If English Was Spoken Like German

Watch UNICORN TOWN Here:

My Patreon:

My Instagram:

[ninamarie]

My German-English bilingual brain couldn’t handle this video. I kept thinking that I should be able to understand everything without subtitles but I just couldn’t.

[joegoss]

Mark Twain said of German “whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”

[AddGaming.]

My brain: "this is english"
Also my brain: "no thats not"
...
My brain: "Yoda it is"

[suzanne]

As a dutch girl, this is probably how I spoke english when I first started learning. It sounds really natural to me

[asmodon]

All jokes aside, this is genius. I applaud your determination to draw it out a bit longer than comfortable.

[Saylor]

Having tried to learn German multiple times, this resonates so much with me. Sometimes the conjugation is exactly the same in both languages, and then other times I feel like Yoda.

[Bhodisatvas]

This absolutely struck me whilst learning german how much it sounded like 'old english' in my head and how polite the language actually is, it really is a beautiful language to listen to.

[russelljohnson]

40-ish years ago, as I was learning German, I decided that if I just used Shakespeare or King James syntax it would make a lot more sense. Now, hearing it out loud in English, I think I was right! Brilliant execution, by the way!

[LaureninGermany]

I have this to my husband shown. His face looked totally funny out! I was impressed from me, because I everything understood have! What for a funny video idea! It must difficult to film been to be.

[roesi]

There we have the salad. Nalf speaks English like a German now.

No, but seriously: How did your brain feel after filming this video? It must have been a complete mess.

[Cau_No]

That reminds me of the Asterix comic books, with German translations.
Whenever they had foreign characters visiting in the Gallic Village (e.g. from Iberia, Britannia), they used their sentence structure to convey the accent.

Or they used the fraktur font for the Goths, and hieroglyphs for Egyptians …

[dieZera]

Finnish sentence structure is also so different.
For me as a German native speaker, it is super weird to hear English with German sentence structure :D.

[nngnuo]

Now make a reverse one. A video in German which is spoken like English.

[LucasBenderChannel]

There have you but a funny clip made! 😂 Has me really enjoyed. Therefore get you immediately a thumbs to up. 👍

[jjinwien]

I can't imagine how difficult this. must have been to write the script AND speak those sentences without screwing it up completely . Well done, and absolutely hilarious. Mark Twain would appreciate your excellent efforts.

[harleyd]

This sounds like Old English, like a Shakespeare work.

[asmodon]

That sounds like someone who learned English at school 40 years ago and hasn’t used it since.

[babsihebeis]

This is absolute genius. You have done so well speaking with such fluency and rhythm! It is like listening to a weird foreign language and then suddenly realising that you actually understand every single word. I was struggling to follow the conversation the first time round, but watching it the second time, I had already tuned in really well, almost scary 😆

[bleachberad]

This is one of the best things iv seen in a long while haha, finally native english speakers get a glimpse of what a german brain has to handle when translating inside our german brains :D

[sphtpfhorbrains]

It sounded like a Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare. Well done!