Meet the Germans Live with Rachel Stewart | Summer Edition
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- It's time for another LIVE session with Meet the Germans host Rachel! The theme this time round is summer and holidays in Germany 🏖️ So grab your beach towel and a cold beverage and join her!
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Keep up the good work, Rachel - you're doing a great job! - Chuck in the US (Tennessee)
have a nice vacation! I hope you stay on meet the Germans for a long time to come. really enjoyable presentation,I might add.
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In Jaisalmer, Rajasthan one man, a clerk, thought I was German and spoke to me in German. I answered him in German and discovered that his self-taught German was excellent. He continued to speak to me in German every time he spotted me on my trek around the city. This confused the Canadian couple who I was guiding to the shopping area outside of the walled city as he spoke to them in fluent English.
Rajasthan person speaking German? That’s interesting.
What an incredibly smart woman. I love her videos and his story telling style.
It was in Germany that I first came across the concept of Monday manufactured (hang over) and Friday afternoon (mind on the weekend and not the work) manufactured to explain why something does not work as expected.
Finally Brits and German have something in common: Mallorca :)
Where drunken Brits and drunken Germans terrify the Spaniards… :)
Well, but Mallorca is divided. The Bits colonized the South West, the Germans the South East and the North.
@@MrJanml And the Spaniards live all over the island and inevitably meet the drunkards of all nations.
In Spain it is forbidden to walk drunken in the streets so the police will collect you quickly if you leave your party area. Spanish see drunkards as scum I'd guess.
that is more likely the follow up battleground of El Alamein - at least the heat.
For me it's so funny to hear you talking about the things that you found special, surprising or quirky here in Germany. I shared the exact same experience with all of those things during my years in the UK just from the opposite perspective!
Quite frankly this is my first ever live session that I have found interesting and informative enough to call 'proper live session'!!
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Thank you for the very enjoyable LIVE presentation! It’s fun to engage. Enjoy your vacation 🏕🇩🇪⭐️
Another great informative vlog. Thanks Rachael & the DW team.
❤️ this channel!
Your presentation has been fair and educative. Thank you very much
I missed it again. My fav videos are those with rhymes.
I love your videos.
Thank you.
Paducah, Kentucky
I in Berlin for 2 years and liked it there I would like to go back
Ur smile is infectious
You forget Schleswig-Holstein, wo are a Tourism Target as well and we have the northern frisian Islands, Helgoland and Fehmarn
in Ostfriesland teatime is at 9:30 in the morning. working is paused for half an hour and everybody comes together.
I am your fan!
Oh I missed this live stream. Watching from South Korea
@Fregia 1977 Never miss it again: czcams.com/channels/d-swDW3HCs4LTZhq8Cf7Fg.html 😉
Yeah DW Meet the Germans Instagram! Cool!
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Rachel come to visit us in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg :)
Schalke? Now i adore you even more ;)
Good video again
Idea for the next video:
"Energy generation and consumption in Germany - Past, Present and Future"
I also find it interesting that the two biggest groups of all popular south european traveling destinations are usually Germans and Brits. But the hardly ever mix. So, I guess, there is still a pretty big cultural difference between those two countries.
As a german, I'm a 100% behind you in finding the "Tanzverbot" stupid. And we're joined by more and more germans.
Milk is different in Germany to the normal British pinta - pasteurized milk. Water is also very different and that effects the taste of tea and coffee. Tin milk (Dosenmilch - condensed milk) used in coffee and sometimes in tea.
I liked the video referring to the German way of "Oh, Im sorry"Here in Berlin I get a regular reminder of the "Gehts noch?" I think the title was "How German have I become"
"Hallo?!"
Thank you for the video. Yes, I would definitely recommend you to test “Ostfriesentee” from Thiele or Bünting! I would be interested in the difference to English tea. One thing regarding the hair dresser, I think you can relax there. I’m german and I even don’t like the small talk and you find hairdressers often who feel the same (they have to talk all day!), so they might enjoy being quiet and just cutting your hair. Even the haircut can be better afterwards! 😃
Ah and I wanted to mention a tip for a German tv series, it’s “Berlin Berlin”, around 19 years old, with very sympathetic characters. It should be available at Netflix again as they had promoted a movie some month ago.
You need to visit southern Bavaria :)
Nah, Northern Franconia should do it too :)
27:58 oh yes the tea defo tastes differently. I've never liked German tea, but English tea, so I used to export it to bridge that time in Germany. It usually took up half of my bag. On the way back I've imported Weizenbier (wheat beer) as the only place one could get it was at Harrods at a price bankrupting one. Nowadays that all has changed one could get real good English tea in Germany and Weizenbier at the supermarket.
Off-topic, but I love your shirt ♥️
This is Glory from Nigeria.
I understand your dislike with not being able to cross the street when there is a red man - it can be very annoying especially when there is no pedestrian or car and one is feeling like fool. I myself was born and raised in Germany but my dad grew up in the UK and therefore my family is located there. My cousin could never understand that rule either, but then I explained to her that we especially have this rule of waiting (unofficial) if there is a child as they have not the feeling for distance and time as grown ups have, so if they see someone crossing the street when the lights haven’t turned green they might copy and that could be dangerous in the future. And that is something that my cousin felt was very sensible so she said she has now taken over that behaviour whenever she is in the UK :)
The laws for red light crossing are just to strict in Germany, just cross the road where no traffic lights are and you can go whenever you want
There is another aspect. I was in London in March. As a typical German, I and my companion stood at traffic lights significantly longer than Londoner and mostly waited in an exemplary manner. Since we are not used to left-hand traffic even as pedestrians, it actually made sense. But it was striking that (at least in London) you have to wait much longer for green than anywhere else in Germany. or more precisely, the period between red for cars and green for pedestrians was much longer than in Germany.
I do not know whether it is due to the use / non-use of the orange traffic light (I did not pay attention to it) or something else, in any case the entire traffic light system in Germany is much more fluid and explains why it is so much more effectiv and not so annoying to wait for green.
Well you should definitely go to Ostfriesland then, they also have their tea with milk which should be way more appealing to you! 😂 Just try to have a typical "Eastern Friesian tea ceremony" and let us know whether you liked it! ☕😉
I will!!
Hello from Brazil!
My girlfriend is german and because of her I'm learning german for a while now. But trotz I still have the problem of forgetting a lot of words! I see the same word multiple times , but I don't use it frequently and because of that I need to always go after the translation ... or even not understanding the meaning of it during a conversation .
Is/Was that a problem you also have/had?
And yes , it is funny how they avoid correcting you , I still have this problem , I need to ask and notify everyone that I'm okay with that and that I actually want them to correct me, I don't mind if it is just one small Fehler or 100.
Also , I can't wait to move to Germany ... that is a future plan. But when that happens I would really LOVE to meet you, give you a hug and just thank you for your amazing videos. I really like your history and it warms up my heart !
Keep up with the great work, bleib gesund und hab ein schön Urlaub!! Bist irgendwann ;) LG.
Viel Spaß beim Lernen!
@@hblaub Danke schön !!
Guten Abend aus Tübingen(BW).
Can you do another one in winter?!?!?
Upon the Camping Van tourist question in Germany, it is related to the Germans law, "wildes Kampen" is strictly verboten ;-)).
I know the Germans like tennis from Boris Becker's days and motor racing during Michael Schumaker's, 7 times winner, I dont know if they still do
In Stuttgart, when the weather gets warm people have no problem taking their tops off in any park or your at a pool. Swaebisch is a mixture of German and French. Can you show the comment feed the next time for those of us watching on catch up? I loved the video about the windows and breezes. It's so true! Don't forget downhill skiing. I blend my own breakfast tea. It's a strong blend of Ceylon and Assam. If you'd like me to, I'll send you some. I have curly hair, and finding a hairdresser is a miserable experience. They will all tell you they can cut curly hair, but they can't. LOL, in Swaebia they say they kicked the Scots out for being too free with their money.
I’m from Ireland now
Hi, I'm from Germany, not far away from France.
Thanks for your videos. E.g. that Germans like to talk more about numbers also in small talk more than in other countries, I actually didn't note before you mentioned that in one of your videos. But it's actually true that German are quite often talking about numbers in small talk.
One question for you, Rachel: Is it correct that e.g. in the UK *voluntary* fire brigades are like unknown, while in Germany fire brigades where also "normal" firemen are doing that to pay their bills only exist in cities with at least 100,000 citizens? Maybe that's a topic for a video?
Some comments on questions you mentioned:
- You forgot the normal rushhours on the Autobahn (beside of the current Corona time). Then you also can't drive really fast. If you're thinking of the Autobahns close to Cologne where many very big cities are quite close to each other, things are often much worse, of course.
- English as main language in German companies: Usually very big companies or scientific organisations, if they have a very strong focus on having very many international employees. Then usually also Germans are usually speaking English with each other. And their job advertisements are usually in English.
But there're also some people who started learning German far after their school time and some years later, they're speaking German quite well ;-)
BTW: Sometimes it even happens that e.g. a German and a Frenchmen are talking in English to each other because there's no other language both can speak. But for people around 40 or older I'd say that's harder to find a Frenchman who speaks English quite well than a German (if he isn't workung somewhere with strong focus on international employees or is like an engineer working in international projects or at least reading much technical documentation in English; my English might not be perfect, but if you understand a native English speakers quite well (if they aren't talking as fast as on CNN) and many English speaking Frenchmans like not all...). But in the meantime it's much better in the meaning of younger people learning it at school.
- Camper van: Also many chances to have to pay a fine, up to 2,500EUR possible :-)
AFAIK: You may only do camping (incl. putting your chairs outside to sit there) on private property where you have the permission by the owner and which is not inside some sort of protection area which forbids that. That can be like you friends for their property or a company specially offering that (search for "Campingplatz").
If you're to tired to drive further, you may park everywhere where it's also allowed for normal car driving and sleep there. There even special places for camper van etc. where you can get like electricity via some vending machines (I'm not talking about chargers for electric vehicles and not talking about "Campingplatz" which also have bath rooms etc.). Usually 10h parking are accepted then.
But if you like put your chairs outside to sit there, that's camping. The fines for camping are varying from state to state and may depend if's it's the first time you do that or not or what kind of area it is:
* normal areas: 10-200EUR
* landscape protection areas (Landschaftsschutzgebiet): 15-1,500EUR
* nature protection areas (Naturschutzgebiet): 50-2,500EUR
Look in the German Wikipedia for the German word. You'll find some examples for such signs there. But there's usually the German word included in the sign. Landscape protection areas means that the landscape may not be change e.g. by buildings etc., e.g. for tourism reasons. In nature protection areas it's even more strict to protect the nature. So the fines are higher.
- Maybe you mixed up the German which Swiss people are learning at school or are using when talking to Germans and the Swiss German they're talking with each other.
- Sports beside soccer and handball: On TV you'll also find like skiing and ski-jumping, also beside special sports channels. The FC Bayern (very far known for it's soccer team) also has a basketball team. I think here in the city is also a baseball team (but not really popular, more for having fun). And motor sports like Formula 1.
45:43 your "easier" does sound German here lol. I was not in the live (obviously) but I loved the money video one and the one about women/feminism, also your rap was great!
Interesting how Brits pronounce Los Angeles as “Low-ss Anjel-leez.” As a native Californian and current LA resident, we say, “Lah-ss Anjel-lis.”
I can't believe I missed this :/
I like the idea of noise ban, but why the rule of no-speed limit?
qué hermosa es
I still heard a little sh in Eichhoernchen, but your german pronunciation is mostly really good
@Kris from Berlin 🤫...😉.
Will the next Q&A be in German, Kollege? 🤔😅
We buy large packets of tea from B & M stores when are over there, as I just cannot drink 'german' tea. Will be topping up on teabags when I go back to the UK next week 😊
Just curious, what is wrong with 'German Tea'?
@@NataliaRoush german tea to me either means fruit or herbal teas, which I can't stand, or very weak black tea. If you have ever drunk a British tea, you'll soon know the difference 😉
@@lee_g3563 It may be that I have always bought the wrong English teas at TK (TJ)-Maxx, and not just 2 or 3 different varieties/brands. I cannot find any major differences to other teas when it comes to let's say 'black Tea or green Tea'. Or do you pick the leaves yourself over in Ceylon or Assam and break it? 😉
There are so many specialized small tea shops in Germany. You really don't need to go to Britain for good quality tea. Even at dm or rossmann you get lots of tea. If you look for something special just look outside of discounters.
Look for open tea, not just teabags. There you get great varieties.
@@doroparker1702 TBH, even the open tea at Rossman, dm or the bigger supermarkets is not very good. I always get my tea from a specialist shop, also because I don't like teabags. British tea is still different, though. But at least PG and Twinings are easy to get here. Don't bother ordering tea in cafés, they just don't know how to do it properly.
58:22 Pinke, Pinke - There a lots of more German words for money, depending on the area. Some are: Penunze, Mäuse, Kröten, Diri Dari, Zaster.
Gerd Papenburg moin, habe alle Namen schon gehört außer „diri Dari“ wo in Deutschland sagt man das?
Heyy Im from Bangladesh.I really like your videos?
Have you ever been to any Asian country?
Yes! Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia 🙂
@@RachelStewart04 I'm watching you now from Bali
What British tea is easy to find and purchase in Germany?
I am from California, United States. Hello
Hi, Glen!
@@dweuromaxx like ur show very beautiful also
Topic idea: Germans - the Holiday innovators. Would you like to park your RV on a stark concrete parking area in Cuxhaven with many others, by the seaside, and sit there looking at the sea with binoculars and watching the cargo ships enter the Elbe? Hang on to your seats - this story has it all. Drama: yes all the intrigue of who gets the best spots. Action: yes the haste in which the bread rolls are purchased for breakfast from the temporary shed (2 items on sale - bread rolls and the newspaper). Culinary delights: you bet - every afternoon the grille is fired up for wurst, bread rolls and beer. Romance: there would have to be right - who could resist all that?
The word "Journalist" is a loan word from French, that's where German got the pronunciation of the "J" from, though with German speakers it veers a bit towards "sch". But English loan words or neo-logisms can be quite confusing. As a general rule, the longer a word has been adopted, the more the pronunciation becomes adapted to the German rules. Anyway, don't worry to much. And as for people not correcting you, maybe they found your little mistakes endearing. ;) Enjoy your holiday!
Thanks 😊
the thing with you pronouncing Joghurt and Jogging the same, even though you shouldn't is (to my experience): whenever we take over a word or talk about something that has an origin from another country, we try and pronounce it as close as it is possible to the original sound (like Baguette, Hypothek, Rugby), mostly we don't try to germanize it. i usually experience exactly the opposite with english speakers (mainly americans) whenever they try and say a german name or word and use the english version of it. (example: they would pronounce the name Michael like this: Mike-al (english pronounciation) and not Me-cha-ale (try to pronounce this in english as well and you are most likely to be close to the german pronounciation). the problem is: they wouldn't even try. But we germans wouldn't go as far as calling Harry potter -> Harald Töpfer (just a plain translation of the name to the german counterpart)
edit: funny false Friends: Who? -> Wo? / Where? -> Wer?
Tea is best with several spoons of sugar and milk. Give everything a good stir and dump it in the sink. Take yourself a cup of coffee...
@wonebul 😲 Well, it's all about a "nice cuppa" anyway. As long as you don't dump the cup in the trash...😉
slow or slowly? Pleas clearify, thanks!
Hi Rachel! So, you miss your daily cup(s) of decent black tea. I'm a tea lover too so I can really relate to this. I would suggest a weekend trip to Eastern Frisia. The people there are like the Brits of Germany. They drink as much tea as the British or the Irish. Original Eastern Frisian tea is very good and it's very strong. Like a builder's brew. ;-) Maybe you could join a typical Eastern Frisian tea ceremony. I guess you would enjoy it.
We love reading these random insights! Thanks, Alexander ☕
@@dweuromaxx Well, in a coffee drinking country like Germany we tea lovers have to stick together.
guten Abend gnädige frau
41:05 you take that back right now
Meine Oma sagt auch ioggen.
Hi, I love your all videos these are all very informative.
Can you please someday talk about tax system of Germany.
I am living in Frankfurt and I am from India.
Nobody can explain German tax to you. It depends on your marital status, kids etc. Just hire a specialist like all do. The tax specialists need to study some years. They need to keep up with the changes every year, too.
Always some changes occur.
@SURANJANA ACHARYA That would be some sort of a "TAx Rap" (extended version) 😉
You're fanatastic.
If you like fish and chips you most go to Gosch Hauptbahnhof the best place for that in Berlin
Fischladen on Schönhauser Allee is killing it.
@@julianjuckel Fischladen has very good quality, but spicy sauces are not so good for fish in my opinion.
Kris from Berlin so just take the other two sauces, including traditional tatar sauce. 😉
Tip for german TV Show: Dark on Netflix
Netflix is not TV :D
„Beat“ on Prime is Great 👍🏻
How long did it take for you to speak German so fluently. Seriously, you speak German without an audible accent. You really sound like a German native speaker.
Interestingly some Brits are able to speak german accent free. I know at least three in youtube
She does have an accent....a native speaker can easily pick it up....her grammar is excellent no doubt ....
@@thunderhammer593 Yes Rachel has a bit of an accent, but some are 99.9 % accent free, like for example Danielle Wood or That Richie Guy
On and off for the last 10 years - so it’s a long process 😋
@@RachelStewart04 you spent your 10 years very wisely. Your German is superb.
Rachel if want a cup of tea you should go to Ostfriesland. Drinking tea is very popular here
Emden, Leer, ... would be appropriate
Oh you can still use the term "stinklangweilig"! 😅 I'm using it now and then ^^
part of the reason why germans dont cross the road on a red light is because kids might be watching and you dont want to set a bad example for this less cautious demographic.
as a german i first have a look around to check whether kids are nearby before i cross on a red
Ostfriesentee tastes like tar compared to a cup of Earl Grey (*imho*) - so don't expect too much ;-)
"Earl Grey - hot' (Capt. Jean Luc Picard) 👍🏼 🖖🏼
YES!
No, no, no. You gotta drink real tea without any milk, only a bunchload of sugar
100K subscribers and I missed the live stream ... but I had to buy a car.
Hi, did you take dual citiizenship after Brexit?
That's not possible. Once GB leaves the EU, you will have to give up your British nationality if you want to take on German nationality. German law does not allow you to have a second nationality if it is a non-EU nationality. That's why hundreds of expat Brits (me among them) rushed to get German nationality BEFORE Brexit, so that they could have dual nationality.
@@jackybraun2705 not true. It's still possible until the end of the transition period - currently 31.12.2020, but let's see. Even then, you only have to have your initial application in before this time. The cut off of brexit itself, i.e. 31.01.2020 would only have applied if there had been no "deal" on a transition period. Which there was. So, still not too late to apply.
You look like keira knightley
Another version of her with some more blood and nutrition inside of her...😂
Yes, you're British, and I realize that's what you do over there, but after all these years here in the US it does sound a bit funny that you keep talking about holidays and summer in the same breath. Here in the US they'd say holidays are Thanksgiving and Christmas. Summer is for vacations. And holiday stuff you might have on the cabinet behind you would be candles, santas, or a moose :)
Also, in 28 years of growing up in Germany I've never once been stopped for crossing at a red pedestrian signal, which we did all the time. Here in the Chicago within weeks I was stopped by cops both for jaywalking (crossing in the middle of the block instead of at a signal), and for scootering with my bike on the sidewalk (slowly, so as not to bother or endanger anyone!). Experiences differ...
Actually, even before someone asked you about getting into politics, I was thinking that you could make a good spokesperson, because you always seem to deal with potentially tricky questions in a very diplomatic way.
As for Germans and Dutch being everyone, oh too true: 2015, Vientiane, Laos, no more than 15 people watching a football game at a stadium downtown, three of us “westerners”, a German Schalke fan :-), a Dutch Herenveen fan :-):-), and myself (Greek, PAOK supporter). A German and a Dutch even THERE...
Haha, maybe I’ll have to reconsider...
Sorry, Rachel but I'm over 50 and from a rural village and even I have worked as a global sales manager for a German company. So I would say that my English skills are not that bad and therefore, yes you might find more younger folks with decent English skills but even my generation is able to communicate in English (if we have too). Especially if we grow up in the "used" Bundesländer (the former FRG) we have had English in school and as we Germans like to travel many folks of my generation have used it outside Germany, so do not let us go away so easily. Maby some folks of my generation are shy to use their English skills but trust me the majority is able to understand and communicate in English, be aware of that fact even if we tell you that we can not understand English.
How was your holiday, Rachel ?
Sehr schön, danke 😊
@@RachelStewart04 Did you like Berlin ?
Many Germans born in the 30s and 40s learnt English from contact with American and British Forces stationed in Germany. My Onkel was banned from English classes at school because he was correcting his teacher ALL the time. English was taught in German schools in the 50s. My mother in 1949-52 learned English at the PX and then NAAFI where she worked. Even my grandmother leant English and all before my mother met my father. It certainly wasn't universal. My two uncles and grandmother, with no education in English, spoke and read better English than my cousins, who had English lessons at school, That is until one of them flew helicopters and his English had to improve.
A close school friend of my mother never picked up English and my Onkel's wife who did learn English at school only ever spoke a couple of sentences to me in English. A reluctance to speak the foreign language is usual. My mother's school friend had a son the same age as myself. We played together as kids. I was introduced to a number of his schools friends. When they parted they spoke English. They liked to practise their English between themselves but were too shy to speak it to me - that was in 1966. Yes I spent the summer of 66 in Germany with my parents in England for most of the time having gone over with my grandmother.
Actually, elsaessisch is more of a German dialect, not so much a mixture of German and French, because that region once was Germany.
David from the United States.Do German's vacation in the black forest of Germany?
Hi, I am from Pune, India
Why do you have slippers behind you on table with glasses and books?
I think it's because the theme of the video is summer time. maybe she placed the flip flops, books, and suntan lotion and towel there to emphasize the summer time theme as they are all associated with summertime and the beach.
In Germany it is very cold and very rainy. You walk in sturdy shoes all year.
Flip flops are the ultimate sign for summer in Germany. Finally go barefoot without freezing off a toe.
Ohh Rachel! If you look for someone to merry when Brexit makes it difficult to stay here, you can contact me at any time! Im holdin German citizenship and a ph and d!
She already married some weirdo with a vegetable price fetish.
@Calvin Sylveste Well, obviously "weirdos" don't seem to scare her away...luckily. 😉🥬🍅🥦
The most stupid rule? "Draußen nur Kännchen!"
"Der Kunde ist König!" :-D
Hi
Balkonien? Na dann wirst du sicherlich auch die Nachbarstaaten Teressanien und Garthen kennen. Sehr interressante Staaten.
Teressanien🤣
Auch sehr beliebt: Bad MeinGarten
@@sonkeschluter3654 Da war ich noch nie. Aber ist sicherlich ne Reise wert. Da gibt es mit Sicherheit Kuren zu machen. In welcher Form auch immer. Ist halt ein Bad.
40:27 you used to say what? Anthony?
@S G Rachel said "Angenehm". It's quite okay though and can easily compete with a simple "Pleasure".
To the girl presenter are you British or German ??
@James Parker You might want to watch this one to find out yourself 👉 czcams.com/video/FdPMeKnxln8/video.html 😉
My wife likes Fenchel Anis Kümmel Tee a lot. She calls it FAK Tee (Fuck Tee) :D
Do Germans drink hot coffee ln the afternoon like the British?
@ Rachel Stewart:
You lived in Berlin and are not aware of German rap singer Peter Fox / Seeed? Just some examples:
czcams.com/video/l4A5kgbqBHE/video.html
czcams.com/video/0IZsBaToytg/video.html
czcams.com/video/g6JYzOjglBs/video.html
So in between Helene Fischer and Rammstein there's so much more German - rap - music, e.g. Die Fantastischen Vier or Cologne's late night host & singer Jan Böhmermann (making fun of the typical gangsta rap): czcams.com/video/PNjG22Gbo6U/video.html
Maybe you should contact the latter for your next German rap video...? ;-)
ICH LIEBE DICH . I LIKE YOU AND YOUR VIDEO , YOU LOOKS LIKE MY SCHOOLMATE IN HIGH SCHOOL.
Germans tend to be too happy that you speak their language well. Therefore, they might not correct you unless it is absolutely necessary. "Angenehm" is technically correct, so why bother? Jogging, Joghurt? Got you, go on (plus: Jogging as you pronunced it could be the result of a strange dialect, I've heard this before from other native speakers). If you want to be corrected: Tell them or ask them for suggestions on how to improve - especially in an informal context, everyone is willing (and more than happy) to help. Plus: You'll watch some discussions around the German language and how things are pronounced or said correctly. For a start, ask whether it is "der", "die" or "das" Nutella - this will keep the crowd busy for a while. ;) If it comes to small talk at the hair dresser: You're from the UK, that's interesting enough. Drop that and you'll have a lot of questions upcoming. From my experience, hair dressers see it as part of their job to talk to the customer. Drop something interesting and from there on, they'll take the lead. I know, I'm a bit behind with my answers, but maybe someone will find it helpful one day. Keep up the good work!
I am searching for job in Germany
Prawncoctail von Walkers. Bester Geschmack überhaupt... mag hier nur keiner.
Are British subjects still allowed to enter EU territory after Brexit came into effect?
@ C.Norbert Neumann British citizens can visit the EU for 90 days without applying for a visa.
I find softly speaking Germans so ASMR triggering.