In the spirit of being eco-conscious, how about those extremely lightweight fabric shopping bags that can be folded up to palm size and tucked into an attached pouch that'll fit into a back pocket or any handbag to bring to the grocery store instead of paying for new plastic or paper bags? Good to have in reserve if you buy more stuff than planned, or fall prey to the dreaded impulse buy! (Oh, fun fact: One of our neighbors produces the thin cellophane bags in the produce aisle for stores; he told me that the oh-so-eco-friendly brown paper bags are dyed that color to make them look more "natural". The paper from which they're made actually comes out of the mill in a somewhat dirty-looking white.) I even use a bigger version as a beach bag because it takes up hardly any room and weighs mere grams, plus you can tuck room key cards into the fold-into baggie if it doesn't have an extra pocket that's zippered or buttoned.
English USED TO do numbers like german ... which you can easily find in Jane Austen's "Pride & Prejudice", where the heroine describes her age as "I am not yet one-and-twenty".
@@michamcv.1846 Actually, I think you can get some kind of paper insert/catching layer at a pharmacy if you have to provide a stool sample for a lab. Have never tried it myself, but that's what my doctor told me when the subject came up once during a physical. 🤭😅
deswegen sehen wir uns das doch alle an, oder? Weil wir wissen wollen wie uns andere sehen und ob das so korrekt ist. Und wenn das nich korrekt ist dann korrigieren wir die. Wir sind schon nen komisches Völckchen! LOL
The 'Besucherritze' is probably called that because when a third person sleeps over, they will end up sleeping on the divide. It's not uncommon for children to sleep with their parents here, especially when not feeling well or having nightmares. On that note, they usually also bring along their pillow and blankets so everyone is covered without any fights :)
@@franhunne8929 True enough; I'm sure there's also plenty of kids that decide that mom's blanket is just so much softer than their own, even though it's literally the same. Kids are gonna be kids after all. I still think it's probably worse with just one blanket for everyone
I agree with you on the separate duvets. We just returned from vacationing in Italy where we had to share the American style bedding. I didn’t sleep so well. Then we moved north to the Dolomites and German style bedding….so much better. As for the mattresses…my husband’s is too hard for me. And I love sticking my foot in the gap when I sleep. 😂 I agree when I first moved to Germany, I thought the two duvets was not romantic. Well after 23 years married and 29 together…give me my own duvet!!! I know where to find you when I need/want you! 😊
Actually, my mom told us children last Christmas (when the entire family comes together for a couple of days once a year) that she started to stick her right foot into that gap in 1980. My sisters both laughed .... since they do the same. We have never ever spoken about this habit before and found it very funny.
F. e. When I was 173cm and 70kg and my boyfriend was 204 and 130 KG we needed definitely two duvats, much harder for him. Plus he was a heater, like sauna, bad in summer.
One thing that was intimidating for me when I worked in TX were the names of medical specialists. See, we Germans just use the compound words instead of the Latin words. Augenarzt literally means Eye doctor, Zahnarzt means Tooth Doctor and Hals, Nasen und Ohrenarzt (or short HNO-Arzt) means Throat, nose and Ear Doctor. You don't have to know (or learn by heart) the Latin words before you can seek out the doc you need. Ophthalmologist, Dentist, Otolaryngologists. OMG!
Not exactly true. As soon as you leave the path of doctors everyone goes to, you are landing at Latin names quickly, Kardiologe, Gastroenterologe, etc.
I think they even think you are the King if you know Latin/Greek names: otorinolaringologist, stomatologists, cardiologists... If you even know names body parts and illnesses then you are the God. I guess most people from Serbia are in that status even if they didn't finish Gymnasium or medical school (where you naturally learn Latin) you just know medical names
The different blankets and stuff can be debated, but mattresses? The right hardness depends on your weight, which will nearly always be different in a couple.
The "Besucherritze" between the matrasses is called that because little kids sometimes climb into their parent's bed and during the night end up in the "Besucherritze".
My favorite compound words are the ones with -zeug (stuff). Flugzeug (airplane): Stuff that flies Spielzeug (toy): stuff to play with Werkzeug (tool): stuff to craft with Feuerzeug (lighter): Thing that makes fire
my favorite sentence in german: Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, die mit Eifer sucht, was Leiden schafft. (Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.) -Franz Grillpanzer
The European thing of having two mattresses also probably has to do with the difficulty or impossibility of getting a huge mattress into the room through narrow stairways.
There are wonderful German compound words: I call them Wohlfühlwörter like Augenweide, Fingerspitzengefühl, Hoffnungsschimmer, Engelsgeduld, Herzallerliebster, Schlummertrunk etc .
English should adapt rules to create compound words. German is very flexible, accurate and versitile language. English a bit less. For example the verb to put. In the dictionary is is translated with setzen, stellen oder legen. It depends on the way and direction you move the object. In some cases English is over simplified.
"No, the air isn't better..." Speak for yourself! You can taste the difference between the dry, stale air in Saxony and the refreshing, iodine filled air on the Baltic Coast within seconds! Also, you could drive the point about compound words even further with a "Kofferwort" (suitcase word), such as "satanarchälogügenialkohöllisch" which is a famous word from Michael Ende's novel "Der satanarchälogügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch". Concerning jeans, washing once a week or every other week feels appropriate.
The part with the compoung nouns is one thing I always convey to my students in my German lessons. While they do look scary, you can 1) understand words you have never seen before and 2) reference to something you have no word for and people are still likely to understand
If you get the chance, try the Schwedenbecher (Swedes Cup). It is an ice cream dessert invented in the East during Socialist times. It is vanilla ice cream with apple mash (Apfelmus), Eierlikör (a German variant of eggnog), whipped cream and chocolate sauce and sprinkles.
Not quite eggnog. Eierlikör is the German word for advocaat, the main difference being that Eierlikör only uses the yolks while eggnog uses the whole egg.
as always i really enjoyed your video! and a big thanks for the first "foreigner" (in quotes bcs you are probably 85% germanized ^^) in videos like this understanding the system behind these "unlearnable long words" and getting the pro's of this (like not to have to invent new words again and again). for example "Verkehrsregeln" is the same in english "traffic rules", only difference is we get rid of the space and you guys don't. not that complicated to wrap the head around, but still you are the first i ever witnessed! so again, big thanks for that :)
@@PassportTwo plural in german can be quite difficult sometimes ... in a dictionary you have lots of single _words_ *(Wörter)* while a comment, saying, or speech are nice _words_ *(Worte)*
@@Anson_AKB There is a difference in meaning for that (although just in the plural). Wörter refers to words as systemic parts of a language: The system that a certain term refers to a certain thing or action, etc. Worte refers to specific uses of such terms. A dictionary - Wörterbuch - contains the units from the language system, a greeting card uses them in practice. Think of Wörter as stamps (the device you put the color on) and Worte as the traces of the color and stamp on paper.
For Aubrey: If you feel that single standard size German duvets are not good for cuddling, try comfort size (155cm by 220). We always use one of them which covers both of us when cuddling, even though we are absolutely not slender, and after final "good nights" my partner gladly grabs his own, thinner one... 😊
I had ice cream american style a few weeks ago. I had to mine that ice before eating it. The term "Besucherritze" is known because, when you have little kids, it can be, that you have a visitor between both of you. But that is the position of the gap between matrasses, so the visitor is in the gap. So it is called visitors gap. How often I wash my jeans? Normally I should wash it once a month. But that is, when I'm wearing it every day. But as I only wear it twice a week, I have to wash it rarer.
@5:16 Gelato is the Italian word for icecream, just look it up. That doesn't mean what is referred to as Gelato is the same thing as German icecream. 😊
About Ice-Cream in Germany, the big trick with the air is: Ice-Cream is sold by volume in liter, not by weight in gramms or kilogramms. Air give a nice volume and is free for the producer, but not free for the customer.
Actually, not true. You'll find both number on the package. You could also say, you get more volume for the same amount, therefore it takes longer to eat it all.
German Hack for Icecream get a coffee mug or something simular put hot water in it take the spoon let it rest some 1 or 2 minutes in the hot water. that way it will be way easier to get the icecream out of the box nice side effect the icecream will not stick on the spoon....reapet the process until you are done with the icecream-
i hope, you know, the platform toilet is for that the water dosent spatter against your butt, the water will also not splatt out of the toilet wen you make it on and you can see how the poop locks like wen you are sick or just want to check if its helthy. i personaly really like this typ of toilet
I also find it normal to have two mattresses in a large bed. My ex and I had different preferences about the softness of the mattress. I’m female, I often sleep on the side so a soft mattress is how I sleep better. He slept better on a hard mattress. The German way: no problem. Different mattresses with just the same height. My new partner is Filipino, he insisted on the American way of having one mattress. That was the first time I ever made this experience to have one big mattress.
yeah the zipper merch even doesn’t work in germany most times. as drivers don’t let other drivers in or drive to the very end of the lane that’s closing to then try to break in
Nice Video! I am german and also live in germany and for my experience, the icecream isn't always saft when you take it out of the freezer. I think it is very diffrent for diffrent Brands, probably because they doesn't all put so much air in the ice Cream. And like you said, it also depends on the temperature
Besucherritze: When a third person (your child) joins you in bed in the middle, there is a chance that it partial gets stuck in the Besucherritze, perhaps just a leg or - if the mattresses have slide apart - the whole body.
Hardness of ice cream is mainly due to the freezer temperature. In the US supermarket ice cream comes in many versions but not so much in the EU. If you want stuff in it you mostly have to add your own.
Compound words do have one advantage: online searching. When searching for very specific things, the precise words often are basically a heap of super general words and pre or suffixes. If you seach them as a lose pile of linguistic gravel as in english, search results will include a lot of crap and few if any hits. If the words are properly welded together, though, like in german, chances of finding results are much better
For fact two I would say its definitely the air. You can see the difference if you look at the weight and the filling capacity. Soft ice cream should be much lighter then the american one at same filling capacity. I think for the most time the people like the soft ice cream straight out the freezer but in some tv shows about casual groceries its seen as a lack of quality to have somewhat around 50% of air in your ice cream.
the Edeka icecream they showed in the video has exactly only half a kilogram for one liter (500g for 1000ml), thus 50% air, while american style (eg Häagen-Dasz or Ben&Jerry) has around 400g for 460ml (for comparison: 500g for 575ml), and pure water with no air should have a ratio of 1:1 ... in another comment i have listed lots more of different icecreams. about the quality: imho, having softer icecream than the hard american style is good, but having too much air in it looks like a scam (big packages with no contents, and this often goes along with low quality of ingredients to make it even cheaper) and also allows it to completely melt to some (non-ice) cream soup while you eat a serving directly from the freezer. ps: you also have this "smelting problem" with the harder icecream: you need to let it sit for some time first and then have the center still frozen while the outer volume is almost liquid.
Ich bin zufällig auf Deine Videos gekommen und habe inzwischen die meisten geschaut. Freue mich immer über die gut recherchierten Vergleiche zwischen USA und Deutschland. Habe selbst in den 1980er Jahren für eine deutsche Firma für einige Jahre in Chatsworth/LA gearbeitet/gelebt und es sehr genossen! Bei meiner Rückkehr nach Germany kam mir der Flughafen Hamburg wie ein Parkplatz eines 7Eleven vor. So "small" alles. Ok, das war vor 40 Jahren. Leider ist CA inzwischen so teuer geworden, dass ich als Rentner wohl nie wieder dort hin reisen werde. Ich liebe Kalifornien aber trotzdem. Über die anderen Bundesstaaten kann ich nichts sagen, weil ich nie dort war. Eigentlich wollte ich ja nur wegen der Eiscreme für Zuhause kommentieren😂Die Eigenmarken von Rewe/Penny und Co. sind bei mir nach einem Tag im freezer auch steinhart! Please keep up with ur good videos. Liebe Grüße aus einer Samtgemeinde bei Stade/Lower Saxony.
the toilet pun, I can't even remember seeing those in the last 20 to 30y unless it was never replaced and it's a house/flat from at least the '80 or older.
The last time we had one of those at home was probably in the.. hmm, I think late 70s. A bit messier in terms of cleaning but no 'Splash' which I really don't like.
Just warm up the spoon to scoop ice cream. 💡 No need to put it in the microwave or let it sit on the stove. That will only make it harder and tasteless next time you eat it.
Secret of icecream is stir while it freezes, so it doesn't become an icecube. That's why you need a machine inside the freezer or a special ice cream machine. You can also sit in the freezer yourself, and stir for 4 hours.
We actually Made Up Our own traveling Game where we basically create new compound words. Every Person has to add a Word when it is their Turn in Order to lengthen the compound. For an extra Challenge, you can Play a la "packing a suitcase" where everybody has to repeat the whole Thing before lengthening it
How often do I wash my jeans? Hard to tell. I wash them when they're dirty. And I have a very, very tolerant attitude towards the notion of "dirty". Besides, jeans wouldn't be jeans if they needed washing so often. Most of the time, some brushing will do. Let's give the dirt back to nature, where it came from!
I don‘t think German married couples ever slept in separate twin beds. Even in the Middle Ages, the beds were much smaller than today, but there was only one bed for couples.
I always hold the spoon under hot water for a moment when i get ice cream that's too hard. Also the german language is engineered in a way that lets you make up a word to describe something and people will still understand you.
They get washed when they are dirty or smell. Sometimes two days, sometimes more than a week. Btw. Where is the Spätzlepresse from the thumbnail in the video?
I wash my Jeans like once every 6-8 months, and only if the cannot be cleaned anymore by drying out the dirt and brush it away with a clothes brush. Like Levis once said: Never wash your Jeans
When it comes to mattresses, as a couple where I am 6.5ft and my wife is 5.2ft, we have completely different demands on our mattresses in terms of comfort and health due to height and weight. 🤗 So we have the right mattress, and it doesn't separate us in any way. By the way, even if you have two duvets, you can cuddle and feel your partner's skin. 🥰 The "Flat patter shelf toilet" is for elderly or sick people who have to check their bowel movements regularly and are not the only type of toilet in Germany. 🤭
I think the shelf toilet was very common in the past along with a German scientific approach to observing their poop. Not as common now but the very recently done transit museum in Vienna has them.
Spiel-Zeug, Flug-Zeug, Fahr-Zeug, Grün-Zeug, Flick-Zeug, Rasier-Zeug, Bett-Zeug,Schlag-Zeug, Feuer-Zeug… Wie genial und einfach ist das?! So einfach viele Begriffe schnell und einfach zu lernen. Im englischen gibt es toy, plane…
12:47 two separate mattresses are a godsend even if you happen to like your mattress having the same firmness and other features as your partner, the reason is simple: if your share a mattress you also share every movement of your partner as the mattress signals this back to you. this movement has the potential to interrupt your sleeping pattern. this adds up and makes your sleep shallow and uneven. much more detrimental to your health than a shared duvet. my advice: get separate mattresses and duvets and if your wife still doesn't see the benefits, maybe try them out temporarily in a hotel
RQotW: As I have several, I rotate and let recent worn ones air out, so I guesstimate each gets a wash every 4 weeks, maybe every 6. We have separate mattresses, one is a lot firmer than the other and on one frame we have an electric raising/lowering function. Whomever is ill, and needs to stay in bed longer gets that side, plus it's a great advantage if one of us is ill, feverish, we need only change one set of sheets as needed. We also have different weight duvets, I like the heavier one, he the lighter one. I actually prefer the ice cream that gets hard in the freezer. Seems to last longer before melting into a puddle at the bottom of the bowl. I've seen and used the trick to take a small container (has to be cardboard) and using a serrated knife to cut it in two and peeling off packaging and serving it as it.
Have you considered that your freezer is just not set as cold as the one at home? There is some ice cream with air (rather nitrogen I believe) injected to make it fluffier but not the Gut und günstig one. This would also match the Ben and Jerry's being softer than in the US
I remember one research showing that couples often sleep ‘better’ and ‘deeper’ on individual mattresses as your personal sleep phases won’t be disturbed by your partner rolling around and the motions spread across the whole bed. Most likely also a very individual thing, depending on whether one is a more ‘light’ sleeper. My wife and I however chose one large mattress without Besucherritze while still keeping two separate duvets. You can still snuggle by overlapping them, and when fallen deep asleep and rolling around individually, they separate without fighting. … unless of course my wife manages to wiggle her duvet onto the floor mid-sleep and then just reaches over to grab n pull mine 😆
The ice cream engineers here are so good, that they can create one liter of ice cream out of 500 g ice cream. By just putting 50% air in. From business perspective quite a good idea, because you doubled your revenue 😉. There is a nice video of Sebastian Lege and the ZDF Besseresser about that.
Compound words - exist in many European languages. In French you can even distinguish them. Brosse à dents - tooth brush. Combination works through the words à or de for traditional/older words. So brush for the teeth. Statue of Liberty would be one example in English where the preposition of is also used. Germans just put the words together so tooth brush becomes Toothbrush (Zahnbüste). But the system is the same. The big letter at the beginning is due to the fact that all nouns are written with a big letter at the beginning, opposed to English where this applies mostly to names. Newer words in French are just combined with a "-". Gratte-ciel (scrape-sky) (skyscraper). Normally you will put words together sky - Wolke (actually means cloud but still), Kratzer (the scraper) so this becomes Wolkenkratzer.
The scooping depends on the ice cream you buy. If you buy a more expensive Gelato style ice cream like Bruno Gelato you can't just scoop it right out of the freezer. And the secret is actually air, so you got this right. Cremissimo and most of the discounter versions got about 50% air in it.
What I like most about German, is how versatile and creative it is. When we don't know the term for something we just make one up by connecting old words. Might not be in the dickshonary but everybody knows what I was trying to say. There is for example "Putinversteher", the Putin understander, for people who get what Putin is trying to convey to us in the West. Was first used like maybe 10-15 years ago, never existed in the official vocabulary but is ultra by now.
My grandparents bed was just to single wood frames pushed together. So visiting them as a child during night was pretty uncomfortable. As the distance between two matraces was 5 cm of wood frame filling. Soo uncomfortable. In the bed of my parents the matraces were not securd to sliding to the sides. Start sleeping with parents in bed. Wake up in a space as wide as myself a matraces high lower. Things improved a lot in regards to the Besucherritze
When I was young, and in the morning visit my parents in her bedroom (or if I where "Ill" and have to sleep in the bed of my parents, I was in the Besucherritze :) In this time, it was realy a gap between. But today, the mattres are so well designed, so you do not have a realy besucherritze...
Zipper merge is only annoying if you have a lot of drivers that believe that they have to let no one in, or have to go very fast on the ending lane to then switch over and cut you off. The former leads to traffic jam, the latter often leads to car crashes, or at least a lot of unnesssary slowing down of the flow. This is done very often by people with huge, fast cars, because, as we all know, the STVO does not apply to them! 😡
In the case of ice cream, manufacturers simply take advantage of the fact that the package contents are specified as volume and not as weight. In a price comparison, the ice cream with a lot of air is naturally cheaper. The fact that it is softer is only a positive side effect, but not a sign of quality...
The bed room thing goes way beyond that - Duvets can still be used sort of as one. We layer them with about one third overlapping and snuggle up. When at night you roll over, you just pull your duvet with you. Simple as that. - Mattress There are companies specializing in Kingsize-Matresses with divided stiffness degrees. A bit expensive, but worth it. Since my wife and I really differ in weight, we found another solution. We have one mattress with a stiffness that i need and a topper with the softness she needs. It is a pretty thin topper that provides her all the comfort andmy side is totally crushed beneath my weight and i enjoy the matress beneath :)
RQotW: Having only two Jeans left that fit I change between them and wash them once or twice a year. In the summer season there's no need for them (except summer 2023 perhaps... ).
Know of any other genius things I should include in a part 2?? 😃
In the spirit of being eco-conscious, how about those extremely lightweight fabric shopping bags that can be folded up to palm size and tucked into an attached pouch that'll fit into a back pocket or any handbag to bring to the grocery store instead of paying for new plastic or paper bags? Good to have in reserve if you buy more stuff than planned, or fall prey to the dreaded impulse buy! (Oh, fun fact: One of our neighbors produces the thin cellophane bags in the produce aisle for stores; he told me that the oh-so-eco-friendly brown paper bags are dyed that color to make them look more "natural". The paper from which they're made actually comes out of the mill in a somewhat dirty-looking white.)
I even use a bigger version as a beach bag because it takes up hardly any room and weighs mere grams, plus you can tuck room key cards into the fold-into baggie if it doesn't have an extra pocket that's zippered or buttoned.
How do you know If U have blood in your fecies?
INCLUDE GERMAN TOILETTs 😂
English USED TO do numbers like german ... which you can easily find in Jane Austen's "Pride & Prejudice", where the heroine describes her age as "I am not yet one-and-twenty".
@@michamcv.1846 Actually, I think you can get some kind of paper insert/catching layer at a pharmacy if you have to provide a stool sample for a lab. Have never tried it myself, but that's what my doctor told me when the subject came up once during a physical. 🤭😅
You should focus on that 'Germans are better in bed' topic. 😆😆
Als Deutscher ist es für mich immer unterhaltsam Ausländischen Leuten zuzusehen die über Deutschland reden. Thx 👍👍😁😁
Wahrscheinlich hast der Kanal mehr deutsche Zuschauer als alles andere 🤣
@@KFrancisPowerhier zum Beispiel eine Britin 🫡
Et moi je suis du Québec, Canada !!!
deswegen sehen wir uns das doch alle an, oder? Weil wir wissen wollen wie uns andere sehen und ob das so korrekt ist. Und wenn das nich korrekt ist dann korrigieren wir die. Wir sind schon nen komisches Völckchen! LOL
Da kickt bei allen gleich wieder der Nationalismus richtig rein.
The 'Besucherritze' is probably called that because when a third person sleeps over, they will end up sleeping on the divide. It's not uncommon for children to sleep with their parents here, especially when not feeling well or having nightmares. On that note, they usually also bring along their pillow and blankets so everyone is covered without any fights :)
Trust me, there still are fights - as kids do not stay in the normal sleeping direction and suddenly they occupy the bed in its width ..
@@franhunne8929 True enough; I'm sure there's also plenty of kids that decide that mom's blanket is just so much softer than their own, even though it's literally the same. Kids are gonna be kids after all. I still think it's probably worse with just one blanket for everyone
I never taken my stuff with. I robed everything from my father. Sometimes he left and slept in my bed😅 I'm sleeping in my son's bed now.😂
Hehe indeed untill the kid dreams of being a Starfish.. -.-
not me i have always stuck my feet and hands in the divide like a dog xD@@franhunne8929
I agree with you on the separate duvets. We just returned from vacationing in Italy where we had to share the American style bedding. I didn’t sleep so well. Then we moved north to the Dolomites and German style bedding….so much better. As for the mattresses…my husband’s is too hard for me. And I love sticking my foot in the gap when I sleep. 😂
I agree when I first moved to Germany, I thought the two duvets was not romantic. Well after 23 years married and 29 together…give me my own duvet!!! I know where to find you when I need/want you! 😊
Actually, my mom told us children last Christmas (when the entire family comes together for a couple of days once a year) that she started to stick her right foot into that gap in 1980. My sisters both laughed .... since they do the same. We have never ever spoken about this habit before and found it very funny.
❤ you can live together without sharing everything 😊 perfect example for that! ❤
In very cold winters i actually loved the combination...
Each one gets one fluffy blanket for themselves, and one big heavy blanket over both
F. e. When I was 173cm and 70kg and my boyfriend was 204 and 130 KG we needed definitely two duvats, much harder for him.
Plus he was a heater, like sauna, bad in summer.
One thing that was intimidating for me when I worked in TX were the names of medical specialists. See, we Germans just use the compound words instead of the Latin words. Augenarzt literally means Eye doctor, Zahnarzt means Tooth Doctor and Hals, Nasen und Ohrenarzt (or short HNO-Arzt) means Throat, nose and Ear Doctor. You don't have to know (or learn by heart) the Latin words before you can seek out the doc you need. Ophthalmologist, Dentist, Otolaryngologists. OMG!
Not exactly true. As soon as you leave the path of doctors everyone goes to, you are landing at Latin names quickly, Kardiologe, Gastroenterologe, etc.
Stimmt schon - warum einfach, wenn’s auch kompliziert geht.
Being born in the USA, you grow up learning the types of doctors by their Latin-based designations - its really no problem.
I think they even think you are the King if you know Latin/Greek names: otorinolaringologist, stomatologists, cardiologists... If you even know names body parts and illnesses then you are the God. I guess most people from Serbia are in that status even if they didn't finish Gymnasium or medical school (where you naturally learn Latin) you just know medical names
@@EyMannMachHin die man normalerweise im Krankenhaus trifft... in ther INNEREN Medizin? ;)
The different blankets and stuff can be debated, but mattresses? The right hardness depends on your weight, which will nearly always be different in a couple.
The "Besucherritze" between the matrasses is called that because little kids sometimes climb into their parent's bed and during the night end up in the "Besucherritze".
My favorite compound words are the ones with -zeug (stuff).
Flugzeug (airplane): Stuff that flies
Spielzeug (toy): stuff to play with
Werkzeug (tool): stuff to craft with
Feuerzeug (lighter): Thing that makes fire
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my favorite sentence in german:
Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, die mit Eifer sucht, was Leiden schafft.
(Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.)
-Franz Grillpanzer
The European thing of having two mattresses also probably has to do with the difficulty or impossibility of getting a huge mattress into the room through narrow stairways.
There are wonderful German compound words: I call them Wohlfühlwörter like Augenweide, Fingerspitzengefühl, Hoffnungsschimmer, Engelsgeduld, Herzallerliebster, Schlummertrunk etc .
Gaumenschmaus, Sternenstunde, Traumtänzer, Herzensdank, Himmelszelt, mucksmäuschenstill,…
Hast da nen Punkt👍
English should adapt rules to create compound words. German is very flexible, accurate and versitile language. English a bit less. For example the verb to put. In the dictionary is is translated with setzen, stellen oder legen. It depends on the way and direction you move the object. In some cases English is over simplified.
I understood "Bazooka-Ritze" and I was like what?? made my day
Besucherritze. Visitor‘s gap. You’re welcome.
"No, the air isn't better..."
Speak for yourself! You can taste the difference between the dry, stale air in Saxony and the refreshing, iodine filled air on the Baltic Coast within seconds!
Also, you could drive the point about compound words even further with a "Kofferwort" (suitcase word), such as "satanarchälogügenialkohöllisch" which is a famous word from Michael Ende's novel "Der satanarchälogügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch".
Concerning jeans, washing once a week or every other week feels appropriate.
satanarchäolügenialkohöllische
Here in Baden, the gab between the matresses is called "s'Gräble", which means "the small ditch"
You got me at 5:45 vs. 5:55 with the background sounds to scooping American vs. German icecream. Just hilarious! 😂
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The part with the compoung nouns is one thing I always convey to my students in my German lessons. While they do look scary, you can 1) understand words you have never seen before and 2) reference to something you have no word for and people are still likely to understand
If you get the chance, try the Schwedenbecher (Swedes Cup). It is an ice cream dessert invented in the East during Socialist times. It is vanilla ice cream with apple mash (Apfelmus), Eierlikör (a German variant of eggnog), whipped cream and chocolate sauce and sprinkles.
Just by the description- I don’t like it.
Not quite eggnog. Eierlikör is the German word for advocaat, the main difference being that Eierlikör only uses the yolks while eggnog uses the whole egg.
Nobody really uses the word Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz. We just talk about Bafög. I wash my Levis when they are dirty.
as always i really enjoyed your video! and a big thanks for the first "foreigner" (in quotes bcs you are probably 85% germanized ^^) in videos like this understanding the system behind these "unlearnable long words" and getting the pro's of this (like not to have to invent new words again and again). for example "Verkehrsregeln" is the same in english "traffic rules", only difference is we get rid of the space and you guys don't. not that complicated to wrap the head around, but still you are the first i ever witnessed! so again, big thanks for that :)
Danke für die netten Wörter 😊
@@PassportTwo plural in german can be quite difficult sometimes ...
in a dictionary you have lots of single _words_ *(Wörter)* while a comment, saying, or speech are nice _words_ *(Worte)*
@@Anson_AKB There is a difference in meaning for that (although just in the plural). Wörter refers to words as systemic parts of a language: The system that a certain term refers to a certain thing or action, etc. Worte refers to specific uses of such terms. A dictionary - Wörterbuch - contains the units from the language system, a greeting card uses them in practice. Think of Wörter as stamps (the device you put the color on) and Worte as the traces of the color and stamp on paper.
For Aubrey: If you feel that single standard size German duvets are not good for cuddling, try comfort size (155cm by 220). We always use one of them which covers both of us when cuddling, even though we are absolutely not slender, and after final "good nights" my partner gladly grabs his own, thinner one... 😊
I had ice cream american style a few weeks ago. I had to mine that ice before eating it.
The term "Besucherritze" is known because, when you have little kids, it can be, that you have a visitor between both of you. But that is the position of the gap between matrasses, so the visitor is in the gap. So it is called visitors gap.
How often I wash my jeans? Normally I should wash it once a month. But that is, when I'm wearing it every day. But as I only wear it twice a week, I have to wash it rarer.
@5:16 Gelato is the Italian word for icecream, just look it up. That doesn't mean what is referred to as Gelato is the same thing as German icecream. 😊
About Ice-Cream in Germany, the big trick with the air is:
Ice-Cream is sold by volume in liter, not by weight in gramms or kilogramms. Air give a nice volume and is free for the producer, but not free for the customer.
Actually, not true. You'll find both number on the package. You could also say, you get more volume for the same amount, therefore it takes longer to eat it all.
@@TarikDaniel You're right, both numbers are on the package, but have you ever seen an advertisement or a commercial were they mention the weight?
Don't wash your Jeans until they get up on their own and do it themselves.
I really love these old Audrey clips, like as in the egg hammering scene. A true classic!
Poop shelf toilets are disappearing, I think. I don't have one in my 1998 apartment. It's a trend that's ending, alas ;)
German Hack for Icecream get a coffee mug or something simular put hot water in it take the spoon let it rest some 1 or 2 minutes in the hot water.
that way it will be way easier to get the icecream out of the box nice side effect the icecream will not stick on the spoon....reapet the process until you are done with the icecream-
The thing is the Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher is a tool you do not actually need.
i hope, you know, the platform toilet is for that the water dosent spatter against your butt,
the water will also not splatt out of the toilet wen you make it on
and you can see how the poop locks like wen you are sick or just want to check if its helthy.
i personaly really like this typ of toilet
I never had any "soft" icecream. I even bend a steel spoon once or twice. Tho tbf I buy at Lidl not Edeka, maybe theirs is just softer by default.
The Besucherritze is called "Gräbele" here in swabia, never in my life have i heard someone call it Besucherritze 🤣
I love the short cameo appearance of Aubrey! ❤️
The "Besucherritze" we called "Ehestandsgräble" (marial trench)
I also find it normal to have two mattresses in a large bed. My ex and I had different preferences about the softness of the mattress. I’m female, I often sleep on the side so a soft mattress is how I sleep better. He slept better on a hard mattress. The German way: no problem. Different mattresses with just the same height.
My new partner is Filipino, he insisted on the American way of having one mattress. That was the first time I ever made this experience to have one big mattress.
yeah the zipper merch even doesn’t work in germany most times. as drivers don’t let other drivers in or drive to the very end of the lane that’s closing to then try to break in
those poopshelves are outdated but they made a lot of sense when they where not
Here is another compound word for you. Kühlschranktürgummidichtung. That's "Refrigerator door gasket" for the viewers outside Germany.😁
Nice Video!
I am german and also live in germany and for my experience, the icecream isn't always saft when you take it out of the freezer. I think it is very diffrent for diffrent Brands, probably because they doesn't all put so much air in the ice Cream. And like you said, it also depends on the temperature
Besucherritze: When a third person (your child) joins you in bed in the middle, there is a chance that it partial gets stuck in the Besucherritze, perhaps just a leg or - if the mattresses have slide apart - the whole body.
Besucherritze is the place a third visitor will natually take over. Usally by children visiting in the morning.
Hardness of ice cream is mainly due to the freezer temperature. In the US supermarket ice cream comes in many versions but not so much in the EU. If you want stuff in it you mostly have to add your own.
It makes sense to be able to check your poop visually.
I appreciate the inclusion of Bernd D. Brot in the images of German geniuses.
We don't have firemen or mailmen any more outside of Oklahoma. We have firefighters and mail deliverers.
I let the german icecream at the counter for a time to scoop it, because for me it is still too hard when it comes out of the freezer...
I wash jeans, or pants in general, when they have stains or start smelling.
Compound words do have one advantage: online searching. When searching for very specific things, the precise words often are basically a heap of super general words and pre or suffixes. If you seach them as a lose pile of linguistic gravel as in english, search results will include a lot of crap and few if any hits. If the words are properly welded together, though, like in german, chances of finding results are much better
For fact two I would say its definitely the air. You can see the difference if you look at the weight and the filling capacity. Soft ice cream should be much lighter then the american one at same filling capacity. I think for the most time the people like the soft ice cream straight out the freezer but in some tv shows about casual groceries its seen as a lack of quality to have somewhat around 50% of air in your ice cream.
the Edeka icecream they showed in the video has exactly only half a kilogram for one liter (500g for 1000ml), thus 50% air, while american style (eg Häagen-Dasz or Ben&Jerry) has around 400g for 460ml (for comparison: 500g for 575ml), and pure water with no air should have a ratio of 1:1 ... in another comment i have listed lots more of different icecreams.
about the quality: imho, having softer icecream than the hard american style is good, but having too much air in it looks like a scam (big packages with no contents, and this often goes along with low quality of ingredients to make it even cheaper) and also allows it to completely melt to some (non-ice) cream soup while you eat a serving directly from the freezer.
ps: you also have this "smelting problem" with the harder icecream: you need to let it sit for some time first and then have the center still frozen while the outer volume is almost liquid.
Ich bin zufällig auf Deine Videos gekommen und habe inzwischen die meisten geschaut. Freue mich immer über die gut recherchierten Vergleiche zwischen USA und Deutschland. Habe selbst in den 1980er Jahren für eine deutsche Firma für einige Jahre in Chatsworth/LA gearbeitet/gelebt und es sehr genossen! Bei meiner Rückkehr nach Germany kam mir der Flughafen Hamburg wie ein Parkplatz eines 7Eleven vor. So "small" alles. Ok, das war vor 40 Jahren. Leider ist CA inzwischen so teuer geworden, dass ich als Rentner wohl nie wieder dort hin reisen werde. Ich liebe Kalifornien aber trotzdem. Über die anderen Bundesstaaten kann ich nichts sagen, weil ich nie dort war. Eigentlich wollte ich ja nur wegen der Eiscreme für Zuhause kommentieren😂Die Eigenmarken von Rewe/Penny und Co. sind bei mir nach einem Tag im freezer auch steinhart! Please keep up with ur good videos. Liebe Grüße aus einer Samtgemeinde bei Stade/Lower Saxony.
the toilet pun, I can't even remember seeing those in the last 20 to 30y unless it was never replaced and it's a house/flat from at least the '80 or older.
The last time we had one of those at home was probably in the.. hmm, I think late 70s. A bit messier in terms of cleaning but no 'Splash' which I really don't like.
I approve of the Faultier example. Well done.
Here in Switzerland Ben & Jerry´s is also bloody hard.
Just warm up the spoon to scoop ice cream. 💡 No need to put it in the microwave or let it sit on the stove. That will only make it harder and tasteless next time you eat it.
In the US there are beds without the "Besucherritze"? I can´t even imagine to sleep in such bed.
Secret of icecream is stir while it freezes, so it doesn't become an icecube. That's why you need a machine inside the freezer or a special ice cream machine.
You can also sit in the freezer yourself, and stir for 4 hours.
We actually Made Up Our own traveling Game where we basically create new compound words. Every Person has to add a Word when it is their Turn in Order to lengthen the compound. For an extra Challenge, you can Play a la "packing a suitcase" where everybody has to repeat the whole Thing before lengthening it
How often do I wash my jeans? Hard to tell. I wash them when they're dirty. And I have a very, very tolerant attitude towards the notion of "dirty". Besides, jeans wouldn't be jeans if they needed washing so often. Most of the time, some brushing will do. Let's give the dirt back to nature, where it came from!
When they stand in the room by their own, yepp I guess it's time to put them into the laundry😂
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I don‘t think German married couples ever slept in separate twin beds. Even in the Middle Ages, the beds were much smaller than today, but there was only one bed for couples.
Get an ice cream scoop with antifreeze in it instead of using a spoon.
I always hold the spoon under hot water for a moment when i get ice cream that's too hard. Also the german language is engineered in a way that lets you make up a word to describe something and people will still understand you.
actually putting ice cream in a microwave brother HOLD THE SPOON UNDER HOT WATER!
They get washed when they are dirty or smell.
Sometimes two days, sometimes more than a week.
Btw. Where is the Spätzlepresse from the thumbnail in the video?
3:35 The German youtuber "Der Fahrlehrer" says often "Reißverschluss macht erst Sinn vor Beginn" / zipper only makes sense at the start
I wash my Jeans like once every 6-8 months, and only if the cannot be cleaned anymore by drying out the dirt and brush it away with a clothes brush.
Like Levis once said: Never wash your Jeans
Spaghetti ice is sold in Italy since decades
is the freezer a -4°C or a -18°C. because B&J out of my -18°C freezer is hard as a rock
When it comes to mattresses, as a couple where I am 6.5ft and my wife is 5.2ft, we have completely different demands on our mattresses in terms of comfort and health due to height and weight. 🤗 So we have the right mattress, and it doesn't separate us in any way. By the way, even if you have two duvets, you can cuddle and feel your partner's skin. 🥰
The "Flat patter shelf toilet" is for elderly or sick people who have to check their bowel movements regularly and are not the only type of toilet in Germany. 🤭
I think the shelf toilet was very common in the past along with a German scientific approach to observing their poop. Not as common now but the very recently done transit museum in Vienna has them.
The icecream thing is actually not universal. There's quite a lot of rock-hard ones sold here.
Spiel-Zeug, Flug-Zeug, Fahr-Zeug, Grün-Zeug, Flick-Zeug, Rasier-Zeug, Bett-Zeug,Schlag-Zeug, Feuer-Zeug…
Wie genial und einfach ist das?! So einfach viele Begriffe schnell und einfach zu lernen. Im englischen gibt es toy, plane…
12:47 two separate mattresses are a godsend even if you happen to like your mattress having the same firmness and other features as your partner, the reason is simple: if your share a mattress you also share every movement of your partner as the mattress signals this back to you. this movement has the potential to interrupt your sleeping pattern. this adds up and makes your sleep shallow and uneven. much more detrimental to your health than a shared duvet.
my advice: get separate mattresses and duvets and if your wife still doesn't see the benefits, maybe try them out temporarily in a hotel
RQotW: As I have several, I rotate and let recent worn ones air out, so I guesstimate each gets a wash every 4 weeks, maybe every 6.
We have separate mattresses, one is a lot firmer than the other and on one frame we have an electric raising/lowering function. Whomever is ill, and needs to stay in bed longer gets that side, plus it's a great advantage if one of us is ill, feverish, we need only change one set of sheets as needed. We also have different weight duvets, I like the heavier one, he the lighter one.
I actually prefer the ice cream that gets hard in the freezer. Seems to last longer before melting into a puddle at the bottom of the bowl. I've seen and used the trick to take a small container (has to be cardboard) and using a serrated knife to cut it in two and peeling off packaging and serving it as it.
@passporttwo have you tried Spaghetti icecream yet?
Have you considered that your freezer is just not set as cold as the one at home? There is some ice cream with air (rather nitrogen I believe) injected to make it fluffier but not the Gut und günstig one. This would also match the Ben and Jerry's being softer than in the US
You miscounted at #4. Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz has five letters: nobody is using the long form of BAföG.
Rule in German: 1 thing - 1 word.
I remember one research showing that couples often sleep ‘better’ and ‘deeper’ on individual mattresses as your personal sleep phases won’t be disturbed by your partner rolling around and the motions spread across the whole bed.
Most likely also a very individual thing, depending on whether one is a more ‘light’ sleeper.
My wife and I however chose one large mattress without Besucherritze while still keeping two separate duvets. You can still snuggle by overlapping them, and when fallen deep asleep and rolling around individually, they separate without fighting.
… unless of course my wife manages to wiggle her duvet onto the floor mid-sleep and then just reaches over to grab n pull mine 😆
The ice cream engineers here are so good, that they can create one liter of ice cream out of 500 g ice cream. By just putting 50% air in. From business perspective quite a good idea, because you doubled your revenue 😉. There is a nice video of Sebastian Lege and the ZDF Besseresser about that.
Jaaa! Manchmal übertreiben wir es mit den Buchstaben .😂
Compound words - exist in many European languages. In French you can even distinguish them. Brosse à dents - tooth brush. Combination works through the words à or de for traditional/older words. So brush for the teeth.
Statue of Liberty would be one example in English where the preposition of is also used.
Germans just put the words together so tooth brush becomes Toothbrush (Zahnbüste). But the system is the same. The big letter at the beginning is due to the fact that all nouns are written with a big letter at the beginning, opposed to English where this applies mostly to names.
Newer words in French are just combined with a "-". Gratte-ciel (scrape-sky) (skyscraper). Normally you will put words together sky - Wolke (actually means cloud but still), Kratzer (the scraper) so this becomes Wolkenkratzer.
i wear mean jeans for 3 days in a row, sometimes up to 5, maybe on hot summer days only 2 days.
The scooping depends on the ice cream you buy. If you buy a more expensive Gelato style ice cream like Bruno Gelato you can't just scoop it right out of the freezer. And the secret is actually air, so you got this right. Cremissimo and most of the discounter versions got about 50% air in it.
I can't read compound words longer than that 10 letters 😢
Where did you get the Blue Bell Ice Cream??
No,the real word in german is"Besucher-Ritze"Besucher means,VISITOR,often the child,that likes to sleep between its parents
..as a german, i can say you are right! 😄
RQOTW: When they are dirty.
Usually only when the get dirty, sweaty or after like 10 times wearing em xP
What I like most about German, is how versatile and creative it is. When we don't know the term for something we just make one up by connecting old words. Might not be in the dickshonary but everybody knows what I was trying to say. There is for example "Putinversteher", the Putin understander, for people who get what Putin is trying to convey to us in the West. Was first used like maybe 10-15 years ago, never existed in the official vocabulary but is ultra by now.
Maybe you wash your jeans only once or twice a year an then daily lüften!! 😂
Woah! I certainly wash more than twice a year but I hate that right freshly washed feeling 😂
@@PassportTwo... exactly. They're stiffer and they're scratchy.
Somehow I understood "Bazookaritze".
My grandparents bed was just to single wood frames pushed together. So visiting them as a child during night was pretty uncomfortable. As the distance between two matraces was 5 cm of wood frame filling. Soo uncomfortable. In the bed of my parents the matraces were not securd to sliding to the sides. Start sleeping with parents in bed. Wake up in a space as wide as myself a matraces high lower. Things improved a lot in regards to the Besucherritze
pipes dude - pipes connectable without glue ....
When I was young, and in the morning visit my parents in her bedroom (or if I where "Ill" and have to sleep in the bed of my parents, I was in the Besucherritze :) In this time, it was realy a gap between. But today, the mattres are so well designed, so you do not have a realy besucherritze...
but most german drivers did not understand "reissberschlussverfahren".
One thing Germany has and USA doesn't is for example labor unions who protect you from exploitation through a big retail store chain for example
Why do you have Spaghettieis on the thumbnail and not talk about it?
Zipper merge is only annoying if you have a lot of drivers that believe that they have to let no one in, or have to go very fast on the ending lane to then switch over and cut you off. The former leads to traffic jam, the latter often leads to car crashes, or at least a lot of unnesssary slowing down of the flow. This is done very often by people with huge, fast cars, because, as we all know, the STVO does not apply to them! 😡
In the case of ice cream, manufacturers simply take advantage of the fact that the package contents are specified as volume and not as weight. In a price comparison, the ice cream with a lot of air is naturally cheaper. The fact that it is softer is only a positive side effect, but not a sign of quality...
The bed room thing goes way beyond that
- Duvets can still be used sort of as one.
We layer them with about one third overlapping and snuggle up.
When at night you roll over, you just pull your duvet with you.
Simple as that.
- Mattress
There are companies specializing in Kingsize-Matresses with divided stiffness degrees. A bit expensive, but worth it.
Since my wife and I really differ in weight, we found another solution.
We have one mattress with a stiffness that i need and a topper with the softness she needs.
It is a pretty thin topper that provides her all the comfort andmy side is totally crushed beneath my weight and i enjoy the matress beneath :)
RQotW: Having only two Jeans left that fit I change between them and wash them once or twice a year. In the summer season there's no need for them (except summer 2023 perhaps... ).