other. I predict that Germany and France will not have a war with each other for quire some time.
liebe Grüße aus Straßburg, die Französische Stadt, die im Prinzip Deutsch ist 😛😛
*war
@@zzy2620 nein, ist. Straßburg sieht immer noch Deutsch aus und ist immer noch im Prinzip Mini-Deutschland.
Ich wohne in Strassburg 😘 und ich mag Deutschland
Straßburg ist aber französisch 😉
Justin Llamas Hahahahaha 😂😂
🇨🇵❤️🇩🇪 Our best neighbors. Every time i go to Germany i feel like at home, similar cultures, same people at the end
Bla bla bla bla... You say it yourself 😊
Similar cultures? Really? German peoples are so distant and cold, so serious. Dor what? They don’t know to live, they only exist. Peoples in France are so fill of joy, of life. I can’t understand The mentality of germans.
@dianasofi6565 yeah, for you maybe, it isn't my experience from Germany.. maybe because I am talking about Bavaria. I am french and live in England and I can tell you I feel much better in Germany
@@fredspan5598 mouais, c'est un peu court jeune homme, il faudrait voyager et gagner en experience peut etre...
@@benjaminblabla Yes, the german peoples from Bavaria are much warmer, much more humane than those in the rest of the country. I forgot to specify that. Ihave the impression that they are not Germans. They made a good impression on me.
As a French, I know that we share a lot of things with our German neighbors on which we must focus and strengthen for a better future. and for those who think that the French are arrogant do not base your judgment on your experience in Paris. France cannot be reduced to the eccentricities of the city of lights.
im french and i love germans and germany so much !! i find german language really beautiful too
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German people are so smart, thoughtful and eloquent it's Really refreshing
I'm French an I loved Berlin, my brother is occurently living in Berlin. Every time German friends come to Paris, we showed them good music, good parties, good food.
Finally French people from the countryside that don't know Germans will stay focused on clichés and WWII whereas urban French people more open to the world and "globalized" will be most of the time more open minded.
Everytime I have met Germans they have always been really kind, fun and respectful. French can be proud, teasing, flirting. But finally we still had a lot of fun talking about clichés and spent good time together.
Finally our differences are basically differences between latin cultures (Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, etc) and germanic cultures (Deutsch, German, Austrian, etc)
But finally with just a bit of open mind, communication, respect we will always be able to find good and interesting sides in every culture.
Chears to German friends !
Vivre à la campagne ne signifie pas être ignorant, nous ne vivons pas dans des bourgades au bout d'une route de terre éclairer à la lampe à huile, tu as des sacrés préjugés dit moi !
I think regional differences within the two countries are far greater than the differences between the countries.
You are absolutely right! When I travel in Germany there are big differences between the lander, there's not much in common between Saarland and Saxony or Bavaria with Schleswig Holstein. In France the differences do exist but aren't so strong I think, at least everyone speaks the same french.
@@Brumairevideo Big differences in France too. In France we have Basque people in the south west. Not far from the Catalans in the Perpignan region. In the north west there is Brittany, on the opposite in the east you have Alsace-Lorraine which looks like Germany. We also have Corsican, Marseilles, mountainous regions like the Alps (close to Switzerland / Italy). The nord pas de calais with Lille who look alike Belgium/netherland city.And I don't even speak of overseas regions like Guadeloupe, Guyana, or the new region calledonnie. All these regions are very different from each other, nothing to do with cities like Paris, or Bordeaux for example. Each region has a strong identity. The French language has been made compulsory to unify all these different territories. The regional languages are almost all dead.
It's logically unlikely^^
Eins finde ich bisschen ungerecht: in Afrika gibt es mehr Französisch sprechende Länder (21 von 54 Ländern) als auf der ganzen Welt aber keiner spricht davon. Man redet immer nur von Frankreich oder Kanada. Ich persönlich bin leider mit Französisch aufgewachsen als Muttersprache, obwohl meine Eltern eine Muttersprache haben.
This evening I looked at photos of small German cities I had never seen before like Ansbach, Kaufbeuren, Memmingen, Landshut (all in Bavaria here) and I realized how beautiful they are.!
Over the years I had visited many German towns and villages more or less famous such as Freiburg, Aachen, Heidelberg, Tuebingen, Rothenburg, Saarbruecken, Karlsruhe, Konstanz, Ulm, Worms, Speyer, Bochum, Duesseldorf, Koeln, Frankfurt, Hannover, Hamburg, Muenchen, Stuttgart, Nuernberg, Bayreuth , Garmisch, Passau, and more like Husum and Kiel...
Berlin was when I was 22 doing my Military service near Tegel Airport in the "Quartier Napoleon"!
I really think, I can say this country is a second home for me.
Many people I know there.
All my fellow French who went to Germany also enjoyed much their stay!
I remember driving with a friend from Cambrai in Northern France in an old Renault 4 without windscreen because a lorry had projected gravel on it and arriving in Aachen after midnight and 250 km in full wind.!
I feel like all the prejudices the french hold against the germans were proven true. Especially the first one asked in this video shows how serious we are... 😢
I actually don't think she was that serious. She answered with a lot of politeness and not prejudiced at all :)
Being serious is a crime now? I better just stay indoors then
(I am French). I can reassure you: your seriousness is actually seen as something more positive than negative. It makes you a realiable and trustworthy country on many aspects. A lot of French admire the strong German economy and your reliable engineering (that are in fact positive consequences of your rigor and seriousness). For example, if you tell a French from any object "this is made in Germany", the French would definitely think "then this must be outstanding quality". This maybe sounds a bit cliché, but thats true. So, be proud of your seriousness!!
I went to the Mosel region in Germany and I found very different people. People who don't take things seriously and serious people. The thing beeing that French and Germans have different way to show their seriousness !!
@@antoinemozart243 the ppl in the Mosel region are quite different…a special kind of Germans live there. They have some french influence there due to history.
Danke schön Easy German diese Thema finde ich auch richtig cool über die Kultur und über die Frankreich
I think most of the misunderstanding between Germans and French come from the fact that French people are a political people built on citizenship like a social contract towards a set of ideals if you pay taxes live and speak the language you can be a citizen, or being born or inhireted by blood. Whereas Germans are an ethnic people citizenship is inherited by blood.
So when the Germans like order stability and continuity, French people tend to set the bar as high as an ideal which makes them more prone to be depressed or to protest social orders and fight harshly for political reasons. The guy at 7:20 gets it.
what i like about france:
- the history: french revolution and napoleon era. very intersting.
- the sound of the language
- baguettes
- Art and Architecture
what i dislike about france:
- dont ask them about art, they won't stop talking xD
- the language is too hard to learn
- u cant play video games with them. its always chaos.
For the working hours, the legal working hours in France are 35 hours a week, but the most people do work more than the legal time. There are conventions in companies or in the public service telling you how many hours you make a week and what benefits you can get/expect from working more than the legal 35 hours. This does not include all those that work in companies that give them more work than is doable in the weekly hours and so force them to bring work back home so they can keep up with their schedule without getting paid for the overtime.
The statistics about effective working time in France are not really true... I don't know about the real working time in Germany though.
Legal is 40, but in reality, depending on where you are working, many people work a little more.
Very positive perceptions, as a french living in germany that really warms up😊 You guys also have cool culture and mentality, the appreciation is mutual, salut!
At the end we are all europeans and we must protect our common culture....
Protect from what ? Wtf
@Erasmus von Rotterdam Are you dumb ? It exists european muslim countries for example Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia and (Turkey).
@Erasmus von Rotterdam Marxism ???
If France and Germany can be allies, everyone can. We had like 4 big wars in the last 200 years alone, killed each other many times and now - only 75 years after the last one - we are one of the closest allies and stick together on many important geopolitical topics, have open borders, no tarrifs and many exchange programms. So everyone with a notorious hate towards one of his neigbour countries, come take a look and think twice.
Yes ! This message is very important to the 75 year enemies India and Pakistan.
Germany is my favorite country to spend holidays ! Bisous de Paris !
France is my favourite country to spend my holidays! You can get great food and wine everywhere, it's a beautiful country, and if you speak a little bit of French (mon francais est vraiment mal...) and avoid the worst tourist spots, people are very nice, funny and original. Liebe Grüße aus Mannheim
great video and good work Manuel!!!
It's actually 40% of the music played in a radio must be in French . Aber das ist ein Detail ( oh un mot français) ;)
Do you have statistic study to prove what you said?
omg that closed off self-sufficient culture thing is so spot on!
people from Paris, a "little bit" arrogant? ja, yes, oui, claro que si.
sim
You live on the wrong side of Paris then
@@MrKylljoy so, what is the good side to live in?
Oui effectivement c'est les plus arrogant et désagréable ils font honte à la réputation des autres français
@@tan16_ytb Oui c'est relatif les Allemands le sont aussi je crois
In 1979 I was in the North in Husum near Denmark. On a saturday night the Nice secrétary of the school I was in with Kids Led me to a Kneipe
Where we met one of her friends.
At first sight he seemed rather indifferent but as soon as he realized I could speak German, he was very positive !
Danke für das tolle Video ! Leite ich gleich mal weiter ! 🤗
Sehr toll diese Meinungen zu hören :)
Ich will mehr Videos wie das))
If would be as if romy schneider was asked what he thinks of alain delon
Great comment 🙂
Vielen Dank für Ihre Mühe alle
I'm Brazillian and I have lived in France for 1 year, and visited Germany for a couple of weeks. From this video and my (fairly limited) experience, it seems that german people tend to be more positive and interested towards different cultures, while french people seem indifferent. I found that the two countries are waaaaay more different than I would expect, and I loved both. Both France and Germany made me feel very welcome, whereas in the US, for example, I felt like I was in the wrong place everytime. If I had to move outside Brazil, I'd definitely make an effort to move either to Deutschland or France =]
Greetings from BR!
i decided to learn German at school and it's so cool !
Let us know if we can help
Hey !
Great video, It's interesting to know how french are seen somewhere else, especialy when they are judged by our neighbours !
I personaly have some German friends, and I often taunt them about that (beer is flowing in their veins, german isn't a beautiful tongue and many other stuff), but I think it can be considered as a game. As a french, don't know why, I HAVE TO be proud of my culture and tell them mine is better, even though I don't think so ... :)
But I have to admit I'm very jealous about 3 things in your country :
1. Beer. We have some great brewery to be proud of, but definetely not as much as you have.
2. Open mindness. Even though you are more respectful about laws in general, I really think germans in general are more open minded about other culture, or just other people. That's why I like spending times with germans.
3. World cup trophies. We only have 2 of them, it's not enough !
Yeah! Yeah! Be jealous! You may have nice landscape, a beautiful language and the best wine but we have 4 World Cups! 😂🍷
I was now reading an autobiography of Manfred von Richthohen.
"The French are passionate but cunning and lacking in patience.The British are brave and rushing, that's it.We Germans are best suited for battle."
I can't help but agree with you, Baron.
I'm German and French Huguenot ancestry. I got both.
All Germans with a French name ( Matthieu carrière, De maizieres, Galland, Marseille, even Klaus Barbie ( not the doll but the killer) come from Huguenot. I heard the king of Prussia was happy to welcome them after the putrid Louis XIV rejected them.
@@antoinemozart243 there was a big huguenots Colony in Schonau, Baden
I lived in Germany 4 year and im from france so what i noticed between frankreich und Deutschland that Germany is beautiful country and people there are nice 🇩🇪🇩🇪
I'm a Brazilian (portuguese native speaker), French teacher, watching a German video with subtitles in English... LOL I'm searching for some ideas that I could use in my French classes!
Hey, maybe this channel "Easy French" is useful for your French classes. ruclips.net/channel/UCoUWq2QawqdC3-nRXKk-JUw 😊
@@EasyGerman Hi! Thank you!
I agree with the brown jacket guy and i'm french, people go in the street for nothing. We are too individualistic people just care about their consumer lives they don't care about the common well being or the country they just want to work less and be richer
Oui c'est à mon sens stupide et égoïste.
They want to get their head out of the water. That may be individualistic, but it's not illegitimate. They're not on the street for nothing. Furthermore, the strikes reach far beyond those individualistic claims, with a growing thirst for real democracy.
C'est un peu la faute de l'éducation française qui est TROP TROP élitiste et individualiste. Dans les autres pays le travail de groupe et autres sont privilégié.
Ouais et c'est mal vu d'avoir ce genre de discours alors que je trouve que c'est juste du bon sens. Du coup on reste embourbé et rien ne change
ouais... ou alors c'est juste qu'on a un peu plus conscience qu'on se fait entuber par le capital , le mondialisme , le modèle économico-américain qui relève de la folie , du toujours plus, qui veut tout marchandiser et qu'on a pas envie de se faire sucrer nos privilèges sociaux que les anciens ont gagné au prix de luttes parfois violentes contre une bourgeoisie pleine aux as qui traitait les gens comme du bétail , ( ce qui est toujours le cas si tu as une certaine conscience politique et historique ) je trouve ça plutôt naturel sain et révélateur d'une force de conscience de ne pas accepter cette forme d'esclavagisme .
I admire and romanticize France, but I love my spießig, rule-respecting, kind Germans!
are u french or german?
I assure you that french loves germans, love from france
C'était très sympa à regarder :) Je m'attendais à davantage de commentaires négatifs... Je me trompais !
Je suis Française et j'adore le Peuple Allemand ! Ils sont très.. très sympathiques. Je trouve que les 2 cultures se marient bien ! I love France and Germany! Die deutsche Sprache ist sehr schön! I love to speak German! Autrefois on avait les guerres, aujourd'hui on a le Covid19. Vous voyez bien que derrière tout ça... il y a des intérêts 😱 !
And peace and love 🎻🎻🎻
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I met some German students on exchange and honestly i found them intimidating. They were so serious about every topic we discussed. But I do find them much more sincere than the French. French people just brush off conversations.
In 1991 i was 12 in summer holidays in east germany, some of my best childhood memories, very cool people and i remember everybody wore Nirvana t-shirt at this time (YEAH), love from an arrogant French from Dunkirk to our Germans friends
I love the french people, they're great
Even in Paris 😂!!! What a joke !
@NoName-qr5jg No joke. Italians are much ruder
love to our German neighbours, even if our country had a lot of conflits with Germany, we are like brothers! Long live Germany!
0:50 Since the first words of the first person interviewed I said to myself wow that's so german.
It`s typical leftish PC blah blah.
Phew, that was all relaxed. I must see 'Easy English' asking English people ( esp. outside London & the cities) the same question about the French & Germans, well anyone but the Irish , Welsh, Ozzies, Kiwis.. ( spot the link..).
My God, the first woman. Just say what you think are the differences, not everybody gets offended by everything. Unnecessary political correctness drives me crazy. She must be fun at parties.
Vielen Dank für das Video.Wir warten für neue.
The best relationship are forged through conflict and suffering. The French and Germans are a great example.
Fun fact: Those guys at 02:08 are not German... they seem to be from Switzerland (or Vorarlberg/Tyrol in Austria)...
1:00 Oh, come on woman... you're boring ... You could have said literally anything, like french love bread and cheese. It's the most true fact I have ever heard. Haha
Spending more time at work is not a small thing. Nore it is working till you are 67. I was surprised hearing that some people see it like it was nothing.
I think it was kind of a statement tho
35 hours week is not for everybody in France, I personally never worked 35 hours but a minimum of 39. 4 extra hours are written in the contract and it's like this for millions of people. I very often worked up to 45 hours per week until 2020. Don't confuse the law and how it is applied, it's two different things in France.
We french have a very good look about german people and Germany.
Maybe because the old Frank people was from Germany! And german wines are so good!
And remember you're still using a bunch of Franconian, i.e. ancient German words today in French.
in fact i don’t know why french people claim to be latin when they are clearly closer to the germanic culture and the french language is a mix of vulgar latin and germanic language
I'm French and mainly all the best people I met in foreign countries were German. I love them