American Reacts to 15 German brands YOU pronounce WRONG! 

Thank you, that means a lot. I’m just fascinated with learning about the world and think a lot of Americans live in a “bubble” where it’s just USA everything.. which I think is a shame.

There is no such thing as full blood american if you're not talking about native american. You can say he is from the US, but originally if you take a dna test he will come out as European (basically a European immigrant like all the white people in the USA).

Well he somehow needs to state in almost any video that he " is a proud American" as if that matters at all to anybody but himself i guess... but i really love his content and his eagerness to evolve from being American to a "world citizen " 🙂

@@Galantus1964 Americans are a very patriotic bunch, and I don't think being a 'proud American' and a global citizen need to be mutually exclusive :)

@@MrStredders i know .. im talking about the fact that is for some reason needs to be mentioned, i hear it alot when americans comment on things,like the healthcare asoaso and it always comes up when it is a critisism, it feels like it has to be mentioned incase somebody in some way twould thing that they are not... i love my country Denmark, but i don'yt have the urge to say to everyone .. im a proud Dane, it's kinda implied, and i certainly don't have to say it if i comment on things that are wrong overhere, to assure my fellow Danes that i still love my country ... And the thing about being a world citizen.. over half the american population ( i think) have never been outside their own state and even less has travled overseas .. so i think they can be mutually excluded 🙂... but i understand what you are trying to say 🙂

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@@IWrocker Well, it´s just like Janis Joplin sung: Oh Lord, would u buy me a Merceidis Bens, my friends all drive Porschiiis :)

I said it to Porsche as a kid because I gave the car the name porschi. I'm from Germany btw.

Porschi would be the German endearment form if you loved your little car. Yes there a lot of BMWs around in Germany, but it is still a luxury car in price, insurance and part prices, so only show-offs and rich peeps buy it.

Well Germans themselves are world champions in pronouncing names wrong. They should be docile. I say that as an Austrian.

Fun Fact … Trolli is german

most funny tjoing sure made my day aswel

Fun fact there are more german brothers fighting and splitting companies: there is a Cracker and sweets company called "Bahlsen" founded by two brothers.. they got in a huge fight and one brother took over "Bahlsen" and kept the sweet snacks, the other one got the salty ones and called the company "Lorenz" after his forename 😅

@@TheaReubusch Adi und Rudolf Dassler... ADIDAS und Puma ☺️

During the Iraq war I always had to smile a little when "General Schwarzkopf" appeared on television...😆

I've never heard anyone is Australia say it the American way tbh. I've always said it how it's "supposed" to be said I guess.

Another Aussie here: I learned 55 years ago to say addy-dass with the emphathis on the a sounds, Very happy to hear that's mostly correct.

can confirm ive heard like 1-2 people in my whole life in Australia saying adidas the American way, most pronounce it phonetically.

Aussie veteran here. Never heard another Aussie call Adidas the wrong American way.

Alot of Americans have migrated to Australia recently and you hear the American accent more often nowadays. However, I've never heard an Australian use the American pronunciation.

yeah, Miele and Lufthansa for example were pretty spot on! At least in my austrian opinion ;)

@@dansch3073 Ja, für meine Hohenloher Ohren war er auch oft sehr nah dran.

​@@dansch3073 ach ihr könnt doch selbst kein Deutsch Obwohl... Zumindest besseres als die Bayern ;)

Hohenlohe Land des muasch ofach seh Hohenloher Land wilsch gar nimmer geh Hohenloher Land nur do will I sei bei recha und Wind und bei Sonna schei

True! And Dutch is close to that!

Da hast du recht 👍🏾

There used to be an ancient language called Neder-Duits and that a mixture of that.

I always hate it, when Hollywood Movies pretend to do "actual" German language, it sounds so fucking wrong. There should be enough German speaking "Wanna Be" actors around, why don´t use them, for a few bucks ?

@@Beun007 not at all 😂 if the dutch would speak deep dutch, we high german speakers wouldnt understand anything. Low german and frisian would be fine with it. But i am happy that the most dutch people can perfectly speak german and english, so there is no problem.

South african.

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You're right, German, English, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic are all descendant from Proto-Germanic. There are lots of cognates in those languages. Whats even more interesting is the fact that even more of the languages from Europe and even most of India are related, all ultimately descended from the Proto-Indo-European language.

Great information thank you 😎

when i started looking up icelandic lyrics, i couldn't believe how many words were the same.

Just needs much more emphasis on each letter instead of merging their noises. "b r a u n" - and with the "r" sound made exclusively at the rear of the mouth and not use the tip of the tongue at all (unlike how you'd pronounce brown or brawn)

"Brown" is not only the correct pronunciation, it's the actual meaning of "Braun" in German. Both are relatively common surnames in their respective countries. There are a few words that are pronounced and mean exactly the same in German and English, even if spelt differently: "Haus/house", "Maus/mouse", "Eis/ice", and others that are pretty close, like "Buch/book" ("Buch" being pronounced "boohh"). English is also widespread in Germany, they use a lot of English words mixed with German, and sometimes you see some compound monstrosities, like letters I received from Germany before e-mail with this written on the envelope: "100% Recyclingpapier" (Germans are a very ecologically-minded people).

@@goytabr I'm Dutch but i can understand Germans mostly, if i'm drunk i can even talk back in "German"

@@stonedmountainunicorn9532, yes, I've learned some German (not fluently) and I can often understand some written (not spoken) Dutch, because usually if the root doesn't resemble German, it resembles English. My native language is Portuguese (I'm from Brazil), and I can easily understand Spanish (if not spoken too fast), grasp the essentials in Italian, and a lot of written (again, not spoken) French.

@@stonedmountainunicorn9532 I’m German,and I pretty much understand Dutch,and I don’t have to be drunk to talk back 😂 tot ziens!

I have heard some Aussies copy the American way for Adidas... its annoying.

Most countries in europe ive been to use the german way,even in the uk i would say 90% use the german way think its mostly the yank english version changed it like with most words,weird how that english version is so strange.

In Spain is usually pronounced the "american way" aswell.

David Ireland You have yet to learn that ALL CORPORATE {Legal} names are written in the ALL CAPS iteration. Tou have to learn to pay attention to detail. Your eyes see one thing and your brain sees something entirely different. It is not all your fault as the CORPORATE GOVERNMENT indoctrination institution known as school dumbed down the population and produced ZOMBIES ZOMBIES have eyes but cannot see - ears and cannot hear. The word CORPORATION (also written in ALL CAPS) comes from the Latin word CORPUS - meaning▪Corpse▪Dead▪Body - Meaning they are an entity without a Soul -- That is why Everybody is in the Cemetery and has their name in ALL CAPS. - Because they are DEAD - CORPSES - BODIES (without a Soul) Talking "" WITH "" not "" Talking to " There is a distinct difference in meaning between them Talking WITH is a two-way conversation Talking to is a one-way conversation -- The NEWS reader on the TV talks to you ( and not with you. Are you getting the point yet ? Undertake an extensive reading program to better educate yourself and master the English language. Good luck and good bye

I'm from Brazil and Adidas is a very popular brand here, but we pronounce it closer to the American way ("ah-DEE-dass", or maybe "ah-JEE-dass" in most of our regional accents), simply because Portuguese spelling rules direct the pronunciation that way. In Portuguese, the default is for the stress to be on the penultimate syllable, if there aren't a number of things that shift the stress backward or forward, none of which are present in the brand name.

Would love to see this :D

I bet the germans came into that discussion like they often do: "Mein Wort. Mein Reich. Mein Kommentarbereich!" And yes, us germans write that ourselves about us. We do have humor, it's just rarely caught and even more rarely appreciated by others.

@@olgahein4384 I've had a few German friends over the years, learned a few words and phrases from them and picked up the sense of humour, it's very dry. Every time I've seen that phrase I let it slide, "My word, my kingdom, my wtf I'll look it up later" and never did until just now. If google translate is correct, "my comment section"? 🤣

@@grandmothergoose google translation is correct on this one. It's a joke phrase about whenever on RU-vid there is something even slightly related to Germany (from a not german youtuber), suddenly all the comments are in german or from germans.

And ironically both sell tobacco products nowadays

@@S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-Strelok not in Victoria , don't know about other Aussie States .

@@robertmorris6529 they do in germany where it matters

@@inquisitive6786 yes , cater to home market for success !

@@S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-Strelok We have a Aldi store 15 miles from my house, they do not sell any tobacco products.

From what I know the cigarette thing is mainly an urban legend. They had already been selling cigarettes for a while before splitting. The probably more important reason for the split were different opinions about management style (Theo Albrecht was a micromanager while Karl liked to delegate things). But it's true that they split amicably. They didn't just divide Germany, they also continued to coordinate about international expansion. Germany is the only country that has both Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd. Trader Joe's actually isn't owned by Aldi Nord, it was a personal investment by Theo Albrecht and to this day is still a completely separate company.

This goes even further here in Austria where they are called "Hofer" (while still using the same logo, with Hofer being a part of Aldi South)

@@blahfasel2000 ... and there was me at first hoping that one of the brothers was against tobacco selling because of the health risks 😔

@@grewdpastor well, they sell candy, fat and other unhealthy food items. so, why should tobacco be an issue?

True, we Australians are linguistically lazy, if we *can* abreviate we will, eg: mozzie for mosquito, barbie for barbeque, cozzie for swiming costume and innumerable others.

@ Grant D I even use ' vee - wee ' . Many years ago I was told it was said as ' VEY DOUBLE VEY ' not sure of their Nationality , but presumed it was ' German ' either East or West , but family surname of Schmidt .

So do most of us in the UK

I'm the UK too. We roll our eyes at Americans and their Adeeduhs. 😅

Not exactly. The stress is in the right place but the vowels are different. We generally use the /æ/ phoneme rather than the /a/.

Its usually the yuppie element that are going to use weird pronunciations in Australia.

@@Ozzpot lmao 🤣 us Americans always gotta be different it seems 😅

Well you gotta remind the US-Americans once a months that not everyone who writes here in English is native to a country that has it as a document language.^^

Hansa derives from Hanse and is a historical trading union in the North Sea and Baltic Sea. Even today there are cities which wer "Hansestädte" ("Hanse-cities"). The most important cities in the Hanse is Lübeck.

@@HalfEye79 That's interesting how the word has transformed over the years to mean united. I suppose it kind of makes sense, unions typically unite people.

@@utha2665 It doesn't mean "united". It means "merchants over long distance". And that is the original purpose of Lufthansa.

I think it should be very easy for an English speaker to even guess: folk (as in folk tale, folk music, etc.) and wagon. It must be really easy to have an Indo European language as your native tongue!

@@VideoDotGoogleDotCom Why easy?

@@dorlaretz5901 Because so many of the most important languages in the world belong to the Indo-European language family. The vocabularies have so many similarities, one can basically guess a lot of words without even knowing the other language, especially when there's some context. Let's take number two (2): - Russian: dva - English: two - Hindi: do - Swedish: två - Polish: dwa - Spanish: dos - Romanian: doi - Bengali: dui - Persian: do - Latin: duo - Italian: due ...and then languages from some other families: - Turkish: iki - Estonian: kaks - Mongolian: hoyor - Quechua: iskay You don't know how easy you have it!

@@VideoDotGoogleDotCom That's just basic words. You can do the same with other language families.

@@dorlaretz5901 Who cares if the other languages in your native language family are spoken by very few people and are not internationally important at all? It's like knowing international film stars and Nobel laureates versus knowing your drunken aunt.

Her pronunciation does not have a Bavarian accent in the vids. She uses Middle High German (the formal German) for them.

@@niczwerg Yes, there is no Bavarian accent to find. This is just normal High German. I guess you have to watch all of her videos to ever catch her speaking dialect once. This propably also never happened so far.

How is Juan the closest thing "we" have if it's not even in the English language, and isn't the J technically silent?

@@_Professor_Oak A lot of americans are somewhat familiar with spanish i guess. And no, the j is not silent.

You can't explain "ch" in German to English with a Spanish example. The 'ch" would be an H in English and pronounced like "Hot" emphasizing the H.

The Scottish word 'loch' is pronounced the same way. Most British people know how to pronounce the word loch correctly, so it does exist in English. There was also an East German athlete in the 80s called Marita Koch whose surname was also pronounced correctly in the UK so as not to sound like 'cock' on Saturday afternoon tv.

@@Derry_Aire I was about to say this too. In Scotland the "ch" appears everywhere and we all pronounce it correctly. I go down to England and it's "Lock Ness" and they all can't say my name properly....

Didn't know that. That is really interesting. Thank you for that info. I really appreciate those tidbits of info.

Thats based on the fact, that Arndt Kruipe immigrated to germany and founded his company there. By the time he already changed his lastname to Krupp, due to his immigration. Every generation after Arndt Kruipe had the german name Krupp.

Krupp also later made Lorries although I cant figure out when the First Krupp Lorry was made. Or When the First Diesel Krupp was Built.

Every time, I wonder why the TH in loan words into english is pronounced like this. But in the name Thomas they wouldn't pronounce the TH this way.

Well, the British officers didn't actually start the company, they enabled the new management to set up the production. The factory was pretty badly smashed from bombing, and materials like steel, tyres, glass ect. were only available for production that was deemed "essential" for the survival of the people, or the needs of the allied forces in Germany. Especially Maj. Ivan Hirst had a important role in convincing the military government, that the production of the beetle would be "essential" in that sense. He is still a kind of hero in the history books of the VW company, has a place in their museum and so on. I have been there some years ago, and got presented with a book about him.

@@petebeatminister I should have said Restarted. They stopped the factory being bulldozed. I was trying to be a bit more concise.😁

Germanlanguagejustlikestoputeverytingintooneword.

@@fischX We Dutchy's like that shit to, something really basic a lot of expats here have to deal with is the UWV when they have to get their "arbeidsongeschiktheidsverzekering"

not (correctly) separating the components, or even concatenating separate words often results in incomprehensible new words which are hilarious (once you get what they really are). eg _a Deed-Ass,_ the non-existing TH in _Love-Thansa_ *(Luft-Hansa,* Luft=air, Hanse=medieval merchants), and the same problem with literally fried fish: *Brat-Hering* turning into _Brathe-Ring_ :-) Another famous example is the non-existing town _Stanton,_ which really is *St. Anton* (Sankt=saint) Germans also like to have *_fun with such words_* or entire sentences, eg _Blumento-Pferde_ (Pferd=horse, but what is a Blumento?) instead of *Blumen-Topf-Erde* (Blumen=flowers, Topf=pot, Erde=earth/soil, thus soil in/for flower pots), and on a big sign in a restaurant behind a table that is reserved for the regulars: _Didi Hirsi Zendisi Zenim Erhir_ ("Die, die hier sitzen, die sitzen immer hier" = *those who are sitting here always sit here)* and finally children (and adults) are sometimes challenged to find out the meaning of _Diku Rentum Dense Rumbi Sivi Lindi Ferti Fung_ (Die Kuh rennt um den See rum, bis sie fiel in die Vertiefung = the cow ran around the lake until it fell into the ditch)

@@Anson_AKB There is another word like Blumto-Pferde: It's the "Alpeno-Strand". (Alpenostrand - east border of the Alps).

do not say All Americans, my whole family pronounces all German products the German way ! My uncles wife is German and We all ask her the right way to say it.

@@marydavis5234 that's why I said SOME Americans, I never said "all" Americans

Good to know!! This video was well done 🎉

You should also build in the Porsche brakes. ;D

@@tigeriussvarne177 That'll be a serious time sink, the Beetle and Boxer engine OTOH actually have the same mounting points and are a nearly drop in replacement.

@@00wheelie00 I'm aware of that. ;) But with the extra power, you can also use better brakes.

@@tigeriussvarne177 brakes

@@johnsietsema9647 Danke

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Sorry Run DMC...great song

yep, i thought the same thing too. But hey, she's from Bavaria.....explains a lot, doesn't it? =D

@@Trichromasie Money must not be an issue for her... why else risk going to the U.S. where you might end up broke (or in debt) over some minor medical condition. 😅

@@se7enhaender I watch her videos for some time now. Since she is German, she has a German health insurance.

I agree, they are not normal brands. They are all usually calles Premiummarke (premium brand), which is just another term for luxury brand. But the perception in Bavaria is definetly different and twisted, when a lot of people can afford them.

Well Mercedes-Benz have the A class and Audi had the A1 and Q1 until recently.

Town founded by Nazis in the name Autostadt (Car City) for one purpose only... Guess what?

Your Live F1 was fun and next time I will watch again. Mexico!! I am a BIG REB BULL FAN. #spakenburg

they also have the Cupra company that broke off from seat and the truck company MAN, apparently they also have a commercial line of vehicles as a separate part of the VW grope, tho im not sure if you could count the last one in as it is part of VW itself

But Google says in 2022 Toyota is bigger and VW is on only the second place.

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Taxis in Germany were Mercedes for a long time. The first time I ever saw a different car manufacturer being used as taxi happened in the early 2000s.

@@dnocturn84 Exactly same in Portugal! Did you know that in Mercedes Museum in German, they have a portuguese TAXI a 190-D with 1 million Kms? That's so cool! Hi had a 190-D and a 220-CDI, but I had so much fundriving the 190-D. Seams like a Tank, all steel from 86, electric windows (vaccum) electric doors, AC, full extras!

Lidl is a completely different company, not related to Aldi. But it is also German.