American Couple Reacts: 15 German Brands Americans Pronounce WRONG! FIRST TIME REACTION!
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- American Couple Reacts: 15 German Brands Americans Pronounce WRONG! FIRST TIME REACTION! We're not going to pretend that we don't know we pronounce A LOT of things wrong but we had not looked at German Companies/Brands. The thing that shocked us the most was that we didn't realize a lot of these brands were German! We learned a lot in this video & it was a lot of fun! We hope it gets to @FelifromGermany as we would love to collaborate in some way since we are in the same city! Let us know if you learned anything in the comments and if you pronounce any of these as we do. Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support! *More Links below.
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We're not going to pretend that we don't know we pronounce A LOT of things wrong but we had not looked at German Companies/Brands. The thing that shocked us the most was that we didn't realize a lot of these brands were German! We learned a lot in this video & it was a lot of fun! Let us know if you learned anything in the comments and if you pronounce any of these as we do. Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
It's pretty simple why most people struggle becaus germans have a simple different pronouncing of a e i o u ... we simply say it, when english or american people pronounce it mostly ae ie ei ou ... so more round and soft. Have fun !
How about reacting to part 2? It's called "10 more German brands you pronounce wrong"
@@thomaseisen304 There's also many consonants that are pronounced differently too. the V and W were explained, F and V, but F is still F, how are they differentiated?
@@utha2665that's true , but i just wanted to explain the basics ... as a german I know so well that especialy v w or ö and ä are spoken so weird and can't be explained easily . Have fun !
@@thomaseisen304 Yeah, I understand what you mean. I have been learning German for a few months and I have learned Mandarin for about 10 years and all three languages have their nuances.
if its a car and you are not sure where it comes from, germany is a pretty safe bet
No, only if its a very well enginered car....
Or Japan. Many people don't know Lexus is a Japanese brand.
German here :D
Or Japan.
And sometimes fromTuscaloosa ... Mercedes GLS, GLE, GLE Coupe, EQS, EQE ...
I had no idea most of these were German brands!! I love learning on this Show!
Can you imagine that this is really shocking for us Germans...?! 😅
Never knew Adidas was German. I do like Adidas products.
Not most of them... All of them 😂😂
@@zwiderwurzn5908 Exactly! Of course everyone!
Undertake an extensive reading program to better educate yourself -
Surround yourself with people that know more than you do -
and let them teach you --
And be teachable
Understand that anything you learn will ALWAYS be from some'one' else
Not knowing something is ignore-ance
Not learning is stupidity
As I taught my daughter - Learn everything you can - whether you like it or not.
Then teach it to your children.
Make your mind like the Library of Congress and not like a Garbage can.
You choose ....
She chose wisely and has been working as a trauma Surgeon in NYC.
Educated at PRINCETON - she is married - has a son who turned age 12
on March 6 (2024) - Also with her husband - operate a Medical Center -
employing 12 people + Security who are off duty NYPD with a minimum
rank of Sargent
Good luck Debbie and good bye
Best regards
NOTE : Feli made her video based on this original:
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Feli is a naturalised American (that accent!), so she gives the common American pronunciation FIRST ('au' is always pronounced 'ow' in German and in Latin). For Porsh-ee, compare 'Eye-ran' and 'Eye-talian'.
Hello Ladies. Adidas, as kids we all thought that ADIDAS stood for “All Day I Dream About Sport”. Teenagers say the S stood for Sex, not Sport!
With the mens Euro 2024 football tournament kicking off in Germany in about 2 weeks time can't wait, check out the women's euro 2022, how women's football changed and check out the documentary History makers.
My favourite German word is their short form for a mobile/cellular phone. In Britain it’s usually 'mobile'; in the US, I think it’s 'cell' or 'cellphone'… but in Germany, it’s 'handy'. It’s so fun we should start a campaign to use that everywhere 😂
It's funny cause to us German it sounds like an English word. I was surprised when English speaking people didn't know what I was talking about when saying "handy" 😅
Now it's smartphone worldwide
@@HolyPotata nope it isnt
@@HolyPotata please ask an australian if he can give you a handy some time
If you start a campaign ... use the Weird Al Yankovic song "I'm so handy" for it ... (it's obviously something different, but you can do a lot with humor).
In the UK we pretty much say Adidas the same way as Germany.
Same in Australia .
Everything aside…..I FREEKING LOVE YOUR SCOOBY-DOO T-SHIRT Natasha 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
Not sure about that, maybe it's a generation gap...but most folk would say it 'wrong'
@@glennwhittaker197 Same here, greetings from Düsseldorf Germany 😊
you in the UK say a lot German Brands like we in Germany. :) its often a big different to the US
I drove my first Porsche when I was 4 years old (early 1960s). I could accelerate by hand because it was a beautiful dark red tractor.
BTW: Porsche did build red tractors (real ones) "Porsche-Diesel P 133" is just one of the models. There is a commercial playing with that fact: "Porsche 111 Diesel Cabriolet - a very special car needs a very special service"
My grandfather had a porsche junior tractor, i loved that thing as a child
Lamborghini still builds tractors, so did Ferrari.
@@wilfriedzaulig9818 lamborghini tractors are deutz tractors with differnt badges
An other great language video would be from robwords "how anyone (including you) can read german". this video is not only useful, but also explains a lot about the shared roots of modern English and German
The German language shares many words from Yiddish - itself a
low level Germanic language and the language of European Jews.
German also borrows many words from Persian / Kurdish and Sanskrit.
A great number of these words were incorporated into the English Language.
Also as Persian shared many words from the arabic language - these arabic
language words also ended up incorporated into English.
What corrupted the English language most is the addition of Greek
his did not happen with French.
French - Persian and Latin are pure languages
One should learn at least one of these languages to improve their
knowledge of English and learn how to correctly pronounce words.
One can also add Spanish - Italian - Romanian as a third language.
Those three including French and Portuguese are ROMANCE languages..
Meaning - originating from ROME
I was speaking 5 languages by age 5
Russian - Latin - Polish - English - Italian ( and some Yiddish )
As my mother was Russian Jewish - My father was U.S. born Italian
and I was looked after by a Polish nanny.
My late mother spoke 7 languages including Zulu
Later at age 10 I learned German - as my mothers eldest sister was
married to a German and residing in Essen. DE
Later again I learned Turkish - Spanish - Persian - Kurdish - Arabic
and some French
Still - that does not beat the 17 languages spoken by Albert Pike -
A 33rd level North American Mason
I mean, in the UK, even as a school kids, we knew which were German brands. As great as the US is, social media is increasingly exposing the insular and cosseted understanding of the planet that most Americans seem to have. Fascinating!
The power and influence of germany, is much bigger in europe, than in the USA.
24:00 just washing my son's sports clothes... In our Miele washing machine, bought around 35 yrs ago. And yes - it still cleans perfect. 😉
Wahnsinn......meine Mutter schwört auf Miele!!
it is MIELE and not Miele
Now explain the difference
Also explain the difference between
The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and
The United States of America
Explain the difference between
APPLE and Apple
ARMY and Army
NAVY and Navy
AIR FORCE and Air Force
Passing and Overtaking
That is your homework project.
Write an essay describing the differences.
My youngest students age 8 know the differences
Do you ?
The important thing to remember - is to ' pay attention to detail '
Make sure the brain sees exactly what the eyes are looking at.
Like many Australian Sheeple = Their eyes see QANTAS but their
brain sees Qantas
And they think that they are intelligent
They do not even know where the word intelligent derives from.
My Miele top loader is probably the same age, but I still have a dishwasher from the 70s that still works great. I only had to replace a few plastic rollers and the drain pump.
Very funny and nice to watch.
Carl Benz invented the car in 1886.
Other big German names in the automotive industry were Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach, Nikolaus Otto (today's four-stroke or gasoline engine), Rudolf Diesel (diesel engine), Felix Wankel (Wankel engine), Robert Bosch (spark plugs, among other things), the world's largest automotive supplier ...
And so it is always correct to write Diesel with a capital D because it is a real name.
many Americans i met said that Henry Ford invented the car, and they always wondered why i started laughing hard!
@@Lloyd-Franklin True, but he did invent the first gasoline.driven car that was produced and sold in a series (and he also invented the type of combustion engine that was used in that car). Any prior automobiles were only singular prototypes.
@@Lloyd-Franklin Well, more like a self-propelled gun carriage, or a steam locomotive without tracks.
It's always a question of definition. Da Vinci also invented a lot, on paper. Even in Paris (the original) they doubt that his invention really ran. There was a lot of trickery in the replica.
Karl Benz did not invent the car, that was Ferdinand Verbiest, Karl Benz invented the "modern car"! And Frederick William Bremer introduced it to the uk, i researched it, i asked the internet and this is what came up, this is fact!!! 😮
Ok wait..... We germans are known for our quality good cars and u two didn't know BMW and Mercedes are german?! :-O Holy Sh****...... tht has to settle down for me as a german :D Thats like not knowing Microsoft is american or Nintendo Japanese.......... But i love your stuff! Keep going! :D
I think most Americans know. Though some might guess French or Italian for Porsche.
Mercedes is Not and doesn't look a German name. Americans are more exposed to Spanish, and Mercedes sounds Spanish to them because it is a common woman Spanish name (singular is Merced)
@@Patrobasket Just look to Google an search "Mercedes Jelinek" ... there is the sory, why Mercedes is the name of the car and sometimes the company.
You're correct about Mercedes but you forgot the Benz 😂
@@tj2375 Richtig, vielleicht Benz von Benzin ;-) Funny, even for me. I just learnt that Benzin comes from Spanish too, benjuí, according to Wiktionary.
"A technical term in chemistry, adopted in English in 1835 as benzine (benzene from 1872), from German Benzin, which was coined in 1833 by Eilhardt Mitscherlich based on Benzoesäure (“benzoic acid”), plus the technical ending -ene (German -in) denoting hydrocarbons. The adjective benzoic is in turn from benzoin, originally a term for a balsamic resin from Middle French benjoin, from Spanish benjuí"
Funny too, I don't use Benzin anymore as I have two EVs since 2015. And my sister's name is... you guessed it: (Mercedes, but not Mercedes Benjuí)
Never heard an american pronouncing Porsche as Porsch-ee ? Just listen to the song "Mercedes Benz" by Janis Joplin....
I'm German and I heard at least one American pronounce it this way 😅
I remember the hysterically funny movie 'A Fish Called Wanda' where Kevin Kline makes fun of a British couple because their daughter is called Portia - he thinks she's been named after a car! 😆
Thanks for the great video. No German will hold it against you if you don't or can't immediately pronounce German words exactly as we do. I mean, have you heard some of us pronounce English? 😁 Greetings from Germany, you two rock. Looking forward to seeing you collab with Feli 🙂
She says that Car Brands like Mercedes and BMW are luxury Brands in the US but not in Germany? Thats just not true. A normal worker can not afford a car like this. The cheapest car BMW sells atm starts at 30600 Euro. And thats a really small car with nothing in it. Maybe she's born in a rich family and has no clue whats a normal income. She mention she was driving a mercedes as she was younger,...thats definitly not normal for a girl of her age
So true! I stumbled over that as well. Definitely luxury cars!
I think she meant that it's nothing special in Germany. I wouldn't classify either of them as luxury either, at least not every class. A normal BMW 3 or 1 series or a C or E class is not luxury. I would say upper middle class. S class, SLR, G class, Maybach, those are the luxury classes. With BMW you could say that anything above the 5 series could be described as luxury class. You could also use the Ford brand as a comparison, a car for everyone. But you can't say the same about a Ford Mustang. Here in Germany it's very rare and something special, in the US you see the Mustang so often that it's almost normal.
26:32 Luft is a German word and means air and Hansa is a very old German word. Hansa or Hanse is a word from 1250 and is a brotherhood of rich salesman’s all over the north of Germany. Hamburg for example is fully called Hansestadt Hamburg (a city of the Hanse named Hamburg). And we still have Bremen, Rostock and other cities and town who proudly are Hanse cities. Just to give you a bit more background. ;)
How dare you don't mention Lübeck as a hanseatic city? It's propably the most hanseatic city of them all :P (please don't feel attacked I just made a quabble )
@@LuriTV, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!
😉
My late mother - the youngest of 4 siblings (b. Nov 1, 1920) in Ukraine of Russian parents - her eldest Sister was married to a German (Ernst) and resides in Essen (Essendon IN VICTORIA - AU ) is named after Essen.
Leichardt in NEW SOUTH WALES - AU
There are many place names in AUSTRALIA named after German Towns -
There were more -some local authorities changed the name during WW II
out of spite - hatred of Germans and ignorance.
I learned the German language at age 10 - and Spanish at age 14 -
having already spoken 5 languages by age 5.
My mother spoke 8 languages including Zulu.
Russian - Polish - German -Yiddish - English - Italian - Persian - Zulu
You can undertake a Search
German Place names in Australia
AUSTRALIA has a diverse muti (pronounced Mul-Tea) cultural population.
With more than 50% of the population being either born overseas of a
parent who was born overseas.
There are some 200 languages spoken in AUSTRALIA -
ENGLISH is the most common -- Yet AUSTRALIA does NOT have an
official language.
Some countries have two or more official languages.
The United States = English & Spanish
CANADA = English & French
NEW ZEALAND = English & Maori
MOROCCO = French & Arabic
SPAIN - Spanish & Catalan
BELGIUM = German & Flemish Dutch
-- four national languages of Switzerland are German - French - Italian -
- Romansh.
German - French, and Italian HAVE equal status as official languages
LUFTANSA
Stands for
Let us F*ck the Hostesses and Not Suffer Alone
MOBIL stands fro:
Mister Our Business is Lousy
And there were a lot more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League#Lists_of_former_Hansa_cities abit like the EU plus England and without southern Europe 😉
Greetings from Germany (North Rhine-Westfalia, near Dortmund)! To be honest, you did very well with the pronounciation! Just have the heart to speak it out, you're not "off the line".
Very often, you have the 'sound' of the letter/word in English, too. But it's hard, because you have to imagine another writing. You did - for example - a great job with "Volkswagen" with the little help of the writing "Folksvagen".
From my experience, the most common difficulty is the contrary pronunciation of "ie" & "ei". It's exactly the other way round you pronounce it.
If you recognize the combination of "ie/ei" in a word, just look to the 2nd letter and pronounce this in English: "ie" in German sounds like the English "e", "ea" or double-e "ee") like 'easy', "eel', 'evening'' and "ei" in German simply sounds like the English letter "i" (ice, isolate, icon) 💡"
That is a Lie. Pronounciation was tottaly wrong.😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
kommst du ausm kreis soest?😂
@@nein9.9 Nicht ganz. Noch weiter westlich (MK) ;)
@@MtheHell Glück auf aus Bochum 😀
What's kinda funny is that the bavarian dialect is often a lot closer to english than other german dialects. The german "I" is "ich" but in bavaria we say "i" but the german way. So like the "i" in "issue" / "intense".
There was a famous advertisement by "Fredl Fesl" for the Veldensteiner beer brand where he compared bavarian to english and constructed a "chain of misunderstandings". Like in german we say "ich", in england they say "I". This sounds like "Ei" in german which means (chicken) egg in english. Egg again sounds like "Eck" in german which means "corner" in english. Corner on the other hand sounds like the bavarian word "Koaner" ("keiner" in standard german) which means "nobody" in english. The pun was that we just don't get along except when it comes to "beer" where we're in line as we both pronounce it the same way. "Bier" in german and "beer" in english.
Bavarian colors are NOT blue and white ..they are white and blue! No one knows why this is so important, but it is! 😀
Hä, ist doch dasselbe.
@@nueckel In Summe schon, den Bayern ist aber die Reihenfolge wichtig. In der Hymne heißt es "...die Farben deines Himmels weiß und blau"
Und dem Rest von Deutschland ist das komplett egal 🤷🏻♀️
Janis Joplin sang in her song "Mercedes Benz" the brand "Porsche" as pronounced by Feli.
My friends all drive porsches
America, butchering languages since 1777...😂
Who cares about pronouncing as long as you buy our stuff 😂
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As always a highly entertaining start to the day,with plenty of content & information i didn't know.
Love how varied this channel is. Keep it coming ladies ❤
That was awesome. We have many German brands and some stores here in Australia, and we know they're German, but it seems we only pronounce Adidas correctly!
And a few others, like Miele and Aldi.
We pronounce it properly in the UK too I always found it funny the way Americans say adidas
As an older Australian, we used to pronounce Adidas the American way when I was really young, but somewhere along the line we switched to the German way. We certainly don't say Puma the German way, Pew-ma.
@@utha2665 Adeedas and pew-ma here in the north of england too. Pooma is a large cat with the chronic shits
@@richardwani2803adidas is pronounced as Feli did the first way in tv commercials in the Us, put my uncle’s wife German, so we ask her for the right pronunciation.
Ooh, I'd love to see that collab with Feli.
Edit incoming
Edit 1: Volkswagen is shortened to VW as the German letters in the German alphabet are a lot quicker to say than the English letters in the alphabet. Basically it's fow-vay instead of veeee-double-you (ok, I'm exaggerating.). Like Feli said.😂
Edit 2: recently Aldi quietly became the fastest growing grocery store in the USA, and they also became number two after Walmart in turn-over frequency. Note: not in profit or even net-income, as they actually pay a living wage to their employees. Oh, and they introduced the concept of allowing their cashiers to sit at the checkout counter. Simply because they had DECADES of good data on how more rested employees are happier as well as more productive, garnering a long-term benefit for the company as well. German companies tend to take the long view over short term gains. They also recently announced that if anyone applying for a job at Aldi had the same qualifications but was from a marginalized group such as LGBTQ+ or with disabilities these people would be selected preferentially. If that's just a marketing ploy or it is their genuine belief I can't say; the outcome remains the same.
Edit 4 Lufthansa is based on the Hanseatic league which was an association of cities along the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts back in the day. They regularly patroled their trade areas with ships to cut down on piracy. They also regulated the tarrifs among all members to very low and consistent rates, thus creating the first economic trade union in the world. While it was founded in Berlin, its HQ bounced around the country multiple times. They own several other smaller airlines as well.
Now, to help you settle down. No worries about not knowing the pronunciation. You are trying your best, and you're willing to learn. That's more than enough for most Germans to give you lots of brownie points for even trying.
😘😉
I had a couple of Miele appliances and none of them broke before they were at least 15 years old and then they got another 5-10 years out of a repair.
@@caligo7918 Got a Miele de Luxe W741 from 1985, still working nicely. Only had to replace a Switch 15 years ago ....
Miele should use “buy right,buy once” as their motto..(if they don’t already!) they make some of,if not the best quality appliances in the world.
@@crocsmart5115 One look at their prices tells you that part, Miele is everything but cheap starting at 1500 USD
about the Hanseatic League, correct me if i misremember, but didn't they win a war against the kingdom of denmark?
Ohhhh, I've seen this video before 😜 it's a good one 😁 looking forward to seeing you're reaction on it 😅
I think that "wrong" is the wrong word😀. Following the above logic, the whole English speaking world, is pronouncing Paris ( as in France) incorrectly. Also, what about English place names found in the USA? Very often they come out very, very different than the British pronunciations.
rule of thumb is that any v in german is an f sound (UNLESS it's an english loanword, of course) and that there's no double-sound (the "waggon" thing English speakers do for "Wagen") unless there double letters too :D
Oh nooooo! 🙈 Didn't anybody tell the two of you that with a video with the phrase "German words", or even only the words "Germany", "German" or "Germans", you'll have tons of german "smartasses" leaving comments, discussing pronunciation, origin of the words or the citys/aereas they're invented? 😂
That's being said:
You did great on the pronunciations, guys!
Best regards from cologne, Germany 😅
Ok my lovely amercian girls - the US is made for cars everywhere, no bikes and no pedestrians. You dont know, that Mercedes Benz is German - who do you think invented the car? Right answer: Carl Benz, not Henry Ford. But the assembly line for faster carproduction ist invented by Henry Ford
We have TONS of bike lanes & a highway is no place for people to walk but people do walk everywhere else
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow OK! I'll take my own experience - from the westcoast to the eastcoast by bike during the next few years, planned 2 month. But the states are all more or less different, of course. Greetings from good old Germany.
Hallo my name is Swen...sorry my language it's bad....i am translated with "aunt" google...
Natascha and Debby her might wonderful show. Your charming manner is very beautiful. Thank you very much.
Feel hugged by me and many greetings from East Germany Leipzig
greeting Swen
The three hardest things to say.. "im sorry".."i love you" and "worsch..wrchst,.warchester..wushist...
wustershiresauce?"
🤣🤣
There used to be a very funny ad, where two handsome Continental Europeans tried to order Guinness in the pub.
@@dianearmitt6131 played by ace ventura in a shakespearian way
Interesting to me how US Americans actually pronounce those names ;)
The vid of Feli is really good...and I love the fact she put on some additional info in it.
Love and Greetings from Hamburg, Germany
The problem with the US is that they don't have the same contact with other nationalities and apply their pronunciation to the written word without hearing it first. Listening to even English words being mispronounced by US citizens can be irritating to us British, although we admit to a plethora of dialects in such a small country.
Oh I know, did a roadtrip once up to Scotland and the myriads of different dialects are...irritating...but thats the same here in Germany. @@clivewilliams3661
I think that it’s as much a case of the early American desire to standardise everything. And by that I mean alter the spelling of certain words but also to standardise vowel pronunciation - example: route = root (UK) rowt (US)
@@clivewilliams3661 in the US,we pronounce words the way they are pronounced in tv commercials, me and my whole family pronounce Adidas , the German way as my uncle’s wife is German, so we ask her how to pronounce German brands.
Fear not ladies. The rest of the world cares not a jot for the minutiae of life in the US either.
Yeah the rest of the world doesn't really care what goes on in the US .
Only the US citizens , rich billionaires and exporters of European goods there give a crap about the US !
Very insulated parochial country .
These two girls are very nice though !
Why is Natasha SO frightened of pronouncing things wrong, and so self-conscious and scared of making a fool of herself? Why should you be expected to know how to say things in other languages? Most people are not going to be offended at you saying things wrong, and pleased and flattered that you try.
Everyone usually pronounces the brands as they are said on the tv adverts
Yes. There’s been a recent ad campaign in the U.K. correcting the way we say Hyundai.
Love that Video ❤ you've done a good job in pronounciation. Greetings from germany
Ha ha, the stripper name thing had me in stitches, because I attended a Catholic convent school waaay back in the day, and my class teacher's name was Sister Mercedes! 🤪
Americans pronounce EVERYTHING wrong tho.
"Birkenstock. All lesbians know this shoe!" Hah, I just laughed my ass off. That was pure gold! 🤣
In uk we add ‘s’ to supermarkets too tesco(s) sainsbury(s)
Agreed, but Sainsbury's actually does have an 's' (as does Morrisons) but not Tesco, Aldi or Lidl [and I always tend to call it Sainsbugs]
Kroger is always Krogers. Not just in Ohio.
Just love you girls 😃 greetings from Germany 😊
More german content please! 😃 Earlier you told us, you like beautiful landscapes. I highly recommend "This is Germany" (old version)
ruclips.net/video/06YvNPAD2lg/видео.html It´ll blow you away!
Please turn on subtitles (shows locations).
German Content every Wednesday!
Lufthansa = Connection of two words: Luft&Hansa / Luft is = Air, and a Hansa or Hanse is a former term for Business or Trading partnerships. Thats why some cities Called Hansestadt Hamburg (=Hanse-city Hamburg) or Hansestadt Rostock or Hansestadt Bremen etc., these are often Cities at the sea/Port, connecting each other for sale, trade and exchange and became often quite wealthy. So Lufthansa is former partnership of seveveral Air lines (Luft-/Air Hansa) 😊
Ha ha. This is funny. 🙂 Birkenstock.
As a German, I really enjoyed your video and laughed a lot. Here are some German companies:
Rhode (electronic founded in 1933), Vaillant (founded 1874), Osram (Lightballs founded 1919), HariBo (Hans Riegel Bonn/Sweets founded 1920), Kärcher (1935), Vorwerk (1883), DRÄGER-Werk (medic technique f. 1889), Trumpf (1923), Claas (tractors 1926), Miele (1899), Rheinmetall (producer of the Abrahams guns 1889), Hella (car technique 1899), Knorr (1905), Oetker (backery 1891), Zeiss (optic 1846), MAN (trucks 1908), Knauf (plasterboard's 1932), Würth (1945), Bertelsmann (media 1835), Merck (pharma 1668!), Henkel (chemicals 1876), SAP (Software 1972), Continal (tires 1871), Fresenius (pharma 1912), Bayer (Aspirin and other medicine 1863), Siemens (1847), BASF (chemical 1865), Bosch (industrial s 1886), Deutsche Post (DHL, Telekom a.s.o. 1919) ans Allianz (insurance 1890). These are only some examples..😉
And hundreds of SMEs like Knipex, Festo and its subsidiary/brands Festool, Shaper etc., or B. Braun Medical Care (with 60.000 employees probably not an SME anymore).
Bosch is big brand for electrical hand tools like drilling machines, electrical saws, battery powered screwdrivers, a and other machines as well. You see it in the logo. The rotator of an electric motor .
Additional "fun"-fact, in Austria (Germany neighbours) "Aldi" is called "Hofer", it's part of the Aldi Süd Group, and the first try of the business in another country than germany.
It's also called Hofer in Slovenia, but Aldi in Hungary, Italy and Switzerland (Aldi Suisse)
Grüße von einem Halb-Südburgenländer.
I noticed that immediately. Was there a trademark issue around the name Aldi in AT?
@@seancassidy674 Appearently, there was already a foodtrade-chain called Hofer, founded by Helmut Hofer, which Aldi Süd bought, and because the name was already known, they used Hofer instead of Aldi.
Until today, the town where Adidas and Puma are made is divided... as far as I heard. If you work in the one company, you don't interact with people from the other company...
That's a long grudge to hold for brothers !
@@gregorygant4242 Yeah, it's now generational. I'd say the brothers are long gone.
@@utha2665 I know that's what I meant how can that grudge keep going on even today ?
Do they , the company bosses ,hate each other ?
@@gregorygant4242 Yeah, definitely a culture problem on both sides. Time to let bygones be bygones, I think.
Hi, ich komme aus Deutschland und finde es witzig wir ihr reagiert auf dieses Video
In Australia we shorten everything, so you can hear Vee-dub for VW.
Love your T-Shirts Natasha and Debbie.
I enjoyed all the additional history Feli gave for this video and learnt a few things along the way too.
german v you pronounce like f. German W you pronounce like v. German st is pronouced sht when at the beginning of a word. so it would be: Birken-shtock. Our vowels though you should really pay attention to.
Don't skip the p in Schwarzkopf. The combination of pf is pretty common in german😉
19:02 Every time I think of adding an S to the ends of words, Sal from Futurama always comes to mind. He's the guy that says "Gets movin'! Those newspapers won'ts deliver themselveses! Only the Sunday edition can dos that."
I love Feli’s videos. Always very informative.
I've heard a lot Americans stress the second syllable of words that many of us don't. Not only German words either. Names, very often. A word - not German but Japanese - that almost everyone gets wrong is Pokemon. It's short for Pocket Monster. so is pronounced as Pockemon No Poke. But I need to stop there. There are too many instances that irritate me. :) for Mercedes just say it as Mersaydess. For Birkenstock you can think it's more like Beerkenshtock. Take heart, most Brits mispronounce these names too. I'm just picky. Also I took German in school so know how it's pronounced.
Kroger's was a pretty big thing when I was in Kentucky and yeah I agree we added the s toohaha
How cute you guys are 😁😁🥰. Don’t you worry, you didn’t butcher any word. It was very entertaining watching this.
I've struggled to pronounce Bayern Munich for the past 17 years ever since my tiny English football club somehow drew with it back then lol! Ja we like the Germans though! Wunderba! 🇩🇪👍
Awesome that you’re doing a video from Felicia. She has very cool videos. She always comes across as very happy cheery person, very smart and IMO very pretty too which doesn’t hurt lol 👍🏻
Feli made a huge mistake when she said the Bavarian colors were blue and white. Bavarians insist that they're, in fact, white and blue, because they're mentioned in the Bavarian national anthem in that order: "[Gott] erhalte dir die Farben deines Himmels, weiß und blau" (May God preserve the colors of your sky for you, white and blue).
Risodo, spagheddi, lingeray, Van Go, entreprenure, Gooda cheese......... all speach impared Americans..
The pronounciation honestly expected because different languages read letters differently hence accents. Not going to act like I don't lose my mind overhear on the average German using "s" instead of a proper "th". What I didn't expect was the lack of literacy on companies. Do people in America not care where their stuff comes from?
Every country is pronouncing brands different... in France it is so funny too..but I like it...that's really charming...
14:41 Fun fact: Adidas bought their three stripe brand logo from Finland from Finnish sportswear brand Karhu and paid (in nowadays money) 1600€ and two whiskey bottles for it.
You are good! Most Germans do not know how to pronounce english words.... The gal forgot many other brands, like Braun, Rosenthal, Marantz, Saba, Steinweg Pianos (now American Steinway), Telefunken, Bosch, Siemens, Continental (the biggest tire maker), MAN, Opel, Hugo Boss, Rolf Benz, Deutsche Grammophon and many others, some of them having been sold out to China and others....
This is great. You two really need to get over to the UK & Germany. We will have fun teaching you English 😀 😊 😄
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Interesting fact. Nothing to do with mispronunciation, but another German brand. Did you know that Hugo Boss, which was founded in Germany in 1924 by Hugo Boss, originally was just a clothing manufacturer, but then in 1938 started to make uniforms for the Nazi Party. After that, the company then branched out into luxury clothing, fragrances etc.
As I say, no mispronunciation there that I know of. Just an interesting fact. Bless you both guys. Love your videos. Jason in the UK 🙏❤️
I'm glad I doubled checked what I thought, I was almost completely wrong. For years I though that Hugo boss only created the uniforms for the SS. But it turns out they didn't even design them, only made them. But just about every other Nazi uniform style was designed and made by Hugo Boss and used forced labour to do it.
I'm glad I did check because I would have been eating some humble pie 🤭.
In Poland we say: adidas(same De) , volkswagen, audi (Same), Porsche (same), Mercedes(We pronounce it similarly, but not exactly),BeeMWu😅, Volkswagen, Birkenstock (I don't know, I haven't heard of them in Poland),jagermajster😅, Aldi (same), nivea, szwardzkop (Similarly), Deutsche Bank (same),miele This is how we read),haribo (same), Lufthansa (same)
Tbh the hardest word to pronounce in this video is Cincinnati 😂
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i've heard many times the english pronounced oudi... for Audi...in texas WV, Florida, California....and many more
"Lufthansa" = Air Hansa. Hansa = from Old High German hansa, from Proto-Germanic *hansō (“band or company”). Cognate with Old English hōs (“company, band”). The term 'Hansa' was used as reference to the old medieval maritime Hanseatic League (with Luebeck/Germany as de facto capital) - which was a Trade Empire within the realm of the Holy Roman Empire (which had today Germany as base but stretched over more countries regions of today different countries). The other maritime trade empires (on the other side of the Holy Roman Empire) was for instance Venice. Both maritime empires were created by more independent cities wo created usually with other cities alliances. Both trade empire spheres were connected mostly via land and rivers (like the Rhein/Rhine river) and represent the highest traffic highways of the medieval age (before later the Atlantic and Pacific trade routes became a thing)).
"Shut the Front Door" 😂
You are sooooooo cute together. Many thanks from willy aus ibach-schwyz, switzerland.!!!!!!!
German Brands that Americans Pronounce Wrong. You could make a much longer video and title it: "3 Syllable words that Americans pronounce wrong". If it's foreign and it's 3 syllables: Americans have over a 90% failure rate when it comes to pronouncing them. It's REALLY weird. Example: Sakura (As in: The Cherry Blossom). American Pronunciation: s' KUH ruh. Actually Pronunciation: Sa-ku-ra.
Adidas founded by Adolf ADI Dassler. Puma founded by his Brother Rudolf Dassler. Both company sitting in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria
I think it's a Midwest thing with the S at the end of supermarkets ... or at least Ohioan ... Krogers, Meijers, ... lived in Columbus, Oh for a while (also originally from Germany) 🤭
We add an 's onto lots of British supermarkets too "Tesco's" "Asda's" and yes "Aldi's."
However - You still have to learn that all CORPORATE legal names
are always in the ALL CAPS iteration.
Secondly - Learn to pay attention to detail
HOW words are written is equally important as what is written.Make sure the brain sees exactly what the eyes are looking at.
The question for you is :
1. Why are CORPORATE Legal Names written in ALL CAPS
2. Why is a name that sounds like yours - often written in ALL CAPS -
and sometimes it is in Mixed Case Letters.
Under what conditions is it written in ALL CAPS and why ?
Write a clear detailed essay explaining this.
You will need knowledge of History and Law to explain it
I will give you a clue.
You will find the answers at the necropolis
Hi, your video is very funny and I think it's cool... In Uk the German words are pronounced relatively similar...
I was born in Germany and find my language exhausting^^ But it sounds funny sometimes too...
German is a very difficult and sometimes sounds very hard! (Especially the letter 'R') and the words are sometimes so long ...
Examples:
-German: Überraschung , English: Surprise
-German: Naturwissenschaft, English: Science
-German: Affenbrotbaum, English: Baobab
-German: Flugzeug, English: Aeroplane
-German: Kugelschreiber, English: Pen
_German: Krankenschwester, English: Nurse
Thanks for the video und liebe Grüße aus Deutschland (best regards from Germany^^)
just a little fun fact aside for the pronouncing of "Porsche" ....listen to Janis Joplin "Mercedes Benz" ...she exactly pronounce it like Feli said , americans do ...LOL
I think many of that car brands seem expensive in other countries, but actaully in Germany there are normal cars and there are a lot of Germans that actually drive one of them.
I don't even try to pronounce American brands the right way.
Why would I? As long as they keep pronouncing European non English names totally wrong for instance "Foäoi" when it's simply FERRARI.
funny video. but how its pronounce in TV advertisement? for example NIVEA, Schwarzkopf? american accent or original? in Europe everybody say's NIKE wrong. We r saying NIKE like SPRITE
Re: Porsche, listen to Janis Joplin's 'Oh lord, won't you but me...'
...'My friends all drive Porscheees, I must make amends'... so I was under the same impression that was normal 'over there'...
Audi.. Uhm, let me check this quick, but if I remember correctly, the Name Audi is an acronym.
Auto Union Deutscher Industrieller or Industrie
(car Union of German industrials/industries), it started as a combination of 4 branches (that's why the 4 Rings in the Logo) in 1932, one year before Hitler came to be the Reichskanzler of Germany and ended the Weimar Republic and turned into the 3rd Reich Nazi Germany.
The Initial Name Audi was from Horch but the official side of Audi is actually "washing" here.
(the thing is German industrials, especially those who made good money in the 30's of the 20 century, mostly gave on purpose financial support to.. Support fashism, Hitler was very talkative about that from the get go, even the plans for war... And 4 separate branches, joining together and throw all their equipment into one factory compound.. Shortly before Hitler came to power.. in Ingolstadt, Bavaria.. Like the same Bavaria were Berchtesgarden is.
Uhm yeah
Janis Joplin-Mercedes Benz(original) - ruclips.net/video/Qev-i9-VKlY/видео.html
UM well there are many English and French Brands that pronounce wrongly and Americans do wrongly pronounce many ordinary England words, But language always evolves. Merci-Jean-Marc 😃
Even if you don't really mean it, you don't need to apologize for the debate. We certainly also have various products that we mispronounce (e.g. Amazon) etc.
WAIT i always tought americans pronounce mercedes like mer-see-dis D: mer-say-dis sounds so wrong xDD help
3:20 You both are really cool 😁 Yeah, you pronounced Adidas 100% perfectly. In Germany we say it like "Addi Duzz", the A has to be like in "far" though it's at the beginning. PERFECT
12.50 Not true, Mercedes/BMW/Audi are mostly more pricy in every class. So if you are a upper middle class worker it begins where you can drive these cars, but not every social class, no way
You guys are somewhat funny . Your German "teacher" is really charming. Don’t know why but I myself am more curious about origin and how to pronounce brands I consume , fathom etc pp.
Thanks for this entertaining video. Greetings from Hamburg the hometown of NIVEA , Montblanc , but not of the St.Pauli Girl beer , St. Pauli is the party/red light hotspot of Hamburg , which is not even sold in Germany
Nice video.
German pronounciation is pretty simple if you keep one thing in mind: there are no silent letters. Example would be Lufthansa. The only mistake Natasha made, when pronouncing it, was forgetting the "t".
Of course there are exceptions but if you keep this in mind, you should get many German words right.
“That just doesn’t roll off the tongue while you’re stuffing dollar bills down a g-string…” I’m crying and I really want you to try that out now. 😂
I wouldn't call Subaru's ''subpar'', especially as most 'German' car components are also produced in China these days anyway... Sneaky joke though, took me a while 👍
Mercedes is not a common stripper name in Germany! ...I was told by a friend! 😆 FYI: Mercédès Jellinek wasn't a stripper! 😆
I was commenting the whole video: yep, nope, wrong pronounciation, well done and so forth😂😂😂okay girls, you don't know Lufthansa??? You just broke my heart big time😢( ex Lufthansa Flught Attendant here)
The history of companys/company names is interesting.
Ever heard of "M&M/Mars"?
Mr Mars Sr and Mr Mars Jr worked together in candy.
They had a fight so Mars Jr moved to England where he started a number of original candies such as Skottles but more importantly the Snockers chocolate bar which became a huge success in England making him more wealthy than his father.
With enough money Mars Jr came back to America an bought out his fathers company (which became known as M&M).
And you can guess the 2nd most successful product even by that name.
So "M&M/Mars" means the company he bought from his father and also it joined with his successful Mars candy company from UK.
Concerning the "Porsche"-problem: listen to "Mercedes Benz" from Janis Joplin ;)