300 types of bread is no longer up to date. According to the official bread register of the Central Association of German Bakers from 2010, there are now 3200 types of bread
If you really want to call every slight change of recipy by adding a couple of seeds here and there a new type of 'bread'... I find this very silly. Yes, I'm a German and I'm very fond of our bread but I highly dislike the stupid number game.
Even if the number sounds incredible, a second organization, the German Bread Institute, says: "The German Bread Institute's German Bread Register currently lists over 3,000 different speciality breads that are baked and sold in Germany every day. The actual number is probably even higher. Earlier estimates of 300 types of bread in Germany are considered outdated." Why do some people not want this to be true? Why not be happy that we have such a large selection :-) PS: It's not just about fresh bread, it also includes toast, grains and crispbread etc.
@@Kajatan78translating and then acting over a original movie. So basically the spoken words you hear are no longer the original but get translated and than spoken by actors to fit the image the best possible way.
@@bremade0486 OK thank you. We call that "synchronsprechen" wich is done by the "Synchronsprecher" "Synchronsprecherin" Word translation ist synchron Talk Synchron talking
The thing about this school system in germany is, that it is completely based on your grades in the 4th class. Many people criticise this because your way in life is determined at a very young age and your true talents aren't developed yet.
In Berlin it's seperated from 7th class. And there are Gesamtschule, where up from class 7 you can have courses e.g. in maths on an easy level and other courses on a middle or advanced level. And every year you can upgrade. So even if you haven't a academic family background or so, every teen get the chance to get A level in the end, if they really want to. This is such a blessing.
@@ph3737 bei uns im Land Brandenburg werden die Gesamtschulen immer weniger, weshalb es vielen Kindern leider die Möglichkeit nimmt, doch kurzfristig zum Abi zu wechseln. Es wurden Oberschulen daraus und das Gymnasium ist überfüllt
@@schneewolkes266Das Gymnasium hat auch kaum noch was mit dem Gymnasium zutun... Inzwischen kann jeder, der in der Grundschule aufpasst aufs Gymnasium. ABI ist kaum noch eine Intelligenzfrage, sondern ob du aufpasst und der Lehrer dich mag... Auch mündl. Beteiligung hat bei den meisten Lehrern nichts mehr mit Qualität zu tun, sondern ob du dich traust dich zu melden und Scheiße zu labern
@@Quox.-. klar, weil die Union nach dem ersten Pisa-Dissaster mega Angst davor bekommen haben, dass wir in Zukunft schlecht vor der anderen Ländern dar stehen. Deshalb hatten sie das Ziel, dass deutlich mehr Schüler das Abi machen und studieren. Dummerweise hatte das Ganze halt zur Folge, dass wir deutlich weniger Schüler hatten, die sich für praktische Berufe interessiert haben. Und das Ergebnis davon sehen wir ja heute.
But the thing with our school system is: In the end of our primary school every student gets a letter of recommendation for a specific school type, mostly based on primary school grades. It's an early separation of children which eventually COULD have problems in Gymnasium or Realschule or another school type.
most of those "tornados" are small to very small. Yes there can be a vortex of air appearing sometimes, but its not like in the American plains. Because the area is mostly hills and woods where this supposed "tornado alley of Europe" lies, so its not really "extreme weather" but rather a peculiar weather phenomenon.
there are a few dozen F3 per year (they still can do damage and cause a few fatalities from falling trees), maybe one F4 in a decade, and less than a handfull of F5 overall in many centuries, while the usa have lots of F5 every year. thus yes, it is a "tornado alley", but its danger is very relative ... you can search youtube for "tornado germany" or "windhose germany".
Yes I have seen a few, but it's more something funny to look at. They are for the most part really weak and don't do any damage. We call them Windhose "wind pants" 😅
@@lukasrentz3238 I have never heard dust devils. So idk. It's called windhose, "windpants" or something like that. They look tornado like, but are really weak. Edit: I looked it up. I have seen both. I used to live in a more rural area in middle Germany. We don't have much mountains where I'm from. It's just fields and farms and a few houses.
the dubbing in germany is actually extraordinary good. its so good that the lip movements wont mismatch the voice line. the problem is that because of this a big part of the german people cant speak nor understand proper englisch. a study that ive read about a year ago with more than 50k participants has shown that the millenials are the generation with the best overall english skills in germany. and not just by a little bit. the reason for that is probably because millenals have been the generation that has grown up with the rapid growth of the internet and back in the days most sides on the internet has been in englisch. like facebook or youtube when they first launched. also when you wanted to watch a tv show from the US back in those days you had to download them from websites and those shows have been most likely in englisch because back then dubbing sometimes took about a year back then.
I feel the same way by watching those reactions. And it is a very good feeling to see Britians and Americans who don't laugh about us. I see about four people which are seems to be very interested, just because for information, not to make funny about us or our country the last days. Mein Englisch ist so grottig, wie habe ich es nur durch die Schule geschafft...
Germany dubs everything- There are some movies vastly improved in the German dub, such as _Highlander_ and _Avatar the Last Airbender._ With the German dub of _The Last Unicorn,_ Christopher Lee dubbed himself as he was fluent in German, but he retains a slight British accent while speaking High German which gave his King Haggard an interesting "old-fashioned" cadence perfect for the character.
Thank you for mentioning Avatar the Last Airbender, the german voices are incredible! The szene, where Jeong Jeong talks to Aang in his tent goes under your skin.
There really are some highlights when a phrase is translated. Sometimes the German version sounds better. Dogma: "Nicht geboren - in die Welt geschissen" has a certain melody. Way nicer than "Not born - shit into existence", which is kind of hard.
@@Quox.-. Nun, die US Amerikaner tendieren dazu, alles zu übersetzen. Vielleicht sollten wir auch damit anfangen, lieber Neu York oder Braunschweig (Georgien) zu sagen. Wäre bestimmt lustig die Reaktionen zu sehen.
The world cup in 2006 really started a change in national pride, I felt. The weather was amazing, the football brilliant, the visiting fans mostly behaved and had a great time, the home team got to the semis. It let Germany feel really good about itself, and it was such a lovely feeling.
as a german I can tell you tornados are not so often here. Never seen one in my life and i‘m 28. Its more in the north but no one is talking about it because its really not that dangerous. ☺️ nice video my friend - keep up
After 48 years in Germany and having lived in 3 different federal states, I can say that the North Germans are by far the warmest people I have ever met here. Yes, they are a little quieter but incredibly friendly. They don't always look like that but... believe me 😉 I don't want to offend anyone, it's just MY experience. The further south you go in Germany, the more arrogant people become. Of course not all of them, I don't want to generalise, but on the whole these are my experiences. That was also the reason why I moved away from Baden Württemberg. I feel completely at home here in the north on the coast.
I'm from Rostock at the baltic sea and I can confirm what you said. First, we are a bit reserved but if we know someone better and the ice is broken, we open up more. If we become friends we'll really loyal. We tend to be more direct and honest as in the south.
I have to agree with you. I myself grew up in the Ruhr area, lived in different parts of Germany for professional reasons and have to say that I like the North German way best. Especially the North Frisians. I don't get on so well with the mentality in the south, west and east of Germany (the Ruhr area is an exception). The people from Cologne are really bad. They're narcissistic and superficial. There are two big clichés in Germany: That the North German is humourless and "dry" and the person from Cologne is humorous and cosmopolitan. On closer inspection, the opposite is actually true. The only difference is that people from Cologne are not "dry", but loud and brash.
It's funny that some of these clichés aren't true at all. In Germany, Cologne is considered the most open and friendly city. It's always better to see for yourself first. In my particular case, it was the city of Mannheim, which was horrible for me. Living there is really bad and stereotypes about Germans really come to the fore. This staring, this stubbornness, this constant complaining. I also found them to be very hostile towards people from other cities/countries
The street sign shown at 6:03 with the 3 parallel diagonal black stripes actually means: “all restrictions are off” (like speed limit, no passing and such) and is found on other streets besides the Autobahn - however then you’re restricted to the general speed limit of maximum 100 km/h outside town limits.
@@ganage6599 Selbst wenn die Zahl nicht stimmt. Ich freue mich ehrlich gesagt, dass es Videos gibt die sich nicht über uns lustig machen. Es heißt ja, die ganze Welt lacht wegen unserer Politik über uns, auch wenn sie nicht wissen (können) wie viele von uns diese gut finden oder nicht.
It's true that German dubs practically everything from foreign media into German. I don't consider it annoying, though, because the dubbing is usually very high quality (at least on popular movies and shows) and done by professional actors. Unless you actually learned to lip read, you usually can't tell that the dubbing and the lip movements are out of sync, because the dubbings are written to be as much in sync with the lip movements as possible. For famous actors, they also try to get everything that actor has done dubbed by the same voice actor, so you have a recognizable voice to go with the face, even if it isn't actually his real voice. In some cases, they are even better than the original. E.g. I never understood why everyone was bashing Kristen Stewart so much - I mean, the Twilight movies obviously didn't have very good plots and the staring and mouth breathing was a bit silly, but I thought the delivery of her lines was quite good .... until I first watched some scenes of those movies in the original language. X-D
This is true except for anime. German dubs of anime tend to be like the voice actors reading out something from the newspaper. I really don't know why.
@@Vampirzaehnchen it depends. i personally prefer to watch the original with english subtitles but i find the german dubs to be better than the english ones quite often. the mood of the language (schwer auf enlisch zu beschreiben aber was ich meine ist wie der klang der deutschen sprache die atmosphäre beeinflusst) can be hard for very emotional settings in an anime but usually its fine
Movies are dubbed because there are more than a 100 Million german speaking people in Europe. Would not make sense for Sweden or Norway ;-) I can‘t stand it, but I think german dubbing is some of the best in the world.
German synchronisation work is even saluted of the makers of original. Have a look at kevin james (king of queens) or leonardo dicaprio. They liked their synchro voice more than theirselfs. In germany, either you consume the "translated" media or you learn english and get access to more informations
I am happy to see, that the comment section is no part of Germany too LOL...as always. We have a spidersence for videos about Germany. After we sense them, we flock to the accounts and fload the comment section. Can i say that i love to listen to your accent! I have a thing for british english and it is nice to hear more brits on youtube, not only americans. You also have a wholesome vibe in your videos. Perfect to relax in the evening.
We dub all media into german... the lips and mouths fit 100% because it is perfect german work😊 The flag is just a flag, I'm a Frankonian wich is a part of the Bavarian State... both have their own flags... just flags...and dialects and culture... Deutschland is a puzzle of folks. Proud of Germany? How can I be proud of what people did the last 1000years forming this country? I'm not proud to be German, I'm glad to be one.
ofc everything of greater interest is dubbed for the German speaking market in Europe. over 100m people are German native speakers and they expect films and tv shows to be dubbed - at least they did expect this for the past 60yrs or so. nowadays, with English almost a second language for everyone under the age of 50 and new streaming services offering content in its original version this might change. smaller countries with much smaller language families simply couldn't afford dubbing foreign media for their home markets. but the French and the Germans could and did dub almost everything.
3:18 The German colonial possessions in Africa were Togo (Togoland), Cameroon (Kamerun), Namibia (German South West Africa), and Tanzania (German East Africa). The others shown on the map were all in the Pacific: Papua New Guinea (German New Guinea), Palau, Solomon Islands, Mariana Islands, Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Samoa (German Samoa), and the 99-year lease of Qingdao (Tsingtao) and environs on mainland China as the German "Hong Kong".
Yes, we do dub a lot. We are a large consumer market consisting of many people who still struggle with English. A lot of voice actors are spezialised "Synchronsprecher" here, so our dubbing is really amazing in comparison. I still prefer original voices nowadays.
The thing about the flags, you described really well. It’s pretty much the way you said, here too. (I still get confused with comma placement in English, so please forgive the mistakes I probably made - I would actually really like to learn those rules again, I actually looked them up once again, but still I find them confusing and can’t really remember them when I’m writing.)
My personal experience, having friends around the world: Brits and Germans have most in common in almost all aspects. No wonder, because of identical roots.
@Quox.-. 'Vikings' is a term for a social group amongst the medieval Norse and Danish peoples and not a Germanic people per se. It is not used for continental Germans, either, let alone pre medieval Germans. If you are interested, I can write a short paragraph were in Europe you could find Germanic settlements at one time or another (which is a lot of places.) 😊
He missed a former german colony - the chinese coastal city Qīngdǎo formerly known as Kiautschou was a german colony in China just as Hong Kong was british. The city is known for its beer of the brand Tsingtao, beeing the largest brewery of China and getting served in chinese restaurants around the world. Of course the brewing tradition goes back to german colonial times when the colonialists introduced Siemens brewing equipment to bring a little home to China which are in service to this day. Tsingtao still adheres to _"German Purity Law"_ dating back to medival times which limits the ingredients for any beverage sold as beer to hops, barley malt, yeast and water only.
Deutsch Samoa was also not mentioned. There they speak kaputte(r/s) Deutsch/schlechte(r/s) Deutsch (broke(n) German/ bad German) which was never intended. The German colonists wanted them to stop speaking German the wrong way, but the ppl on Samoa just kept speaking it their own way. Until today older Generations and a few younger people speak it on the Island. Germany never really had a bad relationship with the people. It was the calmest and the least cruel colonie
Dear Wayne, this was so charming. Found you by chance this morning and I will be a new subsciber .🥰 I am looking forward to see all of your videos now. Thank you so much for this one. Very nice! ,😃👍🏻 Best regards from Hamburg, Katie
The German school system is not as good as it sounds. The recent Pisa study showed 1/3 of Geman pupils struggle with at least one of the tested fields. The distinction between the 3 school forms is mainly based on grades and "intelligence", not on special interests or talents. The fact that Hauptschüler usually end up learning a trade or a physically demanding job is the result of the low attractiveness of these jobs in the past and not a result of a preference for these kind of jobs.
Just because we slacked off a bit in the Pisa study doesn't mean that we have a bad school system! After all, we used to do very well in the PISA study with the same school system. I think it is one of the best systems compared to most European school systems! And talent and, above all, interests play a big role, because after all you can choose which of the 3 sections of the German school system you want to do! After the 5th grade, I was initially considering going to secondary school, but then I decided on the secondary school system, i.e. the middle school system, and completed my secondary school leaving certificate, which then allowed me to become a professional soldier. With a secondary school diploma I would only have been able to achieve this to a limited extent. That's why interests and talents play a big role, because without my interests I wouldn't have been able to pursue a career in the Bundeswehr.
@m.e.k.8810 sadly, while there is the option of going to 3 different types of schools, the system is cracking horrendously. I see it with many of my former classmates, friends, and family (mostly nephews). I went to Hauptschule first, now I'm studying to become an engineer, in a relatively good "Hochschule" (college/uni with a curriculum resembling the one from uni, but being far more focused on practicalities rather than theory). Nearly no classmates from my time in the hauptschule do hard physical labour. They have either become bums or they pursued some sort of further education. Those I know that did real schule (the middle school), are on average the best. Many do a decent "Ausbildung" (apprenticeship), while others do one and pursue an academic degree afterwards. The gymnasium is where the real problems lies. The kids here are suffering. Unnecessary amounts of homework and pressure. Practically no real free time for the kid. It is very similar to high schools in america or just general diplomas that are required for Uni (Abitur is what its called). So many kids just get broken here. And if they do thrive, their social skills are what becomes lacking. There is something called "Berufsgymnasium" which is an actually good thing I believe (I did the "Technisches Gymnasium"). It is "only" 3 years and only available for students after the 10th grade, or rather realschulabschluss/mittlere reife. This is in my eyes, the only "Gymnasium" part that should exist. Get rid of the "Allgemeinsbildendes Gymnasium" and allow students that are a bit older, after having done 2 or 3 mandatory internships for 1-2 weeks, to choose which profession to pursue. This would give kids more of their childhood while they are young and it would not throw students into the harsch world of jobs and applications, rather guiding them towards a profession they take an interest in and where they could specialise in.
The PISA test is a scam. Germany tests random schools but guess what, Singapore South Korea Japan and China test only in hand picked classes in hand picked schools. PISA is bullshit and the OECD is bullshit.
Germany has around 60 to 70 tornados yearly, mostly very small and rarely long-lasting (longer than 10 minutes) and they also rarely causes damage. Germany had also some years, where it had over 100 tornados like in 2007. These tornados happens mostly in late spring into autumn (April-Oktober) usually in combination with strong thunderstorms (supercells)
This video and your attitude made me very proud to be German in the most positive sense! Of course, the "image video" is presented very positively and does not deal with current problems in the country. But it really reminded me what a beautiful, strong, peaceful and friendly country we are. At the moment, I think we as a country have partly forgotten what we are good at, what our values are and what we have achieved. We should rely on this much more and stick together more. Many people don't see that anymore these days, and I also have mixed feelings about the future. There will be a way to improve the current situation, so far we as Germans have always managed to do that ;). Thank you again and all the best!
Anyone who completes vocational training in Germany receives dual training. This means that in addition to the practical training, there is also theoretical training at school. This is 1 - 2 times a week depending on your job. For craft professions this means, for example, materials science, for hairdressers, for example, chemical composition of the products, etc. Depending on the profession, vocational training takes 2 - 3.5 years.
Dwayne a lot of brits who served thair armytime in Germany are still connected. We have a lot uk people who moved over after brexit. Im from Berlin and a good friend comes over every two years for vacation, food and a good time. There are a lot Brits that actually live in Berlin and Hamburg.
Fun fact: Karneval starts on the 11th of November at 11: 11 o’clock and ends somewhere in February, It’s basically an opposite Halloween and a LONG one, very colorful, more interaction, festivals, you can cosplay/dress how you like and no one says anything and the beer obsessed ones have an excuse to drink a lot of beer 😅. Particularly people from Cologne are fond of it very much tho the most huge festival/parade takes place in Düsseldorf on Rosenmontag (=Rose Monday). Not the entirety of Germany celebrates it, mostly the minority only, most from NRW (Nordrhein-Westfalen).
@@Neo_Vandole either on the cheek or just those French air kisses but only ppl they know, it’s like a tradition, at least that’s what I was told my entire life, it doesn’t mean many ppl are drunk just that they took in a bit of alcohol but still are cautious of what their doing, besides that point, majority of drunk ppl on Karneval are male, I don’t know why but I’ve been to many Karneval parties with my father when I was little and majority at those parties were just male, I was at the drinks section handing out drinks, collecting the cups and washing them, again majority of the alcohol consistent drinks I handed out were towards male people. Ofc my experience with handing out drinks at large Karneval parties as a child don’t say a lot and are not everywhere accurate but I am going of multiple of those experiences since I handed out drinks at those parties for at least over a decade.
We had a pretty significant tornado in Radeberg (close to Dresden, Saxony; also famous for the beer "Radeberger"). It took place 2010 when I was almost 2 years old. My dad and my brother told me about it but other than that I don't know about any tornado events of significant size in all of Germany.
As a german, i wouldn't say that we and the UK really had a sad and tragic past. The only times where we were enemies was during the first half of the 20s century (World War 1 + 2) and at that point we were enemies of most of the world not only the UK. Before that we actually had pretty good relations. In Waterloo during the final battle of the Napoleonic Wars, a prussian army led by General Blücher helped the british to defeat France, for example.
u forgot bomber harris. a sad story of its own. its nothing positive about it, or hunger blockade in ww1 its true, british is the most brotherly people of germany about ancestry but to WW did cut it off big time
@@dr.v.rumpler5230 I did not forget these things. I mentioned the World Wars and that we were enemies at that time. Yes, we did pretty messed up things to each other during these times, but i think, that it doesn't entirely wipe out the centuries of good relationship we had before and also after it.
In Deutschland gibt es fast 3200 Brotsorten! Es gibt einige Brotsorten die es bei jedem Bäcker gibt, aber jeder Bäcker "erfindet" auch seine eigenen Brotrezepte.
das kommt ganz drauf an. das meisterstück eines angehenden bäckermeisters ist aus brotteig gemacht. das meisterstück eines angehenden konditors ist zum großteil schokolade@@Why-D
Welcher Bäcker bäckt noch selbst? Das gibt es in Deutschland doch fast gar nicht mehr? Die meisten Bäckereien sind Ketten die sich Rohlinge liefern lassen.
I am German and fun fact: Puma and Adidas, both are based in the city Herzogenaurach (Bavary) next to each other. So you can easliy go shopping in the first outlet and just step into the other one. Thanks for this video!
I'm a Brit, but I've lived in Germany (Lower Saxony) for a loooong time. Dubbing or as the Germans call it, language synchronizing, is big business here, they do it very well, and find voices that have characteristics close to the original. Because of digital/smart TV I watch a lot of things in English these days, especially comedy which doesn't always translate very well.
i usually hate dubs too but in my honest opinion while i heard also a lot of dubs over the years, germany has one of the best ones, germany has really famous voices and i like some of them more then the original, they are really good. one great example would of course be the legendary DBZ show and gokus voice in german, he crushed it but NA did also very well
Hey Dwayne. Ty much for your reaction. I agree to so much of very honestly. I mean your perspective on the history stuff. And current stuff. We share more than what is deviding us. Don't even no where to start. Keep up your work, man
Yes every country have a dark past, blood on its hands so to say that nobody can change but it's on us how we treat and learn about our past and take responsibility to make sure that history can not repeat itself. I'm not against national pride but against the mindset of national superiority. 😊
One sad addendum: There are no Bears in the Black fores. The Last recorded bear in Germany was killed about 200 Years ago and since then, there are no more wild bears in germany. there are some bear parks, where you can visit the, but no wild ones. One a positive note, we_do_ have wolves again!
Regarding tornados: Living in the North I've seen a lot of heavy storms but never a tornado. I only felt the side effect of one a few years ago. There was an enormous hail storm and my roommate - who was only 10 km away at that time - called and asked me to walk her dogs. I asked her "You want them to get killed?! Those hailstones are the size of golf balls!" and she was like "What are you talking about? The weather is perfect were I am. No cloud in the sky and only a soft breeze." We later found out that a tornado hit a residential area just a few blocks from where we lived and demolished a few garden sheds, blew trampolines and dust bins onto neighbouring properties and ripped off the roof tiles of some houses. Tornados are by far not as strong and long lived as in the US but they occur. And they're becoming more common during the last decade or so.
- No...lol...we don't translate TV shows, we produce them ourselves directly in German :-) - Are you kidding? Britain is full of flags. The Union Jack is everywhere, you can even see it on your food packaging, you feel like you're being chased by the flag, there's no escaping it. - We don't even have the national flag in town halls.
smart-arse-mode on: it´s not the union jack, it´s the union flag. i´ts only called union jack when it´s on a ship.charlieissocoollike taught me that, back when she was a huge thing on youtube.
@@SpikeTheDog84 You're right, I just read it. But we still say “Union Jack”, just as we say “Großbritannien (= Great Britain)” and not “UK”, or "Ärmelkanal (= sleeve Channel) instead of English Channel. This is how it is colloquially passed down through many generations. Here in the country everyone understands what is meant, but it's good to know what the British call it. Thank you
I agree! It's so sad that Germans and Britains have such a sad common past. I love the UK and the Britains so much, but to be honest: You don't like us the same way. We all know why. Maybe we'll have the chance to become friends in the future. I hope so. Kisses from Germany.
I suspect that the British are a bit envious of Germans. Their empire was still quite strong 100 years ago and their influence and power has been ever crumbling. After the war, Germany has become a respected democracy and economic powerhouse. Idk, just a guess
@@thorwaldjohanson2526 during the 19th century, the UK simply wasn't able to notice that their world empire disintegrated. This in my opinion holds on until nowadays.
The Windhose is the german term for a Tornado and they are not as devestating or as common as in the Americas. They are novel and usually do not do any damage, except maybe some shingles or an old tree
Hauptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium. Original this separation was specific designed to school kids for a specific path in life. Hauptschule was meant as the lowest education standard and for Manual workforce like Plumbers, Carpenters, Electricians etc. Realschule was the typical school level in the middle ground for simpel Bureau, chemistry etc and Gymnasium with the highest level and absolute needed for studying at University which was needed for jobs in the Medical field etc. Nowadays Hauptschule is gone mostly because of time changes :) mostly Realschule is needed for even Manual Labor Jobs. In 1990 a Car Mechanic could learn this job from Hauptschule, today Realschule is needed because of the increase in Electric and Electronics in cars - so we changed the job name from Carkmechanic to Carmechatroniker (Mechanik and Elektronik = Mechatronik) to include the aspect Electronic in cars (and many other Jobs have made this transition) And because of that we are nowadays left with Realschule and Gymnasium.
Our relationship with France during the war was even worse than with GB. We occupied them, for God‘s sake…. So, still, we have been able to patch things up. It is weird though that, since almost everyone learns English in school here in Germany, that we are in fact, not closer. Brexit has not exactly helped in that and for a while, especially where exchanges between schools and universities have been disrupted quite seriously…
Well you have to take the disputes between GB and Germany into account. WWll happened not to long ago and we all know what Germany did back then. Adding to that we also look at what GB did during that time. Many of our politicians parents or grandparents on both sides experience WWll. For GB it's like dealing with the Na*is that did all this horrible stuff and that started the war their parents/grandparents had to deal with and for the Germans it's like dealing with the people that for example carpet bombed densely populated citys with phosphorus bombs. Stuff like this sits deep in both sides and there never really has been a real reconnecting moment so far
@@wunwun9974 I WAS talking about WW II and don’t see how that contradicts what I said. Especially since it worked both ways… Many German cities were nearly erased by the British. Have you ever seen pictures of Frankfurt or Dresden after the war? Of course that kind of stuff lingers. WHat I was saying was that we were occupying French (and Polish, and Norwegian etc,) soil! After the was, the French, the British, the Russians AND the Americans occupied German soil (some of which are still in Germany today)! That must have been a notch more humiliating and forcing the French into much more subversive and individual acts of resistance and caused even more problems (with soldiers looting and raping as soldiers so frequently do) than what the British experienced… In other ways, it was even more personal than what GB experienced.
@@Attirbful oh I didn't mean to contradict your comment at all. I just meant to add to it by further shining light on the hard past for both sides as you now again explained and digged even more into
The sad part about the bread is that I have the feeling that the variety shrinks. At least in bakerys. It is a pity that there are more bakery chains and less bakeries that bake themselves. I used to eat a delicious Müslibread from a bakery back in the 90s, but can’t find anything like that anymore.
Yes, we northern Germans are a little quieter than the other German ethnic groups, but not really more reserved. It just seems that way. I moved to the coast from Hanover 16 years ago and I love the people here. Extremely friendly, helpful and approachable, but also more considerate (hence quieter) and always trying not to disturb others. As a result, you don't get approached or involved in small talk that often. People smile when you speak to them, but not when they are just being, e.g. when shopping, walking, working. Looking each other in the eye is considered polite and so it can happen that someone looks at you without smiling, which can be misinterpreted as staring. If you look away, you miss the twitch in the corner of the mouth and the implied nod that corresponds to a polite greeting and miss the opportunity to get to know someone. But if you have a beer or tea with them, they won't be able to stop chatting.
@@janastratmann-severin1892 Achso ok... Auch wenn ich sie trotzdem Deutsch benennen würde, falls man mal in Deutschland ist helfen einem die englischen Namen kaum. (Auch wenn es bei Hannover ziemlich egal ist)
5:29 I actually live below this castle "Burg Hohenzollern" it has a small role in this movie "A cure for wellness" (the scene where they move up this round car ramp into the castle -it is also in the trailer) it is located in the community of Hechingen and is on the northen side of the swabian alps. I can see it literally EVER. SINGLE. MORNING when I go where ever I have to. But true... it is impressive.
About German dubbing: It's important to know that our dubbing is really good in comparison to others. There's no speech delay like you're showing - if it's good it really looks like the characters are speaking German. It's very much aligned with the lip movements.
hi or as we northern Germans say “moin”. I discovered your videos today and I really like them. You're incredibly philanthropic and that's just heartwarming. Here are a few facts that might interest you. English and Germans (and also French) even have the same ancestors. they were called germanic tribes or in German "Germanen". hence the names “German” and “Germany” in the English language. In particular, they even came from "Niedersachsen" what is called Lower Saxony in english. For example, this had an influence on the fact that the name England or English became established. Niedersachsen is "Lower SAXONY" and the English were Anglo-Saxons so "Angle SAXONY". "A" changed to "E" over the years "Engle" to England. They were people from northern Lower Saxony, where there is a region (the northernmost on the coast) that we call "Ostfriesland". Here a dialect called "Plattdeutsch" (what in German literally means the opposite of "High German") is used. "hochdeutsch" = high German "plattdeutsch" = low or flat German) This Low German has an incredible number of vocabulary in common with English. They are pronounced the same, just sometimes spelled slightly differently. I'm not a linguistic scientist and can therefore only estimate, but I suspect that the proportion of the same words as in English is at least 30%, possibly varying regionally and even higher in one or two villages. That is a lot. An Englishman and a German understand this dialect about equally well (or possibliy don't understand, but equally 😄), even though it's just the north of Germany. This shows once again pretty well that we all, all people, are actually one big family and all this difference is just unnecessary and stupid fiction.
When it comes to dubs you will be surprised about the german once. Over the years it has become its own thing and we have a lot of good voices. Its also done in a way where they try to come very close to the meaning of the original and they are very good in lip syncing. So it does look natural. Its so good I often watch the german and the english version of new shows and decide wich one to watch fully only on how the voices sound. And its a 50/50 split. But I will defenetly prefere a german dub over every sub I can get.
Doing dub-work is a good additional income for German actors too, as the TV and movie-market is not that big in Germany. That might be a reason why the dubs are really good in Germany, you have real good, trained actors as voice-actors. I'm pretty old, so before DVDs (and later streaming services) with an additional original language-track, you didn't even had the chance to chose between original and dubs. And it never bothered me. I tend to watch the original versions nowadays, so I have the comparison if I knew the German version beforehand, and I never feel like the original version is a lot better. Only exception is, if the movie or show relies heavily on the difference of English or American accents and slang, be it regional, ethnic or social classes. It's nearly impossible to translate accents without getting ridiculous by picking regional German accents as a replacement (for example dubbing a Scottish English accent to a Bavarian accent). That just don't work, it would be just silly.
@@mrtveye6682I agree with your points. The Last one u mentoined could be hilarius thought maybe Not as a full on movie but a short Clip dub. If done right. But yeah in a serious manner that won't Work
@@raffaelezingariello8304 But sometimes the german voices are a but dull compared to the english ones. I recognized that when I switched from the english to the german versions of Star Trek Next Generation (couldn't get the british channels anymore). On the other hand some of the female voices with very high squeaky tone are nice to be transfered to better sounding ones.
Some things can't be translated. Most often jokes and word plays. For example how do you translate the "jamming the radar" gag in Spaceballs? Or in School Rumble there is a good one where a male character when asked who a woman is to him "Watashi no Itoko." The gag being that itoko means cousin (different spelling for male and female) but is also her first name. So to the girl he is speaking to it sounds like she is his lover.
@@PeterBuwen : Bin Brittas Freund, wohne in Baden-Württemberg. Als meine Eltern noch eine kleine Nebenerwerbslandwirtschaft betrieben, kam es ab und zu vor , daß während der Heu- bzw. Öhmdernte eine Windhose durch das zum trocknen ausgebreitete Gras hindurch ging. Das leichte Gras wurde dabei wie bei einem kleinen Wirbelsturm in einer Art kreisenden Säule hochgerissen. Sah immer spektakulär aus und war, aufgrund der Kleinheit altwürttembergischer Wiesen, ruck-zuck vorbei. Das war überhaupt nicht gefährlich, nur ein Ärgernis, da man das zerwirbelte und teils fortgewehte Gras wieder zusammenrechen musste.
The Geography Now video is quite outdated unfortunately. But it gets a lot of things right. For example our solar energy is still growing but we are nowhere near the amount we wanted to be as government changed and had other ideas because lobbying is present a bit too much here. Also not everyone here likes these different kind of schools because if you don't go to the "Gymnasium" to get your "Abitur" you don't have too much possibilities and sometimes it's quite hard to get it again. They are discussing about a school model that combines all these different school types but Germany lacks in teachers to give students more individual teaching.
Important note: the book "Mein Kampf" got reworked and has a lot of notations on why wich things are bad etc. It was a big discussion couple years ago on if we should allow the reworked version to be sold or not. The original version however is still banned.
Another German here! I really love your video first of all, and secondly I actually prefer the original version of movies and series over the German dubbed version too by now, because of the same reason as you stated! I always find it weird how the mouth movements do not match the words and how, when the actor stopped speaking, sometimes the dub would continue speaking. 😂😂😂😅
14:25 Swabians are also sometimes descried as reserved, because most of them don't trust strangers (defined as persons addressing them in Standard German, which many Swabians descry as uppity or (with fast talkers) even as superficial). By the way: The "Swabian" dialect is for the most part not as thick as he states (except maybe for some villages in the Swabian Jura, but the same goes for some villages in the East of Bavaria) - Swabian is a North Alemannic dialect, which is closer to Standard German than other Alemannic dialects. Especially Lower or Neckar valley Swabian is heavily influenced by Standard German, while East Swabian (spoken around Ulm and in the Bavarian district Swabia) is more influenced by Bavarian. The most peculiar Swabian dialect would be Southwest Swabian, which in the South slowly fades into Lake Constance Alemannic. In the West of Baden-Württemberg they have an Upper Rhine Alemannic dialect, in the Southwest High Alemannic (which is virtually the same as Swiss German), and in the North Neckar Franconian and Tauber Franconian. 14:33 Cuckoo clocks have nothing to do with Bavaria. They were an export product of the Black Forest, made primarily for the British market. In the spring clockmakers and -traders from the Black Forest would shoulder their backpacks, often use the timber rafts of Black Forest trees floating down the Rhine to the Dutch shipyards and then ferry to England to sell their products. In the 19th century and the beginning 20th century some of them even moved to England and opened clockmaker's shops there, selling the clocks produced by their relatives back home. 16:00 Pfiat di Gott is the Bavarian translation for á dieu or adieu. In the Southwest you'll rather hear "adé", loaned from northern French, while in the Rhineland you'll hear variants of wallonic "adjuus" like "adjus" which became in Cologne and in middle German "Tschüss". 16:03 "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz" was the "short title" (putting "the most relevant" words of the "long" title into a single word) of a law in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern between 1999 and 2013. Such long compound words are in nearly any instance the "short title" of a minor law - I presume there is some kind of secret competition between law makers. In normal life you'll never hear something like that. The longest one so far was the decree "Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung", valid from 2003 to 2007 in Berlin. 17:30 German actors are by now very good at dubbing. In more as 90% of all cases the mouth movement will match the words. 17:45 The numbers differ. Since the Protestant churches lost more members than the Catholic church, the number of Catholics is now slightly higher: 24.8% of the population were registered as Roman Catholic in 2022, 23.7% as Protestant (but in both churches only about 3/4 say they believe in God). 43.8% are undenominational or irreligious, 3.2% Sunni Islam, 0.8% Alevi Islam.
I know what you mean, but I had my training in Husum (North Frisia) and there the cliché is true, people are really more introverted and also in a few villages in the area
Das kann ich bestätigen. ich komme aus dem Saarland und ich liebe Hamburg, und habe auch Freunde dort. Wenn man euch erst kennenlernt, seid ihr genau so offen und liebenswert wie alle anderen! Salût aus dem Südwesten.
Thüringerin hier: Ich wurde im Norden immer herzlich aufgenommen. Kann also nur zustimmen, dass der Norden herzlich ist. Bayern sind sehr arrogant, das liegt aber daran, dass ich ein Ossi bin (nach der Wende geboren, versteh ich also eh nicht) und die Bayern da noch am meisten in der Vergangenheit leben.
Hey, I´m from a small German town called Coburg which was the Hometown of Prince Albert, the Husband of Queen Victoria. Your Royal Albert Hall is named after him. Your Royal Family had close bonds to Germany which they skipped during WW2 and they even changed the family name during WW1 from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.
all the big countries in Europe (population wise) like France & Spain & Italy also translate / dub the films - that in turn also leaves the smaller countries to be more competent in different languages ...
Fun fact about Schloss Neuschwanstein: The thing is actually so big, with so many rooms that they never furnished or used them all. It was also ludicrously expensive. Probably one of the reasons King Ludwig II commited suicide. I visited there once but the queue was so long that we went to the neighbouring Schloss Hohenschwangau instead which is far less frequented and was built before Neuschwanstein. One thing about the Autobahn: Although there is indeed no speed limit, there is a recommended speed of 130 kph. If you're going faster than that you better know what you're doing. There's also "Gemeinschaftsschule" which combines different types of schools.Usually if there aren't enough kids to fill the specialised schools. Another important thing is what we call "den zweiten Bildungsweg" the secondary educational path. The Gymnasium is the normal way to go to university but there are other options that you can take later in life if you want to.
Ludwig der II wurde entmündigt. Er hatte den Bayrischen Staat fast in den Ruin geführt mit seiner Prunksucht. Sein Todesfall ist immer noch nicht richtig geklärt. Es kann ebenso Mord gewesen sein. Mit der Erklärung Selbstmord wurden die Untersuchungen abgeschlossen.
And i hope he will one day. But for now we are here on a RU-vid channel where the whole point is watching Videos together, so i recommended one. :) @@8Flokati8
5:36 fun fact. The dude, I think it was a king, who built this went around bankrupt building this thing. He wanted the castle to look fancy, but that did cost him. I'd say for the building it is now it was worth it
I met lots of english people while i still traveled a bit and i found out, that i really love their dry sense of humor, their way of speaking, and lots more. I always had the greatest time with british people and i think, we are still friends :-)
Depending on the region Tornados are actually relatively frequent in Germany, but they're usually not that intense and out there in the nowhere, therefore no big deal. Compared to the US-Tornado-alley we've it easy.
F4 und F5 Tornados sind Ereignisse die in der Region in der sie Auftraten in die Geschichte eingingen. Manche Orts kann man Gedenktafel sehen die an solchen Ereignissen erinnern.
My hometown Gelsenkirchen has a town partnership with Newcastle. This year our friends from Newcastle Bach Choir will visit us and wirh our choir Musikverein Gelsenkirchen we will have a great Brahms concert together in June. ❤🎉
About northern Germany he's a bit wrong.. The East part of Germany has a also northern region, which is way more similar to the part he describes as North Germany. Btw, both northern regions speak partially plattdeutsch, but in different variations of this dialect. And both regions have much in common, while still be different; and both a very different to the south.
As a low german speaker from Ostholstein , both Mecklenburg and Vorpommern feel nothing but northern to me or at least the coastal regions do. It's the food, the landscape, the language and the weather that unites all of us along the baltic.
Yes, the UK and Germany are very close and we both speak a Germanic language but that’s because the Germanic tribes (Jutes, Angles and Saxons) invaded the UK or rather London after the Romans left. They created Old English and it later got changed a bit by British people and now you have the English you speak today which is a Germanic language
Being a German I grew up with dubbed movies and shows and the first time I came in contact with subtitles was as a teenager in Sweden. My friends took me to a cinema and we have seen "Cable Guy" with its original dub and Swedish subtitles. I did understand half of it and coudn't rely on subtitles because they were in Swedish. As a child and teenager I enjoyed the German dub of shows because it's so conveniant and relaxing to see a show where you don't have to follow subtitles and constantly have to translate stuff in your head. Maybe that's why so many Germans have a really poor pronounciation of English words? As an adult I still like to see Star Trek and stuff with German dub. But there are a few exceptions. Shows like "Life on Mars" loose a lot in translation. I also prefere to watch anime with original Japanese dub and German subtitles because the German anime voice actors are mostly lacking skill compared to the highly professional (and very good paid) Japanese speakers. Also German voice actors in regular movies and shows are way better than anime voice actors. Every known actor has an own German voice actor, so as an example you can identify Bruce Willis from just hearing the German voice actor. A good example of a German dub is the old show "The Persuaders!". Rainer Brandt, the author of the German dub version, put some jokes in it and also changed the original text a lot. That's why that series was far more popular in Germany than in the US. Tony Curtis (one of the main actos), who understood enough German, admitted that the German script was so much better that he wanted Rainer Brandt to also write the original script. Sadly that never happend because Tony Curtis and Roger Moore (another main actor of the show) have quarrelled. Here are some other examples of notable German dubs: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SuperlativeDubbing/GermanDubs
We had a Tornado this year in Cologne. The damage was insane and the average speed of the Tornado was 240kmh. In Cologne the firefighter had to move out over 450 times in 24h. Edit: there is one more dialect you can learn in germany , its called Kölsch which is spokem in cologne and some smaller regions around Rheinland/cologne
"Germany has the third largest music market in the world..." < I don't know why every reactor skips this part! Especially from the UK (Beatles, Stones, Queen, S-Pistols... aso.). I do love german music! As Trump would say: "German music ist the best music in the world - period!" ... ok, Trump wouldn't say that! XD ... But I do comment that! XD
I‘m German and I can say, that for me the school system doesn‘t work! Not even a bit! I‘m at a Gymnasium and we are so many Children in class, that the teacher can‘t focus on teaching us properly. We learn so much that is not necessary! It‘s most time really loud in class and the better students are bored, becasue they are not beeing promoted enough. We have to less teacher, because no one wants to become a teacher, because the school system is so horrible! Greetings from Germany!
I am very sorry for you. That’s awful! The school system has been formed by well-meaning but stupid ideologues and doesn’t work. It was totally diff during my youth thirty years ago. Yes, large classes, but quiet concentration up to grade 13 and due to teacher focused learning a feeling of class community. Viel Erfolg trotzdem für dich und hoffentlich wird es in Zukunft wieder norz!
Fun fact about dubbing: Back in the days even The Beatles recorded some of their songs in German because the German market was interesting, but foreign lyrics were harder to sell. There is an interesting English article on wikipedia "Komm, gib mir deine Hand / Sie liebt dich".
My father came from Eastprussia. He once meet an Englisman in Black Forest who scaulded in Plattdeutsch "This would be Germans? No one is talking German!" My father talked to him in Platt and he said "Finally somone talks German!" They talked together and the Englisch told my father that he had learned "German" from two German prisoners of war which were on the farm of his father. They amprobky from the North of Genany and talked Platt.
did u know that the Windsors were a German house once? They changed their name due to ww1. Prussia and the UK were allies against France and Germany had very good diplomatic relations up until the Great War, not only because the German emperor and the English king were close family
Well the name Saxe Coburg Gotha was no longer well liked. First of all it proves the German family heritage, second, Gotha was also the brand name of the main bomber type bombing England in WW1. Btw. Gotha, where I was born, and the whole area along the Thuringia part of the A4 Autobahn incl. Jena, Weimar, Erfurt and Eisenach is worth visiting. Beautiful cities, towns and landscape. And great food!
I prefer media to be dubbed. Either I watch it in the original without subtitles or, if I don´t speak the language, I watch the dubbed version. I don´t want to have to look at the TV for 3 hours straight instead of listening and cuddling my dogs.
It is interesting about the colder areas being more reserved. I'm a Brit living in Norway, and I got to international classes to learn Norwegian, so you meet a lot of people from all different parts of the world, and hear what they think of people here! A lot of the people from hotter countries are more gregarious and like to have lots of people around them and a lot of noise and chatter. You hear people complaining that Norwegians are cold and reserved, but I actually think that's a bit unfair. They're maybe less chatty with strangers than us Brits, but I've found them friendly and genuine, they're just very respectful of each other's privacy and personal space. I reckon it might be because, when you're cooped up with people for six months of winter, you have to have boundaries so you don't get on each other's nerves!
Gotta say something about the Schools in Germany this Video made it look like its some fancy system where people can go somewhere fitting to there personal skills ... Its just 3 levels of Education mostly made of the same stuff and teaching and around 60% huste to get the first lv because its the licence to go to University. Its not like you learn skills of a trade more than to a very limited time of the school week like maybe 10% and only in the higher grades. What we do have is the "Duale Ausbildung" a School parallel to an apprenticeship which is really something great :D
German dub is amazing!! A lot of voice actors are so popular that people are standing in really long lines to get an autograph ✍️ of their favorite voice actors! It’s a real and very difficult occupation (if that is the right word).
I love love love our trisectional German school system... and it is not set in stone: If a kid is a late bloomer, he or she can still transfer to the next more difficult school: Hauptschule -> Realschule -> Gymnasium. Hauptschule ends after 10th grade, and it is meant for kids who are into practical things and thus more likely will become apprentices in skilled crafts and trades (mason, carpenter, car mechanic, hair dresser, till girl etc.), Realschule ends after 10th grade, too, and it is for kids that will most likely work in a bit more challenging jobs like nurse, insurance salesman, administrative staff, electrician and so on. Gymnasium trains the more learned kids until 13th grade to either become an apprentice (bank clerk, legal secretary, nurse with anaesthetics as specialty, medical technologist, pharmacy technician, industrial management assistant etc.) or go to university.
Hm, not sure if solar power would work so well in Britain. When i was in Brighton, the sky was all cloudy from noon on. So wind power makes perfect sense. Germany has got F2 tornados every now and then. Maybe 1 to 3 a year. My hometown has been devastated by one. German dub industry is top notch. It's literally voice acting. If you ever come to Germany, please bring some brown sauce and malt vinegar 😄 It's almost impossible to get here.
Total Number of Tornadoes in Germany ranges from 30-60 per Year. In the 2000s the Average was ca. 40 per Year with 6 strong ones. Which interestingly is the roughly the same Percentage as found in the US. Of course Total Number of these Storms in the US is higher due to the large size of the country and large size of its main Tornado Zone. But outside of that there aren´t many.
@@plutoniumlollie9574 Sadly barely anybody knows. Its quite funny when one happens and there are Videos all over Social Media and People in the Comments still claim they don't exist and call it anything but not Tornado. A few Years ago there was a violent Tornado ripping through a French Town, completely destroying Brick houses and killing 3 People and Media still was calling it Mini-Tornado. That Year, globally, there has only been one single Tornado being stronger (in Iowa). In general there seems to be some kind of ignorance towards disasters in Germany. With Tornadoes thats not a huge Problems since annual Casualties are low, but with other Events a better knowledge in society would help reducing the bad Impacts.
To see this things, just come along for two or three month of holidays. You don't want to be in a hurry. The castle of Neuschwanstein had no hitorical use, except the idea of a crazy Bavarian king. Most of the little Tornados do not harm anything, but some years ago there where a few tornados, that ruined some roof and cracked some trees. Ok, if you want to try all bread types ... they are more then 3000 so that will take some time.
Neuschwanstein castle is the original castle from Sleeping Beauty :) And therefore was used as inspiration for the Disney castle, because it's the ultimate fairy tale location :)
Hi Dwayne! Thank you for your sweet reactions! ☺️🙏 I agree, our countries should be best buddies! I have colleagues in the UK, we have friends in Scotland and I love Scottish whisky, London and the beautiful landscapes in the UK! 😁 I was very sad, when UK has stepped out of EU, but it’s like it is… A fact, that wasn’t mentioned, is, that we start learning English in school in 5th year (at least when I was a school kid 😁, today some kids can learn English in the Kindergarten), the next language (Latin or French or Spanish) follows later. Most Germans are trying their best to understand a foreigner… ☺️ I‘m from North Germany, living for quite some time in Northrine-Westphalia and yes, people appear to be more ‚open‘ here, but this is only at the surface. Becoming friends is as difficult or easy in North Germany or Northrine-Westphalia - it depends on your personal way of communicating 😁 You would have a blast in Hamburg: they have the nicest accent in German imho and are very friendly! Talking to a North German, you should be quite clear on phrasing 😁 like, if you ask „Excuse me, do you know the time?“ a North German might tell you: (look at the watch) „Yes! Do you want to know it, too?“ 😁 My tipp: be precise or enjoy the answers! 👊😀 I hope, you find the time to visit Germany one day! You are welcome! 🤗
