The German Language

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Special thanks to Alexander Picard for his German audio recordings and Sebastian Stauber for his assistance.

Special thanks to: Nicholas Shelokov, 谷雨 穆, Anders Westlund, and Kaan Ergen for their generous Patreon support.

Special thanks to Alexander Picard for his German audio recordings and Sebastian Stauber for his assistance.

Music:

Intro music: "Frequency" by Silent Partner.

Main music:

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Outro music: "Circular" by Gunnar Olsen.

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[thegoatjesus]

Fun fact: in German television, when a person speaks Swiss German they use subtitles.

[Steven-smyw]

I loved the quote “all challenges become adventures when you become fascinated“.
As a German teacher in the US I was often asked “which language is easiest to learn?” I replied “the one you want to learn”.
That seemed to encourage them

[benyahun]

I work in a hotel in Austria.
Where people speak German.

'I don't speak Dutch' is a sentence I hear from American tourists on a regular basis and now I finally understand why.

[Ellisepha]

fun-fact about "Dachsprache" - DACH is often used as a common term for the three biggest German speaking countries (German, Austria and Switzerland). It comes from each country's shorthand letter on EU car plates. D for Deutschland, A for Austria and CH for Switzerland.
But "Dach" is also a German word that means "Roof", which fits as this is where all German countries fit under one roof :D

[romanbrandle]

I was told by a north German that he preferred for me to speak English, because my swiss accent was so horrible he couldn't bare to listen to it .

[yoshi-csib]

Our language is very efficient:
we mean: "Entschuldigung, ich habe das nicht richtig verstanden, könnten sie es bitte erklären?"
but we say: "Hä?"

[annabelholland]

Fun Fact: All Nouns in German are capitalized

If English had this Rule, this is what it would look like:
German is a Language that is a commonly taught in Schools and Educations around the World. People also learn German via the Internet, Books and more.

[latwin]

Ich bin Italienerin und ich finde Deutsch sehr schwierig zu lernen, aber ich liebe es! Deutsch sieht so ordentlich und logisch aus :)

[ciwan]

English:Hello?
Turkish:Allo?
Spanish:Hola?
German: *JÜRGEN AM APPARAT*

[cdpyeez]

Ich komme aus China. Englisch ist meine erste Fremdsprache, danach habe ich Deutsch ungefähr 3 Jahre gelernt. Am Anfang finde ich Deutsch ziemlich schwierig, weil zu viel unterschiedliche Artikel man auswendiglernen muss. Nach 1 Jahr finde ich Deutsch ist einfacher als Englisch, weil die Grammatik der Deutsch ähnlich wie Chinesisch ist. Außerdem sind viel deutsche Wörter Zusammensetzungen von einfachen Wörter, wie z.B "krank" bedeutet "sick or ill", "Krankschwester" bedeutet "nurse(sick sister)" und "Krankhaus" bedeutet "hospital(sick home)", "Krankwagen" bedeutet "Ambulance (sick truck )".Deswegen gefällt Deutsch mich.

[hansgilde]

"dem Tische" is archaic. The -e ending in the masculine and neuter dative is retained generally in fixed expressions such as "zu Hause" and "nach Hause." But in colloquial speech the -e ending is often dropped.

[rosevillewoman]

Love this channel. English is my native language since I was born in the U.S. However, since my mother is from Hannover, Germany, German is my second language. I learned hochdeutsch as a child. I have studied Spanish in college since I live in California. In addition, I have been studying French, Hebrew, Greek and Japanese on my own.

[shuntoshibuya]

‪Ich bin Japaner und lerne Deutsch. das ist wirklich schwer für mich, aber ich werde weiter studieren‬
‪Wir sind der Jäger!‬

[eisikater]

I'm German and I really tried hard to find a mistake you made in that video, and I nitpickingly found one: The Dativ singular of "der Tisch" is not "dem Tische" anymore, that is 19th century. In modern German, in the Dativ, we drop the e. So it's "dem Tisch", in written AND spoken German.

As a language buff myself and as I just stumbled across your videos, I couldn't help but subscribe and must watch them all. Great job you're doing here, thanks for all the work you put into it!

[ladydark]

One think you might want to add: German has a lot of compound words or is THE language of compound words. This makes it unique because you can easily "invent" new words which are automatically correct. For example: Badewannenstöpseldeckel --> it is one word but it consists of several nouns --> Badewanne (n), Stöpsel, Deckel

[jessetingle]

I live in Texas and have been studying standard German for a year. Irecently learned that Central Texas has its own German dialect, which began to split off from standard following German settlements in Texas in the 1830s and 40s. Some of the pronunciation has shifted to be more similar to southern American English, and there are a lot of loan words.

[KBHSKVK]

Ich komme aus Südkorea. Ich lerne etwas Deutsch aber mein Deutsch ist nicht gut als mein English. Ich denke Diese Sprache ist sehr schön.

[MenschMair]

Why am I watching this? I'm a native German speaker..

[leonardosenab]

1 ago I've decided to make German my third language. (I'm a portuguese native and studied english since a teenager).
It have been really challenging but the more I learn, more fascinated I get.