9 CULTURE SHOCKS FOR A GERMAN IN THE USA 🇩🇪🇺🇸
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00:00 Culture shocks for a German in the USA
01:31 Drivers license in the USA
03:08 Turning right on red
04:27 4-way & all-way stops
06:10 Free refills
08:20 Germans have an accent
09:46 Crappy cars
10:50 Paid TV with no commercials
12:19 Medicine ads
13:37 Wildlife
15:45 Thank you for watching and don't forget to subscribe
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As old as the days are long
Where are you from?
Florida
Where do you live?
Germany
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Mike has an accent even in German 😉 😂😂😂
🤣 poor Mike didn’t know he would be exposed to these comments today
Nennt man Dialekt
My problem as a Bavarian is: I don't understand Mike. 😬
As a German who speaks like Mike I laughed so hard about the fact that he doesn't think he has an accent 😂
Mike is living on delusion island.....
Seems to be a happy place :D@@HayleyAlexis
His accent is so strong! 😂
@mellec917 Everyone has an accent. Accents are so beautiful, though. They make life even more interesting and precious. ❤
I still hear his bavarian accent
I literally LOL'd at the Mike having no accent bit! My husband, who is Hungarian, used to think the same until he heard a recording of himself. Then he said "Why didn't you tell me that I sound like Count Dracula!?" 😂
Count Dracula?? That's hilarious 😂
😂😂😂❤
OMG!!! Him saying he had no accent is like saying, rain ain't wet 🤣
LMAO... Poor Mike! He just wants to fit in
Eh, rain like when rivers flood the land....
@@HayleyAlexis I'm actually trying to speak like Mike because I'm really bad at accents and his is great.
Are we talking about his Bavarian accent in German or his German accent in English? Both go strong.
As a German living in the UK....Mike has a very strong German accent.
He will one day accept this fate
Um, nope. He DOES have a strong Bavarian accent in English. Greetz from a German in Hamburg (definitely NOT a Bavarian).😂😂
@@RustyDust101 What he said. -- Moin vom Flughafen! 👋😁
omg “what accent? 😳” cracked me up 😂
Mike seems to get a lot more comfortable with the camera.
I love the humor you both have when you start speaking Denglish together. 😅 You can hear a bit of Mike`s German accent when he speaks, but that`s normal.
The red arrow light is like the "Grüner Pfeil" adopted for germany from eastern germany: The traffic light shows red but You can turn right if the traffic allows it. BUT, you have to stop first and look! It's no you can drive if the traffic light shows red! It's like a Stop-Sign!
As a Dutch person it would feel so very very wrong for me to turn right at a red light! Its red for a reason. 🤷🏻♀️
I was born and raised in Germany. I did my required hours of driving school and driving exam in Germany. I've lived in Florida for 40 years and I never got used to the way people drive here. It's insane! Basically anything goes. After a hurricane we had a road closed due to some minor damage and literally EVERYOENE went around the sign and just took that road. Mike be proud of your German accent. I try to pronounce my words as best as I can but I still have an accent. Americans don't care. They're always nice about it. Enjoy Florida!
I’ve been living in Germany 27 years and I still have a Scottish accent but the Germans don’t care either. They actually like it. Hayley has a fantastic pronunciation I think.
He is good enough integrated already that he doesn‘t know that Italy is a seperate country any more…
🤣🤣😆😆🤣😆
I believe Mike's "free refill" culture shock is part of a different "dining policies" cluster in US. I spent a couple of years regularly on business in US. What always bugged me about dining was the unwritten eat and leave policy, essentially once you had your last bite the waiter will nicely ask "anything else?" and bring the bill, if you say no. I like the German option of being able to meet someone, an old friend, a new acquaintance, colleagues or whomever for dinner and then potentially chat away till the end of the night.
But here is the thing of why this "kick-out" policy kind of made sense to me. If the owner of the place makes his money mainly from meals and less from drinks, he optimizes his revenue by increasing the table turnover rate. But he doesn't have a direct handle on the turnover, but the waiters do, so the owner doesn't pay the waiters a decent salary and all of a sudden the waiters depend on tips i.e. on the number of parties he or she squeezes tru per shift.
So the owner seems to be the good guy in the story, last not least he offers free drinks, but my "socialist" German heart is bleeding, he is exploiting the waiters, leaving it to his customers make up for it. The waiters are screwed. The customers are taken away the opportunity to show their appreciation for great service by tipping appropriately and enjoy the full evening without being kick out of a place, but at least they got free drinks.
Mike on drink refills - I was waiting for him to say "drink until you...drown"😂
--- or dissolve from the inside
@@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl
Genau! 😂
I was waiting for drink until you pee in your pants. My husband says this.
Ja, bitte Hayley ein Video auf deutsch. Du kannst so gut deutsch sprechen
Mike as a bayuvarian also has a funny accent in his German 😂
"I ain't got an accent!" Yep, fooled me.
LOL
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I think it's really hard to get rid of your accent at this age. I always admire hayley because her german is so good!
Such a compliment 😍
British person, i did live in the U.S for a year, i drove twice i hate the traffic rules, i could not deal with the red arrows, or being able to turn even at a red light, it should never be a thing!
Not only does he have a german accent, no, it's also a notably bavarian german accent, which makes it more hilarious. Kind of like your german Hayley has a notably bavarian accent on top of your american accent.
….. my German…. A Bavarian accent?!? Pfft. It’s the epitome of Hochdeutsch 🤣🤣🤣
You two are just too funny when you talk. I love your videos, they're just fun. An enrichment on social media ❤❤
Glad you like them! Your comment is really so sweet ❤❤❤
When Maik said What Accent was he joking? Cuz that's hilarious. I mean either way it's hilarious, I'm cracking up here. I have to slow the video down so I understand him.
Wiederschauen! I was also shocked by all these facts about Floridian traffic. Sounds scary! Then again, as a Dutch person I was also shocked at the high prices for paid TV in Germany 😮
Driving in Florida is like a buffet 🤣
I am with Mike; round-abouts are the BEST! I wish America had more of them.
As a USA driver I'm always a defensive driver. It's such a free for all.
-I'm totally with Mike on the stupid red arrow traffic light. Why did we need that when a regular red light worked the EXACT SAME WAY?? Here we have some flashing left yellow lights underneath a steady left red arrow. Like...what?!
-4-way stops are either an exercise in being so polite you disrupt everyone's journey, or it's a test to see who can be the most aggressive. When I started driving in Europe I loved the priority sign and only cross traffic stopping. Much safer and friendlier. Also roundabouts are wunderful when everyone knows what to do.
-Buzzards are like falcons, but we have those too. Lots of animals pooping. It's just everywhere in Florida. That's why the tourist board recommends bringing rubber boots. (Okay, not really.)
The turn-right light is there to have a green solely for turns to the right while the straight direction (and left turns) have red. Because the traffic from the left has also a green to turn left exclusively. That is because there is usually so much for that direction that they cut out a timeslot for the traffic turning left. And to not have the inconvenienance that comes with "turn right on red" to happen they installed an arrow. That way nobody turning right has to check on and stop for the traffic coming from the left.
@@user-sm3xq5ob5d That's what I also used to think, but that's now what I see. At intersections where the left lane gets a green for left and u-turns, the perpendicular traffic has a right green arrow, but they still have to sotp for u-turning traffic. Other intersections have a green arrow in the right lane, but the oncoming left-turn traffic also has a green, which is somehow supposed to tell the right turners to yield to the oncoming left turn traffic. It's messed up and is done differently in different places. What we had worked wonders. What Europe does is the best I've seen.
Fun video! I grew up in the NE of the US, lived for a number of years in Florida, and many more in Germany. I have had culture shocks and reverse culture shocks from all three locations. It makes life fun!
It really does... Especially when you mix everything up and just live life as a big melting pot!
Mike being very German in that he finds a thousand words to describe in minute detail the tiniest of shocklings -- and when it comes to the fact you stumble over gators all day if you don't watch where your feet go he's like: Oh, now that you mention it... **shrugs it off** 😁
He has become accustomed to them. I think once you realize that they are just swamp puppies they aren’t cool anymore. They are actually quite boring.
@@HayleyAlexis Yeah, it was what the park guides told us and what I've seen, thank God 🙃. Been over there in '99 for two weeks, not long enough to get used to stumbling over them. 😅
I felt lost too with deet& inches when passing the drivers license there- you need to built some " Eselsbrücken" to visualize distances. From.a German from Munich
you guys are hilarious!
Thank you so much! It is never boring (or silent) in the apartment
At least he doesn't sound like the "zänk yu for trävelling wiz Deutsche Bahn" announcers in German trains 😅
OMGSH!!! Enjoy yourself Mike - it's so much fun!!!! Show him a great time Hayley!!! I think you're going to have a blast 😁
Hi Hayley can you show us a little more about your life in Florida outside.
I would really love this. Your bedroom is beautiful but not as interesting as Florida! 🥰🙏
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I will do some vlogs...My "outside" life has been a little boring lately because I have been so busy with school but I get a break in a couple of weeks and can finally focus on that
I've never laughed so often at one of your videos as today, thank you. The subway sandwich as a measurement (didn't they have a lawsuit that their footlongs were only 10 inches?) *LOL*
Also thank you for keeping it real and shining light on the truth of the beverage thing in both countries. On our last return home (Germany) this year we sat down in a restaurant and I sadly said, "I sure could use a free glass of water." *sigh* That rationing of your ,3L is such a sad thing, stretching it over a meal cuz otherwise it's gonna be more than the meal...
I sometimes ask for a drink once my food comes so I have something to drink with my food and don’t spend money on drinks that I will drink with nothing.
A red arrow allowing to drive ... that's quite weird.
How often do accidents occur at that crossing ?
A red light should have an unambigeous meaning and that's "Stop, danger!"
Maybe they should consider using an extra colour like light blue or purple.
That would confuse the Floridians even more. You have to keep things stupid and simple for the backwoods Floridians. I thought it was illegal for the 2nd right turning lane to turn right on red. That's the way it is in South Florida. If you aren't in the far right right lane, you can't turn right on red. In South Florida, with this law, there aren't many accidents with right on red. When you add the 2 lanes being able to turn right on red, there are more accidents. I only know 2 lanes. There are more accidents because I used to live in Tennessee, and there it's legal to turn right on red from any right-hand turning lane.
Mike is right. A red arrow light means don't go right
Mike has an fränkischen Akzent, I really like it. Some if my friends have that too. Hello from Hamburg 👋
LOL, the four-way stop thing Mike was correct, right side goes first just hardly anyone knows so they don't follow the rule. Also, the right turn on the red with multiple lanes is usually just right turn from right lane only unless there is a sign that says otherwise or a traffic cam for me is a rule because of the possible tickets. Florida is a little tricky, most especially in South Florida. I've seen drivers break rules in front of law enforcement, and they don't do anything. Heck, I've seen law enforcement break rules, too. 😆
I love you guys. Thank you for the content. ♡♡♡
In the whole state of Florida- you can turn right on two red arrows from each lane. Unless stated otherwise that you can’t turn all together or you can only turn from the far right area ☺️
OMG, the USA is a great country, but regarding cars and traffic rules, they are disastrous. :-)))
I think 10000% the traffic regulations/rules/laws in the USA are failing at BEST!
@@HayleyAlexis The fact that most of us don't know that Rechts vor Links also occurs in America......so sad.
I bin 40 years in USA 🇺🇸 i still have an accent. But they never guess I am German
So good to see you on "the other side" of the pond and swapping positions - now Mike is the migrant and have to find his ways - wishing you all the success in the world !!!
I would have totally stopped at the red arrow…- hey it’s RED!!!
And I totally hate those four stop signs….. I would also go for roundabout or rechts vor links …….
Oh ja, ich freue mich schon sehr auf ein Video auf Deutsch. Über dich. Punkt und Komma nebenbei: ich finde es immer total schön, wie liebevoll ihr beide miteinander umgeht. Und ich glaube, das ist nicht nur weil das Mikro alles. Macht weiter so, er hält mein Leben! Liebe Grüße aus dem nasskalten Hamburg, Ben❤
Hallo Ben! Schön, dich mal wieder zu sehen!
@@winterlinde5395 oh ja, ich freue mich auch umgekehrt! Inzwischen ist der Holland Urlaub, bei dem wir unseren ersten Kontakt hatten, ja auch schon wieder über ein Jahr her! Wie die Zeit vergeht. Punktpunkt in vier Wochen wohnen wir schon ein Jahr in unserer neuen Wohnung! Ist schon irre! Ich hoffe, dir geht es gut und du bist gesund! Liebe Grüße aus dem frostigen Hamburg, Ben🤗
@@tasminoben686 Ja, es riecht schon wieder richtig nach Winter. Folgst du eigentlich auch dem Kanal braygang? James ist ja gerade in Hamburg.
Hoffentlich habt ihr euch jetzt in der neuen Wohnung gut eingegroovt! Bei uns ist alles normal und langweilig. Und das ist was Gutes!
Genieße das Wochenende!
You're SOOO was von funny together 😂.
Honestly, Hayley, your lonesome videos were getting a little fad 🤭 I'm joking, you and Mike really complement each other ❤ Love it ❤ Bussi from Austria
Love your channel already but the addition of Mike is making it next level. You guys are so cute and happy it puts a smile on my face. I could watch you two read the phone book and it would make me laugh. ❤
So much fun to watch both of you! Love it!
I love your videos! You two Sind fantastisch zusammen! The very interesting topic..wildlife. I have thought the same how in America we see/have so much wildlife and in Germany I would never see so much. I mean they all reproduce the same?? I’m in Prescott Arizona and we have Deer elk wild horses big horn sheep mountain lions coyotes bobcats javelina bear eagles hawks snakes lizards omg the list goes on.. even wolves and jaguars are trying to make a comeback and have been spotted. We live together with the animals ❤ There also has to be much wildlife in Germany but why don’t we see it so much? Haley and Mike you should some time travel west and experience this side of country and culture. Az is very diverse in climate..love you guys! ☀️🌲🏜️🍁
In Boston I once 'did' an evening of TV. The commercial breaks were longer than the movie snippets. The movie actually only interfered with the commercials. You couldn't really concentrate on the commercials. Now I also understand the many shootings and road-rages in the US.
It really can make people aggressive 😌 i agree with you there
Fact: Everyone has an accent. There are accents that are considered "the norm", but they are accents nonetheless.
Mike, we all have accents😅I went through Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport and had a hard time understanding the cashier and she couldn't understand me either😂
Great seeing you both! Wonderful video!😊❤
Thank you so much for stopping by 🥳🥳🥳
@8:43s Ok Mike McConaughey🤣🤣🤣 It's amazing how the tables have turned now. Nice one Hayley, as always🥰
This is your best video.
I like the way mike says catastrophe 😃
I live in Oklahoma and I've never seen a red arrow. We do have yellow left turn arrows.
Mike: I don't have an accent....also Mike: I have sky Beziehungsweise wow tv und Angebot XD
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Love you guys. So cute together.
The Story about Mikes Accent is so funny :D
I can tell he has one, even if he does not like to hear it.
I do not deny my own Accent, im from franconia and like to say "i sound like a Fass Sauerkraut" :D and i think it is even stronger then Mikes but i get along :)
Thank you for your Videos, i love them :)
I love your videos 💖 I’d love to see you guys possibly make one in all German 😊💖
Canadian 🇨🇦 here: I had never seen a red traffic light arrow, where you're allowed to turn!😮
I would have stopped too!
Here, we also watch A LOT of American TV channels, but I never get used to the enormous amount of medicine commercials, which is not allowed on Canadian TV channels.
Unfortunately, Americans treat health care as a business (a very lucrative business).
To me, it makes no sense to "ask your doctor" for medication! 😮😮😮
The doctor is the one who should tell you what medication is the best for you, not the other way around! 🤣🤣🤣
A lot of people don’t know that you can do that in Florida 🙃
@@HayleyAlexis Just to clarify, here in Canada, we can turn right on a red light, as long it's safe to do so (unless there's a sign prohibiting it), but I had never seen a red arrow, that's why I said I would have stopped too. 😊
"And _Mike_ had the audacity to say, 'What accent?'"
😆No one thinks they have an accent. I mean, the _Scottish_ accent is quite distinctive, according to _everyone_ but the Scotts. _They_ will tell you they are the _only_ people in the world who speak normally.
Mike is right about the right away. It's always the person to the right of you, if they get there before you. If you both get to the stop sign, and you're turning left ir right the other person going straight ahead has the right away. Yeah ...gets complicated 😅
7:58 Der Grund, warum man in deutschen Gastronomien Wasser nur in "verschlossenen" Flaschen bekommt, ist ganz einfach.
Es ist gesetzliche Vorschrift, so dass der Verbraucher sicher sein kann, dass das Wassr in seinem Glas nicht aus irgendeiner unbekannten Quelle kommt.
Hayley allows us to experience Bavarian wildlife in Florida 😂
They missed the pelicans. My favorite bird there.
As far as I’m concerned this is mikes channel now 😂 sorry Hayley.
great video guys 😊
Mike has a very strong bavarian german accent 😂. Love it!! They have free refills because it is a full glass of ice with a bit of whatever. Especially when it’s crushes ice, the soda after 5 minutes is so watered down. For me “No ice” or only two cubes, please 😉. Tschüss, bis bald und habt eine lustige Woche. Oh yes, first Thanksgiving for Mike living here. Enjoy.
You can ask for no ice in the USA. The servers actually don’t care 😆
Yeah i hate it when i have to pay for TV channels and i still get huge ammounts of adds and i live in Sweden. I do have analog TV too thats free kinda but try watching it on a 55'' 4K TV it looks so bad.
Ein fürwahr sehr nettes Video.
Nice funny video! I think those arrows on the traffic lights of the intersection Mike speaks about are to prevent people going the wrong way on the interstate. I bet it happened to often that they had to put the arrow on the lights to prevent accidents.
As for the pills situation: Till Lindemans song "Skills In Pills" is inspired by USA.
So memo to myself: People in America don't care about circles. Ergo: Roundabouts are not an option
I live in DC. Most of us stop at the red right arrows and we do not go until the arrows turn green. Many times there’s also a sign that says you cannot turn right when there are red arrows.
I agree with him about the traffic. A roundabout is much better. Same with green arrow to the right. A red arrow says that it is forbidden to drive.
OK. Naechstes Video auf deutsch. Bin schon gespannt darauf!
Oh hell, Mike is staying here for good. He's getting his license here! WELCOME!! I enjoy round abouts. But people just don't understand them. Whoever is in the round about has the right of way. You just can't enter a round about willy-nilly! Mike is correct about the 4 way stop. Whoever is to the right goes 1st. Ahh, Mike you DO have an accent!! And a very strong one!! 😅😅. Thats ok, I live in NC and have lived here over 30 yrs and people still pick up on my NY accent 😂😂
Denglish at it‘s best. Love it particulary the outro 👍
The red arrow light means you are NOT allowed to drive on red! That's what the green arrow light is for. We have those in Canada also but on the traffic light there is also a sign not to turn on red. Many people still do.
You are wrong. In the state of FLORIDA unless there is a sign that clearly states NO TURN ON RED then you can use both red arrow lanes to turn on red. Most of our red arrowed lanes do not have signs that state NO TURN ON RED. It is legal and it is allowed in the state of Florida- where I am living, where this video was filmed, and where I am driving. Not Canada.
In Germany people are able to do parallel parking, even uphill backwards. Try making an American do that to get their driving license.
1. “What accent?” Bahahahahah
2. if there is a red arrow that means you can NOT turn right on red even after a full stop.
There are but there will be a sign accompanying it saying you have to stop ☺️
One of the most common culture shocks I go through every time when visiting the US as a German is to fill up the car at a gas station. Renting a car you don't know it's average fuel consumption and also don't know the size of the tank. So as soon as you are running low on gas thus driving to a gas station it's always a guessing game about how much fuel you need to refill it up completely. So first difference is that you have to prepay before filling up. However you soon notice that using international credit cards often don't work at the pump using the normal "PIN" you would use for withdrawal as well as that some gas station don't accept specific card brands like AMEX at all, so just swiping your card at the pump is mostly not an option and you have to go inside the shop for prepayment. And after filling up you have to go inside once more to get a reimbursement of the too high prepay....
I think, Mike has a Bavarian accent. So no accent that he doesn’t have when speaking German. If that makes sense.
it makes a little sense...I understand lol
@@HayleyAlexis I don’t even realize when he switches languages because the accent stays Bavarian. 😊
Hilarious comeback, what do you even say to that as the server 😂 what accent, i can't
I had always thought or been told you yielded to the person on the right at a 4 way stop, but that doesn’t make sense to me
I agree with Mike about the red arrow. Red combined with trafficlights is aways "stop" . Especially if right turns are allowed generally. Enjoy the Mike videos!! ❤😂
Sorry say it, but dude, you do have an accent 😂😂😂.
Really enjoyed your video. 👍
We have 4 way stop signs in my country 🇧🇼
Mike no accent? Sweet! 😂 France has banned free refills because of obesity
Pfiads eich
It makes sense...I dont remember if I kept in the part of me going on about obesity with coke but it is SO BAD for you!!
Ein süßes Video...!
You two are just too cute together! :)
Thank you!! 😊
2:08 - Measuring distances in Subway sandwiches is probably the most American thing ever. What comes next? You're gonna measure volumes in Coke cups?
Mike sounds if he plays in alo alo 😉
Free refill gibt es hier aber auch, zum Beispiel bei KFC, Subway, Five Guys. Außerdem gibt es auch Fernsehsender die keine Werbung haben die man empfangen kann wenn man für Kabelfernsehen zahlt.
I have spent like over 6k euros in my driving lisence till now here in Germany and still havent got it yet,,,,.its really frustrating, in my last driving test they failed me after 45 minutes of driving without any mistake but coz of just one mistake in last 5. Minutes we were on the way back to Tüv.
People in Florida cannot drive and do not care. Passing in the emergency lane or on/off ramps, most aggressive car goes at a 4 way stop, clockwise in a roundabout, motorcyclists lane splitting... pretty much anything goes! 🥴 Stay safe out there!
That’s what I keep trying to tell Mike because he thinks I’m complaining about him and his driving but I’m just aware of how shitty drivers are here
OMG Hailey, I fell in love with your beautiful Ohrringe. Could you please, please let me know, where you got them from? 🙏😊🙏
Oh they are very old H&M earrings that cost about 0.50€ 😆
I don't think I have an accent either. Everybody else does. what shall I do? swim against the tide and deny, or accept?
The audacity 😂😂
You think Florida has rough cars y’all need to visit SC 😂
Mike: we all have an accent! Prior to my wedding, a young man asked about my accent. I told him that I'm from Hamburg, Germany (exactly: Tangstedt bei Pinneberg). His answer: "Oh, I thought you where either from England or Scotland." (I've worked hard on not having a german accent.) Driving tip: forget about the horn! ! Situation: I was driving with my wife. A stop sign. And one car in front of us. Traffic from the right. Everything fine. Traffic from the left. Everything fine. No traffic anymore. The car did not move. I gave it a tiny little honk. (An itsy-bitsy honky.)
Gail turned to me, all pale in the face: "You don't honk! This guy might step out of the car and shoot us!"
Last year in Lawrence, KS: 2 cage drivers got angry at each other for one revving the motor, mid town. The chased each other all the way down to the Hyvee supermarket parking lot. Stepped out of their cars and shot each other to death. (My brother lives around the corner.) When he told me, I said: "Well: a win-win situation for society."
You are a great couple. Sehr komisch. very funny.
The "vulture" in your fotos (14:58) is NOT(!) a "Bussard" or "Falke", its a "Geier"!
False friend? Buzzard is slang for vulture in America. I hate calling hawks bussard in Germany, it sounds insulting.
Thank you!!! I could not think of the German word. You are correct however in the USA we sometimes use these words interchangeably and it is incorrect.
Mike: I ain't got no accent😂😂😂😂😂
You guys are a cute and funny couple😂❤
What I would like to know is if Mike is homesick yet and what German things he can buy to help if he does.