Germany German VS Swiss Germanㅣ Can they Understand Each Other?(Pronunciation Differences) 

I can't believe you're back , good see your return , Christina , hope see more of you 😊

Does joshua have Instagram?

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Madre del amor hermoso, niña. Lo tuyo no es normal 😭😱😱💔

It was so much fun! :)

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​@@ChristinaDonnelly Your accent is a pleasure ❤

In Zug it's also both: Danke and Merci.

How can People even think it is a Language without Grammar ? :D Makes no Sense..

thanks for pointing this out! I always have to correct people that grammar and spelling are two completely differnent things

Thanks for pointing that out. I was just about to write it down. And then there's luzern: "häsch dä frau xeh?“ Yap, they say; "en frau/dä frau." Fun fact? XD

@@MammiJoyi‘m from lucerne and no one here would say that😅

Yeah, he's like a Final Fantasy villain

@@Frey_2026 I literally spat out my coffee from laughing so hard at your comment. LOL

Bros forcing it

@@daimsaeedand of course you would know that ;)

I Think he Eastern German..He stills on 80s

I think people just confuse it with orthography, which isn't really a thing in swiss german. Xi, gsi and ksi are all the same word, and while the first one is an abomination unto the lord, all three are correct and in use.

Same 😆

i was a bit disappointed when she didn't say sekklä

and laufe as loufe

One of the few words I remember in Swiss German XD

in fact germans could also say hospital. there are more words for it you could also say "Klinik". but most used word is krankenhaus

@@popokaka4763 In Dutch "kliniek" is more a specialized building for one or two specialist, "ziekenhuis" is the bigger hospitals.

ah okay :)@@N3v3r_S3ttl3

​@@N3v3r_S3ttl3in Portuguese too, but we say "clínica".

​@@popokaka4763in Spain hospital have many more specialties and are bigger the same than in many countries i suppose😊😅..

"Joshua is always so good at speaking with his accent, either English or German"... Where else could I hear him speak, please? Who is he? Is he well-known in Germany?

I support this idea

are they even that different?

@edwardcorrea3950 alot of differences in some words tbh

Dutch and Belgian would be able to understand each other better than between Dutch/Belgian and Afrikaans, which I think would be mostly a one way thing, that the former should be able to understand the other 2 better.

And Flemish?no one dig that language...

That’s interesting. Why didn’t they speak Hoch Deutsche, which I’m sure they would be more proficient in since it’s a language they learnt in school?

@@estellemelodimitchell8259 for some reasons, from my experience, bavarians refuse to speak high german, at least the older people

Eddie lives in the States so that's the reason of confusion 😅

​@@KiaraKitsune they just cant speak the standard idiom, thats all 😅

​@@KiaraKitsune they just cant speak the standard idiom, thats all 😅

There was a video 5 months ago of Joshua being scolded by an American girl for using a British accent

@@Kane_2001yeah, she was so rude to him

@@Kane_2001 i was tryna find the video but couldnt. Could you possibly provide me the link to that video or tell me the title?

@@masaru340 hey man could you provide me the link to that video or tell me the title, i need to watch the video.

@@Grimsyreaper while I'm not gonna start looking for it myself, it was a video of a bunch of Europeans trying to guess each other nationalities. should be easy enough to find

His videos barely got any views, so I doubt they’ll ever invite him back anytime soon, mark my words, this is the last time you’ll have seen him

What is his Channel? I just LOVE his Voice. ❤

What does geseien mean ?

Yeah I guess if he had had to answer first, he wouldn't have used "daheim". Also I think he would have used Präteritum and not Perfekt. It's more common to say "Gestern war ich zuhause" than "Gestern bin ich zuhause gewesen". That's another big difference between swiss-german and german. In swiss-german there is only one past tense (only Perfekt)

I think in general North Americans (as far as my own experience as a Canadian goes) don’t generally know the etymology of the words we use in English. I think since English is such a dominant language in the world now, less people seem to be aware not only of its origins (for example the fact that it was partly derived from German), but also aren’t fully aware of the pronunciations and words of other languages (again, I do mean this GENERALLY, not to mean everyone). If you think about it, both Canada and the US are on a completely separate continent from many of the languages of the world, and though many foreigners seem to travel here, the majority of us tend to be from here and many foreigners also learn English and speak it quite well, so we don’t get much exposure. As opposed to, say, British people, who are very close to several countries in Europe that speak many foreign languages, and you can literally drive to the countries, which is much more affordable/accessible than flying. So I would imagine lots of tourists, lots of tourING, lots of exposure themselves. This is all my conjecture. But yeah, I think we don’t really think about these things. Even words like entrepreneur or foyer, which come from French (and French is the second language in Canada), I think most of us generally don’t even think about the fact that they’re French words until someone points it out (and then in retrospect it’s obvious). I think the pronunciation also can be so different from the original that we wouldn’t draw the connection, either, until we’re learning that language (like seeing “stool” come up in German to mean chair, we might think, “Oh, that’s easy. I know that one”, and maybe not think any deeper than that… lol Also if you take a word like karaoke, which we pronounce like “carry-o-key”, versus the Japanese pronunciation of “kah-rah-oh-kay”, it’s a bit hard to draw the connection, although I think at least with this word, it’s generally known that karaoke was borrowed from Japan. I think, anyway…)

Isn't barn or bairne or sth like that a word for child in English, too? But somewhere around Scotland, Ireland and/or the North of England, I think (bc of the Danelaw and Vikings in general)

@@MellonVegan Well, I’ll be darned. Never heard that one (though it makes sense since I’ve never been to Scotland lol). A quick google says it takes its origin from Old English, written as “bearn” (btw, apparent “bairn” is the correct spelling of the Scottish English version).

Bc it's the same language group: Alemanic

I think he is from Baden-Württemberg

@@maja-kehn9130 yeah, several tells there that I think I heard, like saying gfangen instead of gefangen, using "daheim" instead of "zu Hause" and I'm not sure if that counts but at least every example of a German speaking with that more monotone (sounds so negative but I don't mean it in a negative way) voice in their lower register that I have heard is from BW.

Basel german is similar to Bade-Würtenberg dialect, but more you go south and more different it is. Swiss German has problems to understand Wallis German for example.

You have to remember that words that have a Ch in Swiss German normally have a K in High German. In the ears of a Swiss German speaker, the aspirated sound of a CH therefore sounds softer than that of a K.

Yep. And the German guy some Low German, to spice it up. Like birsen for to run. 😉

@@b_bobsch6785 we don't know from which region Joshua is, so depending on where he comes from, he most likely doesn't know "low-german" or platt-deutsch as we call it

Guetsli - Keks - Cookie just came to my mind

Mii erscht Gedanke be „run“ isch au secklä gsie, hät au ghofft, dass t Wörter echli „exotischer“ usgwählt worde wäred

Haha I'm American but I'm learning both German and Norwegian and was going to write something similar. The word "house" or "huus" for Swiss people sounds just like the Norwegian word for house, "hus", except with a less Germanic "u" umlaut sound (like what a lot of Norwegian "u"s sound like). Also, my German professor in college played a video once of a Swiss German speaking hochdeutsch (standard German) and it was actually kind of funny to me because it basically sounded like typical hochdeutsch but with the constant mix of high and low sounding notes that I hear oftentimes in Norwegian.

for me, Brazil in here swiss german sounds swedish, i know some swedish (reading and write at most) i wasn't 100% wrong haha

she refers explicit to "nordic" at 7:13"

Around the year 1470 there was a big migration wave from sweden to some central swiss cantons

It's the same in the west

Ihr sagt in Norddeutschland auch daheim? Interessant. Wie weit im Norden ist denn das?

@@DEUTSCH-kurzundknackig Also ich hab das noch nie gehört...

Daheim kenne ich zwar, genutzt habe ich es noch nie. Ist bei uns nicht üblich, bin Norddeutscher Plattsnacker.

@@DEUTSCH-kurzundknackig Ist eher eine etwas neuere Geschichte, dass sich das im Norden verbreite. Ich sags persönlich auch (bin aus und in NRW), aber ich habs von südlichen Mundarten aufgegriffen (ebenso wie gell oder net). Ist einfach ne Konsequenz der besseren Vernetzung untereinander. Inzw. sagt ja auch jeder Diggi, nicht nur die Hamburger.

It'd be cool if they could put an Amish guy in the mix, see what Germans make of that dialect. Of course, it's my understanding that there aren't very many Amish people living in S. Korea, mostly due to the problem of finding a horse that is a strong enough swimmer.

@@EddieReischl It's a lot, if we go like this, there are many Germanic Creole languages in America, the list is very long.

@@EddieReischl i watched some videos on that and the Amish slang is just the Palatinan dialect, mixed with some Badenian. Fun fact: exact the region where Grandpa Trump is from 😉😉

@@DcobosarenasMusic Hi Diego, the most popular one is Pennsylvania "Dutch", which is mainly the dialect of Palatina.

I really want to take up the cudgels for the Palatinans. They are so nice people, can get emotional some time, yes, but still down-to-earth. Another celeb from there was former chancellor* Helmut Kohl (served 1982-1998). * equivalent to prime minister, so head of government

Lol that is true too although, for some reason, when I first saw the thumbnail I thought maybe he was trying to dress like a 1700s American colonist

​@@PurpleCastleshe is From Final Fantasy...a girl told me four or five comments above...

Gotcha, that'll do it

Yeah, I found that a little confusing.

I was wondering about that. I studied a small amount of German in high school, so when he said “Laufen”, I was like, “… wait… what?” Haha

That really depends. If you want to say "we're walking" as in we're not driving, that'd absolutely be "wir laufen", almost 100% of the time. "Wir gehen" can sometimes also mean "we're leaving" as in "we're going". So it just depends. Gehen can be to go or to walk, laufen can be to walk or to run, rennen always means to run. For context: I grew up near Dortmund, my parents are from NRW, too (but further West) and I now live in Münster.

@@MellonVegan Well, they say laufe for walking, springe for running, and lupfe for jumping. And the foot goes up to the hip, while the hand goes up to the shoulder. And holding is the same as lifting.

@@MellonVegan Cool! Thanks for the info!

Nah - Austrians are a lot easier to understand :) With the Swiss it get's more difficult by the word - the longer the conversation lasts the less you understand. As a native German speaker you'll most likely get the idea but it's hard to follow.

it was borrowed from middle high german but later modern german lost it

gestern war ich daheim, oder zuhause.

ja geht auch@@uliwehner

I've been learning German, when I heard this sentence, I though could be 'Gestern war ich zu hause' is that wrong?

yes thats absolutely correct. there are a few different sentence structures to say yesterday i was at home. "gestern war ich zu hause" would be one most germans would say@@RafaelpSalvador

Woher kommen Joshua? Wo wohnen Sie? Maybe that was a hint for those of us from the US who aren't super familiar with the dialects or beginners speaking German.

Same. Swiss German has so many "RCHKRCHRKRRCHR" sounds. It's infinitely harsher than Standard German. But yes, they add lots of "li" at the end to make up for it.

Same to me. There are some sounds that remind me of Dutch and I can't do them. German (the one spoke by Joshua) it's easier.

@@angyML fUNNY LITTLE THING: A DUTCH AND A SWISS CAN UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER IF BOTH SPEAK VERY SLOWLY AND HAVE AN EAR FOR LANGUAGES

Because it is

@@shanwyn While that is true, that goes for a lot of language pairs. When I went to Norway, I had no trouble understanding at least the gist of people's conversations there (I'm German).

He said: "Ich war fischen und hab ganz viele Fische gefangen" (I was fishing and caught lots of fish). A more correct translation would be "Wir sind angeln gegangen und haben viele Fische gefangen" (We went fishing and caught lots of fish).

@@andyx6827 I guess it really depends where exactly you're from - born in Saxony and raised in Berlin here - I would always say "Wir waren angeln und haben viele Fische gefangen."

His use of "fischen" for fishing sounds a bit odd to me, guess he let himself influence by the English word. It's not wrong, but for me "fischen" is more like with a trawler. With a fishing rod ("Angel") I would have used "angeln" instead. English has the related word "angling".

That's because Spital is a shortened version of Hospital which is also a word in German but is not commonly used nowadays.

just one of the regular latin words

in germany you can also say hospital (not spital) but it not so common we mostly use krankenhaus

Actually, in Germany you can say Krankenhaus, Klinik, Hospital or Spital. But using Hospital and even more so Spital is really old fashioned.

@@popokaka4763 I googled it and it looks like I guessed it, it's from Austrian German. In Czech, it's slang word, in Polish it's their default word (szpital), but it looks like we have it from Austria which makes sense.

@@Flo-vn9ty It's probably from Austrian German, I already googled it. That makes sense when we were part of one Empire, but they use that word even in Polish and only small part of Poland was in Austria-Hungary, so it's still weird.

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He didn’t use it on purpose. Most people who watch this don’t any speak German. And he wanted to make it easier for Non-German folks to spot the differences. So if he changes too much, people won’t spot all the more important differences anymore, neither will they the similarities because it would just sound completely different to them. So his answer was inspired by the Swiss lady, not deviate too much because otherwise Non-Germans only hear the differences without hearing the similarities anymore.

Maybe if every language was Germanic, but that's not even close to reality.

In every Germanic language would be right.

Dutch colonies

and the witch from Addams family

@@NeutralDice 😂

Mein erster Gedanke war auch Süddeutschland. Aber er sagt "Switzerdütsch" statt "Schwyzerdütsch" 🤔😬

He doesn't look like a dog to me. 😂