10 THINGS I WISH I KNEW BEFORE MOVING TO GERMANY + TIPS 🇿🇦🇩🇪 

Hello guys 😊! Happy new week, I hope you’ll find this video helpful and thanks for watching. Stay blessed, stay safe 🌸

Cannot be overemphasized: Learn the language! People I know from SA/Botswana think they will be fine because of English - complete misconception. Other than that: Feel welcome and make yourself a home.

Thoroughly enjoyed the video! As a South African living in Germany myself, I can definitely relate and appreciate your positive attitude towards the transition. Wish you all success and good luck with the channel!

The German saying about customer service is: The customer is king, but we are a republic. Thank you for your nice video and for making Germany more beautiful with your being here.

Making friends: Try not to make friends but join groups with activities that you enjoy. Over time you will find friends there. That is really hard in time of Corona though.

2K subscribers - congratulations! I am so proud of being one of your closest supporters and most frequent commentators.... just being a German dude who loves you and valueing your content on YT so much. Danke, dass Du hier bist...... Bitte grüße Deinen Ehemann und Deine tolle Familie in der Republik Südafrika. Please stay around at YT....... Ich liebe Dich so sehr als Mensch!!!!!!! Peace within mankind is all I am asking from life......... Your positivity and appreciatitivity is admirable.... ich freue mich auf viele weitere Videos von Dir!!!

Always coming through with refreshing videos ❤️🇿🇦love you so much. Well presented

This was super informative ❤ Thank-you

Lovely video! Wonderful to hear another perspective of an international living in Germany. I loved the tip you gave about instead of focusing on finding friends focus on finding belonging. I am going to try this. Ive been here 12 years and am struggling in the social aspect. I agree with you that living in Germany is wonderful offering many new cultural experiences to learn and enjoy. Greetings from Steinhudermeer in the Hannover region.

I love this african accent, charming!

There is some wisdom in your words. Thank you!

I just found your channel and loving it and the weather doing the things allowing me to rest and binge watch🇿🇦

Thanks for this! Sending you love from 🇿🇦

Love this!

Really enjoyed this :)

As a new subscriber, I love it here. Let me go watch all the other videos. I'm moving to Munich next month. Thank you for all the tips.

Thanks for the tips

First time here. I love it, thank you for sharing

Wow! I came across your channel today and just did the right things subscribed and liked this video. Keep them coming girl.

I love this video is so real 😊

Very good Video and very good points, thank you 😁 PS: I guess its ok to ride bike in the City, also inner City, just Not in the dedicated pedestrian areas (Fußgängerzone)

Your top is really nice

Nice video. I do so much agree with the customer service in Germany. Maybe we should 'revolutionize' customer service? I just don't know exactly how to do it. I have lived in the USA for so many years now that I am more and more aware of these customer service challenges in Germany.

omg you have like a really slight German accent its so nice

Hi,again i am impressed about your wisdom, how you look on different cultures and behaviours, i am sure you will be a happy person all your life.says grandpa wilhelm, who also had to learn how to live in different countries!

I was born in South Africa but grew up in Germany and I’m really missing Germany right now 😭😭

Ahh Tebogo, you look so beautiful 😍😍. I'm glad you have someone to transition with.

Maybe its to late now, but when your employer tells you, that you loose your job, he has (by law!) the duty to tell you that you have to contact the "Agentur für Arbeit" as soon as possible (you have max. 2 weeks, otherwise you loose money!) and also he must give you the time to contact the "Agentur für Arbeit" personally!.

This was very informative and helpful. Please also kindly share what South African products (food mostly) you've managed to find in Germany. I remember watching one of your vlogs and I didn't know that I could find pap maize meal here.

Here I am, a South African (still living here as well) meant to be studying for his B2 German exam but instead finds himself watching your videos haha :)

I would actually suggest watching movies and series that you know in German, without subtitles. Subtitles are a crutch. Sure, it's harder, but you'll be surprised how much quicker you start to pick up things. Plus there are no subtitles in the real world, meaning it's fantastic for those listening skills.

making friends in germany can be not easy, but if u made it u got friends for ever

I saw driver‘s license and my heart sank… I almost missed the 6 months deadline, yikes! 😳And almost had to redo everything. I now warn everyone! Good words re humility and expectations also btw, wise advice.

The Agentur für Arbeit (unemployment agency) has also the biggest list of vacancies in Germany and you can enter your profile as well, all without any fee.

Hi Tebogo, thank you for your videos. They are really helpful. I would like to move to Germany in the next few years. I speak fluent arabic and english. I need to learn german to at least b level before thinking of moving.

You have a beautiful smile

Number 11 Never forget, where you come from. Be proud, of your nationality for i.e. #ProudlySouthAfrican 🙌☺

i have watched several of your videos and please, keep you open mind and your positiveness. If you are emploeyed in germany and the company is shutting down or you just get fired, the company is forced by law to inform you that you have to go to the Agentur für Arbeit immediatly. And it has to be written in the dismissal. If they dont, the "Arbeitsamt" should pay your fees from the first day and tries to get the money from your former employer.

And Namibia also

when they look at me, I will also look at them even more finish.

Come live in Jamaica

Hi Tebogo. What advise can you give me when i need to do business in Germany or rather what can i supply in Germany that we South African have and Germany need

I don’t have the audio option for German on Netflix and I’ve changed my whole device setting to German but still on Netflix it’s English?

You are super pretty 😍 ☺️☺️☺️💋

Where are you!? Miss seeing your videos and getting tips 🙂

Hallöchen 💕🌼🌷🌺

customer service same here in UK

You can tell you are South Africa, as in the first 30 seconds you said "Shucks"!

C1 😨 I watched an english C1 video on yt. It was so difficult. I knew one or two of the vocabularies. My grammar is even worse but I think that isn't a topic at all in C1 I guess.

u r so beautiful that is the most reason they look at u believe it or not

Which account do you use to send money to South Africa and how is it in tax?

You look like Ama Qamata

It’s odd that your company didn’t give you that info about collecting unemployment. In the U.S. it’s typical for a company whether they close or lay-off their employees that they give you a severance package and their HR dept usually gives you info that directs you to how each state handless unemployment claims too. Germany must handle these things differently. Oh well, this is another reason for ppl leaving their country to live elsewhere in the world should do their research on employment, health benefits, etc. I hope you’ll find another gig soon but for now keep giving us good content.

Say hello to you and you are beautiful 🤩

The Agentur für Arbeit is part of the unemployment insurance you (and your employer) have to pay from your salary. I'm surprised you didn't ask about the stuff written in your pay check.

Yo that means the whole country would had been in trouble we love our music in SA.

3-5 years 🥺😭

Hi, about the rule u mentioned it’s normal, it applies almost every civilised world which is a good thing. Other wise it created chaos! The other thing is customer service, it depends where and what kind of environment you are in again it applies other part of the world too! As a flight attendant I have been many part of the world. Yes I’m agree with u in some of the things u mentioned about in Germany! Customer service in Zara LOL… let me tell u my experience here in Frankfurt. I went to a fitting room with couple of clothes. When I return it back to the guy who stand at the fitting room door,he said to me can you fold it? I said to him that’s your job not mine, if I do your job why they employed u then,can u tell pls? Also can u show me a description which says that customer needs to fold after returning from fitting room pls.The guy face become totally red, i think it’s his first time someone told him with the straight face ,he became silent then I walk out!!!

Hi I'm Godwin from Ghana, please I went for a Schengen visa interview and I was asked: 1 Are you traveling with someone? I said no 2 Purpose of travelling to Germany. I'm attending a trade congress 4 what is the congress about? I answered Then she asked about my budget for purchasing some of the products... I answered, No as it was stated in my application but she was going back and forth with me, I stood by my words and she later said something that I couldn't get so I asked her to COME AGAIN and she said IS FINE without saying anything again, she scanned my Documents and gave my receipt to me Please is that a RED FLAG?

Yup if it’s one thing I know about living in Germany for 10 years & being married to a German woman there are SO many rules, even when it comes to crossing the road, very early in the morning, nothing moving anywhere but people still wait for the green walk light. It’s crazy to anyone from anywhere else just look at German people thinking that they do as they are told by their government, they never question anything, they just accept rules are rules. If people see you doing something very minor which might be against the rules random people will come up to you in a very unfriendly manner & TELL you to stop. Don’t get me wrong, there are good & bad things but the population certainly follow the HUGE amount of rules without thinking about freedoms plus the documents/paperwork you have to do for everything is crazy. There are a lot of people who work their entire lives in an Ampt which is a government department & there are many of them. Trust me.

they dont pay you for being unemployed, but while you are

How did u get a job in Germany

But bad customer service also in South Africa

Living in Germany is not easy. If you want to move here, you should first inform yourself properly. Reasons that speak against it I list times. Of course, there are also positive reasons but I rather list points that make you think. 1. The unfair tax policy. The system is designed for the really rich and big industrialists. To comparison Switzerland or Holland are tax many times better. If you consider that Germany belongs to the 3rd - 4th largest industrialized countries but the median net salary is about 1800-1950 euros. You don't have to be the best in math to see that there is an extreme imbalance. 2. the high additional costs which exceed in large cities over 50-70 per cent of the net salary. 3. a general conservative mood in the population and in the media. 4. generally conservative parties that govern Germany and corruption in Germany is hardly punishable in Germany. Whereas in other countries such actors end up in prison. See various studies on corruption in Germany. Nevertheless, form your own picture and try to understand the points.

1. Wow, interesting that we are both in Bayern but you had different rules. I had to do an eye test and a 1st AID course and we both those I could go to the Zulassungstelle (traffic Dept) and also had a German license in 2 weeks. 2. regardless of your C1, you have less chances of finding a job if you don't have a rare skills. Germans do right by their people first and don't really employ foreigners for jobs that millions of their people can do like marketing, but if you have rare technical skills it's another ball game. This is ofcause different from province to province. You have more internationally focused provinces like Berlin & Humburg, there you could even work with no knowledge of the language. 3. There are 2 African licenses recognised in Germany, namely Namibia and South Africa.

Mal eine Frage, wie lange dauert es bist ein Afrikaner sich fühl sie ist eine Deutsche, deine Kinder fühlen die sich total zuhause in Deutschland, vielleicht deine Enkelkinder, Ur Enkelkinder? Vielleicht ist diese Frage zu früh gestellt.

Hi What can I and cannot bring with into Germany?

You should have moved to Vienna, Austria. Over here most things are much less complicated. 🙂 Well, bureaucracy can become a problem. 😁

Hallo liebe Prinzessin, tell me honestly, I'm a Canadian with German roots, is it for me as a white man walking in south Africa on any street in south Africa, just as safe as it is for you in Germany? I know it would be safe if you or your Brother would walk with me, I mean if I would walk at night just by myself on any street in south Africa?

Service.... No... No service ;) and no, it is nothing Rassist ... Just, they don't know what service means ;) I am white and German and - 10 minutes before a shop closes- you shall leave the shop- if not .. rude comments... Just happened yesterday again ;) So- you are not alone ;)

But it is better than live in Africa

Is there xenophobia in Germany

Hi Tebogo and fans, I'd like to add to the topic "customer service" at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--qyJ2I9Q-CU.html . Great issue! I fully agree that it needs an explanation. I got complaints from friends from Central and South America as well. The observation is true but often comes as a prejudice. The clue: Everyday conversation in Germany is efficient, straight and honest. Don't greet a German the English way with "How do you do!" or "How are you?" unless you are really interested in the persons health and current feelings! Greeting with a casual "How are you?", unless the person is a close friend, may cause some embarrassement, like entering into one's comfort zone. Be warned that if the person is very polite, you may get a complete answer to your literal question - to your own embarrassement - together with an explanation, about health issues or bad mood. In Germany, the perfect customer service is competent and quick, so as not to waste the customer's time. Just perfect business, with the best intention and far from being rude. This applies to phonecalls for an enquiry or an appointment, but also to shops, public transport etc. No initial small talk and come right to the point. To visitors from many other countries this style may feel cold and unfriendly. But that's the way and don't take it personally!