That's a common phenomenon: People speak different languages in different pitches. I think American women for example have higher pitched voices compared to french women. Now if a french woman speaks English she's likely to talk in a higher pitched voice. I'm not sure why that happens but it's a real thing.
@@90sHONEY I have this too lol if I'm speak English people think I'm like 20 but if I speak German and especially if they don't understand German they say I sound like a 29 year old Russian My voice is much higher in English but I think it's cuz I try to speak smoother if I speak normal I have a accent and sounds much deeper
I think one speaks a second language at a higher pitch because one is concentrating more intently on every word, whereas in L1 one speaks casually and therefore at a lower pitch. It's much the same reason why one's pitch rises when one is excited or furious -- greater intensity.
Why not saying 'can I practice my German? When it's to complicated we switch back to English?' Most people are understanding and appreciate the willingness from foreigner to learn another language. I adore Chris Pratt for that.
Another possibility: you speak german so you can practice and your german and swiss colleagues can answer in englisch, if they want. If you make mistakes they can correct you and repeat it. I do this with a friend of mine. He is a mix of Amarican/Brasilien/German. Grew up in the States. So he get a chance to speak german with me
Ooooh, großartig. 😍Ich freue mich immer, wenn Ausländer deutsch sprechen wollen. Aber ich muss zugeben... wenn sie es nicht explizit sagen, switche ich auch immer schnell ins Englische.😉
Den Mann muss man einfach lieben. So niedlich wenn er deutsch spricht und einfach super sympathisch. Das er noch so verdammt gut aussieht ist natürlich ein kleiner Bonus ;)
So fricken true! Everytime I go to Germany and want to practice my German, I end up speaking English because their English is so much better than my German :) I just need to learn to compromise!
He even has an accent, though, I couldn’t tell you what region. I just remember having a teacher that lived in Germany somewhere and she sounded like this. Interesting!
I'm Italian and I have business in tourism, and Yes... I confirm what Chris said, lot of Germans speak English very well. ...more than Italians and Franch. ;)
From the US, I was in Germany for a month when my parents lived there (they worked at Landstuhl medical hospital, so everything was typically all in English) but lived in a German town. I learned a little bit of rudimentary German but most of the time when I tried to talk the native Germans would just respond to me in English. I think they appreciated me trying though.
@@tjhall9377 Yeah sometimes I have American customers because near us is an American Army Base and some try to speak to me in German but then I think "oh my" and just answer in English and then everything is faster.
I understood almost everything except "aslam(?)" when he was speaking about Chris Evans... Anyone know what he was saying? The subtitles weren't very helpdul.
Omg, ich kann nicht glauben, dass er deutsch kann. Ich würde mich so gerne mal mit ihm unterhalten. Wir könnten mal auf Englisch und mal auf deutsch reden und vielleicht beide die jeweils andere Sprache lernen. Omg, I can't believe he can speak german. I would love to talk to him. We could talk in English and sometimes in german and maybe both learn the other language.
That's why I just say: i don't speak English, luckily i speak Spanish too and if they try their English on me i say something in Spanish and we have to speak German unbedingt haha
I had the same issue when my school did the foreign exchange, Germans just can’t get enough of English for some reason. Hell, it feels like half the words German speakers use now are English words…
I visited Germany for 2 weeks in high school, the first or second day I was relatively frustrated that most people would speak English to me after a few sentences. They explained that the people were just trying to be polite as most Germans speak English quite well, they were trying to communicate in a way that would be easier for me.
Actually it could be a german name. Uncommon but could be. I personally know someone with the name "Patt" so yeah it could be. Don't let them fool you. There are so many uncommon or let's say rare names in Germany that you can not rule "Pratt" out. To me it sounds like a name from the south.
Ich weiß genau was er meint, das er immer Leute trifft die Englisch sprechen, 😅 gutes Englisch ist halt wesentlich weiter verbreitet als gutes Deutsch... Dann läuft es meist auf Englisch hinaus. Ein guter Freund von mir ist Däne und obwohl Deutsch dort weiter verbreitet ist, sprachen wir immer Englisch miteinander.
jennifer is like "wtf is happenening?" chris is married to arnolds daugther, so he should speak at least a little "german/austrian", but this was unexpected...
Tja da hat der gute Chris schon Recht, uns wird es ja beigebracht Englisch zu sprechen, so haben englischsprachige Leute kaum eine Chance ihr Deutsch zu üben :D
Me as a person who speaks 4 languages, thinking why is everyone treating him as if he has achieved something inconceivable. 2 years old non-German kids speak better German than him after 2 weeks of studying. He is just enunciating bunch of words, not even a proper sentence.
