My name is Nick Alfieri. I'm a former professional football player and filmmaker from Portland, OR in the USA but I'm currently living in a small town in Germany called Schwäbisch Hall. On this channel I share bits of my life, oftentimes focusing on cultural differences between the USA and Germany that I pick up on in my experiences. I love playing football, filmmaking, and my family, and you'll also see a lot of that on here. Enjoy!
Eye stare, maybe it is because Germans don't lie as much. I tend to look people square in the eyes. It shows I'm paying attention and to see if they are telling the truth.
I'd love to see this way of speaking English turning into a new standard. It makes things so much straightforward to ask: "Drink you coffee?" Who minds typical end position of verbs in subordinate clauses. I'm sure that the rest of the world this soon accept and itself to it adapt will.
also Kerl, nach der langen Zeit kannst du dir ja auch mal lange Hosen anziehen - nur Jungs unter 10 tragen in der Öffentlichkeit im Sommer kurze Hosen, früher, heute auch schon nicht mehr - los umziehen hopp hopp
Ironic, isn't it? America is a nation that supposedly prides itself on being so free and open and progressive, yet it's very prudish, Victorian and puritanical when it comes to matters of the human anatomy. Europe is certainly more progressive when it comes to quite a few other things as well, and this country seems to have lost the edge when it comes to progressivism.
It funny to hear about personal bubble😂 By bubble we mean some space around you belonging only to you. But the loud voice is breaking that space 😂 So your personal space is disappearing …
Out of interest: If you are having trouble understand this without subtitles and are American, press the thumbs up. If you are from the UK and having trouble, press the thumbs down. Just curious to see as often those only exposed to American English and culture have a harder time understanding English in an order more associated with Middle English/Shakespearean.
I’m English and this direct translation is how I learn. I understand all the spoken but that’s because I’m so used to reading old books and Middle English that all this makes sense. If as an English speaker you can’t understand this video by just listening, you have no hope of learning German other than to just parroting sentences and never being able to construct them or understand anything other than the ones from your text book. It’s really useful to learn this way of speaking in English because it makes constructing sentences in your head easier.
I sincerely enjoy your work...and congratulations. Michigan grad, expat here in Germany (Leipzig & Dresden) for the last 25 years. I'm , as you, very much at "home". My best to you both, and Go Blue!😊
The firebombing of Dresden was genocide. Millions of Germans were killed by the Allied Forces during and after the war. Many died from sheer exposure in the camps they were forced into after the war. Others were tortured & murdered by the Soviets & others, after we handed them over to their mortal enemies. This is the reality. Yet Germans are expected to be silent over this & continue paying penance. Enough is enough. Collective punishment of an entire ethnicity is a horrible evil, regardless of who's doing it. For real healing, we all need to be able to talk about what happened to EVERYONE during AND AFTER the war. Why do we limit conversations to one perpetrator & one victim group? Why don't we learn about the extreme torture that took place at the Nurenberg Trials? Why?! The Soviets killed tens of millions between Holodomor (forced starvation of Ukraine), their slaughter of Christians, & their elimination of anyone the state deemed a threat. Yet this history is rarely spoken of & Russia was never held to account for the tens of millions they killed. In fact, we handed part of Germany over to those monsters. Why is that & how do we think those Germans fared being ruled by the murderers of millions of Christians? What the Soviets did to Germans in East Germany was terrifying. And it was criminal for the West to hand Germans over to those genocidal, Communist barbarians.
Congratulations to Laura & Nalf from Australia. Thank you for sharing a little bit of your life with all of us. We started watching your videos many years ago and sent ❤ to u all. Cheers from Down Under Rob & Sandra
I agree that our jobs make us move. The author of this video is or was an athlete. Now that I think about it, even when we aren't old enough to drive, we are traveling long distances across states to play sports--we get the training to be mobile at a very young age.
Look man, if you don't have student loans, have great health insurance, and a great safety net where you know you won't be homeless, that has to diminish your drive to go and crush it.
