9 English words Germans can't pronounce

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Alice is out in the streets of Berlin to test people on the most difficult English words to pronounce :)
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@bendumonde 9 лет назад

Surprised "squirrel" didn't come up. It's so funny watching Germans try to say it XD

@easylanguages 9 лет назад

Ben DuMonde Wait for part II ;)

@danielroberts3282 8 лет назад

+Easy Languages I want part II!!!

@itisonlyme1 7 лет назад

I said the word "squirrel" sometime in 78, when I first arrived here. The woman did not understand what I said, I used to find it a difficult word. But yes, it is funny!

@Ivantrex1 7 лет назад

squirrel in German ist also quite difficult to pronounce

@Applesafthoch2 7 лет назад

Squirrel is a word in english I am not really able to pronounce. But I am very good at saying this sentence very fast: If two witches watched two watches, which witch would watch which watch. I am so proud of myself

@jacobjochem 8 лет назад

they did a good job

@hirofox85 7 лет назад

Oh, well. They can't all be winners. Lol.

@GoldenBoyXCM 7 лет назад

go back to Vietnam burning kids

@F38000 7 лет назад

I'm not responsible for anything my grandparents did when I wasn't alive. I only feel responsible for not letting it happen again.

@azorahai5158 7 лет назад

usa did worse combined all their shit

@fishyc150 7 лет назад

bugsbunny2022 everybody in the world had slaves since men walked the earth. just some (the US) refused to give slavery up after all those you listed stopped it. and twice the amount of Europeans were enslaved by Muslim Barbary slave traders than Africans were by Europeans.

@SuperCacapedo 3 года назад

Some say he’s still trying to pronounce “brewery”

@waffle7990 2 года назад

I wouldnt blame him cause the letter "w" is pronounced as "V"

@amusliminusa 2 месяца назад

Actually, after pondering and wondering he settled to rest at a beer garden brewery where the consumption of copious amounts of hops untied his twisted tongue to say brewery just as it should

@zkkrhfhska 2 дня назад

in fairness the 'english' speaker has a fuckoff strong accent

@deepanshusharma76 4 года назад

Doctor - Okay you have high blood pressure. From now on you need to take this medicine regularly. German Guy - 0:55

@leonwahl_official 3 года назад

underrated comment !

@corinnabuck-lachenmann54 3 года назад

@@leonwahl_official haha. Your comment is underrated as well.

@CharleyCheno 3 года назад

@@corinnabuck-lachenmann54 yours too!

@artdrago5907 3 года назад

I cant stop laughing

@mranere2 3 года назад

This is why I watch you tube for comments like this

@rockattack 7 лет назад

love that Dutch guy, in Germany, flawless repeating "red lorry, yellow lorry" with his face in "is this supposed to be difficult?"

@afmabrondbzop9173 6 лет назад

he wasnt dutch he just said that he knew a dutch word she probably cant pronounce listen carefully

@mboonstra7281 6 лет назад

AF mabro NDBZOP as a dutch person myself in a reltionship with a german and knowing a lot of germans, his pronunciation of dutch and english words make me believe he is dutch. Or he is able to speak dutch without a german accent, which is rather tricky (same goes for dutch people speaking german)

@Vleertouwer 6 лет назад

He was definitely Dutch. You can tell by how he perfectly pronounced "Scheveningen". Back in WW2, it was the trick for Dutch people to find out whether someone was a German spy or not, because Germans have a hard time with that word too.

@Vleertouwer 6 лет назад

No, the Dutch "r" is very similar to the "r" sounds in German. I just think the average Dutchman has plenty of experience with speaking English. (Especially when someone is abroad like the guy in this video, it makes sense that their English is better than that of the locals)

@Vleertouwer 6 лет назад

According to the map on the wiki page of the guttural "r" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttural_R) Apparently it's not used in Dutch that often, but I think pretty any Dutch person can pronounce it anyway. But I should also mention that the "r" we do use is not the same as the one in American English.

@CousinDickheadSCHLLTTT 7 лет назад

haha the dutch dude with his "scheveningen" 😂😂😂

@chorn_no_corn 7 лет назад

Rikki Sjoeberg its hottentottentententheatertentoonstellingstereinen but nice try hahha

@plerpplerp5599 7 лет назад

doggislove ... bedankt ...en nu...alleen voor jou... sju hundra sjösjuka sjömän skötes av sjuttiosju sjuksköterskor

@SkateboardBassguitar 7 лет назад

orla mahony It's a city in Holland. The beach of The Hague.

@hol422 7 лет назад

I'm an English girl but I have a Dutch friend and when he met me he told me to try to pronounce it and I was like bruh. But now I can kinda pronounce it since I've been trying to learn Dutch

@chorn_no_corn 7 лет назад

Skinny Dipper scheveningen doesn't mean anything. it's just a city in the netherlands

@lu-chan1745 6 лет назад

Germans seem to be a very friendly people!

@axelschwei8471 6 лет назад

Ginjou yeah its the Prenzlberg the people here 'are so Belin'

@marcelkostwinder5201 6 лет назад

Fr6Eak6zSho6w seen Is that suppose to be funny?

@Nate45448 6 лет назад

Why? are they bad people?

@marcelkostwinder5201 6 лет назад

Fr6Eak6zSho6w seen You're joking about something that involved millions of deaths. Are you that desparate for attention?

@williamjordan8603 6 лет назад

Fr6Eak6zSho6w seen Bless your little heart.

@Nepomniachtchi_Austin 3 года назад

Always impressed by European second language capabilities

@GERntleMAN 2 года назад

Well, if you think about it a little bit, it becomes obvious why we should have an advantage in Europe. Sadly however, although the US for example is mainly comprised of europeans, they very effectively deleted any feeling or comprehension for foreign languages from their gene pool.

@carljohnson9357 2 года назад

@@GERntleMAN Yes, it used to be that there were whole towns spoken with German (particularly in Penssylvania) then WW1 happened and sauerkraut became liberty cabbage.

@SpaceKadet1454 8 месяцев назад

@@GERntleMAN Countries to them are smaller than different states to us.

@9nk3 5 месяцев назад

You sound American. Multilingualism is the norm in the Global South.

@Dushmann_ 3 месяца назад

@@9nk3 Yeah, but English skill is always piss poor in the "Global South" (I HATE that term). In Europe, ESL speakers are often indistinguishable from native English speakers.

@tierra5760 7 лет назад

Just about every German word is hard for me to pronounce

@moinleudde5371 6 лет назад

pushup daisies Cannot be

@moinleudde5371 6 лет назад

pushup daisies It is so eaay

@kruemel6025 6 лет назад

pushup daisies " hallo "

@bremCZ 6 лет назад

KruemelCrafter If you did this same thing in England or the USA most would just pronounce it as they would say Hello.

@12aRosej14 5 лет назад

Ironically, the English language comes from and is made up of about 80% the Germanic language. The way we form our sentences, the way we pronounce the words, and the cadence of our conversation is actually Germanic in nature. We borrow a lot of words from the Latin roots with sprinkling of the Romance languages such as French and Italian, but the majority is Germanic. :)

@Living_Legacy 7 лет назад

Should've had them say: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if the woodchuck could chuck wood

@ld0022 7 лет назад

Anonymous That's not hard at all

@MrVolcompaul 7 лет назад

Its actually: "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"

@MrVolcompaul 7 лет назад

Its actually: "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"

@outlaw6313 7 лет назад

That is so fucking easy.

@Living_Legacy 7 лет назад

They were having trouble with some of the simple words so I really doubt they would find tongue twisters easy especially if you have to say it quick. I don't think you guys understand how difficult even a simple tongue twister can be for foreigners if they are not comfortable with the language.

@primeautism2355 6 лет назад

Try to pronounce "Rindfleischettiketierungsüberwachungsaufgabenüberwachungsgesetz" (Edit: Fixed the Word its actually longer.)

@spaceyo2077 6 лет назад

Hairy Potter got it

@gecelerdendevrim7090 5 лет назад

Wtf is that

@primeautism2355 5 лет назад

@@gecelerdendevrim7090 a german Word.

@patgeh794 5 лет назад

Da fehlt ein "übertragungs" in der Mitte.

@optimusprime1185 5 лет назад

das gibt es wirklich?

@2Chaoslord 6 лет назад

German is hard to pronounce for everyone else, that’s what makes that language so beautiful

@finosuilleabhain7781 2 года назад

It really isn't.

@georgejob2156 2 года назад

Except Scots who have the glottal stop as in Loch. Ha,ha English 🤪

@thinkingandwondering4725 2 года назад

Do you realy think So? I found These very intresting.

@leoallan2225 2 года назад

I'm not gonna learn dutch first cause it's easier, I'm going all in. lol.

@novrinkov0053 6 месяцев назад

It depends on what your native language is. The Japanese spoken by English speakers is terrible. No matter how many years English speakers live here, they can't get rid of their strong accents. But they make fun of other countries' English pronunciations.

@esmayrainbow6145 7 лет назад

Random Dutch dude uses The Scheveningen Attack! It was very effective.

@Tina06019 6 лет назад

esmayrainbow Scheveningen. -- that’s easy, lol. Can’t speak Dutch anymore, but I went to the local school in Rijswick when I was seven yrs old.

@liamevans1630 6 лет назад

Rijswijk :-) I lived in Den Haag for a few years also. Funny enough, I lived in Scheveningen for a year or so during that time. Allegedly the Dutch Resistance during WW2 using Scheveningen as a type of password, on the basis that German speakers could never pronounce it correctly, so filtering out spies in their ranks.

@grantorino2325 6 лет назад

+Liam Evans My (American) girlfriend: You people have a beautiful language! Dutchman: Yeah, right. 🇳🇱

@liamevans1630 6 лет назад

Zeker

@pinarozge6895 6 лет назад

What does it mean?

@AkasakaS2000 9 лет назад

Isn't Scheveningen Dutch?

@purekillah 8 лет назад

AkasakaS2000 Scheveningen IS a place in the Netherlands. Its a beach area in "Den Haag" (the Hague). Very popular whenever the weather is good (read 2 days a year).

@nordins157 7 лет назад

AkasakaS2000 yes

@huajiluhai 7 лет назад

2 days a year is a very accurate description

@guitarbinary 3 года назад

That lady in the background at 0:19 went from 100 to 0 really fast as far as smiles are concerned lol.

@muffinjunior1280 3 года назад

omg I saw it too xD

@sulle3256 3 года назад

Haha That face 😂

@cherriepie 3 года назад

That's German sense of humour for ya

@Boxttell11 3 года назад

Lmao

@severianadeltoro2534 6 лет назад

I'm not even Close to German and I'm just sitting here watching people speak English better then me.

@calebware5809 3 года назад

Are you native English speaker?

@fezzik7619 3 года назад

@@calebware5809 my guess by her name is she’s Hispanic. She actually made a common mistake most native English speakers make. The sentence shouldn’t end “better then me”. It should end “better than* I*”. If you end with “me” it’s as though you’re saying better than “me do” rather than “I do”. 85-90% of Americans won’t catch this mistake.

@audreyd.5357 3 года назад

@@fezzik7619 maybe I'm part of the problem (am an American) but "better than I" sounds a bit off to me. don't know enough about the english grammar to say for sure though. Usually if something is done by 85%-90% of a population it is just considered part of the language. What do you think?

@GandalfTheGay98 3 года назад

*than I can tell.

@user-bj8qo4mv2g 2 года назад

@@fezzik7619 wow, well i'm russian but it seems like i only met it the wrong way and like never the right (which i would have thought is mistake) way at all.

@cpiek7611 7 лет назад

The last one was Dutch not german

@gtarules1 7 лет назад

He did say "Dutch" LOL

@ubermenschi1459 7 лет назад

Deutschland fool. Since the first part of Germany is Deutsche, or "Dutch" for all they know.

@thepaintedone2073 7 лет назад

+Ubermenschi dutch is someone from the netherlands

@trobolina2 7 лет назад

InCOnSistEnT caPitaLIZaTIoN.

@Ultrajuiced 7 лет назад

Don't act stupid. :D

@stantoge 7 лет назад

im american and cant even pronounce regularly

@ponaspinigas1247 6 лет назад

twentyonejoshduns and tylers lol, I just say regulaly :D cut R out

@mariomatovina4 6 лет назад

I am croatian, I just pronounce it as r e g u l a r i l y

@PhaseSkater 6 лет назад

Say rural

@sanaa7 6 лет назад

twentyonejoshduns and tylers Reg-you-lair-lee

@bremCZ 6 лет назад

Jamanik Jones Just pronounce it like all lazy English speakers. /'reg ju lí/

@RodericSpode 3 года назад

The one guy nailed "Damn". That was pretty good.

@missdee9404 7 лет назад

As an English and French speaker trying to learn German for the last few years, this sort of made me feel better about my questionable pronunciation of German words :P

@acro420 2 года назад

Hope you'll get better ;)

@deadlineuniverse3189 2 года назад

As long as you don’t fluff up “computer”, you should keep your spirits high and your hopes up

@leoallan2225 2 года назад

I avoid big words like the plague when attempting to type in German. Some letters I'm like what the hell is that! Hopefully the sentence structure is simular.

@anthonyfig8687 7 лет назад

Where is that squirrel word? i was waiting to hear, i just wasted 2:09 mins of my life.

@ld0022 7 лет назад

Anthony Fig squirrel isn't hard to pronounce

@linahansen9683 7 лет назад

Anthony Fig Eichhörnchen?

@sergioweigel4624 7 лет назад

There should be a contest between Germans saying squirrel and English speakers saying Eichhörnchen. Ha!

@cassidym9447 7 лет назад

Anthony Fig squirrel is einhorschen or something like that

@anthonyfig8687 7 лет назад

Tay i tried to say squirrel in German and it gave me a headache because it's hard to say it

@giannakk 7 лет назад

Thesaurus what an amazing ENGLISH word *irony intensifies*

@JustSitAndLaugh 7 лет назад

Κωνσταντινος Γιαννακακος We have the same word in German actually.

@giannakk 7 лет назад

Hello wiki my old friend: The word "thesaurus" is derived from 16th-century New Latin, in turn from Latin thēsaurus, which is the *Latinisation of the Greek θησαυρός* (thēsauros), "treasure, treasury, storehouse".[2] The word thēsauros is of uncertain etymology. Douglas Harper derives it from the root of the Greek verb τιθέναι tithenai, "to put, to place."[2] Robert Beekes rejected an Indo-European derivation and suggested a Pre-Greek suffix *-arwo-.[3]

@alanvt1 6 лет назад

'must say! my life has been much enriched by that little snippet of info!

@colt-one 6 лет назад

The Thesaurus went extinct when the big asteroid hit Earth.

@helili 6 лет назад

0:56 my face when my teacher makes a pun

@John.bww03 3 года назад

0:55 "Reguloli" LMFAO!!!🤣😂🤣😂

@chansorangejuice3614 3 года назад

Ah reoli? (jisung flashback)

@Sammy-yf2sb 3 года назад

@Chan's Orange juice LMFAO I FOUND A STAY

@adulithien 3 года назад

He's my favorite

@kcmaryt 3 года назад

REGULAHRY?!

@roy_hks 7 лет назад

The "Scheveningen" guy wasn't even German

@Sophie-om9wx 6 лет назад

Roy Hoeksema he said that he has a hard word for her in dutch so...

@varvenfel2448 5 лет назад

He is Dutch or Flemish

@faantasticas 5 лет назад

The duch guy is just like every random bavarian abroad. "Can you say Oachkatzlschwoaf" (Tail of a squirrel)

@jo0ls 3 года назад

Oak cat, lol.

@OlafurSigporsson 2 года назад

I’m British and Germans are some of the most nicest people I’ve met 😊 🇩🇪

@misterb604 3 года назад

I taught high school English in an American public school and saw a lot of exchange students over the years. The best and friendliest were always German.

@SpaceKadet1454 8 месяцев назад

Very common trait of Germans throughout history too. always open to new people!

@kelseyjaffer 8 месяцев назад

one of my brother's best friends is a German guy he met when he was an exchange student at my brother's school! they still keep in touch :)

@novrinkov0053 6 месяцев назад

It's stupid to say these types of things. What percentage of the German population do you meet? The number of people an individual can meet is very small. Those people do not represent the entire nation. If you were unlucky enough to meet a bad German, you would have gotten the opposite impression. If I meet a few racist Americans, can I say that about the entire nation? Good people and bad people are the same all over the world. Things like this can be understood if you think about it a little. I know you don't mean it in a bad way. but

@misterb604 6 месяцев назад

@@novrinkov0053 Jeezuz!! I was just trying to say something nice about my teaching experience and you feel you need to talk shit. What a pathetic bum.

@q8ee59 7 лет назад

doesn't help that the woman speaking English has the shittest English accent ever. I'm from England and hearing her say brewery was hard enough to understand myself.

@mimi.s4607 7 лет назад

i barely got that too lol

@dinogaming4419 7 лет назад

Q8ee I didn't think it was that bad and I'm from America if anything it should be hard for us because that accent is closer to the British accent.

@BlindTruths 7 лет назад

What's ironic is that a huge chunk of English is germanic in origin. Her accent was pretty shit though. It sounded like she had a mouth full of marbles. I'm like "None of those are hard to say, sorry." Brevery? Was that brewery? Cause she fucked that.

@richieinca 6 лет назад

She couldn’t even pronounce “you” correctly, let alone brewery. 😒

@Cardinalbins 6 лет назад

Q8ee Im german and im pretty impressed how much that even matters for you... I mean we have british and american and other immigrants in our country too, and they all pronouncing german language more or less badly or with imperfect grammatical understanding, and yet the most of us really has not a care in the world. Imagine you would say that to a german tourist you just met. How bad his pronounciation skills are. Imagine how awkward the whole situation would turn out, if you'd realise in the same moment, that you were just trying to tell a foreigner that his inability of correct pronounciation is pretty bad. And i know there are many german tourist in England! I hope for you that you wont encounter any of them, it seems you dont like accent😅 And sorry for my bad english, its not my native language...

@claudia-hu1rs 7 лет назад

They all moved in to their next words and that one gut is still on "brewery" 😂😂

@Supernatural-jf9ib 5 лет назад

1:09 is me pretending I know what I’m doing in language class

@loganmiller7827 6 лет назад

I have to say that as an English speaker learning to speak German, and word with an ö is extremely hard. Epsecially eichörnchen. But I asked the German exchange student at my school to help me pronounce it, and she said that squirrel was one of the hardest words for her to pronoucne, so I guess it goes back and forth.

@5Head01 7 лет назад

Im german...and that was easy as fuck

@Marina-sb3lm 3 года назад

eben

@adude8424 3 года назад

ich bin ein hamburger

@retsreinyrelgeinthrelaveri1456 3 года назад

Würst

@hughneek12 3 года назад

Etzy az fluque....

@johnthere297 3 года назад

what else, after all most Germans are not raving idiots

@functiontek 7 лет назад

i suck more at pronouncing my own language, English, than they do.

@lucasm4299 6 лет назад

FunctionTek Sad

@alexandras.6638 6 лет назад

The "regularly" guy hahaha 😂 0:56

@insanelyawesam1420 3 года назад

Lol yeah! 😂 I was waiting for this comment tbh

@dfg1999 3 года назад

that was a meme level reaction

@jacksimmers1016 3 года назад

REG-YOO-LAR-LEE!?

@Bawbag0110 День назад

It's alright...there's about 6000 german words I can't pronounce

@danielroberts3282 9 лет назад

I really didn't understand her accent when she first started speaking. 😂 I love this concept, I could watch something like this all day! Not to mention I'd love to take the challenge! In American English we say "red leather, yellow leather." Somehow "lorry" never got into AE!

@Solidaritas1 9 лет назад

Daniel Roberts We do red linoleum, yellow linoleum where I'm from in the US.

@rachelx04 7 лет назад

Daniel Roberts from your first part, I thought she was German, then I realised she is Scottish, like me...

@mjayb19 7 лет назад

why hello, random person scrolling!! Have a groovy day!

@LupinosLionheart 6 лет назад

Thanks. ;P

@marcomarkproductions 6 лет назад

im not random

@ErikOosterwal 6 лет назад

Didn't you wish me a nice day on some other video about a week ago? 😊

@double00shotgun 6 лет назад

Hello Mac

@morningcoffeecat2271 6 лет назад

But it's NIGHTTIME 😭😭😭

@shadow_in_zero3510 3 года назад

Me, a german: seeing the title My brain: don't underestimate my power

@anuradhaseran5234 2 года назад

Oh beautiful video I have started learning basic German words from my eldest sis, settled in Langen🥰 I am loving it👌

@xNeverm1ndx 9 лет назад

What gets me are the endings in words like 'clothes', 'depths' etc. That 'th' + 's' combination is really tough to pronounce clearly. I heard, however, that some natives pronounce 'clothes' as 'cloze' kinda. Not sure if that happens with other words of the kind though

@k.t.1641 9 лет назад

I can't speak for the rest of us in the U.S. But here in Texas mostly everyone I hear says it like "cloze". Otherwise it sounds like you have a lisp. "Clothes" lol

@yarat3952 9 лет назад

xNeverm1ndx The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick

@yarat3952 9 лет назад

***** In England we pronounce them as they are spelled. But I have heard people pronounce sixth "sikth" which I think sounds funny.

@Drobium77 8 лет назад

+Yara T I'm English and find that amongst native speakers "sixth" is the most difficult word for us to get our tongues around. I can pronounce it fine, but you hear all kinds of weird pronunciations like "sick" "sixeth" "six" "sikth". It's because of where the "TH" falls after an "S" sound. But if you can say "six" and "th" separately, you should be able to put the two together eventually as "sixth". Also, many people here are loosing the ability to pronounce "TH" sounds, they're more "V" or "F" now, like Think becoming 'fink' and the becoming 've'.

@hebneh 7 лет назад

I believe the "th" sound is rare in most languages and is very difficult to say if you don't learn it as a child. Adding the "s" at the end just compounds the trouble.

@downingsdancer 8 лет назад

Do more of these! they're so fun! Maybe a french with english words one?

@josiemrtn 5 лет назад

When he said regulolly I died 😂

@timeisapathwalkingtounderstand 4 года назад

Here in New York City learning how to speak German watching a funny video thank you for posting it and German is a hard difficult language I've been trying for 5 months

@evilpagan2342 7 лет назад

Her own accent is hilarious.

@user-of5wu4gi3s 5 лет назад

Evil Pagan not funnier than yours

@mauriceperham5150 4 года назад

@@user-of5wu4gi3s You've never heard em speak Also that was basically the kindergarten argument "No you"

@jude8067 4 года назад

Honestly it reminds me a bit of UK accents not English but more the Scotland and Welsh styles

@DieFlabbergast 4 года назад

When she said at the start that she was a native speaker of English, I thought "Oh, come on! You're Scandinavian or something, surely?" Then I realised she must be from the Emerald Isle.

@jbhann 3 года назад

Thought her accent was enjoyable.

@rhymeduckytime796 7 лет назад

As someone who has troubles pronouncing w's, r's and L's , "red lorry, yellow lorry" will be the nightmare fuel for my next 20 nights

@stevensonDonnie 3 года назад

Thank you for trying! German is difficult, especially when words are joined together.

@nop434 6 лет назад

The hardest English word for me as a German is the word kilometer (American pronunciation). There are a lot of hard words like reciprocal or gastroenterologist, but kilometer (AE) is especially hard ;) Also something as simple as "three" is hard because of th followed by r.

@dielisa383 7 лет назад

Two words that are impossible for me to pronounce as a german are "squirrel" and "Jewelry". 😂

@adulithien 3 года назад

Seems to be tough for French speakers too!

@idkwhattodowmalifeig2579 2 года назад

I had a problem with both of these word too but it's easy if u don't look at the words and try to pronounce them like 'Jewlery' and 'squrl'

@user-ft7zg5ec5t 4 года назад

It's amazing that a loooot of people can speak english in Germany. ❤️❤️

@sassuskrassus3166 3 года назад

english people: oh we have soo hard words, no one can pronounce these Germans: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

@RR-kh6om 7 лет назад

now try going to the American streets and finding enough people that knows German for this video...see, you can't

@stza16 6 лет назад

Or get people from rural Louisiana and ask them to pronounce English words.

@hubertbieniek5888 6 лет назад

English is an international language, German is not

@GUITARTIME2024 6 лет назад

Raquel Robin yeah, theres a reason for that. English is international, dipstick.

@lucasm4299 6 лет назад

Hubert Bieniek True. Not all languages are equal.

@shikellamy5305 6 лет назад

Also that fact that we dont have a dozen or so languages in one small space, if everyone on europe spoke fluent German you wouldn't really bother with English would you?

@TacticIlias 3 года назад

Video: contains German Germans: Diese kommentarsektion ist jetzt teil des deutschen Kaiserreichs

@mercatorjubio3804 3 года назад

... und der Witz langsam alt.

@user-cp9ql3nl7i 7 лет назад

Im German and i can pronounce every word! You need to ask younger people!

@jucoyu7460 6 лет назад

Maximilian Rühl Or older ones.

4 года назад

@@jucoyu7460 For example this older one right here.

@supremelordoftheuniverse5449 3 года назад

Wow impressive

@spearedtodeath2017 День назад

Can I just say, that for non-native English speakers to repeat words given by a woman with a thick Scottish accent and get most of them right is amazing. A lot of English people find Scottish accents hard at the best of times but they did well. The ultimate test would be do they know how to pronounce all the different sound variations of one vowel combination: Though, Brough, Through, Tough, Borough, etc?

@cryptomonkey6142 3 года назад

My German boyfriend refuses to say 'ridiculous' he really struggles with this word, it's so cute. 😂

@denisesf5 3 года назад

That made me laugh@ Ever since my German husband learned to say the word ridiculous, he uses it ALL the time... and I mean all the time! He uses it to describe things mildly annoying to incredibly annoying and everything in between! It's become a running joke for the past 25 years... because the kids know papa is going to answer anything annoying or controversial with "It's ridiculous!"😄😅😅😂😂🤣

@gery8218 3 года назад

@@denisesf5 Did he make you say Oachkatzlschwoaf yet

@xerxessss5295 7 лет назад

He opens the Mouth but Words won't come out everybody is jokin' now 😂

@heinzk023 7 лет назад

The word I struggle most with is "strategy", and unfortunately this a word you need from time to time at work. And the best strategy presentation becomes ridiculous if the presenter even can't pronounce that word :-) And "through" ist also bad... So start your show with "Through our strategy" and you can forget the rest.

@ctaylor1393 7 лет назад

strat - uh - gee You can do it! 😁

@decembersixx6237 7 лет назад

Try statistic. I can hardly say it!

@ctaylor1393 7 лет назад

stuh - tiss - tick

@everytimesthefirsttime 7 лет назад

Heinz Kessler Pronounce "through" as throo

@heinzk023 7 лет назад

+ClassyJessie that won't help. My problem is navigating my tongue from the "th" to the "r". I have no problem saying "Froo" or "though", but the combination of "th" followed by an "r" puts a knot into my tongue.

@bayroncastillo7653 5 лет назад

this channel is amazing because many german people look like UPSET , BUT they are friendly people

@swtv1754 3 года назад

I was always told that for native English speakers that German would be a very easy language to learn. My mom was a native speaker of Spanish, (the Mexican variety) but unfortunately she never taught me to speak it. The r after t in Spanish was something I just can't do.

@TXejas19 5 лет назад

"Regulary" trips me up too and in a native speaker. I might be over thinking that word

4 года назад

Get some English speakers say "February". Or "Library" (I recently read that "libary" is now an accepted pronunciation :D)

@GermanPerfectionist 7 лет назад

Most of my classmates fail at every single word that contains a th... 😂

@colt-one 6 лет назад

The thallowthoxinated thillowtheasel is a vicious rodent that's known to attack those with bad pronunciation. Be aware of it as you walk through paths thick with thistles or you will be thrashed by this thing no matter your strength. Thick clothing covering the thighs is no match for those teeth, each one sharper than a thousand thorns. Even youthful healthy athletes should thank me for this truthful rule of thumb. Although as we know, squirrels are even more deadly.

@optimusprime1185 5 лет назад

fis is/sis is/zis is

4 года назад

@@colt-one Zis vas ferry good!

@calebware5809 3 года назад

Lol I’m laying here correcting them like they can somehow hear me

@carsonchan5102 4 года назад

they are all very good! its amazing they are bilingual or trilingual

@kassiaswanson1817 7 лет назад

When the guy tried saying regularly I was crying 😂😂😂

@josh2045 3 года назад

That man that refuses to accept the English 'w' 😄

@crazymoshow7026 2 года назад

Woohoo @Alice Swainson im your 10th sub , love your video, keep up the great work. One question, are you scotish ? As I am and thought I heard a twang lol 😆

@tracyt666 3 года назад

This makes me feel better about my stumbles. 😆 And also, I'll prob trip over 'brewery' now too!

@L0u3llaPUNK 6 лет назад

"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is probably one of my favorites. And, yes, I do have a dictionary that has this word in it.

@Jack_TheFlipper 4 года назад

Du meinst Superkalifragilistischexpialigetisch?

@giogio7810 3 года назад

@@Jack_TheFlipper :D

@alekseidmitrievpro 7 лет назад

those are definitely not Germans , but rather Dutch

@dlwatib 6 лет назад

Why would she only encounter Dutch people in Berlin? Or do you think she was lying about being on the streets of Berlin?

@robinroos2254 6 лет назад

dlwatib One guy said he knew a difficult word in Dutch for her to pronounce and she didn't subtitle that so.

@Alinor24 6 лет назад

The brown car in the background has a license tag from Berlin...

@marcelkostwinder5201 6 лет назад

Alot of us dutch visit Germany so its actually pretty common to find dutch people in Germany. And alot of German people visit the Netherlands aswell. Also, you can find dutch people almost everywere because alot of dutch people like to travel and explore different countries.

@user-dl1xz3mj3i 6 лет назад

they were Dutch

@devendra1956 3 года назад

Ms. really interesting. Because of I can speak Hindi, Punjabi, Assamese & English. Now French is my new language.

@geoffmiller3468 4 года назад

"Now I'm dead" funny af my gigantic German friend.

@DankBlank 7 лет назад

100+ german words English people can't pronounce

@keepXonXrockin 7 лет назад

squirrel and rural get me everytime.

@demonchildmina 7 лет назад

keeponrockin most English speakers can't say rural tbh

@brooklynandbailey275 6 лет назад

They did a great job!!!

@MasterCommanderJT 5 лет назад

Two of them had Dutch accents, Schevening is patently Dutch, and English proficiency of the rest indicates they were Dutch. Not to mention the bike density was way more in line with NL than GER.

@vos1329 7 лет назад

The one that had the most trouble pronouncing brewery is honestly so attractive

@deinemamiisteinpfefferanbauer 6 лет назад

Lol hey Cas😏

@javierescuella3086 6 лет назад

I found a liquor store and I drank it Oh hey Cas

@LeynaSept 6 лет назад

Nah the one that pronounced it right was more attractive.

@inkyscrolls5193 7 лет назад

You should hear a Chinese person trying to say 'wool'. Priceless.

@AliYKesen 5 лет назад

woor

@DieFlabbergast 4 года назад

You should hear someone from Aberdeen trying to say "wool." "Is this an aa oo (all wool) sweater?"

@insanelyawesam1420 3 года назад

Vooooool 🤣

@DieFlabbergast 3 года назад

In parts of Scotland, it's pronounced "oo."

@dafuqtv3554 2 года назад

They can probably say "red truck, yellow truck" easier. But either way, Germans can pronounce English words pretty well! Most Germans know English.

@bottlewaddle6677 3 года назад

they did amazingly well

@OffeJ83 4 года назад

“You go girl” Haha

@JonCarterHurst 7 лет назад

I understood these people perfectly. They have learned a difficult language and are better skilled than us lazy English! French and Spanish should be taught from childhood

@Pwecko 6 лет назад

Jon Hurst I don't think it's a question of the English being lazy. They're just not taught foreign languages from an early age. English is taught in Germany, Holland and other European countries from a very young age.

@alexnoon8042 6 лет назад

No, it's only because the Brits don't care about learning a new language as everyone speaks english. You see, you 're writing in English, not in German etc...

@Pwecko 6 лет назад

Alex Noon Du bist richtig, aber du hast auf Englisch geschrieben. Warum soll ich auf Deutsch, Französisch oder einandere Sprache schreiben?

@alexnoon8042 6 лет назад

Weil ich nicht weiss, ob der dem ich schreibe deutsch versteht. Und auch, weil es einfacher war weiter auf englisch zu schreiben. Ich habe aber deutsch gelernt und ich denke es ist immer wichtig so viele Sprache wie möglich zu können (auch wenn es nicht perfekt, wie ich).

@Pwecko 6 лет назад

Alex Noon. I think we have demonstrated that not all English people are too lazy to learn another language. It is the system that is at fault, not the people.

@leilanipalmqvist232 6 лет назад

”Rollerblading” lmaooo😂😂

@DG_212 3 года назад

I realize this comment is 5 years late, but I just came upon it. Thank you, Alice, for attempting to make us native English speakers feel better: the truth is that every German I know (I work for an international company) speaks impeccable, beautiful, perfect English and has pretty much perfect grammar. Beyond the "w" and "v" swap, it's very humbling, frankly. Not only is the best word in the world - backpfeifengesicht (look it up, it's - yes - the best word in the world) - German, but Germany's citizens also put everyone else to shame.

@susie2251 5 лет назад

So basically anything with a bunch of “r” sounds. Lol, you missed a perfect opportunity to get in a 30 Rock reference by asking them to say “Rural Juror”.

@andrewlogan1470 9 лет назад

what the hell is a lorry

@garduslongus362 9 лет назад

Andrew Logan The British word for 18-wheeler.

@blotski 9 лет назад

Andrew Logan A truck.

@andrewlogan1470 9 лет назад

ah okay thanks

@alanvt1 6 лет назад

truck as in commercial eg van.

@hoagiesupreme 3 года назад

As an American, I’ve noticed that we mostly think of our history and culture as an extension of that of Great Britain. And for good reason. However, when I watch these videos, I feel like the majority of American caucasians have more German blood than British. If they didn’t have an accent to betray them, these people look exactly like what you would find in, say, a Californian university, or a grocery store in Georgia. Their facial features and expressions look incredibly American to me (as someone who has never been to Germany). I can’t really say the same for the British, who generally look distinctly (what I would think of as) English. Which is interesting because I feel like we assume we are closer to their heritage than to those elsewhere in Europe, like Germany. Just one guy’s observation.

@RealityContradiction 5 лет назад

They sound GREAT! 🙌

@aslisd7053 7 лет назад

they look like nice people

@amishmime 3 года назад

Try “red leather yellow leather”.

@kanejarrett1671 6 лет назад

You have a bloody lovely accent!

@lizonyuh2290 3 года назад

They did amazing

@haeleth7218 4 года назад

When I lived in Germany I noticed how the Germans struggled with "Squirrel" and "Village".

@konnokyo 3 года назад

never heard people have problems with these words here. americans actually have problems pronouncing those.

@DerEchteBold 3 года назад

@@konnokyo I'ts pretty common, there are videos with German people pronouncing 'squirrel' and none of them can make it sound right. As for 'village', most Germans still seem to struggle with the different pronunciation of 'v' and 'w', either they do the 'v' like 'w' or they pronounce all of it like a 'v', just as in German, some even get it completely mixed up and pronounce one as the other all the time, so I've heard.

@davlor86 8 лет назад

"dirty" with american accent is very difficult for me

@johanvandermeulen9696 3 года назад

Scheveningen in french is : Schéveningue. There is even a variant in chess opening called: Scheveninger variant, La variante de Schéveningue. Places ending on - inge are very common in the Netherlands: Wemeldinge, Poperinge, Herkelingen (french: Herquelingues). Ing is a family connnection. Vikingen, Incas.