My friend once tried to begin small talk about human reproduction and i just gave him an entire class about my on field experience (none) (ew) (virgin till marriage)
I have cousins from Germany, wurzburg. This is Soo accurate. I live in a tropical country they know about the weather than me, also one week ahead. Don't get me started in grocery jesus
Yep. In Germany and Austria when I would attempt some basic German greetings and manners they’d either switch to English or help correct my pronunciation.
That's because Germans don't do small talk. We like to engage into deep conversations immediately. And if someone says "Are you alright?" we will tell you if we are or not.
I'm Korean and I've been wondering why do I like Germans throughout my life everytime I go to Europe for any reason I always ended up hanging out with Germans or people who speaks German as their native language and your comment literally solved this life long mystery of mine in a second I'm pretty much neglected in my country because of my tendency to go to deep in the conversation.. My frineds would tell me "Don't say something complex" or something like that.. I would always explaining or talking about something they're not interested in, and I always felt that.. Somehow Germans would welcome it or they were able to go with the vibe I really appreciate it maybe I need to go somewhere around those area I feel more isolated with Koreans usually.. I always wondered how I always met those "good people" from Germany..
@@sickowhale6861 same for me in france. My french is very poor but once I had a two hours political discussion in french with a native speaker. It worked somehow, lol
@@PLANET-X-SOLARBALLS-FANno germans aren't grumpy or grupyer then any other nation. This is just a stereotype. I say this as a German myself 🥰 they just use it as a joke.
@@juless.9544 that isnt what i was trying to do.. And of course I know that this does not apply to everyone¯\_(ツ)_/¯ me being german know that some struggle a lot! But most say they cant speak english super well but actually can thats ehat i meant
I worked with a German lady in a kitchen, she was the most efficient manager I had ever had the privilege of learning from and working with. The best part was her insistence she didn’t speak or write English very well. Other than an accent and needing colloquialism’s explained she spoke better than most people I dealt with. Her handwriting was perfect as well.
This reminded me of the time I was looking to buy some sweets and asked the salesperson if he could speak English. He shook his head. I began talking to my friend telling her I didn't want something too sweet and it took me a while to decide. Finally, I paid for the sweets and on my way out, in a spot on English accent he said: "Great choice, you will find that these don't taste too sweet. I am certain you are going to enjoy them. Have a pleasant day" Had the exact same expression on my face as Liam's.
That kind of weather has upsides too, you can use it as a reason to decline "invitations" to do "a little" yard work & chores on some relative's summer cabin. Like: "Oh, you want me to paint your goddamn fence? But havent you seen the weather forecast? Its going to be raining all the time for the next week... Oh, it does stop every once in a while? Obviously not for long enough time for the fence to be both painted and that paint to be dried! So we shouldnt plan to do such thing at all." 🤔
@@victoriadecastro8334 Well, it's a german saying "Es ist nicht das Gelbe vom Ei." Which means "It's not the yellow from the egg." You say that in germany, when something is not good enough. If you would say that in the US or UK, it would sound ridiculous and they wouldn't understand.😄
I had the same experience in Germany long ago when the train split in half and I had to ask for help. A young man replied slowly. Saying that he can't speak English and walks slowly walk away 🤣 Fortunately, I met a kind grandmother with her child. She helped me translate and suggest the right side.
It's really no different to people wearing headphones pointing at them since you clearly didn't see them with your functional eyes when they also do not want to talk to a complete stranger about nothing. People are like this everywhere. Not a German thing at all.
My Austrian MIL calls every day to give me weather forcast. She want's one back, and not the "look at the sky" nonsense, but new satelite data instead. I am well prepared, I read up every morning. It took me a while to learn 😅
Hahaha, this reminded me of a video I had seen about a person who spoke to a German student in the UK. They asked this young lady "Are you alright?", usually that's just a common way of saying hello. The young lady from Germany then started to talk about how she's feeling and how she got up to this point in her life where she was at currently.
Yeah. That is a thing. :D I read a book from a US american man who moved to Germany and compare both countries. This was one point he also brought up. He said, he was so used to that people only ask about your well-being, if they really want to know, that it felt rude to him, when he was back in the US that people just waked by after asking. 😄
Mind, Germany does have the same, "all good?" Or a thousand variations of it. When talking to people you're not close to, they'll usually reply with "yeah, you?" Or "gotta be" or whatever. So, the situation actually isn't that language- or country-specific and rather her probably having a bad day and using the very first opportunity to share some
In New York they‘ll ask you „How are you TODAY“ when you enter the shop and I sometimes terrorize them by arresting my stride and turning to them starting to declare how I am today as compared to yesterday.
@@lylavati That's true. Usually we say we are alright/well or whatever. Only to the people we trust we are honest (if this sentence make sense 😅) Greetings from Germany 🤗
In Durban in South Africa a common greeting is "How's it", again not meant to imply that you are supposed to actually reply with a report on how things are with you :-) The same dialect does not show up in other South African cities.
I’m an English as a Foreign language teacher, and can confirm hahaha They are so modest, but honestly they speak better than most native speakers of English. By which I mean, very wide range of vocabulary, using a variety of grammar forms, playing with language in general, using idioms. It’s fantastic haha
Funny how I thought it was just okay. Very few Germans speak really high level good English whereas others can communicate their ideas. But i absolutely hate them since English takes little time at start and gets difficult later but German is difficult at the start so it just is very rude of them to discourage German speakers by saying "My English is better than your German"🙄
@@multilingual972On the Danish side, in rural areas at least, I believe many still speak Synnejysk, the South Jutlandic dialect. They are possibly not quite as strong in German as used to be the case - in my youth we only had one Danish TV channel, but the three German channels could be received in most of the region. Of course there are differences - the minorities on both sides speak the other language. There are Danish schools and a highschool south of the border and German schools north of it. Many people will have some reason to be fluent in both languages - I have family in Flensborg, so I spoke German quite often in my childhood. I guess south of the border, some people will at least understand Danish, even if they don't speak it. Beyond that, there are also Frisian dialects on the west coast, and Low German (Platt). For some reason, the Danish minority in SH seems to speak mostly standard Danish rather than the original local dialect. And of course English is taught in schools as the "first" foreign language from quite early on, on both sides. As a result overall, a well-educated person from the region can easily be tri- or quadrilingual or more, depending on whether dialects are included. (a choice of French or Spanish is typically offered in highschool.)
Speak for yourself Rasmus - after moving away from the border region 37 years ago, I enjoy every given opportunity to either speak my dialect, or German.
You don't generally make small talk in Germany. Asking "how are you doing today?" Means you want a full blown convo and if you are just saying hi to someone passing by they will tell you how they are busy or must run and it seems rude to non-Germans.
There are still enough people you can't engage with in a more meaningful conversation. They just talk about their opinions and you can either agree, argue or say nothing. Those conversations are basically small talk. You don't talk about something meaningful, just rant together about something or listen/endure them talking about something you don't agree with. This happens more often than I'd like and can be even more taxing than small talk cause it's mostly someone complaining about something political or similar.
Sometimes I fake not speaking certain languages to avoid strangers talking to me, usually works whenever I pull Vietnamese out of nowhere which catches people by surprise because I’m as white as a cracker, but whenever I speak Dutch, English, French, or Spanish, and sometimes Ukrainian it is always a 50/50 because of how many people speak those languages in the west
Seriously now and then I'm in the mood for smalltalk and there are situations where the atmosphere is good and I approach people myself, but why on earth talk about the weather? I approach people when I find them interesting and/or notice something of interest about them like a band shirt I also own, a cool outfit or necklace/tattoo, shit like that.
The only thing we Germans do is saying "ah, because of today's weather, I have good/ bad/ XYZ mood!" just to tell the person what is the mood today and what can the listener expect. We just say this and go on to the next topic 😁
I (an American) studied abroad in Ireland and one of my flatmates was German. He insisted that he was not good with English then asked me to proofread an essay for him, he was better at writing in English than 90% of the peers whose essays I had read back home.
@@babdullah5025 i dont think so i met a few people who were an exchange Student in the US. Almost everyone had bad Grades in german english class and then got good Grades/better Grades than the native speaker as an exchange student.
@@babdullah5025 No, its an issue of comparison. When I am talking about my english skills, I am comparing them to my german skills. And while my english is good enough to communicate, its a very far cry from my german.
@@kodon48 I think that's just a different focus. When grammar, pronunciation and spelling is the focus then you might get a bad grade even though everything you said made perfect sense.
@@mohammadzbax it is a phrase from the 60s „not the yellow from the egg“ means something or someone needs to improve their performance. It’s not satisfying . I love it so much, because it is used in my first language (German) in the exact same way! Hope this helps! 🥳
Every time I visit my parents in Germany and ask people around if they speak English they say that resounding "No" and then you hear some of them talking English. It's hilarious.
But that is small talk. You don't expect an honest answer to that question, it's just small talk. Whereas if you ask a German "are you alright?" they will take that as a very serious question and the answer will be an elaborate account of how they are feeling and what's been going on in their life.
@@RosesAndIvy that goes for Scandinavians as well. When we ask that question, we really mean it :) It took me a LOOONG time to get used to the "are you alright?" when moving to the UK. I used to get so confused and flustered, I'd stutter and give an actual answer, remember that its wrong to do that and then mumble a weak "hi-e-y-i". Ah the joys of being an immigrant xD
@@elrusolokooooo One of the definitions of "joke" according to the Merriam-Webster: "the humorous or ridiculous element in something" The "ridiculous element" here is the poster themselves.
Sooo accurate. I got troubles with an ex crush and here my german friend told me 5736 ways how to talked to him by using logical man conversation techniques. 🤣🤣 he even analyzed how i should have reacted if he answered this way or that way.
For anybody wondering the egg joke In german it's: "Mein Englisch ist nicht das Gelbe vom Ei" He means: If something isn't "the yellow from the egg", then that means that it's not (yet) as good as it could possibly be - that it's still not perfect perfect.
Fun fact: it is the music of "Tagesschau" (daily news by the first channel of public broadcasting) but the weather map of "heute" (daily news by the second channel of public broadcasting)
Spending my whole high school life with an international community, here’s what I understand: Saying “No” when someone ask you do you know their language basically boils down to “Yes, I do know your language, but because I don’t want to have a conversation with you, I will just say no and take the split second opportunity while you were confused, and take my leave.”
When I was living in Germany, I was at the hospital and this receptionist was speaking prefect English with no accent. She tells me she doesn't speak English and I need to talk to someone else. I was like I don't believe that for a second.
@@guythat779 many define a greeting as Hello or even just a nod and anything more eg "How are you?" "Fine" is small talk (in this case very small 😏). Also included are comments about the weather which often are that grey area between greetings and small talk too eg."Nice day" (which is a great way of being polite without opening any further conversation because it's really just a comment)
„My English is not so good“. Manchmal haben sie recht und manchmal nicht. Vertraue ihnen nicht. (Sometimes they’re right and sometimes not. Never trust them.)
Lmfao 🤣 I don’t speak English - turns into the god damn weather man giving full Blown weather analysis in English. LMAO 🤣 dude do me a favor and never stop this comedy train you got us all riding on 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 much support from California
When I go to office on Monday mornings, no one ask me how was my weekend, feel so disappointed. I cannot even get the chance to ask someone how was their weekend, because everyone is just so busy and keep to themselves.
Its because people don't care how was the other people's weekend 😂 i think this is a more normal behavior than asking random people how was their weekend without caring about it at all. But Germans love to ask those questions though, alles gut ? Alles klaar ? Wie geht's ? And then they turn around and proceed with their tasks like nothing 😅
@tetrikz from my experience, people in the office in Australia or New Zealand they actually wanted to know if you had an interesting weekend, any thing that more interesting than working is worth the time 😆
I still remember my 1st run in with a rather literal German many years ago, in the YT comment section. I'd commented on a Hans Zimmer video that had a chorus of supranos. My comment, "they sound like angels." An answer followed almost immediately. "No - there are no angels there. I attend this concert in (place in Germany). There are all human ladies in chorus on that stage."
We also call our celestial women Valkyrie. As far as I know were angels named after jews... and you know our history with jews, don't you ? >.> That's obviously a joke, don't nazi-stamp me ! :(
I personally love talking to strangers. Sometimes the best encountes are made. But of course the right opportunity has to arrise. E.g. the train is late (or too full) and someone complains or sighs, I sigh, then first small talk about the journey, then maybe more. Or I help someone to find a specifc ingredient in the supermarket (after he or she asks me) and then I ask, what do you need it for? Etc. I love these small encounters! Greetings from Frankonia (They say that everyone is a little bit grumpy and not very talkative here in this German region. And that may be the case. But I still have nice little encounters every now and then).
It’s the same in the UK we are really much alike we don’t really like talking to strangers at all but if someone ask me a question I won’t be rude to them I will answer them generally or if I ask for the time or help or something I am never rude to someone it’s just we don’t really like talking to strangers same as you guys in Germany we are very much alike in culturally anyways
Ah, the good old 'I don't speak English' excuse. I used to work as a doorman in a casino and sometimes people would come up with the dumbest questions. I'm foreign so once I said to this woman "I'm sorry, I do not speak English but I'm sure my colleague here will be able to answer your enquiry" and I pointed to a Welsh guy next to me. The woman's response: "Oh, OK." and she went over to the other guy while everyone in the queue behind her tried to hold in a laugh.
Every morning at the breakfast table, my German grandfather used to copy the weather forecast from the newspaper into his journal. Every evening at dinner he would compare the actual temperatures and air pressure to the forecast and wrote them down as well. He grew up on a farm and was genuinely the best at predicting weather changes and stormfronts etc. And he was just the best in general. It's been 21 years since he died and I miss still him. ❤
Yeah, it's kind of a nightmare living in the U.S. when you just want to mind your business and people want to tell you their buisness. Although, I have caught some Germans in Bavaria talking about where they came from when drinking beer together during a Fest, so Germans are definetly guilty of this in the right circumstances 😆
@@user-kc5de6wl8f they're just trying to be friendly 🙄 why are Europeans so afraid of small talk? I personally never make small talk but I don't mind when other people do. Also you can always say "sorry, I'm busy" and leave
When I was in Frankfurt, I attempted to order a latte at a local coffee shop. I did my best to order in German, and the young woman responded, « I speak English. ». 😂 I tried!!! 😊
When someone is trying to have a small talk with me, I'm almost always reacting like that. I don't like talking for talking, there's always information in the conversation that would interest the person in front of me or should be known by her.
@@elrusolokooooo Sure but you can also get to know someone by not doing small talk. It's just one way to do it but there are others, so even if I agree with you that it's something I should be able to do, I would still prioritize something else more constructive if I can.
I'm a California / hollywoodian who has lived in the blue dot of a red state for the past 20 years. I love this channel. You do an amazing job of capturing that heavy bittersweet winter efficiency / German depression / ANGST. It's too cold to be wasting energy on things that are not important / don't matter / have a point and then the dam breaks. 😂😭
This is sooo to the point. I wondered why people say that Germans speak brilliant English, because when I was there 90% refused to speak at all. It was so discouraging, cause I had to find the way to my place and the root took 2 hours, and only some Turkish guy finally agreed to speak to me in English. He didn't know the way, but still thanks to him.
I'm German and I would say my English is not very well but I know it actually is. The thing is all my school friends were so good in English, as if it was their first language so I always comparedmyself to them and felt a little bad for "just" being good while they were flawless. But I listen to many audio books in English, every pinterest community I'm in is English, I almost only watch English yt videos and I'm currently reading an English book and none of that is a problem by any means
Yes, of course we do - and feel very awkward doing so because WHAT THE FUCK!? I hate it so much.... Do not steal my precious time for talking about the weather... God damn....
@@nickkohlmann for that I don't need a stranger talking to me... Can be interesting, but I, personally, don't want and need it. Could be because of my introvert ass 😅
I appreciate this content. I know I’m German simply because of my physical features and because my grandma was an immigrant during WW2. Only visited twice, but these videos really explain why I do a lot of things I have done subconsciously lol
I would be so happy getting a weather conversation! Yessssss if someone wants to talk with me about the weather I finally can tell someone how much I hate summer. And winter is even worse! And most other seasons are unbearable too ..... well it is always unbearable being outside except these two weeks every year with cloudy 18,5°C temperature and 20% humidity!
Another comment here mentions it's a translated German phrase. It's like how us English speakers when we say we're "wet behind the ears" when we're not good at something.
Very accurate. A friend complained about the weather once and I recited the weather report to the letter.
My friend once tried to begin small talk about human reproduction and i just gave him an entire class about my on field experience (none) (ew) (virgin till marriage)
Bahahahahaha. Is he/she still friends with you!?
man kennt es
I have cousins from Germany, wurzburg. This is Soo accurate. I live in a tropical country they know about the weather than me, also one week ahead. Don't get me started in grocery jesus
Ok there Kenobi
The key to getting Germans to speak English is to try talking to them in German.
The only thing stopping them is a friendly "please correct me if I say something wrong" 😉
Most people like to make corrections.
KKAKAKAKAKSKSKS i gotcha that
You are a genius ahahah
Yep. In Germany and Austria when I would attempt some basic German greetings and manners they’d either switch to English or help correct my pronunciation.
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I thought I was autistic. Turns out I'm just extremely German.
this made me gag
@@jaygay You're welcome.
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Geil 🤣🫡
That's because Germans don't do small talk. We like to engage into deep conversations immediately. And if someone says "Are you alright?" we will tell you if we are or not.
And after the "no I'm not" it's a matter of age, the older you get, the more detailed your medical history gets recalled
I'm Korean and I've been wondering why do I like Germans throughout my life everytime I go to Europe for any reason I always ended up hanging out with Germans or people who speaks German as their native language and your comment literally solved this life long mystery of mine in a second I'm pretty much neglected in my country because of my tendency to go to deep in the conversation.. My frineds would tell me "Don't say something complex" or something like that.. I would always explaining or talking about something they're not interested in, and I always felt that.. Somehow Germans would welcome it or they were able to go with the vibe I really appreciate it maybe I need to go somewhere around those area I feel more isolated with Koreans usually.. I always wondered how I always met those "good people" from Germany..
@@sickowhale6861
same for me in france. My french is very poor but once I had a two hours political discussion in french with a native speaker. It worked somehow, lol
I found me more German unfortunately born somewhere else.
Planning to come to Germany. I Love its culture .every aspect of it.
@@sickowhale6861same.I to want to have deep conversations. Coming to Germany for sure.
That classic German grumpiness is an absolute must.
It's friendliness man. Otherwise you'd feel it differently... 😎
Its friendly
My friends are German yet they aren’t that grumpy,does the happiness disappear once a German becomes an adult?🤨
@@PLANET-X-SOLARBALLS-FANno germans aren't grumpy or grupyer then any other nation. This is just a stereotype. I say this as a German myself 🥰 they just use it as a joke.
@@sandralison7584They DEFINITELY are.
Every german always says they cant speak english so well and when you talk to them they can speak/read a whole novel fluently in English 😂
Hey, don't set us under pressure! Some of us really dont speak perfectly ;)
@@juless.9544 that isnt what i was trying to do.. And of course I know that this does not apply to everyone¯\_(ツ)_/¯ me being german know that some struggle a lot! But most say they cant speak english super well but actually can thats ehat i meant
Because there‘s always that one person being so much more fluent in english than you are and we keep comparing ourselves with them. 😅😅
I worked with a German lady in a kitchen, she was the most efficient manager I had ever had the privilege of learning from and working with. The best part was her insistence she didn’t speak or write English very well.
Other than an accent and needing colloquialism’s explained she spoke better than most people I dealt with. Her handwriting was perfect as well.
@@NotDuncan oops 😅 but I know what you mean..
Die Tagesschau Musik im Hintergrund gibt dem ganzen echt Charakter, liebs
Vor allem auch eine ZDF heute Wetterkarte
Ich liebe es
Hier ist das erste Deutsche Fernsehen mit der Tagesschau
Stimmttt XD DAS war es
@@Father303 Schauschau
This reminded me of the time I was looking to buy some sweets and asked the salesperson if he could speak English. He shook his head. I began talking to my friend telling her I didn't want something too sweet and it took me a while to decide. Finally, I paid for the sweets and on my way out, in a spot on English accent he said: "Great choice, you will find that these don't taste too sweet. I am certain you are going to enjoy them. Have a pleasant day" Had the exact same expression on my face as Liam's.
🤣? Is it because Germans don’t like to make small talks? So they always tell you they can’t speak English…?
Dang that’s hilarious
Nahh he’s evil that 😭😭
EVIL
He was testing your acumen. You passed. Worthy to be spoken too😂
Never do smalltalk in Germany if you don't want a stranger to hate you
Then I am clearly German.
We can't even talk ?
I hate smalltalk as well
@@muhammadzaki3405ja
No talk at all. Mind your business. @@muhammadzaki3405
It's HYSTERICAL!
My Husband's parents are from Berlin and Vienna. He doesn't understand why I find these so hysterical!
"So that you're not able to plan any activities or decide what outfit to wear"😂😂😂
damn, literally asking to be a nudist for a fullday
Going with the so called "Zwiebel-look"
@@moraien3278 ah yes, the onion-technique. Thank God for that flexible strategy.
Yeah, that's weather like half the year here in Czechia too :D
That kind of weather has upsides too, you can use it as a reason to decline "invitations" to do "a little" yard work & chores on some relative's summer cabin. Like: "Oh, you want me to paint your goddamn fence? But havent you seen the weather forecast? Its going to be raining all the time for the next week... Oh, it does stop every once in a while? Obviously not for long enough time for the fence to be both painted and that paint to be dried! So we shouldnt plan to do such thing at all." 🤔
"It's not the yellow from the egg." Cracks me everytime. 🤣
What does it mean??
@@victoriadecastro8334 Well, it's a german saying "Es ist nicht das Gelbe vom Ei." Which means "It's not the yellow from the egg." You say that in germany, when something is not good enough. If you would say that in the US or UK, it would sound ridiculous and they wouldn't understand.😄
@@Luunei thank you very much, I was looking for this comment!
It cracks you like an egg.
@@Luunei I was scrolling for an explanation 😄 thank you! That is an amazing saying!
This is the most German thing I’ve ever seen 😂😂😂
Agreed
I’m in Germany on vacation
You haven't seen that much yet then
I had the same experience in Germany long ago when the train split in half and I had to ask for help. A young man replied slowly. Saying that he can't speak English and walks slowly walk away 🤣 Fortunately, I met a kind grandmother with her child. She helped me translate and suggest the right side.
It's really no different to people wearing headphones pointing at them since you clearly didn't see them with your functional eyes when they also do not want to talk to a complete stranger about nothing. People are like this everywhere. Not a German thing at all.
Oh man I literally had this 😂 I told my German colleague it's cold and he checked the temperature for the whole week and explained them to me
My Austrian MIL calls every day to give me weather forcast. She want's one back, and not the "look at the sky" nonsense, but new satelite data instead. I am well prepared, I read up every morning. It took me a while to learn 😅
Look I am moving to Germany for life. Your clips are starting to scaring me 😂😂😂😂😂😂. But I love them ❤❤❤
The clips make me WANT to live there lol.
GuTen aBeNd meiNe DaMEn unD HeRrEn, iCh beGrüẞe siE zUr TAgesScHaU
Wow, finally someone used the capital ẞ. I can rest in peace when my time has come now. 😌
HEutE iM sTUdiO SUsaNnE dAuGNeR
@@Alissia121 I was about to say that lmaoo
DAAAAM DAAAAM DAM DAM DAM DAAAAAAA
Die eigentliche Deutchlandhymne: tAgEsScHaU
Grade ist sie vorbei
Hahaha, this reminded me of a video I had seen about a person who spoke to a German student in the UK. They asked this young lady "Are you alright?", usually that's just a common way of saying hello. The young lady from Germany then started to talk about how she's feeling and how she got up to this point in her life where she was at currently.
Yeah. That is a thing. :D
I read a book from a US american man who moved to Germany and compare both countries. This was one point he also brought up. He said, he was so used to that people only ask about your well-being, if they really want to know, that it felt rude to him, when he was back in the US that people just waked by after asking. 😄
Mind, Germany does have the same, "all good?" Or a thousand variations of it. When talking to people you're not close to, they'll usually reply with "yeah, you?" Or "gotta be" or whatever. So, the situation actually isn't that language- or country-specific and rather her probably having a bad day and using the very first opportunity to share some
In New York they‘ll ask you „How are you TODAY“ when you enter the shop and I sometimes terrorize them by arresting my stride and turning to them starting to declare how I am today as compared to yesterday.
@@lylavati That's true. Usually we say we are alright/well or whatever. Only to the people we trust we are honest (if this sentence make sense 😅) Greetings from Germany 🤗
In Durban in South Africa a common greeting is "How's it", again not meant to imply that you are supposed to actually reply with a report on how things are with you :-) The same dialect does not show up in other South African cities.
I’m an English as a Foreign language teacher, and can confirm hahaha
They are so modest, but honestly they speak better than most native speakers of English.
By which I mean, very wide range of vocabulary, using a variety of grammar forms, playing with language in general, using idioms. It’s fantastic haha
Thanks great hearing that 😊
And here I am... starting sentence with "and"... and using dots to make sentence readable.
Epic!
Funny how I thought it was just okay. Very few Germans speak really high level good English whereas others can communicate their ideas. But i absolutely hate them since English takes little time at start and gets difficult later but German is difficult at the start so it just is very rude of them to discourage German speakers by saying "My English is better than your German"🙄
@@vizzyb8400 Huh? She she said their English is as better than native speakers . . .
"Can i get a bo'oh'o'wa'er, pls?" 😂
As a dane I can confirm 😂 Danes speak German but don't want to. German speak English but don't want to. We have some awkward moments 😂
Teens in Germany speaking English and German mixed
What do the young folks living on the Schleschwig Holstein / Dänischen Grenze speak ?
@@multilingual972Küh. They speak Küh.
@@multilingual972On the Danish side, in rural areas at least, I believe many still speak Synnejysk, the South Jutlandic dialect. They are possibly not quite as strong in German as used to be the case - in my youth we only had one Danish TV channel, but the three German channels could be received in most of the region. Of course there are differences - the minorities on both sides speak the other language. There are Danish schools and a highschool south of the border and German schools north of it. Many people will have some reason to be fluent in both languages - I have family in Flensborg, so I spoke German quite often in my childhood. I guess south of the border, some people will at least understand Danish, even if they don't speak it. Beyond that, there are also Frisian dialects on the west coast, and Low German (Platt). For some reason, the Danish minority in SH seems to speak mostly standard Danish rather than the original local dialect. And of course English is taught in schools as the "first" foreign language from quite early on, on both sides. As a result overall, a well-educated person from the region can easily be tri- or quadrilingual or more, depending on whether dialects are included. (a choice of French or Spanish is typically offered in highschool.)
Speak for yourself Rasmus - after moving away from the border region 37 years ago, I enjoy every given opportunity to either speak my dialect, or German.
I love how he showed ZDF Heute-Weather and played the Tagesschau music
Waited for this comment - hilarious
Sharing the publicity
@@maximilian952 Actually someone else made the Sam comment. But why is the music si dramatic?
@@user-yc3fw6vq5n what's dramatic about it? It's a normal News-Intro
I feel like he did that just to get us Germans to comment on it 😂
"SmOll tOlk" I love how he pronounces those words 😂
Ach, never mind 😂
"Do you spea-"
"No."
homie didn't even want to talk 💀
Fr homie simply wanted to be left to his thoughts xD It was never about the language barrier
The best illustration of the German approach to everything.
Mais quand les allemands ont confiance avec les étrangers ils sont complètement différents
What I love about the German mind.
You don't generally make small talk in Germany. Asking "how are you doing today?" Means you want a full blown convo and if you are just saying hi to someone passing by they will tell you how they are busy or must run and it seems rude to non-Germans.
There are still enough people you can't engage with in a more meaningful conversation. They just talk about their opinions and you can either agree, argue or say nothing. Those conversations are basically small talk. You don't talk about something meaningful, just rant together about something or listen/endure them talking about something you don't agree with.
This happens more often than I'd like and can be even more taxing than small talk cause it's mostly someone complaining about something political or similar.
"I'm bad at English."
Translation:
*"SOCIAL INTERACTION, BEGONE!"*
THIS
this. 😂
Pretty much
Sometimes I fake not speaking certain languages to avoid strangers talking to me, usually works whenever I pull Vietnamese out of nowhere which catches people by surprise because I’m as white as a cracker, but whenever I speak Dutch, English, French, or Spanish, and sometimes Ukrainian it is always a 50/50 because of how many people speak those languages in the west
*unnecessary (social interaction...)
I want to talk about the weather.
German: Why?
Now I want to go to Germany
Seriously now and then I'm in the mood for smalltalk and there are situations where the atmosphere is good and I approach people myself, but why on earth talk about the weather? I approach people when I find them interesting and/or notice something of interest about them like a band shirt I also own, a cool outfit or necklace/tattoo, shit like that.
The only thing we Germans do is saying "ah, because of today's weather, I have good/ bad/ XYZ mood!" just to tell the person what is the mood today and what can the listener expect.
We just say this and go on to the next topic 😁
I (an American) studied abroad in Ireland and one of my flatmates was German. He insisted that he was not good with English then asked me to proofread an essay for him, he was better at writing in English than 90% of the peers whose essays I had read back home.
Then it's just a confidence issue.
@@babdullah5025 i dont think so i met a few people who were an exchange Student in the US. Almost everyone had bad Grades in german english class and then got good Grades/better Grades than the native speaker as an exchange student.
Anything short of perfection and or mastery is not considered "that well"
@@babdullah5025 No, its an issue of comparison. When I am talking about my english skills, I am comparing them to my german skills. And while my english is good enough to communicate, its a very far cry from my german.
@@kodon48 I think that's just a different focus. When grammar, pronunciation and spelling is the focus then you might get a bad grade even though everything you said made perfect sense.
We Germans are saying ,, Sorry, but my english is under all pig "
"the yellow from the egg" i love it!!!
Much ❤️ from Austria 🇦🇹
What does it mean? Is it an idiom?
@@mohammadzbax it is a phrase from the 60s „not the yellow from the egg“ means something or someone needs to improve their performance. It’s not satisfying . I love it so much, because it is used in my first language (German) in the exact same way!
Hope this helps! 🥳
It's the same here in Finland 🇫🇮 Everybody (expect the elders) actually knows English but they don't trust it's good enough to communicate.
Finns are so bad ,get over it .Study swedish insteed
Haha 😊
I love how Germans are not fake. I was able to be myself when I lived in Bonn.
Your English is like the German in the video 💀💀💀💀💀
They are fake. All Humans are fake and NPCs.
I lived in Munich
@@jxq12 How
Maybe not but they talk about unimportant stuff like all the time XD
I don't know why these series of yours are so addicting, but I watch each of them at least 2x both here and on tiktok 😭
It's a way to feel like you're seeing family far away
Every time I visit my parents in Germany and ask people around if they speak English they say that resounding "No" and then you hear some of them talking English. It's hilarious.
Чувак,я обожаю твой канал,знаешь,русские и немцы чем-то схожи ❤️❤️❤️
Really?
@@awpetersen5909, ну да исторически. В 1939 году они м двух сторон напали и разделили Польшу.
That was a perfect 10/10 small talk
Factual, concise, contextual
British don’t make small talk 😂 we just say “hey mate are you alright”
"yeah not bad, yisself?"
*grunts while walking off* "yeah yeah"
Uh trust me you do
But that is small talk. You don't expect an honest answer to that question, it's just small talk. Whereas if you ask a German "are you alright?" they will take that as a very serious question and the answer will be an elaborate account of how they are feeling and what's been going on in their life.
@@RosesAndIvy I’ve heard that too.
I prefer that it’s more sincere.
@@RosesAndIvy that goes for Scandinavians as well. When we ask that question, we really mean it :)
It took me a LOOONG time to get used to the "are you alright?" when moving to the UK.
I used to get so confused and flustered, I'd stutter and give an actual answer, remember that its wrong to do that and then mumble a weak "hi-e-y-i". Ah the joys of being an immigrant xD
Wiebidde.. perfekte Aussprache! 1+
Jep, das gelbe vom Ei, hundertprozentig! 😂
Stimmt, das war echt spot on. :D
I really like it when people are open enough to tell you how they really are. This must mean that this is a culture of good listeners. 😊
I should be heading to work! Instead I'm laughing at Liam's clever shorts. I wish he'd create more characters- they're hilarious!!
"ah sorry mate, do you speak ..."
"NO!"
Literally me when someone is trying to talk to me and uses the word "mate".
You sound friendly
Don't suppose there's too many people wanting to talk to you with that attitude, mate
@@enzoqueijao look up what joke means im too lazy to put the definition here
@@elrusolokooooo One of the definitions of "joke" according to the Merriam-Webster:
"the humorous or ridiculous element in something"
The "ridiculous element" here is the poster themselves.
Ok buddy
It's the "I only know English I learned from TV" effect
Wow, today I learn I’m not French, but German ! That’s nice
You too huh ?
Between that and my obsession with arriving 10min earlier than due time, I honesty question my Frenchness even more
@@themissakura599 the fact that you guys are writing in English should already raise suspicion 👀
Well it's only about 6 weeks to make all french germans, so not surrend... I mean surprising
@@LeegallyBliindLOL touché
Space before an exclamation point.
Yes, very French.
Sooo accurate. I got troubles with an ex crush and here my german friend told me 5736 ways how to talked to him by using logical man conversation techniques. 🤣🤣 he even analyzed how i should have reacted if he answered this way or that way.
Men problem solving and German additude vereint🤝
With the Tagesschau at the end Liam. It cracked me up 😂😂😂😂😂
Person: “I don’t speak English”
Me: *apologises*
Person: *recites a 10000 word thesis*
Me: “Oh so that’s what you mean”
Ahaha better than the person asking
For anybody wondering the egg joke
In german it's: "Mein Englisch ist nicht das Gelbe vom Ei"
He means:
If something isn't "the yellow from the egg", then that means that it's not (yet) as good as it could possibly be - that it's still not perfect perfect.
Thanks! I could only guess that it was a joke/yolk...
This is literally me when I first spoke to an American cause they are always trying to talk to random people xD
edit: tysm for the likes!!!
You mean like my German grandmother? 😉
Why you Germans hate to talk with random people? xD
@@mmr1137 im not german xD
@@mmr1137 thats stupid, why would anyone want to talk to somebody they don't know? Its weird and sometimes might get disturbing or even dangerous.
@@mmr1137 because we are not interested in strangers.
Bro was waiting for this small talk his entire life
"Just making small talk"
"This talk has already gotten big enough, tschuuß"
😂😂😂😂
Fun fact: it is the music of "Tagesschau" (daily news by the first channel of public broadcasting) but the weather map of "heute" (daily news by the second channel of public broadcasting)
Sharing the publicity I guess
Wait an actual channel uses a map like that?
Why is the music so dramatic?
Spending my whole high school life with an international community, here’s what I understand: Saying “No” when someone ask you do you know their language basically boils down to “Yes, I do know your language, but because I don’t want to have a conversation with you, I will just say no and take the split second opportunity while you were confused, and take my leave.”
For us Germans it actually means "My English is not 100% accurate and error free, so I shall not pretend to be able to speak the languag."
"My english is not the yellow from the egg"
"I think you spider"
"Now butter by the fishes"
Wem fällt noch was ein? 😄😄
"I think it’s hacking"
"They talk out of the sewing box“
"Life is no sugarlicking"
I believe my pig is whistling
There fries me someone a pig!
"Do you still have all cups on the shelve"
Bro transformed small talk to a whole new level
The hands behind pose and the expression during the delivery of words. 😢😂
When I was living in Germany, I was at the hospital and this receptionist was speaking prefect English with no accent. She tells me she doesn't speak English and I need to talk to someone else. I was like I don't believe that for a second.
she wanted to get rid of you... if the receptionist was male he would have talked to you for hours :-)
@@barfuss2007 I doubt it because I was pregnant at the time haha
@@talea9593
boy or girl? Congrats :-)
I remember exactly 1 time in my entire life where I engaged in small talk... I was truly desperate what a dark time
So you NEVER say "good" or "fine" when someone asks you how you are just to escape the interaction asap
@@susie9893 "how are you" is part of the greetings cmon, I'm not a barbarian I just don't do much small talk
But I do often give a full answer
@@guythat779 that's small talk hon
@@susie9893 it's a greeting that can escalate into real personal problems real fast
Greetings are not small talk sis
@@guythat779 many define a greeting as Hello or even just a nod and anything more eg "How are you?" "Fine" is small talk (in this case very small 😏). Also included are comments about the weather which often are that grey area between greetings and small talk too eg."Nice day" (which is a great way of being polite without opening any further conversation because it's really just a comment)
„My English is not so good“. Manchmal haben sie recht und manchmal nicht. Vertraue ihnen nicht.
(Sometimes they’re right and sometimes not. Never trust them.)
Sie wollen alle nur das eine.... (sorry, couldn't resist)
@@lyaneris Gleich ist es dunkel, bald ist es Nacht
Da ist ein Wort der Warnung angebracht
@@lyaneris Bratwurst mit Sauerkraut?
@@robertnett9793 Bah, Sauerkraut, igitt XD
It's a reference to a song.
@@nickkohlmannbegegne ihnen nur mit List
It seems impossible, but Liam just gets better and better!
I subscribed to your channel IMMEDIATELY after I managed to stop laughing.
Lmfao 🤣 I don’t speak English - turns into the god damn weather man giving full
Blown weather analysis in English. LMAO 🤣 dude do me a favor and never stop this comedy train you got us all riding on 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 much support from California
LMAO... BRILLIANT.. You are just too freaking clever and your jokes are extremely intelligent 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 love your German accent, too
When I go to office on Monday mornings, no one ask me how was my weekend, feel so disappointed. I cannot even get the chance to ask someone how was their weekend, because everyone is just so busy and keep to themselves.
I would ask you if I was there!
@@user-yc3fw6vq5n thanks
Its because people don't care how was the other people's weekend 😂 i think this is a more normal behavior than asking random people how was their weekend without caring about it at all. But Germans love to ask those questions though, alles gut ? Alles klaar ? Wie geht's ? And then they turn around and proceed with their tasks like nothing 😅
@tetrikz from my experience, people in the office in Australia or New Zealand they actually wanted to know if you had an interesting weekend, any thing that more interesting than working is worth the time 😆
@@jinli4787To us, it comes across as annoying and sometimes even rude but mostly annoying
You know us so well...to be honest for the first few videos I didn't even realise you're an englisch man 😂
Same, I thought he's really a german.
I still remember my 1st run in with a rather literal German many years ago, in the YT comment section.
I'd commented on a Hans Zimmer video that had a chorus of supranos. My comment, "they sound like angels." An answer followed almost immediately. "No - there are no angels there. I attend this concert in (place in Germany). There are all human ladies in chorus on that stage."
😂
We also call our celestial women Valkyrie. As far as I know were angels named after jews... and you know our history with jews, don't you ? >.>
That's obviously a joke, don't nazi-stamp me ! :(
@@Minoseth 🤣🤣 Thomas, thanks for making me laugh. Great timing 😂😂
@@Meisha-san remember that day when a German made you laugh haha ^^
Hier ist das erste deutsche Fernsehen mit der Tagesschau
daaa-daa---da-da-da-DAAA!
...with the coolest, smartest, formal, and yet never dull news anchors/speakers.
I personally love talking to strangers. Sometimes the best encountes are made.
But of course the right opportunity has to arrise. E.g. the train is late (or too full) and someone complains or sighs, I sigh, then first small talk about the journey, then maybe more.
Or I help someone to find a specifc ingredient in the supermarket (after he or she asks me) and then I ask, what do you need it for? Etc.
I love these small encounters!
Greetings from Frankonia (They say that everyone is a little bit grumpy and not very talkative here in this German region. And that may be the case. But I still have nice little encounters every now and then).
It’s the same in the UK we are really much alike we don’t really like talking to strangers at all but if someone ask me a question I won’t be rude to them I will answer them generally or if I ask for the time or help or something I am never rude to someone it’s just we don’t really like talking to strangers same as you guys in Germany we are very much alike in culturally anyways
Even Turkish people sometimes respond with just ‘no’ and you haven’t even finished your question.
I like how you Spoke „why“ like „wei“
- Let's make smalltalk
- Hold my Tagesschau!
Ah, the good old 'I don't speak English' excuse.
I used to work as a doorman in a casino and sometimes people would come up with the dumbest questions. I'm foreign so once I said to this woman "I'm sorry, I do not speak English but I'm sure my colleague here will be able to answer your enquiry" and I pointed to a Welsh guy next to me.
The woman's response: "Oh, OK." and she went over to the other guy while everyone in the queue behind her tried to hold in a laugh.
Terribly Relateable, Thats what i say.
Not really though
@@fluffykitty7480 if Thats your Interpretation.
Every morning at the breakfast table, my German grandfather used to copy the weather forecast from the newspaper into his journal. Every evening at dinner he would compare the actual temperatures and air pressure to the forecast and wrote them down as well.
He grew up on a farm and was genuinely the best at predicting weather changes and stormfronts etc.
And he was just the best in general.
It's been 21 years since he died and I miss still him. ❤
The "why" kills me hahaha
I feel at home in Germany my people like most of the Germans I’ve meet don’t really do small talking , you will get strange looks haha
Sounds like a dream for a person with mild autism.
Richtig, Small Talk ist unnötig, die Zeit ist zu wertvoll.
*Oberschenkel Klatscher* so passt ich packs jetzt
@@user-sz7rp7kr4c ja ich mag es, bedeutung zu haben ween ich spreche, sorry für mein deutsch
Yeah, it's kind of a nightmare living in the U.S. when you just want to mind your business and people want to tell you their buisness. Although, I have caught some Germans in Bavaria talking about where they came from when drinking beer together during a Fest, so Germans are definetly guilty of this in the right circumstances 😆
@@user-kc5de6wl8f they're just trying to be friendly 🙄 why are Europeans so afraid of small talk? I personally never make small talk but I don't mind when other people do. Also you can always say "sorry, I'm busy" and leave
"i do not speak english"
*makes a weather report on the spot"
Es ist so krass accurate. Sau nice videos. Allein wie du die Deutsche Aussprache rüber bringst ist so witzig😂😂😂🔥♥️♥️♥️
It's giving Raymond Holt vibes. Loved it!
When I was in Frankfurt, I attempted to order a latte at a local coffee shop. I did my best to order in German, and the young woman responded, « I speak English. ». 😂
I tried!!! 😊
The Tagesschau melody though. Why-😭😭
When someone is trying to have a small talk with me, I'm almost always reacting like that.
I don't like talking for talking, there's always information in the conversation that would interest the person in front of me or should be known by her.
Small talk is a way to get to know everyone its a skill you should have even if you feel its stupid
@@elrusolokooooo Sure but you can also get to know someone by not doing small talk. It's just one way to do it but there are others, so even if I agree with you that it's something I should be able to do, I would still prioritize something else more constructive if I can.
The way he turned to the camera and went: 😐
I'm a California / hollywoodian who has lived in the blue dot of a red state for the past 20 years. I love this channel. You do an amazing job of capturing that heavy bittersweet winter efficiency / German depression / ANGST. It's too cold to be wasting energy on things that are not important / don't matter / have a point and then the dam breaks. 😂😭
This is sooo to the point. I wondered why people say that Germans speak brilliant English, because when I was there 90% refused to speak at all. It was so discouraging, cause I had to find the way to my place and the root took 2 hours, and only some Turkish guy finally agreed to speak to me in English. He didn't know the way, but still thanks to him.
I never laugh with any content more than I do with yours. 😂
I'm German and I would say my English is not very well but I know it actually is. The thing is all my school friends were so good in English, as if it was their first language so I always comparedmyself to them and felt a little bad for "just" being good while they were flawless. But I listen to many audio books in English, every pinterest community I'm in is English, I almost only watch English yt videos and I'm currently reading an English book and none of that is a problem by any means
Germans actually do small talk about the weather mate 😂😂😂
You must come from an alternate dimension
But only in German
Yes, of course we do - and feel very awkward doing so because WHAT THE FUCK!? I hate it so much.... Do not steal my precious time for talking about the weather... God damn....
Only the really really bland ones. Everyone else actually can come up with interesting topics now and then
@@nickkohlmann for that I don't need a stranger talking to me... Can be interesting, but I, personally, don't want and need it. Could be because of my introvert ass 😅
I appreciate this content. I know I’m German simply because of my physical features and because my grandma was an immigrant during WW2. Only visited twice, but these videos really explain why I do a lot of things I have done subconsciously lol
Finally you stood up for yourself and challenged the German. I have been impatiently waiting for this
I love the Tagesschau music
How adorable lol 💖👏 loved it.
"The weather's nice"
*Dark and cloudy*
He is from Britain.
I love how the weather report is accurate to every day ever
My German teacher wasn’t lying when she said Germans don’t really small talk
Nice😂
I love the background ❤
I didn't know Frannkfurt has two Commerbank Towers
this video reminds us never to ask a German for the Weather, and much more!
I would be so happy getting a weather conversation! Yessssss if someone wants to talk with me about the weather I finally can tell someone how much I hate summer. And winter is even worse! And most other seasons are unbearable too ..... well it is always unbearable being outside except these two weeks every year with cloudy 18,5°C temperature and 20% humidity!
I'd honestly love it if someone turned into a weather man!
My english is not the yellow from the eggs.
I was gonna ask what the hell was that about, when i accidentally read the title 🤣
Another comment here mentions it's a translated German phrase. It's like how us English speakers when we say we're "wet behind the ears" when we're not good at something.
@@mjangelvortex i have literally never heard someone say that ever. Honestly the egg thing makes more sense than.. wet ears??
@@spiritsofwolves ikr. I ain’t never met a SINGLE person in my whole life that’s said that. I’m really curious where they from tbh