American Gets First Job in Germany and Learns SO MUCH about German Work Culture!  

"Kranplätze müssen verdichtet sein!" is a really important sentence xD

The most important word for your job: "Feierabend"

"Das geht so nicht." "Das haben wir noch nie so gemacht." "Sie können hier nicht parken."

The "benefits" which are actually law dont go away when you lose your job. Big difference!

"That's not a benefit. That's a law." And thats how it f'ing should be everywhere.

Keep in mind "bis dann" isn't really formal. If you are speaking to someone on the phone on a more formal level you can use "schönen Tag noch" or "Wiederhören" if you want to be really formal. Sometimes German companies can be more formal than Americans, so keep that in mind, especially with clients.

This stupid euphemism of not saying "problems", instead talking of "challanges" is just business-bullshit-talk. Talking about problems is totally ok and normal"

Our "Benefits" here in Germany are called "socialism" or "communism" in the USA.

My keyboard on the PC has the option to switch from "QWERTY" to "QWERTZ", by pressing the windows-key and space. It needs both German and English language packs installed.

Just a few hours ago I thought: "It's been a while...since the last video" Glückwunsch zum Job!

Regarding the meeting culture, at least for me as a German that has changed a lot with the pandemic and having nearly all your colleagues working from home. We’ve established a daily meeting in the morning, to come together and start the day with a little conversation instead of being completely distanced from your colleagues. That was also recommended by „experts“ to be a good way of keeping the team spirit alive. Many companies haven’t allowed their employees to work from home before the pandemic. That has drastically changed now, and I guess that’s a good thing. Ich versuche auch gerade mein Englisch zu verbessern. Insbesondere die Business Vokabeln. Da hilft mir Dein Video auch sehr. Ich kann es einfach umdrehen. Das ist sehr interessant. Mach weiter so. Vielen Dank für Dein Video.

Well done. I would love to get a job working fully in German.

Du hast es wirklich optimal erwischt. Dein Arbeitgeber hat als Unternehmenssprache "Deutsch", d.h. Deine Deutsch-Kenntnisse werden immer besser und Dein Unternehmen will "Dich", weil die Clientsprache Englisch ist. Und das Sozialsystem ist auch deutsch (das brauchst Du erst später). Keyboard: I had the same Problem (Äh, Herausforderung) when I worked in Switzerland. They have a German-Swiss Keyboard, and a French-Swiss-Keyboard. And I was used to the German Keyboard. That is even more confusing because the Swiss are speaking German as well. Benefits: I only learned that word a few years ago and was surprised what US-Companies consider benefits. With my prior (German or Swiss) employers benefits were Coffee or (non-alcoholic) drinks for free, apples, banana etc, sometimes a free weekend for everybody in the alps (paid by the company), big celebrations (including family) or trips to Straßburg or the Europapark. Deutsche Flüche: You have hardly any accent with the German swearwords, you must be practicing a lot :-)

Switching between different keyboard layouts becomes natural after a few years. Ground rule for being on time: up to 5 minutes early is polite, on time is effective, 2-3 minutes late is unorganized, anything later is an insult.

The root of Holidays = "Holy Days". In Europe Holy Days were Saint's Days so the Church treated them very much like a Sunday and nobody worked on those days.

Du machst gute Videos vielen Dank dafür😊

I missed one word in your video, and that was "prägnant" (impressive) vs. "pregnant" (schwanger). That's a real false friend. Once I worked for a German company where the company language was English. Having a team of six or seven different nationalities, you must find a language everyone understands.

Yay! Glad you're back :) I'm moving to Hamburg this fall and your videos are super helpful. x Happy to see things are going well for you in Hamburg!

Also, if you are working in the gastronomy or as a nurse or something and it happens that you got your workshift on for example Pfingstmontag. You are getting a 100% bonus on your sallary for that day. Its called Feiertagszuschlag.

Another one to remember is: eventual means letztendlich and not eventuell.

I'm a German working in an international (mainly Europe, but incl. US and Asia) company in Germany and I'm so glad about it, I mean that it's not a native German company. We use best practices from both business worlds, that's really cool, office communication runs quite smoothly - on a nice pidgin level :-D But seriously, we've dropped almost all manners and conventions, main thing is the basic information gets through. Late for the meeting? Who cares, we're dealing with Italians. Unreadable signatures? Who cares, as long as ther IS a signature and the source is the right function. We're mainly dealing with functions, regardless of the persons incorporating it (they're anyhow changing all the time). Polite internal emails? Just a sign that the writer is underchallenged. The official company language is broken English. :-D French broken English is the best! Indians (a lot of IT is Indian) on the phone are just hilarious, but meetings with Polish people are unbeatable.

You are the first American in Germany who is not in Bavaria. :-D

Just ask an IT guy in your company to install an additional keyboard layout. On Windows, macOS, and Linux, by simply pressing specific key strokes you can switch between different input methods. For example, I do use US English, German (Deutschland), Russian, and Hebrew ever since, depending on the the task I have to do. I use Russian and Hebrew for communication with some of my relatives, I use German for anything else, but I use US English for programming stuff -- since [ ] { } / \ - = < >, and so on (the things I use often) is way easier to type on an US layout. ,) All it needs to switch between those input languages is to press (left) Alt and (left) Shift. Well, in fact it's not *all* -- one should also be able to type using 10 fingers "blindly". ,)

Regarding keyboard problems, I lived in Belgium where I got a computer with a French layout keyboard. The software was English language and I was writing in German. I had to learn the ASCII code for many letters and signs.

About those being punctual thing: Most germans know, that our livetime is very limited and therefore valuable. So most german's (that I Know, as a german) don't like to just waste time for no good reason. If we agree to meet on 9am for a meeting, then everyone will be there at 9am +- a minute. So, if you are 10 minutes late or so, everyone will have to wait for you. Or you just miss the most part of the meeting and maybe some others have another meeting just 15min after this one (like managing directors) and just have no time to wait for you. Or if you want to go shopping with a friend and you want to meet at 5pm at the mall. I will be there at 5pm as agreed, waiting for you. If you come 1h late, I would have to wait one our standing there. Let other people waiting is just very rude, even more in a business meeting than in private. If you know that you will come late to a meeting, you should at least tell the others that you will be late.

oh Hamburg, nice to see someone ended up in my Hometown, usual they end up in Bavaria etc. I hope you like it here and that you enjoy your time here.

All "Sozialversicherungen" (social insurances) are half paid by both, so also retirement money, unemployment insurance and long term care insurance. Of course public holidays are paid as you will normally get paid on a fixed rate a month, no matter how many work days a month has. But as you are in Hamburg, I think you are happy to early about these, I regret your next might be christmas - as our national holiday is on a sunday this year. But: By law you have at least 25 days of holidays a year, many companies have 30 and growing (e.g. 31st if you are 10 years in , 32 for 20 years etc. as a loyality bonus), but this depends. Some also pay a bonus wage e.g. dependent on the results of the last year.

as a native german speaker I was very scared when I had my first job interview in english. Business english is pretty different from tech-english. Suddenly you need to learn new stuff to follow meetings outside of your tech-departement-bubble. I had to learn that I'll always be one of those swiss with the funny accents

Hey Lila. Dein Deutsch ist eigentlich schon ziemlich gut vor allem die Aussprache wird immer besser, weiter so! Und viel Spaß mit deinem neuen Job. 👍

Glad to see you are doing so well ! Just one point of order: The meaning of "Anteil" rather translates to "proportion" than "amount".

If you get sick, you go to your doctor, get a sick note and then your employer is obliged to give you paid sick-leave. Up to 6 weeks - for the same illness. So if you have a broken leg and cannot walk, that is a few weeks, if later you get pneumonia, you get another time off, those do not count together towards the 6 weeks. But if your broken leg forces you to be out of work for more than 6 weeks (unlikely) than your health insurance pays you money. Not your whole income, but a significant portion of it. In Germany people do not go hungry just because they are forced by illness to stay at home (or in a hospital). Your vacation is obligatory, too. Each employer has to give at least 4 full weeks off. So if you are working in retail, six days a week - you get at least 24 days off, the normal office drone gets 20 days (five day working week). Part-time workers, who work on a reduced number of days (instead of hours per day reduced) get 4 times their work days - so if you come into work (incl. working from home!) for 3 days a week - you get at least 12 days off. That is the absolute minimum. Most employers give between 25 to 30 days for five days a week-workers. And also obligatory: You have a maximum of 12 working hours (there are exceptions, but not normal office workers!) - plus obligatory breaks. After 6 hours, half an hour, after 9 hours work (only work time, no break time counted) it is another quarter of an hour! Obligatory, so even if you worked through it, you could not get paid for this! Your employer can demand a little bit of unpaid extra time, to allow for preparations or for closing business. But there are limits to that. And the American "you work for me, I can call you whenever I want to!" - does not apply here!! In fact, the law says, after work you have to have at least 11 uninterrupted hours from work. That is the law. German working laws are pretty cool.

Calling a problem a challenge I think is a typical thing we imported probably from USA. When I was young, never ever someone would have used such euphemistic language. If you have a problem call it a problem.

Wait for the next years when a lot of the public holidays isn't on weekends. This year's a nightmare for employees! We "lost" 5 holidays this year (May 1, October 3 and 31 (or November 1, depending on the state) and both Christmas holidays.

The keyboard in Germany ist "QWERTZ" in Englisch the keyboard ist "QWERTY" I have dificulty with the English keyboard, because in my family name are two "Z" and I have learned on a "QWERTZ" keyboard.

"In diesem Sinne " and "Tschau (Ciao)" are the most common phrases i use for ending our weekly team meeting. Sometimes "schönes Wochende/Ostern/Pfingsten/Weihnachten" when its on a Friday or before any of those holidays.

6:45. I had to laugh. Working in Berlin, I have found if you make a mistake, or make a wrong suggestion, people will look at you weirdly and go hä?? 😒😒After a while it gets better though. That was my experience in both jobs. Glad it is going well for you.

maybe its my own insecureness but the ";)" emoticon often just feels arrogant to me

Moin Nice to hear u got a job. Good to hear ur happy with it. I thaught about what kind of job it might be while listening and after the last sentence i m quit shure ur at the service hotline from the telecom.... 😂

das Arbeitsrecht = the employment law / the labor law die Aufgabe = the task / the job meine Aufgabe hier ist = my job here is die Arbeit = the work / the job die Teilzeitarbeit = the part time job die Hausaufgabe = the homework einen Tag frei nehmen = to take a day off zu feiern = to celebrate der Erfolg = the success erfolgreich sein / Erfolg haben = to succeed / to be successful die Gehaltserhöhung = the (pay)raise der Streik = the strike zu streiken = to strike im Streik sein = to be on strike arbeitslos = unemployed beschäftigt / angestellt = employed / hired ich wurde entlassen = I was fired ich wurde eingestellt / angestellt = I was hired / employed

😎 So...you basically built yourself a "Bullshit Bingo"!

I can relate to the keyboard changes :) I live in England and work with German speaking customers and English speaking customers, as well as having all internal communication in English, so it's a constant struggle lol

Signature: yes, can be a scribble, derived from your family name. Does not necessarily to be readable, but should be unique. Like a symbol. Important is that you can repeat it instantly and believably, e.g. at the supermarket checkout.

A more formal way to say good by on phone is "Auf Wiederhören" so Ou imply to talk again in the future. Same like " Auf Wiedersehen"

Hi from México. Very helful Information for German executives learners. I hope you can make more videos like this with vocabulary and phrases related about daily life at office an/or factory such as Projects, Finance, Customer Service, Sales, Logistic. Regards

curious, does Germany have more opportunities to thrive in life than the US ? if so, is that why you moved out ?

Klassischer Abschied am Telefon: Auf WiederHÖREN!

Pfingsten ist Pentecost im englischen Sprachraum.

Hey you improve very fast! congratulations! We have a lot of benefits for workers. Thats is one of the main differences from the us. Healthcare and this. Imprtant: you HAVE to take your holidays. When you have 26 days, your company normaly will say at the end of the year you have left 10 days, please take it. Some companies pay you out when you have days left but its normal you are forced to take them. P.S.: You can show that you come from Hamburg when you say "moin" or "moin moin" (more people) instead of hello. :-)) But I bet you already know that.

"Mal" makes it a little more polite in questions, and more harsh in orders :"Jetzt mach mal!"

Wilkommen in Der Schönsten Stadt der Welt :)

Moin Lila, schön, daß du einen Job gefunden hast! Seh! interessant, was du alles über deine Erfahrungen mit dem Bürodeutsch zu erzählen hast! Vliel Spaß und vier Erfolg im Beruf weiterhin! LG Ben

4:51 You too (are here)! = Du auch (bist hier)! >>> subject case You too (a nice holiday)! = Dir auch (schönen Feiertag)! >>> indirect object case Ýou too (I saw) = Dich auch (hab ich gesehen) >>> direct object case

I am confused - what happened to your lamblike channel?

Another bonus about the public holidays is that they don't get moved to the nearest Monday, like they do in England, so you'll often have a public holiday on a Tuesday or a Thursday, meaning that the Monday beforehand or the Friday after the holiday is a "Brückentag", a "bridge day" that a lot of people take off as an extra holiday (although unpaid) to get a 4-day weekend.

I work for a Greek company but we don't schedule too many meetings, but we are always on Teams and are calling each other constantly and collaborating constantly. One of my Bosses gets so busy that sometimes I have to schedule a quick meeting with him just to get a quick word with him.

You should talk to the German girl

„Konzern-Kultur“ is propaply more similar worldwide . I am working in a Workshop and we never have meetings. 😁

Hi Lila, I recently found your videos earlier this month-love your content 😊 keep up the amazing work! I’m in a similar situation to you (American with German partner, around “rusty” B2-level). I’ve visited my partner 3x under the exemption however still reside in the US because I have a full-time job. I’m in the process of trying to get a (job seeker) visa, but the consulates here aren’t currently issuing them. I got my US Bachelors recognized through a German institution in 2020 and I’ve been trying to apply for jobs on LinkedIn, but it’s so hard while living in America still. Any further insight or advice maybe on specific companies or tips for applying would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance, and congrats on the job 🎉

Yeah…you’ll learn the 3 most used words in Germany…stress, Urlaub and krank. Good luck!😆😉

huh, even in the stingy US, if you are a salaried employee, holidays will not cut into your paycheck. They might impact your bonus, if you accumulate less hours, assuming that this is how your bonus is calculated, but your salary should not be impacted by holidays. And at least these scheduled holidays will get pushed to the nearest Monday or Friday if they happen to fall on the weekend, so that you don't lose out, like you do in Germany. Now for hourly employees, this is a very different situation, and typicallythis situation is much worse than it would be for a comparable German worker. You get payed for the hours you worked (hopefully), and if you are off, due to holidays, then that might be a financial hit for you. But most hourly workers are in service jobs that require varied schedules, so it just depends on what hours you have to work, independent of holidays or weekends. Generally, hourly work in the US has lousy to non-existing benefits, and most such workers will be insured via ACA alone. The vacation situation is rather tenuous too, as there are none or very limited legal requirements, certainly nothing that can compare with Germany. For salaried employees, especially in the corporate world, the situation is actually significantly more comfortable than most Germans realize. How good or bad the situation is depends on the specific contract, but in such jobs it is quite common to have health insurance coverage, vacation that starts at 15 days plus 10 personal days and increases to 25 days + 10 personal days. Also there are financial incentives that include things like life insurance, stock options, 401K contributions, and so forth. Bonuses in the US are huge, by German standards, and can at times be like a second salary. Many salaried employees are not taking their whole vacation, partially because the company pressures the employee with deadlines, partially because the workers themselves willingly don't take what is officially allotted. I thought that was because they receive pressure not to take them, like in Japan, but nope, many just don't take them, even when they could. Different culture. Not everyone is doing badly in the US, the issue is not that good working conditions don't exist, the problem is that they don't extend to everyone. They are reserved for the few that have managed to find a career ladder to climb. The higher the better the conditions become. Security in the job market and its conditions is not achieved by laws and regulations, it is achieved by competitive market conditions, and the more marketable your job is, the more you can negotiate. At the bottom of the pile remain those that have no negotiation power, and there the American system is utterly broken and imo socially unsustainable and does need to change - urgently.

"F... u in the knee" ;). If you ever hear that without a wink in the eye you really, really messed up. I don't think somebody I care of ever said that to me... I would be pritty pissed because it really is the most unpolited thing to say... so good that you did not hear that till now ;).

The bonus clip 😂 you are such a lovely person and 'fick dich ins knie' is pretty harsh, so that's pretty funny 😬

Auf wiederhören, wäre die richtige Phrase am Ende eines beruflich motivierten Telefonates

"Tschüss" or "Bis dann" is not really formal and often used when you speak to friends or well known person ( "mach's gut", "man sieht sich", "bis demnächst", "hau rein", "Tschö mit Ö", etc). The formal (and very polite) way to speak to customers and unknown people is: "Auf Wiederhören" (but it's also a little bit old school). Try: "Danke für das nette Gespräch - ich wünsche Ihnen einen schönen Tag" - or the short form: "einen schönen Tag noch!"

Love your channel! Keep up the awesome work 💖

Best way to learn German - get a German boyfriend or girlfriend.

This video is amazing and to the point! I move to Germany in a week to start a new job and this is packed with good tips. Cheers to you. Keep vlogging!

You know, you could simply change the settings on the keyboard, provided that you are the only one using it, naturally. It's not about what is written on it, it is all about how the computer interpretes it. But I guess it might be easier for you to change the setting at home to German, so that you can get used to it. The meetings are just a thing in large companies. Smaller companies don't bother, there the "meeting" happens during the coffee break. But larger companies like to have them to further communications between the different levels. The vocabulary you mentioned is also very "big company". And your friend is right, those benefits aren't benefits, from a German perspective they are rights, hard fought for by our unions and worker movements. And they are btw pretty common in Europe. As a thumb rule, though, bigger companies are forced to offer more to their workers because smaller companies are except from some rules.

Northwest european countries have the Rhineland model for economics, Britain and US have the anglosaxon model in which money is king. In the Rhineland model there is besides profit also attention for environment, work pleasure, solidarity, and a more longterm thinking in terms of policies and profit. This results in employees that are happier, healthier and more in balance with their private life.

If THAT was a rusty B2, then I don't want to see what you think is better German. That was bloody amazing! Benefits like paying for your health insurance and pension are regulated by law in Germany. You pay roughly 7% of your gross income to your Krankenversicherung / health insurance which is automatically deducted from your salary each month by your employer. Your employer pays roughly another 8% of your gross income as well, for roughly 15% of your gross income. Those 8% are NOT deducted from your salary but are paid by the employer. You do NOT loose your health insurance if you loose your job if your are in a Gesetzliche Krankenkasse. The government covers your health insurance from your unemployment benefit costs if you become unemployed. You can switch insurance companies once per year, usually around the end of November, and you can pick from roughly 70 Gesetzliche Krankenkassen. But mostly only the incentive programms for staying fit and healthy vary to any degree; the coverage is usually 100% of all medical costs in any Krankenkasse. Co-pay for medical drugs is always 5€ per generic drug (per package), and 10€ (per package) for an elective choice name brand drug. Every other cost for medical drugs is covered by your insurance. Ambulance rides and even emergency helicopter is covered. Hospital medical costs are covered; except for a 10€ per day fee, up to a maximum of 240€ of such fees per YEAR! That is basically your food cost. Post-surgery care is also covered. EVERYONE in Germany has mandatory health insurance. The only way to NOT have health insurance is if you are self-employed or a free-lancer who opted out of the Gesetzliche Krankenkasse and switched into the Private Krankenkasse / private health insurance, and THEN you loose your job AND you can't continue to pay your insurance fees. That's the ONLY way to not be health insured in Germany. Even then, any kind of employment by someone else for at least six months will allow you to re-enter the Gesetzliche Krankenkasse, and wha-bam, you are completely covered again. You also pay a certain percentage of your gross income into the German Rentenkasse /pension fund as part of the Generationvertrag / generational contract. This 'generational contract' was the idea that the current working population pays the pensions for all people who currently are eligible for a pension; trusting that future generations will do the same when you are eligible for your pension. So once you have worked for any German company and paid taxes in Germany you are automatically eligible for a German pension, no matter how small it is. Your pension depends on your gross average income, the total amount of time you worked. Or if you want to and can afford it, you can also pay your contributions privately, so you can increase your future pension as well.

The "benefits" you mention (the insurance one) is part of the so called "Lohnnebenkosten" (roughly: salary side costs), which your employer has to pay ON TOP of what you actually get as your nominal salary. In Germany this currently means that your employer has to pay about 27% more to employ you than what you're seeing as your salary (before taxes). So if you make say 40,000€/a, you're actually costing your employer 50,800€/a. This is something that is often forgotten when salaries are compared between countries, and also many German employees tend to like to forget this as well.

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I would be careful with the german word "mal", because it could eventually sound more impolite - especially more impatient - to the listener. When asking for something with "Kannst Du bitte ..." or "Könntest Du bitte ..." the phrases "Kannst Du bitte mal ..." or "Könntest Du bitte mal ..." do not add any politeness to your pledge. In the worst case your listener(s) will understand "Kannst Du bitte mal endlich ..." or "Könntest Du bitte mal endlich ..." which would clearly express your impatience with something. You may replace a sentence with "bitte" by a phrase starting with "Ich hätte gern ..." when e.g. ordering something in a restaurant or to avoid annoying repetition in a written text.

Legally for identification your first Name is in most cases not mandatory except when specified in a certain law. Which are "Geldwäsche" and "Telekommunikation" But that is only for identification, but not needed in your signature. Your signature has not to be readable or even your real name, as by law it just needs to be by you. My Signiture is a readable but slightly crippled first name with a last name just of two letters. It doesn't matter how it looks like because it evolves over the time anyway. Just think of this regardless what you use at signature, as long as it is handwritten by you, it means it is legally signed. Different is, if you write an email. It might not be officially but there you sign with a full name or a shortened first name plus last name. Except you are "per Du" with that person. By the way, how to explain "Du" and "Sie" / Duzen und Siezen / formal and informal to an English speaker' Du = you Sie = you, sir

Pfingsten = Pentecost Holiday. The holiday is also called "Whit Sunday", "Whitsunday" or "Whitsun", especially in the United Kingdom.

health insurance and social insurance and paid holidays are RIGHTS by law of every working person in germany. You just can discuss about the length of the paid holidays. E.g. by law there are four weeks, usually there are six weeks.

whatever your boyfriend told you about your signature...it is wrong! you can write your signature any way u want!! what is more important is that its always the same! But u can write it the way u want and what u been ever used to!! Being punctual is "THE" german attitude!!! This is a true Stereotype! Jour fixe? never heard of that one in german company worklife and btw...f... dich ins knie sounds so 90's....nobody is saying that anymore :D

"f*** dich ins Knie !" is pretty rude. Don't say this to anyone. I'ts primitive. It's teenage slang. If you are angry with someone say "Lass mich in Ruhe (Leave me alone). Anyways, enjoy your first job.

I'm disgraphic and no one will ever be able to read my signature. And then if they did, they would think that I'm German, because my last name is a very German last name. My dad took the last name of his mother's husband and not his genetic Dad. I'm sorry my German friends, you will not be able to read my last name but hey in my signature, underneath it has my First Middle initial and Last Name, along with my address, company, and desk phone / cell phone number so you will know who I am. Remember I'm not German. I'm 3/4 English and Iris and 1/4 Jewish. I have been to Germany and Austria, and they are always asking me if my parents were from Germany. But they do pronounce my last name correctly in the English manner and even my own countrymen fail to do that. I love Germany, cool people...

I worked for a German/British company in Mönchengladbach. Outside of the formal meetings, any informal discussions involved Germans disappearing into their office and closing their doors, while the British simply discussed the issue whereever they were at that given time: in the kitchen; in the corridors; in the car park. There is a great deal of separation in Germany and with Germans; it's in the structure of, and their use of, language, it's hard-wired into their civil laws, and it's reflected in their working culture.

If you have to work on a holiday, your overtime bonus is higher than what you get on a mere Sunday.

Standup meetings are an efficient way to get new things to spread immediately. Not very common in old-fashioned companies yet. My English meetings really start 5 minutes after it was scheduled, the German meetings really start 1 minute after it was scheduled. My best one is Planungssicherheit=having all details to safely plan. But holidays on the weekend will not shift to the next Monday....

Let me guess, Germans are very chill to work with and don't mind the times arrivals and leaves.

Dear Lady in germany we have a saying: 5 Minuten vor der Zeit ist des Königs Höflichkeit. This i think doesnt make sence to you. Now some german sayings doesnt match to be translated in english. What it means is if u are a little early for your appointement it shows respect, you are really interestet, you care. The i think translation would be : You are in time ore ealy u are the king. We germans are strange sometimes, we do love punctuality anything else would be considererd as disrespect, and this goes on.Even in privat live...you are not in time....like my sister always does.... it is a reason for me getting angy. Not only once she asked me to pick her up at a certain time ...she wasnt there ...i took off.

If your working in Germany you should take a look at the Bundesurlaubsgesetz and the Arbeitszeitgesetz. It's boring but you should know.

I'm German and you're being too nice to the German keyboard layout. It's so bad for programming, who came up with this... How are you even supposed to type an open curly brace

Pfingsten is Pentecost (in Britain aka as Whitsun), a Christian holiday that celebrates the event of the disciples being filled with the holy spirit to have the ability to preach the gospel to all people (narrated in the Bible in the Acts of the Apostles). The term derives from Greek Pentecoste (fifty), the holiday is celebrated fifty days after Easter.

So many short meetings: I think it had to do with covid and mobile working. In a normal setting you would meet your colleagues shortly at the coffee machine or just in the office corridor.

The real word language explanations are really helpful.. Thanks so much. Subbed here! Hi from Australia.

Hi Lamb, I'm following you for years, and that's what I have to say: You have become pretty europeanised since then, I see it at your language, at your mimic, at your attitude - and the most, I see that you are happy in our Old World. Best wishes forever!

Rent derives from "Rente" - income (especially income you did not work for). So the rent of a house at first was the money the owner earned by leasing it. Rent- income + abilität - ability means "it is possible to gain money from it". But with us, "Rente" also changed the meaning during the last 150 years, and with us it means "pension". So "Rentabilität" to us also has to been learned as a special word. Which child would care about "Rentabilität"?

If you want to keep your English keyboard but be able to type umlauts, check out EURkey layout, which is a thing you can install to map keys to special symbols.

Am Telefon find ich "auf Wiederhören" am passendsten (statt z.B. auf Wiedersehen wenn man sich persönlich von jemandem verabschiedet), da man den anderen ja nur hört ;)

The French keyboard is *really* weird. There are far more changed than the US vs UK vs German keyboards, each of which swap a few letters.

"Bis bald!", wird auch oft gebraucht.

No, don’t say bis dann. It’s too informal. Also, I’m hoping you are speaking slower at work.

Even as a English teacher in a business context I would teach "there is an issue with..." rather than '" there is a problem with..."

I do not think anybody should change his or her signature for whatever reason! The whole point of a signature is that it does not change. It looks somewhat different each time, but the way the hand moves stays the same, and it can be seen from the signature. If the name needs to be readable, it can just be added to the signature in normal written words.

Is there someone interested in talking in English with me? 😁 My English level is B2 I’m from Brazil 🇧🇷

Hi from Cologne I live in cologne Keep making videos I love your videos and beautiful eyes. You are sooo beautiful