American reacts to TOP GERMAN MEMES THIS WEEK [#48]
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ARTE is a German - French TV Channel. One of the best things here on CZcams. Very good documentary, news and geopolitical perspectives and of course: Karambolage! A show about differences and similarities between Germany and France like Food, History, Language, Government...
ARTE-Ultras!
*German-French TV channel
"Wut" in german means "anger", which corresponds to the angry lady, and the cat is replying "what" ("wut") fitting with the look on the cats face.
A lot of germans pronounce "terrain" as "terröö" which sounds like the noise an elephant makes.
but "what" is clearly pronounced "wat"
The main thing about that meme is that most germans will try to use the french pronounciation of "Terrain", because that´s one of many loanwords coming from french..
Which in this case will often sound like the Benjamin Blümchen "Töröööö".
Not just any törröö, Benjamin Blümchens törröö >:(
I have never heard anyone in Germany pronounce it terröö.
@@Nephenon I think when people try to pronounce it "correctly", it can sound like "Terröö". But I also hear "Terreng/Terräng", a lot.
The meme about all the garlic stuff in the train refers to bad breath/odor. trains are often packed, so you definitely don't want someone like that close to you! 🤢
this and the odor of homeless or smokers
i think it also refers to people who like to eat (or even prepare food!) on the train, especially when it's something disgusting that doesn't belong on public transport.
LED Headlights are brighter, the meme is that during the night the oncoming traffic is really blinding especially the LED ones. It's not saying they are dirty, "diese drecks scheinwerfer" basically translates to "these god damn headlights".
I dunno, those Xenon lights were horrible, the LED seems fine to me, you can see through them without having to squint.
@@tigersilberhannes9153 I find LED worse, esp blue ones
Google for a video about Benjamin Blümchen (the elephant). His signature move is a strange version of the sound elephants make. Töörööö
That's what thay meaning.
Ask any kid in Germany, what sound an 🐘 make, it would be Töörööö, because of Benjamin Blümchen 😅
That is true, every child knows and so the adults 😅
If you say that Benjamin Blümchens version of a nelephants sound is strange, then how would you describe the actual sound an elephant makes? I think töörööö is the best way to write that sound; how could that be done any different?
In Spanish it's "bruuuuuh" which is much more accurate I realized @@Retroxyl
@@saimen1907 i can only imagine elephants going "bruh" like the meme now
Schlager is probably equivalent to country music in this context lol
1:50 OMG Ryan, the comic illustrates the narrator's idea of what his garlic-smelling counterpart must have done before the train journey.
😂😂Or him having some garlic snacks packed for the journey
amazing how sarcasm and irony is so lost on him
It's lost in translation I would say.
@@wollfixx not all of it...
@@wollfixx dont think so..
most of the jokes work in english as well
What is an elephant doing at the North Pole?
He explores unknown Töörööö-ain (Terrain)!
wow haha danke
The "drecks" here doesn't mean dirty. It means damned...
The detergent called "Dreco" should be a meme, too.
American: The american car industry is the best!
Me: Cybertruck...
about the radio station meme at the end: what I recently experienced at work, where we cannot change or turn off the radio channel, it's "80s up to the best of today" and completely ignore anything from the 90s due to all the david guetta (and others) trash remixes of 90s songs that are coming out. 2000s is fairly often in it compared to the 80s but an overwhelming amount is and will be selected 15 radio songs from the last 5 years, that are being played until everyone hates them to their core 😓
arte is a TV channel, with both, French and German audio at the same time, depending on where you are watching it from. Sometimes it is just both at the same time. One speaks, the other is dubbed and vice versa.
It is a very enjoyable TV channel.
...and you can learn some French from it, when being a German...and vice versa, you learn German as French person.
its people bringing foods into the train and eat infront of you. stuff with garlic for example
8:24 they are needed where high speeds are causing a lot of accidents. not everywhere people break the speed limit.
people breaking that, could be reckless or a sign of a needlessly low limit.
Accidents aren't the only reason for speed limits, noise pollution is also a problem.
German guy watching an American guy watching german memes xd
The Terrain meme is meaning that the sound elephants make is pronounced fairly similar in german to terrain
Found your channel a couple of days ago. Really like your content. Greetings from germany
It's just so funny, that he proves that american car industry is good by showing two german cars
For terrain: the guy in the video said it wrong as it's pronounced like a French word and probably is French. He pronounced it with a thick thick accent
the gag by terrain ist das german people pronounce it teröh what sound like the elefant in the german series Benjamin Blümchen.
1:53 They meant that person smelled like they had a lot of garlic.
mr is a typo, it's meant to be 'mir'
Here in germany, motorbikes are not allowed to park on the sidewalks or next to bicycles. They have to use the car parking spots. and only 1 on each.
If there are more than 1 motorbike on a parking spot, they got towed away, except the one, that is the most centered.
Quality Content as usual! Thanks a lot!
The terrain joke refers to the sound elephants make (iconically the depicted "Benjamin Blümchen"): "Töröööööö". And yes many Germans (including me) have a hard time pronouncing French loan words.
1:16 Kaffee-ja, weggehen-ja, zuschauen-maximal 1 Minute ;)
5:00 funniest part 😂
Ryan's facial expression had me dying when he read the translation. 😂😂😂
You actually CAN by a pickup truck from Vollswagen xD the Amarok.
Schlager music and beer, yes that is the german life
We need an urban dict for germany for this guy xD
I would say Schlager is the equivalent of country music. But now imagine at parties people would play country only when everyone is drunk and the lyrics are simpler and the music generally more repetetive and more pop-like. Everyone claims to hate it, but it's actually really popular.
7:25 Pun: This donut (without coffee) is called Pfannkuchen in Berlin while the rest of Germany calls it Berliner (or Krapfen)
it says Schlaufon which is a typo of Schleifen (Loops) and Schlaufon is a funny way to translate Smartphone. Schlau (smart). Terrain" said by a german may sound like Törrööö which is the regular expression of that cartoon elephant (Benjamin Blümchen) and we germans find this expression quite funny
Ahhh… okay… that Benjamin Blümchen Meme took a moment… Benjamin Blümchen is a children‘s audio story character, invented by Elfie Donelly (Löwenzahn’s Peter Lustig‘s wife), and he‘s been around since… uhm… around 1979, I think… The German pronounciation of „Terrain“ sounds similar to that elephant‘s signature sound, „Tö-RÖÖÖÖH!“…
I think Germans would rather pronounce "Terrööhn", but that would still sound like an elephant...
@@red.aries1444 Actually, that‘s part of the joke of that meme…
Well, I'm from the Ruhrgebiet, I say Tärreng oder auch Kuseng..😅
Long distance trains have kitchens and dining cars.
So true, in the eighties and nineties when I was young there was such great music where you could really party.💞
07:49 Ryan: "But, you can't buy this!"
The whole world: "Yes, but there is also no need for. So, why you want to buy this???"
"The whole world" = you and the very few similar meddling leftgreen knuckleheads.
Also funny is, that those two, he's showing, are german cars.
@@nilsadelsbach8556 "Those two"? He shows a Ford F-350 ("can't buy this from VW") and a Mercedes Unimog ("can't buy this from Ford").
I would say that this is one American and one German car model.
@@tobyk.4911 Both are german car brands. So what are you saying?
@@nilsadelsbach8556 What do you mean with "both"? Or are you joking?
At this point in the video, I saw a Mercedes (Unimog; -> German car brand) and a Ford (-> US-American car brand). What do you see there?
This "Hallo" today was pretty good pronunciation
Even though you may not understand most of what you are reading, your German pronunciation has improved a lot I must say. I guess watching all those German videos and memes does have an impact.
The elephant is Benjamin Blümchen. He call "Töröö".
5:10 best face
22 o'clock = 10 pm
Terrain sounds in german often nearly like Törö - and most Germans associate with TÖRÖ Benjamin Blümchen, what is the name of the cartoon Elephant.
An Elephant sound in German is Töräää, which basically sounds like terrain.
The elephant makes a screeching sound, the classical what you know of an elephant sounds like...
Nooo its Törööö
6:24 I think it says "Autofahrer, die sich ans Tempolimit halten, sind Verkehrsbehinderungen" = "drivers, who follow the speed limit, obstruct traffic" (but it's still the crow talking).
Dude bro youre getting better at pronouncing german words 🙌🏼🙌🏼
I‘m drunk but I enjoyed this video.
5:00 Here it makes it a lot worse to know who this guy is. He is the Chancellor of Germany. So the head of state like the president in the US.
Terrain: In German, you are supposed to use the original french pronunciation (except for the t, which is aspirated in German, but not in french), which most Germans fail to do correctly more or less.
We pronounce French lean words French, not German. Chance, regisseur(director of a movie), terrain, garage, parque(park), to name a few.
We say these words as a French person would say them.
English implemented the same words, but made them their own by pronouncing and altering them to English.
And the French pronounce everything as if it is written in French. Can get difficult to understand with English names (there was an Arte/Karambolage clip for that).
@@reinhard8053 Yes, and the best video about that is an ending scene from the TV show The IT Crowd. ^^
French IT Support phone. ^^
"Ello, ow may I elp you?"
I can't pronounce "Regisseur".
@@Wildcard71 practice...you can do it!
6:20 My guess: Autofahrer, die sich an Tempolimit halten, sind Verkehrsbehinderungen = Drivers who obey the speed limit are obstructing traffic
You can actually buy the Volkswagen Amarok which is a pick up car
7:30 That was really funny. 🤣
2:55 YES, THEY ARE BRIGHT AS HELL! THAT'S THE PROBLEM!
Fun fact: "Hell" means _bright_ in German.
Ohhh Amsterdam 😂 🥳
search for der pumuckl :-) and der maulwurf (there is an old cartoon series, and a puppetter from this aera)
Pumuckl neckt, Pumuckl versteckt und niemand was meckt.
Anyone here from Germany can tell me if the translation of f/ing is actually used in a sentence like "Ich f/end liebe Bahnfahren"?!? Um Gotteswillen🙄🙈
Long topic short: No it's not. Most people I know do not use any of this "swearing type" slang words or slogans at all. We tend to emphasise our joy by bringing a positive word into the sentence instead. In example "Ich liebe Bahnfahren einfach total / I simply totally love going by train" or "Bahnfahren ist super / Going by train is excellent" and so on.
Hope this can sort it out for you, alle the best
@@SnowdogDad123 yes, thank you :)
(Edit:)6:17
The bird says Autofahrer, die sich ans Tempolimit halten, sind eine Verkehrsbehinderung
Drivers who abide by the speed limit are a traffic disturbance.
6:17 not 9:27 xD
@@mortuos557 oopsi! Thanks 🙏🏻 😃🌸
Make please a reaktion video over the "anzeigenhauptmeister" from germany!!
I live in germany
What country music is to the Americans, Schlager is to the Germans
5:58 Schlaufon pseudo translation of smartphone (ich_iel has the rule that everything has to be German, which is where these strange translations come from)
Schlau = smart
Schlaufe = loop
Normally, you would say/write "Smartfon" in a German. And yes, fon (φωνή) is ancient Greek
@@schnelma605 For a long time, we used ph instead of f, when a word comes from Greek.
1:23 mr -> mir = me
Other Germans Germanising French loanwords makes me shudder.
Modern Schlager is just bad techno for old people.
About American Automotive industry.... if I'm remember right, Ryan himself owns a Toyota...
Every selfrespecting american owns a Toyota ... or a Honda ... or a Subaru if you are gay.
🤙
Täräng is even worse than Törö...
Somehow not as funny as I imagined - not even as a German... 🤔
Me thinks too!
HI Ryan, are you taking a German language course? Your pronunciation sounds better and better!
Didn't you mention that your brother took German at school? You should take a test together - you'll definitely win! ;) Keep it up!
I don't agree. It's often unintelligible.
TÖÖÖRÖÖÖ
schlager is mostly old peoples music , and it sucks to hear it
you should listen to some Schlager and tell us what you think. it's awful i hate it but i wanna know what you think of it
terrain french, not terrain english.
3:17 Huh? Will his german pronounciation skills ever improve? Why does the speak letters, that don't exist in the words? Why does it sound like he tries to speak chinese? 🤨
And will he ever learn that ü and u have a completely different pronunciation?
törööööööööö
Our Schlager is the French's Chanson, the American's country&western.
It sucks! Big time!
That kind of music is for the light minded and old.
Not really with the French chansons! They are more like Singer/Songwriter songs. In German Liedermacher (Reinhard Mey for example).
@@peschez Reinhard Mey's music, I just checked, is being considered pop music.
First
I love schlager music. It's 200 times better than pop music.
I prefer NDW, it's the best combination of sing-along songs without REPEATING ONE VERSE all the time - why, Pop, why?
Technically, Schlager is just pop music with a disco beat.
@@DanVibesTV
Yes I agree, but the melodies are also less monotonous.
Skandal! (Skandal) Im Sperrbezirk!
I wouldn't be doing this if I were you. You don't understand the language, the translation you use is often not to the point, and you lack the cultural background to understand most references, which might be quite subtle. The text in the memes is often rather strange, as if machine-translated - I don't know if it's perhaps a new trend among the youth, but "fickend" is not a correct translation for "fucking", you'd rather use the prefix "Scheiß-" or "verdammte" or something like that. To understand that one about the elephant and the word "terrain" you would need to know how that word is pronounced in German, how many Germans actually pronounce it, you'd need to know that the elephant is the popular German cartoon figure "Benjamin Blümchen", that his catchphrase is "Torööööö" - a vocalisation of an elephant call, and the (mis)pronunciation of "terrain" kinda sounds like that. I know all that, in theory, and I missed that one. "drecks Ledscheinwerfer" does not translate to "dirty LED headlights" (that would be "dreckige Ledscheinwerfer"), it's a curse - "damn LED headlights" or "fucking LED headlights". And so on. You're simply too ill-equipped to react to memes from other cultures, even if you DID speak the language. For instance, in Austria, the mention of "Córdoba" is used to mock Germans in context of football, whereas Germans usually have no idea what that's all about. Córdoba is where the Austrian football team beat Germany and threw them out. Similarly, the British have a national teams game that they invoke, decades hence, where their team beat Germany, and, again, Germans have no idea. They remember their own notable successes.
my man over here with 100k subscribers getting away with some of the laziest content ever :D
Moin Ryan. Mal wieder ein Vergnügen.
Why are all these memes so lame?
These videos are not good. r/iel is garbage as it is. There are way better videos to react to.
Then give him some examples. He is asking for them.
@@peschez He knows plenty German channels by now. That's hardly the issue. He is doing the memes because he wants to.
Ryan, You nailed the German pronunciation of Bundesregierung! I was impressed :)
2:37 Quick, someone call an ambulance, Ryan has a stroke! ;-)