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You've probably heard about Hochdeutsch - "High German" - by now. What is it? And why does it matter?
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@MrDVTO 3 года назад

6:12 As a native English speaker, I feel that "...this is how the elite speaks" should actually be "...this is how the elite speak". For some reason, "the elite" isn't a group of people such that it becomes a noun but rather "elite" remains an adjective so it implies "the elite people" which is plural. Egal, Ihr Englisch ist trotzdem perfekt. Vielen Dank für alles was Sie machen :)

@DeutschFuerEuch 3 года назад

Ah, fair point, thanks! So same group as "police" then, huh? Will be remembering that. Though I always thought it was due to it being a collectivist term - so "elite" and "police" would be assumed to be plural because they are clearly a group of people summarized in one word. Kind of the opposite of "news" which sounds like it should be plural, but isn't. "The good news is..." Contrast with German either way - we definitely say "Die Elite sagt..." und "Die Polizei kommt!"

@MrDVTO 3 года назад

@@DeutschFuerEuch "The audience" is singular, however :) Ich würde Ihren kommentar lieben statt liken aber ich weiß nicht wie.

@DeutschFuerEuch 3 года назад

@@MrDVTO hehe, das kann nur ich, weil es mein Kanal ist. Privileg! 😉

@danluckner 3 года назад

@@DeutschFuerEuch Me, as a native Portuguese speaker, makes more sense to hear "the elite speaks" than "the elite speak" as well, because in Portuguese plural nouns (and articles) always end with 's'. For example: "A elite fala" means "the elite speaks" - singular. "As elites falam" mean "the elites speak" - plural. @MrDVTO I appreciate your explanation on how it implies a plural noun as "the elite people". Thanks!

@KiranDigavalli 3 года назад

Ich würde sagen dass normalerweise das Singular "speak" nach einer Substantive, die eine Gruppe impliziert, zu britscher Englisch gehört, während das plural zu amerikanischer Englisch gehört.

@BrettVano 3 года назад

Thank you for another fun and helpful video! I'm looking forward to the next one. Best of luck with your studies. :)

@Narrowgaugefilms 3 года назад

My Dad was born in New York, but until he went to Kindergarten spoke Schwäbisch, because that's what my grandparents spoke at home (at this stage of the game, only Grandpa spoke "Englisch".). Later on he decided to take the easy "A" in High School German and found out pretty much the first day of class that their "German" wasn't HIS "German". The easy "A" slipped out of reach: he learned Hochdeutsch with the rest on the kids in his class. Much later, I went to the same High School and German wasn't even taught anymore.

@melesiotorres6744 3 года назад

Schönen Nachmittag, vielen Dank für den Post.

@suchgreatheights8841 3 года назад

I remember watching your videos years ago. Because of you I've was able to give directions to people visiting from Austria and Germany when they came to the states.

@alosaily1 3 года назад

It was really good to watch this video and learn more about you.

@drallagon 3 года назад

I came to Germany in 2017 with A1 level and learned at the university until C1.1 and managed to get the DSH2 in two years. Even then I really would have loved to have a teacher with linguistic knowledge like you (I'm also a linguistics major, but portuguese and latin specialization). During all my journey I had the same teacher, and everytime I had a question she would refuse to answer (or not at all understand it) by saying that was too advanced for our level. Lo and behold, I have many holes in my knowledge (I start talking about something and come to the realization I don't have vocabulary for that topic) and my pronunciation really sucks because she wouldn't correct us for fear of looking racist or something. Funny enough, at work (when I had one lol) I'd write emails and often older collegues couldn't understand what I meant, even when I double checked my grammar and couldn't find any problems.

@Bitagoras 3 года назад

I'm learning English and German, so this channel it's perfect for both... 😊😊😊😊

@johnmehaffey9953 3 года назад

When I was first in Germany and trying to learn German the hotel owner we stayed with his mother said I spoke Plattdeutsch, I think she was being polite and telling me to learn and speak German properly, funny thing is that after not speaking German for more than 40 years when my wife and I went to Germany on holiday I could still understand most of what was being said but I couldn’t remember most of what I was taught but after a couple of days I began to be able to communicate again but I was still translating in my mind before I spoke whereas before I was able to speak immediately and I’ve reverted back to translating again, it’s hard to explain but it proved to me that if you don’t use the language you soon forget I’m in my 70s now and was a late learner,so keep using your German or you will lose the ability to speak fluently

@witchyvicar 3 года назад

This is an interesting video. I live in Switzerland, and my landlady (who's in her 80s) has helped me learn some Swiss German, but she always tells me that I "don't want to learn Swiss German" and that I should just stick with Hochdeutsch. Although, living here in Zürich, I still want to learn at least some of the Swiss German, because some of it is cute. :) (Like Schoggi for chocolate...)

@DeutschFuerEuch 3 года назад

Oh yeah, it's super cute, isn't it? Don't let the Swiss hear that though, they will make teasing remarks about you that you can't even understand :( ;) But more importantly, I think it's an integral part of really feeling at home and as part of the community in Switzerland, exactly because it is such a big factor in identity. So your landlady is being very humble & kind, but I don't think she's completely right :) Bit envious of you for living in Züri! Beautiful down there :)

@witchyvicar 3 года назад

@@DeutschFuerEuch It really is. And yeah, the Swiss are a bit proud about their Swiss...well...Swiss everything. :) True, about identity, although, the way she was telling it to me, it makes me wonder if somewhere along the line someone told her she sounded stupid or something because she didn't use Hochdeutsch somewhere. (And if that really is the case, that's sad.) And yeah, I love Züri! I'm so glad my wife and I moved here!

@LittleImpaler 2 года назад

It's pointless to learn another German dialect. Because most German don't. They speak hochdeutsch. That's why she said what she said. It won't help you.

@aymanalfred1498 3 года назад

very informative danke

@reasonandlogic4652 3 года назад

You look alright to me! I used to watch you when your videos first came out. You have not changed a bit!

@danlyle531 3 года назад

I'm impressed by your British RP accent Katja! It's the closest we have to a standard dialect. RP was also known as BBC English (BBC stands for British Broadcasting Corporation) because of its prevalence on British radio and TV. However in recent years, there has been more of a push to get regional accents on TV. Now you'll often hear Northern accents (which were traditionally associated with the working class) on TV. However, I wouldn't say you truly get other dialects on TV, but the line between dialects and accents with regionalisms has been blurring over the last 100 years in Britain. These regionalisms could be how you pronounce the word bath ("ah" in the South, "a" in the North) or what you call a bread roll (where my family's from, they call it a batch, but I call it a roll.) From watching German TV and other media, it seems like it's all Hochdeutsch. I definitely appreciate it as it makes it easier to understand everything, but it makes the idea of going to a place like Vienna or Zürich quite scary, as the dialects spoken are so different to the written language. It sounds like in those cases, it's a lot more than just regionalisms. It's not just a case of saying "Servus" or "Grüezi" but learning to understand a completely different way of speaking!

@ABlytheCoach 3 года назад

Fascinating! I had no idea that is a geographical distinction, not a status designation, thanks for sharing :)

@DeutschlernenmitMax 3 года назад

Super Katja 😃😃 Du sprichst mega gut Englisch & Deutsch!! Ich drücke dir die Daumen für dein Examen 🙏 Du schaffst das!! Ganz liebe Grüße, Max 🇩🇪🙋‍♂️

@greatboredompineappl 3 года назад

My only German “immersion” experiences (aside from briefly learning from my mother whose parents were from Berlin and spoke German at home) were in Switzerland, Austria and Bavaria. When I speak German I often get told that I sound like I have a Southern accent

@LittleImpaler 2 года назад

This is true. My German teacher told me I spoke too properly that I sounded I was speaking Shakespeare. I didn't care, because the German love how educated I was for an American. I had a really good German teacher that had an German accent when he spoke. And he was American.

@feras197771 3 года назад

thank you ,

@merc340sr 3 года назад

You look AMAZING! XOXO

@korzalm 3 года назад

Great content. Great sound and visual æsthetics. I guess people here would enjoy hearing your experience and comment on this less known language, Russian. Also, English speling shud be consistently regularized.

@kingbeauregard 3 года назад

About English spelling: I will argue that it SHOULDN'T be consistently regularized. I agree that English is unacceptably inconsistent, but if we want to make English extremely consistent, consider the problems that arise with different accents and dialects, plus how pronunciations shift over time. If words must conform to how they're actually being pronounced, then the spelling of words needs to change depending on the speaker. Based on my writing, can you tell what sort of accent I have? You can't, nor can I tell what sort of accent you have. It doesn't matter; we spell words the same, however we might pronounce them.

@korzalm 3 года назад

@@kingbeauregard good concern, partner. I and others still consider these different dialectal pronunciation in a "moderate" reform proposal, which is: apply the spelling rules to all words. Regions that have specific and very different pronunciations could have different spellings, as occurs in other languages. For example, "data" pronounced [deyta] follows the normal rule. "Data" pronounced [dæta] should be spelt with two "t"s: datta. Others: thru, tho etc.

@1650dunbar 3 года назад

Before the 17th century until Harry Potter was translated into Plattdeutsch, Niederdeutsch was also a Schriftsprache. Niederdeutsch isn't really a dialect, but a separate language, that's closer to Dutch than Hochdeutsch. Viel Glück bei deinen Prüfungen!

@keidun 3 года назад

Ich hoffe, deine Prüfungen laufen gut ... Du kannst es schaffen, ich habe Vertrauen in dich ... Großartige Lektion heute ... Ich hoffe, eine im nächsten Monat zu sehen ... wenn du nicht zu viel feierst und den Schulabschluss feierst. .. Du siehst jünger aus als vor ein paar Jahren ... was ist dein Geheimnis ...

@felixbach379 3 года назад

Really interesting is, that German has three "standard German", the Swiss German, the Austrian German, and the German German, which are all more or less artificial but very helpful for interregional communication.

@halbrody4513 3 года назад

Your English is flawless (American English). Can’t imagine you’ll have any problems with your exam. Thx for all.

@kikithedisneyfan5607 2 года назад

Dankeschön so sehr für Antworten mein Gedanke über Deutsch, ich hatte diese Gedanke für ein LAAAANGE Zeit. Mein Gedanke war “Werden Menschen verstehen mich wenn ich war zu sprechen Deutsch wie Englisch” wie jetzt! 😀😀

@ricardoramirez3914 3 года назад

Hello, i just resuscribed to your channel. I love when you speak more in german, otherwise i learn 80 English 20 German, please make it 50 and 50 if possible. BTW you need no light to shine! Grüße aus Mexiko! Vielen Dank!

@herrprofessor 3 года назад

There's a very popular myth/stereotype/urban legend saying that perfect Hochdeutsch is spoken in Hannover and surroundings, but what Tagesschau newsreaders speak is an artificial intonation, nobody speaks like that in the street, but those professionals actually have elocution lessons to improve their diction in order to be understandable and objective. Alles Gute und viel Glück aus Spanien Carlos M.S.

@user80204 3 года назад

Do you have german's course could I join?!

@surkewrasoul4711 2 года назад

I had no idea you are learning russian, I am very interested , any advice on how to learn it ? Ofcourse I am already going to learn german 😊

@trickycoolj 3 года назад

When my family was vacationing in Austria and we stopped for a birthday lunch at an Alm in the mountains the other patrons of the restaurant thought we were all Americans! Turns out *I* was the only American in our group, the rest of my family is from the Siegerland where R is pronounced hard almost like an American accent! It was a funny exchange: "Where in America are you from?" "She's from Seattle" "Where are the rest of you from?" "Siegen.... in NRW" 😂

@shamimrahman5766 3 года назад

so schön dich zu sehen..☺️Du bist das schönste Mädchen der Welt☺️☺️

@-E-s-o 3 года назад

I'm born german and still live in germany, I have a different kind of high german, It's fairly hard to understand and the letters are nigh impossible to read for someone who didn't learn the same varity, it has up and down sides.

@zarabiddappa4445 2 года назад

I speak hochdeutsch but only people from austria respond to me so I was wondering if it was Austrian German and that's why they spoke it back

@curiousmind3916 3 года назад

I am from Hannover ✌🏼

@Ibrahim_Hakami79 Год назад

just say it's the "common tongue" and leave it at that 😊

@DHilly95 3 года назад

When she hit the new york accent I hoped to god she was gonna say "dead ass"

@feliz5919 3 года назад

💀💀💀

@nissansunnyvideos8446 3 года назад

How i can teach german its so hard dude

@danieldreyfus3766 3 года назад

Interesting content aside, your smile is really friendly and warm and fun at the same time xD

@SimonS44 3 года назад

When you say "Luxembourgish German" do you mean Lëtzebuergesch? I think (some) Luxembourgians would be very offended to have their language labelled as a form of German. It's really interesting: French and German are the official languages, but Luxembourgish is the national language (as far as I understand)

@DeutschFuerEuch 3 года назад

No, I meant the German that is spoken in Luxembourg - what you said is exactly the point of that part of the video! :) German is spoken in (for example) Luxembourg, it's an official language, but unlike in Germany, it's not also the common language (for most people). Therefore, people's peception of and relationship with Standarddeutsch is going to be different.

@CookedAF2 3 года назад

I love you your cool

@marcmonnerat4850 2 года назад

As a _Welsch_ I had to learn German for 7 years, only to discover that it was pretty much useless in Switzerland. Now, my _Hochdetusch_ is so full of Alemannisch words and expressions that it is useless in the Aldi-Nord zone ;-)

@dylanhiggins4760 3 года назад

Woo. Go Ashely! Up the republic 🇮🇪

@ICanSpeakArabic 3 года назад

danke 🙏🙏

@archstanton9182 3 года назад

You have a good American accent. I'd like to hear you speak with a southern U.S. accent.

@namedrop721 Год назад

Which one? There are so many.

@paulectro2510 3 года назад

Your English accent is fantastic by the way! :-)

@StillRose Год назад

As a German, you should definitely learn "Hochdeutsch" and not those weird dialects that we have.

@monrealis 3 года назад

My dictionary says Abfluß.

@aaronwhite1786 3 года назад

Ohhh, Russian. Super jealous. I want to get to a point where my German wouldn't be generously described as "A Kindergartner with a learning disability and speech impediment" so I can continue working on learning it myself, and then start learning some Russian too. It sounds like a fascinating language.

@homosapien.a6364 2 года назад

Why when I hear someone say Hochdeutsch I hear Huchdeutsch? with u?

@FinancialDog84 3 года назад

My god you are gorgeous. Truly I'm just watching this video because of you.

@night8434 3 года назад

Simp detected

@stevenpam 3 года назад

Why are you doing an English exam?

@wolfgangmozart8751 3 года назад

Im new to your channel. I wonder why are you speaking english? If you explained these in german i ber even A2 people would understand. It would be nice if you spoke german :( Thats also a listening practice.

@mattk1627 3 года назад

Teach me angry German 🥺

@tekk9995 2 года назад

Just talk Plattduutsch people :D

@vinskilindqvist4554 2 года назад

ICH!!!! IH!! IH! Is it for real that hard for the English speakers?

@mountainhobo Год назад

No, "R" is.

@tmedocianis 3 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aN84vNJIrNc.html "subsummize some stuff?" "summarize?" "summize?" I've never heard the word "subsummize." Did you make that up??

@zulkiflijamil4033 3 года назад

Hallo Leute! Ich bin Zulkifli.

@gerkgerk1483 3 года назад

Ich dachte wir wollen unser Deutsch verbessern und nicht unser Englisch :-P

@orestes1984 Год назад

English is not a codified language, there is no standard in English.

@Kaha670 3 года назад

Katija you are so damn beautiful it actually hurts to watch you!! In my humble opinion you are the second most beautiful woman that god almighty has ever created, just right after Scarlett Johansson. And if it was up to me i would choose you as miss world of the century. I reckon that you gonna have one hell of a career as a model or an actress. Best of luck to you.

@mehdiwadoud8098 2 года назад

You are so beautiful

@juricarmichel5864 3 года назад

Dein Pullover ist kaputt.

@DeutschFuerEuch 3 года назад

Gar nicht wahr!

@lycheeli7003 3 года назад

wahrscheinlich 🤣

@bvkronenberg6786 3 года назад

Wahnsinn

@juricarmichel5864 3 года назад

@@DeutschFuerEuch Na gut, Deine Schulter ist zu groß. 😉

@LittleImpaler 2 года назад

Unlike German,English is not standardize at all and it should be. The English spoken in England has different grammar rules and spelling than the English spoken in America. Can we understand each yes. But we spell words differently than the English. This is because Webster pick one way of spelling for America. We wanted to be our own country, so we didn't use the same spelling as the English. We got our spelling from the English. As much as they want to say they speak true English , they don't. Americans speak how English use to speak before PR became fashionable. Before the dictionary English speakers spelt words how they sounded. So the English did give us our words, because at one point they spelt words like us.

@TK_CWB 3 года назад

Casa comigo? Brasil

@orestes1984 Год назад

You sound like an American.

@heheheheheheee 4 месяца назад

russian is the language I am trying to forget, why one should learn it) Ukrainian language is better, nobody will come to liberate you if you speak it on daily basis.

@merc340sr 3 года назад

Swiss German sounds awful! Sorry.