The Berlin Wall | Super Easy German (100)

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Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of participating partner countries abroad. Episodes are produced in local languages and contain subtitles in both the original language as well as in English.

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Camera & edit: Francisco A. Soza
Translation: Ben Eve

[AmyRhodesTravel]

Cari, I am also very fascinated with the history and how it affected Berliners. Every German I know has an amazing story about the night the Wall fell. I love hearing these stories so much.

[sunshinealpharpt]

Apparently my great-grandmother has a piece of the Berlin Wall. I think that's really cool. It's important to keep pieces of history safe.

[seifddin]

Carri your english accent is very beautifull😘

[amniirdina]

I’ve been there before and I actually got the chance to meet an old lady who had actually suffered the tragedy when she was very young. She said that it was very hard to get food back then and her mom always told her to pray and wait. You can sense the happiness when she told us the moment the wall were destroyed. I can’t imagine being in her place.
That literally the saddest thing I have ever heard of.
My visit to Berlin was filled with the story of Berlin Wall and I know how the tragedy had put a very deep cut to them who were there.

[Francois-ChristianNGUIAMBAMBPI]

An deinem Gesicht und deiner Sprechweise sowie deiner Stimmung, als du von diesen traurigen Erlebnissen berichtet, Cari, empfinde ich so viel Emotion. 😢😢😢😢😢 🖤❤💛 Dass es Berlin heute ganz gut geht, macht tatsächlich Hoffnung für viele andere heute ähnliche traurige Situationen in der Welt. 🖤❤💛

[tinamildred]

So ein tolles Video, Cari und Janusz! Es hat mich auch zu Tränen gebracht. Als ich das letzte Mal in Berlin war, stand die Mauer noch, und mir bleibt es auch ein Wunder, dass so eine Teilung überwunden wurde. Darf ich auch davon träumen, dass wir die Mauern in unseren Ländern und unseren Herzen mal abbauen können? Meine Gedanken heute Abend hier in den USA...

[janaajan]

I was in (West) Germany in the military in the early 60's. I knew some German, but could not get off-base to practice with the natives as much as I would have liked. German is a beautifully synehtic-sounding language (something elegant about the way you stack verbs) that reminds an English-speaker of what his language used to be. I will attempt to regain what little Deutch I had 50+ years ago. You're fun to listen to.

[petragillespie]

A very important and powerful video..vielen herzlichen Dank..

[nekogato]

Das ist ein grossartiges Video, vielen Dank. Die Welt braucht mehr Videos als dieses, besonders uber die Platze wie Berliner Mauer, frei vom Hass

[lazyperfectionist]

I remember when the Berlin Wall came down. I was watching the evening news with my grandmother and she was very happy about it. She remembered when it was built and how sure she was, at the time, that it would _never_ come down.

[yuwenliang]

Ich komme in einem Monat nach Berlin. Bestimmt werde ich diesen Ort besuchen. Vielen Dank für die Information!

[jaimegallegos]

3:28 - 4:42 Was für eine große Botschaft Cari! Danke! 👏👏👏

[popc_bauer]

loved this video! you should do more of these "tour guide videos"! (people on streets are sometimes very hard to understand). It is also heartwarming to hear your ideas of hope at the end. Cheers from Brazil, keep up the good work!

[notthatyouasked]

I visited Berlin for a few days in 1985 while the wall was still up. I went into East Berlin twice; once with a group and once by myself. On my solo trip, I had 2 memorable events. The first was when a stranger came up to me on Unter den Linden and after talking to me for a minute, he asked me to please give his relatives in the West a message. I knew better than to agree to that just in case the guy was actually Stasi. The second event was when I wanted to go back to West Berlin. I had crossed over at one of the S-Bahn stops, probably Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse. When I went back to the station, there were absolutely no signs anywhere showing how to cross back. I had to ask one of the clerks who, without really even looking at me, quietly told me to go through the glass doors. Actually leaving was pretty easy, but having the border "hidden" was more than a little freaky.

[moramoreiras]

Dir zuzuhören bringt mich fast zum Weinen 😥

[filippo]

Vielen Dank, Karen, dass du deine Geschichte mit uns teilst. Grüße aus Venedig und... viva Italia 🇮🇹

[neilwieland]

Cari, thank you for sharing your personal memories of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I find the history of post World War II Germany very fascinating, and you and your team do a great job telling the stores. I have been to Germany a couple of times, and even though it was only for a short time, I could tell a difference in mindset between areas that had been West German as opposed to East Germany. It seemed like those in the east were more reserved and maybe more shy.

All your videos are very well done, but my favorites are this one and the other one where you interviewed people who shared their memories about the night the wall fell. Keep up the great work.

[juliawestrich]

Thank you for the wonderful video! I especially enjoyed hearing about your personal experience. Thank you! You are my favorite German youtuber Much love!

[JUANMANUEL]

One of the best videos I have seen in this channel! I really loved it!

[iamwickedz]

This made me emotional! I was actually understanding a lot once I let go and just focused on what the history meant to you. Thank you for sharing! 💕😊