I Learned to Speak German from Google Translate 

*Hahaha wow!!! Such a funny video! 😂😀😆 Ich liebe es! ❤❤❤*

"Essen Amerikaner Brot?" And in her mind "Ihr habt doch gar kein gescheites Brot"

Wow, i am german and i can tell you that you did great. Your pronounciation was very good already. I was able to understand everything. Go on like that. Congrats. Viele Grüße aus Deutschland 🇩🇪😁

The absolutely insane part is that his pronunciation at the start of the conversation was pretty bad, but after hearing a native speak for two minutes his pronunciation improved by like 2000 percent! There were some sentences he said that genuinely sounded native. This guy is nuts

My thoughts in German: "Digga, ist das sein Ernst? Nach einer Woche mit Google Translate kann er so gut reden? :D" Mad props, you seem to be very gifted with a talent for languages!

This channel: Yeah let's learn some German, shall we? Ich, ein Deutscher: Umfahren ist das Gegenteil von umfahren.

Er ist einfach ein Naturtalent, was sprachen lernen angeht . Nach einer Woche schon so gut Deutsch zu sprechen ist echt beeindruckend👍🏽👍🏽

I am actually a german teacher for adults and - wow - you are really good in learning languages so fast! You just get the sense of a language. Even if my heart is a little bit breaking by noticing you practicing with google, because the translation is normally pretty bad 😅

You are sooooo good with any language seeing how everybody praises you! Your German after one week is impressive, I wish I could learn any language as fast as you. You must have a huge talent for that or else the biggest willpower I have seen. You‘re very sympathetic, keep it up! Your videos are great and entertaining and exploring and hearing new languages through and from you is just very very cool!

When you realize that you've been learning German for 6 years and only speak the language mildly better than this guy. It hurts so bad

As we germans say: "Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache" - "German language, hard language"! And you did very well! You're very talented for sure, keep it up!

Unbelievable how you learned to speak German at this extreme level in just one week. Incredible!

So stunning, Xiaoma! Congratulations on this achievement 🎉😊 I am German, and I really like and am surprised how well and soon you learned some basics just with Google Translate! Hearing you speak German made me feel even more connected to you, but either way I am a big fan of your channel, whatever language or experience you offer atm;) 🙏🏼 Much love from Germany

Egal wie lang man Deutsch gelernt hat, Deutsche werden immer irgendwann sagen: "Wow, aber deine Aussprache ist echt gut."

"I know a little German."........."Yeah I know him too, it's Peter, he is only 5 feet tall."

As German I have to say that if he really learned German just with Google translate….. that’s crazy! Now imagine what he can do with a tutor and more time! He will learn to speak fluent German within less than a year! That’s amazing!

I did 4 years of German in high school and I was able to catch most of this but there’s stuff I’ve forgotten or haven’t practiced. I really wish we did more speaking in school. I enjoyed learning the grammar but I think if I learned it more organically by absorbing it, that would help. I took Spanish in college and it has a comparable difficulty. I may continue with one of the languages

It's funny when you can understand both languages almost fluently and don't even notice anymore when they switch from german to english or vice versa

As a learner who just finished a1, I UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING, THIS FEELS GOOD.

Goeie uitspraak, blijf zo verder doen!

Your German is amazing! Still learning German today, 3 years on it I can't wait to travel back to Germany sometime in the future. Amazing video Xiaoma!

Dude this is insane. As someone from Germany I am shocked. Like it's crazy how good your German was after only one week ?!

I am a fan of Anja and I began learning German from her videos! Dankeschön Anja!

Was für eine Maschine im positiven Sinne! Hut ab!

I am a German native speaker and I can confirm that was pretty good. The pronunciation was okay but you need to work on that. Grammar-wise you just made a few mistakes but anyone would have been able to understand 100% what you were saying. The most common mistake that foreign people make, especially English-speaking people, is the word order in a sentence. You said: "Heute ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch." the correct word order would be: "Ich spreche heute ein bisschen Deutsch." Or if you have auxiliary verbs in German, people say: "Heute ich habe gemacht Frühstück für meine Frau." When in fact it is: "Ich habe heute Frühstück für meine Frau gemacht." If you get that right you will impress many German people and convince others you learned German for a long time cause most people don't get that right even after years of studying German. The second thing to master is the difference between formal and informal language "Du" and "Sie". We Germans for instance always have huge problems with prepositions in Englisch, a thing I still struggle with after 24 years of learning Englisch. For one week that was impressive but we already knew you could make it. Maybe you try it again with real human teachers. I would like to see how far you can come with real-life teachers. Great job!

Unglaublich und absolut beeindruckend! Well done! Ich ziehe meinen Hut!

Thats just amazing how crazy good you are! Born and raised in germany and i can definitely say you speak better in a week than many people after a few years! Amazing talent.

As a german myself this will be very interesting

Du hast Deutsch so schnell gelernt und deine Aussprache war toll. Ausgezeichnet!! T_T

Wow, Respekt Xiaoma. Das war echt klasse. Talent ohne Ende. wenn alles so einfach wäre wie eine Sprache zu lernen, wäre die Welt ein besserer Ort.

Wow I am really impressed. Ich habe noch nie jemanden gehört oder gesehen, der nach einer Woche so gut deutsch gesprochen und verstanden hat. Du kannst stolz auf dich sein. :)

Wow, I'm german and was able to understand everything. Sure, the grammar wasn't always 100% right but holy, learning all of that by yourself while only using Google Translate? That's crazy! Keep up the work.

As a german, this was what I was actually waiting for! Since I do not really understand anything besides english, being able to actually comprehend what you are doing is just great! Now I feel like I want to help out with some of the stuff we germans do with our language xD

Wow. Du machst das wunderbar! Weiter so.

Super! Toll gemacht! Ich gratuliere!

The most basic rule: German is a V2 language. That means, apart from questions and giving orders (and subordinate clauses, but those are a thing straight from hell in every language), the verb is the second information in a sentence. Example: "Yesterday I went to the cinema". German: "Gestern (yesterday) ging (went) ich (I) ins Kino (to the cinema)". Or, to sound a bit less "stiff": "Gestern bin (= a declension of "sein") ich ins Kino gegangen". In spoken German we almost exclusively use the perfect tense, which is built with either "sein" (to be) or "haben" (to have). Other than that: Pretty cool experiment and it turned out really well. But as you've said, there's no one to turn to if you have questions. I mean, how are you supposed to understand seperable verbs just from google translate? Or how are you supposed to learn words like "doch", "mal", "ja", "also", "ganz", "halt", "einmal", etc.? German is a language full of modal particles that aren't easily translated into English.

Unglaublich gute Aussprache und sehr schnell gelernt für die paar Tage, wenn man bedenkt, dass Deutsch eine sehr schwere Sprache alleine von der Grammatik her ist. Respekt !

Super Video! In just that Time I wouldn‘t even been able to learn any language. You are very talented my friend, Respect

Sehr gut. Nach einer Woche schon so gut! Gratulation!

Schöne Grüße an alle deutschen Zuschauer :-)

Xiaoma is the language equivalent of an 80's training montage. What should take years of dedication only takes a few days. Keep inspiring man.

voll gute Idee, du bist eigentlich richtig gut! weiter so!

What an inspirational video! I love this!!!

I took German through college. One thing my teacher taught me to say to not sound like a German learner but a German speaker is to use, "ich Kann deutsch." Instead of "ich Spreche deutsch".

As a native German speaker I cannot imagine how difficult it must be. Since our grammar is so complex I imagine that the translations are lacking explanations in order to unterstand what you are learning. I once talked to someone studying German as a foreign language and they said that you have to learn the rule, and then you have to study and remember a list of exceptions to the rule. So you have my greatest respect for approaching this challenge

ganz großes Kino! just love for you buddy. Greetings from Germany

youre awesome dude!!!! Du machst das richtig gut! Ich finde deine videos so geil

His German was actually so good. Few minor mistakes but thats google’s fault, otherwise grammar and word choice was all pretty spot on.

This video was recommended to me and I instantly knew: "Die Kommentarspalte ist Hoheitsgebiet der Bundesrepublik Deutschland." and everyone posts the most tricky aspects of our language.

Wooooowwww! Was für eine Leistung! Great job! You've learned sooo much and it is sooo goood!

Naturtalent! Nach nur einer Woche? Hut ab! Schaue mir sehr gerne seine Videos an. Immer wieder schön die überraschten Gesichter zu sehen. :D

"Google translate has gotten so good!" Japanese Google translate hiding in the corner sweating.

Your ability to grasp languages in a short amount of time is always so fascinating.

I teach German to friends who want to try and it's so much easier to learn when you're in conversation and not just over Google translate. Very well done! And having a conversation with someone who is speaking a german dialect makes it even harder (she is from the south of Germany). Very nice!

wow das hast du echt gut gemacht :D ich schaue deine videos schon lange. mach weiter so

You can see him learning every time she says a new word he hasn't heard yet. The dudes crazy good at learning languages

I just asked my uncle to bring 4 whole bread from Germany because German bread is the best :D

Pretty good, can’t wait to see your progress! 🥰

Cooles Video, war sehr unterhaltsam zu sehen, dass jemand versucht nur mit Google Translate deutsch zu lernen. Und dass das dann einigermaßen gut klappt, ist auch sehr überraschend. Cool video, was very entertaining to see someone trying to learn German using only Google Translate. And the fact that it works reasonably well is also very good

*PLEASE* keep this up!! Make this a series!! You got a lot of followers in Germany! Also you did amazing. Grüße aus Deutschland - Greetings from Germany. PS: German is probably THE one language you can learn the fastest as English is actually a germanic language. You'll master german in no time 💪

I'm currently studying German (in Germany). Google translate is one of the worst possible tools that one could use... It's very inaccurate, German has very odd forms of expressions and grammatical elements that Google translator often does not take into account, like separable prefix verbs and cases...

Voll gut gemacht 👍. Du hast echt Talent für Sprachen. Verrückt dass du dafür nur eine Woche gebraucht hast. Echt klasse 👍😉

awesome, man, congrats. keep it up.

Now you should learn to speak Finnish from the lyrics of metal songs by Finnish bands, that would be fun

I had war flashbacks to my highschool German teacher religiously telling the class to not use google translate and if we needed a dictionary to use beolingus as a resource so I was like SHOOKETH at how well this turned out

Wow this was so awesome! You've motivated me to try and learn german again!

The most impressive thing I mentioned is that you used the formally "Sie" instead of the informally "du" because there is only "you" in english. But in this example/conversation it would be definatelly fine to use "du" especially because she used it herself.

Helps to humanize the fact that memory is a combination of many thoughts, expressions and interactions that help to solidify the knowledge. Whereas a lot of people mistakenly think you just memorize the same thing over and over again. Well, here's Xiaoma, one of the best language memorizers you'll find, describing how challenging it is to just coldly repeat the same phrase in your mind over and over without any grounding to the reasons or alterations that help solidify it.

Sehr gut eigentlich nur für eine Woche! Das ist eine große motivazion für mich! Ich lerne Deutsch und Griechisch gleichzeitich seitdem lezten Jahr und ich kann sagen, dass die Deutsche Sprache nicht so einfach ist. Ich wünsche allen Sprachlernern viel Glück!

Hey Xiaoma ive recently see your videos and was schocked how good you speak those languages. Im a german dude and if you are in germany sometime after covid i would like to invite you to some traditional german food from "Nordrhein-Westfalen" . Keep the learning up and sorry my bad Englisch. You are an inspiration

dude that was incredible good! ich bin sehr beeindruckt. du hast großes talent

Keep it up. Your german is great for just 5 days of learning. Love from Germany 🇩🇪

The fun thing about translate is that in most cases, it will translate to the informal "Du", except when it gives a hint in the sentence that the setting is much more likely to be formal. So you get a mixture of informal "Du" and formal "Sie" (I'll leave out the other forms to not spoil any of the fun).

WOW Deine Aussprache ist wirklich super gut! Und du hast so viel verstanden. Ich wette in einem halben Jahr sprichst du perfekt Deutsch! 👍👍👍

You can be very proud of yourself-Du kannst stolz auf dich sein.Ich finde es klasse!😊

It's so crazy how he can speak german so good after this short time.. it really gives me motivation to learn a new language.. thanks for the video:)

Dude, as a Spanish, German and English speaker this video confirms all I've ever thought about language learning in general. MIMESIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT. The way you were able to dissect and pick up the minutia and the little inflexions in the pronunciation in such a short amount of time is SICK! Bravo! Keep up the good work. If you ever need an additional German, or Spanish speaker, let me know.

Sehr gut gemacht👍 liebe grüsse aus der Schweiz🇨🇭

OMG, Learning in a fountain; you are amazing. I’m subbing!

Im German myself. So this should be interesting to hear a American speak German. 😂 i understood you. But you just need to learn to put words in a sentence correctly.

Your pronunciation was very good for just listening to audios, like not having any guidance. Also, your comprehension from Anja seemed very great as well.

Gut gemacht und gut gesprochen Dude! 😉👊🏻

This is so cool I'm Danish so I understand German and I definitely understood all you were saying. Great job!

I like how he said „Sie“ and then „Du“ a few seconds later 😂

Keep up. Would love it. Greetings from south germany 😊

For one week of learning this was mindblowing considering how hard of a language German is to learn. Let me tell you, I am German and even we really struggle learning our language quite often actually.

Damn as a german Im super excited about this video! Okay even though your grammer isnt always on point, especially your sentence order, your pronunciation is on point sometimes and you carried through the conversation quite well.

You should continue your German, I'm taking German classes right now and I love surrounding myself in the language so seeing you learn and speak like this has been really cool !

Brilliant. Definitely gives one food for thought.

Liebe deine Videos Bro, so beeindruckend. Keep it up ❤

Finally your learning German! 😄 It's just amazing how your brain works, speaking and understanding German after one week like this is just incredible. Now I can understand the other people from your videos when they are always so surprised how well you speak languages 😄 Keep it up!

Viele andere leben seit Jahren oder Jahrzehnten in unserem Land und sprechen nicht annähernd so gut deutsch wie du. Respekt dafür! :)

Finally a language that I know (I am Dutch), so I can hear if you are really able to use the correct pronunciations. It was not flawless, but it was very easy to understand. I am quite impressed with what you achieved in such a short time and only using Google Translate.

Wow! Amazing your skills to learn!

Actually, Xiaoma, I was a really proud german subscriber watching this video. I didn't doubt you for one second. The fact that you already built present perfect senteces on the first day, naturally, showed me your learning skill. It's fascinating as a young teacher to foreigners trying to learn german. If you ever have any questions, feel free to ask me. I'm pretty on top with my comparisons to the english language. My brothers wife is thai. I tried learning thai for a bit, but I only remember a few phrases and numbers. Unfortunately my teacher wasn't that good.. and it wasn't about the alphabet and writing for me. I just wanted to be able to talk to my nephews thai family whenever we get to see them. Maybe I'll get to learning more one day. Greetings from Germany. (I'm a lil late on this video)

*Video has ‘German’ in the title* Germans: Hippity hoppity, this comment section is now our property.

It's not perfect, but I'm amazed at how much you've learned in such a short period of time. Being able to learn a language, which you can actually speak and use to communicate, only through google translate is so impressive. After six years of french classes (mandatory in Switzerland), I still can't complete a sentence... Such a talented dude, keep it going!

Das hast du phantastisch gemacht, echt sehr gut!

In my opinion, German is one of the "best" languages that exist, because of its percision. We have a lot of words and word-combinations for a lot of things, and some of the most famous authors and philosophers of all time wrote in German. Like Goethe, Kafka, Thomas Mann, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hermann Hesse, Günther Grass, Friedrich Schiller, Rainer Rilke ,Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and so on and so on... I love my language and it's History!

Your pronounciation is really on point. Very impressing what you learned with a translater. All the best from Frankfurt/ Germany