Visit Germany - 10 MORE SHOCKS of Visiting Germany 

Welcher deutscher sieht sich das video auch nur an um zu gucken wie andere über unser land denken? 😅

you know you are german, when it's 4am, no cars around but you still wait for the light to turn green x)

My daughter is 3 years old, and she’ll yell “Rotgänger Totgänger” at jaywalkers. Makes me very proud.

Young walter looks like he bout to drop the hottest mixed tape of 1997

You cant just walk around naked in Germany. Don't do or if you want to be careful, that you are in an area where it's allowed

another tip: a not small number of people, some of them homeless, some of them seniors with poverty pensions, heavily rely on collecting bottles and cans for the deposit. if you are out and about and have a single empty water bottle you dont want to drag all the way back (popular with the party crowd and their beer bottles on weekends), put it *next* to the trash bin, but not inside the trash bin. in major cities, there if often not just bags with dog poop in the bins, but used syringes from IV drug users as well. Putting your bottle(s) next to the bin means bottle collectors won't have to search through the bins potentially very dangerous contents. Many panhandlers and homeless folk asking for change on the train often also accept empty cans and bottles (plastic and cans is most desired cause the plastic bottles and cans have higher deposit than most glass units and are lighter). when i dont have change, and like many, can't afford to give a bill, i ask them if my Club Mate bottles are ok (i drink this like water).

On a scale from 1 to 10, how german are you? - Do you have an authorization for this survey?

Having a conversation in northern germany ^^ Me: Moin Friend: Moin! Kalt, ne ? Me: Jo, bis später. Friend: Tschö

Knocking on tables instead of clapping your hands is mostly practiced in academic context or business meetings (with people of academic background). And you put the "Professor" in front of the "Doktor", so it's "Herr Prof. Dr. Marc Wolters". So being a false-finder might also be tipically German :-)

Döner is a german dish actually it was invented in Berlin

Knocking on tables is a university thing. After a lecture the students knock on the table if they liked it

Another thing that may shock you is the little children's tales that sound something to the tune of, "Sally played with matches... Sally burned to death."

The germans are so nice and really want to get it right for you. In a restaurant in Hamburg i got a menu in SWEDISH although i can manage in german but i had an obviously swedish t-shirt. We are really not used to that kind of consideration.

I was on a flight from Munich to Las Vegas a couple of years ago and the whole plane ERUPTED with applause when we landed after the long flight. I just thought Germans must really love to gamble. Now I know, thanks Mark!

You don't speak German, because you have no stamp? That's a classic case of bureaucracy in action, more than anything cultural.

My Germanism is that I can't eat without a knife...doing an Exchange Year in the US right now and struggle eating with just the fork lol

I am from Germany and I just love watching this kind of videos about our country 😃

The old woman told you "Bei Rot musst du stehn, bei Grün DARFST du gehn" not "lasst". It means you are allowed to go when the lights are green.

For everyone complaining, here is what Wikipedia says: "In Germany the döner kebab was popularized by Turkish guest workers in the early 1970s with a center in Berlin.[13] The dish developed there from its original form into a distinctive style of sandwich with abundant salad, vegetables, and sauces, sold in large portions at affordable prices, that would soon become one of the top-selling fast food and street food dishes in Germany and much of Europe, and popular around the world.[14]" So the dish itself is turkish, but in the form of a Sandwich so you can eat it to go, is german. And the ingredients of the todays popular Döner ar also partly german, and were not in the original Döner from Turkey. Like Kraut and other stuff Have a wonderful day!

You mentioned the knocking instead of clapping, the difference is the thing you are applauding for. If it is something artistic, musical or something creative you clap, but if it is something like a science talk or a lecture you knock

We may give away our D-Mark, but never you, Mark☺

Ok - here's a nice one: I was born English and have lived in Germany, mainly in Hamburg, for 42 years now. Now when you want to get married in Germany, you cannot do that everywhere. Of course you can have a ceremony in Church, but legal marriage always has to happen IN the registrar's office. There are very few exceptions for having the legal ceremony outside the registrar's office, but these places are very few and the same have to be registered. (welcome to Germany, but on the upside of this rule-madness, the things here in Germany work really well) In any case, at a legal marriage, a registrar needs to be there to do tit, so 90% of all legal marriages are in the registrar's office, which is usually located in the Town Hall of the place where you live. When my (meanwhile ex-) wife and I wanted to marry, we wanted to marry in the Altona Town hall, because it is a beautiful old building and the reception room has a very nice atmosphere. Now Altona is a district in Hamburg, and in Hamburg, every District has its own town hall. As the Altona Town hall is very popular for marriages, they at one point limited marriages only to residents of the Altona district and to people from outside of Hamburg. My fiancé then lived in a different district of Hamburg, but fortunately, at that time I was living in Berlin. Now in Germany, in order to get married, you have to - guess what - register (LOL) for marriage at the registrar's office. For a couple from two different places in Germany, you can register in either location for either location, so in order to make the Altona-town-hall-marriage possible for us, we decided that I would register in my local registry in Schöneberg, my district of residence in Berlin. (Can you still follow? 'Cause in the end I'm talking about Germany here... ;-) !) So I called up the town hall in Berlin-Schöneberg, got connected to the registrars office and asked my questions, which documents were needed, how mich it would cost etc. Now my mum is German and when we moved here from England, I only visited German schools, finished my German High-School with a German High-School diploma ("Abitur"), studied in Germany and so on and so forth. My German as well as my English are accent-free, so talking to this lady was something completely normal for me. As I at that time only had a British passport, at the end of our, ca. 20 minute long conversation, I asked the lady if there was anything special for me to observe as I had British nationality. Pause. Her response: "You're not a German national?" My response: "No." Pause She: "We do not give foreigners any information by phone!" Me: "What?!?! Why on earth is that?" She: "Well, it could be that you could misunderstand the requirements and what I'm saying." Me: "Do you really think so? I have been to German schools since 2nd Class of the primary school, I have a German Abitur, I have studied at a German University, and, above all, we have just been talking for roughly 20 minutes without you even noticing a thing! What's the problem?" She: "Still, I must insist that you come here personally, that is our rule!" To cut a long story short, my wife and I married legally in Denmark, only two hours by car from Hamburg, got an international marriage certificate in five languages (!), which just needed to be - yes: registered! ;-) at the Hamburg registrar's office for a fraction of the fees that a normal German marriage would have cost me!

I think I read somewhere that the knocking-on-the-table-clap goes back to the period of the "Vormärz" (1815-1848) when students knocked on the floor with their walking sticks instead of applause.

any vegetarians and vegans visiting germany: Eintopf is your friend, there are many yummy veggie stews here and different variations of lentil stew. big cities also have restaurants where you get vegetarian version of typical german fare like bratwurst with sauerkraut. if you are out and about any time of the day, or just looking for a quick snack, falafel sandwiches from kebab restaurants (looks for anything that advertises "döner") are abundant almost 24/7 at least in bigger cities and a nice change to mcdonalds etc for a quick snack.

I am from Germany and I really love this video because every single thing you say seems to be true and sounds so silly now that I have been to the states for almost six months :D enjoyed that you like it so much :)

I am a portuguese girl and I can tell you that germanisms are not just germanisms! In Portugal we also do that with our índex finger on our head when you wanna say that a person is crazy.. And we also open our hand in front of our face in order to say that someone is an idiot! We also eat a lot ,a lot, a lot of pork meat from North to South... but mostly in the South. You must come to the Alentejo in Portugal. We eat alot more pork meat than the Germans! Bureaucracy ?? Stamps?? Certificates??Man.. Have you ever been in Portugal?? It is the same thing here in Portugal.

If you make an attempt to speak German they are the nicest people I have ever met! They will always switch to english for you no problem and really love it when you still say your please and thank yous, hello and goodbyes etc in German.

I’m sorry but the Döner is from Germany not from turkey

Your videos never fail to brighten up my sub box, Mark, happy travels for you and your family 😄

The Pfand isn't just in Germany. In Denmark we've it had Pfand (or pant) since 1942 for glass bottles and later for certain plastic bottles and from 2002 also soda and beer cans.

I was on a 2 week vacation to Germany in summer of 2015, and in Munich I watched so many people crossing roads when light was red while I stayed on sidewalk and waited patiently. I did not want to be the ugly American tourist that did not show respect. I was surprised at how many people though crossed when they should not. Did not matter time or location. I am very excited to be going to Freiburg for a week this April. Ich liebe Deutschland and the wonderful people. Love your videos, especially the ones about Germany. Tthanks for your work.

I love your facts about the country I live in. Want to hear / see more about Germany from you. For myself it is important to know, how other people like / hate Germany

Germany is wonderful. Love the sense of precise timings. So tourist friendly.

It's hilarious to hear someone talk about the weirdness of my nation :DDD So fun! You are soooo sympathic! Just subscribed :3

Interesting to watch and pretty cool u corrected some of ur previous statements and views! Million thumbs up from germany!

Sweden and Germany are quite the same in many ways I think, from a swedish perspective. The line-culture is different sometimes, as swedes prefer not being close to each other. BUT, being being more or less naked, having lots of rules and regulations, being rather hard to get to know (but nice when you do know them), and so on. Sweden have been more lighter on rules/ethics, laws, regulations for 10-20 years, but for the last 5 years it's getting more oldschool and conservative again. PS. Bringing cash money to Germany was a big shock for me as a swede, as swedes mostly use debit/credit cards.

As far as I know, the "Professor" comes before the "Doktor"

One thing I notice with Italian people like you had with German , so I was flying from Roma to Amsterdam as a solo traveller and once the flight got land everyone just clapping ,cheering and saying Bravo Bravo.I was laughing like a hell and totally different experience.

Great info to share Wolters, Thanks a lot :) And waiting for other amazing videos

Thank you so much for sharing this with us... subscribed!!

I like you so much dear Mr Doctor Professor Wolter für deine very informative travel Videos 👍😘

Knocking on tables instead of clapping is only in specific environments, for example in adademical ones like university.

I am german and I love to see your views on germany, so funny, last video on the first 10 shocks, I laughed so hard on loosing people in the bedcrack, so true, I remember that from so much holidays in bavaria where we went on holidays often. Keep on making those great videos

I subscribed your channel recently and I am enjoying more and more. Thank you for your videos

Sorry, but it should be Prof. Dr. not Dr. Prof.! ... just the rules.. but the DB isn´t that strict to the german rules...

I'm from Italy and I've been in Germnay once. I've been in München, Augsburg and neighborhood and what shocked me most was the first thing you talked about lol... once I got scared of the doors cuz they were closing when I had to get off and I didn't have enough space to move away

Hey man. Great channel. Visiting Germany, Prague, Budapest and Austria soon. Appreciate the info.

Love the videos Mark! Me and my mate are off to Berlin in March (we're English) - found your videos very useful as research. Thanks for the uploads.

As a german, I did quite enjoy this. Take my subscription, good sir :D Also I believe that the german love for rules is quite obvious in our language. I don't know any other language with quite so many rules (and exceptions to go along with them). That being said after having to learn german grammar, the english one is kinda relaxing ;) Hence lots of germans might have a funny accent but their english grammar and writing is usually pretty good. (Except for germans using to many commas,,, ;-D)

Its "Herr Professor Doktor" and most people ignore that part because even most Professor usually don't want to be addressed as Professor all the time nowadays.

Vielen Dank lieber Mark für die tollen Videos!

Looking forward to a trip to Germany next summer. Been watching a lot of the videos for homework and these have been super helpful.

well..if you want to study in Canada you need a certificate proving your English skills as well. that's not really a Germany specific thing

Glad you talked about the speed limit. When I tell people about my 300 euro ticket they usually don't believe me until I pull up the screen shot

Interesting , thanks for these videos !

Great video, very informative.

Have you visited Tübingen? I will be studying there this fall for an entire year. What advice can you give an American college student about the culture of German universities? Also, do you have a video about German universities? If not, can I recommend that you do one? That would greatly help college students like myself and others decide on studying in Germany!

Driving on the autobahn and German drivers who don’t camp on the fast lane and follow rules. It’s bliss! 😌

The lack of line culture in germany is shocking to me as an german as well.

you are very sympathico. It's nice to hear good things about my country

Knocking on the table doesn´t replace clapping in general it´s just a common and somewhat more professional thing that you can see a lot in schools, universities and sometimes at the inn....

Hello from Bremen/Germany! - As we Germans are so particular about our rules and let others know about it in a very direct manner, I have to blend in - of course ;-)- and let you know the following : The rule is that if a person has several academic titles, you put the highest title first when adressing that person. Therefore, as you seem to have several academic titles, the german railway operator Deutsche Bahn would not adress you as "Dr. Prof. Mark Wolters" but rather as "Prof. Dr. Mark Wolters". In Germany the titles Professor/Prof. and Doctor/Dr. become part of your first name and you are allowed to have your passport altered accordingly. Apart from that other titles such as Master, Bachelor or in your case Diplom Ökonom VWL/ Dipl. oec. cannot become part of your first name. Hope, I did my best to verify, that we Germans love our rules and telling others about it ;-) LOL - Love your channel! Keep up the good work! Viele Grüße aus Deutschland

that clapping on the plane is to applaud and thank the pilot for "not killing everyone" at the landing because we understand that its not so easy to fly a plane and we think they deserve the praise

Thank you for such a great video about my country!!!

Great video! but just to let you know the translation of stamp in this case is Stempel not Stampfer. stampfen means to stamp your feet but stamp on a letter is Stempel, two differnt words. keep it up and enjoy! :)

Toiletwoman, worst superhero ever

I'm so glad I found your channels. So informative.

Nice! Enjoyed that video.

Der Döner kommt aus Berlin und nicht aus der Türkei! 😉

"Stamp or it didn't happen" :'D

It's so funny to hear what other people notice as special or different in your country. This is a great video and a you seem to be a very friendly guy. Thanks.

Vielen Dank Herr Doktor Professor Wolters! Noch ein tolles Video! Viel Spaß in Mexiko!

The Line Culture gets better every year. In supermarkets it is absolutely common but we forget our good will when it comes to busses and railways. All german kids learn english with the start of grade 5. I think the essentials are teached in elementary school though. It's been a while since I was in school :D But, german learn english in school for at least 5 years. Freikörperkultur: Yes, germans are free with that. Nipples and bums are common in Advertising, but you can't just walk around with no clothes on =)

I didn't know you're a mister doctor professor ;)

planning my trip to prague,budapest, and berlin in june been so helpful watching your videos

Hi Mark, Super Video, Weiter so!

Ich weiß ja nicht, was andere Länder über Nacktheit wissen, aber als ich vor zwei Jahren am Bodensee in einem Freibad war, haben sich zwei englisch sprachige Personen bei mir aufgeregt, weil ich angeblich zu "nackt" wäre. Dabei trug ich einen Badeanzug!

That example with the line culture is absolutely wrong!! I'm a German and see it every single day. People waiting on both sides of the door and making space for the people who wants to get out of the train. After that happened and everybody is outside, the people going inside the train from both sides. I don't know why i think so if u were living here for 3 years. But the most of immigrants here don't care about the rules and german culture. Great Videos! keep going!

I love your vids. Is so funny to see how others see us. And your right :D

Your channel is great :)

about the point with the nudity. actually it is forbidden to walk around naked and you might have to pay a fee (at beaches, lakes youll most likely not get punished). But there are places, for example at a beach, where signs with the FKK symbols were put down and there you are allowed to go full naked. Once again dont go outside without your clothes :D

Germany has a lot of different regions with different culture, dialect, food, mentality and so on. just keep that in mind!

I'm happy to see pictures of my hometown Lübeck! I hope you liked it here 😊

Really nice video!

Hey we knock on tables 2 in Quebec Canada haha ;) its a mix of both usually i start by clapping and end up knocking on the table like a savage

What you're explaining is like the south of Germany. In the rest of Germany there's a phrase that says Bayern isn't Germany.

Great video Mark I love the videos and Keep up the Great work

Great video, thank you! Only one thing; clapping is completely fine and common in Germany. Knocking on the table is a academic thing. We use it at the University for example after lectures and presentation. After a concert we clap of course. :)

In Germany we have a thing called the "Rechtsfahrgebot" (literally "right-driveing-commandment") meaning in any street with more than one lane in your direction you always have to drive on the lane at far right as possible. It is only allowed to use the middle or left lane if you are about to pass another car and are significantly faster. Normally you will drive in the middle lane because the right one is filled up with LKWs (trucks) lined up like peals on a necklace but the left lane. Long story short: You always have to drive as far on the right as possible.

Haha you just need a rule on a sign that says to stand in line, then it works pretty well.

I really enjoy watching your videos :) have to laugh a lot. You're absolutely right with most of the things you say :)

OMG, you are always so happy and jolly !! :)

Oh and it's "true" that there is no law for paying at toilets. -at least no written law for it. But an "unofficial" one. If you won't pay - the cleaning lady at the toilet will kill you with her looks or even say something: "What about the money?!" (straight forward & with an angry tone). She really expects you to pay! And others will look at you like you killed some one: "What he didn't pay?!" - so no law, but yes a law. LOL.

Nobody gives a shit about the fish. Everybody is only making pictures with the wild boar. If you ever visit Munich and see the fish and the boar. Also make a picture with the fish. Poor fish.

Hi Mark, I have just discovered your chanel and I am pretty obsessed with it. You are soo cool and your vlogs are perfect. I must say I am laughing a lot watching the tips and love&hate in different cities or countries. It reminds me my visits to those places and you are 100% right! 😊 Thank you, you make me travel soon! Greetings from Prague and peace to the world!

All of your travel videos are excellent, but it is obvious that you have a special passion for Germany.

I once had some exchange student friends and asked them if they want to join me for a thermal park (swimming pool and slides). I also told them that I am going into the sauna and they are welcome to go too. They said "sure". Well... a day later somebody told me I had to warn them about the fact it is just nude in there and I did. Guess who went with me xD Not even the Canadian!

Ich verstehe nicht warum sich die Touristen über das Trinkgeld für die Toilettenfrau/Mann aufregen! Im Restaurant benutzen sie einen Taschenrechner, damit das Trinkgeld stimmt.

When you're speaking German, and not throwing the odd German word in when speaking English, your accent is remarkably good.

very amusing video...this line culture made me smile.... we learnt it from our Grandmas and they learnt it in the war....we still behave like we were queuing for an air raid shelter...