Sandra Bullock grew up in Franconia (part of Bavaria) and she's on a native speaker level. Because of a lack of practice, she mixed up word order with English. All the others were really good but not on that level.
True, her mum is and worked in Nuremberg. That's why they spent several years there with Sandra. And not necessary the remark about Bavaria... we are Franconians, that's it. ;)
Sandra Bullock... Very impressive. And give Donna Summer some credits too. She lived in Germany in the early 70s. But she still did very well. So sad she passed away 😢
Sandra Bullock is half German. Her mother was the german opera singer Helga Meyer. Sandra grow up in Nuremberg, Germany. De Caprios mother is also German.
Sir Christopher Lee was more than just an actor! He: - witnessed the last public execution in France using a guillotine - almost married Swedish royalty, was even given permission by the king of Sweden - was the inspiration for James Bond, which was written by his step-cousin Ian Fleming (HE IS JAMES BOND) - was the only member of the Lord of the Rings cast to actually meet Tolkien - played in a heavy metal band - fought in World War II and corrected director Peter Jackson on what it sounds like when someone is stabbed in the back of the chest because he witnessed it live
Sandra's dad was in the US army base in Germany so she grew up in Germany and learned German as a kid. So yeah so speaks it every well in fact ,so she speaks like a native German it's so good ! Sandra speaks it the best of all of them .
@@SanHolo1 Sure but many foreigners who moved to Germany and have lived there for years still can't speak German well . Many foreigners find the language difficult.
You dont know christopher lee? he was the closest to a real life james bond spy amongst all actors.. he played amongst others saruman, and count dooku and several tiomes count dracula and a ton of other roles in his career
Sandra Bullock was really good! Donna Summer, Christopher and Lee Reneta Sorrah were also good to understand. Bud Spencer struggled a bit (the host Rudi Carrell was from the Netherlands) and the jokes were scripted by Rudi Carell, as he planned everything for the show. Same for Jorge Bergoglio, the pope. He read the text, and if you are used to Spanish or Italian, the pronounciation of the letters is the same as in German. Pep Guardiola was used to use German language, but you could clearly hear, his roots and a deep accent, he probably learned it just in the past months / years. Similar to Novak Djokovic, he said he learned it in school, like Bud Specer, and used it over time in Tennis in Switzerland and with Boris Becker. I don't know, if Ines Brazil is in a group with Summer, Lee and Sorrah, as the text was only small und not into deep. May be, she is as good as Djokovic. Could speak and you could understand her, but she is not so used to it as Summer, Lee and Sorrah. The best one was Bullock.
Fair dues, Pope Francis speaks 3 or 4 languages fluently. Christopher Lee was literally saying that his German isn't very good (which is modest because he could converse within limits. There are talk show clips to that effect)
Try some,, German,, Musik.. To remind😁🤔.. "Jennifer Rostock - Tauben aus Porzellan" / "Null positiv-wo Rauch ist ist auch Feuer" (✌️Enjoy, without understanding a Word.
Leonardo DiCaprio's Parents lived and Grandma lived and stayed in Oer-Erkenschwick, which is actually nowhere near Düsseldorf but next to Dortmund and Bochum, which is actually 1 hour away from Düsseldorf. He grew up there half of the time as a kid, Sandra Bullock actually is from Germany as well as Bruce Willis.
@@katii1997 No she must have lived in a town near Düsseldorf. 2 Hours away would be a completely other place in Germany near another big City. No matter which direction 1 hour away is the next big city, Cologne, Aachen, Dortmund. 2 Hours away from Düsseldorf makes no sense, why would he mention Düsseldorf. Just because Leonardo said so, doesn't mean it is that way.
@@katii1997Well i googled it. Oer-Erkenschwick is actually nowhere near Düsseldorf its next to Dortmund and Bochum which is actually 1 hour away from Düsseldorf.
I feel Christopher Lee 😊 I know a lot of German words and sentences that I can pronounce with a fairly accurate accent. When I do (for fun) people around me are convinced I can speak German. It’s hilarious because I REALLY cannot just create correct sentences out of the blue
The Pope absolutely deserves credit. He not only speaks his native Spanish, but also Italian fluent and a dozen or so languages quite well. He is used to do speeches like this in many different languages, so what, if he reads some of it from a paper?
It’s nice to hear Ines Brasil, as you can clearly detect her Portuguese accent. At the same time, you can notice her German accent, which is from southern Germany. I have two Hungarian friends who claim to share the same Hungarian dialect/accent. This accent can still be heard when they speak Dutch. Interestingly, only one of them speaks Flemish Dutch, characterized by a soft “ch” sound and a flowery, academic style with three grammatical genders, whereas the other one speaks the northern, liberal/pagan/protestant variant, which has a strong “g” sound, a more guttural nature, and only two grammatical genders. It’s beautiful to see that dialect isn’t necessarily regional. Instead, it seems to be characterized by the journey each individual chooses to make. Don’t worry, your mind will mingle everything you feed it and make sure you’ll end up with a package fairly well balanced out.
There is an old german black/white movie from early 1960s. It was a detevtives movie, where the story played in London. I was surprised, that one actor spoke german with british accent- it was Christopher Lee.
4:13 “I’m pretty sure this guy’s from Spain… I believe he’s in football-related stuff” Haha! The caption on screen says “Spanish Footballer” “Spanisher Fußballtrainer”
0:12 'German, obviously not the easiest language to learn.' for English native speakers this is objectively not the case. the main reason is obvious: English is a west-Germanic language and almost 30% of English words have Germanic roots. the percentage is even higher in colloquial English. therefore the easiest language to learn is the most similar language to your native language. the _American Foreign Service Institute_ trains US diplomats and has extensive experience and done a lot of research when it comes to learning a foreign language and how difficult or easy it is for an English native speaker. they have categorised foreign languages into four different groups (group #1 the easiest with 24 weeks or 600 classroom hours while group #4 needs the most training with 88 weeks or 2,200 classroom hours) of difficulty. group #1 consists of: Dutch/Afrikaans, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish (all Germanic languages) plus Romance languages like Italian, Romanian, Portuguese - all languages are listed for a 24 weeks course. French and Spanish needs 30 weeks or 150 classroom hours more. group #2: German with 36 weeks or 900 classroom hours. most other languages are in category #3. in #4 are Arabic, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese and Korean.
Partly true, depending on what you train for. I did read the text of a Chinese girl who learnt Dutch and she got the word order just perfect. However those speaking English, will experience trouble since Dutch and German adhere to inversion more than English does. Once the English mind connects Dutch words to their English counterparts, the mind will automatically tend towards choosing English word order instead. Probably it would be easier for those with conservative reading habits by reading Shakespeare and maybe even Chaucer, since this is literature from times in which English word order was more in line with her sisters on the continent.
If you live in europe and go on holiday in other european countries a lot of people will understand german better than english. I always use german in other european countries instead of english and everyone understands it and speaks it too and you get nice stories how they learned it.
The pope has spent in the 1980´s some time in Germany as he tried to get a phd at a German university. Nearly all European Royals can speak German as many have a German parent side.
In this video Chris Pratt also shows his german skills. His pronunciation isn't that good, but his understanding works very very well. What's impressive for me is, that he really just learned it at school, no german relatives or stuff like that. ruclips.net/video/8nGhk0LnugI/видео.htmlsi=N1sDH8TxJPEaUn_6
German is very closely related to English, the problem is the grammar which requires a lot of attention. Leonardo de Caprio has a German grandmother and Sandra Bullock is part-German.
It is not the German language that is unusually difficult, but the English language that has become very different from the other Germanic languages over the centuries. The influence of French and Celtic on English was extremely strong.
Yes, learning some German was so much more challenging than any of the other languages I speak. I differ with you, though, when you say that it's an important language to learn. Other than in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, where else is it useful? Spanish, French, Portuguese, Arabic, and Swahili are far more international languages.
All in all, more than 100 million are native speakers. And you can meet people all around Europe, which worked in the German spoken part of Europe. I met once a Portugese house maid, which worked in Switzerland. I talked to her and she talked back in her Swiss German. That was pretty funny...
I grew up speaking German at home as my paternal grandparents were German immigrants. After my grandmother passed away about 40 years ago we stopped speaking it a lot. Now I barely speak any German.
Anti German sentiment during WW1 and WW2 caused many German Americans to stop speaking the language or changing their names. Schmidt became Smith, Braun became Brown, Mueller became Miller etc. My dad didn't start speaking English until he was 6.
We Europeans pick up each other’s languages from holidays in addition to being taught either French, German or Spanish at school. I was taught French from the age of eight understand Spanish and am learning German. All three languages are really useful worldwide 😊
If you want to visit Germany again and want to improve your German, take a cue from the pronunciation of Sandra Bullock and Christopher Lee! Many other people, especially Americans who speak German, often sound like they have chewing gum in their mouths ;) Since you have already been to Germany, you should still have the “correct” pronunciation in your ear...
THE most popular german speaking celebrity to me is Sandra Bullock! Even she is just half German, growing her early years in Germany, but still speaks decent German. Not perfect, but good enough. She would easily survive over here. But Let me rate some others you showed: Leo DiCaprio: 30% (He knows some, cuz hge has a granny from Germany) Donna Summer: 50% Bud Spencer -I think you have no clue who he is? But 60% Christopher Lee: 40% Novak Djokovic: 50% I know there are some more like Kirsten Dunst, Sarah Chalke, Bruce Willis, Diane Kruger (100% German) and to mention the music-producer Hans Zimmer!!!
Hehe yes... I am a German and sometimes i thinkt. What?.... German?....Hey Bruce Williis was born in Ida Oberstein in Bavaria... and the grandma from di Caprio are living in germany. We are proud. And sandra bullock, yes she is a mother....my chlildren must learn german . Her best films. Speed and Demolitioan Man with Stalllone.
There is a bit of a German language interview with Donna Summer from the seventies where she nearly has any accent and speaks very fluent. When she left Germany for the us again she lost it a bit over the decades, but she was really after some 8 years in Germany.. rip ❤ Sandra a Leonardo’s mums are German.. but Leonardo does not speak that much.. there are much more actors who speak French or Italian very well.. on an artistic level German is not important but in Opera. Many opera singers speak German to a certain extent.
bruce willis ist auch deutscher, er wurde in idar oberstein rheinland-pfalz geboren bruce willis is german too, he was born in idar oberstein rhineland-palatinate
And nevertheless he spoke King Haggard in both the English and German versions of The Last Unicorn. And he appeared in several German Edgar Wallace adaptations of the 60s.
Pep Guardiola used to be a soccer coach at Bayern Munich. So he speak`s a little bit German. Thomas Müller a player from Bayern Munich always makes funny videos that you can watch on You Tube. He is likeable and funny.😅
For me, it's important that you like the country and its culture, to enjoy learning the language. As a pupil, I had to learn French, it was awful:I didn't like France or Switzerland , Norway on the other hand:learning the language was fun, and I can use it in Sweden and Denmark as well. BTW:I began to learn at the age of 32.
Funny detail; the presenter interviewing him is actually Dutch: Rudi Carrel. As a famous Dutch singer/entertainer, he later build a career in Germany and - being a Dutchman myself - he always annoyed me; He could speak German perfectly fine but made it a gimmick pretending he was clumsy at it, lacing it with (supposedly) comedic errors. Maybe I'm weird, but I consider deliberately butchering someone's language disrespectful. I don't mind someone making mistake while trying hard to speak a foreign language, but butchering it on purpose; naah.
I learnt German and French at school in the UK I also speak Welsh and learning Maori in NZ guess Americans think they speak American but it's actually English they should actually learn Spanish
well, english and german language are from the same family so its not that hard to learn from your perspective, now imagine learning french as chinese lol
Having an accent has nothing to do with the ability to speak a language. You can perfectly speak a language and be understood, and still have a different accent. Reducing or losing an accent,that would be the next level and that required total immersion or living in the target country. But is not important unless you want to blend in.
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 Well... English, German and of course Danish, are all very close related. With his talent, it wasn't realy hard for him, I guess...
German isn't so widely spoken. The 6 UN working languages are best: Mandarin, English, French, Russian, Arabic, Spanish. Then you can add Hindi-Urdu, Indonesian, Swahili, Hawaiian, Portuguese, German, Italian, and Esperanto for wider coverage.
Languages that are going to be very important going forward,,, ENGLISH ( pronounced properly). MANDREN ,,,,CHINESE,,,, ,,, in EUROPE Mandren is taught now to young children,,, As CHINA RISES TO GLOBAL POWER STATES , it’s understood that as an acknowledgment it’s only polite to do so. Business, GERMAN 🇩🇪 LANGUAGE is very useful in the area ,,,, but other than that it’s not an INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE FOR business,,,, international business even in GERMANY is done using ENGLISH. 🏴
If don't got this... China will be a future enemy, for sure. I wouldn't waste time, to learn that. Or in other words: There will be no big business in the future...
it's interesting that you couldn't tell who spoke german very well and who didn't. you said "that was really good" when their german really wasn't that good but you totally "ignored" Sandra Bullock who is almost on native speaker level ( because she grew up in germany but she mixed up a few words here and there) or Leonardo Di Caprio. His German is not perfect but way better than of the other people you thought spoke good german
So just for your information, the german level from all these celebrities were not really good to be honest😅 Only sandra Bullocks german was almost perfect, I had to listen carefully to understand that shes not from germany
Sandra was born and raised (afaik for her first 12 years) in germany (and a bit in austria) by a german mother. her german skills were only a very tiny bit "rusty" from having lived mostly in the usa for some decades. on the other hand, she even had a nice german regional (franconian) accent :-)
No she's not from Germany, born in Virginia and it doesn't matter for how long you're not speaking the language, if you speak like she does, than german wasn't your mother tongue... So shes definitely american, but with a decent amount of german in her
@@MegaAtomKarinca yes, i stand corrected in her birthplace, but i would guess that her parents only did some shorter vacation in america to have her born there and automatically get that citizenship. but when someone spends the first 12 years in germany and also has double citizenship until the age of 18 (at that time, people would have had to choose one of the two when becoming an adult; and she applied for a germnan passport later, success unknown) i consider such person to be (at least also) a native german. from wikipedia : _"For 12 years, Bullock lived in Nuremberg, West Germany, and Vienna and Salzburg, Austria, and grew up speaking German. She had a Waldorf education in Nuremberg. As a child, while her mother went on European opera tours, Bullock usually stayed with her aunt [in germany]"_ of course, with an american father and connections to the usa, she probably was raised bilingual and not *only* with a "mother tongue german" ... btw: during my schooltime, a girl from my class had gone on an exchange year to the usa and when she returned her german was much worse than Sandra's, and with a heavy american accent. Sandra had been mostly away from germany for 24 years when she held that speech in 2000.
It‘s interesting that you thought Pep Guardiola‘s German was good. It‘s not. Don‘t misunderstand me - he can communicate well enough, and he will have learned it during his time at Bayern Munich, but it‘s rather broken and a grammatical train wreck. Occasionally you have to do some „translation“ to know what he is talking about. His English is much the same, but he has certainly had more practice with that language. Almost all of the other people have a better command of the language than he does.
Sandra Bullock grew up in Franconia (part of Bavaria) and she's on a native speaker level. Because of a lack of practice, she mixed up word order with English. All the others were really good but not on that level.
True, her mum is and worked in Nuremberg. That's why they spent several years there with Sandra. And not necessary the remark about Bavaria... we are Franconians, that's it. ;)
@@bastian6625 The part about Bavaria was clarification for Americans not for Germans.
She also mixed up "Sprache" and "Rede" (speech = Rede, ANsprache), which I find pretty cute.
Not just the word order. She confuses “Sprache” and “Rede”. Which is both translated to speech in English.
@@Nikioko That's what I wrote.
Sandra Bullock´s german is flawless.
She is part German
Almost. She confuses “Sprache” and “Rede”, which are both “speech” in English. And her mother was German, so she grew up bilingual.
she lived in Germany as a child, if I'm not mistaken.
@@biankakoettlitz6979 and in Austria, btw.
@@Nikioko Ok so Rede is speech and Sprache is language but pretty damn good !
Sandra Bullock's german left me speechless. She even has a German dialect (Franconian, as far as I heard correctly)
sandra bullock was actually born and raised in germany.
@@Schon1Kevin not born, but raised. And her mother is german.
Leonardo basically said that his Grandmother still lives in Germany, in about 2 hours drive from Duesseldorf.
She's dead meanwhile. He even attended her funeral
Sandra Bullock... Very impressive. And give Donna Summer some credits too. She lived in Germany in the early 70s. But she still did very well. So sad she passed away 😢
Yes, Donna Summer's German was excellent. Unlike Sandra Bullock she did not grow up speaking it as a native language.
Sandra Bullock is half German. Her mother was the german opera singer Helga Meyer. Sandra grow up in Nuremberg, Germany. De Caprios mother is also German.
Sir Christopher Lee was more than just an actor! He:
- witnessed the last public execution in France using a guillotine
- almost married Swedish royalty, was even given permission by the king of Sweden
- was the inspiration for James Bond, which was written by his step-cousin Ian Fleming (HE IS JAMES BOND)
- was the only member of the Lord of the Rings cast to actually meet Tolkien
- played in a heavy metal band
- fought in World War II and corrected director Peter Jackson on what it sounds like when someone is stabbed in the back of the chest because he witnessed it live
Christopher Lee was a cosmopolitan. Just like Peter Ustinov.
@@Nikioko Peter Ustinov also spoke german verry well!
"The Man with The Golden Gun ".
Dracula. Fu Manchu. Count Dooku.
He also spoke several other languages fluently.
Christopher Lee should be known to movie lovers around the world. After all, he was Count Dooku in Star Wars and Saruman in Lord of the Rings!
Sandra Bullock is half German and lived here, she speaks pretty much like a native.
Sandra's dad was in the US army base in Germany so she grew up in Germany and learned German as a kid.
So yeah so speaks it every well in fact ,so she speaks like a native German it's so good !
Sandra speaks it the best of all of them .
I thought she has close German relatives too.
Her mother was German, so she is half German. She lived with her in Germany for just as long, so it's only logical that you can also speak German.
@@SanHolo1 Sure but many foreigners who moved to Germany and have lived there for years still can't speak German well . Many foreigners find the language
difficult.
@@gregorygant4242 Sandra Bullock grew up bilingual and went to school as a kid in Germany.
You dont know christopher lee? he was the closest to a real life james bond spy amongst all actors.. he played amongst others saruman, and count dooku and several tiomes count dracula and a ton of other roles in his career
Sandra Bullock was really good!
Donna Summer, Christopher and Lee Reneta Sorrah were also good to understand.
Bud Spencer struggled a bit (the host Rudi Carrell was from the Netherlands) and the jokes were scripted by Rudi Carell, as he planned everything for the show.
Same for Jorge Bergoglio, the pope. He read the text, and if you are used to Spanish or Italian, the pronounciation of the letters is the same as in German.
Pep Guardiola was used to use German language, but you could clearly hear, his roots and a deep accent, he probably learned it just in the past months / years.
Similar to Novak Djokovic, he said he learned it in school, like Bud Specer, and used it over time in Tennis in Switzerland and with Boris Becker.
I don't know, if Ines Brazil is in a group with Summer, Lee and Sorrah, as the text was only small und not into deep. May be, she is as good as Djokovic. Could speak and you could understand her, but she is not so used to it as Summer, Lee and Sorrah.
The best one was Bullock.
Guardiola is an impressive one because he speaks Catalan, Spanish, English and German *at least* .
German isn’t that difficult for me although I’m dutch. It’s my second language, English is third. I speak enough french to keep alive.
Fair dues, Pope Francis speaks 3 or 4 languages fluently. Christopher Lee was literally saying that his German isn't very good (which is modest because he could converse within limits. There are talk show clips to that effect)
3:14 “In my youth I studied German …but I have forgotten all of it”
Try some,, German,, Musik.. To remind😁🤔..
"Jennifer Rostock - Tauben aus Porzellan" /
"Null positiv-wo Rauch ist ist auch Feuer" (✌️Enjoy, without understanding a Word.
I think Leo said that his mother is from Germany and his father is of Italian/German descent.
Leonardo DiCaprio's Parents lived and Grandma lived and stayed in Oer-Erkenschwick, which is actually nowhere near Düsseldorf but next to Dortmund and Bochum, which is actually 1 hour away from Düsseldorf. He grew up there half of the time as a kid, Sandra Bullock actually is from Germany as well as Bruce Willis.
no. his grandma lived in small town 2 hours away from düsseldorf
@@katii1997 No she must have lived in a town near Düsseldorf. 2 Hours away would be a completely other place in Germany near another big City. No matter which direction 1 hour away is the next big city, Cologne, Aachen, Dortmund. 2 Hours away from Düsseldorf makes no sense, why would he mention Düsseldorf. Just because Leonardo said so, doesn't mean it is that way.
@@katii1997Well i googled it. Oer-Erkenschwick is actually nowhere near Düsseldorf its next to Dortmund and Bochum which is actually 1 hour away from Düsseldorf.
My favourite is Sandra Bullock speaking German. She has German ancestry if I’m not wrong.
And she grow up in Germany
Her mother was German.
I feel Christopher Lee 😊
I know a lot of German words and sentences that I can pronounce with a fairly accurate accent. When I do (for fun) people around me are convinced I can speak German. It’s hilarious because I REALLY cannot just create correct sentences out of the blue
Sandra Bullock also has a German passport … as has Kirsten Dunst
Her mother was German.
@@Nikioko her mum was an opera singer at The Nürnberg Opera and Sandra also performed on stage with the operas childrens choir
What should I say? Clever girls...
What for?
@@stefanlemke4245 What for what? A German passport? Maybe to be considered an EU citizen?
Can't wait to hear you speak german!! Greetings from germany. Enjoy your vids so much!
The Pope absolutely deserves credit. He not only speaks his native Spanish, but also Italian fluent and a dozen or so languages quite well. He is used to do speeches like this in many different languages, so what, if he reads some of it from a paper?
It’s nice to hear Ines Brasil, as you can clearly detect her Portuguese accent. At the same time, you can notice her German accent, which is from southern Germany.
I have two Hungarian friends who claim to share the same Hungarian dialect/accent. This accent can still be heard when they speak Dutch. Interestingly, only one of them speaks Flemish Dutch, characterized by a soft “ch” sound and a flowery, academic style with three grammatical genders, whereas the other one speaks the northern, liberal/pagan/protestant variant, which has a strong “g” sound, a more guttural nature, and only two grammatical genders.
It’s beautiful to see that dialect isn’t necessarily regional. Instead, it seems to be characterized by the journey each individual chooses to make. Don’t worry, your mind will mingle everything you feed it and make sure you’ll end up with a package fairly well balanced out.
The Pope speaks Portuguese Spanish English Italian and French
Novak Djokovic was talking about learn8ng German in school and from living in Switzerland
Sandra Bullock was so good you'd think she's German.
There is an old german black/white movie from early 1960s. It was a detevtives movie, where the story played in London. I was surprised, that one actor spoke german with british accent- it was Christopher Lee.
4:13 “I’m pretty sure this guy’s from Spain… I believe he’s in football-related stuff” Haha! The caption on screen says “Spanish Footballer” “Spanisher Fußballtrainer”
Yeah my dad was in the same class in school as Sandra Bullock, in Nuremburg!
0:12 'German, obviously not the easiest language to learn.' for English native speakers this is objectively not the case. the main reason is obvious: English is a west-Germanic language and almost 30% of English words have Germanic roots. the percentage is even higher in colloquial English.
therefore the easiest language to learn is the most similar language to your native language. the _American Foreign Service Institute_ trains US diplomats and has extensive experience and done a lot of research when it comes to learning a foreign language and how difficult or easy it is for an English native speaker. they have categorised foreign languages into four different groups (group #1 the easiest with 24 weeks or 600 classroom hours while group #4 needs the most training with 88 weeks or 2,200 classroom hours) of difficulty.
group #1 consists of: Dutch/Afrikaans, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish (all Germanic languages) plus Romance languages like Italian, Romanian, Portuguese - all languages are listed for a 24 weeks course. French and Spanish needs 30 weeks or 150 classroom hours more.
group #2: German with 36 weeks or 900 classroom hours.
most other languages are in category #3.
in #4 are Arabic, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese and Korean.
Partly true, depending on what you train for. I did read the text of a Chinese girl who learnt Dutch and she got the word order just perfect. However those speaking English, will experience trouble since Dutch and German adhere to inversion more than English does. Once the English mind connects Dutch words to their English counterparts, the mind will automatically tend towards choosing English word order instead. Probably it would be easier for those with conservative reading habits by reading Shakespeare and maybe even Chaucer, since this is literature from times in which English word order was more in line with her sisters on the continent.
Bud, you are probably one of the biggest film stars in the world at the moment.
Yes, that's correct, I'm almost 2 meters.
yes Pep was the Fussballtrainer (soccer coach for) bayern münchen.
If you live in europe and go on holiday in other european countries a lot of people will understand german better than english. I always use german in other european countries instead of english and everyone understands it and speaks it too and you get nice stories how they learned it.
turn on the subtitles if they are available 👍
Christopher Lee, The Hammer Horror king
I have no idea what they are saying, entertaining to watch though 😊
Hello Joel. A lot of comments today about Bullock's talking.
I found I did not need the subtitles, so the remarks were not too difficult, I reckon.
The pope has spent in the 1980´s some time in Germany as he tried to get a phd at a German university. Nearly all European Royals can speak German as many have a German parent side.
2:22 "we got the Brit here" xD Dude... thats Christopher Lee! Saruman, Count Dooku, Dracular...
And so on...
In this video Chris Pratt also shows his german skills. His pronunciation isn't that good, but his understanding works very very well. What's impressive for me is, that he really just learned it at school, no german relatives or stuff like that.
ruclips.net/video/8nGhk0LnugI/видео.htmlsi=N1sDH8TxJPEaUn_6
German is very closely related to English, the problem is the grammar which requires a lot of attention. Leonardo de Caprio has a German grandmother and Sandra Bullock is part-German.
It is not the German language that is unusually difficult, but the English language that has become very different from the other Germanic languages over the centuries. The influence of French and Celtic on English was extremely strong.
Also Bruce Willis lived as a child in Germany
He was born in Germany … as was Martin Lawrence
Born in Idar-Oberstein.
@@karstenbursak8083 And LeVar Burton...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 don’t forget 7 of 9 aka Jeri Ryan
@@karstenbursak8083 Yeah! You're right. Well... Germans built the first man made object, leavin' the earth atmosphere. Send some to Star Trek...
Yes, learning some German was so much more challenging than any of the other languages I speak. I differ with you, though, when you say that it's an important language to learn. Other than in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, where else is it useful? Spanish, French, Portuguese, Arabic, and Swahili are far more international languages.
All in all, more than 100 million are native speakers. And you can meet people all around Europe, which worked in the German spoken part of Europe. I met once a Portugese house maid, which worked in Switzerland. I talked to her and she talked back in her Swiss German. That was pretty funny...
03:21 Some of them speak better German than Rudi Carell.
Well,he is dutch after all.
I grew up speaking German at home as my paternal grandparents were German immigrants. After my grandmother passed away about 40 years ago we stopped speaking it a lot. Now I barely speak any German.
Dude, his name is Leonardo WILHELM DiCaprio :D
2:54 “My grandmother is from a small town two hours away from Düsseldorf… (something) with Vienna sausage”
Vienna Schnitzel not sausage and the other word was Spetzle.
@@Kullioking Spätzle* is how it is written but I dunno if every keyboard has the Ü ü, Ä ä and Ö ö.
Frankfurt ?
@@raydafuq3570 Spaetzle if you dont have Ä. Ö or Ü
@@Kullioking correct. Forgot to mention that thanks.
Actually Donna Summer speech seemed dubbed, if you look close enough.
Well, some of them are actually very well educated, unlike the mainstream population in USA.
Sandra Bullock's mother was German. Her second name is "Annette". Definitely German. :D
Anti German sentiment during WW1 and WW2 caused many German Americans to stop speaking the language or changing their names. Schmidt became Smith, Braun became Brown, Mueller became Miller etc. My dad didn't start speaking English until he was 6.
We Europeans pick up each other’s languages from holidays in addition to being taught either French, German or Spanish at school. I was taught French from the age of eight understand Spanish and am learning German. All three languages are really useful worldwide 😊
Bud Spencer is very popular in Germany
Very popular? Bud Spencer is a legend.
National treasure
Pep Guardiola, manager Manchester City FC.
If you want to visit Germany again and want to improve your German, take a cue from the pronunciation of Sandra Bullock and Christopher Lee!
Many other people, especially Americans who speak German, often sound like they have chewing gum in their mouths ;)
Since you have already been to Germany, you should still have the “correct” pronunciation in your ear...
THE most popular german speaking celebrity to me is Sandra Bullock! Even she is just half German, growing her early years in Germany, but still speaks decent German. Not perfect, but good enough. She would easily survive over here.
But Let me rate some others you showed: Leo DiCaprio: 30% (He knows some, cuz hge has a granny from Germany)
Donna Summer: 50%
Bud Spencer -I think you have no clue who he is? But 60%
Christopher Lee: 40%
Novak Djokovic: 50%
I know there are some more like Kirsten Dunst, Sarah Chalke, Bruce Willis, Diane Kruger (100% German) and to mention the music-producer Hans Zimmer!!!
Hehe yes... I am a German and sometimes i thinkt. What?.... German?....Hey Bruce Williis was born in Ida Oberstein in Bavaria... and the grandma from di Caprio are living in germany.
We are proud. And sandra bullock, yes she is a mother....my chlildren must learn german . Her best films. Speed and Demolitioan Man with Stalllone.
Idar-Oberstein is in Rhineland-Palatinate, not in Bavaria.
@@seorsamaclately4294 Yes sorry.
There is a bit of a German language interview with Donna Summer from the seventies where she nearly has any accent and speaks very fluent. When she left Germany for the us again she lost it a bit over the decades, but she was really after some 8 years in Germany.. rip ❤ Sandra a Leonardo’s mums are German.. but Leonardo does not speak that much.. there are much more actors who speak French or Italian very well.. on an artistic level German is not important but in Opera. Many opera singers speak German to a certain extent.
Hi, Joel! 😁Now it`s your turn to speak german! Haha! 😄That would be GREAT!!!
Greetings from Germany!
Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder invented Disco music
The company you mentioned seeing a lot is a sports betting/gambling company.
bruce willis ist auch deutscher, er wurde in idar oberstein rheinland-pfalz geboren
bruce willis is german too, he was born in idar oberstein rhineland-palatinate
Sir Christopher Lee was quite humble. He did not only sing in German but made movies and a TV show in German
2:08 “No, I can’t speak German very well. I have not studied it or learnt it. I have sung in German though”
And nevertheless he spoke King Haggard in both the English and German versions of The Last Unicorn. And he appeared in several German Edgar Wallace adaptations of the 60s.
2:46 Leonardo’s grandma is German
Next time you are in Germany feel free to visit 😊 we have beer 🍺
Pep Guardiola used to be a soccer coach at Bayern Munich. So he speak`s a little bit German. Thomas Müller a player from Bayern Munich always makes funny videos that you can watch on You Tube. He is likeable and funny.😅
I think you may have preempted a second Leo DiCaprio clip there
Love to see your reaction when you see people in Amsterdam switch l(European) languages
Bwin is known for sports betting.
When do you start learning German? When do we get to see your first video in Gwrman?
For me, it's important that you like the country and its culture, to enjoy learning the language. As a pupil, I had to learn French, it was awful:I didn't like France or Switzerland , Norway on the other hand:learning the language was fun, and I can use it in Sweden and Denmark as well. BTW:I began to learn at the age of 32.
Yep! But Norway has pretty long winters, which are very dark. So, no thanks...
Leonardo has German ancestery
Bud Spencer was a big comedy film star in Italy.
Funny detail; the presenter interviewing him is actually Dutch: Rudi Carrel. As a famous Dutch singer/entertainer, he later build a career in Germany and - being a Dutchman myself - he always annoyed me; He could speak German perfectly fine but made it a gimmick pretending he was clumsy at it, lacing it with (supposedly) comedic errors. Maybe I'm weird, but I consider deliberately butchering someone's language disrespectful. I don't mind someone making mistake while trying hard to speak a foreign language, but butchering it on purpose; naah.
It's funny when an American says that a German woman can speak German. Yes, Sandra Bullock, as a German, can speak German. (facepalm)
Omg I had no idea Donna Summer spoke German.
And Tina Turner, too... She stayed for years in Cologne, with her German partner and later in Switzerland...
Djokovic speaks Serbian English French Spanish German and Italian
I learnt German and French at school in the UK I also speak Welsh and learning Maori in NZ guess Americans think they speak American but it's actually English they should actually learn Spanish
well, english and german language are from the same family so its not that hard to learn from your perspective, now imagine learning french as chinese lol
Yep! Western Germanic tribes...
7:11 fluent but with a strong Brazilian accent
Having an accent has nothing to do with the ability to speak a language. You can perfectly speak a language and be understood, and still have a different accent. Reducing or losing an accent,that would be the next level and that required total immersion or living in the target country. But is not important unless you want to blend in.
Christopher Lee can speak 7 languages English, simplified Dumb English(American), French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Russian and Swedish
Spoke... He spoke... Rest in peace, Sir Christopher!
And probably some danish too. After all, he has married to a dane from 1961 to 2015.
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 Well... English, German and of course Danish, are all very close related. With his talent, it wasn't realy hard for him, I guess...
5:56 The Pope is obviously not fluent in German and he has a strong non-German accent.
Sandra Bullock gehört eigentlich uns! ☺
Anderen (Menschen) gehören = SKLAVEREI
German isn't so widely spoken. The 6 UN working languages are best: Mandarin, English, French, Russian, Arabic, Spanish. Then you can add Hindi-Urdu, Indonesian, Swahili, Hawaiian, Portuguese, German, Italian, and Esperanto for wider coverage.
German is almost phonetic .
Languages that are going to be very important going forward,,, ENGLISH ( pronounced properly). MANDREN ,,,,CHINESE,,,, ,,, in EUROPE Mandren is taught now to young children,,, As CHINA RISES TO GLOBAL POWER STATES , it’s understood that as an acknowledgment it’s only polite to do so. Business,
GERMAN 🇩🇪 LANGUAGE is very useful in the area ,,,, but other than that it’s not an INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE FOR business,,,, international business even in GERMANY is done using ENGLISH. 🏴
If don't got this... China will be a future enemy, for sure. I wouldn't waste time, to learn that. Or in other words: There will be no big business in the future...
it's interesting that you couldn't tell who spoke german very well and who didn't.
you said "that was really good" when their german really wasn't that good
but you totally "ignored" Sandra Bullock who is almost on native speaker level ( because she grew up in germany but she mixed up a few words here and there)
or Leonardo Di Caprio. His German is not perfect but way better than of the other people you thought spoke good german
hey J can you pls make a reaction on the video " how the usa colonized the usa" ?
But they say she comes off Germans
So just for your information, the german level from all these celebrities were not really good to be honest😅 Only sandra Bullocks german was almost perfect, I had to listen carefully to understand that shes not from germany
Sandra was born and raised (afaik for her first 12 years) in germany (and a bit in austria) by a german mother.
her german skills were only a very tiny bit "rusty" from having lived mostly in the usa for some decades.
on the other hand, she even had a nice german regional (franconian) accent :-)
She IS from Germany.
No she's not from Germany, born in Virginia and it doesn't matter for how long you're not speaking the language, if you speak like she does, than german wasn't your mother tongue... So shes definitely american, but with a decent amount of german in her
@@MegaAtomKarinca yes, i stand corrected in her birthplace, but i would guess that her parents only did some shorter vacation in america to have her born there and automatically get that citizenship. but when someone spends the first 12 years in germany and also has double citizenship until the age of 18 (at that time, people would have had to choose one of the two when becoming an adult; and she applied for a germnan passport later, success unknown) i consider such person to be (at least also) a native german.
from wikipedia : _"For 12 years, Bullock lived in Nuremberg, West Germany, and Vienna and Salzburg, Austria, and grew up speaking German. She had a Waldorf education in Nuremberg. As a child, while her mother went on European opera tours, Bullock usually stayed with her aunt [in germany]"_
of course, with an american father and connections to the usa, she probably was raised bilingual and not *only* with a "mother tongue german" ...
btw: during my schooltime, a girl from my class had gone on an exchange year to the usa and when she returned her german was much worse than Sandra's, and with a heavy american accent. Sandra had been mostly away from germany for 24 years when she held that speech in 2000.
Is German what you are studying?
No, his German vocabulary is between 10 and 20 words.
The moment we told him that 90% of Germans speak English, he decided not to learn it.
@@ichbinbluna3504 ahhhhh, well a lot do speak English but I found my little bit of German useful when I was in Germany
@@tightropewalkergirl6485 No doubt about that...!
München was correct.
Joel said “Munschen” instead of “München”
@@johnloony68 Well... It was a not so bad try...
i you, you say football, not soccer
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Sarah Chalke and Max Verstappen and many others are missing in this video. ;)
Arnold Schwarzeneggers first language is German. He is an Austrian. So that would not be fitting.
And Freddy Starr.
And Christopher Waltz
7:11No, her German wasn't really good..
Not a hugely useful language - only spoken in 6 central European nations. Meanwhile, globally, there are 27 French-speaking and 21 Spanish-speaking.
It‘s interesting that you thought Pep Guardiola‘s German was good. It‘s not. Don‘t misunderstand me - he can communicate well enough, and he will have learned it during his time at Bayern Munich, but it‘s rather broken and a grammatical train wreck. Occasionally you have to do some „translation“ to know what he is talking about. His English is much the same, but he has certainly had more practice with that language. Almost all of the other people have a better command of the language than he does.
Don’t learn GERMAN ,only DUTCH.
Oh you Frisian tenants... Greetings from a Franc...
Why you think German is a useful Language ? Only very few places in the World speak German