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2,098,342 Views • Nov 20, 2022 • Click to toggle off description
German and English are part of the same language family. That means you can tweak German words to make them look a lot more like their English equivalents. In this video, I'll show you how.
I'll also teach you a bit about the shared history of German and English, and why we have Germany's famous fairytale-tellers the Brothers Grimm to thank.
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Date of upload: Nov 20, 2022 ^^
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So happy that dutch is my native language, do half of the swaps and we understand german, do the other swaps and we are talking in english!
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As a german native speaker, I found it really easy to learn English. I first learned French and it was one hell of a struggle. When I started taking English classes two years later, I was positively surprised by how similar it is to my own language. Never mind the minor differences, to me our two languages are close relatives and I think that everyone who speaks English should also learn German. Never mind the grammatical genders - we'll understand you even if you get them wrong, promise!
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As a Dane who also speaks English and German, I find that when knowing those three languages, I can approximate any Germanic language. The Danish adds a layer, so I understand better than people who only understands English and German.
And something that has always amused me, is that my brain tends to understand German as a Danish dialect, rather than a foreign language. I can't quite explain how it works in my head, but it makes it much easier for me to understand and speak German.
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I'm a warehouse manager for Lidl here in the US and this video will help me immensely at work! Our regional VP, director and "Logistik" managers are all German and many of our imported items come with German labels. Having a quick and easy way to fumble my way through will be a life saver, AND get me major brownie points with my German bosses! Thank you!
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I'm native German and I noticed some similarities to the English language, but I never noticed how easy you can swap out letters to translate the words.
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My first language is Scots, when I started learning Dutch I was shocked at the similarities, a lot of the words are the same or similar, and sentence order is generally similar.
"Heb je water?" "Hae ye water?"
"Ken je hem?" "Ken him?"
I started learning some German recently for an upcoming trip and it's been pretty easy as well!
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Good tip: most words in German that end with “en” is usually a action verb. like Kommen, is to come, gehen, to go & Geben, to give. :)
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In the past, I (native German) used to be a German language instructor at a number of colleges and universities in the United States. What you have presented here is a brilliantly condensed version of the material with which I tried to calm down and encourage my students during their first week of German 101. Kudos!
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I am fully bilingual in German and English. I teach German as a foreign language to English speakers: I always explain to them how to "transmute" sounds to help them recognize and remember words. Examples: feather ➡️ Feder, leather ➡️ Leder
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This was actually a fantastic video. I grew up speaking German but lost my familiarity with the language once my grandparents passed. After learning other languages, I struggled with German but this has made me see my familiarity with it in a new light. Thanks for this contribution to the polyglot community!
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I grew up in Germany and am now a German teacher in Texas. I will DEFINITELY be using your amazing video for ALL of my German classes!! Thank you! Extremely well done my friend (mein Freund)! =)
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I'm German with an Australian wife. She always says she wants to learn German but also immediately claims she can't learn German. I always tell her that English and German are basically the same language so she shouldn't really have too many issues. I'll show her this video, hopefully it will convince her to have another go.
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As a German native speaker, I love comparing Austrian dialect words to English. "La'ta", for instance, is the ladder. "Oiwai" (for "alleweil") is "always". These dialects are so much closer to the common roots of both languages (even today!), which is so beautiful and fascinating. An extinct example is "windlow" ("Windloch", so, "wind hole") for "window", but this has not been in use anymore even in my grandmother's generation (her mother, on the other hand, still used this word). There's also "dau'ne" for a kind of "down" meaning, and I guess this list could go on and on. All my examples are Upper Austrian, by the way.
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Noch nie habe ich mehr über meine Sprache erfahren als in englischen Lernvideos.
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I really enjoyed that one. I am a native German speaker and every time I have to spell tongue I think of what the word might have been like in earlier forms of English.
Fun fact: Not only are Kuchen and cake cognate, German also has a loanword "der Keks" derived from "cakes". It means biscuit.
My favourite pair is fee and das Vieh. Both words are pronounced identically. In Old English it meant cattle, in modern German it means livestock and at some point in time English shifted the meaning because people used to pay their tolls with cattle.
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As someone who's learning german, this is kinda helpful
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11:15 Suddenly it became swedish for "day". DAG. Swedish - the language between german and english.
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13:42 Classic Duolingo phrase "Kaffee oder wasser"
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I don't know why I'm watsching these videos as a German native but it's fascinating how close both German and English can be and how you can use tricks to better understand the other side!
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After being a German native speaker for 27 years, I can now finally read a menu thanks to this video! Thanks YouTube for recommending me this 😂
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