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When Hollywood actors and famous musicians suddenly start speaking German, it's either totally mindblowing, funny, or really cute to us native Germans! So in this video, I checked out a bunch of clips of English-speaking celebrities who speak German (some better than others) and reacted to them on camera. Let me know which clips were YOUR FAVORITES! :)
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0:00 Intro
1:22 Donna Summer
2:58 Robert De Niro
3:52 Justin Timberlake
4:45 Christopher Lee
6:22 Sandra Bullock
12:37 Keanu Reeves
13:19 Leonardo DiCaprio
15:08 Sarah Chalke
21:52 Johnny Depp
22:27 Kim Cattrall
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P.S. Sarah Chalke says Conan's name at the end haha I seriously didn't get that, but thanks for pointing it out guys!
Juice mixed with soda is called a spritzer in the US. So you would have an orange spritzer or an apple spritzer. You also can make a wine spritzer by mixing wine with soda.
Sarah Chalke hat wohl zuviel Rammstein gehört.
Soweit ich weiß, hat Mark Strong in Bayern (wahrscheinlich München😇) studiert und dementsprechend auch dort gewohnt. Aber nicht allzu lange, deswegen bin ich voll überwältigt, wie gut er in Deutsch ist!😊
@@nitroz8703 I don't understand German but I can figure out that you think she sounds like Rammstein.
@@lornaduwn when Germans are friendly say sound like Henry Cavill in the Witcher. When there angry they start screaming.
When a German person tells you they know some English it usually means they know more English than you
I brought my friend from the US to Germany and met up with old friends I grew up with before I was a teen. They all apologized about their English but he was astounded at how good their English was… after about 15 minutes, they weren’t even nervous communicating with my buddy from the US. Perfectly fluent
I will take your word for it. And I speak American English with a New York accent!
@@Helbovie to all people it needs a little time for the brain to switch to a different language. I also need 5 to 10 minutes .
That’s just entirety of Northern Europe tho 🤣
This is a new thing. 15 Years ago most Germans i met online really didn't speak that well at all or refused to speak it (like in France). It's night and day for what it was.
Every time i visit Germany, i ask first "if you speak English" in case i have to ask something, and the respond is always "a little bit". But once they start talking boy it is more then a little bit. Germans speak good English.
That´s what i do too(and i learned english in highschool for 5 years)It´s a little bit weird,but maybe it´s because we want to lower the expectations.
@@timbuktu2758 it's more like fishing for compliments
@@wesprog9809 yeah, totally fishing for compliments
when someone asks me if i speak english i'm panicking for the first 30 minutes, so i say i just speak "a little bit". how weird would it be if i'd say "yeah, fluently" and then i wouldn't get a sentence right
@@JMelns I did not say that you do it. Most people who speak good english say this to get the approval that their english is actually good. I only meant people that are really good but still say they aren't.
@@wesprog9809 never met someone who did this. i'm aware of speaking good english and i still say a little bit because i don't want to embarass myself
Christopher Lee! What a legend. So humble while he’s speaking perfect German with a great accent. Classy and smart guy.
He spoke his role in "The last unicorn" in both English und German. And perfect... so stunning.
He was an intelligence officer in WW2, so learning German would've been very helpful...
It's always the fluent speakers that insist they don't speak the language
I even think his slight accent while speaking german sounds very cool in a kind of distinguished way.
Something that totally fits to a legendary personality like his.
@@grumblesa10 plus he grew up in Switzerland and was half-Italian; he had quite the repetoire of language skills in addition to his German
The speech of Sandra Bullock makes me cry every time. She is so humble, so beautiful and so perfect. I wish she would use her excellent German regularly. ♥️
Would be awesome to see her speaking German in a movie.
She does in Ocean's 11!
@@ursulaking4411 Ocean's 8!
@@DirtyHarrySchmidt Very true!
Yeah, would be awesome to see her say " I use foreskin facial cream" in german
I think it's funny that Christopher Lee says he doesn't speak German very well. He gives himself away the moment he says "I haven't studied it" and then corrects himself: "I haven't learned it." The fact that he knows this common mistake made by non-native speakers shows how high his level is.
Bei dem Film "Das letzte Einhorn", spricht Christopher Lee in der deutschen Fassung wie auch im Englischen Original, die Rolle des Königs.
In the film "The Last Unicorn", Christopher Lee speaks the role of the king in the German version as well as in the English original.
Christopher Lee was like MI5 Military Intelligence in ww2. He hunted Nazi's in ww2. That's why he specks very good German.
@@terzida5329 Mist, das wollte ich gerade kluscheißen! :-D
Some time ago i watched an old german detecives/ crime movie from the early 60s. The movies story played in Great Brittain, and i was surprsed, when one of the actors spoke with a slight english accent. It was Christopher Lee, but i didn't recognize him at once.
@Terzi da: Auch in dem sehenswerten Zeichentrickfilm "Walhalla" spricht Christopher Lee deutsch in zwei Rollen: Thor, Gott des Donners, und Odin, König der Götter.
And Sandra Bullock has spoken to her own children in German from day 1 so that they will be able to communicate with family and friends living in Germany. She is so awesome and talented. Loved her beautiful speech (thanks for translating!)
That's awesome. What a gift to be bilingual.
@@enemdisk6628 you can be bilingual too. But you choose not to be
That is awesome. I completely agree.
she speaks really good German even understanding the local accent from Franken; she has no US accent at all speaking German
I want to learn German. It’s so beautiful to me. I know three languages and I will also speak to my children in all my languages when I have them. But I would be worried if they got confused with the languages. Maybe they would think that the words are synonyms instead of an entirely different language.
Sandra Bullock saying something that made the audience clap.
Me who speaks no German: Wow. That touched my soul.
Sandra told the audience about her professional career as a roommate, waitres etc. and that that she never thought she would stay here one day (receiving the Bambi price) This was the moment the audiance start to clap. She speaks very good German and she is obviously a very symphatic human being. Have a nice day. Regards from Germany.
Sandra Bullock is from Austria. They speak german, too. 🤦🏻♀️
@@maya_unplugged Bullshit - she was born in the US and was raised in Nuremberg vor about 12 years, her mother being an operasinger, like Felo explained.
They only lived in Vienna and Salzburg for a brief period of time, about a year in whole, but not straight and also Bullock held the GERMAN citizenship until she was 18 and since 2009, she again inherits german citizenship including a german passport.
Bollock has stated, that she speaks german with a slightly franconian accent, something I can't agree on, cause she only has an american accent.
@@maya_unplugged Thats Fake-News. Sandra Bullock is a Girl from Nürnberg.
Sandra's dialect is clearly Franconian. I come from the Ruhr area and I already said after a few words that this is Franconian dialect. No one else in Germany pronounces the R like the Franks.
Yeah, would be awesome to see her say " I use foreskin facial cream" in german
I think Felicia doesn't notice as much because she's from Munich. I'm from Niederrhein, I also noticed.
And as a (Lower) Franconian myself, I can actually hear the Middle Franconian heritage, as well as the one from Austria. She grew up in Nürnberg, and spent some time in Wien and Salzburg.
I thought she was pretty Austrian.
yes, I didnt understand how she couldnt get it.. there are no germans that can roll the r better than franconians, and who completely ignore k's and t's :D
As a native german i was really blown away by Sandra Bullocks german skills
Her mother is from Germany, was a German opera singer. Like many Americans with parents from other countries, she likely learned at home speaking with her mother.
Pretty sure her parents are Austrian. I used to be fluent in German and she’s better than me 😂
Would fit in with Nazis
@@koena6720 ???
Bullock wurde 1964 als Tochter der deutschen Opernsängerin Helga Meyer (1942-2000) und des US-amerikanischen Militärangehörigen und Gesangslehrers John Bullock (1925-2018) geboren. Ihre ersten zwölf Lebensjahre verbrachte sie überwiegend in Nürnberg, da ihre Mutter am örtlichen Staatstheater auftrat; zeitweise lebte die Familie auch in Salzburg und Wien. Bullock spricht fließend Deutsch, dem eigenen Bekunden nach mit einem leichten fränkischen Akzent.[
Donner bei klarem Himmel I was in shock !!!
Wow Christopher Lee doesn't just speak german, he speaks perfect german without any audible accent. Actually sounds like german professor with a really high standard german. Great!
Christopher Lee is the german Voice of King Haggard in "The last Unicorn"
@@Weissquell Yes, you're right, I remember. His voice really gives Haggard his whole character.
I've lived here in Germany 26 years now and am fluent, but I dare say he's better than I am.
Maybe Christoppher Lee has a German Mother or Vather and doesn't want to remind of his German Family History?? Sometimes Jewish People act like he did when it comes to this Subject.
Im pretty sure Christopher Lee was part of the intelligence forces during wwii meaning he had to be fluent
Sandra Bullock actually acquired Dual German Citizenship in 2009 in honor of her mother :)
Christopher Lee is a beautiful example of how to flex as a gentleman :D
plus he's killed a man.
👍☺️✌️
@@liquid6901 One at least… but not that unsual for people who fought in WWII. In addition to German, he spoke French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili and three dialects of Urdu.
He sucked as a Vampire........LMAO......
I've been to Germany many times, and German really doesn't sound as angry as they make it out in the movies.
DAS ISCHT NIT WAAHR!
German can actually sound quite melodic even imo...it's just people not knowing how to pronounce words and making them sound really throaty and harsh when in reality they're pronounced much softer.
@@airotkiv Apart from having some arguably rough sounding consonant compositions, I think it's actually more of a remnant of the world wars. Everything Prussian and German was portrayed as being extremely aggressive and militaristic during that time (not without reason of course, looking at you) and the language just got caught in that. And those infamous Hitler speeches certainly didn't help. It's quite ironic, as for centuries the German language had actually been associated with culture due to the likes of Goethe, Schiller, Mozart, Beethoven etc.
But Germany is certainly not alone in that regard. France had dominated all of Europe for almost a millenium before losing one war and becoming the target of so many "surrender" jokes. History can be cruel.
@@Wafthrudnir they lost the Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig 1813 which at that point was the biggest battle in human history.
They lost the french german war 1870 and then in World war 2.
1870/71??
I like how kind and accepting you are of different levels of fluency.
Yes, so encouraging! Danke, Feli
But guys, learning or speaking a language is not about beeing fluent and have no accent, but speaking with people from other countries. To communicate, learn or hear how life or experiences are depending on where you live. Or maybe just to ask where you can find the next grocery store. 😉
I learnt english in school and i am not fluent as i wish i was, but in my opinion, there is nothing more beautiful, to get a conversation with people you otherwise never would.
@@googlenutzer5619 I was wondering where youre from until I saw your username. :D
Idc how you feel about it but our school system adds english very early, I started to learn english when I was 10, nowerdays kids start even earlier. I feel like I want to be good at a skill Ive trained for over a decade now. So I worry about my accent. I dont get many chances to evaluate it atm though. :D
regards from the cold north
PS: propably not to common that two germans write in english :D
@@googlenutzer5619I am so happy to hear that. I worry about not being fluent in anything but I sure try to learn phrases in as many languages as I can. I even learned some Russian and Yoruba. I can say please, thank you, and how are you in many languages.
One detail I love in this is in the Chris Pratt interview, at the end, they both hold up 3 fingers. The german interviewer holds up his thumb, pointer, and middle fingers. While Chris Pratt holds up his pointer, middle, and ring fingers. This small difference in cultures was also shown in the movie Inglorious Basterds, were an Englishman pretending to be a german got exposed by holding up the wrong three.
I hate to bring this up but Christopher Lee was in the British secret service during World War II - I'm pretty sure that's an imperative to learn fluent German.
Yeah he was a part of the “Ministry For Ungentlemanly Warfare” so there’s no way they didn’t have him learn fluent and perfect German before sending him behind enemy lines as a spy/assassin/whatever he was.
Pretty sure Mr. Lee had an amazing sense of humor, and was just taking the opportunity to troll some people
I didn’t know that about him!! So impressive
why is it bad to bring it up? it's really interesting
@andyandyandy360 I say 'i hate to bring it up' because the post is an upbeat and positive look at people's language skills. So, to mention that learning a language might be motivated by the wish to kill is not pleasant whatever nationality you may be.
Christopher Lee was with British intelligence during World War II, but not in Germany. He was with a group that hunted down war criminals after the war and interviewed them, which gave him a great opportunity to perfect his German
He was hunting and killing Nazis in the early days of the war, when Hitler was moving up into Scandinavia.
Sarah Chalke said Conan's name at the end: "CONAN!"
It was fun to see all these different examples. Especially to hear about people often sounding Dutch because once I started learning German, people also started guessing I was Dutch.
Not to wonder guys. The same ppl who once conquered England, were partialy remained in the region of Netherlands and that is a mixing point of languages. We are saying in Hungary dutch is when drunken english sailors tries to speak german (no offense, just a joke)
Yes; Sarah Chalke told Conan she loved the wave in his wonderful red hair, then said his name “Conan!” I picked it up on the first hearing, then was surprised when Feli said (19:12) she didn’t know what the final word was, perhaps interpolating it to Krone (crown), then she remarked about it again (20:23), overthinking why would Sarah compare his red hair to a crown. In reality, she really did address Conan by his name at the end of her compliment.
@@matthiasbreithaupt1391 Because she didn´t know his name, like no german knows him..
Sandra Bullock absolutely has quite a thick Franconian accent. I was surprised how fluent she is.
Apart from that, WHAT she said was even more impressive. This humbleness is very touching.
It always makes me kinda sad when people say German is not a pretty language but I like German is an absolutely gorgeous language.
Goethe and Schiller agree with you ;)
Not a gorgeous language- but an interesting one.
It is a beautiful. I sing lots of hymns in German which I find the meaning as more accurate and closer to heart especially the hymns originally from Germany. Every Christmas season I would listen to Hellen Fischer and it helped me a lot in understanding the language better.
Well I saw a German girl once, I thought she was absolutely, extremely beautiful until she opened her mouth and start speaking in German language.
@@mevlutmertcil6105 Kinda rude especially on a channel run by a girl who speaks German.
I heard that Til Schweiger acutally speaks a bit german. Not as good as the other actors though. Die alte Nuschelmoni
Hahahhahahahahahah Die alte Nuschelmoni
And I heard that Til Schweiger is an actor. Not as good as the other actors though, lol!
LOL he IS german 😂and he’s a pretty famous actor in Germany
@@parksophie8854 I know he's a compatriot of mine. And obviously I'm not a fan :)
Versteht den eigentlich irgendjemand? :-)))
Sandra Bullock made me cry ... not just because of her perfect German, but WHAT she said. So humble and great actress!
Nicely done. As a lifelong learner of German, I found all of these fascinating, and above all, am even more impressed at Feli’s absolute fluency herself (she could easily pass as a native-born American). Great to hear her takes on the differing language skills of the various celebrities.
It is funny, how Sandra Bullock pronounces her own name in the german way
I think, because all her German relatives call her so.
As her Mother is german I guess she grow up with this pronounciation thus uses it also when talking about her
@@ericvauwee4923 she grew up a lil bit in Germany too
Sandra is a great actress, and overall decent person. She's like Mama Bear with her kids
Sandra Bullock was my favorite. I didn’t know she could speak German. Very cool and more of a reason to like her 👍
she actually partly grew up in germany!
@@rosey.100 Sandra Bullock was born and raised in Germany.
@@valsam9218 She wasn’t born in Germany but her mother is German and she grew up there
Her mother was German. Sandra once said that even when they moved to the 🇺🇸 US they spoke German in their house. Her dad is from the US.
She speaks Swedish as well.
Fun fact: Christopher Lee spoke King Hagard in the movie "The Last Unicorn"...and he even dubbed himself in german 👍🏻
He also was a part of the OSS in the 40s if I recall correctly.
That Sandra Bullock choked up while she was speaking IN GERMAN means she is absolutely fluent!
Christopher Lee was fluent in many languages. It was partly because of his family and military background. He even dubbed himself in his own movies. So him claiming not to know how to speak German was one of his jokes. Funny guy.
It is a sign of how humble Sir Cristopher Lee was.
When you know a fair amount of a language, you’re more conscious of how much you still don’t know, and how much you might have forgotten if you haven’t spoken it in awhile.
Well as he was with the intelligence service he could say his german was perfect....but then he would have to kill you coz you would know too much
DiCaprio has spent half of every year with his grandparents, in Germany. He grew up speaking only German with his mom and her parents. He doesn’t like speaking German in public, it’s a family thing to him.
It wasn’t half of every year, more like his summer holidays. And he speaks German outside his family, just not in public settings. 😉
well he doesn't sound fluent at all
@@Caneladorada what would you expect? If you only speak a language with your grandparents (just one set) and one parent on a regular basis, you’re bound to be not that good. His German used to be good enough to speak with his grandparents‘ neighbors, who didn’t speak any English.
@@jennyh4025 Not actually true... When the parents are native speakers of two different languages, a child of young age, easily picks that up, and can later on, be bilingual and fluent in both, when one has been spoken to in those languages everyday. I could understand, if he was only raised by his english side. I don't know how his living situation was, but if the mother would have talked to him in german at home only, he would be much better today. It seems like, she talked to him in english, for most of the time.
@@soleil7259 Which part of what I said is not true? Do you know the family? I did not say his mother spoke German to him all the time, but „regularly“. As far as I know, they only spoke German in Germany.
A friend of mine grew up with native speakers of Vietnamese as parents in Germany and the always spoke Vietnamese to her. She’s now relatively fluent, but every native d as speaker says „she’s a foreigner“ after a sentence
Im very late to the party, but hot chocolate soup is a thing in the northern part of Germany, where I am from.
My mom would usually serve it as a dessert sometimes during winter, though, and not all year round.
It's basically chocolate pudding cooked with way more milk, in order for it to get a consistency like soup.
Actually my mom called it "Schokoladensuppe mit Schneebällchen" which translates to chocolate soup with little snow balls.
The "snowballs" were made from whipped egg whites and were added to the plate of chocolate soup right before serving it.
I enjoyed it very much as a kid!
We had the tradition that the person whose birthday it was could decide which meals would be served on that day.
And I always, always, asked for my Mom's potatoe salad, followed by hot chocolate soup with snowballs.
Mind you, my birthday is in the middle of summer 🤣
My Mom always fulfilled my wish, though 🥰
edit: spelling
I know chocolate soup as a dessert, too. But not with 'Schneebällchen' (but heard about it, I even have recipts for it, just haven't tried it), but with raisins. Maybe that's a thing from Pomerania, where my grandmother (the mother of my mother) came from.
I'm from Schleswig-Holstein
@@KleinGoettsche What a coincidence, I'm originally from Schleswig-Holstein, too! I've never heard about resins being used with chocolate soup, how interesting. It might well be a pomeranian thing to use resins, that's where one of my great great grandparents was from, too. We can trace the recipe down to them but have no further notes regarding our family line to look where it originated from.
I Can imagine that this would be a mighty appealing dish on a freezing cold Canadian winter morning.
We did it with chocolate tapioca pudding really great stuff
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never make fun of someone speaking a language poorly.. it means theýre fluent in another language.
as a dutch guy, i was exposed to the German language from an early age, watching german TV-shows, which gave me a start.. then in school i had German for many years, and i also read a lot of german Car and Model Railroad magazines.
German is a beautiful Language, sharing a lot with the Dutch Language, i found it relatively easy to learn German, and being able to speak different languages opens a lot of doors in life..
My mum said my Dutch cousins spoke German as little kids because they watched the German kids programmes.
@@juliaforsyth8332 true.. every sunday morning my sister and i would watch "die Sendung mit der Maus", which translates to "the program with the mouse".
That program had a section like "how its made" showing how all kinds of things were made, in german that children could understand.. that is how i learnt German
I used to make fun of people who didn't speak a language properly (I myself am fluent in German and English, and have also learnt Italian, Spanish and French but don't speak these as well). What taught me a lesson was Gloria from Modern Family, cause in one episode she said "you don't know how intelligent I am in Spanish" and I don't know why but this opened my eyes and I realised that French, Italian or Spanish people surely make fun of me not speaking their languages properly, because when I talk to them, they don't know I am fluent in 2 other languages, and neither do I know whether the person talking to me might be fluent in 23 languages but not the one they are using right now.
Totally. I have very rusty skills in German language and my French is at a level only of basic interactions for travel purposes. The support I found from German speakers when I was living in Germany and trying to improve my skills was absolutely fabulous, especially as so few Australian speak German.
Yes you should applaud them for trying to learn another language instead of mocking them for not being as fluent as a native speaker. You likely suck in their native language.
Funny note on the side they actually had a German translator for Sandra at the Bambi and she spontaneously decided to do her speech in German which was not planned
Christopher Lee: Ich kann nicht gut deutsch sprechen
Also Christopher Lee: *speaks perfect German nearly without accent*
Its because Christopher Lee enlisted in the British Army in 1939 and fought in WW2, learning a few basic German/French words I assume was mandatory or suggested to troops
@@FriedrichBarb Yeah but its not mandatory. Theres literally no accent in his speaking and WW2 was 70 years ago
As has been mentioned elsewhere, he wasn’t just a grunt; he started in intelligence, then moved to special operations. His time in intel involved decoding German messages, so he would’ve likely had to translate code to German to English in that role. As for his time in special operations, he declined to ever go into detail, but it is said that he instructed fellow actors on LOTR on the proper noises to make while dying, so it’s not a great leap to think that getting the accent right was a life-or-death thing for him at one point.
You should know, that he was also a professional opera singer and the most operetta are in Italian and German and so you have to speak German and/or Italian as a professional opera singer.
For those who don't know...Sandra Bullock's mother is from Germany.Plus she grew up in Germany for many of her childhood and adolescence years.So it's no surprise at all that she speaks fluent German.
It is surprising cuz she live in USA for most her life...often times your ethnic language will degrade
Sandra does have a heavy accent...obviously not hoch Deutsch, aber süße.
@@cbailey2376 They say "fluent" German...Is this true...
@@Jpeg13759 Yes. She even has a franconian dialect so it is obvious she grew up here. She makes really really small mistakes here and there (she mixed up an article) but her pronounciation is perfect for her dialect. Those mistakes might have come from here feeling nervous since the rest was native level German.
For the final few months of his service, Lee, who spoke fluent French, Italian and German, among other languages, was seconded to the Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects.[65] Here, he was tasked with helping to track down Nazi war criminals
Christopher Lee speaks German very well, almost without any accent.
Funny, I could totally hear the the Nuremberg background from Sandra Bullock. Speaks really fluently.
He is voicing the mad king in "the last unicorn" in german and english IIRC.
He spoke many languages, he was very talented.
I.....don't believe he speaks at all these days.
Maybe he picked it up during the war? Although if I remember correctly he was stationed in North Africa and the Middle East.
Christopher Lee could speak Italian, Spanish, French and German fluently. He was also proficient in Greek, Russian and Swedish. Sadly he died on June 7, 2015 at the age of 93.
Sam Oh no, did he? and on my birthday. 😔 I don’t know if I’ve ever seen him in anything else, I have to look it up but LOTR is an all time favorite.
Creative Life Christopher Lee was in episode II and III of the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy. I don’t know if you are a fan of Star Wars.
Sam Ahh, yes! I am a fan and I remember now. Wow.
Sam I see he was also in a James Bond movie and Sleepy Hollow. In that case I definitely have seen him before but never put two and two together. Great actor who seemed to enjoy playing the bad guy. ☺️
He also played metal music!
Wow, so when we American speak German, we often do with a Dutch accent. When I took a Japanese class once, the nice teacher said I spoke with a Spanish accent. Weirdly enough, Spanish is my second language.
My brother, originally an English speaker, became quite fluent in French as a young man, then took some German lessons. The German teacher said that he spoke German with a French accent.
"Wow, so when we American speak German, we often do with a Dutch accent."
No, not really
Not necessarily.
@@manzanasrojas6984 no...most will have an American accent. It often depends on where/how you learn the language. If you're immersed in the culture, you may have a 'better' accent...if that makes sense. I lived many years in Berlin & although I had an accent, most didn't believe I was actually an Ammi . Some thought I was Bulgarien. 😄
Not so strange at all. Spanish speakers speak in pure tones(each letter is only pronounced one way) like Japanese people but you probably lack a pitch accent.
Ausgezeichnet! What fun! I learned some German in college and made good use of it traveling around Germany many years ago. It's amazing how the local people react when you make a good faith attempt to speak their language. The hard part (if you're not immersed) is slowing the German speaker down so you can hear the individual words. But I imagine that's true for both sides of the conversation. Vielen dank!
Slowing down is for sure necessary! Langsame Bitte!
Christopher Lee dubbed himself in the German version of The Last Unicorn (he's King Haggard). His timbre is awesome, I haven't seen the film in decades but still remember his haunting performance. Rest, man!
Thanks for sharing this. 👍🏽
Ive become a huge fan of his lately.
Lee speaks maybe 7 or so languages. He has really a thing going on with languages.
Such legend. Amazing at everything he touched.
Christopher Lee also hosted german tv shows.
@@marcblum5348 spoke not speaks
I went to high school with Sandra Bullock in Arlington, VA. Not only that, we were in the same German class: they threw all the German 2, 3, & 4 together. I was in 2, she was in 4. Her German was the best among us; it wasn't close. I think she said that she spent summers in Salzburg. She was very approachable and down-to-earth. In fact, some of us thought she wasn't acting in "While You Were Sleeping" because her character was they way we remember her.
She is born in Nürnberg. She goes to School there a few years
She said I went to school with Sandra Bullock that’s the biggest flex 💪 ever
I expected Sandra Bullock to be that fluent in German, because I knew that her mother was German and she lived most of her childhood in Germany.
Sandra Bullock and Christopher Lee are definitely my favorite they speak flawless and wonderful greetings from 🇩🇪
I swear, as an American who speaks German, Dutch just sounds like someone speaking German with a a strong American accent 😂
As an American learning German I am in 100% agreement with you😂
Reading Dutch screws me up. Lol.
Can you actually understand what the Dutch are saying vocabulary/verb/tense wise? That would be cool.
I can't understand spoken Dutch, but I can read and understand some because of the cross overs with German and English. It is still it's own language, maybe German and Dutch are a bit closer in their language family than Spanish and Italian. Although I have met some Germans who insist Dutch is just a dialect of German, but I've never heard a Dutch speaker make that claim 😂
@@bboo8436 I get the feeling that you'd catch on fast if you lived there for six of eight months giving it a go.
Cheers!
All these people speak better German than me. I took the language in high school and college but still have horrible accent. Every time I went to Germany I tried to just speak German but my accent gave me away and everyone switched to English.
I even lied once and said “Ich komme aus Polen und spreche kein Englisch.” Only to have the bartender switch to Polish 😂
So your German is better than your polish !! If u can even use some small sentence in german,,,,, than use it ! The German then try to get u right ! Almost like u try to get me right ....... now ! ;)
@@wamblee123 Practice is the best for learning languages, you’re right. Maybe that’s why everyone in Germany wanted to speak to me in English. Oh and I don’t know any Polish 😂
Well, you shall not lie 😂.
Lots of people from Poland live and work in Germany.
They are known to be intelligent and hard workers.
Especially in the tourist spots and hotels and bars and restaurants it is important to have good staff with multiple languages.
@@doroparker1702 Lesson learned 😂
Hahaha shit thats sad man but u know what just try to fix your accent u already learnt the language it'd be a shame to lose it just because u cant practice try to speak as close as a native does and you'll be fine plus if you ask a German not to speak english back they'd be glad to do so cause of course they rather speak their language.
Most of us speaking a second language actually DO have a slight accent, unless we are living in full surroundings of that second language for some time.
As for me, being born in French Quebec, I learned English in order to advance in line of work. Doing so, and living away in the USA for a few months, I was told by my family upon my return, that I had actually got an American accent.
As for you Felicia, you DO have a very cute German accent, even though barely noticeable.
A few months is all it takes to pick up our signature vocal fry
Being an English Canadian that has lived in Québec for many years as well as having a French speaking mother, I got the accent down, but I still make make mistakes, most notably with masculine and feminine articles.
@@Foxikaze Yup.
Being French-Canadian myself, i know the French language aint easy to learn.
Verbs and genders are à bitch...
Coming from South Africa and raised in a very rural part of western Kwa-Zulu Natal, I was lucky to grow up speaking Zulu and Xhosa, later in the military I got fluent in Afrikaans (an offshoot of Dutch-Huguenot). I’ve always respected people who at least try, rather than berate them for “butchering” a language - I assure you, your language still remains in tact when they’re done.
When I heard Donna Summer my jaw hit the floor
Yeah, mich auch
LaDonna Adrian Gaines's first husband, Helmuth Sommer, met her when she was on the world tour of the musical _Hair_ in Europe. She met him and Giorgio Moroder in Munich. She married him in 1973, gave birth to their daughter Mimi in 1974, and they divorced in 1976. She Anglicized his surname as her stage name: Donna Summer.
Yeah, no kidding! Stunning.
She lived in Germany as a young adult and married and Austrian man
Lee politely didn't answer that he learned German because of WWII.
Working for the british intelligence.
Behind the lines
That's only one explanation why he might've learned it. In the years after the war he cited his love for especially the works of Richard Wagner as a motivation to learn more German and about the culture.
Is it known if he learned German during his time as an intelligence officer or whether he got that position because he already knew German?
It's not unusual to learn German as a second language in British schools, especially before WW2.
@@Mastacheata, I'm not saying he didn't keep up with or improve his German after the war, Lee learned German because of what they were having him do in the war.
Lee has been an incredible man in general. So many talents, such an interesting life!
The sounding Dutch thing is funny - after living in Germany and attending the Uni for a year, people could still tell I wasn't native German but would guess that I was Dutch. I always attributed it to Dutch sounding like the average of English and German, as if you could draw a line from Hamburg to London and language smoothly varied along that line.
Christopher Lee saying he doesn't speak German was so funny.. he is understanding everything she speaks and speaking it pretty damn good as far as I can understand.
In the movie "The Last Unicorn" in german, the german voice of King Haggard was Christopher Lee. He dubbed in german!
He also dubbed Thor and Odin in the german version of the danish animated movie "Valhalla".
And in the German dubbed version of the computer animated movie "The Lorax" Danny DeVito did the voice of the Lorax - just as he did in the original version. But he doesn´t understand German. I haven´t seen this movie - it
doesn´t interest me at all - but I´ve seen something about it on TV. There had been clips from the dubbed movie. Danny DeVito has a really strong accent.
WHATTT
Yesss, and I couldn't imagine it any other way. His accent gives so much character to King Haggard. As a child I just always noticed he had a unique way of speaking and when I was 12 or so I found out why :D
Peter Ustinov dubbed himself in some german versions too. Like in Disneys version of "Robin Hood", some of his Hercule Poirot movies or his appearance in the "Muppet Show".
Sandra Bullock's German is actually very impressive!
she partly grew up in germany ! i think she lived there (and in austria) for 12 years when she was younger
She grew up in germany for many years so she is fluent.
Indeed.
Christopher Lee hat beim das "letzte Einhorn" den König auf deutsch synchronisiert... Toller Stimme
Feli, you definitely make German sound so beautiful. Sarah Chalke on the other hand scared the crap out of me! Although growing up, I'm pretty sure that is what a lot of Canadians (me included) thought German was supposed to sound like. I'm so glad I was wrong! 😜
I'm an Australian, now nearly 70, but I learnt German for 4 years when I was in high school in a small regional city in Queensland. I knew no one who was German, had never met a German person, didn't even have a TV at home so hadn't heard German much even in war movies! But I LOVED learning German. One of our teachers spoke it with a broad Australian accent - terrible! - but another two we had were from some kind of German background so they spoke it much better. I used to go home and speak German as much as possible - to my dog, my parents, my friends - and I even had a German pen friend for a while. She would write to me in English, and I would write to her in German, and we would correct each other! After I left school and moved away from home, I continued to say German words and phrases from time to time, even after I got married and had kids of my own. I remember my daughters complaining about me speaking German to them. Ironically, my eldest daughter married a German-born Serbian guy who was a German teacher, and their eldest son is now in a German immersion program in his high school! I travelled to Austria and Germany in 2012, and actually got to speak German to native German-speaking people for the first time in my life! My German was pretty pathetic, but at least I was able to make myself understood, and I managed to understand a few things people were saying. It's amazing how many German words, expressions and grammar I actually recalled from what I'd learned all those years ago! I love your videos, even though they are more aimed at American viewers, because it keeps me in touch with the language I had begun to learn and had loved way back in my schooldays.
I wish we had met when you were here in Germany. I would have loved to talk to you. Your story is beautiful
Deutsch ist eine sehr schwere Sprache, meinen Respekt wenn du das lernst und nicht aufgibst. Es gibt schoenere Sprachen wie Italienisch oder Franzoesisch . Ich weiss, dass die deutsche Sprache immer wieder als agressiv und hart dargestellt wird. Ich kann das verstehen. Meine Frau ist US Amerikanerin und lernt Deutsch und ich hab ihr die Band JULI vorgespielt und sie sagt sie hat noch nie ein so schoenes Deutsch wie in deren Liedern gehoert. Erstaunlich. Aber die Musik hilft ihr dabei die Sprache zu moegen und zu lernen..Vielleicht auch dir..Viel Glueck
Thank you for this comment. I have just finished highschool and I decided to take german and political science. I had no other choices but to take german and I am a little bit scared because I am not familiar with it. It sounds hard. But your words have encouraged me to try hard!
@@Kris-bg5nw if u have a question or something just let me know
@@icewollowcome9370 alright thanks! Is there any way I can contact you like on Instagram?
Christopher Lee has literally no accent. The pronounciation is perfect, which is extremely rare with english speaking people and he says he can't speak german. I know people that lived in germany for decades that speak worse german.
Christopher Lee did the German Syncrospector for the old King in „The Last Unicorn“!
100% disagree. German accents aren't especially difficult for native English speakers. German does not require extreme ability to speak without a discernible accent.
@@maryamkim1281 I'm met my fair share of mother tongue english speakers speaking german in my life. Only two of them had no accent and one of those two came to germany at the age of 6. Sorry dude I'm german, a mother tongue english speaker without a dialect is extremely rare
@@angryyordle4640 Na miinerem Dafüurhalte isch's nödd soooo schwieri, de düutsche Sprach na'zumache. I, zem Bispö, chunn uss Ireland, aber ich hann mer chönne däner Schwiitzer (Basler) Dialächt ane iiigne. So arg schwieri isch's au nödd gsi. Aber jädi hett nere iigne Miinig, oder?
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He speaks very well, but yes, he does have an accent. Faint but noticeable. Which is fine. Children can learn a new language accent-free by total immersion. Past age 12, almost no one loses their original accent.
Donna Summer.. wow.. sounds like a native!
1:56 That's really interesting that we Americans have a Dutch-reminiscent accent when speaking German. I remember when I was going over a German song in my freshman year of college and my voice professor said, "your diction is very nice and clear, although I think you're singing with a bit of an Austrian accent." I think I had a tendency of rolling/flipping a lot of the otherwise guttural "r" sounds (rhotic consonants)
Sandra Bullock's German sounds pretty Frankonian, Felicia, especially the "r"s. And Christopher Lee does not say "Nibelungenlied" (which is also not a classical song but an epic poem in Middle High German), he says "Ring des Nibelungen" which is an opera cycle by Richard Wagner.
best german story ever told
@@OkabexKurisu which one? The poem or the opera cycle?
She went to school (Rudolf Steiner Schule) in Nuremberg.
@@gluteusmaximus1657 omg Waldorfschule 😱
@@Baccatube79 Indeed!
Christopher Lee being fluent in German didn't surprise me at all, it was exactly like watching Putin speak German.
Sandra Bullock has a very distinctive Austrian accent.
Christopher Lee's German at least /sounds/ better than Putin's German. Putin's German has a strong Russian accent.
@@SomeLazyDr well he's probably the better spy.
Nah, she does not. She sounds very much like a german.
That's like when Antonio Banderas dubbed himself in the Italian version of Puss in Boots (he does a perfect Spanish accent😂).
@@SomeLazyDr I thought Putin's German was surprisingly good. Then I googled and understood.
Ich denke sie meint einfach Heisse Schokolade mit Sahne. Oder Kakao mit Sahne 😂
Aber so wie sie es sagt, bekomme ich “böse Hexe-Vibes” wie in Hänsel und Gretel 😂
Sandra Bullock has at least the franconian "rolling" "R" when it comes down to her dialect.
Mark Strong's german is absolutly amazing. But when he says "auf der Schule" you know that he doesn't have a german backround but an austrian. Germans would say "in der Schule". Same meaning.
In Westfalia where I live, we also say "auf der Schule" 🤷🏼♀️
I'm from northern germany and i would also say "auf welcher schule warst du?" but i would also say "Ich war in der Schule" so it kind of both works.
here in Austria (Styria) we say "in der Schule". That's the main difference between Austrians and Germans. In Deutschland geht man nur zur Schule, in Österreich geht man (auch) in die Schule. XD
@@clawravenscroft1788 in Deutschland geht man auch "in die Schule"
Im Ruhrpott sagen auch viele auf der Schule
Imagine the Spanish-speaker’s pain when we hear actors with strong regional accents who are supposedly playing characters from another part of the world. Classic example was Antonio Banderas playing a Cuban in The Mambo Kings. He has such a strong Spanish accent and it’s utterly different from a Cuban one. Happens all the time in American shows.
It happens with almost every language shown in Hollywood movies and american tv shows.
I saw a clip of a guy portraying the president of Brazil on the TV show Westworld, and he was acting with a french actor who lived in Brazil for many years. The problem is that the french actor had a much better brazilian accent than the freaking brazilian president.
lol they cast spanish-speakers to play brazilian roles and it's hilarious
The accent is from Cuba, because António Banderas is from spain
Its like casting Joaquim Almeida (a portuguese) to portrait spanish... Cubans... Mexicans... Colombians... Pretty much all nationalities except his own.
Hallo from Columbus! =D
I didn't realize Kirsten Dunst's grandfather lives in Hamburg. That was cool to learn, thanks! I think I'm more surprised that she (Kirsten Dunst) isn't MORE fluent than I am that she knows German.
Sandra Bullock's fluency was something I already knew, but I'd never heard her speak in German before. I hope she still gets to speak at home and with family.
Sir Christopher Lee. He was fluent. He had to learn, since he was fighting Nazis early in the war before Britain got involved. It was so lovely to hear him speak and see that playful, happy twinkle in his eye. I miss him. His movies are among my favorites, and I wish I could have seen him on the stage.
When you're talking about the Scrubs clip, it reminded me of in Korean dramas, they occasionally have an "American" boss guy, but when he speaks English, it sounds like he's European or Russian and sometimes the words don't make much sense. It's quite humorous.
The biggest problem I had in Germany was that everybody spoke such perfect English that I got lazy and kept reverting back to English.
Easy to do. I studied abroad in France and really wanted to improve but everyone spoke English (and wanted to speak English). Didn't improve much. Think I would have had more luck if I was more fluent to begin with.
@@geewilakers5229 Liar. No french people would speak another language without being physical threatened 😅
@@M1ch43l33 Agreed.
They all wanted you to speak English to practice their own English grammar.lo
I (Dutch) also say that my English is kinda bad very often, since I'm not *fluent* in it and don't understand all accents. I was in Ireland and said a few times "Sorry, could you repeat that? My English isn't very good" when in fact I meant "Sorry, could you repeat that because you're Irish and man do you have a crazy accent" xD
I have similar experiences from UK. Even when I watch British movies I have to rely on subtitles, although I don't need subtitles when I watch American or Australian movies.
I (Swiss) was in Scotland and I think everybody tried extra hard to talk with a less crazy accent. I looove the Scottish accent though!
I'm an American and once took a backpacking trip around Europe and literally the only time I had a serious problem understanding and speaking to anyone in English was in Scotland
@@haslo_ Me too! I visited Scotland at least four times in the last couple of years with some Swiss friends and I know Scots often try hard to be understood by tourists.
As a native Englishman, believe me, there are parts of the UK and Ireland where the accent makes understanding people difficult and I am listening to my own language! There is very poor grammar education in most British schools, which results in not only a very poor standard of written English but also very lazy spoken English - and perhaps this makes English more challenging to non-native speakers.
The highest standards of spoken English language I have heard are from non-native speakers, who have learned the correct grammar and use less slang. I work with people from all over Europe and the best spoken English I ever heard was from a Hungarian girl.
I always make an effort to learn a few words and phrases in any country I visit, to show that not all Englishmen are ignorant and arrogant. It feels like an achievement to conduct shopping transactions in a foreign language - Turkish and Flemish, for instance - where the sales staff often speak little or no English. Also I once fooled a Japanese person telephoning my (Japanese) boss - I answered the call, heard a babble of Japanese language and politely apologised (in Japanese) that I spoke no Japanese. The caller thought I was my boss playing a trick on him.
I studied French and German at school (in the '80s) and learned a bit of Spanish more recently, but I still consider my foreign language skills to be very poor compared to the standard of English I hear from non-native speakers. I have the highest respect for people who learn other languages. To all non-native speakers, this Englishman salutes you.
As an Austrian I never heard someone singing the Nibelungenlied… but in school we had to recite some parts of it… As much as I remember its literature…
That’s true, but as far as I understood him correctly, Christoper Lee said „vielleicht ein bisschen Ring der Nibelungen“ which would then refer to the Wagner opera
@@maschinka_ indeed
I love Christopher Lee. Made me think of a time I told my Spanish-practice partner that I could not understand Spanish that day. Too tired. Brain was fried from practicing another language. He asked in Spanish, "So you can't understand Spanish at all today?" I responded, "No. No puedo" (no, I'm not able). He started laughing. Clearly, if I couldn't understand Spanish, I'd not known what he said.
German girl here that grew up near Rostock: Hot chocolate soup is definitely a regional meal ^^ but we usually eat it around lunch and not breakfast
(We also put cereal into the soup)
Ohh, they gave me something similar to that in Berlin, when I was staying at a hospital. I was so confused with my lunch lol, since it was kind of like a warm, chocolatey and creamy pudding. I don't know if it's the same dish, but interesting nevertheless!
Also ist das ne richtige Suppe oder einfach nur ne heiße Schokolade?
@@TheIritify eher Schokopudding, nur etwas flüssiger
Hot chocolate soup.... Let me google it and then I'm getting a ticket to Germany 😳😳😳😳😳
German veterans (OstFront) told me that they lived on a 1/2 canteen of water, one handful of oats or rice and two wedges of Scho-Ka-Kola ...for the whole day!!! Now, that's hot chocolate soup, Wehrmacht Art...und das ist sehr Schlimm!!!
I'm an American polyglot that lived in Germany and speaks it. Your comment about some Americans speaking German sound Dutch rings true. I think it comes down to Americans not discerning between short and long vowels and just making them all short vowels and speaking fast. Dutch (I only know a little) can speak fast and sometimes gloss over long vowels.
Another comment that rings true is that because of the Good Samaritan law (does it still exist? I was there in 1999-2001-ish) I often got picked up or hitchhiked. I met many Germans who spoke such perfect English (like yourself) in spite of their claim otherwise. I once spoke with a German lady for about 10 minutes assuming she was an American and when she told me she was German I thought she was joking. I mean PERFECT accentless English, even slang.
Because I lived in Trier, I picked up some Pfalszich too. A few years after I returned to America, there was a popular show about the Amish and to my shock, I could understand them when they spoke "Diets/Deitsch." I had no idea that the Amish's Mundart could often be Pfalszich.
Germany is an amazing country and culture and in spite of stereotypes, they are a warm, fun people once you get to know them. I always recommend Germany to my friends who are thinking about a vacation. My time there was highly rewarding and I kept up with the language by following n-tv.de, German movies, and German CZcams channels. I hope to visit again some day.
Thanks for the wonderful video! Subscribed!
Toller Artikel.
We have a huge German industrial plant called Schaeffler in my small South Carolina town. We get all kinds of German's who come here to work, but we kinda feel bad for them because there's absolutely nothing for them to do here but work. We enjoy having them here though.
Notice at 23:48 how he used his fingers to point out how many times he watched his movie. Reminds me of Inglourious Basterds✋️
The Scene with Chris Pratt, when the german reporter and him show us the 3 with their fingers, you can tell, who is from germany.
Reminds me of the tavern scene in Tarantinos Inglourious Basterds :)
@@sanipine I wonder if it is true that they sometimes found out who the German spies were because Germans have such difficulty with the word squirrel. Not beyond possibility, but I don't know if it actually ever happened.
@@Anon54387 who knows, sounds like a cleverly made up story to me, but would actually work in both directions: cause squirrel in German is Eichhörnchen, and almost no non-native gets it right :)
I'm sure Arnold Schwarzenegger will teach Chris Pratt even more German 👍💪😂😂
@@sanipine I always thought our dutch word "eekhoorn" is literal translation of the word acorn, which is what a squirrel eats.
Holy shit Mark Strong almost sounds like an actual german native, thats crazy, in the beginning its flawless, sounds like a narrator for documentaries
He studied German Law in Germany.
Now I'm curious to know what his birth name was, seeing how his parents felt the need to change it when they moved to England.
@@emiromiranda1214 His birth name is Marco Giuseppe Salussolia.
Nothing like hearing someone explaining different accents in a language you dont know 🤣
Christopher Lee was a member of British intelligence during his military career before getting into acting...so it's no surprise he speaks German an extremely interesting and well traveled man.
Donna married an Austria man and has a daughter that speaks German. She wasn't playing around with memorizing a few words
She was barely married to him . Only a few years
@@jessicajames1599 ....but she was married to him.
I know. My point is, she wasn’t married to him, for very long and she was able 2 , take on his native language pretty well
@@jessicajames1599 I believe that's more because she was a great talent, and not because of him. She spent time in Germany and Austria with and without husbands.
@@barbaral8973
That’s what I’m saying, or atleast trying to express😐.... I think, she would have learned it anyway . Maybe having her husband around, helped her pick it quicker . But, I’m giving her the obvious credit
Christopher Lee, the man, the legend. Truly a special individual.
I have seen this video several times and really enjoy it. I was born in Heidelberg and my mother is from East Germany. Please continue these great videos
I have a good counterexample for "hardsounding" German: In 1998 i flew from Vegas to LA through a typhoon (200+ mph, real no fun except the drinks jumping out of the glasses 🥳), because some flightcontrollers thought the eye of the storm was a sign that its safe. When my girlfriend started panicking like most of the other passengers, i told her with gentle voice in German not to worry, because we would most likely die instantly. She calmed down and within minutes also all Americans around us, but i'm sure only because they thought i'm a believing man that told her that god will save us. 😇
I am first-generation American. My mother was a German war bride from straubing. She was Bavarian through and through. When I speak German to people a run into, they always ask me where I was born in Bavaria. I tell them I was born in America and they don't believe me. My sisters are the same way they do not have the American accent. We were raised around Germans our whole life. I figured out that at times my sentence structure is not English. I've been told I have a slight accent especially if I hang with German friends. Lol
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It's amazing what you can pick up on in other people's speech. I grew up in and still live in Surrey, UK, but my mother grew up in Bristol and my father came from Norfolk. Both places have very recognisable accents but as far as I was concerned my parents didn't. However I've had people from Bristol or Norfolk pick up on something in my speech and ask me if I come from there.
Hello, how are you doing??
Christopher Lee was such an interesting guy and did so much in his long life, he's definitely worth reading about
He was a legend! 😊
@@mortis1279 for sure
I knew that Sandra Bullock speaks German very well indeed, but who really surprised me was Mark Strong. His German is almost perfect.
Vielen Dank für diese Überraschung.
I’m more impressed that you know who Donna Summer is! I love her!
Christopher Lee worked in the British secret service during WW2 - ofc he could speak German 😂
Sad that he passed away 5 yrs ago...
he once described to Peter Jackson how it sounds when a man is stabbed....well, he had some experience as an SAS (!) Commando-Soldier
@@Therealmcdoc father of all bad asses!!!
A squishy sound on the way in, a sucking sound on the way our.
*out
Christopher Lee has the best accent and his grammar was perfect, Sandra is fluent, but has a slight american accent and still a Frankonian (Northern Bavarian) dialect.
Mein Schicksal ist mir klar
wie schon Erian es erzählt
werd ich immer sein
und kämpfen gegen alte Sünd'
@@silkwesir1444 Rhapsody !!!
DiCaprio grew up fully fluent in both English and German. His mother is a German citizen, and he’s always spent at least 6 months of every year of in Germany with his grandparents.
I thought Christopher Lee had a parent from Germany, but I may be misremembering that one.
One time in college I turned in a paper to my English teacher, an old guy with the patches on the elbows of his jacket. In the paper I quoted a German philosopher (I can’t remember the details). When I got the paper back the quote was corrected with the dots and such. It turns out he used to teach German, French, and Italian. The moral of the story is that you never know what other people understand, so be careful what you say.
Wow! Didn't know Donna was so fluent
I grew up in Wisconsin with two German grandparents and most of the older people in my neighborhood being German immigrants. I do voice over work and very often dube German lines in movies and TV shows, because I don't have an American accent when speaking it.
I met Sandra Bullock when she was doing the movie While You Sleeping in a neighborhood Chicago and was the only actress to come out and say hello and signed autographs for us.
I was surprised when I first heard real German, spoken by a real German. Because it is such a beautiful and gentle sounding language. Not the harsh monstrosity it is joked as in American pop culture. I think it is a lingering effect of the stereotypes of WWII propaganda
It's not a beautiful and gentle sounding language. Don't get me wrong, I like it but what you're saying goes against reality. "Linguists say that when people talk about ‘harsh’ sounding languages, they’re usually referring to tongues that make sounds using the back of the vocal track. This can result in a more throaty, guttural noise which gives the language a stronger sound which others don’t seem to have. Dutch and Malay are examples of languages that, like German, have this feature and as a result can appear angrier sounding to those who don’t speak or understand them."- an expert. So, it can be beautiful to you but there is something to the notion that German is an angry or hard sounding language and it has NOTHING to do with post WWII propaganda.
I guess what missbeans means about american popculture is that whe ever they make fun of german speakers they tend to shout and pronounce german like the way Hitler spoke in the videos that are left from WW2..
Yes, German is harder pronounced as English, fir example, but usually we dont shout.
(This is something we associate about Italians, funnyly..)
@@vaskylarknah this has been disproven time and time again. there are plenty other languages that have throaty sounds and no one bats an eye. people don't care about dutch, but the second german comes up it's like "wow so aggressive." also...german literally used to be the language of poets and thinkers, so many famous composers and authors wrote in german, that wouldn't be possible if it was so ugly and harsh..it's okay to reflect on your own prejudices
@@vaskylark damn that character development
@@caroskaffee3052 LOL well it's a strong, smart language but it doesn't flow pretty is all I meant like say French or some other languages with a more sing song cadence. That's all I was saying.
A good showing from the Brits - fascinating to hear Mark Strong and absolutely loved Christopher Lee - bless him! Super 😊
Christopher Lee has voiced King Haggard in both the German and the English version of the last unicorn.
TIL there is a film adaptation of The Last Unicorn
Cool. Didn’t know that. Thanks
I bet Sandra Bullock taught Keanu Reeves that phrase on the set of"Speed" when they were crushing on each other.
Yeah :)
a video on different German accents and how they differ (like swiss, austrian...) would be awesome !!
LoL accent can change every 16 miles in Germany. In my valley are 73 towns and villages, and we can tell which you're from. You go south to north Germany and they become distinctly different languages.
@@robertireland4589 same in the US.
You will need two years for the video or more
@@eskidox173 nowhere even near the degrees as in Europe. Not even close.
@@robertireland4589 With the exception of Gullah.
So, almost always my experience in Germany has been that Germans are VERY modest about their English speaking skills. I want to visit again because I would like to return the courtesy with my improved Deutsch speaking skills, as modest as they are. 😢 I always felt welcome in Germany because of this.