Learning German is Easy 

He uses it so rarely though. Practice makes the Meister, you know 😅

But Foil was teaching Arms though?

@@hoodie_cat foil was showing off his legendary “remembering complicated lists” skills. But I bet Armstrong wrote it.

There aren‘t 2 past tenses, there are three. And taking 2 words is too easy. The Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz (yes, that word really was used in official documents, it‘s the name of a former law) mashed up 7 words, and ‚umfahren‘ means both ‚drive around‘ and ‚hit while driving‘, depending on how you pronounce it. But at least, we do not have 43 ways of pronouncing ‚gh‘ 😛

Oh, in case anyone *does* wonder: It’s a law stipulating the transfer of supervisory activities when it comes to the labelling of beef products.

But forget about the Plusquamperfekt. In many contexts you simply don't use that, so I assume it's not even taught. But now you know. In fact it's a bit like the bible, you would have been better off if I did not tell you about it. Now you will wonder about the edge cases where it would sound slightly more natural to use it. But an average your better off just ignoring it. Like misuse will raise weirdness by 20% while not using it will only raise weirdness by 1%. Also good applications are very easily avoided. It's legacy leftover in the language that probably made more sense 200 years ago.

Actually German doesn't have Imperfekt but Präteritum... Most romance languages have imperfect, but the German Präteritum doesn't have to have the imperfective aspect.

​@@Taliesin2And then there are the dialects. I seldomly use the Präteritum when I speak standard German simply because it doesn't exist in Swissgerman dialects. It seems like we lost it at some point a while back.

Neither! I would've thought I had them sussed out by now but they always surprise me 🙈😂

That was unexpected 😅

Translator would be better and more belivable.

Arms used to teach German, didn’t he?

@@sarah.bea. He did! I promise I only know cause he told us. I haven't been creepy I swear. Oh Jaysus I'm making it worse by clarifying amn't I.

Wunderschön

Find ich auch!

​​@@foilarmsandhogThis brought back memories. I studied German in school. I dreaded every class for three years. I forgot I can still sing ..... mein Hut er hat drie ecken, so not all wasted, and who can forget dumpfkop, and a song about wanting to be a kangaroo and opening and closing eyes, ah ooo ah ooo ah ooo. Weird.

Darauf muss ich erstmal den Backshop umfahren. 🤪

Ich hab ein hamster.

Cool 😎

Passt schon.

Man wächst mit seinen Aufgaben.

Well, if you answered "nicht wirklich" then you demonstrated that you can pronounce "ch" and know when to use "nicht" vs "nein". Also how to shorten a sentence down to the essentials _and still being intelligible. Good start.

Love that joke

🤣 Brilliant joke

Well it’s a German joke. [So kinder a low bar…]

​@@xanthias2001 *Wie bitte??* 😂😂

​@tummeltottable kinder low bar. That's a pun on kind of a low bar (quality wise).

Haha enjoy the hacks

Some stuff is wrong though, v is not always f, for example. Only in words/word particles of Germanic origin, like der Vogel or the prefix ver- (like in verboten, vergessen, etc.), in words of Latin/Romance origin it's v like in English, e.g. der Ventilator (fan, in medical jargon also a device that pushes air into someones lungs), die Vase (vase like in English). Also I can't think of a word where S is pronounced "Sh". Maybe in a loan word. The other part is true, though, it can be pronounced like English S or Z. This one gets a bit more complicated as there are some rules around it which is the reason why we have "s", "ss" and "ß" (the last one is not a B, but an S, its use is to make the vowel before it "long", where "ss" makes it "short. Long and short are not totally accurate here, because it can also change the vowel sound a little bit, but that is how we learn it in elementary school). Also Y is called Ypsilon, but is pronounced "ee" or "ü" (can't write that last one in English, sorry). In Ypsilon the Y is pronounced Ü. Some people always pronounce it Ü, but in spoken German you will hear both. It's a rare letter, though, anyways, mostly used in Greek words, like Xylophon or Dystopie (both "ü"), or in nicknames like Willy (where it's "ee", like you would say it in English). Sorry for the pedantry, I am German after all.

​@@equolizer I'm learning german but I think ß will sound like a long /s/ after they're followed by vowels

A lot of Germans also welcome the chance to practice their English.

There is hardly anything more German than being impatient and finding it exhausting to talk to someone in bad German. I say that as a German. I always feel overwhelmed when someone who doesn't speak German well wants to talk to me. Most of the time these are situations in which this person needs help in some way, asks for directions, etc. And it's much more efficient in terms of time if you have the conversation in another language. Also, I never know whether and how I should correct someone's pronunciation or grammar in German. On the one hand, I don't want to come across as rude, but on the other hand, the person also wants to learn German. That's a fine line.

@rotter3.043 sorry to say to a German, I prefer French to German, although if it was a choice between German or Dutch, it would be German every time!

@@rhyfelwrDuw I don't understand why you're apologizing for preferring French to German. I'm not offended by that at all now. It's just two languages ​​and I'm not so fond of my mother tongue that I would want to defend it. Especially since it's just your personal opinion. This is not an attack against the German language. So nothing to apologize for.

​@@Rot24.mu00qespecially since you had this conversation with him in English, which isn't even a proper language, but a pretty useful tool 😂

Volle Kanne!

I'd like to hear more of that ❤😂

There it is...end a German sentence with an English word, "Sketch"

Macht ja nix. Deutsch is ja so einfach zu lernen, wie wir jetzt gerade gelernt haben 😂

@@RamblinRick_ 😂😂😂😂

Thanks Emily!

English is surely worse? Highly inconsistent, even taught badly (i before e except after...).

@@hairyairey still no der, die, das and all their forms. Nothing beats a, an, and the.

@@CiprianDoroftei Yes, but if you read an English word you have absolutely no idea how to pronounce it. Sword and sweet for example. Tough, plough, hiccough, through and thorough for another.

@@hairyairey i before e except after.... 🤣 you got us there

Yes!!! Love it

Sehr Gute! German is both easy and hard and very frustrating to learn on Duolingo With some context, you can skirt around some formalities of der,die,das'es depending on tense, case, weather, and equinox Without context, it's hard Martina Hill's sketches are a great starting point for common German and the context

@@chattphotos yes, i know someone who learns german and loves to watch martina hill videos! bonus point: she's absolutely hilarious!

@@martina_mc She's HILLarious* ;) Very clever work and I can understand most of what's going on

I study Spanish and French. When I get frustrated, I try learning German. Within two hours I am sobbing and run back into the arms of the much simpler Romance languages. 😅

Vielen Dank Emily!

This absolutely made my day 🤗 It makes me so happy to hear that, thanks. Now, I can't wait to start today's subtitles. Have a great day!

Dies! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@@emilys.6787 Dankeschön Emily ❤️ And thanks Miri for letting us know who to thank! ❤️

It's always a joy to subtitle these wordplay sketches, NOT... 🤣

My tip would be marry a German whose mother doesn’t speak English. Then you have someone to practice with (provider you like the Schwiegermutter natürlich).

@@monikaherr3562 yes, the mother-in-law factor definitely helps!

I did that, married a german girl and learnt german quite quick. Now i am learning spanish and my wife wont let me have a spanish girlfriend. She is simply making things more difficult.

@@torq42 outrageous, I can't believe she's not supporting your learning ambitions.

That's a good idea maybe they can form a group 😂 (😅 right they already have one 🤯)and make a Arbeitskreis to ,,save time and improve their working habits"😂

YES!!!!! I couldn’t agree more!!! I think we need to start a petition for FAH to join Greg and Little Alex Horne!

Ah the problem is we never get asked!

That’d be something- Arms, though, with his legendary coordination 😂

I might die of happiness.

YEESSSSS!!!! I couldn't agree more!!!

I swear they do it on purpose 😂

Yeah I think it's save to say they're doing it on purpose 😂😅

It's a great digestive

The old American Christmas cartoon "A Year Without Santa Claus" has a character called Bürgermeister Meisterburger

@@foilarmsandhog Are you talking about Bürgermeister or Jägermeister now? 😉

Haha, they really do just change gears to English so quickly. Sicily sounds amazing

The Italian Termsinator.

@@daniellamcgee4251 😂

@@foilarmsandhog Sicily is beautiful 🤩 When all I have to do is work on my tan and eat gelato, the island is paradise. But when I have to live in the real world and accomplish something, the bureaucracy here is no joke! 😳 😆

Go to Munich or Dresden - people would speak German. Berliners are meant to be rude anyway.

Go you!!!! 😊❤️

Oh well done you! 👏

So cool 😄😎

Nearly... big room!

I can't wait to bring my wife to your show in Hamburg, it's going to be epic! 😍🥳

Wrong city! Get on the train and go a little bit further to Berlin :D

@@cherrypi_b They were in Berlin last autumn, so I'm sure they'll come back in a while ☺️

Yeah I've heard it's hard to learn German in certain parts of Germany 😂

It's the same in Norway, so it's hard for English speakers to find the motivation to learn Norwegian.

My German friend once told me, "When you visit Germany, once they know you speak English, the Germans will start using English to speak with you." 😂

Yeah that was our biggest take home from our last trip there!

So the trick would be to try to make them believe that you are actually don't know any english. So you can practise your german 😂

Einigeln - to isolate; curl up (into a ball); to take a position of all-round defence. 🦔 I don't speak German. I just looked it up. Thank you for this wonderful word! 🦔

The CHEEK he'd get upto though 😂

I loved the teacher role he played in the first Influencer Dad sketch!

He was a great maths teacher on Zoom during the early lockdown days too.

Yes, that part was slightly tricky alright

Best/worst competition of all time

Must hurt for the winners to see it on their table and not in their cupboards 😂

​@@SamFAHntha I think that every time! 😂 And every time I wonder how many persons see it and wonder "Is this de facto MY mug, only Hog never got it posted..." 🤔 It gets philosophical at one point...

Embrace the awkwardness I say. People love humility.

Haha, love it! Also, sorry!

Patent pending on that technique. We're gonna start our own language school, take the world by storm. Drunk Class

@@foilarmsandhog I‘d enrol in a heartbeat as long as the course doesn’t involve drinking Coors light 😅

@@foilarmsandhog Perfect for an Irish language school : "Spend seven drunken nights learning German"

​@@foilarmsandhog12 grands to enroll?

​@@foilarmsandhogTwelve grand?

👌

I have a new favourite word! 😍

😂 Good one

@@_Miri_ now somebody put it on a T-shirt, stat! 😉

@@Anna.Popovic it will need to be a long sleeve one, to have enough space to write it.

It's easy until it's too hard 😩😂

The handshoe or the footshoe?

Still some tickets left for Hamburg, I actually just got some 🤩 I'm never this spontaneous and it's an 8-hour drive, but I just had to!

@@blairfus The handshoe of course :P

I love that word

butter+fly is even worse, come to think of it. My personal choice is 'farfalla', especially when it comes to pasta.

And in Spanish it's mariposa. So what? Nothing funny about any of these words

Sommervogu (Sommervogel) in Switzerland

Lean back on your chair sipping a margarita 😂

Just get them drunk, it's quicker

​@@foilarmsandhog😂 😅

​@@foilarmsandhog😂😂

He has proven himself with the Brexit song

Gotta love a challenge

@@foilarmsandhog then may be we can have a FAH sketch quiz with you as a contestant, Foil? Are you up for THAT challenge? 🤣

Maybe he lives secretly in Portugal like a certain someone 😮😂

It's the exposure to the sun that he gets from cycling everywhere 😀

@@bernadinesavarin does he now? Good for him!

I actually think that's right. Love to be secretly running off to Spain every weekedn though!

@@foilarmsandhog Ryanair flights are still cheap, right? Also, by now probably every Ryanair employee knows FAH :)

See ay there! Thanks for getting tix

The surprise is great for sure. I do miss a bit of memeFAH though haha, but that's okay 😊

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! At least I'm not the only lone voice in the wilderness about this. Wednesday nights are a nightmare to stay out of social media to avoid spoilers!

I'd be with you on this. Hate knowing anything about what I'm gonna watch

@@SamFAHntha You could probably do it after the sketch is officially released

@@bernadinesavarin this is true!

You might make money from that. By stopping vehicles, saying that and writing a ticket for 20 €...

Oh WHAT a BURN hahaha

I thought that too! 😄

I wonder if there is ever something not intentional in their sketches 😅

Ah cheers!

So truuueeee

Ahhh have a great time Parsley Rain

@@SamFAHntha Thank you :-)

Thanks! See you soon. Glad ya enjoyed the sketch :)

the articles, the conjugations, tons of plural forms, + Nederlands has so much more international words. Studying Dutch did help me with reading in German, but speaking/writing is still difficult.

He's always watching

Even considering reading that word is giving me a headache 😂

Stay strong und Viel Erfolg!

@@Nico-od4yv Thank you. I do what I can. I got my mom and aunt out of the destroyed city and now I'm just trying to give them a safe place. I’m learning German and hope to find a job in Germany after that, because we have nowhere to return.

​@@johndoe5555Viel Erfolg! I hope that you can create a safe place for your family and that you find a job. And I really hope that it's someday a place you can come home to. I'm not really sure how to say what I mean but I hope you understand.

@@brinkiTOgo yeah, I understand :) Thank you

Goodluck with the job hunt and everything else. Love to you all

Oh god your algorithm ..

@@foilarmsandhog the algorithm did become weird around this month. Lots of channels and content I've not indicated interest in but a few were okay. Recalling how I found your channel, it likely was the right guess thinking I like trio comedy groups from Ireland with funny nicknames and who haven't done live shows in my country yet. It helps that it also guessed that I like listening to punny songs 😁

So you watched the totaly not scary german fairy tales too 😂😅 and the other stuff.

@@Ensign_Roque lol yes indeed

Uyen ❤

Old English was a Germanic language, hence the commonalities. 😊

@@daniellamcgee4251 Old English was placed in the Anglo Frisian group of Western Germanic languages. English got influenced by Germanic languages (Scandinavian, German and Dutch) and by the French (romanic) language because of the Normandic and the Brittany influences (Brittany = Bretagne, French region) through history. English has influences too from older anglo saxon languages and/or dialects.

I did be diding a cackle hahaha

😂

That is very specific 😂

Let us know how it goes 😂

Just shove all the verbs in a pile at the end

So funktioniert das aber nicht! ☝🏻😂

Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz. To be fair, it's kinda hard figuring out what it's even trying to say XD There are just too many words packed into it. But Finnish isn't bad at that sort of thing either: Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas (airplane jet turbine engine auxiliary mechanic non-commissioned officer student)

@@foilarmsandhog Ah but the beauty of those long words is that there are no verbs at all 😁 Piling them up at the end works great for actual sentences though. "Ich verhielt mich so ruhig, dass man die Fliegen an der Wand hätte sollen gehen können hören." (I remained so calm that it should have been possible to be able to hear the flies on the wall walk (around).)

​@@ich8159But works is how not? - Is that the literal translation of your German sentence into English?

I would love to see his face then! 😂

@@nathalieb1626 you might get the chance 😉