American Girls React to 20 German words AMERICANS USE all the time!

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[Roberternst]

I wonder whether it’s a generation thing or more of a regional/ cultural thing why you never came across gesundheit or kaput. Those seem to be quite common expressions around NYC, LA or in at least some urban/suburban areas of Ohio, Illinois, Michigan or Wisconsin, at least from what I took from US TV sitcoms and other shows.

[alexandrorocca]

It's quite funny that I, as a self-taught English speaker I heard all those words spoken by Americans in TV shows and movies. I knew, of course, that many immigrants in the US were German and Ashkenazi Jews commonly interject Yiddish words when they speak, and Yiddish has the same roots as German. If American teenagers have never heard these words I wonder if they are less used nowadays.

[Chuulip]

I think you dont know them because you're still quite young. I'm German and I've definitely come across most of them either personally by talking to americans or by reading things or watching English shows. I don't live in the US and I've also never been there but the most common ones from her list that i have encountered are kindergarten, angst (it is a kind of literary genre too btw), spiel ("she gave me the whole spiel"), doppelganger.

[melchiorvonsternberg]

Feli's boyfriend is an American. That fact explains it very well...

[madTitanja]

Wanderausstellung is not whole right, cos Wandern = hiiking !!!

Ps: You both are the perfect Doppelgänger of the girls of the icarly Show. 😃😎

[arnodobler]

Kindergarten and playgrounds are probably the most beautiful German inventions and exports!

[johanneshering]

Dachshund or Dackel, my American Onkel and Aunty say Wiener Dog. I speak American English very well and it's always funny when we talk with the Family from America because the translation is such a thing. You can't translate one to one because nothing sensible comes out of it. There was a time when we all laughed after I translated what my aunt said to my family from America and gave her a German translation of what she said.she said : my I is he, that means for a Man in German his balls are broken. Crazy and Funny.

[aphextwin]

At least three of these words have probably come via Yiddish into (American) English: kaput, schmutz, spiel. Yiddish itself is Germanic language that branched off from older high German dialects with about 20% of its vocabulary being non-Germanic, mostly Hebrew and some Slavic.

A good number of these 20 words could probably be described as fancy words, where some users were showing off their education and threw in a few German/Yiddish words to their conversation. You are more likely to encounter them in large cities and on college campuses.

More generally, everybody will learn new words during their life after high school. You move around, you meet more people, whatever expertise you acquire comes with its own words new to you.

[ticktaeck]

I'm not an expert, but I could imagine that "stein" originates from Germany or Europe and then made its way to the US with settlers because it's quite an old unit of measurement here in Europe. I guess it stuck in that part of Germany.

[justinevers]

I‘m from Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, but honestly, I‘ve nerver heard „Ein Stein Bier bitte“ maybe it is from earlier. I don‘t know😅

[Mccaine]

You can say "Spiel" too, if there is something that does not fit exactly inside the opposite part. So you say "es hat etwas Spiel"

[Nani-yysn]

0:19
You still mispronounced
Lmao 🤣

[tubekulose]

Interesting you've already watched the other video on how to pronounce German brands and still mispronounce them (on purpose?). 🤔

[AP-RSI]

Many modern American series I've seen have used a lot of these words!

[toniheikkila]

(Being just seconds before told that Kindergarten isnt a part of the schooling system in Germany): "I wonder if Kindergarten is part of the schooling system in Germany?"
There are all sorts of American stereotypes floating around.

[constancevigilance]

This was very interesting. There were some words even I don't know. And I give english lessons.😂

[constancevigilance]

Kindergarten is for the really young kids. There is Preschool, Vorschule and it's only one year before the kids go to actuall school.

[MasterFeidn]

These two seem to be stuck in a social bubble if they have not heard most of the words. During my time in america, they were used quite regulary.

[Hauke-phui]

9:54 Feli is wrong on the word stool - it is a loan word. However - in this case the word is not a loan word from High German, This word is Low German which is a different language.

[KrisThroughGlass]

I'm a bit shocked that you haven't heard so many of those words. I'm German, always lived here and still heard all of them in movies or read them in books.