Does German Sound Aggressive? We Compare Words in 4 Languages!!
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@@diyaraodrona4281 Haha der war gut xD
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Who asked? nobody
@@aidanjanemcintosh6919 anda ortiva
The subtitles are doing their own thing 😂😂😂🙈
They have evolved beyond the boundaries of reality, that's for sure.
Yeah, they're all over the place.
It's so funny how they are misinterpreting what the French says 😂 I also noticed some mistakes with the german subtitles xD
@@asylaji I guess some poor intern had to do the subtitles and since he didn’t know the languages or understand anything, he just google translated everything 😬😂🙈
@@nikaswords17 Maybe haha
German doesn’t sound aggressive to me. Strong at times, but not particularly hard, or aggressive.
Ich bin einverstanden mit Ihnen. Meine ich dass Deutsch ist eine Sprache, die von harten Kerlen gesprochen werden soll.
I feel the same way. People also think Russian sounds aggressive as well. I just think it depends on the person who’s pronouncing it.
It sounds really polite
@@user-vb7rl4ry5f so ein Schmarrn!
@@martinalehner7321 Was ist das bedeutet?
I'm like Claudia repeating every sentence on Duolingo lmao
Same lol
I like Shes de jamen pà
LMFAO SAME
C mamo xd
samere
The German likes French The French likes Spanish The Spanish likes German And the English is just there
Pretty sums up the relationships between their countries too
The British and U.S have this in common They know 1 language
@@Alecfisher01 it seems that that is slowly changing with the younger generations.
@@Petrslav correct
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Okay, those subtitles need to be fixed. I have a suggestion, why don't you let the speakers in the video write the subtitles together? Claudia does her parts, Ellena does her's etc... Because as the subtitles are now, they are so wrong that it's starting to be really distracting and thus the whole video becomes less enjoyable to watch.
omg thank god I wasn't the only one totally annoyed by that xD
Me too.
Bro chill it’s just a video, not the end of the world homie...
I think the German translation was a bit off. Because what she said was not in the subtitles 😅
@@selams6013 true!
I think the reason why German can be perceived as aggressive, aside the obvious stuff like most people growing up hearing the language first badly shouted by English actors with horrible accents in bad world war 2 movies, is that we have clear pauses between words in our speech which is in some other languages only used as an overemphasization of every single word when people are scolding someone
The person who is speaking the language, makes a big difference. Women always sound softer than men. And it makes a big difference what words do you use. Educated people use whole different words and express themselves more neatly, than common people. These Videos correspond not the reality. They speak so happy and friendly, you won’t experience that in Germany.
Klingt plausibel ;-)
The main reasons, why German sounds a little harsh to some, are (1.) because of the consonants, which tend to follow directly after one another (e.g. suCHST), (2.) the phenomenon called "final hardening" ("Auslautverhärtung") , where the consonants at the end of the word are almost always unvoiced (the d in "Hund" sounds more like a t compaired to the plural form "Hunde") and (3.) because of the glottal sounds, that are often perceived as hard :) there are probably more reasons to it, but that's what I remembered from german studies. (Sorry, its a little difficult to explain it in english ^^)
@@anniejac6678 Everyone Outside of germany is just trying to speak ,,Hitler“ Deutsch . In germany noone Speaks like That
@@Nicolas-ws5er I mean I’m not German I’m Austrian but this seems pretty accurate. You still don’t pronounce it hunD you pronounce it hunt. Actually idrk anymore my brain is breaking down thinking about what I say
Hello everyone, this is Elena from Germany! 😊 I hope you enjoyed today's episode of comparing our languages. I definitely had a lot of fun with these sweet people.🥰 Have a great day everyone! 😘
Hi aus Deutschland ✋🏻
Ist dir aufgefallen wie schlecht die Untertitel sind?
@@PPfilmemacher ja leider 😭 ich weiß echt nicht, was das Produktionsteam macht, damit es jedes mal so ein Quatsch wird 😢
ich komme aus italien
@@PPfilmemacher yeah Er hat Recht, denn es ist auf Koreanisch und nicht auf Englisch oder ohne Zweitsprache geschrieben
I feel like the people that say German sounds aggressive have only heard German that one day in history class when the teacher put on the video of Hitler screaming. I'd say it sounds no more or less aggressive than English does. English and German even share several words and phrases.
There is a letter from an english admiral from wwi who said that english sounds very good and noble aggressiv and german foolishly soft. After wwii it is said about english that it is noble soft and german foolishly aggressiv.
Yeah, it depends on who is talking. If you look up fascist spanish speeches it sounds even more agressive lol kzhead.info/sun/idt9paeOjol_aK8/bejne.html
yeah they're quite ignorant tbh
The person who is speaking the language, makes a big difference. Women always sound softer than men. And it makes a big difference what words do you use. Educated people use whole different words and express themselves more neatly, than common people. These Videos correspond not the reality. They speak so happy and friendly, you won’t experience that in Germany.
@@41Mike your right and we would most of the time speak with an accent of a dialect or with a dialect or with an accent of a language that is not spoken anymore or only with very few speakers. But the sound or spelling of these languages still affect high german. For example in the region I live we often speak endings with g like a ch. Or when it ends with cht we would only speak the ch. Than we have the ei which is sometimes spoken as an aa. Or Hannover, where they speak the a as a deep o. Or slightly word changes like for Ja wich means yes. In some regions people say joa or jo or jau. even in south lower saxony where it is said that we speak the clearest high german, we have low german accents.
Whoever does the subtitles needs to get their ears checked.
I think they are translating from what these speakers translated in Korean....
IKR!!
@@cjkim2147 This channel is paid with Korean money. So, the main focus is Korean speakers. I think that makes sense.
@@Neo-Reloaded Yeah and even so, the subtitles aren't right.
You have to consider that it is subtitled by Korean people who might have knowledge about languages but subtitling, in general, is difficult anyway
5:50 German Girl: "Lass mich in Ruhe" Subtitles: "bitte lassen Sie mich allein" Spanish girl: "Lass mich onabugua" :D
In english??
@@kodykmt German Girl: "Leave me in silence" Subtitles: "Please leave me alone, sir/madame" Spanish Girl: "Leave me [gibberish]"
@M.L bitte means please
@M.L and Peace means Frieden, this subtitles are not the best😂
@@mmww1127 But Ruhe can also mean peace, as in the sense of calm. (Not the absence of war)
if you wanna shorten the german phrase for "nice to meet you", you can say "freut mich".
And, in Spanish, encantado or encantada.
You can also say "Angenehm!"
@@Nutzername92a i’ve never heard that in the 3 years I lived in Germany 😂
@@liveyourlifetothetop Oh I've never said that in the 28 years that I'm living in Germany :D "Nice to meet you" doesn't really exist here. We just introduce ourselves and then continue with the conversation. No need for fake-friendly filler sentences.
Danke
To the person who writes the subtitles ... Thank you for your effort, your work must be very difficult and I appreciate it very much 💖 But, please, forgive me if I sometimes laugh because your transcripts are sometimes very funny and they manage to make me smile even if I'm having a bad day 😅😊😉
They probably have more than one translator writing the subtitles.
@@CeruleanSword I bet they didn't even have a translator, I speak the four languages there and the subtitles were reallyyy wrong, specially the french ones lmaooo like "non l'absurdité des que" when she said 'n'importe quoi' it doesn't even sound similar >
@@vitaliy1858 True haha for the german it sometimes completelx changed words
It makes me so sad when people say German sounds aggressive. Every language can sound aggressive if you speak it with a certain tone of voice. Certain dialects might also sounds harder. I like German and wish more people would want to learn it.
I think southern Germany and Austria have the “harsher” sounding German but I personally like it because the pronunciation is better. Though maybe I’m biased because I was born in Bayern and learned a decent amount of German while I was living there even though I’m American. The main reason most people probably think it sounds aggressive is because of the war’s affect on everyone. As it becomes a more distant memory-I’m sure people will realize it sounds prettier than they originally thought.
I don't find it agressive at all :-) , and I like it since I started to learn it a few years ago. The only thing I dislike and find difficult about it it's the declensions (dative, etc). I may still say a sentence with ALL the declinable words with the wrong endings.
The thing about German that sometimes scares people isn't the harsh sounds like people tend to think. Swiss German, for instance, is 10 times harsher, and yet the few people who have heard it aren't turned off by it as much as German. It's German's general extreme monotony in terms of intonation that sometimes seems strange to people. Most languages have a natural melody or flow to them, and sometimes you can tell someone's accent not by the way they prononuce certain things, but by their intonation throughout an entire sentence. In German, this simply does not exist, which is also why the others in this video sometimes act surprised when questions in German sound like statements. Written German can be extremely beautiful and poetic, but as soon as somebody speaks it it sounds very serious and to the point. Which is also why I believe it's kind of the perfect language to sing with, because it acts like a blank canvas whereas for other langauges you have to slightly bend and shape the music around the language. Might be part of the reason why more than half of all (good) classical music is German or at least written by a German-speaking composer... But I digress.
It's the " huh" sound in the back of the throat. Also many German speakers we've heard are angry and shouting.
Thank you very much, you are completely right.🙂
I'm Italian and I think German is one of the most beautiful languages in the world. All foreigners say that Italian is one of the most beautiful languages, but if you live in Italy you will know that the vocabulary is divided into two parts: an elegant one, with common words without vulgarity, and a vulgar one full of swear words and blasphemies. So, I would like to learn German just to give a harder sound to the swear words of Italian.
I love Italian swear words, also the passion in the language. And one thing is always so great about Italian language, you can say the most common things, but it all sounds like an opera. Like "impermiabile", it sounds like heaven, but it's just waterproofed. In German: wasserundurchlässig. (How boring that sounds)
I speak German! But yeah I know what you mean I have an Italian friend who’s always saying porcodio lol
@@ogheros5541 ahahah good friend
Posso confermarlo. Sono francese e sto imparando l'italiano da adesso tre anni come materia secondaria a scuola. Quando sono andato in Italia per la prima volta all'occasione di un soggiorno linguistico, sono stato leggermente scioccato della volgarità del linguaggio quotidiano. Certo anche i francesi utilizzano delle parolacce (per esempio quando voi dite "cazzo" noi diciamo "putain" (= putana)) ma penso che in alcuni gruppi della società italiana sia ancora peggiore. Infatti nell'immaginario collettivo gli americani ed inglesi credono alla superiorità culturale della Francia e dell'Italia mentre in realtà è tutto il contrario. E sì, concernente l'aspetto della sonorità tedesca anch'io trovo che sia molto duro dal punto di vista fonetico. Per esempio quando ero piccolo nella mia regione ci sono stati dei tedeschi in vacanza, hanno parlato fortissimo e pensavo che "NEIN" fosse una parolaccia 😅
@@pierrecharpentier1224 si è vero nella nostra quotidianità sappiamo essere molto volgari. Mentre per esempio in America il dito medio è considerato un insulyo grave, oppure le parole fuck off o fuck you non si dicono spesso, qui in italia sono all'ordine del giorno. Io con i miei amici dico "cazzo" (Dick/fuck), puttana (bitch), merda (shit), bestemmio come se nulla fosse. Mentre con i miei professori si usa la terza persona singolare ovvero il Lei, quindi uso un linguaggio molto più formale. L'italiano suona come una lingua melodica e soave ma spesso non lo è
This was so wholesome! These four had great energy together, and German actually sounds very cute. It sounding aggressive is a dumb stereotype.
Good video, but the subtitling of French is a bit off. First, her name is "Soledad", not Soly (0:13). At 2:25 she says "Enchanté de vous rencontrer" (or "enchantée" considering she's a woman) instead of "enchanté de faire votre connaissance" (which is correct, though). At 2:51 she says "N'importe quoi ! " instead of "absurdité" (which is completely off). At 3:10, she says "Comment ?" instead of "como" (which is spanish if you add an accent on the first "o"). At 4:37, she says "Je suis énervé(e)" ("fâché" would be correct too). At 5:15 she says "Tu as de très jolis (instead of "beaux") yeux". At 5:45 she says "laisse moi tranquille" (instead of "laisse moi seul" which is more into a melancholic mood). Spanish and German too are sometimes mistranslated. Still, I love this content.
Yeah Spanish was also heavily mistranslated
Same with German sentences
it's a mess
Same happened with Spanish
It's probably because when you put subs you need to make them short enough so everyone can read them easily, so sometimes you have to change some expressions to achieve that
inconclusion it´s for germany: "wie geht es dir?" "schön dich kennen zu lernen" "schwachsinn" "was machst du?" "ich bin so wütent / sauer" "du hast wunderschöne Augen" "bitte lass mich in Ruhe" "ich liebe dich mit meinem / vom ganzen Herzen" "willst du mich heiraten?"
Small mistake: It should be "wütend" instead of "wütent".
*von ganzem
While Schwachsinn indeed means the same thing, she actually says "Unsinn"
Was machst du can also be SPINNST DU EUDER
One must say that "Nice to meet you" is a very common thing in English speaking countries, but we Germans only use this on very rare occasions. "Schön, dich kennen zu lernen", I cannot even remember when I said this to someone.
I don't normally say this. I would rather say Freut mich
I'll be honest I'm English and I don't say it at all, but I am Northern so I'm not exactly posh.
I'm not sure that the German sounds aggressive, especially coming from friendly Ellena. But German words and sentences can be very long. The pacing of the conversation in this great group is fun to watch, but when you are actually trying figure out the words of full phrases, it can be pretty quick/short to catch everything. Especially with the creative subtitles. I know a little Spanish and French, but what I understood was not always matching up with what I read, which makes me doubt what I know. I think that there are many different ways to phrase things. From what I saw in Spanish and French it looked like there were similar sentences in English to express the same idea, but it depends on formality and age of the speaker, casual or traditional conversation. Younger people may have a short, quick, casual statement or reply. But people of all ages may also speak casually and briefly among friends, family, and co-workers.
don't doubt yourself because of the subtitles. Not a single of the German or Spanish sentences match what the speaker was saying, even if they wrote between quotes. I can assume the same with French. Not even the name of Claudia was correctly spelt. The subtitles were probably done by someone that had the corean version and translated into English + Spanish, French, German for the quotes, and not by someone with access to the audio. And of course in the internet era nothing gets reviewed.
The subtitles didn't match up, so don't doubt yourself. I know a fair bit of German, and there were some things that I knew were not what the people in this video said. Elena also wrote in the comments that she knows the issue and doesn't know why it happened.
1:02 They seriously wrote "idiot" instead of "wie geht's" in the subtitles, lmao :D:D:D
ha, ha - thanks for pointing out!
The subtitles had shown there the thoughts not the spoken word. Spoken: "Hello! Nice to see you!" Inside the head: "Not that idiot."
Germany is the most beautiful and nicest language I have ever heard
I’m living for these series they all lovely people to be around !
Me encanta España y el idioma 😍. También aprendo un poco de español. Pero estoy malo en eso, jajaja. Saludos desde Alemania 🇩🇪 ❤️
Ich möchte Türkisch und Suaheli lernen.
German is my favourite language. It sounds so scientific and clever. I’ve always wanted to learn German
@@heikoberres8737 same language family and when it comes to short sentences they have similar structure.
Thats the most funny and nice thing someone said about my language ever :D thank you!!!
das ist garnicht mal so schwer ;)
it actually is used among scientists, because it allows you to be very precise.
Previously I used to not like English, but now I feel English is relatively easier language in terms of grammar and basic vocabulary. All other European languages are gendered and difficult to learn. German is one of the most difficult ones.
This Spain girl is sooo cute
The spaniards are white like a other european too, wright?
@@maraguilucho Most of us. You can find tanned people like everywhere else in the world but we are not as tanned as latin american people. We have a lot of blondes, redheads, pale people... We are caucasians after all, tho there's a variety of skintones and haircolor.
@@Airkae there are a lot of White people on latin America
@@lira2924 of course there are, it was a generalization of the average
@@lira2924 Yes, there are to many stereotips in all.
I love the German version of saying "you have beatiful eyes" / "Du hast schöne Augen" ♥
I feel like her adding “wunder” is just too much, schön is fine enough
keep it in your mind if you fell in love with a german
I really love Elena, Claudia, Harry, and Soly
Why are the gentleman's pants shorter than his legs?😐😐
@@living_peace Style
her names soledad
I like Angela, Pamela, Sandra and Rita
In Flemish (Belgian Dutch) slang, we also use 'quatsch'! Now I finally know where it came from.
that looks like a sport
@@EgoJinpachi_ Probably 'cause of squash XD
It's from northern german origin and because of that either lower german or frisian. And dutch is one of the frisian languages. And lower german is closer to frisian than to high german.
There was a German politician who ones said: "Das war damals schon Quatsch und ist heute noch quätscher!" (It was Quatsch then and is now even more Quatsch)
@@LaWendeltreppe Quätscher 😂 😂 Wer war das denn
I love Elena so much! She has joy in her eyes everytime hehehe. Please let a Brazilian Portuguese speaker join as well :(
Not european
It would be portuguese
ドイツ語の字幕がときどき実際にしゃべってる単語と違う気がする...でもまぁとにかく、面白かった！ I feel that German subtitles are sometimes different from the words she said actually. But anyway, this video was very interesting!
I find in general apart from the English ones
Yes 😂
They are. I am German so of course I know what the German girl is saying and it has nothing to do with what’s written in the subs… who ever translates it has bad ears 😁
The French ones are even worse, almost everything she said was different to the subs.
@@Haarknoten96 same
L’allemand est pour la moi la plus belle langue. Elle m’apaise :) J’écoute même des podcasts en allemand pour faire la sieste 😴 :)
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the subtitles for Spanish and French are so off (I can't tell about German cause I know nothing about it)
Same for german
they where also off. Off the top of my head I remember when she said "ruhe" it showed "bitte". She said "wie geht's" and it showed "wie geht" (important difference) and when she said "wie geht's dir" it showed "wie geht es ihnen" which is more formal (tú/usted difference). I could go on but, yes, even though some are little changes since the other languages are literally the most important part of the video it's sad that they are bad transcribed.
they all seem like such nice people id love to be friends with them
German does not sound aggressive! Northern languages like German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian…etc they have kinda similar pronunciation because they speak with their mouths less open! Because of the cold weather the language makes sounds that does not require to open your mouth like Greek or Italian or Spanish! Any language can sound aggressive depends on the person who is taking!
Swedish sounds much smoother than German.
@@c.i.a8359 yes sure, but the way that the mouth moves in Northern Europe is kinda the same! They have their mouths closed Swedish is sounds more musical to my ears! Like Italians, their speaking tempo is like a music rhythm, which is nice!
In fact I think European Spanish sounds more aggresive.
@@user-sb7br1tk1r I think the most disgusting and hideous language in Europe is Portuguese! I haven’t heard a language more disgusting than Portuguese… I don’t know, they make the most terrible sounds! To be fair I do not understand why people finding so fascinating Spanish… I don’t particularly like it either! And they tell me that Hellenic sounds so similar to Spanish and I’m like…why? How is this possible?🤯🤯😂😂
It's the strangest explanation I've seen so far. They sound similar because they are all German languages. So they all belong to the same language family. But English is also part of it. More precisely, English is one of the West Germanic-North Sea Germanic languages. English sounds similar to East Frisian in that it is still spoken by a few thousand people in northern Germany.
They had such a lovely chemistry! ☺️It was very pleasing to watch and it brightened my mood💗 What a great video!👍
the subtitles have nothing to do with what they say 😂
Thumb up for the wonderful people in the video, not for the weird subtitles and the clickbait thumbnail
I like the German language the most, I'm a Dutch speaker from Belgium
nice 🇳🇱🤝🇧🇪
Harsh
I’m French and I love how German sounds, it’s fancy!
"willst" does not mean "will". It's the 2nd person singular form (du = you) of "wollen", which means "to want". So Germans don't ask "will you marry me" but "do you want to marry me". I think that's an important difference. 😂
better translation: "is it your will to marry me"
I love the German accent it just feels so solid and pronounced
is this atticus fetch on your picture ? i love californication *-*
French/ German sound beautiful and exotic to me
oh thanks (im french btw)
oh thanks ( im the german counterpart)
german doesnt sound beautiful because it s harsh and angry but I like that features of german
@@banana53358 we all know you don't know a single german person
@@caroskaffee3052 yes because I dont live in germany .
The comparison between Italian ,Spanish and Portuguese will be so interesting to show ;they are soo similar …you should try this Or maybe someone who doesn’t speak this lenguages trying to guess what’s what 👍🏻
Latin languages🥰
4:32 les está mintiendo, pero sabe que no puede decir ·estoy hasta los cojones".... jaja
I met a girl from Austria and another one from Germany, so I changed my view from german be an aggressive language. Quite the opposite, german can be cute 😍 they were so cute, it helped anyway, but listening them speaking german were so beautiful haha
I would love to see German be compared to the Nordic languages
Swedish is cute though.
The Danish language its so understandable and conplicated, it also sound very nasty
First of, there is not simply german. Our languages are Hochdeutsch, Plattdeutsch and Friesisch (high german, lower german and frisian). Plattdeutsch and Friesisch are closely related to northern languages. For example the word for Germany. Swedish: "Tyskland". Plattdeutsch (at least some dialects) "Tüskland". Hochdeutsch: "Deutschland".
@@Sebas_Mendez_Kinoman danish is easy, learn swedish, put a potato in your mouth and speak than swedish and you have perfekt danish.
@@jarlnils435 and what about the austrobavarian dialects? the alemannic dialects?
The subtitles are doing its own thing
Fix the subtitles please!!! Too many mistakes in French, Spanish and German
I try to repeat every sentence in each language, but sometimes the subtitles don't help me. hahahahaha
The subtitles are wrong sometimes yeah
I also feel like we Germans want to pronounce words more clearly if people are around who aren’t good at German yet. So it could sound a bit more harsh. But in reality most speak not that formally.
When asked in English, many Germans reply back in German even when it is more than obvious that the person does not speak German. And it sounds really harsh to hear that, as if the person has done something wrong.
@@gillianleenas977 Well, the Germans doing this are either being stubborn or not proficient enough in English to converse. Both of these types of people exist in every single country, they're often from older generations. Any German I know (including myself) immediately switches to English once they realize their counterpart doesn't speak German.
@@Taleneki I've figured out for myself that when asking a German ''Do you speak English'' the expected answer is almost always ''yes, a little bit''. I got so bored with that answer that I started saying directly: ''Could you please explain that in English? " and if the person does know" a little English", communication won't be a problem at all. Are Germans being shy saying they know English? Is it a socially accepted way to answer the question or what's going on really? On the other hand, 8-year-olds had no problem speaking to me on a playground getting to know my child who does not speak German (yet)...
@@gillianleenas977 There's this weird habit of lots of Germans to downplay their English level. If you read an English comment on KZhead that ends with "Sorry for my English", despite it being quite proper written English, there's a 99% chance it's from a German. I don't know where this stems from, but Germans often tend to downplay stuff to be modest and polite, because being overly proud/confident is generally frowned upon. But it's indeed silly in this context since I've heard from several native English speakers that the average English level in Germany (especially within Gen X/Y, etc.) is pretty good. Children these days get English skills even earlier due to the internet, where it's the main language of conversation, so that might be why they don't have this insecurity anymore. It's all a matter of getting used to it.
@@Taleneki Thank you every much for describing it so good! That can also explain why ''awesome" and "fantastic" correspond to "(sehr) gut" in Germany. :)
The power of the English Language. Everyone is discussing their individual language in English and having fun while doing so. Love it.
Spanish is very beautiful and it is the language of the future..
I love these videos about languages! 💚 It would be great if they added other European languages too, some less frequent and from different branches, like Greek, Czech, Irish, Lithuanian, Icelandic, Albanian. But I really hope they never stop doing these videos, I just love them :)
Ich glaube noch, das Deutsch eine schöne Sprache ist.
Yay another videooo! ❤️❤️
I don't know Spanish but the German and French subtitles are..... creative.... 😂
Same happens with the Spanish subtitles 😂
I studied English in school and practiced it in the work. 3 years ago I started learning Spanish, my level is b2, Spanish is a lovely language and sounds nice, lately, I began learning German via Duolingo and Babbel.
Well in German they don't ALWAYS say the whole sentence. "Freut mich" is more than enough, that's what I learned living in a German speaking country.
Most of the times we just say "Ach hi!" if someone is introduced to us. I never use "Schön, dich kennen zu lernen".
I’m addicted to these videos
Me too! I also love your bird. Is it from Kurzgesagt (In a nutshell)?
@@AnnaBohovyk Yes it is ! I used to be addicted to their videos too lol
Germany talks so elegant without effort
As a Dutch person I don't think we really have anything that's comparable to 'nice to meet you' that feels natural in everyday conversation. We can say 'leuk je te ontmoeten', but at least I never say that to anyone. Usually we shake hands, introduce ourselves, ask how the other is doing or something and then get to it. Afterwards, when it's time to go, we can say that it was nice getting to know them.
Same in German, that's why our sentence is so long, it's a literal translation but is not used in the same context as in English. Maybe 200 years ago you you would have been able to hear people saying "Sehr erfreut", but that sounds really strange nowadays
@@thomastschetchkovic5726 Yes, exactly. In Dutch we got 'aangenaam je te ontmoeten', but that quickly sounds very old fashioned.
@@Nexils in German when introduced to someone you can reply: 'Angenehm!' It sounds a bit old fashioned, but as old fashioned as 'Sehr erfreut'. I don't think, you would ask how the other is doing. That seems to be a too personal question for someone you just met the first time. There is also a cultural difference to English speakers who would maybe just reply 'fine'. If you ask Germans: how are you? you can expect several sentences about the personal mood, the health conditions, the family or work situation or what happend prior on this day.
@@henningbartels6245 Really? That's interesting. In the Netherlands you can just reply with 'I'm good' or 'Could be better' or even 'I'm not doing so good...' after they ask how you're doing. Sometimes - when you're meeting someone somewhere - you can ask how their journey was. I think it's funny how it's more a matter of speech in (for example) America and they don't expect you to answer anything but 'good' (or so I've heard).
@@Nexils, how their journey was or if it was easy to find the place ... are always an appropriate conversation starter in German.
I love the spirit of these videos and would like to suggest them to my English learners, *but* I can't with the inaccurate subtitles. I know transcription and subtitling is hard, but someone in the comments below suggested having the speakers write down their part and that could be a good plan moving forward. I really like this channel and the content and the international communication emphasis. Thank you for your hard work!
Ob's jetzt die Amis oder die Ukrainer gesprengt haben... in jedem Fall müssten sie zurück treten. Allerdings glaube ich nicht an diese Ukraine-Geschichte. Meiner Meinung nach wollen die Amis nur von sich ablenken. Allerdings weiß man, wie es ist, ein Freund der Amis zu sein. Solange man nützlich ist, heißt's "guter Freund" und wenn man nicht mehr gebraucht wird, kommt der Abschuss.
French always feels like they just randomly seasoned their words with unvoiced extra letters, just so the pronunciation can be full of surprises
It always depends on HOW something is said. No german person speaks like Rammstein or Hitler in daily language. Even the word Schmetterling (butterfly) can sound quite cute, depending on how you say it. ;)
I love those videos. :D
Elena is so joyful. She would be my go-to person if I knew her.
Thanks for the video!
I found the german translation kinda too formal, there are more informal ways and even shorter Versions to say some things. I rarely use the versions Elena said, it feels stilted. Maybe I would use it if I was talking to a superior, but then again I also would use Sie and Ihnen and not du. So I found her combination somewhat weird.
I guess she picked more formal versions, so that when people learning the language wouldn't use too informal versions in situations where they might not fit. One would rather be too formal than too informal in an unknown environment.
😂 when Claudia says "estoy enfadada" I thought: wrong, wrong, wrong! 😅 I use "estoy cabreada" or "no me jodas" or I just need to look with killer eyes 😂🤣 But yeah, the right translation is "estoy enfadada" 😁 and "nonsense" I use "¡¿perdona?!" with a very high-pitched voice or "¡mande!" with an expression of "this person is wavering me or what" 🤣 To the person who writes the subtitles ... Thank you for your effort, your work must be very difficult and I appreciate it very much 💖 But, please, forgive me if I sometimes laugh because your transcripts are sometimes very funny and they manage to make me smile even if I'm having a bad day 😅😊😉
French: “I’m going to say words that are really very long in as few syllables as possible, like I’m sexy slurring. Good luck learning how to spell our words!” Spanish: “Our language gives French a run for its money for how sexy it sounds. If we got paid for how many parts of our names we have, we’d be rich.” German: “Our words are really sentences and you WILL say every syllable. We build our words like we build everything else: to last.” English: “We say most of our syllables, but our grammar has so many exceptions you’re gonna have a hard time learning our language. We have fun rhymes and slang though.” I had a piano professor and his German spoken in his smoky baritone was one of the most enchantingly melodious sounds I’ve ever heard.
haha I feel French has much more exeptions than English though, and as a french I feel English pronunciation is much more difficult than Spanish and German ones 😄.
German: you will pronounce g’s like CH in “ ich,dich” And we also have silent h’s
I'm a Hispanic American but I like German. It can sound "rough" at times but i like it. I like Russian too which I know some people say can also sound rough. And for some reason French is a bit difficult for me. I guess it's the accent. And the reason why I took interest in German was because of Rammstein and Tokio hotel lmfaoooo.
Hispanic actually is from Spain.
@@polotosolo4533 no duh 🙄
@@dangercat9188 Wait, are you serious? Where do you think the term 'Hispanic' comes from?
@@polotosolo4533 dude I meant "no duh" as in of course I know the term comes from Spain 🤦♂️.
If you are hispanic then you are not american, that is like saying “I’m an english german” or a “french russian”
I've never thought German sounded overly aggressive.
It be them Hitler stereotypes. Not all Germans sound like angry psychopaths.
kzhead.info/sun/d5Gcirqiin6ehn0/bejne.html this is a song of love in german in the 30s
@@wanxutee9907 that's not a love song, that's a marching song for soldiers
maybe its because germans are often angry :D for example if you play multyplayer shooters the italian french and english guys are talking normally and friendly germans most of the time curse all people the enemy the own team :D im german and if i can chose i take the french italian, english or whatever to play with.
3:13 it doesn't write Como, it's Comment
Subtitles match perfectly. Well done 👍
In northern Germany, we don't say "Wie gehts?“. We just say „Moin!“
French is a beautiful language 🤩🤩🤩
It’s a white language. Not yours.
@@christina7215 So is English, Spanish, German etc, and there are millions of non-whites that speak it
@@christina7215 ewwwwwwwwwwwww
I’ve lived in USA since 2009 and sad I don’t have my German accent anymore but so glad I still speak it and understand it !! 🇩🇪 💙
du kannst keinen deutschen dialekt mehr oder was meinst du ?
It's like a kids educational TV show. They are so excited and the repeating of the sentences 😂 it's hilarious
"tienes hermosos ojos" en España? 🤔 En latino puede ser pero en España no es una expresión utilizada, se suele decir mayormente "tienes unos ojos preciosos"
I like how the subtitles sometimes just give up :D
"willst du" does not mean "will you" it means "do you want to". "willst" is a conjugation of "wollen" which means "to want". hope this was helpful for someone:)
It can also mean will you. Context is important.
@@jarlnils435could you give some examples? because in my mind in most cases a better translation for "will you" would be "wirst du" or "würdest du"
@@privatkanal6572 in some cases, it is used by for example parents who are angry at their kids who don't want to do something. "Willst du das gefälligst machen?" "Will you do it already?" It is a command but turned into a question with only one acceptable answer.
@Jarl Nils ok i see what you mean. that's the difference between word-for-word translation and translating the meaning of a sentence. the point still stands that "wollen" doesn't literally translate into "would".But because the way you would phrase certain ideas is very language-specific, meaning that the wording between languages can be vastly different but the meaning could be the same I would argue, that using sentences and translating their meaning is not a good way to show what a specific word actually translates into. For example:"Willst du mich auf den Arm nehmen" (literal translation: "do you want to take me into your arms")would best be translated into "are you kidding me" but if you tried to use that sentence to understand what individual words mean you would not get very far or misunderstand them entirely.
@@privatkanal6572 yes exactly
Aggressive German is rather a misguided understanding of the pronunciation, basically because of some historical recordings of some angry guy from a distant past... 😄
It comes from the "ch" sounds, I think.
@@LaWendeltreppe yeah kinda, but by comparison it is most likely the very strong 'r' sound at that time that you still hear in a Bavarian and even more distinct in the Franconian dialects...
@@germancheck9138 But the "r" in Spanish is much harder, think of Carro or perro. And Bavarian is not typical German. (I hate it, that everybody thinks Bavarian when it comes to what's typical German. I am so far away from the dialect and the "culture", the food and the music like from outer space. ;) I have eaten more Italian, French and Indian food than Bavarian...)
@@LaWendeltreppe hahaha yeah I get you , Bavarian culture simply sells itself well abroad, but it's not all that there is to Germany 😄😄✌️
@@germancheck9138 its because after ww2 the Americans occupied Bavaria so the only Bavarian culture and thought that how all of Germany is and thats how we got those stereotypes
PLEASE DO A ASIAN VERSION
german sounds so sexy speaking by a cute german guy ... i heard it one time and i will pay to hear it again lol
Their is away without paying search german boyfriend on youtube asmr 😂
@@catyhell724 😂 our little tricks..haha
It'll be interesting to see Quebec French vs France French.
Where did you leave the British lady? I am really in love with her! She is such a beautiful lady ️.
For me German language is soo beautiful 😍
The translation was a little weird, but I really like the whole video!
In France, when saying "How are you?" they also say "Comment ça va?" which is the informal way of saying it and the formal way would be "Comment allez vous?". I'm a native English and I'm taking French 1 currently, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
Tout dépend à qui tu t'adresse.
Could you upload another video with expresiones, please . It was interesting to me
Beautiful video 👍
Many foreigners label the German language as “aggressive”, and while it can sound aggressive at times, it depends on who you’re talking to. In this particular context, German doesn’t sound aggressive at all.
Every language can sound aggressive. If you have an Italian starting a dispute they will also drown you in bad words, it doesn't make a difference if the language sounds more melodic xD
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I love German. It’s on my list of languages I’d love to learn one day. I speak Russian, and anytime strangers hear us speaking in public the first question we get is “are you speaking German?” And then we get told it sounds really harsh. So there’s some similarities to the untrained ear 😂
Took German in highschool (English is my native) and I have so much trouble with the grammar. I could never figure out the proper case to use with the proper genders of words. But it truly is a fun language to learn
as a german person...same
Lots of the subtitles seem to be incorrect.
Or not even there.
I've learnt German so I have to ask, please do something about the subtitles, because they are written wrong! I don't know about the other languages but the German subs are not always correct :/
The other languages are not correct too. Sometimes they say "du" when it meant "Sie" and the other way round.
They are written wrong in French too
The only reason people think that german would 'sound aggressive' is because all they know is people making Hitler impressions ... and he wasn't even german, he was austrian.
Dankeschön! You made the point!
I think sounds more aggressive because they use many consonants. I speak Spanish and Portuguese and I noticed in latin the words mostly has a vocal finish or many vocals. So sounds more sweet and fluid.