I Learned to Speak German from Google Translate
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- This week I attempt to learn to speak German solely from Google Translate. By using a combination of Google Translate’s built-in speech pronunciation and the flashcard app Anki, I memorize a bunch of sentences in German in an efficient way with spaced repetition and then try and have a conversation in German with Anja from @LearnGermanwithAnja. This was a super crazy language challenge that honestly changes my opinion on how to learn languages - totally nuts!
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*Hahaha wow!!! Such a funny video! 😂😀😆 Ich liebe es! ❤❤❤*
This was tag 4 days before the vid lol
Learning German can help you time travel
wtf
@@stubblycuber2729 was?
Unlisted before posted maybe?
"Essen Amerikaner Brot?" And in her mind "Ihr habt doch gar kein gescheites Brot"
Sie hat wahrscheinlich an Schwarzbrot gedacht, aber er meinte Amerikanisches Sandwich Brot (nur mein Vorurteil)
Ja
XD
@@geraltus414 bist du deuch oder warum das XD??
@@elking6864 ja natürlich :D
When you realize that you've been learning German for 6 years and only speak the language mildly better than this guy. It hurts so bad
Nicht aufgeben! :) Also you probably know more about the grammar behind the sentences and how the language is formed instead of just learning sentences like vocabulary. You have a bare tree of 6 years of studying which you can keep on decorating with new knowledge. :D
Try reading books in German, it seems to be working for me. I dont really care about why the words are where they are, I just want to be able to to speak and read in German. If you think about, by 5 years old, most kids are pretty good with the language they are speaking, even if the make mistakes and dont know why the words are where they are.
Watch movies or tv shows in German
@@sophielikestea okay, I am stealing this tree concept of learning languages. It is such an effective analogy.
There was nothing complex in this video and Xiaoma just has way more confidence than many of us could ever hope for lol - but that's because he's used to this, your German is probably way better than you think. I'm from the German speaking part of Italy but my German isn't actually very good. Until I'm comfortable in a discord vc with like 2-3 austrians or germans then suddenly I know what to say. Everyone feels that way about how they speak a foreign language and learning it is not enough, you can have an excellent grasp of the language but if you don't practice it, you won't get the confidence to use it. Good luck with your studies.
The absolutely insane part is that his pronunciation at the start of the conversation was pretty bad, but after hearing a native speak for two minutes his pronunciation improved by like 2000 percent! There were some sentences he said that genuinely sounded native. This guy is nuts
What sentence sounded native?
Man kanns auch übertreiben. Kein Satz in dem Video von ihm hat sich ansatzweise nach Muttersprache angehört ausser du zählst "Mein Name ist Xiaoma". Was er geleistet hat ist beeindruckend und seine Aussprache hat sich während dem Video definitiv verbessert aber es für YT-Likes so zu überspitzen ist schon bisschen peinlich.
@@trpimirkarlovic838 8:03 "Ich bin Amerikaner" was almost perfect
@@poptard7453 Was hast du erwartet?😅 Spiel seine Leistung nicht runter
@@dieserendo Ok, mag sein. Aber der Titel "I learned to speak German through Google Translate" ist einfach übertrieben. Er hat häufige Sätze während eines normalen Kennenlernens auswendig gelernt, mehr nicht. Also den Titel finde ich unangebracht und beleidigt die, die sich wirklich über lange Zeit Mühe gegeben haben, um Deutsch zu beherrschen. Wenn er auch diesen Kommentar liest, wird er wahrscheinlich einen online Übersetzer brauchen, um zu verstehen, was ich sagte.
I am actually a german teacher for adults and - wow - you are really good in learning languages so fast! You just get the sense of a language. Even if my heart is a little bit breaking by noticing you practicing with google, because the translation is normally pretty bad 😅
I gathered, that normally the translation is kinda bad, because Google Translate lacks proper grammar structures and the "feel" for when a word is used well in context, but a Polyglott would bring this ability "onboard" and if you already mastered a language in the same language family the structures are similar, although not the same, which showed in the video to German natives, but overall the method isn't totally useless to someone equipped with already a feeling for similar languages.
der Vorteil ist, dass es im Deutschen viele mögliche Satzstrukturen gibt und deshalb kann Google Übersetzer auch nicht so viel falsch machen.
Google is hiring so many native speaker for developing unusual words and pattern and even knowing several slang, right now. As Latino-Dutch and work and study in Germany, learning German is just like driving car at the cliff highway with so many curved turns roads. I got A2 (without A1) just a month just use free literature and Mein Schatz. ❤
Google translate is much better now than it was invented
This channel: Yeah let's learn some German, shall we?
Ich, ein Deutscher: Umfahren ist das Gegenteil von umfahren.
Nice
It get's less confusing for germans and more confusing for non germans when the sentence structure chnages: "Hast du das Kind umgefahren?" (Did you run over the kid?) or "Hast du das Kind umfahren?" (Did you avoid the kid? [in a vehicle]). Be careful what you awnser...
@@derblaue yes, wir Germans are verrückt!
Gee, as a german, I ask myself everyday how people learn german
Ja, und wenn Fliegen hinter Fliegen, fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach
Wow, i am german and i can tell you that you did great. Your pronounciation was very good already. I was able to understand everything. Go on like that. Congrats. Viele Grüße aus Deutschland 🇩🇪😁
Opa tu fala portugues tbm
Axel! Eae
Seriously??
@@just_another_user yes seriously
i am also german you did a great job gut
My thoughts in German: "Digga, ist das sein Ernst? Nach einer Woche mit Google Translate kann er so gut reden? :D" Mad props, you seem to be very gifted with a talent for languages!
lol bro wieso ist das impressive, mein deutsch ist way better selbst ohne 1 woche google translate auf easy basis
@@pnksmigge5324 richtiger witzbold
@@pnksmigge5324 And yet you add English in your "perfect" German. Go grow up lmao.
Kann mir nicht vorstellen, während einem englischen Video auf Deutsch zu denken
@@pnksmigge5324 bruh
The most impressive thing I mentioned is that you used the formally "Sie" instead of the informally "du" because there is only "you" in english.
But in this example/conversation it would be definatelly fine to use "du" especially because she used it herself.
Ich glaube er hat "sie" benutzt weil er es so auf google gelesen hat
That's not impressive, actually I would say every beginner knows the ''Sie'' form before the ''du'' form.
You wird von Google translator immer als Sie übersetzt.
@@holliswilliams8426 I agree because of the method of learning being google translate but on the contrary du feels more natural as a native english speaker for me as a very poor german speaker that can understand the gist of most german conversations.
As we germans say: "Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache" - "German language, hard language"! And you did very well! You're very talented for sure, keep it up!
True, but English is a Germanic language, so it’s easier for native English speakers than most
@@totinospizzarolls9502 English is 50 percent germanic and 50 percent romanic, so yeah
@@totinospizzarolls9502 Not true. Maybe german vocabulary is easier to learn for english speakers than most asian natives but german grammar ( wich is the core of german ) is hard even for english speakers.
@@YujiroHanmaaaa I'm American and I've noticed German has a lot of similarities to english in vocabulary. Sometimes the structure is the same as in english. Grammar is complex and precise. But you aquire it indirectly through input. Copy and mimic natives. Eventually the patterns become second nature. I think it's a bit exaggerated. A lot of the little words are basically the same. For example also, so, was, ist, und, diese, uns, für exc.
@@brendon2462 german "also" means complete different than english "also". Just like the word english GIFT wich actually means poison in German... " so, für, und " are the closest similiarity you just mentioned. There are more french words that are closer to english and have more similiarity.
Er ist einfach ein Naturtalent, was sprachen lernen angeht . Nach einer Woche schon so gut Deutsch zu sprechen ist echt beeindruckend👍🏽👍🏽
Richtig... Problem ist nur, dass seine Anfänge mit Google Translate sind... und Google Translate übersetzt recht bescheiden. Sein "I learned german with google translate" beispielsweise ist insofern falsch übersetzt, als dass es die falsche Vergangenheitsform ist.
@@ulliulli Naja, aber man sagt den Satz in Deutsch auch nicht im Präteritum, sondern im Perfekt, also stimmt das schon so, in dieser Hinsicht. Aber ich weiss genau was du meinst, deswegen benutze ich Google Translate eigentlich nie, da die Übersetzungen einfach zu ungenau sind und vor allem, wie Xiaoma es perfekt gesagt hat….man weiss nie in welcher Höflichkeitsform der Translator den Satz ausspuckt. Bin echt gespannt auf Übersetzungssoftwares der Zukunft und wie gut die werden.
Ok, I clicked the translate button and I understood what you all wrote using Google Translate to English. I only noticed one weird sentence, but that could have been a grammatical error on your part or on Google. Google Translate has definitely improved a lot.
Definitiv, aber ich glaube wenn wir uns so motiviert damit befassen würden, und jeden Tag nur eine Fremdsprache lernen würden, dann könnten wir das warscheinlich auch recht schnell. In der Schule lernt man ja nur so "langsam" weil man 1. Als ganzer Kurs lernt, und 2. Weil es nur 3 - 4 Stunden pro Woche sind (Hausaufgaben ausgenommen).
Zudem konnte er ja auch wirklich nur die basic Wörter und musste nicht etliche Vokabeln lernen. Das ist auch ein großer Vorteil. Ein weiterer ist, dass englisch und Deutsch die gleichen Buchstaben verwenden und sich im Satzbau fast nur durch die Satzstruktur unterscheiden, ganz anders als im Türkischen Russischen oder Lateinischen, wo einzelne Wörter direkt viel mehr ausdrücken. Mecum est (2 Worte) = Das gehört mir = That is mine (je 3 Worte).
Auch die Aussprache ist im deutschen finde ich auch nicht allzu kompliziert, bis auf ch und "ch" oder o und "o"... Du weißt was ich meine.
Gleichzeitig hat er unabhängig von der Zeit auch keine zusätzlichen Fächer, die er parallel lernen muss, was auch ein großer Vorteil ist, da sich das Gehirn auf ein Gebiet fokussieren kann und nicht sinnlos abgelenkt wird.
@@OzienPlays I recommend „deeple“ though, it‘s wwwaaayyy better. Even if google translate might have improved.
Unbelievable how you learned to speak German at this extreme level in just one week. Incredible!
Extreme level? XD
Basic level. Very basic.
As German I have to say that if he really learned German just with Google translate….. that’s crazy! Now imagine what he can do with a tutor and more time! He will learn to speak fluent German within less than a year! That’s amazing!
"I know a little German."........."Yeah I know him too, it's Peter, he is only 5 feet tall."
🤣
hahahahahaha
Hahahah
haha 😂
I don't get it
Egal wie lang man Deutsch gelernt hat, Deutsche werden immer irgendwann sagen: "Wow, aber deine Aussprache ist echt gut."
Ausser zu nem Schweizer/Österreicher 😀
Nicht unbedingt. Ich denke auch, dass sie eher beeindruckt war, weil er erst seit einer Woche Deutsch lernt. Dafür war es schon echt gut. Aber jemand muss ihm das "ch" und das "ü" beibringen ohne Google Translate! "Frühstück" war schon sehr holprig. Trotzdem, für eine Woche war das besser als alles was ich in meiner ersten Woche Englisch zustande gebracht habe. XD
Standard XD
Er ist aber auch echt ein Naturtalent und macht seit Jahren super content.
Greetings from a long time viewer from Munich
@@red1337ch Schwiizerdütsch ist echt schlimm! :D
Ich hab nen russischen arbeitskollegen bei dem ich nach 5 jahren erst erfahren habe er ist eigentlich russe 😂 bei dem ist nichts russisches mehr da 😂
I did 4 years of German in high school and I was able to catch most of this but there’s stuff I’ve forgotten or haven’t practiced. I really wish we did more speaking in school. I enjoyed learning the grammar but I think if I learned it more organically by absorbing it, that would help. I took Spanish in college and it has a comparable difficulty. I may continue with one of the languages
Go on with German 🇩🇪
It may sound really dumb, but you don't need a language partner to practice speech. Speaking to yourself is not just useful to practice but it is also a good feedback tool because you will notice where you struggle.
Speaking German and writing German are to absolutely different things. The RUclipsr can say basic sentences but would fail to form and write sentences in German. Unfortunate that you haven't spoken that much in school because i can assure you, speaking is a whole lot easier then writing
I took 4 years in high school as well! I’ve lost a good bit as I’ve never had anyone to speak to after high school 10 years ago
@@AlexC0816 even native germans have difficulty with writing everything 100% correct. there are so many little exceptions and rules that even on a corporate level you will find at least one typo every 100 or so words, its kinda funny.
So stunning, Xiaoma! Congratulations on this achievement 🎉😊 I am German, and I really like and am surprised how well and soon you learned some basics just with Google Translate! Hearing you speak German made me feel even more connected to you, but either way I am a big fan of your channel, whatever language or experience you offer atm;) 🙏🏼 Much love from Germany
It's funny when you can understand both languages almost fluently and don't even notice anymore when they switch from german to english or vice versa
yeah I thought exactly the same at some point of the video xD
I can understand Plautdietsch (Mennonite low German) but don't really speak it,but I can kinda read it cause it's not really a written language.
But the older generation speak half English and Plautdietsch in the same sentence. My friends when they heard my parents speak it wear like huh? 😂 I'm like it's normal to allot of people.
German (high German)I can understand a word hear and there, but can't follow a conversation.
Was you really need zu lernen ist: Denglisch.
It's lots of Spaß (that's a ss und kein B) for all of us die dich understanden. Have a good one...
@@Actionronnie That you don't understand High German as well as Plautdietsch is not so surprising. Quite a few High German have difficulties with Low German and vice versa. The latter usually have it easier. This is due, among other things, to the sound shift that comes into play here, but also to other terminology.
Take our father as an example:
Plautdietsch:
Ons Voda em Himmel!
Dien Nome saul heilich jehoole woare.
Low German (here East Frisians):
Uns Vader, de du büst in Himmel,
geheiligt was din Naam
Standard German:
Vater unser im Himmel,
geheiligt werde dein Name.
It depends, also with Low German, on the region and even if many people now speak High German in Germany, German is dialectically very, very diverse.
By the way, our father in Hessian (my "native language") reads like this:
Unser Vadder im Himmel, Dein Nome wolle merr heilisch haale.
However, this only affects a very small region of Hesse ^^
So, quite normal, if you can't understand everything.
I’ve been learning German for 5 months, so not even close to fluent but I started noticing that that happens to me too now. It’s so weird but cool
As a learner who just finished a1, I UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING, THIS FEELS GOOD.
Das fühlt sich doch toll an,oder?
I’m learning Arabic and I’m starting to fully understand stuff it’s a crazy feeling when u can listen to music in a different language
@@fukdaesh really then what does انا لا احبك mean
@@Hislink I can’t fully read writing I only understand a few words but I can kinda speak it and can understand well I’m starting to learn writing
@@fukdaesh oh ok
You are sooooo good with any language seeing how everybody praises you!
Your German after one week is impressive, I wish I could learn any language as fast as you. You must have a huge talent for that or else the biggest willpower I have seen.
You‘re very sympathetic, keep it up! Your videos are great and entertaining and exploring and hearing new languages through and from you is just very very cool!
Your German is amazing! Still learning German today, 3 years on it I can't wait to travel back to Germany sometime in the future. Amazing video Xiaoma!
👍👍❤❤
Dude this is insane.
As someone from Germany I am shocked. Like it's crazy how good your German was after only one week ?!
talent
Ja der hat ein krasse Auffassungsgabe
@@15selo fr
English and german are from the same language family so pretty easy. German might be a bit harder but still its pretty easy for me and english speakers to learn compared to like Russian or Bengali
@@painfulrug16960 not talent he has a system he teaches and said in many videos. People who say it’s talent are just lazy to do it themselves. Any talent can be learned and it’s an insult to those who worked super hard on it only someone to say they just naturally know how to do it and they didn’t work hard for it because it naturally comes to them from birth which is not true at all.
I am a German native speaker and I can confirm that was pretty good. The pronunciation was okay but you need to work on that. Grammar-wise you just made a few mistakes but anyone would have been able to understand 100% what you were saying. The most common mistake that foreign people make, especially English-speaking people, is the word order in a sentence. You said: "Heute ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch." the correct word order would be: "Ich spreche heute ein bisschen Deutsch." Or if you have auxiliary verbs in German, people say: "Heute ich habe gemacht Frühstück für meine Frau." When in fact it is: "Ich habe heute Frühstück für meine Frau gemacht." If you get that right you will impress many German people and convince others you learned German for a long time cause most people don't get that right even after years of studying German.
The second thing to master is the difference between formal and informal language "Du" and "Sie".
We Germans for instance always have huge problems with prepositions in Englisch, a thing I still struggle with after 24 years of learning Englisch.
For one week that was impressive but we already knew you could make it. Maybe you try it again with real human teachers. I would like to see how far you can come with real-life teachers. Great job!
I would say that grammar and particularly word order is definitely the hardest part of language learning. Anyone can learn pronunciation with the right dedication and help from others. But grammar? Kind of on your own with that one 😞.
Tekamolo is what you need to learn for the word order in german.
i've been learning german for a while. I know "Heute ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch." Is incorrect,
Would it be correct to say "Heute spreche ich ein bisschen Deutsch." I ask because i was taught this lol (although maybe im forgetting some grammar already)
@Dreyarde das habe ich in anderen comment gefragt. Danke fur die Grammatik Erinnerung :D. Ich kann ein bisschen Deutsch und ich habe es nicht alles vergessen
@@xXxZugoldragonxXx The way I learned it is that the verb is generally in the 2nd position, and otherwise the word order is TMP (Time, Manner, Place). BUT you can move things around as you want to emphasize something in particular. z.B:
Ich habe heute Frühstück gemacht. = I made breakfast today. No particular emphasis.
Heute habe ich Frühstück gemacht. = Today I made breakfast. (I made it today, whereas maybe I don't usually make it on this day, or maybe I don't make it often at all.)
Heute spreche ich ein bisschen Deutsch = You're making the emphasis that you're doing it TODAY, as opposed to any other day. If you just said "Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch", that's just making the statement that you can speak a bit of German in general.
Wow, Respekt Xiaoma. Das war echt klasse. Talent ohne Ende. wenn alles so einfach wäre wie eine Sprache zu lernen, wäre die Welt ein besserer Ort.
Erstmal einen wedeln
Ich stimme dir vollkommen zu, mein freund
I teach German to friends who want to try and it's so much easier to learn when you're in conversation and not just over Google translate. Very well done! And having a conversation with someone who is speaking a german dialect makes it even harder (she is from the south of Germany). Very nice!
As a german myself this will be very interesting
same bin auch gespannt
same XD i was laughing when he said "learning the grammar naturally" :D
his german sounds like arabic XD
ok sounds pretty decent, i can perfectly understand him hhhh too funny
Endlich mal deutsch 😅.
Thats just amazing how crazy good you are! Born and raised in germany and i can definitely say you speak better in a week than many people after a few years! Amazing talent.
For one week of learning this was mindblowing considering how hard of a language German is to learn. Let me tell you, I am German and even we really struggle learning our language quite often actually.
Wow, I'm german and was able to understand everything. Sure, the grammar wasn't always 100% right but holy, learning all of that by yourself while only using Google Translate? That's crazy! Keep up the work.
Im german too, but i write in english because its cooler
@@Phidias28 I don't understand the point you're trying to give here.
@@IceBro Hä? Red doch deutsch...
@@Phidias28 Warum sollte ich? Das Video ist schließlich auf englisch und DU hast mir auf englisch geantwortet....
Fight!
I am a fan of Anja and I began learning German from her videos! Dankeschön Anja!
Hey Xiaoma ive recently see your videos and was schocked how good you speak those languages. Im a german dude and if you are in germany sometime after covid i would like to invite you to some traditional german food from "Nordrhein-Westfalen" . Keep the learning up and sorry my bad Englisch. You are an inspiration
The most basic rule: German is a V2 language. That means, apart from questions and giving orders (and subordinate clauses, but those are a thing straight from hell in every language), the verb is the second information in a sentence. Example: "Yesterday I went to the cinema". German: "Gestern (yesterday) ging (went) ich (I) ins Kino (to the cinema)". Or, to sound a bit less "stiff": "Gestern bin (= a declension of "sein") ich ins Kino gegangen". In spoken German we almost exclusively use the perfect tense, which is built with either "sein" (to be) or "haben" (to have).
Other than that: Pretty cool experiment and it turned out really well. But as you've said, there's no one to turn to if you have questions. I mean, how are you supposed to understand seperable verbs just from google translate? Or how are you supposed to learn words like "doch", "mal", "ja", "also", "ganz", "halt", "einmal", etc.? German is a language full of modal particles that aren't easily translated into English.
@BIGFOOOOOT V2: "Verb in second position".
God, as a german seeing you learning our so-called "language" this fast just with Google makes me want so see more of it!! Please, make more german content
Careful, you will scare the Brits using the term V2. Highly recommend not using the term if you go over there... :P
@@Ryan-xu9zb I don't often talk about German grammar when in the UK, so I'll think the Brits are safe. For now. ;)
It really also depends on how you learn. In my opinion grammar is secondary. When you can communicate a bit and speak it, you'll learn the grammar automatically.
What i always find most important is to learn correct pronunciation from the start (and it's somehow something no one pays much attention to). When you learn a language by using it, you might as well use it correctly from the start. :)
As a german, this was what I was actually waiting for! Since I do not really understand anything besides english, being able to actually comprehend what you are doing is just great! Now I feel like I want to help out with some of the stuff we germans do with our language xD
@Sigma - Masculino yo, he didn't answer but if you need help, I would be really glad to help you! Just hit me up with your discord or some Form of your socials. :D
@Sigma - Masculino sent you a message :)
Wow I am really impressed.
Ich habe noch nie jemanden gehört oder gesehen, der nach einer Woche so gut deutsch gesprochen und verstanden hat. Du kannst stolz auf dich sein. :)
Wow. Du machst das wunderbar! Weiter so.
Du hast Deutsch so schnell gelernt und deine Aussprache war toll. Ausgezeichnet!! T_T
His German was actually so good. Few minor mistakes but thats google’s fault, otherwise grammar and word choice was all pretty spot on.
I totally agree with you, my friend. German is the most beautiful language in the world
How is that Google's fault? All the grammatical errors were because he said them wrong. And he learned very limited basic vocabulary that he knew he was going to use in a basic conversation like in the video so I don't know what's the fuss with the video.
Finally a language that I know (I am Dutch), so I can hear if you are really able to use the correct pronunciations. It was not flawless, but it was very easy to understand. I am quite impressed with what you achieved in such a short time and only using Google Translate.
It's not perfect, but I'm amazed at how much you've learned in such a short period of time.
Being able to learn a language, which you can actually speak and use to communicate, only through google translate is so impressive.
After six years of french classes (mandatory in Switzerland), I still can't complete a sentence... Such a talented dude, keep it going!
Xiaoma is the language equivalent of an 80's training montage. What should take years of dedication only takes a few days. Keep inspiring man.
Wow, my family name is very close to your name. Do people mispronounced it as Hubbard? Or Hi-bard? I get those a lot. Its annoying.
Don’t be fooled. I’ll take someone with 3 yrs studying (seriously) a language vs xiaoma with 2 weeks because memorizing phrases is NOT equal to speaking it.
@@SevenMilliFrog Click baiting at its best. I'm actually more impressed with his will to explore new languages rather than his real language skills because most of the time it is just phrases that you can find in any tourism guide.
ever watch star trek voyager when the alien comes on board and leans their language by hearing a few verbs and nouns ..... yep , thats what im thinking Xiao is , hes an alien sent here to learn all the langauges and sure making a bit of youtube money and fame along the way lol
We'll not to diminish his work, but it shouldn't take years. I tought similar phrases to a group of immigrant students learning German and it took a week (1,5 hours each day for five days), for most off them to be able to use them like he did.
He has the added difficulty that he has to pick out patterns on his own, but then again he has a much better understanding of language/ languages to draw from.
And he trained every day multiple hours a day spaced out. So he did a good job and showed dedication, but it's no miracle or something that would take years of practice.
Schöne Grüße an alle deutschen Zuschauer :-)
Grüße zurück :D
Grüße zurück
er soll mal mit wem lernen
Also alle Zuschauer?😂
Ei gude
I always wondered, how good you actually speak the language when you do these challenges and how easy/hard it is for the natives to really understand you.
I could never imagine it since so far I always only saw videos about languages that I don't speak myself.
but here I can actually judge it - and for one week that was amazing. especially through google. I know people who tried learning german for month or even years through actual german classes and they sounded way worse than you.
mach weiter so, würde dich gern noch mal mit deutschen sprechen sehen - vielleicht kommst du nächstest jahr mal nach münchen aufs oktoberfest :D
voll gute Idee, du bist eigentlich richtig gut! weiter so!
I took German through college. One thing my teacher taught me to say to not sound like a German learner but a German speaker is to use, "ich Kann deutsch." Instead of "ich Spreche deutsch".
hmm, actually it would be "ich kann deutsch sprechen" (i can speak german) ... that is at least how i would say it as a german myself. without the verb at the end it does feel a little empty. xD if you do it in a list though like "ich kann deutsch, chinesisch, englisch, spanisch, ..." then the verb at the end is more optional.
but definitely "ich spreche Deutsch" is something that we don't use that much, depends on the dialect and person though.
The thing is behind why "ich spreche Deutsch" is not always accurate because if you put any other language instead of "Deutsch" the sentence would be false, because it actually means that you are speaking german right now with that sentence or when in a little different context the previous sentence. So for example if you are speaking in Chinese at the moment and then a german asks "In welcher Sprache sprichst du gerade?" (what language are you currently speaking in?) then it would be a valid answer to say "Ich spreche Chinesisch" :)
So depends on the context :D
Greetings from Northern Germany btw :)
@@datsteves wo in Norddeutschland kommst du aus? Ich komme aus Dänemark, aber ich habe teilweise Norddeutschen Herkunft. Vielleicht von das Schleswig dänisch war an, aber ich bin nicht ganz sicher (weil meine Urgroßmutter adoptieren war gewesen, und wir weißen nicht woher sie stammen).
@@datsteves nah many germans would say 'ich kann deutsch' since its more of a slang what a real german would use and not the correct full sentence
@@gretchen1234 ah let's be honest in slang, if a person asks you "welche Sprachen sprichst du?" It's more likely they won't make a sentence at all. "Deutsch, Englisch, n bissl Franzsösich." that's why I often fnd learning slang (in the sense of 'learning how to speak like a native on the street') a bit of a mess. There's some grammar, but often, for convenience we just use the shortest possible answer. If it's about 'how to sound like a german' let's be honest, the answer to "do you speak german?" is neither "Ich kann deutsch", nor "ich spreche deutsch", nor "Ja, ich spreche deutsch", nor even "Ja." the answer is a resoundng. "Mh-hmm"
@@thesayes6231 well yes, the options you mentioned are also right and often used. I was more talking about the case when using the verb "können" (ich kann deutsch sprechen) the main verb "sprechen" is dropped and it becomes (ich kann deutsch"
As a native German speaker I cannot imagine how difficult it must be. Since our grammar is so complex I imagine that the translations are lacking explanations in order to unterstand what you are learning.
I once talked to someone studying German as a foreign language and they said that you have to learn the rule, and then you have to study and remember a list of exceptions to the rule.
So you have my greatest respect for approaching this challenge
I think German grammar is a bit hard in the beginning but when you pass this phase it will get so easy and sweet😇
I never tried to learn but guten abend, ich bin danny aus new york amerika, Uber mein deutsch es ist müll 😂
im learning korean
ach komm, er hat einfach ein paar wenige Standart Floskeln und kürzeste Sätzchen vom Stapel gelassen. Und seine Aussprache war ganz okay. Das war aber auch alles. Hier von "I learned to speak german" und von Grammatik zu sprechen ist lächerlich.
I can spell panzerkampfwagen
Super Video! In just that Time I wouldn‘t even been able to learn any language. You are very talented my friend, Respect
Was für eine Maschine im positiven Sinne! Hut ab!
This video was recommended to me and I instantly knew: "Die Kommentarspalte ist Hoheitsgebiet der Bundesrepublik Deutschland." and everyone posts the most tricky aspects of our language.
Uhhhh... Konjunktiv I .... Der Bundeskanzler meinte dass die Entscheidung anstunde
@@krtzotaDer Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod
Rindfleischettiketierungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
Sei gegrüßt Kamerad
"Google translate has gotten so good!"
Japanese Google translate hiding in the corner sweating.
Yes
English to Japanese is actually pretty accurate, but the reverse cannot be said
@@manji6833 the grammar is very uh.... interesting to say the least
Bing is also a desaster
i have been using a bit of google translate here and there for japanese. german to japanese or english to japanese seems to work pretty well, but translating something from japanese to german or english seems to not work quite as good. you still understand it, but the sentences are often grammatically incorrect.
man your ability to learn languages and keep them known is awesoome. I'm struggling speaking correct english for years and you spit out new languages in weeks xD
Goeie uitspraak, blijf zo verder doen!
Unglaublich gute Aussprache und sehr schnell gelernt für die paar Tage, wenn man bedenkt, dass Deutsch eine sehr schwere Sprache alleine von der Grammatik her ist. Respekt !
Die Google Übersetzer Grammatik ist aber komplett Müll 😂
You can see him learning every time she says a new word he hasn't heard yet. The dudes crazy good at learning languages
That's like the exact opposite of me
That's really impressive! I'm German and I think it's fantastic how quickly and confidently you acquire languages. Please make a video of how good your German has gotten in the meantime. Greetings from Germany.
Please explain why some Germans say ich, dich, nicht (with a hard ch as in the Scottish word loch) and others (including all of the music artists) pronounce it as a softer isch, disch, nischt etc. This is very confusing to a learner.
@@kayla-Rey22 it’s different dialects Germany has many different ones and most singers in Germany sing without one depending on where you are people also talk without one
@@peachyskeleton7484 : Ok, thank-you
I've been learning German for a few months and I can't believe how good he is already lol. It really is true that once you learn have a second language learning another is a lot easier. TBF the word order took a while for me, and I still only know the standard order xd
I just asked my uncle to bring 4 whole bread from Germany because German bread is the best :D
real one!
But still you won’t be able to experience the true true flavor and texture, because it will lose its crispiness after 24 hours. But still good though.
french are better with bread 🥖 🍞
@@Suzuha_Amane baguettes yes but just bread it's the Germans for me
@@cynnidc ok
Your ability to grasp languages in a short amount of time is always so fascinating.
Sehr gut. Nach einer Woche schon so gut! Gratulation!
Wow this was so awesome! You've motivated me to try and learn german again!
I'm currently studying German (in Germany). Google translate is one of the worst possible tools that one could use... It's very inaccurate, German has very odd forms of expressions and grammatical elements that Google translator often does not take into account, like separable prefix verbs and cases...
Google translate is getting better. It was much worse a few years ago. And the most problems it has/had are between other languages than English. Like between German and Spanish. It used to feel like they always translated everything to English first. I don’t know if they fixed that.
@@sphhyn I believe Google Translate still uses English as intermediate language.
DE => FR is translated as DE => EN => FR
That's kind of the point of this video lol
Ich hasse es ganz genau. Die Übersetzung ist meistens falsch oder nicht direkt zum Punkt und immer das Problem mit dem trennbaren Verben. Nicht zum vergessen den Verben mit Präpositionen, da gibt es auch nicht.
I mean he does speak very well for 5 days
I had war flashbacks to my highschool German teacher religiously telling the class to not use google translate and if we needed a dictionary to use beolingus as a resource so I was like SHOOKETH at how well this turned out
A few years ago that was so much the truth. But today, Google Translate is actually more than useable for widely spoken western languages like German, English, French, Spanish and so on.
Google translate has improved radically over the years
Well he is definitely still right. A lot of the stuff he said was grammatically incorrect, but the sentences are still understandable for germans.
@@somethingguy4928 but I think learning a language with google translate will still be a good idea, if you e.g. want to learn german just because you are spending your holiday in Germany or something like that
This is so cool I'm Danish so I understand German and I definitely understood all you were saying. Great job!
ganz großes Kino! just love for you buddy. Greetings from Germany
*PLEASE* keep this up!! Make this a series!! You got a lot of followers in Germany! Also you did amazing. Grüße aus Deutschland - Greetings from Germany. PS: German is probably THE one language you can learn the fastest as English is actually a germanic language. You'll master german in no time 💪
Now you should learn to speak Finnish from the lyrics of metal songs by Finnish bands, that would be fun
Yes!
Unglaublich und absolut beeindruckend! Well done! Ich ziehe meinen Hut!
Liebe deine Videos Bro, so beeindruckend. Keep it up ❤
Helps to humanize the fact that memory is a combination of many thoughts, expressions and interactions that help to solidify the knowledge. Whereas a lot of people mistakenly think you just memorize the same thing over and over again. Well, here's Xiaoma, one of the best language memorizers you'll find, describing how challenging it is to just coldly repeat the same phrase in your mind over and over without any grounding to the reasons or alterations that help solidify it.
That's kind of the reason I don't use Spaced repetition systems like Anki. If I ever use if will be with phrases I already heard on a film or on a RUclips video por podcast.
Im German myself. So this should be interesting to hear a American speak German. 😂 i understood you. But you just need to learn to put words in a sentence correctly.
Hahaha yeah
That's why google translate sucks because they mix it up and when a native speaker of a language you're trying to talk to looks confused it's because it's usually not correct
@@malachivigil9817 omg so true! I seriously embarrassed myself cause I used that method and it was awful. 🤦
It's called Wortschatz for a reason.
me too lol
Wow, very impressive, I'm a german and I heard from many people, who wanted to learn German to understand Rammstein lyrics, it's very cool learning a new language, especially something that's so different from the mother tongue in pronunciation, congrats on your success, currently I'm trying to learn Spanish to understand some of the lyrics by The Warning.😁
Keep it on, greetings from Germany!😀
Wow, his language skills are mad impressive. I live in Germany and still remember my first english test I had after a couple of weeks back in 5th grade. We had to fill in some words in a random text and I struggled a lot with the conjugation. My English language proficiency only reached his level in about 7th and he does this with Google translate within a week 😳
Keep it up. Your german is great for just 5 days of learning.
Love from Germany 🇩🇪
It's so crazy how he can speak german so good after this short time.. it really gives me motivation to learn a new language.. thanks for the video:)
I totally agree with you, my friend. Everyone can learn any language with internet
Na dann, aufgeht's! Japanisch ist toll habe ich gehört. Aber fleißig dran bleiben, sonst kommt der Duolingo Vogel
@@deutschmitpurple2918 Ja, Das ist richtig, mein Freund
@@gytan2221 ❤️❤️❤️
Pretty good, can’t wait to see your progress! 🥰
What an inspirational video! I love this!!!
I like how he said „Sie“ and then „Du“ a few seconds later 😂
The fun thing about translate is that in most cases, it will translate to the informal "Du", except when it gives a hint in the sentence that the setting is much more likely to be formal. So you get a mixture of informal "Du" and formal "Sie" (I'll leave out the other forms to not spoil any of the fun).
The 'und Sie?' was random formality. Hehe
yh i think google is a bad way to learn language.not smart enough, i wouldnt reconmended it. but ialway love to see xiaoma how he can master it hhehe. keep up
I’m an American from NJ and have been studying German since I was 7 years old and have passed a few fluency exams. I can say that you did great
Was zur Hölle? Ich bin selbst Deutscher und... das ist verrückt. Ich bin wahnsinnig beeindruckt davon, wie gut du nach einer Woche deutsch sprichst. Ich bin ehrlich begeistert!
Dude, as a Spanish, German and English speaker this video confirms all I've ever thought about language learning in general. MIMESIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT. The way you were able to dissect and pick up the minutia and the little inflexions in the pronunciation in such a short amount of time is SICK! Bravo!
Keep up the good work.
If you ever need an additional German, or Spanish speaker, let me know.
Super! Toll gemacht! Ich gratuliere!
You can be very proud of yourself-Du kannst stolz auf dich sein.Ich finde es klasse!😊
Sehr gut eigentlich nur für eine Woche! Das ist eine große motivazion für mich! Ich lerne Deutsch und Griechisch gleichzeitich seitdem lezten Jahr und ich kann sagen, dass die Deutsche Sprache nicht so einfach ist. Ich wünsche allen Sprachlernern viel Glück!
Wow I understood almost everything and I only took German class for two years. German and English can be very similar.
@@kristinyokohama1756 that's true. English is part of the Germanic language family. The German tribes of Saxons and Angeln came to England to fight against the Vikings. They takeover most of England. For example, a cat is a Kat in their language und today we use Katze. The dutch people speaking a similar dialect, like the old nordic german dialects. So dutch sounds like something between English and modern German.
Your pronunciation was very good for just listening to audios, like not having any guidance. Also, your comprehension from Anja seemed very great as well.
👍👍🤗🤗
Voll gut gemacht 👍. Du hast echt Talent für Sprachen. Verrückt dass du dafür nur eine Woche gebraucht hast. Echt klasse 👍😉
Bin echt beeindruckt! Man kann also selbstständig schon sehr viel selbst erlernen, dazu gehört aber ein sehr starkes Interesse, die Bereitschaft und das Durchhaltevermögen dazu. Wenn man aber schon andere Sprachen so gut kann, dann könnte ich mir vorstellen, dass das Grundverständnis für andere Aussprachen einen "etwas" leichter fällt, als jemand der überhaupt anfängt eine Fremdsprache zu lernen. Wie auch immer dieser coole Typ hat mich dazu motiviert dies in nächster Zeit vielleicht mal mit Französisch oder Spanisch zu versuchen :D
Damn as a german Im super excited about this video!
Okay even though your grammer isnt always on point, especially your sentence order, your pronunciation is on point sometimes and you carried through the conversation quite well.
Der, die, das, den, dem, des--warum ist Deutsch so schwer? Ich habe nur Spaß gemacht! Übung macht den Meister!
In my opinion, German is one of the "best" languages that exist, because of its percision. We have a lot of words and word-combinations for a lot of things, and some of the most famous authors and philosophers of all time wrote in German. Like Goethe, Kafka, Thomas Mann, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hermann Hesse, Günther Grass, Friedrich Schiller, Rainer Rilke ,Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and so on and so on... I love my language and it's History!
I love your beer. Wish I could've learned your language in the 5 years I studied it in school, but it just didn't stick.
@IbrahimIbnYusuf He was a bad writer. Why would he be included? What a stupid comment.
@IbrahimIbnYusuf he has no business being on this list or comment section. This is nothing to joke about
Loved Kafka in Final Fantasy 6
@IbrahimIbnYusuf Germans take the subject of Hitler and Nazism very seriously.
my eyes almost fell out, you really have talent in learning languages. Viel Erfolg!👍☺️
Im dutch and trough middleschool you have and can choose for the classes of German. You spoke better than some of my classmates for over 6 years
This is SO impressive. One can tell that you have the ability to really, really quickly grasp what I call the spirit of a language, by which I mean the natural feel of a language, that allows you to speak a language gramatically correct (-ish) without thinking about or even knowing the grammatical rules of said language. I'm a German native speaker, and I learned English as a foreign language in school. I would consider myself quite gifted when it comes to learning languages, but it took me a good four years of lessons in school to develop a sense for the "spirit" of the English language. Of course, I was very young when I started, and if I were to pick up a new language today I would quite certainly be much faster as well. But you are learning German. And one can tell you have some kind of grasp of the spirit of German maybe even on day one (although that could have just been a sentence memorized very well), but at least on day two.
And the way you spoke in German at the end of the week, actually communicating quite well, after studying not even four fucking hours? Holy shit, that's so impressive. And all of this from fucking Google Translate! I honestly don't even want to know what you could achieve in a week of focused learning with a native speaking teacher. You are so gifted, my friend, so very gifted.
I absolutely agree, and I love it when a german is able to speak the english language as well as you do, its quite rare
I think you'd be unpleasantly surprised how much harder it is to pick up a language when you are older. Don't underestimate the brain plasticity of your teenage years.
@@babs0970 Interest in the language is definitely very important but there is scientific evidence that proves the plasticity and malleability of young brains. That is not a fact one can deny. Good luck with your language studies.
didn't you realise that this was all fake just for the views ? one simply doesn't learn a language in a week using google translate. google translate is actually quite garbage and I have used it countless times when talking to my german friends and the amount of errors it has is simply insane
I totally agree with you
Actually, Xiaoma, I was a really proud german subscriber watching this video. I didn't doubt you for one second. The fact that you already built present perfect senteces on the first day, naturally, showed me your learning skill. It's fascinating as a young teacher to foreigners trying to learn german. If you ever have any questions, feel free to ask me. I'm pretty on top with my comparisons to the english language. My brothers wife is thai. I tried learning thai for a bit, but I only remember a few phrases and numbers. Unfortunately my teacher wasn't that good.. and it wasn't about the alphabet and writing for me. I just wanted to be able to talk to my nephews thai family whenever we get to see them. Maybe I'll get to learning more one day. Greetings from Germany. (I'm a lil late on this video)
Wooooowwww! Was für eine Leistung! Great job! You've learned sooo much and it is sooo goood!
This is mad! I was actually able to understand everything!
I think the craziest thing is not only that he was able to form sentences, but that he understood what Anja said to him and answered in a way that made sense
*Video has ‘German’ in the title*
Germans: Hippity hoppity, this comment section is now our property.
Auf diese Kommentare habe ich gewartet. Das ist der 1. Kommentar den ich gefunden habe:D
Viele andere leben seit Jahren oder Jahrzehnten in unserem Land und sprechen nicht annähernd so gut deutsch wie du. Respekt dafür! :)
Really… multiple years without even A1 fluency I don’t believe it
Ur right, he’s good, but you can also do it with any language u want if u had the motivation to do so like he did. Also don’t say "our land" cuz it seems like u don’t want them to be in the country. And it’s not ur country, it’s a country for humans to live in. Me and u are no better than anyone else : )
@@slidrick ich sag was ich will, ok? Und wenn ich sage unser Land, dann mein ich unser Land. Das heisst noch lange nicht, dass hier jemand nicht willkommen ist. Wer bist du, dass du mich als Rassist hinstellst?
😂😂😂 Ist so traurig aber wahr
@@slidrick U misunderstood, we have many people(Not Natives) who don't bother in our Country. So that was a compliment. U can learn any vocabulary with an translator. But not Translate a whole text 100% correctly.
WOW Deine Aussprache ist wirklich super gut! Und du hast so viel verstanden. Ich wette in einem halben Jahr sprichst du perfekt Deutsch! 👍👍👍
youre awesome dude!!!! Du machst das richtig gut! Ich finde deine videos so geil
I'm German, have studied college German formal instruction classes, roomed with someone studying it, worked with someone who made it their major, represented the German Klub in college politics and I cannot remember my German anymore. It's because life happened and took away all of my practice. I know practice will get it back but I have lots to do because that wasn't the only language I lost. I lost other technical and non-technical skills too because I lost funding, my life was threatened, I went into hiding, almost died, spent time recovering which I still am and here I am trying to figure out who I am. I love studying Neuroscience, Neurosurgery and languages. There are other things I love studying too. Music - playing it and studying the technicalities behind how it was/is orchestrated, art, etc. I love seeing this channel because I feel less alone.
bruh
@@TheBaldingFish it's a bot .. lol. The programmers are just testing it. The keyword was german, since this video has a german tag, the programer of this bot recognized the hashtag and then combined words to that demographic. It's ussually govt agencies or ad marketers that are testing out bots that help out with response. It collects a lot of data from posts around the world in regards to the tag- german. So it was able to put together a story. This is why its so random. The bots are getting better than 10 years ago. But these seems like a 17-19 year old programmer.
@@chibiromano5631 omg. That makes so much sense. I was trying to be nice just incase. 🤣
@@chibiromano5631 You mean Emily is a bot or was there another answer by a different account that got deleted?
@@muellerhans Emilys the Bot. Andrew showed empathy and replied words of kindness(now deleted). The Bot linguistic pattern is emulating a mentally ill person, but the grammar is too clean to actually be one. So I suspect it to be programmed from an East Asian region, based on the grammar pattern to English. But more importantly the Bot is harvesting data. It could most likely be a data mining company minning data to sell to a Mental Health Clinic/Company to help their clinical software/ AI. We are entering an automated era in companies, and many industries are looking into this. So for instance these Data Mining companies use Bots on SOCIAL MEDIA to harvest our real life responses gathering empahteic,hateful, jokingly etc respones. The bots from multiple sites/videos/comments sections gather many replies (harvest) into their database and use linguist parsers to compile them for A.I responses. Speech recogntion,
So that when , say a Mental health patient is emailing their doctor(online) , the software/website AI (chat box) could reply back with a more empathetic realistic response from the patient to make the workload for receptionist more easy/automated.
The music industry(spotify) uses this too to find recomondations. Foreign govts have used bots on YT, Twitter and forums to harvest responses to generate troll bots(both sides).
About 40% of comments on YT are Bots.
That's why you see so many MEME comments on the comment section. Notice that they also never reply to defend their position.
Sorry for going to deep. But yeah, Emily's comment isn't legit.
Anywase Chuss! Mögest du noch lange leben .
You should continue your German, I'm taking German classes right now and I love surrounding myself in the language so seeing you learn and speak like this has been really cool !