Be sure to check out our video where my sister and her family came to Germany and we talked about their take on Germany as well 👉 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QXxKgbfi26M.html
Nur ein kleiner, freundlicher Hinweis: Es heißt "ihr sprEcht deutsch". Nur bei der 2. & 3. Person Singular (also du und er/sie/es) kann der Stammvokal wechseln (zB du sprichst), sonst bleibt er immer wie im Infinitiv (also sprEchen: ich spreche, du sprichst, er spricht, wir sprechen, ihr sprecht, sie sprechen)
You have a cute Family! Ach ich kann ja deutsch schreiben! Es sind ganz unwichtige Kleinigkeiten die lokal anders sind aber wir sind alle Menschen und ich verstehe deine Schwester, ich würde auch lieber in Italien leben! Alles Gute und thank you for dein Video😉👍
For me as a German it is not important if a foreign tourist learns German word. It is more a mental thing, not to expect everyone in Germany to speak perfect English and be disappointed and demanding if they don't. Just ask people if they do speak English first, instead of throwing a random English question at them right away. Well, many might say "a little" but still can communicate - it is more a thing of courtesy. .. and do appriciate if Germans try to answer in English, because they might not used to do it, insecure or it is some effort or struggle for them.
I am German born in Berlin by Indian immigrant father and German mother. I think the Germans would help you immediately in switching to English if they donot know you. But if I know you and you have been living here for so many years and havenot put in a lot of effort and always fall back into your comfort zone I would judge you. Then it is not so much a matter of politeness but a matter of willingness to integrate into German society.
Capri Sun is actually a German Product, it was invented in 1969 by Rudolf Wild in Eppelheim, at the border of Heidelberg in Germany and is to this day produced there.
Capri Sun was actually a German brand named Capri Sonne, but late sold and become of the Unity of the brand later renamed Capri Sun unfortunately for me because I have so many memories with my childhood and Capri Sonne. And the taste changed too.
It's ok for tourists not to speak German, you can't learn every language, but it's bad if you move here and don't even make an effort. Germans abroad are known to do that, too, so it's pretty universal :=) With some people at the university I have a mixture going, they speak English and I answer in German, until they don't understand enough and I switch to English as well. But yes, everybody everywhere appreciates your effort to speak the local language.
I'm perfectly fine with tourists not speaking a word of German. If you want to actually live here for any amount of time, I expect you to learn German to the best of your abilities. I still might talk to you in English, because I love the language and jump on every opportunity to have a conversation, but I'd appreciate the effort very much.
I dunno about Germans but for me as a Czech its nice in theory when foreigners try to speak Czech but in practice in 90% of cases is actually way better and way easier to use your normal English. Cos as I saw in the vid the pronunciation of, for me, simple German words is often rather difficult for most English speakers, the same goes for Czech, so the effort and time spent to decipher first what you are trying to pronounce and second what you actually mean by that is something most employees or generally locals having their own everyday tasks that keeps them busy dont have. So while I certainly do appreciate anyones effort to learn my language, even just a bit of it, if you're just tourist who's spending here few days and then moves somewhere else or returns home and never visits again- just speak English, most ppl in those places you gonna visit will understand you and you'll be served or helped much quickly and much more efficiently.
When I visit another country I try to at least learn things like hello/good bye/yes/no/thank you - little things. With German/English/French I get by in most parts of the world, but I still remember my first "grown up" holiday with friends in Yugoslavia, about 40 years ago, and how strange it felt not to understand a single word, whether spoken or written. That was when I decided that I never again wanted to be somewhere where I couldn't say + understand these basic things.
@hypatian9093 yes/ no thanks/ please or hello/ bye is fine, theyre just simple politeness but not really convey any meaning or only very simple unambiguous one, but e.g. ask for directions or trying to order in local language is very different beast and in busy restaurant or shop it could certainly disrupt the flow of things and otherwise straightforward task takes much longer time for both parties to accomplish than if you just uttered one simple sentence in English.
@@rehurekj Right, I'm German, speak not one word czech and hot no trouble in Czechia so far. In a self-service shop you don't need to talk, just read the digital cash, in a restaurant you can point with your finger on the menu, google translate might help if you are completly lost.And if people need to tell you what you have to pay, and they are unable to speak english, they simply note it on paper. So you get along. More important than Yes/No/Thank you, is getting familiar with the coins to check your change or to fill a ticket machine.
For me as a German visiting Czechia is always a sort of insecure thing. Simular to Denmark there are many people in Czechia who speak German - which let me hesitate: Should I start a conversation in German? Or would English be more polite, because it is foreign for both and you would meet equally on a common ground?!?
@henningbartels6245 I don't think so many ppl understand German anymore. Nowadays with Internet and mass tourism the 1st foreign language is undoubtedly English as almost everywhere else in the Europe and knowledge of German among ppl under 40 would be comparatively minimal( and majority of older ppl wouldn't know any foreign language at all) English is the king and not only due its much simpler grammar.
Your language question: Two things I get annoyed about: Most Americans just start speaking English with you, without even asking „Do you speak English?“ Having worked in nightlife here in Berlin, this happened to me hundreds (no exageration) of times. It would not only be polite, but also logical, as it immedeatly makes clear, that no German is spoken. Secondly: I have met countless Americans living in Berlin, who could not be bothered to learn German (because „everyone speaks English“). But they usually love living here, love the „vibe“ of Berlin etc. What vibe is that? The American-niche-not-understanding-a-word-around-you vibe? What insight can they have into German/Berlin culture? It‘s just lazy and leechy. Toilets: I am German and I love my poop shelf. And I was disgusted by the splashback on American toilets.
If you want to live abroad they you have to be ready to integrate - learn the language, the traditions, be part of the community there. So, I totally agree with you, @vridrich. I am foreign myself and try to learn as much as possible of the local culture (hier in die Palz 😊) and better my German every day.
The first story you shared does not surprise me. On some of my latest trips when entering hotels in Berlin or Munich the receptionist welcomed me in English although I am German and said Hallo. I then switched to English to make the receptionist not feel uncomfortable.
@@cubachris3812 EXACTLY, YES! I am German, too, and mildly surprised (or perhaps annoyed) when that happens. I would respond in German, "Ich bin Deutscher und spreche Deutsch." Same at the restaurants where I was handed the English-language menu so I responded, "Ich hätte lieber eine Speiskarte auf Deutsch." Really hilarious to see them embarrassing themselves for mistaking me as a foreigner or visitor.
Other thing - Toilets: I think as long as you don't have to touch it, you should't be afraid of looking at your feces. It's natural and sometimes it can be important. My granny had "black feces" once and it was caused by small inner bleedings. If she hasn't discovered it and asked the doctor about it, she'd be dead by now. Often it just shows if you should ate diffent or you should do it or drink more etc. most of it will be noted by your subconscious just because of the smell. It is maybe a bit nasty but natural. And really do hate the water splashing back.
agree . betcha everybody else stuffs paper down there first, to cushion the fall and avoid that dreaded splashback . Inspection shelves make more sense on so many levels .
Throughout my travels, I have always made an effort to learn some very basic terms and stock phrases in the host country’s language, and I appreciate the effort in other people as well. Basics like „hello“, „goodbye“, „please“ and „thank you“, and in some cases „Sorry, I don’t speak your language, could you please converse in English/Spanish/German/XYZ with me?“ One does not need more than a few sentences to show the locals that one respects their culture and that an effort was made. Unsurprisingly, respect and politeness can get you far, and in a foreign country you’re likely going to appreciate help from your hosts.
About people not speaking german: It's absolutely no problem for me. I speak decent english (if I say so myself) and I'm happy to help. What I don't like if people come up to me and immediately adress me in english with whatever issue they have. At least an "excuse me, do you speak english?" should be possible. Don't just assume I speak english... And as for patatoes. I love pretty much anything you can do with them other than plain boiled potatoes.
05:30: In fact, they tried to use (reusable) Plastic cups instead of the glassware on festivals a few years ago in order to prevent injuries from broken glass - but they had to learn that the edges of broken plastic cups are even sharper, so they returned to using glassware.
It’s all down to the type of plastic that you use. The plastic cups used at most American festivals don’t break they bend or crumple. I suppose if you put extra hard effort into it you could break/tear them but they’re not going to break just because they’re dropped or someone steps on them. You could probably run them over with your car and they wouldn’t break they just crumble up no sharp edges.
Because they are one time use plastic cups. The plastic cups that can be seen on Festivals here in Germany are from hard plastic and can be washed and used again, that’s why you pay deposit for the also.
@@sirmascopchanova4657 it’s still down to the type of plastic that is used. I have plenty of plastic cups around my house that I’ve been using for decades and they wouldn’t crack into sharp pieces.
I depends on the kind of festival, how many people attend and how fast they get drunk... If it's a big rock festival, the use of thin glass is mostly forbidden. But on smaller city festivals or fun fairs it's not a big problem to use glasses. But even smaller towns, which have their own carnival parades, often set-up a "no glass zone" for this time. The same happens with important soccer matches.
A Biergarten normally is a place where you can buy drinks with some seating in the shade and where you CAN buy food but you also can eat food that you've brought yourself, like a picknick. There are however places in germany that call themselves "Biergarten" which do not allow this but those aren't real Biergarten.
Not speaking German isn't a big deal I'd say, but if you're the type of tourist that doesn't even start by "Guten Tag, sorry I don't speak German/ do you speak English?" or "Entschuldigung, where's the train stop" etc. i.e. make no effort at all... Like come on, you planned your trip, have the courtesy to learn one or two phrases to start a conversation or question.
I think it’s polite to be able to say hello, please and thank you in the local language. I try to learn a few phrases whenever I go to a country that has a language that I don’t speak.
Must have been funtime seeing your brother and sister in law for a longer time and showing them all the beautiful things around. I hope y'all enjoyed it☺️
Answer to your potato question: Yes There are actually so many ways of different potato dishes it's not possible to pick one favourit. Soup, gratin, fried with onion and/or bacon, deep fried in different forms, boiled in saltwater, baked in the oven with rosmary or other herbs, mushed potato with different topings or saisonings, grilled potatoe with Kräuterquark, Rösti from Switzerland, dumplings, Kroketten.....
Would love to see more of Aubrey again. But I get it; she's busy with your baby. Just so she doesn't feel left out. Random question: ANY potato preparation is great. I personally love baked potato (potato, a bit of oil, salt, pepper, wrapped in aluminum foil, into the oven for an hour or so). Served with quark mixed with hives, garlic, salt, and pepper. Such a simple meal, but so yummy. 🤤🤤🤤
Actually Flammkuchen comes from Alsace (France) Weinschorle even comes sweet. So the question for waiters after "one Weinschorle please" would be "red or white", "sweet or sour"? :-) Unfortunately big parts of Germany are alcohol centered. In Bavaria the Beergardens were on top of the beer cellars and to keep these cool trees were planted on top for the shade. Then they started serving beer there. And in Munich you are allowed to bring your own food to a beergarden but you MUST drink the drinks provided there. Loved this episode, thank you!
For me - I always like it if someone tries to speak german but like they said ... We hear the accent and try to "help" by switching to english. I normally ask them in english if we should switch or stay with german because perhaps they want to train their german ^^
Kartoffel/Aardappel (yes, i'm Dutch so....) Water, Salt, Bouilloncube beefflavour) about 20 minutes high flame.... after that cooling them a bit, frying pan with rich butter (Dutch: Roomboter), baking them until a crust is formed, bit of vinegar and Bon Appetit. But most important, when visiting a country, at least trying a few words in the native language is seen as common cuortesy. And after that switching to English is mostly no problem in almost every European country.
Hardly anyone will understand "Stein". Possibly the most common term for a comparatively big glass is "Humpen" which can be used for a pot of "Steingut" as well. Usually a "Humpen" will contain either 0.5 l or 1.0 l of beer. For ordering a beer we often tell the amount of beer: "eine Halbe" means 0.5 litre of beer "ein(e) Maß" means 1.0 litre of beer "null-dreier" means 0.3 litre of beer (typical amount for ordering Pilsner) "null-vier(er)" means 0.4 litre of beer "null-zweier" means 0.2 litre of beer (typical amount for ordering Alt or Kölsch) Don't forget telling which kind of beer you want - at least for the first one. If you do they'll assume you'd want an Export/Lager usually.
Loved the most that they finally realized that although quite a small country Germany it is, the variations of culture incl languages spoken are huge! Actually there’s no “German culture” as such being Bavaria much much more like neighboring Austrians (language, music and food), the southwest much more like bordering Switzerland/France (speaking a dialect called Alemannisch), the west much more like bordering Netherlands, the very north much more like bordering Denmark etc Today’s Germany used to be a bunch of independent smallest entities until the 19th/20th century without any grown common culture like other European states but the more or less “intellectual” German language usually not being spoken by the population in daily life so most of them actually being bilingual using their mother tongue to communicate between each other and the Hochdeutsch (translates to high German) to communicate with strangers coming from other regions. This is valid until today btw.
i think its always interesting to see the connections of the different regions to the neighboring countries. Whether its in the small words we loan from them or even the different names germany or germans are known under. whether its the sachsa, alemans, germans, niemcy, tysk, and so on. It shows the connection between the countries after all germany is pretty much smack dab in the middle of it all.
Random question: Here in Texas (USA), especially Dallas, we have "stuffed potatoes". It is a baked potato split in half. We fill it will sour cream, bacon, and other things we like.
The best way to cook a potato is tossing them in a BBQ fire wrapped in aluminium foil in the peel. I don't know why it's called aluminum in the US, but I guess some local scientist misspelled it and kept claiming that was the way to spell it, but the US is the only country that calls it aluminum rather than aluminium which is the original Latin word.
This was really amazing. Far more than Aubrey and Donnie, Jamie and Tyler are giving me vibes of Germans from the Palatinate region who somehow ended up growing up in the US and just experiencing their real home region for the first time. Normally I only get such vibes from videos about Amish and Mennonite people. Tyler's excitement about the discovery of Dampfnudeln, Jamie's complaints about weird pretzels in the US ... All responses were just right. (Only the complaint about toilets with shelves wasn't German.) Then Jamie nailed it with her answer to whether she prefers Germany to Italy. It just doesn't get more German than to say something like: "Of course I prefer Italy! I even learned Italian and lived there for a while!" I guess what helped a lot with the illusion is the fact that the Palatinate was part of the Roman Empire (and still shows it today), and later had French occupation as well. You can't get any closer to Italian culture in Germany.
I wonder if the toilet thing is something regional, I have never seen them in Germany (I am from Hamburg), but I have seen those in every house of my Italian relatives (in Northern Italy).
I'm from Schleswig-Holstein and I grew up with the "two storey toilets", and still find the other one's weird as heck. A lot of older houses in Hamburg have them, I think.
For me personally if a native English speaker approached me and tries to speak German I would keep speaking in German unless I'd hear them struggle a lot. If so I would offer to switch to English as I can speak relatively fluent. I'd definitely appreciate the attempt from them to speak my mother tongue and would consider it disrespectful to cut them off and switch to English, just because I speak better English than they do German. Thinking about it now maybe I would ask them in English if they'd prefer me answering in English or German, because hearing native speakers can be very challenging for people just learning the language 😊 Greetings from Aachen 👋
Pellkartoffeln... Actually, meat consumption in Germany per head is lower than that of the US. Food in German restaurants is very meat based - but restaurant food for the German is not their daily eating habit. So yes, there probably are many Germans that eat meat on daily basis - but a lot do not. The per head consumption of Bratwursts in Germany is 2.7 kg. That is about one per fortnight. Capri Sonne originally comes from Germany and was exported to the USA.
While that is all true, tourists in certain parts of Germany, including the Palatinate, obviously get a very different impression when mostly eating in traditional restaurants.
We cooked potatoes like this: (the east prussian way) Salzkartoffeln/boiled potatoes/salted potatoes Peeling potatoes and chop them into pieces boil them in plain water untill they done (try with a sharp knive if the knive goes smooth in) pour off the water and then sprinkle Salt (maybe 1 teaspoon) over the still humid potatoes. Put the lid back😢 over the pot and shake the pot with the potatoes. The potatoes taste mutch better than boiled in saltwater The father of my mother loved the Salzkartoffeln/boiled potatoes on the was my fathers family made it
Hi Donnie, very nice video, thank you! Germany and Italy have in common that both countries became unified nations significantly later than eg England, France or Spain. Maybe that's caused regional differences to remain a bit stronger and are more accepted than in those older, more centralized nations. I prefer steam cooking potatoes to keep as much of their minerals as possible. Often that method better preserves a particular taste of the kind of potato.
Yeah - most people, even in Germany (and I presume same in Italy), forget how young our country is compared to the US. Some buildings might have been built 2000 years ago, but the county is barely 150 years old. A toddler compared to other countries ;)
I think you underestimate the regional differences in the UK (or even England), France and Spain. I would say they are as big as they are in Germany and Italy.
@@KeesBoonsI'm wondering if there's a growing tendency of accentuating regional cultural differences in the UK. It's more obvious in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Within England there seems to be a difference between north and south. Like in France there are no institutions supporting regional diversity. Spain has such regional governments but their policies can be limited by intervention of the central government in Madrid. Please mind, it's a matter having upsides and downsides. More autonomy comes with more bureaucracy.
@@michaelburggraf2822 I think you might be right, but I was more speaking of cultural differences, not so much about governmental differences. I think these very much exist in most European countries.
If someone wants to live in germany they should learn german, if someone is just a visitor I still appreciate some basic knowledge. Words like Hallo, Danke, Bitte, Könnten Sie mir helfen, Sprechen Sie Englisch, Entschuldigung, ... . And if I have the feeling that speaking english will make the conversation easier, I would instantaneously switch to english. Only if I know that someone wants to speak german or if I want to test someone, I would continue in german.
It's always nice when visitors make the effort to try to speak a little German, but it's not expected at all. It's different with immigrants. They are expected to be able to communicate in German to a certain extent. If you don't manage to learn any German, even after years, you're looked at badly. Hardly anyone cares when immigrants converse in their mother tongue, but learning the language of the country you live in, is part of the integration process after all. In my opinion, not even trying, is a sign that you don't want to integrate at all. Personally, I'm always happy when I have the opportunity to practice my English skills... after all, it took me a while to improve them.
the poop shelf not only is for you to inspect your dump, but also makes it easier to collect a sample for your doctor if he asks you to. but yeah, it's mostly a relic from the past.
The "drop plate" toilet is quite rare and a relic of "good old times"! 🤣 I think it is a shame that many visitors often know only the "fast food" side of German cuisine, there are some mind blowing real dishes but only available in good Restaurants. The "best way to "cook a potato" is certainly pan fried, seared with onion and smoked bacon until crispy on the outside..! And yes most of the well known brands of "American" beers Budweiser, Millers, Yuengling (established in 1829).. are founded by German migrants in the mid 19th Century and they already introduced beer gardens to the US back then! Regarding the language issue: When I was in Australia,I was invited to a grill party, which are quite common there, however someone asked me if I were dutch, I asked why... he answered "your accent"... I answered: "well I speak English with a dutch accent cause you obviously can't speak any German"! 😂 we both cracked...!
Here in Munich sometimes American tourists try to start asking something in German but usually in most cases they can t "make it", so i - as you said - immediately switch to English (seeing them struggling with German grammar and terminology), i think it s a matter of politeness.
Capri Sonne (Capri Sun) is a german drink. Normally more for kids in school. But even as a grown-up you can drink it while travelling for example by train. No problem.
15:10 That depends on if you're a tourist or stay long-term. Tourists don't need to learn any of the language - sure, it's nice if they are interested in the language but it's perfectly fine if they don't know any of it. If people live in another country long-term its different. In that case people should learn the language - it will help them with their day-to-day life as well.
The italians have a strange conception of germans, and that probably comes from the fact that they only think of the german tourists in sloppy beach or street wear.
The best way to cook a potato: depends on what you want. Just a few, fast and not watered down? Peel, cut and put them in the microwave! Loads of potatoes? Peel, big pot and boil. Savour new potatoes with that perfect delicate skin? Gently steamed over salted herby water. Have time on your hands and a fire burning? Wrapped in tinfoil, placed on the coal. I prefer the microwave method for my everyday potatocraving.
I think that "try the local language first" is more of a French thing. When someone speaks to me in English out of the blue, they probably assume I learned it in school like everyone else, and they're right!
As a German myself I don't like those old toilets. They are so 50s and 60s... So if you see one of those old toilets you automatically know that the bathroom hasn't been renovated in a long time.
I think as long as you are open, warm-hearted and non-offensive, the language doesn't matter. The important thing is to communicate in order to get to know each other, and you seem to enjoy that.
Depends on the time of year... It's not like we bake them or mash them right now 😉 Just out of the soil? Boil - split - put at (thick) slice of butter between the two halves, sprinkle with rough salt - perhaps a pinch of fresh parley. Transfer to mouth in one go - quickly - before them butter melts. Oh, boy... it's summer in Denmark. If you've boiled to many (it is possible!) you slice them when cold, place them on buttered rye bread and dress with mayonaise and chives, salt and pepper. Or a couple of slices of spicy salami.
Best way to cook a potato is cutting it in sticks and fry it. 😁 It's always nice to hear foreigners making an effort to speak some German. If it's a tourist (at tourist spots/region)and they are struggling I switch to English to comfort but if it is an expat (e.g. local grocery shop) I keep it in German. I think we Germans tend to switch to English way too often and too soon. From what I heard and also experienced many foreigners trying to learn German are always set back when we switch to English so fast.
I'm really wondered they don't realize the main word of beergarden, is garden. Of course the main thing is a park or a garden, inside cities at least some trees. If Germans choose a word, they really mean it. It's not like Olive Garden. Beeing inside and without olive trees.
13:15 IIRC Capri Sun is originally from Germany. So it‘s imho not surprising seeing all over Germany. When I was a kid I loved to drink Capri Sun but I hated putting the straw into the pouch. 😊 Pellkartoffeln.
For me it is totally no problem to speak english... It is a good way to practicing my english :) BUT if a person says to me: Can we try to speak german, i wanna learn the language... No problem at all. I think we germans are really openminded in that regard.
i dont know if its the best way but a very efficiant way. boil your potatos with water as usual but insteat only putting salt to it you can put soup powder or a broth to it and then you have 2 meals in one. boiled potatos and a potato soup.
Good you brought in some "fresh americans" to evaluate differences. And you (Donny) already epxlained the German view so perfectly, I don't need to comment on it any more ;-) For the language, I think it's more important to read some signs, like "Ausfahrt". Or maybe "Damen/Herren" "Männer/Frauen" for the toilet in all possible variations. It's not necessary to pronounce it.
As a German from Saarland, the best way to cook potatoes is of course "Gefillde" or "dicke Klees" , "Dibbelabbes" or "Schaales" (which is similar but one baked in the oven and one made in a frypan) and "Grombeerkichelcha" (potato pancakes)
As an American living in Germany, I have noticed that the toilets are different. I like the #1 & #2 buttons - but it leaves no mystery why they all have the wall-mounted brush.
The best way to cook a potato always depends on what you want to do with it and where you come from. You might as well ask in the US which football team is the best.
To your sister in law and brother , obviously beeing from OK City: have you ever been to the burger restaurant "The Cow"? The 1st one was opened in Edmond. They have a 2nd one in town, a few years ago. Looking for the best onion rings on the planet? The place to go! And the burgers are stunning, too! I once mentioned it to Cowboy Kent Rollins. And he answered, that he had heard of that place, too. From a guy, living in a village close to Hamburg, Germany. Enjoy your stay!
there's a funny story from the past. We had a trip to Rhine river and we joined a "boat trip" from Rüdesheim direction north. The foreign guide on the boat explained some sightseeing facts and told us the castle on the top of the mountain left side is about 1.000 yrs. old. Watching some U.S. tourists this moment I could see ther jaws drop and I could hear their brains thinking about 1776 . . . "hell , this is much older ! ! !" Ja, so ist das ! 🙂 later on we sat down and had some glasses of that wonderful wine this area produces . . . Baron, PEP Cars V8 U.S. car club, Frankfurt Germany
Die Bezeichnung Grumbeere kannte ich auch noch nicht 😅 dafür sage ich auch mal ganz gerne Töften anstelle von Kartoffel, vor allem seit ich "Der Herr der Ringe" gelesen habe 😁
The Answer to the Potato-Question... It depends on what's your goal. If you want to make Bratkartoffeln or Kartoffelsalat then you cook the whole potato with the skin. When you want Salzkartoffeln or Karroffelpüree then you peel the raw potato, cut it in pieces and cook these in water with salt.
There is no best way to cook a potato! There are different ways and all have their pros and cons! Depending on the consumers needs or preferability one suits better than the other 💁🏼♂️
What an adorable couple. Really ice to see that they did enjoy their stay in Germany. And beeing German myself, I tend to agree with Jamie: I would always enjoy Italy or Dalmatia more than Germany 😉 Thanks for sharing your experiences and thoughts.
Short explanation on the Grumbeere, or Krummbiere, Krumm or Grumm is an ancient name for the actual plant growing above the surface, Beere is a berry, Biere is a local expression for pear. It depends on few Kilometers of distance whether ou say Grumbeere (more towards the Rhein) or Krummbiere (actually around Meisenheim or especially in Idar-Oberstein)
Here in the south (Baden-Württemberg), we say Grummbiire. And "Härdöpfel" or "Erdööpfel" ("stove apple"(?) or "soil apple" --> btw: in Switzerland as well).
the best way to cook a potatoe ... well you know that you arre asking germans ? so expect like 80 million answers ii like panfried potatoes with some bacon and onion or what we call "dreckische " ( dirty potatoes) you fry them in a pan with some herbs and salt and then you melt liver and bloodsausage over them or potatoe pancakes or hmmm mashed potatoes or hmmmm potatoedumplings with filling or ....
I lived several years in the late seventies in Quebec City.My first language is English and French is the spoken by 90 plus percent of inhabitants of Quebec. One of my sisters and her partner and a nephew visited me. We went out eat at local restaurant. When we were ordering our nephew, who was about 10 at the time, placed his order completely speaking French. It was obvious that the young woman who was serving us appreciated his efforts. I was pretty fluent in French at the but neither mys sister and her now husband were very conversant. Over the years when conversations with friends and acquaintances about travel and the positive aspects of trying to speak even some basic words and phrases of a local language when a visitor, I have referred to that meal. Last year this nephew visited me with his partner. We hadn't seen each other in about 25 years.I now live in the Yukon. We realized the last time he had visited me was when I lived in Quebec. He the recounted for his partner and I, that his clearest memory of that visit of over 40 years ago that was that server's reaction to his ordering in French. It like he had made her day.
I‘ll try to cover the basics for yes/no, small/big, hello/bye, thanks/please and so on when I travel. And the question whether the speak english in the lands language. For me it’s the polite thing to do. As well as cover my knees and shoulders in churches when asked to do so or bow. When i am in a foreign country to travel I want to do the bare minimum to show that I try. I hate it, when people think everybody has to accommodate them.
The French people in France are freaking out or ignore you or spit on you if you don‘t speak French! In every other country in Europe it‘s polite when you speak a few words in the language of your hosts / hostile country.
I'd say the poop shelf is not only going out of style, it already has long since gone out of style. The only houses I still see them in are from the 70s
not realy my dear donni in the palatinate a stein is a liter of beer too it referes to the i liter stone mug but its a stein even if its in glassware ....
Stein is not really common in germany. Theoretically anything made with a lid regardless of being clay or glass could be called Stein, short for Steinzeug. Still not common. i lived in the pfalz while in University, still never heard it used. In bavaria you would say "Maß" for a liter mug, and "halbe" for a half liter mug, regardless of lid or not, stoneware or not. I do believe you, though, been gone from germany for 25 years now. Things could have changed, like the toilet bowls have :)
@@uliwehner well since i grew up there and still live there and order steins on a regular bases... it is comon where donnie lives the only place that is about that maß bullshit are some bavarian themed hofbräuhaus bars everbody else will give you a liter of beer if you order a stein i ordered steins in nearly every bar in kaiserslautern ....
Such a nice couple! And so many good questions about their experiences they made in Germany. And yes - Germans would also prefer Italy and that's why they love travelling there. And are very perceptible there, lots of us are going there and some of them are even wearing their socks in their sandals which I learned is up to date fashion now.
Best way to cook a potatoe: Take off the skin, slice the potatoe, drop the slices in cooking salted water, after a few minutes - try a slice, when the slice brakes on the thoung, the potatoe is as fast as possible cooked. Now you could try it with Tzatziki from LIDL, or other spices or sauces. Enjoy your potatoe!👍👋
