German Reacts to KING CHARLES Speaking German in Federal Parliament! 🇬🇧🇩🇪| Feli from Germany
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- Last week, King Charles visited Berlin on his first official state visit as the King of the United Kingdom! As the first monarch ever, he was allowed to give a speech in the German parliament - partly IN GERMAN! 🤯 Let's see how he did!
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What do you guys think of his speech? And what should I react to next? 🤔 Let me know!! 👇
++I've seen your comments regarding me saying "King of England", and yes, of course he's the king of the whole United Kingdom and England is only part of that. 😊 Believe me, my high school English teacher literally DRILLED us about the difference between England, the UK, and Great Britain 😅 However, I'm familiar with "Queen of England" or now "King of England" as a common colloquial term and I didn't think much of it. My apologies if that sounded offensive to some. That was certainly not my intention. "King of the UK" just doesn't roll off the tongue as nicely 😅 So for accuracy: Of course, King Charles is the king of the United Kingdom.++
I like his accent, too. But he still is a WEF puppet/shill.
Yes, please !
I really enjoyed his speech at the Bundestag. Already liked him before and now a little more. He grew on me a lot over the last few years. Back in the days i always thought he's a bit weird but that has changed.
Why is it even news? You literally had nothing else to do but to make a video on a regular day. Can you also make some videos about people riding the buses and reading books? Since this is a big event. I recommend you watching South Park episode worldwide privacy tour season 26
@@josueveguilla9069 WEF ?
King Charles does speak very good German. In the 1970's or 80's there was a funeral for a German Prince and I heard Charles speaking German in normal conversation, not as a speech. He was very good.
Well they are German.
When you're that wealthy, you have all the time in the world to improve your foreign language speaking skills
@@SteveMrW if only ancestry entailed language fluency
He does NOT speak very good German, as was made plainly clear in his address to the Bundestag!
@@SteveMrW That does not mean that he knows the language.
The UK is so similar to Germany that I truly believe there is almost a family rivalry between the two of us. Those darn wars really buggered things up...huge love to our German brothers and Sister 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
Just remember that Germany started the war by invading Poland.
@@golden.lights.twinkle2329 , so why didn't the UK declare war on the Soviet Union when they invaded and took the eastern half of Poland two weeks after Hitler's invasion? Instead, Joseph Stalin was nicknamed "uncle Joe" in British propaganda. The British were well aware of Stalin's atrocities against his fellow-Russians and neighbouring countries, such as Ukraine and Poland, and of his anti-semitism.
The British declared war on Germany. Who really started WW2?
@@golden.lights.twinkle2329 I’m English, we are brought up on how great we are for winning the war….. Elites start wars and horrendous propaganda…not all the various people of those involved.
100% agree , greetings to the UK 😘👍🏻
@@golden.lights.twinkle2329 the ussr invaded poland aswell. And ended up in Europe.
I'm British, love Germany and I've just come across this channel. Feli speaks with such enthusiasm and its heartwarming to see when half the world seems to be at each others throats.
I was about to comment that I love Brits lol
Gotta love her!
@@doom9603 What, all of us, even him?
Quite nice,and quite interesting,simultaneously-And bloody good too-Do you not agree?😂🤣
As a British citizen, I am full of admiration for the ability of many Europeans, especially Germans, to speak so fluently in English and other languages. I remember very well a conductor on a train in Switzerland trying to guess the nationality of my wife and I. He spoke to us in French. We were quite flattered. Thanks for an excellent video.
As a foreign language speaker, teaching Brits the German language, I was tickled pink by His Majesty's speeches. I was disappointed that not a big fuss was made of his efforts. Thank you for picking up on this! This is such an encouragement for English speakers learning German: If the King can, then so can I! 😊
Well Prince Philips mother was German (born von Battenberg/Hessen, in English Mountbatten), and Philips father was the Greek King but the Family was Holstein-Glücksburg(North Germany).
Just saying ...😊
are you kidding? There are millions of people with ordinary background (e.g. working class) who pick up fluency in non-english languages and can speak way better than these super rich Promis! Honestly, why do people fawn over the rich (and remember they have access SO many resources), when their level of skills are clearly just mediocre at best?
@@saba1030 Get it right. Phiip's mother was "Princess Alive von Battenburg". She was not part of the Battenburgs resident in Britain in 1917 who changed their name to Mountbatten so Mountbatten does not enter into it. Prince Philip's name at birth was "Philippos Andreou von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderberg-Glücksburg. (Prince of Greece and Denmark)". Philip changed his surname upon the advice of Uncle Louis to "Mountbatten" in the hope of conning the British public in the aftermath of the 2nd World War that he was not really a German. The so called Greek royal family were 100% German. In the 1820s the British state assisted a bunch of Greeks to obtain independence from the murderous Turks for part of modern day Greece on the understanding that there would be none of this republican nonsense, they would have a royal family in a proper manner. The German mob (Gelphs of Hanover) who formed the so called "British" royal family prevailed upon the government to foist some of their poor German relations on the Greeks. When these Germans wanted wives for princes, they went sniffing around in Germany every time, hence, Philip's mum being a German and Philip being a German. Charlie's maternal grandfather, George VI was effectively 100% German and his maternal grandmother had a chunk of German in her ancestry. Lizzy was therefore approximately 60% Kraut and Charlie is therefore about 80% Kraut. It would be sad if he could not speak his mother tongue wouldn't it ?
@@terryhoath1983
Oh dear, what a quibbling about the complete list of titles 🤣
I know all of that but wanted to keep it short, as that was already enough to proove the point of German ancistry in the British Royals.
Btw, correcting me I have to correct you: the German name is Battenberg, not Battenburg 😊
Berg = mountain
Burg = castle
And I never said any opposit about Charles capabilities of speaking German or not or how fluent he speaks ...
Forgot to say, that ALL European Royals/Monarchies have German relatives due to the HRI of German Nations wedding politics ongoing for about 1.200ish years.
And in case you're English, then about 30ish% of your DNA is Saxon, all the other "people" coming into todays England didn't leave any notable DNA in the English DNA.
Happy Easter 😊
Edit typo/autocorrect
@@saba1030 Yes. You are, of course, correct about "berg". It happens to be a fact though that Mountbatten is not English for Battenberg. It is a ridiculous corruption that came about as a result of the shame of the Battenbergs resident in Britain at their German ancestry and fear of reprisals for the activities of their countrymen. As a result of their wicked and evil behaviour, by November 1918, 1 in 7 British young men aged between 18 and 30 lay dead in Belgium and France, and 1 in 4 of the others were seriously injured, that is blinded, and or limbs missing, or lungs destroyed by corrosive gas. Germany has done it 3 times. First of all in 1870-71 and then again, in 1914. Not having learnt the lesson, the German nation had another go starting in 1938. Again, the Civilised World had to come together to put a stop to the viciousness of the German nation.
My maternal grandfather was murdered by a German bomber crew in November 1940. My Nan worshipped the ground upon which he walked and grieved for him for the last 31 years of her life. I feel that I know him. My Nan talked of him frequently and when she did, he was alive. He was down the garden, he would be in shortly, he would want a cup of tea ..... but ... he never did come in for that cup of tea. My Mum talked about a knock at the door and my Mum holding my Nan to stop her from falling to the floor as she saw the silhouettes of two police officers through the stained glass in the front door. They had heard the bombs falling several miles away where my grandfather was. I have an uncle who lies 2,000 metres under the surface of the Atlantic. He was a crewman on a ship bringing wheat from Canada. We have the U-boat number somewhere. Germans are very good at record keeping.
As for keeping it short, far better not, if it would be misleading.
My last remark was not a criticism of you, just a general observation. It would, indeed, be very sad if he couldn't speak his mother tongue.
Please consider the fact that he doesn't speak German on a regular basis, so cudos to him and his efforts!! 👏👏
A friend was brought up in the Black Forest area during the late-fifties and early-sixties and says that his German language now sounds old-fashioned and quaintly posh! It's the constant mutability of language that can catch the older speakers out, much like any language and even native speakers.
He is German, so no kudos for his low efforts. He sounds like a computer generated voice.
Prince Phillips sisters were married to Germans. During the years of WWII, this caused a bit of trouble
@@sassytbc7923 The UK royal family are German. They changed their name to Windsor during WW1.
Exactly, even if relatively fluent, the flow of a language can be lost if rarely used--even if that is your native tongue! My wife, for whom English is her third language, after nearly 25 years in the UK sometimes struggles to remember the right words when visiting her home country and others there comment on her strong 'foreign' accent. As she says, it's difficult to get your tongue around sounds that you don't use every day and particularly letter combinations or vowel sounds that don't appear in English.
Fun fact: “Dinner for One” has been broadcast in Australia by one of our public broadcasters on New Years Eve every year since 1989. It has become a NY tradition in my home. One of the few traditions left on Australian TV along with the Queens/Kings Christmas Day speech, I wonder how the viewing numbers compare between the two?
There are 85m Germans so you are on a loser mate...
"One of the few traditions left on Australian TV along with the Queens/Kings Christmas Day speech, I wonder how the viewing numbers compare between the two?"
That is a very weird question.
Are you asking us what you wonder or not? We can't answer that.
@@OriginalPuroTo start a sentence "I wonder..." means that the speaker is curious about something / has curiosity about something. No question was asked so rest easy. Only ve vill ask zem!
As a german, I love all people :)
Everybody should love everyone... or at least respect each other
Be careful, some nitwit is bound to misconstrue this message of love as meaning that you respect neonazis... 😉
You love ALL people?
Murderers, rapists, child molesters, you love them?
I will never understand anyone that claims to respect or love everyone, that's just pure stupidity and they have no clue what they're saying.
@@OriginalPuro the end of your last sentence made your words into a self fulfilling comment.
Seriously..than stop committing holocoust...with COVID ..using a true Monarch God...
Specific them ..Nazy ..since wars they never changed.
Do you understand German meals and UK and istrael Jews was daily from Consficated goods and properties of The real Monarchy !
Knowing where The foods and stuff comes will had helped a lot ...free Luxury is what now is end process of whats left..
Consequences..
Who does love Everyone?
Between Germany and UK and Jews istrael..and Russia.
Than back again ..Russia and UK and Germany ...they shared between them..
ROMANIA Monarchy..the owner of The actual crown god.
And populations of Romania monarchy..never got a penny .
Always rubbed.
Is daily basis... Romania and Africa and India and Paris and Portugal and Spain and Italy and America..all what is the best was Rubbed..
That's why are many homeless ..they rubbed everything .. ..
Another interesting fact about the British Royal Family: Queen Victoria's oldest child, her daughter who was also called Victoria, actually married Friedrich von Preußen who would later become Kaiser Friedrich III of Germany (though he was not in power for long as he died of throat cancer 99 days after becoming monarch). Their son Wilhelm also became Kaiser, Kaiser Wilhelm II. So not only is the current British monarch descendant from German ancestry but also the last German monarch is decendant from British ancestry. And what is even crazier: Since Princess Victoria was Queen Victoria's eldest child, if the UK at the time of Queen Victoria's death went by the same succession laws as it does today, Princess Victoria would have become Queen of England and, after the death of both her and her husband, Wilhelm II would have been both King of the United Kingdom and Emperor of Germany (this didn't happen because at that time in the UK women could only become Queen if they did not have any male siblings - Princess Victoria's younger brother Edward instead became King).
Yes, this makes the whole issue of WW1 more mad, as the King of England, Russian Czar, and the German Kaiser were all Cousins. 😡
@@GrouchyBear411 They are all inbreds.
In England nobody cares about the German connection. English monarchs even had to change their surnames to not appear German to the English public. Any connection to the Germans were denounced publicly by WW1.
One other thing that also needs to be highlighted is that the British monarchs were always self serving. They never cared for all these blood relations because all of these marriages/alliances were for political purposes and not for personal love. This is why the British royals didn't even care when Czar and his family were murdered. They were more interested in getting the jewels of any Russian royalty who made it to England to avoid persecution by the Bolsheviks.
Therefore, the Germans should not make too much of this blood relations. Germans have been sucking up to the British since last two centuries and repeating the same story. But even the British royals don't care about any of this. Incest and the presence of German ancestry is more of an embarrassment for the British monarchy.
It’s also noteworthy to mention that House Windsor used to be House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, which succeeded the House of Hannover in early 20th/late 19th century. So it’s pretty complicated to say the least.
@@GrouchyBear411 I can't get over how much the Czar and the then King of England look alike.
who cares
I watched his Bundestag speech in full. I would say around 80% of the speech (which was around 25 minutes long) was in German - very impressive!
I seem to remember that he spent some school years in Schloss Salem, Bodensee. So I expected him to understand a lot of German.
@@wora1111 only Prince Philipp was there, i think
@@wora1111 his father was there, not Charles
His father Prince Philip speaks very fluent in German.
@@wora1111 his father, prince phillip spent some time at the school in schloss salem. Prince Philips parents were both germans. His mother moved with her kids to france but suffered from schizophrenia and coulndt take care of her kids anymore. Phillip was sent to some relatives near bodensee region since his father wouldnt take care of him. After the nazis came to power he was sent to england where he met his future wife Elizabeth. After the war he obtained british citizenship and changed his name into mountbatten.
Although the family spent their holidays in Switzerland i dont think King Charles is fluent in German.
This was so very enjoyable, in so many ways! I love the way you mention both details and overall impressions. This makes the video more than just curiosity or entertainment, but a message of connections we can feel in our hearts. Beautiful, thank you!
Oh, Feli. I have come to just love you! You are a treasure to both America and Germany. I always learn so much from you.
"Dinner for one" is an absolute classic in several Scandinavian countries, it's almost as big as in the German speaking countries. In Denmark it has played I believe all New Year's eves since some time in the 1970s, in Norway I believe they play it the night before Christmas, and it has certainly aired many times in Sweden as well around New Year.
My wife's Danish and she insists we watch this every year, I'm English and I didn't know it at all.
It is part of Finland's traditional New Year's Eve TV program roster as well. A sterling example of body humor!
I was watching Dinner for one as a little boy on Hungarian TV back at the end of the 60's.
Looking into the eyes, when you tost a drink is not only German. Same in East European countries. Anglo-Saxons they don't have it. So they are all bad luck. It does make sense seeing today's world. Thanks Charlie.
I do remember watching it every New Year's Eve when I was younger. The Swedish title through Google translate is "The Countess and the valet".
My german father played this every new year
I'm British, and I have watched a lot of old comedy but until I saw this episode, I had not watched 'Dinner For One' . We have been missing out in the UK. The sketch is very funny, ' hilarious'. I will be sharing it with my British friends now! Thank you Feli.
There is the 50`s version of `the plank`, i love it ! The 60`s version of course is even better 😂
Don't feel bad, Charles has never seen it either. He has people on staff to make sure little things like this get referenced in his public speeches. He is still an evil monster and you should actively demand the royal family be deposed.
Quite incidentally.
"Dinner for one" is also a very popular drinking game. Every time James stumbles there is a short one. There are supposed to be people who still don't know how the sketch ends.
@@torfinnzempel6123 nah he should be God
I suggest that you try to get your hands on the special made for the german ZDF as I think it is the best version compared to the ones shown in Scandinavia and elsewhere
German native here as well. Haha, I also only noticed that he sounded so relaxed and fluent all of a sudden before I even realised that he switched to english.😂
I found your channel just two days ago and just love it. It is so interesting and entertaining. Mach' weiter so!😊
Hi Feli, greetings from Berlin! I just want to say that I really like how you present Germany with such a cultural background and nice details which a lot of Germans like me also did not know :)
I'm South African and I love Germans and Germany! This video was awesome, thanks!
Thank you for the kind words.
South Africa has a very large & active German Expat community; esp at the Cape. It was easy for me to learn the language, because of my background in English and especially Afrikaans.
my english teacher in germany was south african
he was so fascinated by the funniest things.
a village in holland named manslajt or something, directly translated to manslaughter. so he spent 10 minutes in class hypothesizing in english of course that there must have been a huge battle there and then the locals called it manslaughter.
or he would ask us the difference between sacrificial lamb in english and Sündenbock in german (which i believe he said also exists in afrikaans as sünderbok)
good god i miss school days, simpler times.
I love the editing and preparation that you put into this. Having a little high school German, makes this more interesting for me. Love your enthusiasm. A pleasant disposition. REFRESHING!! 😊
"Dinner for one" was recorded on 8 July 1963 at the Theater am Besenbinderhof, Hamburg, in front of a live audience. In Germany known as Der 90. Geburtstag, starring May Warden and Freddie Frinton.
It revolves around a birthday celebration on New Years Eve, and Germany and Sweden (as I know) broadcasts this skit at New Years Eve, but for some weird reason Norway has always broadcast this skit on the 23rd of December (Little Christmas Eve)
King Charles has an extremely pleasant voice. He should record audio books or make a podcast. 😉
He has actually written a children's story book called "The Old Man of Lochnagar" which he subsequently read on BBC TV's "Jackanory" show. I haven't read it myself, but it's supposed to be very amusing.
I agree!😊
A 'pleasant voice'??! OMG it's absolutely AWFUL! Worse than a boar grunting its death song.
He did the weather forecast once for BBC Scotland: czcams.com/video/ZQTPdEKGEBs/video.html
Absolutely, he should do documentaries about space or wild life, like Carl Sagan or Mr. Attenborough 😃
In the 18th century there was a series of British Kings from Hanover. They couldn't speak English at all and some of them never lived in England because it was more important that the monarch be a Protestant than that the Monarch of England be, you know, English. LOL! Great video, as always, Feli! Happy Easter to you and Ben!
Well the British royal family changed their name to Windsor during WWI because wait for it...... they were German... and the grand children of Victoria who was from Hanover.
@@dux_bellorum No surprise there.
@@dux_bellorum Yup. A lot of that happened in WW1. Russians changed their whole capital city name and Americans started referring to sauerkraut as Liberty Cabbage.
@@dux_bellorum You tripped over the last hurdle. The Hanoverian British monarchs were all of heavily German ancestry, but Victoria was born at Kensington Palace in London. Her father was HRH The Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn.
@Robert Hudson very true, but then she married Albert who was a German prince...
Half-way through this vid, and REALLY appreciating & respecting your approach here.
We always spend New Years with a group of friends from here and Belgium and we traditionally watch Dinner for One every time! Dutch actor Joop Doderer also did a great version of it in Dutch.
And whatever people may think about monarchy in general, I do like the fact that many modern European royals are thinking about their position and the future and try much more to be the bridge in society, the glue to keep everything together and be a stable factor.
I also see that a lot in our king Willem Alexander.
Yes it’s on Swedish televisions every New Years too. It’s a part of Swedish Culture. At least for my generation.
In Denmark as well
We watch it in Norway as well!
@@carloandreaguilar5916 Tradition
@@carloandreaguilar5916Watch Feli's video about it. She explains it in depth. 😊
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_for_One
At that point where the person "signing" for the deaf, I was thinking at the time, she literally needs to be 100% fluent in 3 languages (German, English and ASL), and go back and forth from German to English back to German without missing a beat. Amazing.
Well, I think she is translating into DGS (Deutsche Gebärdensprache) not ASL (American Sign Language).
Hi from Copenhagen Denmark👋👋 we also watch “Dinner for one” i Denmark every New Years eve, it is a big tradition here as well☺️ Though we call it “Halvfemsårs fødselsdagen” (The 90 years birthday)
Greetings from the border! :)
I lived in Germany for four years. I never knew that about drinking. Thank you and it’s a beautiful walk down memory lane.
I am from England (Yorkshire), (now in Wisconsin), and my German teacher told me that I had a great advantage over other Englanders as the Yorkshire accent is HARD like German. I was Geschäftsführer of our Bavarian company. I was sworn in by the Notary Public in München. He had a bald head with a strand of hair that circled his head. I choked laughing when he was introduced as "Herr Bender"...
That's great!!
"Hair Bender"? That's hilarous! X-D
What a treat to stumble onto your video today!! I have zero German, but am interested in language (I studied Russian in college, so I totally understood your comments about proper stress and suddenly realizing the languages had changed! 😂) it seemed somewhat spooky that I caught so many cognate words in the King’s German. Best wishes! I’m a fan now and will be checking your videos going forward.
That dinner for one reference cracked me up! Good on Charlie for that one. I was born in the UK and have lived here for most of my life, my mother is Swiss and we used to watch Dinner for one on New years eve when in Basel for Christmas. We reference it all the time 😅
*I now declare this Bazaar open*
Here in Estonia 'Dinner For One' is also shown every New Years Eve and it never gets boring, NEVER!
I had started learning German in university many year ago, you channel has inspired me to start learning German again... Danke
I learned in high school over 30 years ago. Relearning for some time now on Duolingo so this was fun to hear! Guten Tag König Karl der Dritte .... from Translator.
Hope you're having fun and success with your German learning endeavour on Duolingo!
However, we don't translate names into their German equivalent. So Charles would simply be called Charles still, not Karl.
Liebe Grüße aus Norddeutschland 🙂
Hallo, Jajele, es freut mich sehr, daß Du unsere Sprache lernst. Ich lerne seit meiner Schulzeit Englisch, bin weiß Gott nicht perfekt darin, habe aber Freude an Eurer Sprache und werde mich weiter daran üben.
I am brushing on my Spanish via DuoLingo.
I thought his German was fantastic, especially his vowel pronunciations. I think that Brits in general take on foreign languages very well, they've always impressed me very much, while Americans struggle a bit more, even though their mother tongue is the same.
I suspect this is more about localisation. The UK has a history with the French language, and then other European languages following along afterward.
The US has never really had any need to learn French or German, but their skills with Spanish is a lot stronger, well the Mexican/Lat-Am versions of Spanish, particularly in the South West states.
I picked up German while living in Wurzburg, serving in the US Army from 1989 to 1991. Made an effort to try to learn as much as I could as I hated not understanding the locals or being able to communicate effectively. Jetzt, kann Ich Deutsch spreche und liese, auch.
Very good German,well, he is getman
I studied French for five years at school and even passed an exam in it when I was 16. However, the first time I went to France (when I was 18) I struggled to understand and make myself understood. I can read it well, and I love classic French cinema, but I have never really achieved fluency.
I didn't study German at school, but learning it as an adult I was speaking it adequately (at a basic level) within days, reading fairly well within a month or so and was more or less fluent within three months.
In 2000 I attended a friend's wedding in Sweden (which I had never visited before) and, although I was only there for about four days, I picked up a smattering of conversational Swedish very quickly!
The English and Americans are separated by a common language.
I just love watching your content. Keeps me up to date.
What an interesting channel you have. Very entertaining. Thank you. You do your home country proud.
I have a great respect for Germany. It true that the the Germans and British are alike in so many ways. Even are language in close and can be understood in the basics.
We are German as Anglo Saxons we are part of the Germanic tribes the root language of English is German
Well, english is german, basically
@@Marge719 You think that? Its actually 40/60 French/German with a bit of Welsh grammar thrown in just to complicate matters and make it harder for the continentals to learn.
@@Simonsvids I think people may well be forgetting the MASSIVE contribution LATIN (from Italy) and GREEK make to the English language, Anglo-Saxon roots aside. ;)
The Celtic injection is in addition to Latin / Greek. "40/60 French/German" is rather .. um .. limited in scope?
For English see czcams.com/video/RO15R9E2nXA/video.htmlsi=9xeJsCaDwiNxduvi
Also, Dutch sits nicely in between its 2 bigger sisters :)
3) if you don't speak an European language, English and German (and Dutch) are indeed very similar.
I was born in Friedberg Hessen in 1951. You make my world so much better. Thanks so much.
Love your videos Feli!!! Thank you!!!
Im from South Africa and Dinner for One is a tradition in my family. I have german ancestry and never realised this is where it came from! Thank you so much for pointing this out.
Feli, greetings from England, you may be surprised to know, a number of our royal family are fluent in German and French. The late Queen was fluent in French and very passable in German. George the first (Hanover) could not speak English.
oh yes, I once saw a video of the late queen speaking in French whilst in Canada, she spoke very very good French, sadly it was European French (sorry, I much prefer Quebec accent)
the fact he mentioned Kraftwerk was really cool. this guy needs to be given a chance to chart his path, his mother is a tough act to follow.
I think that may be down to the King's speechwriter than Charles himself. He doesn't come across as a fan of electronic music to me. 😅🤭
Kraftwerk were very popular in the UK.
Hobbit King, love that guy.
@@grahamlive He wasn't always in his 70s.
Well, who doesn't like Kraftwerk? And if you haven't seen it yet, check out Bill Bailey's pastiche of Kraftwerk doing the Hokey Cokey.
I don't know why Charles mentioned Brahms and Bach in particular. Both excellent composers of course, but Handel would be a more obvious comparison, as a German musician who perfomed in Britain, as the Beatles did in Germany.
Charles is 71,9% German, 25% British (English, Scottish) and 3,1% Hungarian.
So yeah, it's great that he's learning the language of his ancestors.
Is that from 23andme? Ha! I'm WAY more British than the King of England! My profile is almost reversed except a little less German and no Hungarian
I don't think he's learning or knows German. Just reading off transliterations, which they do with a lot of languages during special events/visits, not just German.
P.S. Ethnic Britons are Celtic, not English.
@@poppinc8145 Anglo Saxons
@@bucksdiaryfan where did the hungarian come from? They originated in Asia and are related to the turkic tribes.
@@udz5480 not todays hungarians tho.
We watch "Dinner for One" the night before Christmas in Norway :)
Charles has many German cousins who visited often - not through the British Royal Family but through the Greek Royal Family. All of his father's four sisters, Princesses of Greece and Denmark, married German princes. Prince Philip, of course, attended Salem School and was fluent in German. There were three German princes amongst the twenty people at Philip's funeral during Covid-19 and I think several attended Queen Elizabeth's funeral too as family members.
King Albert was German so was Queen Mary.They are German
I liked that the king spoke German, and really liked the content.
As an aside, Dinner For One is also shown frequently on Australian tv. Usually around New Year.
Hallo Nachbar! It's awesome that you live in Cincy! I'm right across the river in N. Kentucky. I love this part of our country
My sister and I did an ancestry dna test. We were both born in Mexico from Mexican parents so we figured we would have some Native American and Spanish ancestry. Well the huge surprise 0% American Indian and the rest was mostly German, Spanish, Austrian ancestry. We had some questions! Well turns out my great grandparents on my moms side were German and moved to Mexico. What?! Yep and the last names changed. So now I am learning about my newly found ancestry.
Haha. Glad you didn't have to have a serious discussion with your mother or grandmother about some potentially undisclosed affairs ;-)
Sometimes in a few months, the DNA test company will refine the data with more incoming data and your background might change.
Cuando vajaste tus abuelos a México 🤔 en el ano 1945 después de la guerra jaja 🤣 Tu abuelo tenia bigote poquito
i did one too im english and so is every generation i know of in my family. though most of my dna was british, a surprising amount was french and german. i even uploaded my dna data to another place and it actually showed im closer to visgothic than anglo saxon which was a surprise too
@@hugh.g.rection5906 well the Anglo Saxons were Germanic and the name covered several groups including the Angles, Saxons and Jutes so the German ancestry would come from there. The French is unfortunate, however in 1066 William the conqueror invaded and although he was decended from Vikings some of his followers would have had French ancestry. They continued to own Normandy until it was stolen by the French, and Britain also held Calais in the past so one of your ancestors may have been posted there. Also the inhabitants of Brittany in France originated on the English coast and travelled across, the DNA tests collate data from different groups so you may also have a percentage of Britton DNA that has been flagged as French due to a large number of French people in that area taking the tests, this is where there is accuracy issues as they also now have an American DNA marker on the test despite American DNA being identical to British or in some cases other European countries so there can be erroneous pinpointing of DNA whilst infact your ancestors have never been to a region.
Feli, thank you for keeping us abreast with German culture and civilisation. Vielen Dank.
I speak Greek, thanks to my maternal grandmother. Spanish, as I am married to a Cuban. I majored in French here in New Jersey and am almost native fluent, having taught it for 40 years. But I LOVE German! I studied it on high school, but the instructor, a science teacher, hated teaching it! I had a "feel" for the language and when I visited Germany in 2009 (Cologne), I said to people, "Bitte, ich spreche wenig Deutsch, sprechen Sie Englisch oder Franzosche?" (Hope I got the spelling right!) They politely answered, "Nein, Sie sprechen sehr gut!" Guess my good accent fooled them! Anyway, how do you have an American accent after being here (Cincinnati) since only 2016?!
I wondered the exact same thing! lol
Sprechen Sie oder **Französisch, Bruder
She deffo still has an accent. I'm Mancunian living in Ohio and still have my accent.
You're lucky.
In my experience in Germany, every time I tried to speak German, the other person immediately clocked my accent (I'm English)and said, "You don't mind if i practice my English, do you?"🙃😊
People learn American English in school nowadays. It changed from British (if at all and not just english with German pronunciation) to American around the 2010s if I remember correctly.
In south africa dinner for one was a new years tradition lol haven't watched tv for many years so not sure if they still show it. Brings up such good memories and a fond memory of a dear uncle that passed on now.
I found it interesting that you mentioned not being able to tell the difference in English speakers' accents when they speak German. When I was living in Hamburg, I often got asked if I was from the Netherlands. It seems that I, an American, managed to speak German with a Dutch accent. LOL! But, I will say, I often found it frustrating when people would speak English with me when I would fumble with a word. :(
They aren't doing so to coddle you as much as they are using the opportunity. They want to be able to practice their English since they don't see many. I do find it a little ostracizing
Yeah, we overdo that. I wish we were I bit more like the French. If I meet someone who either has been living in Germany for a while or makes clear they want to speak German, I don't speak English because I want to help them to get better at German. I've been in the situation myself when I went to Iran to practice Persian and people started to speak English when they noticed I was struggling. But the truth is that it's a lot easier for an educated German to speak English with you than German when you're struggling with German, simply because it's hard to speak slowly and clearly and maybe even in less complicated words and sentences in your native language.
He won me over with he Kraftwerk reference! If only dialogue like this was commonplace between all nations and cultures. Healthy respect for not only other cultures but also respect and true understand of one's own culture. Without apology either way. Love it!
Years ago Putin also showed off how well he speaks German (he worked in Dresden for a time) which would just never happen these days for obvious reasons.
I also enjoy seeing and hearing these kinds of representatives at least speak some words in the language of the country they are visiting. I don't know it's just a nice gesture.
I hope people realize that the witty speech was NOT ACTUALLY written by Charles, because he is not particularly intelligent.
Kings have speech writers who make sure to bring in cultural references of the country that the speech is being made in so that the speech appeals to the local listeners.
Lived in Wiesbaden in the early sixties. Still dealing with WWII vets. As a child it was an interesting experience. Picked up the language quickly and the locals were amazed when the found out I was an American. Haven't had the opportunity to return, sure it's not the same.
my sister was born in Wiesbaden U.S. military hospital -- clearly a pre-WW2 German-built building
we were living in the village of Nieder Ohm, and soon moved into U.S. Army housing area in Mainz that had been built for the French Zone of Occupation -- bidet; claw-foot tub; sunroom; giant ivory telephone; screened pantry with wall niches to keep food cool w/0 a fridge...
a WW2 former PoW was the "coalman" for the housing area -- we kids used to visit him in his daylight - basement apartment -- he gave us Toblerone
A few years ago I "met" a US SIGINT dude, who served in FaM (Cold War), like his dad (End WW2). Americans are chill, especially if they were stationed here or got some experience with us Germans lol
Thank you. This was quite delightful. (it is the first time that I have come across you channel.) Neither DW (Focus on Europe) on PBS, nor the CBC or CTV (don't watch BBC World or TV5 enough these days) report this kind of story. It is, nonetheless quite significant and instructive. I found that the best way to acquire good diction is by learning lieder (first by saying the text only and recording my voice to compare it which the paradigm; only then to add the music. Possibly I have become complacent: it's been a while since I last recorded myself.) Aber, ich muss sagen dass ich habe viel Vokabular vergessen. Also, ich weiss nur genug um mich zu blamieren.(Ha!) Ich danke Ihnen sehr.
I found out that we also watch dinner for one in Australia. I had totally forgotten about it (as I moved to Japan) and at my grandfather's funeral which was around New year's, we watched it on tv.
Thank you for playing the entire clip(s). I found this very interesting and I enjoyed your reactions. It is a joy to watch your videos.
It certainly is!
Actually Dinner for One was shown on Swiss German TV as well. And luckily it was on at a different time to the German TV so I could watch it twice. My whole family always loved watching it. I have never seen it in the UK and I am in this country for 20 years now. As for the King's speech, I was pleasantly surprised how well he spoke and how witty he was. I watched his entire speech at the Bundestag and I really enjoyed it. It also gave me a little glimpse into the relationship of King Charles and the Queen Camilla. She absolutely adores him. It was beautiful to watch. Also I would like to add that 20 years of not speaking Swiss German or German has made it very hard to do so. I forget words regularly. It has become that bad that I type it in English into Google translate and take it from there. 🤣 So Kudos to the King for doing a great job.
I hope people realize that the witty speech was NOT ACTUALLY written by Charles, because he is not particularly intelligent.
Kings have speech writers who make sure to bring in cultural references of the country that the speech is being made in so that the speech appeals to the local listeners.
„Dinner for one“ läuft auch in Österreich jedes Jahr zu Silvester. Ich hab das Video bzw. die Rede schon vor einiger Zeit gesehen und über seinen Humor sehr laut gelacht. Danke für das Video!
Great video I am going to Munich (your home city I see) in October my first time in Germany. Will try and learn a bit of German. Nice to see our King speak German in the parliment showing its not impossible for us English. I look forward to thr visit. :)
"Mein vater ist hier" and "my father is here" ,both sentences are an example that English and German languages sound very similar. Of course,they both are germanic languages. I'm from South America and I first learned English and then it was very easier to me understand German because I found that English and German are almost the same.
That's right. It's really only the pronunciation of certain words that stops English speakers recognising what the others are saying. When you look at Dutch or German in paper you can work out a lot of what it means, it's hilarious
Old low german and old English was almost the same .
Funny is, that actually in bavarian (-german) this sentence is 99% the same pronunciation as the english one.
"Mei Voda is hier" (Voda pronounced as Fåda, the o/å is like in engl. "call")
English is often not counted amongst the germanic languages anymore since the french influence destroyed the verb placement common to all germanic countries.
@@kseven6551 But after the Norman invasion English took a very different route grammar and vocabulary wise.
Dinner 4 one is shown every newyears eve at about 11 pm on Danish tv1. This has been a tradition for more than 40 years 🎉😂
Traditions are rather nice.
I’m new to your channel and the videos are great I lived in Germany for 6 years
I spent one Christmas season and over New Years working in Saarland many years ago. My German co-worker (we worked for the same multinational company) was kind enough to invite me to share some Christmas shopping and parties and New Years with his family. I got experience the authentic Dinner for One viewing then. Good times long ago.
Feli, this is the 1st time I've seen one of your videos - I've lived in Germany, academics etc., but it is really surreal you speak English (American English) so perfectly that in the time of the GDR you would have made a perfect German spy!! I cannot detect even 1% anything suggesting you're German. Are all your family German - were you introduced to English as a baby? Fun video - I must check out more.
I got the impression that he doesn't know that much German but knew enough to work with a tutor and to learn to read the speech. I think his father actually had a degree of fluency in Standard High German. In any case, I think it was good that he acknowledged his German family heritage, and England is actually named after the Angles, who along with the Saxons, and Jutes founded England as a Germanic settlement on the Island of Great Britain. Old English was Germanic Angle and Saxon dialects transported from northwest Germany and Germanic Jute dialects from Denmark.
I have seen videos of his father interviewed in German and in French. He mastered both.
I know "Dinner For One" very well, I first saw it in one of my German Culture classes at ASU. Found a copy of it and have seen it several times!
We watch "Dinner For One" in Norway. Although it is aired as a scetch December 23rd as a part of a Christmas preparation program☺
Hallo Feli, ich sehe gern deinen Kanal, denn dein klares Englisch hilft mir beim Hörverstehen. Ich habe leider nicht viel Möglichkeiten Englisch zu sprechen und bei Muttersprachlern schalte ich immer wieder die Untertitel an.
Und ich finde auch, daß sich King Charles tapfer geschlagen hat, und ja, es ist schön, wenn jemand versucht Deutsch zu sprechen, denn ich merke auch in meinem Bekanntenkreis, wie schwer es ist, Deutsch zu lernen und zu sprechen.
Ich hatte mir die Rede von König Charles gar nicht angesehen, aber gut dass ich jetzt durch dich dazu komme. Gutes Video 👍
War wirklich ne gute Rede. Vor allem die im Bundestag. Hab die Live gesehen und war echt positiv überrascht.
Ich habe mir einiges später angesehen und war ebenfalls sehr positiv angetan. Ganz nebenbei: King Charles verkörpert das Royale, er ist glaube ich eines Königs würdig. Alleine seine Ausstrahlung fasziniert mich.
@@EH-lu2if Dürfte nicht besonders schwierig sein, wenn man in solch versnobten Kreisen wie den Royalen aufwächst. Allerdings ist seine Stimme extrem angenehm, was ein zusätzlicher Pluspunkt ist.
@@Nils.Minimalist Mir kommt so mancher Minister versnobter vor, wenn man sieht, wie die mit hoher Nase oder auch gespielt gelangweilt in ihren Stühlen sitzen…der Merz zum Beispiel, hat mich echt angewidert.
As a French Canadian who made an effort to learn German when I attended the University of Montreal ( and was rather good at it then) I thought the subject of your video most interesting.
Being Canadian, Charles the Third is our head of state. He speaks good French too as his Mother did.
Good job on this video Feli! As we say in French : Bonne continuation !
on a visit to Canada Prince Philip was told by a Canadian that his (Prince Philip’s) French was pretty good for an Englishman. Prince Philip replied , that he had been speaking French since before the Canadian was born. And, He is not an Englishman.
Only come across this channel today. I've recently started to learn Deutsch, well on Duolingo. I've read that Keltic culture started in present day far western Germany/eastern France. The Welsh language and German has some familiar sounds, King Charles has learnt some Welsh, I'm sure that reading Deutsch would come quite easily to him. Regarding you Feli, you come from The Free State of Bayern. I was friendly with a woman from present day Czech Republic who moved to England during WWII, her mother tongue was German, she said that Bavaria is culturally quite different to the rest of Germany, Bayern is predominantly Catholic. My friend was born into a Catholic family, but attended Church of England and Church in Wales services during her adult life here in the UK. The part of the UK I live in is bi-lingual, The Cymry(Welsh) are the true Brits, German people find it easier to pronounce Geraint correctly than most other European cultures according to Geraint Thomas. In any case we're northern European. I voted Remain, I'd like to see Cymru take the Euro and become a northern state of Deutschland. I want best footballers in Cymru being able to represent Deutschland and therefore have a genuine chance of winning a WC and European Championship. Would have been great seeing Bale add to the Deutschland attack at the 2014 WC. Komm schon, Deutschland. Vamos Real. Cymru am Byth.
Exactly. One great thing Pope Benedict did was to canonize St. Hidlegarde Von Bingen. Her multi talents included her musicianship and compositions, knowledge of folk medical system, her righteous & successful confrontation with male hierarchical command structures, and her prophetic visions influenced by her interpretation of Catholicism was more aligned to her Celtic heritage & influence.
@thatclonetrooperintheback 🤮 no thanks
Dinner for One is the highlight of Christmas here in Norway:)
You do such a good job. Thank you
Great stuff, Feli - really, really interesting to hear your take on King Charles' effort to speak a bit of German! And nice to know you did a bit of background research on the British royal family for it too. Keep this kind of content coming.
Many royals are multi-lingual.
What you said about Germans appreciating when people speak or try to speak German is true. I have German friends online who tell me my pronunciation is perfect. This contrasts to French people, who are always critical no matter how you say something in French. I don't think my pronunciation is perfect... Germans are just nicer people.
If someome complimented me on my German I would say: "Well. I know what I am going to say and so have time to form the words in my head" Which is true! no? If someone spoke German to me I would often be without a instant reply :)
German are just nicer people who just so happen to slaughter several million people…
French people will laugh at you rudely and they would always criticize your pronounciations. Meanwhile, their English pronounciations are usually terrible but we don't criticize them.
that's why i mostly prefer to practice my French with Canadians, and try hard to avoid embarrasing myself with French people unless I've seen previously they're not of the sarcastic kind
@@JosePineda-cy6om Similar reactions when speaking Spanish with Argentinians!
Dinner for One is also shown on SBS in Australia each New Years Eve
Dinner for one is an incredibly famous skit in the UK, and we often see it performed again and again!
It is not a regular tradition like it is in Germany, and I doubt most Brits have ever seen it. I have, but I didn't recognise the name until Feli reminded me.
Thanks a lot Feli - a great video as always. As a German I am a bit proud that the royal couple visited Germany first. It was the right decision to let him speak in parliament.
We fought the wrong mob. England and Germany should have combined to annex France's vineyards for England, and then Russian land for the Germans.
You should react to late prince Phillip speaking German in an interview.
Also, late Queen Elizabeth's great grandfather was born in Osijek, Croatia
"Dinner For One" was recorded at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg in 1963.
In Norway it's broadcasted on the national tv channel on the night before christmas (23.12 at 21:00/9:00 PM)
In Sweden to, the Sketch "Dinner for One" is shown every new years eve, but is known as "The countess and the Butler" or in Swedish "Grevinnan och betjänten"!
In Denmark its called “90 års fødselsdagen” or “The 90 years birthday”😁👍🏼
Schön, dass du so begeistert bist.. Ja, wir fanden die "deutsche" Rede des neuen Königs auch sehr sympathisch. An manchen Stellen etwas holprig (manche Wörter sind auch echt schwer), aber es wird seine Verbundenheit zu Deutschland und Europa deutlich. 😀
We had Dinner for One at new years on tv in South Africa when I was growing up.
Quick note Dinner for one ( or in Norwegian): the «Gravinne»(unsure about grammar) and the Butler, is very famous in Norway
Really finding your videos interesting and informative. I would like to be able to learn the German language, but it would be a slow process at my age lol. I appreciate you answering my question earlier about how you understand German and English together, and how knowing both you understand both seamlessly. Looking forward to your next video.
It's quite fun learning a language with Duolingo and you can learn at your own pace.
You're getting older anyhow, regardless if you start to learn German now or not.
So you might as well do it :) Remember that it doesn't matter how far you come or how long it takes. To enjoy the journey is the only goal.
Best wishes and loads of fun!
The same Procedure as last year miss Sophie!
Very funny!
I enjoyed your video, as I was unaware of King Charles's speech and have spoken German as a second language in past. In fact, I was music director & organist for the German-speak Lutheran church (now defunct) in the Clifton area of Cincinnati for 3+ years during the late 90s, while attend the U. of Cincinnati for my doctorates. I remember asking the pastor there about my German, and he responded, "Your German is correct and generally well pronounced, but you think like an American [and are still translating a lot in your mind]." The "Mr. President" was particular interesting to me. I found his German particularly easy to understand: I often find Americans speaking foreign languages easier than the natives speaking. I also had never seen the Bundestag and was pleased to see how much they seemed to enjoy his speech, which contrasts much of what I see in the American legislatures. The fact that you're in Cincinnati along with your reaction and analysis of his speech reminded of my many good experience with the German people there and my interest in Germanic cultures. Thanks for the fun video and, when time permits, I'll check out some of your others.
Dinner for one is also shown in Denmark and Norway. I don't know about Finland but most of Scandinavia has watched that beautiful, beautiful, funny, little short film. PS hey from Denmark I randomly came across your channel and something about it. Made me continue watching your videos ❤
Ich war positiv überrascht, als ich seine Rede gesehen und gehört habe 😊☺️
Daniel King Charles is consistently under estimated and I am confident he will be a worthy successor to his wonderful mother.
Why in gods name we ever quarrelled. I am an Englishman and my closest blood relatives on the planet are north west Germans and western seaboard Dane’s. But the past is the past and god willing we move together forward for the good of humanity
@@67frankay Unfortunately, that's true. The German tribes also constantly fought each other before the invasion of Caesar.
In Sűdafrika gibts sogar ein "Springbock Deutsch"😂 - many small missionaries still have german names, Űlzen, Wittenberg, Hermannsburg, Braunschweig usw. Sehr wenig wissen hiervon... Dann gibts auch "Namlisch Deutsch", die sind in Namibia, previously known as, Sűdwest Afrika. - Thank you for this video😊
WELL DONE TY ALL.
I'm Thai here (Ich bin Thailänder.🙂) and I recently took a course in German101.
"Sie" can sometimes be confusing to reference the proper pronouns into a direct English translation.
Here is my understanding from the course:
Sie sind (You are) - Singular or Plural Second Person Pronouns (Formal)
Sie sind (They are) - Plural Third Person Pronouns (Neuter)
Sie ist (She is) - Singular Third Person Pronouns (Feminine)
Du bist (You are) - Singular Second Person Pronouns (Informal)
Ihr seid (You are) - Plural Second Person Pronouns (Informal)
Loved this video. You're so awesome at doing these type of videos. You're enthusiasm is so great! Keep up the great work.
i've watched dinner for one almost every year for like 30 years, sometimes even multiple times on new years eve and sometimes even the german remake with german comedians my favorite Otto Waalkes playing Miss Sophie
I didn't know that a lil bit of history thrown in brilliant 😊
We watch Dinner for one on December 23. EVERY YEAR in Norway. Always at 21:00 on NrK. Once it was aired a couple of minutes to early, so people missed it. It was an uproar. So the tv channel had to put it on again, to prevent anarcy
His father spoke fluent German. There's an interview on CZcams he gave sometime in the 1980's.
The name of the British Royal Family is Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. They were close relatives of the Kaiser. They changed the name to Windsor during WWI.
His father was although a member of the Greek royal family with roots in the Danish one mostly German by blood. His mother was half Scottish and the rest half German making him three-quarters German.