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@Generic Guy That argument falls apart when you consider that a big part of why so many Germans speak English is because everyday German is also heavily Americanized. The reality is there's a lot of historical and cultural overlap between the two countries: German-Americans make up the biggest reported ancestry group in the US, there used to be whole German-language newspapers and publishers in the US. Heck, Pennsylvania Dutch is still a thing to this day, the Amish call their law literally the "Ordnung". The US presence post-WWII, heavily ramping up during the cold war, and still lasting to this day, is also a very big cultural exchange factor in reverse. Making Germany one of the biggest US American diasporas particularly outside the Americas, and resulting in German pop-culture being pretty aligned with US trends.
@@YukiTheOkami You should have typed: "Nearly every English speaker knows or speaks some German words" instead of "speaks some German" the latter implies that you know how to at least construct basic phrases in German and understand basic phrases German speakers would say. Speaking some words or knowing them has nothing to do with speaking some of a language, otherwise most Germans would speak English as they use a lot of anglicisms on a daily basis, yet when you start conversing in English, all you hear from most of them are some broken sentences which makes it a guessing game sometimes.
@@blenderpain8249 Each character is not a word. It can be, but most of the time, we're dealing with multisyllabic words or other disambiguating features like reduplication or other forms of contextualization. Also: 44k chars is just plain wrong. Just knowing 4k is in the realm of a very decent education, and, by itself, not even a predictor of how good your overall vocab or spoken Chinese is. It's also fairly systematic in many ways. Sure, you got a pretty hefty challenge just cramming chars at first, but it's not like you didn't have to drill the latin (or any other) alphabet - written Chinese really isn't that bad once you get into the groove, and learning new characters really is no different from learning new English words... which is something most native speakers will be doing for the rest of their days. I'm down for some quips, but people have a tendency to mystify these things so much. Cram Duolingo or Clozemaster and you'll inevitably learn the language, just make sure to also keep writing your flashcards on paper, endlessly, every day. Look for nice podcasts as well, it's magic for language learning. All that yip-yapping aside, Bengt is freaking hilarious. Really witty dude.
The German accent had me thinking about my poor cousin. He had a German nanny and his parents kept taking him to speech therapists for his weird speech impediment. My dad listened to him and realized his parents didn't know that was a German accent. He just picked it up in the middle of Virginia.
There's this really nice British lady teaching at our school. And she's got this weird mixture of German with an accent that can only be a mixture of British and lower bavaria
A true story: When I was growing up in Beijing, sometimes our teacher would ask the kids in class to write our own names 50 times as punishment. A friend of mine was the envy of everyone having the name of 王一丁. Another girl though, almost always ended up weeping at the end. Oh poor 瞿懿曦 *Edited: grammar mistake corrected with the help of a comment.
As a speaker of English only and a tiny bit of Spanish. How do chinese people type? I mean 30 thousands characters is a lot, how can you make a type writer with that or phone ap? I mean on the phone you would have like 100 pages of characters.
@@travisrolison9646 To understand %90 of written Chinese you only need about 3000 characters and many have the same pronunciation, but different tones...So the computers, etc, use a romanized input system called pinyin that breaks down the sounds of the words into the English alphabet characters, then you type that in and there's a list of the most common characters that pop up which you can expand and sometimes there are fourty or fifty characters that all have the same pronunciation with only varying tones, but all of them have different characters. 是时事十使市使湿试 all are written with 'shi' in pinyin and you just use pick from the predictive list that pops up.
@@travisrolison9646 There are various input methods. Although nowadays most people use Pinyin, which is basically using the Latin alphabet to spell out the pronunciations.
Similar thing with Japanese if you’re spamming the Chinese characters. Someone did this and accidentally wrote “Perverted teacher who talks to children.” Like goddamn.
@@FieryJuniper Why dialect? Just learn the most official language ---- Manderin. Nobody jumps right away to learn any Chinese dialect. What is this question? Do you even know Manderin?
Clean humor is very challenging because you don't get the boost that comes from people giggling over dirty language. With, dirty humor, people are a little uncomfortable, so any excuse to relieve the tension is likely met with laughs.
“My dad was a psychiatrist, he didn’t believe I hitting to correct behaviour, he just adjusted our medication. He didn’t spank the butt, he chemically spanked the brain” hahaha. I love that.
@@MorShadi if you think THIS is great comedy, then you should check out a GREAT song called BOBBY by Logic and a "GREAT" festival called Tomorrowland. It's gonna blow your mind
if you keep laughing at comedy that doesn't use a single swear word and they talk about everything else but sex and dating, you know you have discovered true talent....
This comment is like someone smirking until they finally tell you you just ate an entirely vegan meal and "now don't you feel so much better about that?" -- right, because _that's_ how pointing that out makes me feel.
@@FirstnameLastname-us7mx I love clean comedy. It’s an effort to listen to people who speak profanity like a second language. My first and former husband had the uncanny ability/talent to take any word and insert something profane in the MIDDLE of it and presto a new word. Jeanne Robertson, Lee Ann Morgan and John Crist and Tim Hawkins are excellent clean comedians at present. If I had the skill of removing profanity from R rated movies, we could have some wonderful movies.
@@mommalion7028 Since this keeps popping up in my alerts... and just to be clear: No one has (or at least I don't have) a problem with "clean comedy". I really enjoyed this set and I DO think it's great to have comedy people can bring their kids to. My comment was a vaguely flippant humorous [-failed-] attempt at calling out a subset who use the label "clean comedy" as a way to bolster their superiority complex -- which I don't even necessarily think @captain nemo was doing. But sometimes we sound a certain way without meaning to.
‘Tis very sad that the modern culture in 21st century American / English parlance is so vulgar that we find it amazing that a person can speak without using cuss words and we’re gobsmacked that a comedian who isn’t vulgar and doesn’t use cuss words can be funny. ... Our cultural and ethical standards have deteriorated to the lowest common denominator.....
Thank you RU-vid algorithm for recommending this! I speak fluent Chinese and have lived in Germany for almost a year, find this bit really funny. And this performance gets even better later and near the end! I'm laughing out loud many times! Very intelligent clean jokes, clever call backs, some punch lines are even philosophical. He clearly have put a lot of thought in to his performance. Keep up the good work Bengt. You deserve to be more famous!
@@SilencioG You're mega awesome! I also laughed out loud so many times. Everything very relatable 😅 Btw, I live in Germany, your accent is perfect! 😁👍 I forwarded this to everyone!! 😎🌲❄
This fluidity and timing. Confident delivery. Knows exactly when to shoot. Natural sounding, passive humor. It's hard to believe he's been a comic for over 5 years. I want more.
That why in China you run for your life after smacking a spider because its dead body on the wall spells "imminent death" but then you turn back because the shadow of the tree outside spells "spider wasn't talking about you".
That's hard when your language is from drawings of stuff, in this case, the after life of dead spiders, with, crippled stairs, and half broekn moon, and over cooked dumplings? .... it may have some fortune telling implications, on the wall........ haha...
As a U.S Army Veteran myself and also having lived in Germany for 4 years, i can say that picking up on the simpler words and learning numbers was not difficult AT ALL. But it was descriptive words that I had a hard time remembering. I could learn things like ordering food and drinks, telling taxi drivers where I want to go, greeting people and asking how they are, I could get around, but I just didn't learn enough to carry on a conversation. I actually ended up being able to understand more then I could speak, which was a little like having a stroke and being able to understand people but when I tried to say something it came out nonsense. Lol. And it's true what he said, I actually started speaking to Germans in English with a German accent much quicker then I learned any German without even noticing I was doing it. My friends actually had to tell me to stop doing it....lmao.
He tells such funny yet wholesome jokes that its like your just hanging out with some friends & listening to the one funny friend talk about his life without interruption.
Bengt is a common swedish name, but only for 70-80 year old men. In Sweden, names are popular in 90 year cycles or so, so in like ten-twenty years, it'll be popular again. I actually think it's catching wind already, because as a teacher, I've come across kids called Bengt recently, and that was unheard of ten years ago.
"I had one sneak up on me and poke me with a stick. Then he turned around and ran into a tree! Paw to God! I scat you not!" Had to pause it a minute or two. Couldn't stop laughing. Woke my neighbors up.
This was hilarious from start to end and so brilliant ! "Clean" jokes often means more intelligent ones and he managed perfectly. It's nice that there was a kid in the audiance and he didn't hear anything age-inapropiate.
@@SchapieNL English is my 4th foreign language. Also I was sleepy when I wrote those one. Even best of minds do some lame mistakes so I think im also allowed to fail at this
As someone who went to Japan in hopes of improving my Japanese, he’s spot on about what it’s like when you go to another country to “immerse yourself in another language.” Lots of people that you meet will know how to speak English and will try to practice their English with you, and many signs (at least in big cities like Tokyo) have English written underneath. And when you start thinking everyone around you knows how to speak English, you will definitely find people who don’t.
"...and then I turned off the light." At that point I had to stop eating my soup or it would've hit the wall opposite, I was laughing so hard. And the poking the grizzly with the blunt end of the stick segment - just too hilarious. I'm currently staying in a hotel and the people either side of me are now probably convinced there's a lunatic next door b/c I have the volume on my laptop low out of courtesy, so they couldn't hear that - but the random shrieks of laughter, I could not contain. Well, that will give them something to talk over ☺ I'm a big fan of Dry Bar but Bengt Washburn tops everyone I've ever listened to.
Many people in Germany speak high German with an accent of there local dialect so to say there is one German accent one English makes as much sense as saying every native English speaker sounds like an Aussie
Haha nice. Und er sieht auch einfach sooooo hart deutsch aus. Er sieht aus wie einer der Techafinen mid-50er die gerade auf Ihren bestellten Tesla warten 🙈🤣
One day I complained to my dad about how people always spell my name wrong. He comes back with, "well, we could have given you the welsh spelling Sioned."
I was there in exchange and lived with my prior exchange students' aunt down the street from her. We went to school together. She banned people from speaking English with me and if she'd here them talking English, she'd yell at them lol
@@dutchdykefinger Same in Sweden. Besides, Sweden was ranked #1 in English for a long time. Even my grandmother can speak English and she's almost 80. All of my cousins could speak proper English at the age of 10. Heck, I even know people with learning disabilities who can speak proper English. Not as fluently as others, but enough to hold a simple conversation. My grandfather was even better though, and is the one who started teaching me when I was 4 years old.
This is understated hilarity. That Navajo wind talker bit had me ROLLING. I had to pause and rewind it and almost passed out both times from the sheer brilliance of it.
As an Army brat in Germany in the early '60's, I learned to speak some German in school and with my 'best' friend next door off post. Later, I enlist and go to Korea, where I met a young lady that I married 2 years later. SO, I see so many parallels in his routine. Luckily, Korean has THE EASIEST Asian alphabet to learn to read!! Thank goodness for no 'shed' designs to learn. I also was stationed on Okinawa for 18 months and only can recognize one Japanese symbol, an upside down - backwards lower case e, for the syllable sound "no". I was a 'poor student as a child. If it had not been for learning German and the analytical process of getting the word's in the correct order to sound right, I would not have done as well as I have as an adult. And I'm still married after 46 years. 사랑해 아내
@@jessejohnson159 I know you're not. But, my actual grandpa has the exact same story as you. Except they got divorced when my mom was around 15? 16? Somewhere around 88-89.
I am so impressed at how great this comedian is. I love finding a truly funny comedian with a great delivery. Very talented. I would definitely see him live.
@David Jones Yes, something like that. For Christians, basically everything happens for a reason - because all of your life has been planned by the God, etc., etc., there's no place for randomness. The most random thing you can see is your own free will (which is not so random at all) that can lead you closer or further away from the God's plan. Everything and anything that happens in your life is a sort of test for you, it's supposed to help you grow and become closer to the God. Even if you're already considered a good person and suddenly you suffer for no apparent reason, it's His way of further purifying you, making you more eligible to go to the Heaven... or something like that. Born Catholic, I've become an atheist because of what is logic to me, but I've learnt a thing or two.
@@ascesemphia that’s just very poorly catechised Christians who believe that every bad thing happened for a reason. Can’t speak for all but that is not actually a true tenet of Catholicism in the least.
I don't know Chinese, but I'm studying Japenese in school, and learning kanji is an interesting experience. Though, from what I understand it's easier to type in Chinese than Japanese. I dread when I have to do digital assignments for Japanese class. So clunky.
@@She-wolf3636 actually I would say it's infinutely easier to type in Japanese. You don't get too many word combinations that sound the same in Japanese, so you dont need to spam the expansion button to select the right word combination. And you can almost always use hiragana if you are too lazy to find the correct kanji's.
@@chizhang2765 That's one way of looking at it. I guess I'm just used to typing in English, so when I type in Japanese it doesn't feel as fluid on a keyboard. It will get easier with practice.. hopefully.
@@She-wolf3636 These days, typing in Chinese is pretty easy. Usually, we use pinyin on the keyboard along with a menu that we can choose from. There are more advanced systems based upon strokes that are more efficient, but for learners and people who don't type professionally, that can be overkill.
One of the more clever jokes in that group for sure, he did a ton of them throughout his set and I was constantly amazed at just how good he really is.
This man has an incredible stamina, relatability, observance, wisdom and humor than many other comedians I've encountered. In other words, he's a comedic gem!!
Chris L My fiance (German) and I met in China! We usually use Chinese if we want to keep secrets while in Germany or the US... working on German now, but I think it's way harder than Chinese :(
The whole making a sandwich routine had me laughing so hard, tears are literally streaming down my face! 😂 The cheese-to-sandwich ratio is a REAL battle! 😂😂😂😂
@@dumaskhan You are right about that, but morons laugh at pointless vulgarity all the time. I swear more than anyone I know, but that doesn't make me funny.
@@westie430 I don't mind cussing. It just gets annoying when comedians use the same jokes as every "dirty"/"scandolous" comedian and 1950s-2000s cheesy sex comedy. Those are mostly just the ugly guy stroking his own ego and 12 year old boys and middle aged men LOVE IT.
Side note, this is the waffle iron character: 田 (rice field) and this is the broken television character 歯 (tooth).That was my first thought, anyway lol. source: tried (and failed) to learn Japanese in college, but still remember some kanji
Haha this was really great comedy, thank you so much. Really appreciated the name bit, especially being a scandinavian myself; I was reading the name thinking like "Your name's not 'Bent', it's BeNGGGT" And then you called that out yourself and pronounced it perfectly. Don't know why, but that in itself was just very funny and great, to me. Am impressed and happy! Thanks!
Bengt, I first came across you at Wiseguys probably around 15 years ago or so and almost literally fell off my chair. My laughter turned into squeaks because I couldn't get any air coming back in. You are seriously one of the funniest comics, ever! I love how intelligent your humor is; so original yet so spot on with real life. Bravo!
I laughed so much and so hard that I literally choked and had to hit pause for quite a while. Everything he said was hilarious! I'd love to see him in person. Now I'm repeatedly clearing my throat from choking. Absolutely hilarious guy!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🤣
I'm constantly amazed how high the average quality is of the comedians on Dry Bar, and it seems that most of the ones I've seen are local Utah comedians. Bengt's great bit about swearing caused me to ponder: is the average Utahan standup comedian funnier than the average U.S. standup because due to the pervasive Mormon restrictions in place, comedians' usual (formidable) weapons of funny swearing, raunchy material, and such are essentially removed from their arsenal, requiring them to hone all their other comedy chops to a higher degree? Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of plenty of "dirty" material and comedians too, but I wonder if there's something to this "beneficial handicapping" hypothesis in this case. Or is it just that there's more existential angst than average in Utah? 😉
I forbade my kids to use swear words, but not for the “standard” reason. I told them I expected them to be more creative in expressing themselves, and vulgar language is usually incredibly boring. My son in particular got a kick out of Elizabethan and Victorian insults; he also made up his own words.
@@llamasugar5478 Nice! "'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish!" When my brothers and I were kids, we also made up a bunch of our own vulgarities, though in our case it was more to establish workable euphemisms for words banned by our parents.
These comedians take English to a higher level... They seek out the words that hit the nail on the head... They also hone their facial expressions and their delivery... So they're like the cum laude graduates of Comedy College....
I got annoyed with my mother in law one day and called her an old harridan. She told me to stop cursing her 😂 . There went my annoyance in a howl of laughter
Yea, it really is weird how coded to war Americans have become. We went from the 70s anti war free love generation to this total worship of war generation. All out allegiance, as if speaking against war means you want your brother or sister to die. It's psychopathic that if you try to PROTECT your family from going to war by being... anti war - that means you are unpatriotic and want USA to fail. I actually have seen it all, being a child from the 70s and 80s. This country is SO effed. Can't even write f___ out here without getting banned anymore. That's what 3 years does.
@@GregJoshuaW Dude we're in one of the biggest eras of peace in the past 100 years right now. Not sure what you're talking about. Total worship of war? Nobody is speaking out in favor of war, we're applauding our armed forces. That's a HUGE difference.
This man is really very funny! Excellent delivery! top notch stand-up! Why is he not waaayyy more famous!?! Some of the guys on Dry Bar are considerably better than some more mainstream comedians on Comedy Central shows. Bengt Washburn is one such an example.
The best part of my day was watching this with my husband and just dying over the married jokes. I always thought they were symbols of an unhealthy marriage. And then I got married. We loved these jokes
Can't WAIT to hear Bengt's take on the pandemic. My new favorite comedian. I can SO relate to all the "getting lost and forgetting" stuff, while trying to act like everything's fine.
