Understandable. Its like a different continent down there. For me its up there. But still. Different continent.

Absolutely 😃 I think the north is very similar to the uk or to Netherlands and denmark, while the south is more similar to Austria/Switzerland (I know Austrians probably wouldn’t dare to agree haha but so it is in my opinion)

The Mary and Jesus figures EVERYWHERE! The Grüß Gotts! The dialect! Lol! Yeah, the south is different from the north.

Absolutely same here, even considering the language. I hooked up with someone from Franken a while ago, who would forget to speak Hochdeutsch with me and I simply couldn't understand him!

Ha, true! I once lived in Baden-Württemberg and experienced some culture shocks, too. "Kehrwoche", "Schaffe, schaffe, Häusle baue!" and "Fasnet". And I must admit - the people from Bremen are more open and friendly then the people from swabia.

"German". It is Deutsch like Deutschland

@@jackundmarija20VA4 Thank's for your comment!👍 I couldn't write it better. Why does englishspeaking people create their own versions of a Name? München not Munich Berlin not Börlen Deutschland not Germany And so on... That's a culture shock😂😂😂

@@truckeronprivatetour4730 a lot of Latin influence on the English language..Germany/Germania/Hammonia (Hamburg).

@@truckeronprivatetour4730 actually Deutschland is the made up word as it originally was the "Germanische Reich". Germany is much closer to Germania then Deutschland, don't you think ;)

@@Skyy-ue5ln No, I don't think so. Why are you saying England and not Angel-Sachs, or Scotland and not Pictenland? What about America, instead of Indiansland? Rhodhesia changed his name into Simbabwe. And look, the englishspeaking are saying Simbabwe. The same is with Myanmar. But NOT for Deutschland? When you call us Germans, it has always a smell of Nazis, because Hitler, and specially Himmler always argumented with "germanische and arische Rasse". Maybe, the englishspeaking people think about.

It's called the DB paradox

😉

@@nilon5327 No lie there!! 😂I can't seem to get it. Now I just arrive 5 minutes early 🙄

Murphys law 😁

The story of my life. :(

An meiner Schule hatten wir mal einen Lesewettbewerb gehabt, bei dem unsere Schüler französisch gelesen und Schüler von einer französischen Schule Deutsch gelesen haben. Es waren bestimmt drei Leute dabei mit perfekter deutscher Aussprache und das war in der sechsten Klasse! Die Texte waren leider total langweilig und wir wollten irgendwann einfach nur noch nach draußen.

Maybe he was from the Elsass…

@@wolly4u or maybe from Paris

@@thomas.thomas The Elsass was part of Germany up to the end of WW2 and then annexed by the French. Most people there still speak German.

@@wolly4u Thank's for the explanaition but I already knew The Elsass region often switched nation in history My joke was relating to the fact that during WW2 Paris belonged to Germany for some time

hahaha I was scrolling through the comments to find someone making a comment about gramatical errors. You gotta love the Germans lool!!

I'm a Brit. When in France a young lady working in a shop helped me by speaking English. She spoke so well that I asked if she'd been to the U.K. Mais non. Incroyable.

In Berlin you always double the estimated time. Even more hardcore German is, if you wait 10 minutes outside in the cold, before you ring the bell right on time.

@@leonawroth2516 this is so right, waiting in the cold 😂. It's me.

Waiting in the cold around the street corner

The skill is guessing which obscure chain of delayed and actually punctual vehicles will take you to your destination the quickest (though it's getting better, the route planers still show tons of routes that regularly miss a connection or are inefficient due to needlessly long transfer times). Some connections are usually on time, others are often delayed (though they often completely flip once you arrive when they usually depart).

Yeah I was thinking about designing an animated map. But was overworked :)

@@yourtruebrit While that's nice I think the best middle ground is perhaps just the name of the country and flag! Simple, easy yet effective 😉

Cheers from Uruguay mate! 🇺🇾🧉

yes, that would be nice, really. At the beginning of the film there were some who had specified their whereabouts , but it was very rushed.. Funny is, every person who comes from other parts of the world than the US, mentions he/she is coming from Russia, South Africa, Denmark...etc. People from the US they're different! They assume that everybody on this planet knows where De Moines/Iowa or Gainesville/Florida is, so no need to mention the country. If we "the others" introduced ourselves like this, saying "I'm from Mainz/ Rheinland-Pfalz" or "Vaslui/Romania" I wonder if an US citizen would know to pinpoint it on a map. Just saying 🤓

@@einarthegolden8637 Maybe also add their name that way it's easier to refer to what they said in the comments. Really fun video, you seem like such a sweetheart!! :)

When I was in Africa I saw the same fast procedure also in their supermarkets (ShopRite and malls). It’s not a German thing.

I always put everything back into the „Einkaufswagerl“ and then i start to get my EC Card to pay. I don’t let myself be rushed. Why should i?

@@wolfgangpreier9160 That’s the only correct way to do it. Coming from a cashier.

@@wolfgangpreier9160how could it be otherwise?

@@honkytonk4465 They could do it as in the US, a nice cashier talks with you a nice baggager bags your groceries into paper bags in the meantime you get the whole life and love story of the cashiers dogs and you tell her about your last one night stand and ... ok i stop now. 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣

Yess Thank you!!! If they are annoyed by a cloesed shop on a sunday, they can open a shop and pay extra money to their employes.

I find that funny. I'm from Germany and I've been living in Spain for 5 years. Everything is closed also there on Sundays. Everything is dead there on Sunday. There are hardly any cars on the streets anymore thst day, but nobody complains about that.

For a long time a lot of shops were closed in Australia on a Sunday. I still remember trying to find petrol on a Sunday and having to find the rostered petrol station that was open for a few hours, having to drive a few extra kms on the smell of an oily rag hoping I didn't runout. But even today, most shops close at 6pm, although some supermarkets are open until 9pm and on weekends are closed by 5pm. Very few are 24x7.

@@utha2665 Gas stations are actually open on Sundays in Germany - one of the exceptions. And since almost all of them have small shops attached you can always get some basic food if you forgot to plan ahead. These shops are usually quite expensive though. Restaurants are also open. Cinemas, theatres, museums, parks, amusement parks...all open.

Chill

It’s not Germans it’s Russians living in Germany. They should be immediately deported to their ‘motherland’

Well these germans are really lost😀.

Most of them sympathize with the Russian people, not the Russian government! 🙄

Well certain opinions will cost you your job in germany .so maybe you are the hypocrite?

There are literally people everywhere sympathising with current Russian government that’s not just a German phenomenon

I would say improvising is the true art but a real cook doesn't have to improvise.

@@christopherstein2024 true. In this case it was just about, to improvise if smtg is missing. But at all, to test and try new things, is what makes it interesting and gives u new impressions

improvisieren is easy... aber wenn ich einen schweinsbraten machen will dann will ich einen schweinsbraten machen. fehlt da knoblauch oder kümmel dann ists halt gebratenes schweinefleisch aber kein schweinsbraten. salz, pfeffer, knoblauch, kümmel...mehr braucht ma ned aber auch ned weniger.

@@devilskitty5032 würde da die Theorie aufstellen, das nicht jede Region für einen Schweinebraten genau diese Komponenten verwendet 😉 Aber ja, manches braucht man sicherlich. Aber etwas neues zu probieren, soll ja auch den geschmaclichen Horizont erweitern können 😋

Correct, thats what i tell wifey once a week. I can not cook without recipe. She cannot cook WITH recipe.

The country you are talking about is Europe 🤷🏻‍♂️😜

@@moccamixer lol 😂 but you’ll have to travel every time it’s never all in one

😂😂😂

YES I thought this as well 😂🙌🏻

Lol

I think you are being nice when you stack the stuff for me to grab them :)

The race for the goods. Spoil the great good experience of funshopping.🤔😉🤭

I go extra slowly in packing my bag. Drives Aldi cashier's varrucht. 🤣🤣

Well, i haven't been in Russia for a while, but i still have family there. Let's just say, it's not at the point yet where you disappear without a trace because you mention in public that the ruler of the country looks like a dumb cartoon character. But it's getting there. That one phrase contains a lot.

@@olgahein4384 Check the interviews on the UKposts channel "1420" and you'll see many people claiming to be "apolitical" - that is for a reason. Russia is closer to the situation you describe there than you might think. I am sure your family does not want to give you a reason to sorrow. Think about it. - All the best to you and your family!

@@olgahein4384 from 1991-1993

First I didn't understand what she ment... But when they said that they are Russians, it dawned on me... So sad!

Yeah and still there are People who complain about not being allowed to have an opinion

Damn right :D

I always wonder why people are complaining about delays in western world. For the rest of the world delays are normal. Spent a long time in different countries in Africa and that’s normal life there. You’re still “punctual” if you come the next day.

That works when you’re in the city. But when further out on the country side missing a train means you’re gonna be an hour late this gets a bit more complicated. You won’t show up 1 hour early for every meeting in case your train has a delay or gets cancelled. Maybe for super important ones … but generally you just live with being late and sadly with the DB that happens too often.

@@keneAhnung11 That is partially right. Your talking about an hour. This is not the reality. Since the many decades I travel with public transport it rarely happened to be this late. It could happen that some incidents cause a delay but it’s the exception. In cities, during the day, the next transport comes within the next 15 to 20 minutes. On the countryside it could even be much longer but that’s normal. We Germans are very much used to organize our time-schedule very well. Other cultures handle it differently.

Literally the reason why i dont use public transport. I have a car and can get in it and drive off when ever i want. No stupid waiting and no delays

glad to find another brit :D

As a German, I hate that, too. I always repeat when they say "halb acht" .. so sieben Uhr dreißig? I believe it's a southern thing.

@@AndreasDelleske ide schwiiz isches au halbi achti, chan aso guet es südding si

@@bitzelijoschaevci3444 Jo das cha scho si..

Don't ask me, what I (German) experienced in my first year in Oz... Sometimes it was embarrassing, sometimes funny...

That's the way! My sister is also a notorious latecomer, that's why I implemented this method too haha

Nice idea, I should have implemented it, but I don’t need that anymore because, thanks God, I left France😅😅😅

Pünktlichkeit ist die Kunst, zu wissen, wie viel der andere zu spät kommt.

Das macht meine Schwester und alle die mich gut kennen heute noch so und ich bin geborener Allgäuer..... In diesem Land hat man es mit etwas/chronischer Unpünktlichkeit wirklich nicht einfach.... So gar beim Zahnarzt haut es mir jedes mal den Vogel raus.... Da bin ich meistens 5 - 10 Min. zu spät (trotz mit vollgas hinfahren....) und jedes mal, wenn ich dann Heim komme, haben die mir schon auf das Band gesprochen, "ob ich noch komme"... Die alten Panikmacher.... Gruß!

@@wahrheitsliebender geht mir als schwabe auch so.....meine freunde rechnen die zeit in olis..ein oli ist eine halbe std.😂😂mit der zeit gewöhnt sich jeder daran -mann muss nur ausdauernd sein.

Bollocks

@@ipodman1910 Nice 2 meet U.

@@ipodman1910 Na, da hat jemand den Kaffee verpasst.

You look at it one-sidedly, as if the Germans and Germany are inferior in some way and the Germans "need" to look at other cultures with an open mouth and change in accordance with someone else's lifestyle. But in fact, every country and culture has pros and cons. Germany has a misty Harry Potter-esque aesthetic (as does England, oddly enough), it needs to be understood and felt, not compared to southern or tropical cultures. Behind great sociality there are always low material ambitions and conformity when the whole nation is like that, then they are simply doomed to poverty and high criminality

@@sanich0811 i was on board until you brought up culturally motivated poverty XD

@@sanich0811 I love my country as well! And my language😊 I also liked the "Harry Potter-esque" description 🧡

@@sanich0811 I don’t think he meant to say Germany is inferior to Brazil. If you look at the stats, it objectively isn’t. And sure, each country has its own unique way of being and that should be appreciated, I think. And I agree that tropical countries have something different but not more to offer than those in the far north/ south. Thing is some people do prefer the tropical way of being and that’s fine (I’m not one of those btw, I’m just saying it’s ok if somebody doesn’t like living in Germany or in the UK or whatever that much and prefers living in the Caribbean, for instance). The one thing I disagree about is the “friendliness” being equal to a lack of material ambition and dooming people to poverty. Take Australia as an example, a developed tropical country with people that are a lot more “open” than in, say, Sweden. I don’t think this lively way of being correlates to lack of material ambition. I think that it’s something that happens in spite of most Brazilians not having enough money to get all they want/need (that’s not to say they don’t wish to have a good car, tho, saying that is just beyond ridiculous). When it comes to different cultures and lifestyles, everything is very nuanced. And even though there are things like HDI, freedom of speech and tolerance/ discrimination that should be taken in consideration, generally, no culture is better than other (I say generally because cultures where people think it’s ok to openly harass women or give gay people the death penalty do have some obvious issues that need fixing). Anyway, those are my two cents. But basically, maybe the guy likes Brazil better than Germany, so what? If you’re like me and disagrees w him, that’s cool, just don’t live in Brazil if you can help it. Edit: bad sentence structure

hi, very nice to hear so positive points about brazil and the Brazilians. I got very happy for that. I"m Brazilian. I'm a teacher of Portuguese for foreigners. If you would like, I could help you with the language! Greetings from Brazil Alexandre

The Scottish guy was so hot 😂

YES! ^^

Not that true, mostly they are old people that have nothing else to do. Like 60yrs old bodyguard . Romania is a very safe country, they are just telling people what to do before entering a building or so😀

They could use that in the USA.

@@jeronim07 Huh, so more like groundskeepers?

Yes, I experienced the same in GB too. Germans are very unfriendly and unpolite.

I think some French can be slightly arrogant when it comes to their cuisine. They may be right, but it's not a sign of politeness to emphasize this everytime. ;) And many refuse to talk in foreign languages, even when they are abroad, they don't even bother to try. So your own French has to be quite good to have a real nice chat with somebody when you're in France, you won't come too far with English. This does not apply to every French, obviously. And of course they have their own advantages as well. Their films seem to be a lot more artful, many people are dressing more tasteful than Germans do, music in their native language seems to be a lot more distinguished (even if the Brits are the real geniuses here imho) etc.

What you said about the French and languages could also be said about the British... Many of them refuse to talk in a foreign language even when they are abroad, they don't even bother to try. So your own English has to be really good to have a nice chat when you are in Britain

I guess that depends on where you are and where you are from. At the french-german border the french ppl are incredibly arrogant, especially towards germans. Even more so, when they are on the german side of the border. They refuse to talk in german (even though they speak german) or even in english. And if you make clear that you don't speak french they react as if you are eating children and insultin their mothers.

@@olgahein4384 I spent some time in Colmar and Obernai last year and the people there were the most friendly I´ve ever met. They all talked german with me cause my french sucks. They were lovely and friendly and sooo soo helpful!

He means that the French are mean, which is true, like they want to seem polite and gentle but it does not mean anything, instead they hate you inside and don’t want you to be there, because, oh my God, foreigners take their poorly paid jobs that they don’t want to do anyway, and now they got no job at all because there is no more job in France.😅😅😅

Aww thank you have a great day! :)

yeah, in some sentences he sounded 1000% german

Yes Bayern is special/ different in that regard to the rest of Germany.

Dicker meinst du wir haben keine Clubs hier in München? :) Techno meinen Latinos nicht, das ist für uns tanzen aber für viele Südländer ehwr seltsam.. also bleiben nur Salsa, Latino, Jugo Clubs ect.. und von denen haben wir auch in München genug. Was sie meint ist einfach ein unterschied des Temperaments. In Lateinamerika müssen die sich nicht erst drei Longdrinks kippen um abzugehen, wie sie sagt da ist alles Musik und Leben 💃

​@BD this part

good we don't want your European ways in the u.s anyways that's why we have problems here with race now because of you go back to your bland ass food

Thanks so much!

Much appreciated!

Not wash cars on Sundays - that's a misunderstanding. You can't wash cars in the street on any day bc of water contamination. You can wash.your car at a filling station on any day of the week😜 14:18

@@lumina9995 It wasn't possible even at gas stations when I lived in Bavaria and I'm sure that I didn't misunderstood it.For religous reasons they told me.

@@flyfishing_and_hiking Actually, you're right. Car washes can open at 12:00 noon in Bavaria but the municipality has to permit it. So it depends. Wieder was gelernt!😅

Reminds me of a story: Two guys sitting in the plane to the US (Chicago). One gets more nervous the closer they get. The other asking about that. The frightened one said: "I heard a lot of bad stories about Chicago. So many murders and crime going on there." The second guy answers: "Not to worry. It is not really as bad. I get along fine." First guy: "So what do you do there?" Second: "I am a tail gunner on a pizza delivery truck."

What a load of crap .

Jesus it’s not that bad. Let’s just generalize a country of 330+ million people based on some extreme cases, why not?

@@badhombre4683 Thanks to the US system of transportation, any visitors still have to go through the urban hellscape before getting to the nice parts of the US.

@@badhombre4683 Because even if it's not "that bad", it's still way worse than it needs to be.

Yeah, it's interesting how quickly you can get used to everything, when you have experienced it as normal before. Whenever i interact with all those students from all over the world at our university in Freiburg they are always in awe about that medieval fairy tale fantasy feeling they have in the city center, the great food, the high quality beverages, the healthy lifestyle, the history that ouzes from every corner of the city (especially americans love that) and so on. And for me, it's just another tuesday.

You should go visit Quedlinburg if you like German fairy-tale cities.

Perhaps all the Hutongs have been raised. But those quarters where just tight and small too.

I can imagine some things i would rather like to do instead of wandering around the streets and grocery shops @ midnight in a US city. Without at least a loaded Kalashnikov to defend myself.

The culture of consumerism. Everyone is trying to please each other verbally in order to achieve benefits in the end.

Why not ? America is way more friendlier man.

@@vivekrbs no its superficial imo :D

Narcissism, they want attention..

Its become a greeting, like 'Hello'. When you're asked 'How's it going?' you simply reply, 'Good, and you?' They'll answer 'Good'...and off you go. It trips folks up who mistake it for an actual inquiry.

aww thanks ;)

Thank you, and I love Spain too, and Europe!

Haha! ;D

Hi! We often make slow meals on special occasions: family dinners, reunions with friends...etc. But in everyday life, professional imperatives, the cost of fresh products, or simply because we are lazy to invest too much time in cooking, many of us also eat very quickly, without making more effort than that !

It would be dangerous for me to drive in these countries you mentioned because I would fall asleep by driving so slowly^^

@@freidenkerin5198 you'll get used to it but it really is very stressful to drive there imho because many people's attention is elsewhere and you constantly have to watch out for others cutting your way. I always felt like the best highway experience is the German Autobahn when there's no trucks. You can drive very fast and it is very relaxing because everyone can handle their own speed. On busy days slow drivers tend to cause traffic jams though because they attempt to overtake trucks improperly and everyone has to slow down which leads to quick congestion on the left lane.

@@Squee7e You understand me😊

Ich glaube sie meinte aber, dass man sich mit Deutschen Wochen vorher etwas ausmachen muß um mit ihnen fortzugehen...Als Expat hat man ja in Deutschland keinen "Freundeskreis seit der Schulzeit" wo dann jeder für jeden immer Zeit hat/sich spontan die Zeit nimmt. Du schreibst ja selber du triffst dich regelmäßig 3x die Woche mit einem Freund. Wenn dann dich nun wer anderer fragt auszugehen wirst du es wohl dann auch in die Zukunft planen, weil 3 Tage in der Woche sind ja bereits regelmäßig mit deinem Freund verplant...

Yeah, it is true to some extent that paying with cash is largely unnecessary. But I did notice a lot of stores (more-so even in the Netherlands and Belgium) that only accepted Maestro. I also ran into a number of German bakeries that didn't accept card. Cash is definitely more necessary in Germany than most European countries.

@@teddysmith8725 The reason is that the shops have to pay fees to the credit card companies. The fees for debit card transactions (e. g.maestro) are much cheaper.

@@teddysmith8725 bcause cash is the only lawfull currency backed by law thats why. and why the fuck does your bank and goverment needs to know what you are spending your money on. its mind buggling seeing all those people with their thousends and thousends of creditcards. also it helps to manage your money better...

paying cash is actually a good thing!

Ah cheers man! :D

I think that‘s always the trickiest part about learning foreign languages or conversing with someone who has a different linguistic/cultural background: idioms can rarely be translated literally, and they are often so deeply rooted in a specific culture, that the meaning isn’t obvious for someone who didn’t grow up or live in that culture for an extended period. We use idioms in Bavaria, whose meaning would be completely lost on a person from Berlin and vice versa - even though they’re all in German.

@@Sturmhut that is so true. Idioms are deeply rooted into a language and culture. I geuss looking back at it, using English Idioms in German seems like a dumb idea. It is interesting though learning a language is quite easy to get to the point where you can have fluent conversations with people but really getting into the smaller cultural elements of a language you need a lot of time, C1 only brings you so far.

Try New York City. Ya gone feel right at home

Same when I (growing up in Northwestern Germany) visit the Netherlands.

Both countries are very similar, I really enjoy your bike friendly streets. You're a couple decades ahead of Germany. Hope we catch up soon!

Well De Nederlands offer fresh vegetables, flowers, canals and what not.

​@@leonawroth2516 How is Baden Württemberg similar to the Netherlands?

Its been degrading over the years

In my personal experience, public transport in cities is very reliable. But I currently live on the countrside and trains here are annoying (No S-Bahn btw. only busses). They come hourly at best and delays are anywhere between five and 20 Minutes regularly. If there's some kind of problem on the rail, they have to call in some railworkers which take ages to get there. I remember once being stuck on a 45 minute ride for a bit over 3 hours because of that. And for the buses the infrastructure is not ideal. They are heavily denpendent on the general traffic going well and generally also drive hourly or some times every 30 minutes. -tldr.: public transport in cities: great - out of cities: meh.

Local trains are OKish. 30% of the ICEs are late..

Oh I thought that in Hamburg and Schleswig Holstein, but now moving to Munich. I don’t feel like it’s that reliable anymore, I have to always plan for delays on the S Bahn if I want to arrive on time, so maybe it’s a regional problem.

@@theflimo Bavaria has bad local transport because it's not wanted by the auto industry

My cousin married a Scottish man, many decades ago. He came over with the British Army and stayed. Most beautiful blue eyes I have ever seen for real. (No, I was not trying to flirt with him, never told him! I respect my cousin's marriage!)

@@franhunne8929 ah thats cool! My grandfather was stationed outside frankfurt I'm the 50s in the British army. I think many Scottish men did their national service in Germany then

might be my ears ;)

well everybody in the western world has heard of the american states and major cities so it makes sense I think

the US is just as large as the EU, and diffrent regions have their own cultural specialties. I think it makes a lot more sense naming the state and not just USA.

@@scribblescrabble3185 how about mentioning both? If someone from the USA met someone from… let’s say North Macedonia, would the person from the USA know where that is without the addition of Europe? Most Europeans I know would only know the general region where to search for North Macedonia on a map.

@@scribblescrabble3185 the differences in culture between us states are next to nothing compared to that of different nation states it doesnt make sense at all

what they all have in common is way to many muslims in it to be called european cities anymore lmao

@@sirbonobo3907 It’s not the people or their culture but fundamentalist outliers… we live in a world where a multi cultural society is unavoidable, the danger is religious dogma that perverts peoples humanity. Your point about Muslims is what they said about the Jews… the only solution is integration which means adhering to the rules of the society one finds oneself in and no ghettos. We can’t turn the clocks back which means we have to look for positive solutions.

Its ok if you cancel because something happened. And you inform the people as soon as you know. But if you cancel some date because you dont feel like it 5 min before. That’s a no go because germans then mostly cancelled plans with other peoples or whatever, to make your date happen.

Yes well when he said infer he meant imply. Infer is inward. Imply outward.

@@jeremyatkinson4976 Inward, outward so what? People still won't cut to the chase is what I was trying to say.

@@bliss448 So learn English

@@jeremyatkinson4976 How about this: EFF YOU!!!!!

But having a cultural shock when moving to another city is part of life too. Personally, I only look for the tips that helps me to not be in trouble with the authorities. When it comes to the rest, I like to have surprises and not be that prepared with learning everything from the internet. I personally think this kind mess the magic of learning others people culture.

Munich is exceptionally clean.

You just took a look outside the German bubble: This is the reality for the majority of people here on earth!

Lol Berlin is the same way. Mysterious

@@masonhancock5350 Yes, Berlin is definitly dirty. Even in the "noble" suburb of Zehlendorf where I first lived when studying there, there was dog sh...all over the sidewalks. Later when living in Neukölln it was even worse. Such a lot of rubbish lying around everywhere.

@@wolly4u I've been in 17 different countries, dude. - "German bubble" is far from true. - But Egypt was a culture shock for me.