I found out a rule, when I thought about this. When the "CH" comes after an "A" "O" or "U", the sound is more similar to the guttural r, or the russian ch sound, more harsh. It is only the soft way (like in hhhhuge), if it is after an "I" or "E". The "CH" is hardly ever before a vowel
this was really helpful, i like how u talk about how the words are used in the culture and talk about ur experiences hearing the words being used. i learned a lot from that ^^
Also, I was watching hair spray and the subtitles (in german, duh!) said "Ich lieb' dich, Baltimore" for " I love you, Baltimore". So do Germans say "I love Germany" as "Ich liebe Deutschland" or how do they say stuff like " I love this brand" or "I love this movie" etc. Or is it like in Spanish where they use "gusta" or "encanta" instead of "amo"
It sounds a little "r", right? Like in portuguese, and spanish. I've heard people saying "irch", with the "ch" sound in the end, that the girl on the video hates. Is this right?
Nice lesson. Your German is very good, better than that of the Germans in Frankfurt (just to allude to this awful -sh- ) ...
Indeed we have a thousand words for "I love you", so love should be something even we know. But we don't use those words to create a good feeling just for the moment, but to express our real feelings. So when a (northern) German tells you "ich mag dich" (I like you), be prepared for a hug and real friendship. ;-)
My German teacher taught everyone to say ish... I WAS SO ANNOYED!! and then also they were trying to say "Ich heisse Barbara" but it came out as "Ich scheisse Barbara"....
You should really learn proper english first- Believe it or not, but Pronunciation is pronounced exactly as it is written, not pro-NOUN-ciation :O ... Just saying :/
@dmps000111 Why would one need to learn to speak English before understanding German? It's easier to learn a new language than to break old habits of pronunciation, fool.
@Macaframa1 well i think everyone likes his own language more than another for me as a german the dutch language sounds like a retarded version of german + english xD but i know that you dutch guys think the same of german xD
@SuperCommandoman: For me as a northern German Dutch sounds more than my language than Bavarian. At least I am able to ask for a gas station in the Netherlands and understand the answers. :D
Ick lieb dir:) Ick mag dir:)Ick hab da lieb du kleene schnuffe:)--mal paar beispielchen für dich...by the way...your 'yes' sounds passionate..nice regards from berlin-lichtenberg
So, I've been on a "German video binge" lately, looking up grammar mechanics and whatnot, and I came across this video. I say this because I am posting on a video that is nearly four years old. Anyway, I've heard plenty of Germans (most notably vocalists for German bands) use the "sh" pronunciation for the majority of their "ch"-ending words (like "ich" and "dich" and "mich"). Are they wrong? Is it a geographical thing? Is it just a weird dialect? I myself go back and forth between "sh" and "ch"
@Baerenmarke3000 Is it? I myself have never heard of pidgin German, but probably because any professors I've had never bothered to inform me of its existence. But nonetheless, it has seemed to become a part of German dialect and will stay that way.
@NenshouHinote: Yes, it's wrong. Standard German is "ch". "sh" is the way many lower class Germans of turkish descent speak and also lower class Germans in the region around South Hesse and in south Hessian dialect. And this is by far the most ugly dialect in Germany ...
This is probably going too in-depth for most: Langenscheidt's dictionary says there are two ways of pronouncing "ch", depending on the vowel before. 'Ich' and 'euch' use a palatal fricative (which is what you describe), 'acht' and 'noch' use a velar fricative. Also, words ending in "g" are typically pronounced with a palatal fricative. I admit that this does not take dialect into account.
The song is from - Herbert Dentler - Heut lassen wir die Affen wieder raus - means today we lets get the monkeys out - free....means to get near the frontiers of good behave....this is a carnevalsong i think from cologne. Alk, flirt, dance, sing
@345goob in High German it is pronounced exactly the way she explains it. There are some German dialects where you pronounce it differently but as a foreigner you'll sound rather stupid if you try to speak with a German dialect. Just learn it the right way
saying a love you rarely in Germany because they say it when it actually means something is exactly the same in Denmark which is just above, it is very personal to say i love you which is why we don't toss it around like anything :)
Instead of "yes", I found a lot of sources using "hue" or "huge" instead, which may be a bit more closer? Hahah, but I know about the "ish" thing, tons of people in my German class say it and I'm like *eye twitch* and try to ignore it.
Actually, there are many different ways of saying ''ich'' and all those ways are correct it just depends on what country u come from that speaks german like die schweiz und Österreich have different ways of saying it than Deutschland does.
in germany, mostly teenagers say hdl thats hab dich lieb. on the phone, text or to say goodbye. they just stop when they grow up because you dont love all this people :)
DUDE I HATE "ISCH" also. I couldn't STAND that shit. If you hear Allemanisch, they even pronounce "was?" as "wasch?" sometimes. It was out of control. I found it to be worst in the places closest to France.
The allemannic language is even a "language problem" throughout Germany. I speak a very broad allemannic dialect. In northern Germany people have difficutlies to understand my dialect even if I try to speak High German. When they try to imitate it they always mix up "s" and "sch". This leads to ridiculous results.
@teabagfairy well high german or "hochdeutsch" is the actual "normal" german language. especially in contrast to austrian german or switzerlands german which is more... let's say provincial
High German is standard German(Hochdeutsch)."Hoch" can mean standard in German,not only high.
Upper German is the group of dialects spoken in southern Germany. Upper because it is a mountaineous area.
Central German is the group of dialects spoken in central Germany,. Standard German was created from these dialects.
Low German is nearly extinct because the north of Germany is not so conservative than the south. So the dialect had nearly died out. It is not unlike English.
Es gibt im deutschen auch nur ein Wort für: There are even a German word for: Girlfriend And female friend abhängig von der Formulierung: depending on the wording: A FREUNDIN of mine (female friend) My FREUNDIN (Girlfriend) ……………………………………………………… Five stars from Germany*****
Yes, i guess your right, but...this is also a culture difference in germany too.
I live in the north, and i say "I liebe dich", when i mean it. But sometimes in southern regions they say "Ich habe dich lieb" in the same meaning...so the southerns are obiviously bitches...no it could be just a difference in culture ;.).
messengerangle, who are you? it was so nice to see your videos. you talk about german and culture and you did it in a way i liked very much no german could do it like you...i t was funny and also very entertaining....i hope you will make more of this videos....greetings from a german fan...
For the "hard" th sound, place the tip of your tongue under your front teeth and barely past the front teeth and breathe out. That's pretty much it. Do that and stop and go "ink." Then that sound faster and "ink." Faster and faster and soon you'll be saying "think."
The soft th sound is the same tongue position, except you simply make a humming sound. Just connect that humming sound to "at" and you'll be saying "that." I know, English has fallen far from its Germanic roots.
I watched a lot of videos to get to know how other countries see us germans... I like your explanation because you're saying things that I wasn't aware of. It's true that we do not say "i love you" very often. But when we say it it is from the heart - like you say it.
Thanks a lot and "Ich liebe Deine Videos" (ich habe sie nicht nur lieb)!
i strongly dislike the ISCH for two reasons. the first reason is that it sounds absolutely terrible. the second reason is, whenever someone says it, they usually say "mach disch kaputt alter" right after it.
awww thats so sweet, but its right after all. germans dont like to say it, at least talking about "ich liebe dich". "ich hab dich lieb" is more common, my sister uses to kinda yell it at her friends whenever the say goodbye on the phone or whereever. most teenies use to end their messsages with "hdl", meaning "hab dich lieb" btw, so its not rarely used at all.
were not heartless, and the reason we started ww2 was to spread love over the world... lol no, doesnt make sense, sorry xD
dein Video ist sehr interessant... danke!!! :), aber ist es wirklich wahr? wow.... ich wusste es nicht.... auch wenn der Vaters Liebe für den Sohn so groß wäre??
Thats so true. Americans do throw around the words i love you... Those words have became so meaningless and empty. When i realized this i quit saying that to my boyfriends, those words seem bad to me. Just cuz all my relationship experiances in the past.
haha.. funny that americans have problems with the ch...
but one tip... if u do not get the roight sound, pls prefer the "ik" bevore the "isch". coz the "isch" sound is only sad by... how do i put it... not good educated ppl
i really wish i would have learned that u dont tell a close friend ich liebe dich because i have a german friend and i told him that and he took it in a verry romantic way :')
ich hab euch alle lieeeeb:D so i´ve said it we arn´t loveless <3 xDD
no ok you´re right but it´s not as rare as you describe you say it to you´re reeealy good friend but you´re right you don´t say it to everyone but that ok i think so it´s something special
when i was in school they told me there is different ways of pronunciating ich... isn't also ich? in some part of germany like the south or something?? have you noticed how rammstein says ICH instead of igh?? like ich will... or meich also... ich liebe dich... do rammstein guys exagerate the accent??
song sucks. it sounds like something a very old person would listen to but to each his/her own. there are different pronunciations for "ch" but you did specify at the beginning when you were using the "ch".
This series is so helpful! I'm just starting to study German and I've been looking for a source for these little bits of culture that you can't get in books. Thank you!
HA! Caught you! You poser!! You were so full of yourself that you actually used the awful "SH" sounds. You said "Ish liebe dish" and "Ish hab' dish lieb". It starts at 4:50. .....CAUGHT! (Stick to your american version of English, girlie.)
This is by far the most useful, and FUN video I've ever watched! I do want to study German properly [I only know a few words and terms...], but until then, I think I'm going to subscribe. :D
youre kinda right about how we rarely say "i love you" in germany. "ich liebe dich" is almost equal to "i want to be with you". "ich hab dich lieb" is more often used, but in a shortened fashion: "hab dich lieb". but even that is still is only not used unless the two parties involved are partners or family.
Can someone PLEASE tell me the name of the song at the beginning, or at least some of the lyrics so I can look it up? That song is stuck in my head, but I don't understand what is being said and the only way to get songs out of my head are to listen to them until I hate it... for a while at least :-) PLEASE help me out here!
maybe germans hardly ever say "ich liebe dich", because they´re less superficial than americans and if they have friends it´s understood that they like eachother. anyway i would have said it to you if i´d met you overhere.
:( I want my kids to grow up in germany but I doubt everytime I think about doing something like that I always picture that I'm going to be like one of those foreign mother's in the United States who speaks broken english. only I will be speaking broken german and my kids will have to speak for me to other natives T.T or I will end up trying to teach them german at a young age and I'll teach them the wrong way to say something :( lol thats why I'm learning german
An easier way to explain how to pronounce the "ch" sound is with English words like "human," "huge," and "hue." The beginnings of those words are the voiceless palatal fricative (like in ich) even when they're not whispered. Great video!
well...actually, germans (especially teenagers), say "ich hab dich lieb" or "hab dich lieb" often to their friends...ok, mostly, they write it when they are chatting and they want to say good bye...then you write "hab dich lieb" or the shortcut "hdl"...oh, and theres another way..."(ich) lieb' dich" it's the same as "ich hab dich lieb", the shortcut is "(i)ld". but watch out, its important that its only "lieb' " not "liebe" cause as you mentioned, saying "ich liebe dich" is very romantic.
This sound is easy to pronounce in greek language it's simply an greek ι plus a greek χ ;-) I'm not surprised that germans say I love you only between two lovers or a husband and wife, or a mother and a child, it's the same for us greeks. You don't say "I love you" in daily language, but when you are serious only, (usually to your lover or a family relative).
Dein Deutsch ist fast perfekt ...Eine Sache die du aber noch verbessern kannst ist: "Ich >hab'< dich lieb" . Du könntest versuchen das "a" kürzer und härter auszusprechen also das "hab" ungefähr wie "happ" aussprechen. Denn Deutsch ist eben eine harte und abgehackte sprache.
but its not completely right what you say: "Ich liebE dich" is just used in a romantic way. But especially girls from 12 to 16 or so say "Ich lieb dich" to each other (if theyre really good friends). By leaving away the "e" it give the sentence a more colloquial sense. But there are, of course, other ways to express your feelings: "Ich hab dich gern" "Ich mag dich" "Du bist mir sympathisch" are just some of them. If you pay attention, you will hear them more frequent I think :)
never really thought about it..but yeah, you're right with "i love you"! but for example girls often write ich hab dich lieb in emails or say it on the phone.. i often write "lieb dich" to my close friends
lol when i was first learning german i said ich liebe dich alot because i thought it meant the same as ich hab' dich lieb but my friend corrected me and i felt dumb glad you told me that because i tell me friends i love them all the time
Very helpful! Danke schoen!
amcauley26629 1 week ago
Bums Mich ;)
1mmAf1uffyPandA 1 week ago
I found out a rule, when I thought about this. When the "CH" comes after an "A" "O" or "U", the sound is more similar to the guttural r, or the russian ch sound, more harsh. It is only the soft way (like in hhhhuge), if it is after an "I" or "E". The "CH" is hardly ever before a vowel
gurkenhamster 2 weeks ago
good video!!
but i´m german and have to mention that we do say ich hab dich lieb often.... maybe you´ve just been with the wrong people... :)
bettyko517 1 month ago
A tip to everybody who can't pronounce "ch", just come to Austria or Switzerland: "Ich" = "I" and "dich" = "di". We're rednecks though...
BleakVision 1 month ago
Asoziale sagen doch immer Isch
DarkYoshi9999vr 1 month ago
wats the song name pleeeeeeeeeeeease?
BORATITSNIIICE 1 month ago
Fich dich!
BradySayre 1 month ago
@BradySayre *fick
hxcscreamcore 1 month ago
Isn't ich- ish ech- ek- ach- ahk- and och-ahk too right? Correct me if I am wrong..
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this was really helpful, i like how u talk about how the words are used in the culture and talk about ur experiences hearing the words being used. i learned a lot from that ^^
Narutogrl 2 months ago
Ich bin deutsch und gucke mir deine Videos trotzdem an :D
KISSleMUWI 2 months ago
Is it the same in Austria and Switzerland?
Also, I was watching hair spray and the subtitles (in german, duh!) said "Ich lieb' dich, Baltimore" for " I love you, Baltimore". So do Germans say "I love Germany" as "Ich liebe Deutschland" or how do they say stuff like " I love this brand" or "I love this movie" etc. Or is it like in Spanish where they use "gusta" or "encanta" instead of "amo"
Christiangjf 2 months ago
@Christiangjf
I think it is because of the syllables. the german lyrics are supposed to fit the song.
i love you baltimore = 6 syllables ---> ich lieb' dich, baltimore = also 6
ich LIE-BE dich Baltimore =7syllables wouldn't sound good.
sometimes teenagers say "ich stehe auf..." instead of "ich liebe..."
for example "I love this band" => ich steh' auf diese Band"
TheButterflyatNight 1 month ago
ich bin aus deutschland und ich muss sage der weg der erklaerung gefaellt mir sehr gut :)
dxXHornyXxb 2 months ago
really well put together lesson! thanks!
Discreetarcher3 2 months ago
Can someone write the songtext plz :) danke!
TheAlpharabbit 2 months ago
@TheAlpharabbit heut' lassen wir die affen wieder raus, affen wieder raus, affen wieder raus
TheMaidenFan96 1 month ago
It sounds a little "r", right? Like in portuguese, and spanish. I've heard people saying "irch", with the "ch" sound in the end, that the girl on the video hates. Is this right?
Gustavomazu 2 months ago
danke!!! :))
YtzikTV 2 months ago
I'm from Germany =)
TheMausissi 3 months ago
Ah, lots and LOTS of germans say Ich as Ish.
azerskater 3 months ago
Wow, Ich bin beeindruckt, ich hab' noch nie einen Amerikaner/eine Amerikanerin soooo gut deutsch sprechen hören. Vor allem das "ch" ist perfekt.
EGSC1 3 months ago
Nice lesson. Your German is very good, better than that of the Germans in Frankfurt (just to allude to this awful -sh- ) ...
Indeed we have a thousand words for "I love you", so love should be something even we know. But we don't use those words to create a good feeling just for the moment, but to express our real feelings. So when a (northern) German tells you "ich mag dich" (I like you), be prepared for a hug and real friendship. ;-)
Bonedalas 3 months ago
thks for this videos they're really usefull, and i hope you still 're like in this videos, you're gorgeous ;D
shorisae 4 months ago
My German teacher taught everyone to say ish... I WAS SO ANNOYED!! and then also they were trying to say "Ich heisse Barbara" but it came out as "Ich scheisse Barbara"....
Kat10652 4 months ago
god stfu you pronounce it wrong you hypocrite
zliveris12345 5 months ago
You should really learn proper english first- Believe it or not, but Pronunciation is pronounced exactly as it is written, not pro-NOUN-ciation :O ... Just saying :/
Cedricfollyman 5 months ago
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Cedricfollyman 5 months ago
Dummerweise spricht heute kaum noch jemand hochdeutsch...
Man fällt also auf wenn man so gut spricht ;)))
TimmeBoyyy 5 months ago
Wow, fluent in German and gorgeous...awesome.
liquilite1 5 months ago
Knowing how to say "I love you" in different languages won't get you laid.
KuKlutsKat 6 months ago
Learn to speak English before you teach people German. Pro - NUN - ciation not Pro- NOUN- ciation.
dmps000111 6 months ago
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andrewMLhero 5 months ago
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@dmps000111 Why would one need to learn to speak English before understanding German? It's easier to learn a new language than to break old habits of pronunciation, fool.
andrewMLhero 5 months ago
what ever dutch is cooler than german
Macaframa1 6 months ago
@Macaframa1 well i think everyone likes his own language more than another for me as a german the dutch language sounds like a retarded version of german + english xD but i know that you dutch guys think the same of german xD
SuperCommandoman 6 months ago
@SuperCommandoman: For me as a northern German Dutch sounds more than my language than Bavarian. At least I am able to ask for a gas station in the Netherlands and understand the answers. :D
Bonedalas 3 months ago
Die Musik klingt wie Heino. Also das ist ganz furchtbar.
Die Amerikaner denken sonst alle noch, wir alle hören diese Musik immer.
Das stimmt nicht. Heino ist zum Abgewöhnen.
Elimgarak32 6 months ago
Ick lieb dir:) Ick mag dir:)Ick hab da lieb du kleene schnuffe:)--mal paar beispielchen für dich...by the way...your 'yes' sounds passionate..nice regards from berlin-lichtenberg
SadoMatze 6 months ago
oh gott die musik ist peinlich xD your "ch" explain is very good, and you are very cute - to you i would say "ich hab dich lieb" :)
Anjachen 6 months ago
Danke :)
bajanteen212 7 months ago
I love your videos y me encanta tu pronunciación. tschüss.
P.D.
Las canciones de inicio (opening) son muy simpáticas
:-)
RENATOMARTINEZNOPALA 7 months ago
so cute.
brianspost75 7 months ago
so cool ^^
sweetyla 7 months ago
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are you from america?
your german sounds prettey good
IchMagEsel 7 months ago
@ 1:25 you remind me my English professor. haha But he made me feel comfortable at learning English ! :D
alexanderssson 7 months ago
"Ichhh", I say that he he he
alexanderssson 7 months ago
is ach in german like ock in america
futbolkid1995 7 months ago
So, I've been on a "German video binge" lately, looking up grammar mechanics and whatnot, and I came across this video. I say this because I am posting on a video that is nearly four years old. Anyway, I've heard plenty of Germans (most notably vocalists for German bands) use the "sh" pronunciation for the majority of their "ch"-ending words (like "ich" and "dich" and "mich"). Are they wrong? Is it a geographical thing? Is it just a weird dialect? I myself go back and forth between "sh" and "ch"
NenshouHinote 8 months ago
@NenshouHinote They are wrong. It's pidgin german, deriving from 1/2. generation immigrants.
Baerenmarke3000 7 months ago
@Baerenmarke3000 Is it? I myself have never heard of pidgin German, but probably because any professors I've had never bothered to inform me of its existence. But nonetheless, it has seemed to become a part of German dialect and will stay that way.
NenshouHinote 7 months ago
@NenshouHinote: Yes, it's wrong. Standard German is "ch". "sh" is the way many lower class Germans of turkish descent speak and also lower class Germans in the region around South Hesse and in south Hessian dialect. And this is by far the most ugly dialect in Germany ...
Bonedalas 3 months ago
Is this bitch German?
LiNaK37 8 months ago
I wish you would've kept making these.
colafroggy 8 months ago
@ 1:33 Funny enough my Bavarian companion always pronounces "ich" like "isch".
it's kind of a Schwabian/Lower Rhineland dialect.
orangehollander 8 months ago
When she started saying "yes"
Hottest lesson.....EVER
EonFigure 8 months ago 31
This is probably going too in-depth for most: Langenscheidt's dictionary says there are two ways of pronouncing "ch", depending on the vowel before. 'Ich' and 'euch' use a palatal fricative (which is what you describe), 'acht' and 'noch' use a velar fricative. Also, words ending in "g" are typically pronounced with a palatal fricative. I admit that this does not take dialect into account.
karlkid333 8 months ago
Lass krachen, Amigo, lass krachen......
Nalauko92 9 months ago
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your cute and ur german is very good. Did you that English and German can be so similar? check out my 5th lesson to find out. thxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ps: I love u 2 :-)
OnlineSchoolBerlin 9 months ago
The song is from - Herbert Dentler - Heut lassen wir die Affen wieder raus - means today we lets get the monkeys out - free....means to get near the frontiers of good behave....this is a carnevalsong i think from cologne. Alk, flirt, dance, sing
sundance069 9 months ago
1:52 - 1:55
hehehee
DeltaLimaNiner 9 months ago
who says yes hhehhhyesss
reakinhavoc 9 months ago
it dosen't matter how you say ich, people say it differently in different parts of germany. your from america you shouldn't have petpees about that.
345goob 9 months ago
@345goob in High German it is pronounced exactly the way she explains it. There are some German dialects where you pronounce it differently but as a foreigner you'll sound rather stupid if you try to speak with a German dialect. Just learn it the right way
victorandpaula 9 months ago
oh yes... oh yes.. yesssss
deviousx 10 months ago
saying a love you rarely in Germany because they say it when it actually means something is exactly the same in Denmark which is just above, it is very personal to say i love you which is why we don't toss it around like anything :)
copymizer 10 months ago
sehr schön aufgebautes Video! :) Schön, dass hier doch einige Deutsch lernen.... :) :)
Best wishes!
EsIndia1 10 months ago
whats the song at the beginning?
LizzieDiamond 10 months ago
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, can you tell me the name of the music in the begining?
It's so cute! ahah :3
LizzieDiamond 10 months ago
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LizzieDiamond 10 months ago
Du bist schön
GianlucaLucchesi 10 months ago
u r lovely!
guesswho8244 11 months ago
Instead of "yes", I found a lot of sources using "hue" or "huge" instead, which may be a bit more closer? Hahah, but I know about the "ish" thing, tons of people in my German class say it and I'm like *eye twitch* and try to ignore it.
diomonddragon 11 months ago
looks like a orgasm to me
Draguinclan 11 months ago
ich kan besser deutsch(= mama mach mir was zu essen
MrWealcorn 11 months ago
@MrWealcorn Das wage ich zu bezweifeln. XD
OLee82 10 months ago
ich kan besser deutsch(=
MrWealcorn 11 months ago
Did we ever discover what the name of that song is at the beginning?
djfeas001 1 year ago
If a guy came up to me and said "i love you" I'd punch him.
SuperGermany77 1 year ago
Actually, there are many different ways of saying ''ich'' and all those ways are correct it just depends on what country u come from that speaks german like die schweiz und Österreich have different ways of saying it than Deutschland does.
XoBbXo 1 year ago
in germany, mostly teenagers say hdl thats hab dich lieb. on the phone, text or to say goodbye. they just stop when they grow up because you dont love all this people :)
iwetta2006 1 year ago 6
DUDE I HATE "ISCH" also. I couldn't STAND that shit. If you hear Allemanisch, they even pronounce "was?" as "wasch?" sometimes. It was out of control. I found it to be worst in the places closest to France.
horriehomepage 1 year ago
@horriehomepage
The allemannic language is even a "language problem" throughout Germany. I speak a very broad allemannic dialect. In northern Germany people have difficutlies to understand my dialect even if I try to speak High German. When they try to imitate it they always mix up "s" and "sch". This leads to ridiculous results.
aloisbembel 1 year ago
@aloisbembel whats high german? is there a low german too like slang?
teabagfairy 1 year ago
@teabagfairy
No, but there are many dialects which can differ from village to village
aloisbembel 1 year ago
@teabagfairy well high german or "hochdeutsch" is the actual "normal" german language. especially in contrast to austrian german or switzerlands german which is more... let's say provincial
morbionicle 11 months ago
@teabagfairy
High German is standard German(Hochdeutsch)."Hoch" can mean standard in German,not only high.
Upper German is the group of dialects spoken in southern Germany. Upper because it is a mountaineous area.
Central German is the group of dialects spoken in central Germany,. Standard German was created from these dialects.
Low German is nearly extinct because the north of Germany is not so conservative than the south. So the dialect had nearly died out. It is not unlike English.
TheMichasama 10 months ago
My pet peeve is dumb white people pronouncing "さよなら", all dumb and white. :D
werbnnerf 1 year ago
saschattt 1 year ago
Yes, i guess your right, but...this is also a culture difference in germany too.
I live in the north, and i say "I liebe dich", when i mean it. But sometimes in southern regions they say "Ich habe dich lieb" in the same meaning...so the southerns are obiviously bitches...no it could be just a difference in culture ;.).
ga8866 1 year ago
messengerangle, who are you? it was so nice to see your videos. you talk about german and culture and you did it in a way i liked very much no german could do it like you...i t was funny and also very entertaining....i hope you will make more of this videos....greetings from a german fan...
ah i forgot...
ich hab dich lieb..........
Andreas from Dortmund
Andigl1 1 year ago 20
So dich isn't very hard, eh?
jibern 1 year ago
So try to speak the south-west-german and swiss "Chuchichäschtli"
After that you have to go to a tongue doctor
aloisbembel 1 year ago
hello, im german...
and i have problems to pronunce "th" ...like in think, oder month....
i know i have to do this sound with my tongue, but it sounds like a speech defect :-D
could u do a short video for correct pronouncing "th"? would be great!
....u re right germans dont say "ich liebe dich" very often, but we love thinks very often!
like "ich liebe cheeseburger" or "ich liebe schokolade" ... :-)
videos22333 1 year ago
@videos22333
For the "hard" th sound, place the tip of your tongue under your front teeth and barely past the front teeth and breathe out. That's pretty much it. Do that and stop and go "ink." Then that sound faster and "ink." Faster and faster and soon you'll be saying "think."
The soft th sound is the same tongue position, except you simply make a humming sound. Just connect that humming sound to "at" and you'll be saying "that." I know, English has fallen far from its Germanic roots.
timmy334 1 year ago
I watched a lot of videos to get to know how other countries see us germans... I like your explanation because you're saying things that I wasn't aware of. It's true that we do not say "i love you" very often. But when we say it it is from the heart - like you say it.
Thanks a lot and "Ich liebe Deine Videos" (ich habe sie nicht nur lieb)!
nullpunktable 1 year ago
good video. You're a good teacher really. Muy bueno
tefimn3 1 year ago
i strongly dislike the ISCH for two reasons. the first reason is that it sounds absolutely terrible. the second reason is, whenever someone says it, they usually say "mach disch kaputt alter" right after it.
SchwarzerMannn 1 year ago
@SchwarzerMannn
people can say [eng: eck]. [eng:esh, nesh] sounds like people in the short bus.
pteppig 1 year ago
awww thats so sweet, but its right after all. germans dont like to say it, at least talking about "ich liebe dich". "ich hab dich lieb" is more common, my sister uses to kinda yell it at her friends whenever the say goodbye on the phone or whereever. most teenies use to end their messsages with "hdl", meaning "hab dich lieb" btw, so its not rarely used at all.
were not heartless, and the reason we started ww2 was to spread love over the world... lol no, doesnt make sense, sorry xD
xlaym 1 year ago
dein Video ist sehr interessant... danke!!! :), aber ist es wirklich wahr? wow.... ich wusste es nicht.... auch wenn der Vaters Liebe für den Sohn so groß wäre??
derblauereiter92 1 year ago
Thats so true. Americans do throw around the words i love you... Those words have became so meaningless and empty. When i realized this i quit saying that to my boyfriends, those words seem bad to me. Just cuz all my relationship experiances in the past.
Ritaofhearts 1 year ago
Das stimmt soweit.Wir fragen auch nur wie es einem geht, wenn wir eine ehrliche antwort wollen :D
Nighthawkzone2 1 year ago
its very erotic...
AwengerHUN 1 year ago
The Germans are always serious even for their romantic life.
unixnewb87 1 year ago
whats the song?
Soad199Rs 1 year ago
haha.. funny that americans have problems with the ch...
but one tip... if u do not get the roight sound, pls prefer the "ik" bevore the "isch". coz the "isch" sound is only sad by... how do i put it... not good educated ppl
Marlurxia 1 year ago
i really wish i would have learned that u dont tell a close friend ich liebe dich because i have a german friend and i told him that and he took it in a verry romantic way :')
XxalexisnighmarexX 1 year ago
ich hab euch alle lieeeeb:D so i´ve said it we arn´t loveless <3 xDD
no ok you´re right but it´s not as rare as you describe you say it to you´re reeealy good friend but you´re right you don´t say it to everyone but that ok i think so it´s something special
MaryCrazy1993 1 year ago
when i was in school they told me there is different ways of pronunciating ich... isn't also ich? in some part of germany like the south or something?? have you noticed how rammstein says ICH instead of igh?? like ich will... or meich also... ich liebe dich... do rammstein guys exagerate the accent??
alahad 1 year ago
whats the name of this song at the beginning? i really want to know
djclue2001 1 year ago
Te amo
jamesbulldogmiller 1 year ago
@jamesbulldogmiller jajajajaja te pasas
alahad 1 year ago
Gute Aussprache :)
FunnyPhantom13 1 year ago
song sucks. it sounds like something a very old person would listen to but to each his/her own. there are different pronunciations for "ch" but you did specify at the beginning when you were using the "ch".
j77walker 1 year ago
the song is really awful,
pls get some better german songs for this :D
IQdecline 1 year ago
This series is so helpful! I'm just starting to study German and I've been looking for a source for these little bits of culture that you can't get in books. Thank you!
MrRegular 1 year ago
ooohhh mein gott was is das fürn lied am anfang Oo
Solpluria 1 year ago
whats that song at the beginning, i would like to know.
djclue2001 1 year ago 11
@djclue2001
sounds like a typical carneval song. according to google its: Herbert Dentler - Heut' Lassen Wir Die Affen Wieder Raus
pteppig 1 year ago
Lived in Germany for six whole months, huh? Wow. Well, I guess you're a German speaking expert in your own mind now.
vin332010z 1 year ago
HA! Caught you! You poser!! You were so full of yourself that you actually used the awful "SH" sounds. You said "Ish liebe dish" and "Ish hab' dish lieb". It starts at 4:50. .....CAUGHT! (Stick to your american version of English, girlie.)
vin332010z 1 year ago
@vin332010z I cannot head this. It sounds like a perfectly normal pronounciation of the German "ch". (I am German)
wdrtg 1 year ago
@wdrtg No mein freund...she messed up. (You must scrutinize anyone who claims to be the knowledgable source for anything.) ;-)
vin332010z 1 year ago
@wdrtg (Ich hab' zehn jahren in Deutschland gewohnen.)
vin332010z 1 year ago
well there is a saying like you say 'love you' all the time.
a lot of people.. like 99% girls say "lieb dich" just without ich and liebE ^^
but in normal situations youre right i guess :D
Aiphares 1 year ago
This is by far the most useful, and FUN video I've ever watched! I do want to study German properly [I only know a few words and terms...], but until then, I think I'm going to subscribe. :D
Slithera 1 year ago
That does it, I'm subbing
DemitriousMercury 1 year ago
youre kinda right about how we rarely say "i love you" in germany. "ich liebe dich" is almost equal to "i want to be with you". "ich hab dich lieb" is more often used, but in a shortened fashion: "hab dich lieb". but even that is still is only not used unless the two parties involved are partners or family.
BenBenjiro 1 year ago
such a beautiful language LMFAO.
ti amo <---that doesnt sound more beautiful, does it? lmao italy :)
MikeWoohoo 1 year ago
Can someone PLEASE tell me the name of the song at the beginning, or at least some of the lyrics so I can look it up? That song is stuck in my head, but I don't understand what is being said and the only way to get songs out of my head are to listen to them until I hate it... for a while at least :-) PLEASE help me out here!
timmy334 1 year ago
@timmy334 "Heut' lassen wir die Affen wieder raus, ..., heut' toben wir uns einmal richtig aus, nehmen einen Affen mit nach Haus'"
wneramt 1 year ago
@wneramt Danke!
timmy334 1 year ago
maybe germans hardly ever say "ich liebe dich", because they´re less superficial than americans and if they have friends it´s understood that they like eachother. anyway i would have said it to you if i´d met you overhere.
AlteLiebeHSV1896 1 year ago
:( I want my kids to grow up in germany but I doubt everytime I think about doing something like that I always picture that I'm going to be like one of those foreign mother's in the United States who speaks broken english. only I will be speaking broken german and my kids will have to speak for me to other natives T.T or I will end up trying to teach them german at a young age and I'll teach them the wrong way to say something :( lol thats why I'm learning german
bryantherandom 1 year ago
german at first was hard for me.. but i got the hang of it!!
but i am not fluent :(
musicgirl999 1 year ago
Oh we say it often. :) But mostly, we say "ich hab dich lieb", thats right. ;) its a "i love your" for friends. :)
struppiejonas 1 year ago
You're SUPER *_____* I CAN MAKE IT NOW!
KeithaLePale 1 year ago
An easier way to explain how to pronounce the "ch" sound is with English words like "human," "huge," and "hue." The beginnings of those words are the voiceless palatal fricative (like in ich) even when they're not whispered. Great video!
JonathanSharman 1 year ago
well...actually, germans (especially teenagers), say "ich hab dich lieb" or "hab dich lieb" often to their friends...ok, mostly, they write it when they are chatting and they want to say good bye...then you write "hab dich lieb" or the shortcut "hdl"...oh, and theres another way..."(ich) lieb' dich" it's the same as "ich hab dich lieb", the shortcut is "(i)ld". but watch out, its important that its only "lieb' " not "liebe" cause as you mentioned, saying "ich liebe dich" is very romantic.
MsSunnySnow 1 year ago
you're too cuteeee
6revol6ution6 1 year ago
wir haben auch das harte "ch" wie in "charakter", "chor" und ähnlichem
kaschmich 1 year ago
This sound is easy to pronounce in greek language it's simply an greek ι plus a greek χ ;-) I'm not surprised that germans say I love you only between two lovers or a husband and wife, or a mother and a child, it's the same for us greeks. You don't say "I love you" in daily language, but when you are serious only, (usually to your lover or a family relative).
hrbear 1 year ago
@hrbear I wish it were still that way in english because its completely lost its meaning
TheByzantineEmo 1 year ago
urm im not american:..
but thanks:D
barrymgirl03 1 year ago
Its cute how she says its not that hard to do....right.
HerrGrusy 1 year ago
you're so beautiful!!
MysteryAmMontag 1 year ago
Dein Deutsch ist fast perfekt ...Eine Sache die du aber noch verbessern kannst ist: "Ich >hab'< dich lieb" . Du könntest versuchen das "a" kürzer und härter auszusprechen also das "hab" ungefähr wie "happ" aussprechen. Denn Deutsch ist eben eine harte und abgehackte sprache.
kaelkorn 1 year ago
Haha! I know! what MrDontuo said is really funny!!!
diegocool20 1 year ago
how do you say sorry?
stinsoncr59 1 year ago
@stinsoncr59 Entschuldigung!
kaelkorn 1 year ago
@kaelkorn left, right, please, thank you, sit, bed, food
stinsoncr59 1 year ago
@stinsoncr59 links, rechts,bitte,danke,sitzen,bett,essen if u mean that^^
kaelkorn 1 year ago
@stinsoncr59 if you are right or you take a right?
stinsoncr59 1 year ago
isch liebe disch
BONEZ128100 1 year ago
Instead of the word "yes" to explain the "ch", I would have used the "h" sound in the word huge.
murfmeef 1 year ago
great video :)
but its not completely right what you say: "Ich liebE dich" is just used in a romantic way. But especially girls from 12 to 16 or so say "Ich lieb dich" to each other (if theyre really good friends). By leaving away the "e" it give the sentence a more colloquial sense. But there are, of course, other ways to express your feelings: "Ich hab dich gern" "Ich mag dich" "Du bist mir sympathisch" are just some of them. If you pay attention, you will hear them more frequent I think :)
ProfMoe 1 year ago
also germans say "isch"... and I hate that too... There is a reason why we do not write it isch.... ehmm.... just wanted to say that...
Mach weiter so, klingt schon ziemlich gut^^
Arnemann90 1 year ago
Ich liebe dich,ich denke sie eine sirene sind.
SheriFvFx 1 year ago
Now THAT's an explanation of the sound CH. I just saw a video with the same content made by a german person and she did it completely wrong.
BUT ... you forgot that the ch-sound is different depending on which vowel preceeds it. The ch after i and e sound different that after a, o and u.
Oh ... and ... the version "isch" (ish) of "ich" is just a form of dialect. It can be heard especially in the Rhineland ... wo isch herkomme ;-)
TheHeir23 1 year ago
Dude you are fuckin smart! that exercise you showed us is absolutely helpful and effective. I don't know how you thought of it!
lesterdiamond5 1 year ago
never really thought about it..but yeah, you're right with "i love you"! but for example girls often write ich hab dich lieb in emails or say it on the phone.. i often write "lieb dich" to my close friends
thejukebox705 1 year ago
I love you. Wanna marry me!
celsoalvizi 1 year ago
sauber!!!! Sehr gute Erklärung!!
Todesomen 1 year ago
really helped :)
9898twilight 1 year ago
OMG you are amazing! Thank you so much for this.
paulibonjovi 1 year ago
Wow hochdeutsch (german) has a very different pronunciation compared to Swiss...
Darkwolve123 1 year ago
Reallly? Cause my german friend says it to me all the time...? ahahaha
oreobubba 1 year ago
I think i love you
MellonCollieMVidz 1 year ago
That's why nobody told me how to say I love you!
crazyettypuff 1 year ago
lol when i was first learning german i said ich liebe dich alot because i thought it meant the same as ich hab' dich lieb but my friend corrected me and i felt dumb glad you told me that because i tell me friends i love them all the time
codysizemo 1 year ago