The English is the largest language and, I would say, quite an appropriate global lingua franca, as it is essentially old German + old Italian + old French, with a dash of Greek and Scandinavian here and there. If French had conquered the world, beautiful as it is, we'd be speaking just that; French.
I am studying German at school and enjoy but do find the articles hard. Is "de" actually used in German or is it a joke, sorry I don't really understand :D
@cherryandwhitearmy you can use it... especially as a foreign speaker no one will judge you for doing so. still, you better try and learn it properly^^ in the end you might forget everything you have learned about the articles so far ;)
My friends and I thought that we could teach ourselves German...ha. That was a mistake. We ended up with this mutant-freak language that was a bizarre combination of German, Spanish and English, affectionately named "Amerideutch"
Deutsch ist ganz leicht. Ich habe nur zwei Jahren gelernt, und ich spreche gut. Ich habe noch viel zu lernen, doch weiß ich schon viel. Ich habe doch ein bißchen vergessen lol
Well German might be hard because of it's combined pronouns, articles, gender based nouns and other crap but their spelling system is more phonetic than ours.
Our (English) spelling system is a nightmare! We need to reform it but how the hell are we going to do it when English is so wide spread? On who's accent should we based the reformed phonetic spelling on?
It takes foreigners just a few weeks to learn the basic idea of English grammar and the make-up on sentences. While it take months, even years for anyone to understand languages like mandarin, Arabic and Japanese. Anyone who says English is hard...look at the millions who have learnt it easily as their second.
@Warfresco Anyone can learn the basics of any language within a very short time period. That's not how one could determine the difficulty level of a language. Within one hour, I learned several Chinese phrases that would be extremely useful, should I be stranded there; however, I will not be able to effectively communicate. Likewise, my Korean friend spent years studying English, but his pronunciation and vocabulary are limited; he can't communicate well while speaking.
@DaFawky - "the" is a definite article and "a/an" is the indefinite article. The comedian was referring to just the definite article, not the indefinite article.
Im english and im well aware that people find our language easy to learn but that is a good thing in my opinion as millions will have to learn it in the future anyway so why learn a difficult language when you can learn a language that is very common and quite easy.
For native english speakers who think just because the half world is forced to speak that language I'd like to inform you that it is SOOOO FAR from being a difficult language! I've been learning and loving it for years and I also learn german which I may like even more 'cause it is much MORE
logical not just putting words after eachother...but before you claim sg like: english is the hardest langueage to learn, or claiming it has such a big vocabulary
Endlich, ich sehe ein Komediant wo die Sprache difficult findet. Ich bin niederlandisch und muss es lernen, aber es ist sehr schwierig. Hat das Bus ein Schwanz? XD
But that's how you need to face it. Why do things have different sexes?
At last, he says, we need to use 'de'. That's how we Käsekopfen sagen es. But look, we have three things: De, het and een. De/het is difficult, but een is just a.
Dutch isn't easy too, but I think, easier than german.
I highly doubt English is the 'hardest' language ever. It can be difficult for none-native speakers, yes, but isn't that the case for all languages?
English seems like it would be one of the easiest, actually, because we don't really have any masculine or feminine words. Well, okay, we kind of do, but... yeah. We're pretty strict on grammar, though.. Hm..
*gives up*
I'm taking German this year. I'm going to fail. I can feel it. D:
I never thought the German language was difficult in relation to "der" "die" "das". Sure, it's illogical why some things are male and others are female, but after a while the sound of the noun is a good indication. At least Germans will understand you, even if you use a "die" for a "das".
I have a problem with grammar since German is more simplistic. I always end up sounding too wordy and complex.
I understood this guy fine w/o subtitles, but if he spoke slower I wouldn't have a problem.
yeah, as if other languages wouldnt have slangs XD LOL
in the next town, they already laugh and dont understand me cuz of the accent we have in my town, and its just like 20 minutes from here.. come on! German has thausend of different accents, as i was in west germany i ordered with the best and hardest east german accent, and the waitress couldnt understand me AT ALL
belive me, german has LOOOTS slangs and accents too..
Source Duden.de : the german basic vocabulary hast round about 300.000 to 500.000 words, the english 600.000 to 800.000
its true that the english basic vocabulary has more words cuz it has lots of influenz from the romanic vocabulary
but we have "combinated nouns" so combinations of several nouns, wich makes at the end several million word possbilitys. or how would you say "Oberdonaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapätnsmütze" in english?
@GermanDragon91 and i bet you live somewhere (i'm guessing germany) where many people speak english and it's required in school too? A language isn't suppose to be complicated anyway, the idea of giving objects genders is ridiculous. As for your compound words, i do like the flexibility but i'm sure what you said could be translated into english as several different words, you should never have to take a breather mid word.
You CAN'T learn Spanish in under 5 years. Yes, at least you can learn the basics, but it takes more than 5 years to learn to speak on Spanish properly, and of course it takes way more to speak it fluently. And that's when you're a native Spanish and you practise 24/7.
In my case, it took more than 10 years of learning English to speak it fluently and without any shade of accent, but the basics took less than 3 or 4 years.
You talk about slang. English has a slang in constant evolution, and so does any other language. Slang is one of the most difficult things to learn in any language, because it's always renewing itself.
And of course, there are differences between countries, states, cities or whatever. It gets even worse if you think about the different accents, pronunciation, vocabulary... Such a big deal.
@guitarraelectrica You're missing an important piece of info. For an english speaker (or romance speaker) yes chinese is much harder. But it's easier for an english speaker to master spanish rather than a spanish speaker to master english.
I don't think German's that hard to learn. I study both German and French, and find French much harder. Once you grasp the basic rules, it's just learning vocabulary that's the problem.
Best bit of this was definitely about the bus. 'DAS BUUUUUS!' <3
I think Germans a hard language to learn-I have german family,learned it in school, in my spare time, still not fluent. I think its a much more technical language than English, French, and Spanish which are much more easy to pick up if you know one of them. The only way German is easier than English is in the way it uses word combination for more complex words and concepts, like American English does. In the wider scale of things the Slavic languages are probably the toughest.
LOL, you can't just say that german is "definitly hard" .. it surely depends on, who you ask. For example, I speak perfect danish and good english and good persian/farsi. Wouldn't you agree on the fact that it will be easier for me to learn german than for you learning persian?
@NickIranii relatively spoken and compared to english for example: is german harder or easier than that to learn? Of course other people are more talented to learn different languages, but dont you think the effort to learn proper german is bigger than any other language on the european continent (i excluded russian and icelandic(?) now)
@RustyNaiil2 It's easier if your native language is related, such as english (many words are the same and derive from the same place), but it's hard if your native language is something such as Spanish. Virtually it's easier for english speakers to learn german than it is to learn spanish, french, italian (the romantic languages are mostly all from the same family).
@CCody92 Actually, it's about equally easy for an English speaker to learn German or Spanish. First, the grammar in German is very different than English (for one, has gender like Spanish). Second, common roots are often difficult to spot due to large spelling and/or pronunciation differences. Third, English has vastly more Latin roots than your typical Germanic language. Hence, the label (Germanic/Romance) does not answer the equation.
@baigandine Oh.. I was gathering random information I've accumulated from Spanish class and independent German studies..for me personally German was easier because I grew up listening to my family talk in German (although I didn't know/understand it) and Spanish was very difficult for me.. The thing I dislike most about Spanish is learning the gender sensitive pronouns.. German has it too but I guess it just clicks with me better, but anyways thanks for teaching me something during the summer :)
The grammar can be confusing to native English speakers, who often put the predicate and verb at the start of the sentence, whereas German phrases often have the predicate first, then a verb near the end.
eg- The red ball rolled down the hill=English
The ball that was red went down the hill, rolling= German
I love the German language but it can be hard to learn conversational grammar.
I understand Asian Languages are harder because Western Speakers cannot distinguish the subtle vowel sounds.... Russian is the most difficult in the Western languages as I believe it has 6 declensions which I beleieve ends up being 24 articles whereas German has 4 declecsion being 16. However, the German language concatinates words for a meaning that differs more broadly than our English compound words. I believe that German has a more irregular verbs than English.
i want to learn German i know a little cause of my grand father but after the second time of wathcing this i final got it then i laughed and people looked at me -.-
@Jejkan95 LOL ! im not german so relax lmao ! and i used to think that too until i met alot of german people who proved me wrong .. & there is a lot of hilarious *german* people LOL !
@Mannschaft99 Yeah, I'm kinda lucky that I was born in Switzerland (over 60% of the swiss inhabitants do have german as native language). Nice language :)
But anyways, I wish you much look with learning more german.
Being a native spanish speaker I understand the confusion between the articles, because even I think that our articles are often illogical, but the best piece of advice that I can provide for people seeking to learn a new language, especially native English speakers, is that they shouldn't see the Nouns as single words, but as two words, in other words, don't just learn Rock, Auto, or Pflanze. Learn them as Der Rock, Das Auto, and Die Pflanze. It'll save you a lot of headaches.
the three grammatical genders are illogical, but i remember learning french, its the same. you just jave to learn every noun with its gender. then its easy and you dont make mistakes.
@CherishWiseShouting "en" "ett", yea thats right. But we dont have to put thoose words in a sentence when we are talking like you have to with, "Gonna catch the bus". We just say.. gonna sounnd strange in english but, "Gonna catch bus". But I could be wrong also, hehe didnt really pay mutch attention in school.
@BornForkoRn93 Hey, im from oklahoma - I don't speak english correctly. I realize all the time --- If I say tree it sounds like chree, dragon sounds like jragon. It's funny when I realize this stuff because then I think about it every time and try stubbornly to correct myself. I'm just getting into Swedish, btw, i've been reading up on german but i think swedish and finnish sound more pleasant to the ear
@GermanDragon91 lol hearing the voices of german people, it reminds me of Call of Duty, when I hear the Germans yelling to eachother :P It seems like a cool language. Although, seems very hard to learn.
@mushroom313 English people talk this quickly, too. The problem is that, because you speak English, you understand where one word ends and where another begins (there are actually no spaces between spoken words, we only perceive them)... When listening to another language, we can't hear those spaces, and so everything sounds like it runs together, making it sound much faster.
@xxhintoftearsxx so it would be much easier if the native speakers of certain language spoke more slowly so we, the foreigners, can percieve those fucking spaces. lol.....or they could give us a signal when a word ends.
@mushroom313 You havn't seen anything yet. I was at a wedding in bayern this past weekend, and now THOSE people speak fast. Pretty tricky to follow as a Canadian who has lived in Switzerland for the last few years...
Sure, most of 'em do, when they're talking to other German people... or when they've been talking to you for two minutes and forget to speak slowly. Get used to it. :D
I remember being in Germany and being like "is it der?! Is it die?! Das?! What decides this?!" So I just said the article so fast that it didn't matter. Haha.
@rociodesanroque....because the sun is volatile, where as the moon just sort of stands around having to listen to the sun as it spews out a lot of hot gas. The Germans got that one perfect!
I recently enrolled on a German evening course. It's a shame really, because if we had lost the war, we'd all be speaking German anyway and I would have saved a nifty £82. Sometimes history comes back to kick you in the arse, doesn't it?
This comedian hit a very good point. In hebrew we have 2 articles (Masculine and Feminine) so I find it easier than an American native speaker to learn Deutsch but it is still tiresome :)
I love Deutsch and this comedian is extremely funny! I would like to know his name please :)
Sorry Sundered17, but you cannot use "de" as substitute for "der", "die", "das". This is highly colloquial and absolutely not suitable especially in the written language.
Hey can we really just use "de" when speaking? OMG if we can, I'm so going to do that! I fucking hate der, die, das, den, dem... Ugh! But in terms of words in general, German is actually pretty easy to learn. :)
Können wir wirklich nur "de" sagen? Das wär so behilflich!
Haha this video is so funny XD In Spanish there is female and masculine articles and some don't make sense so when i watched this i couldn't stop laughing XD!
I'm learning german, but he talks so fast so I used the subtitles xD
It's not hard to understand the 3 article thing for me, because I know french and they have different for male and female so i know it's not because the object is female or male xD but I understand it would be hard for someone who only knows english for example.
Trying to speak objectively, I think it was appropriate that English became the global lingua franca. It's perhaps the closest thing to a pan-European language, so many different influences. French, for instance, despite the Latin influences etc, is generally just that - French.
The English is the largest language and, I would say, quite an appropriate global lingua franca, as it is essentially old German + old Italian + old French, with a dash of Greek and Scandinavian here and there. If French had conquered the world, beautiful as it is, we'd be speaking just that; French.
tomsega 1 year ago
I am studying German at school and enjoy but do find the articles hard. Is "de" actually used in German or is it a joke, sorry I don't really understand :D
cherryandwhitearmy 1 year ago
@cherryandwhitearmy you can use it... especially as a foreign speaker no one will judge you for doing so. still, you better try and learn it properly^^ in the end you might forget everything you have learned about the articles so far ;)
Fidelisadmortem 1 year ago
This is right on, man, I did it all the time in Germany. HAHAHA. Ich vermisse Deutschland fur Urlaub
edwardwills 1 year ago
My friends and I thought that we could teach ourselves German...ha. That was a mistake. We ended up with this mutant-freak language that was a bizarre combination of German, Spanish and English, affectionately named "Amerideutch"
C3P0meetsData 1 year ago
pfffft
Deutsch ist ganz leicht. Ich habe nur zwei Jahren gelernt, und ich spreche gut. Ich habe noch viel zu lernen, doch weiß ich schon viel. Ich habe doch ein bißchen vergessen lol
Picheta32192 1 year ago
Well German might be hard because of it's combined pronouns, articles, gender based nouns and other crap but their spelling system is more phonetic than ours.
Our (English) spelling system is a nightmare! We need to reform it but how the hell are we going to do it when English is so wide spread? On who's accent should we based the reformed phonetic spelling on?
NeoFalcon69 1 year ago
He is absolutely right. Why does it have to have genders? Would the whole language fall apart if there were only one article like in English?
OrodesIII 1 year ago
It takes foreigners just a few weeks to learn the basic idea of English grammar and the make-up on sentences. While it take months, even years for anyone to understand languages like mandarin, Arabic and Japanese. Anyone who says English is hard...look at the millions who have learnt it easily as their second.
Warfresco 1 year ago
@Warfresco Anyone can learn the basics of any language within a very short time period. That's not how one could determine the difficulty level of a language. Within one hour, I learned several Chinese phrases that would be extremely useful, should I be stranded there; however, I will not be able to effectively communicate. Likewise, my Korean friend spent years studying English, but his pronunciation and vocabulary are limited; he can't communicate well while speaking.
Picheta32192 1 year ago
GermanDragon91, thanks for translation, goddam funny clip.
1sthighkick 1 year ago
funny!!
damadcow 1 year ago
Try to learn Hungarian. :)
lidike82 1 year ago
Where can I find THE full video?
userchiposo 1 year ago
this is a wonderful video cuz i learnd the 3 articles der die das thank you
Coesmic 1 year ago
I feel sympathy for people who are learning English, when they don't know whether to use "a" or "the".
I think he even forgot there was 2 articles.
Sometimes I don't even know why I know something is a "the" or "a/an".
DaFawky 1 year ago
@DaFawky - "the" is a definite article and "a/an" is the indefinite article. The comedian was referring to just the definite article, not the indefinite article.
kman543210 1 year ago
@kman543210 an article is an article.; did he say definite article in german?
DaFawky 1 year ago
Im english and im well aware that people find our language easy to learn but that is a good thing in my opinion as millions will have to learn it in the future anyway so why learn a difficult language when you can learn a language that is very common and quite easy.
mattyreynolds1990 1 year ago
Xedfr ;;tn!!!
exgospodin 1 year ago
I have a question: Do you German people use the "universal article 'de'" or it was just a joke?
guitarraelectrica 1 year ago
@guitarraelectrica That was a joke. Only or mainly the immigrants use it because they don´t know when they have to use ,,der" or ,,die" or ,,das".
FrancisJoa 1 year ago
@FrancisJoa
OK, thanks.
guitarraelectrica 1 year ago
@guitarraelectrica
It was a joke....
tigress63 1 year ago
@guitarraelectrica some people are using it, but normaly younger people.
i am german by the way:D
butterfly8800 1 year ago
For native english speakers who think just because the half world is forced to speak that language I'd like to inform you that it is SOOOO FAR from being a difficult language! I've been learning and loving it for years and I also learn german which I may like even more 'cause it is much MORE
logical not just putting words after eachother...but before you claim sg like: english is the hardest langueage to learn, or claiming it has such a big vocabulary
Viceroy909 1 year ago
@Viceroy909 .please first you shold read about the topic.(Or learn other languages, which I doubt the english ever consider...-.-, before
you judge!!! Just ridiculous. Ever heard of chineese? Or arabic? huh? That vocabulary would never go in your mind sure as hell!
Just look after the topic, I did: Most difficlt languages: Icelandic,Chineese, Arabic, Japaneese, Hungarian, Russian.
Other european languages aren't even close to these!
Viceroy909 1 year ago
People only think german or english or french
is hard cause they have nothing to correlate to!!!! Again I like english and german too
(and I'm hungarian) but foolish statements
made by uneducated * like you make me hit the roof! "English is hardest the language....." You've got to bevery slow then!XD
Learn to respect other languages! (It goes espacially for englis people)
Viceroy909 1 year ago
hey german dragon can you add sub to the other videos of this show?
althganur 1 year ago
Endlich, ich sehe ein Komediant wo die Sprache difficult findet. Ich bin niederlandisch und muss es lernen, aber es ist sehr schwierig. Hat das Bus ein Schwanz? XD
But that's how you need to face it. Why do things have different sexes?
At last, he says, we need to use 'de'. That's how we Käsekopfen sagen es. But look, we have three things: De, het and een. De/het is difficult, but een is just a.
Dutch isn't easy too, but I think, easier than german.
ikdushea 1 year ago
I highly doubt English is the 'hardest' language ever. It can be difficult for none-native speakers, yes, but isn't that the case for all languages?
English seems like it would be one of the easiest, actually, because we don't really have any masculine or feminine words. Well, okay, we kind of do, but... yeah. We're pretty strict on grammar, though.. Hm..
*gives up*
I'm taking German this year. I'm going to fail. I can feel it. D:
It seems so hard to understand. >.<
ToxicMonkies 1 year ago
I never thought the German language was difficult in relation to "der" "die" "das". Sure, it's illogical why some things are male and others are female, but after a while the sound of the noun is a good indication. At least Germans will understand you, even if you use a "die" for a "das".
I have a problem with grammar since German is more simplistic. I always end up sounding too wordy and complex.
I understood this guy fine w/o subtitles, but if he spoke slower I wouldn't have a problem.
lot24 1 year ago
Try learning Finnish...
VonTavast 1 year ago
omg, that's funny... "The bus has a d***?!"
SeraphimPwnsU 1 year ago
English is the hardest to learn out of all the languages.
Because we have so much slang... Lots of it.
Acceptable76 1 year ago
@Acceptable76
yeah, as if other languages wouldnt have slangs XD LOL
in the next town, they already laugh and dont understand me cuz of the accent we have in my town, and its just like 20 minutes from here.. come on! German has thausend of different accents, as i was in west germany i ordered with the best and hardest east german accent, and the waitress couldnt understand me AT ALL
belive me, german has LOOOTS slangs and accents too..
GermanDragon91 1 year ago 7
@GermanDragon91 english has the largest vocabulary of all languages
muzikman182 1 year ago
@muzikman182
Source Duden.de : the german basic vocabulary hast round about 300.000 to 500.000 words, the english 600.000 to 800.000
its true that the english basic vocabulary has more words cuz it has lots of influenz from the romanic vocabulary
but we have "combinated nouns" so combinations of several nouns, wich makes at the end several million word possbilitys. or how would you say "Oberdonaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapätnsmütze" in english?
+ look at me: i learned english. its easy
GermanDragon91 1 year ago
@GermanDragon91 and i bet you live somewhere (i'm guessing germany) where many people speak english and it's required in school too? A language isn't suppose to be complicated anyway, the idea of giving objects genders is ridiculous. As for your compound words, i do like the flexibility but i'm sure what you said could be translated into english as several different words, you should never have to take a breather mid word.
muzikman182 1 year ago
@muzikman182 crap. it is Arabic, duuuuude.
1sthighkick 1 year ago
@GermanDragon91 English has a larger vocabulary
muzikman182 1 year ago
@Acceptable76 Try to learn Chinese. That's WAY harder than English.
I'm Spanish, I've been learning English since I was 4 (I'm 17 now) and the slang isn't such a big deal to me.
By the way, Spanish has WAY more slang than English. That's a REAL fact.
guitarraelectrica 1 year ago
@guitarraelectrica Hah.
My sister learned Spanish in under 5 years.
Acceptable76 1 year ago
@Acceptable76
You CAN'T learn Spanish in under 5 years. Yes, at least you can learn the basics, but it takes more than 5 years to learn to speak on Spanish properly, and of course it takes way more to speak it fluently. And that's when you're a native Spanish and you practise 24/7.
In my case, it took more than 10 years of learning English to speak it fluently and without any shade of accent, but the basics took less than 3 or 4 years.
guitarraelectrica 1 year ago
@Acceptable76
You talk about slang. English has a slang in constant evolution, and so does any other language. Slang is one of the most difficult things to learn in any language, because it's always renewing itself.
And of course, there are differences between countries, states, cities or whatever. It gets even worse if you think about the different accents, pronunciation, vocabulary... Such a big deal.
guitarraelectrica 1 year ago
@guitarraelectrica You're missing an important piece of info. For an english speaker (or romance speaker) yes chinese is much harder. But it's easier for an english speaker to master spanish rather than a spanish speaker to master english.
muzikman182 1 year ago
haha sehr lustig! :D
blkirish85 1 year ago
I don't think German's that hard to learn. I study both German and French, and find French much harder. Once you grasp the basic rules, it's just learning vocabulary that's the problem.
Best bit of this was definitely about the bus. 'DAS BUUUUUS!' <3
anotheranomalie 1 year ago
Is de really acceptable to say when speaking German instead of Der Die or Das?
halas1 1 year ago
Lol so true
IchFresseTitanJa 1 year ago
I think Germans a hard language to learn-I have german family,learned it in school, in my spare time, still not fluent. I think its a much more technical language than English, French, and Spanish which are much more easy to pick up if you know one of them. The only way German is easier than English is in the way it uses word combination for more complex words and concepts, like American English does. In the wider scale of things the Slavic languages are probably the toughest.
gunninlinguist 1 year ago
actually english is the hardest language to learn. proven
bamacrazy1211 1 year ago
@bamacrazy1211 english is not hard
jeder9 1 year ago
hahahahah estoy en nivel intermedio
de aleman
y chubo palabras que no entendia
por su rapidez
habla demasiado rapido!!!!!!
pero es muy comico n.n
TheMamezz 1 year ago
I heard someone saying that german is a easy language there are getting more sense when you speak and write it.
Is it true?
RustyNaiil2 1 year ago
Does someone know if german are a hard or easy language?
RustyNaiil2 1 year ago
@RustyNaiil2 LOL xD definitly hard xD
GermanDragon91 1 year ago 4
@GermanDragon91 Ja, aben Englisch ist amüsant
threedaygracer 1 year ago
@GermanDragon91
LOL, you can't just say that german is "definitly hard" .. it surely depends on, who you ask. For example, I speak perfect danish and good english and good persian/farsi. Wouldn't you agree on the fact that it will be easier for me to learn german than for you learning persian?
NickIranii 1 year ago
@NickIranii relatively spoken and compared to english for example: is german harder or easier than that to learn? Of course other people are more talented to learn different languages, but dont you think the effort to learn proper german is bigger than any other language on the european continent (i excluded russian and icelandic(?) now)
Fidelisadmortem 1 year ago
@RustyNaiil2
I'd say it's pretty easy, at least compared to the others I've studied (Spanish and Italian).
MaiaRikae 1 year ago
@RustyNaiil2 easy...it took me only 12 years to speak it fluently...
anteracmacash 1 year ago
@RustyNaiil2 ...damn HARD ,..!! :(
muziklieben 1 year ago
@RustyNaiil2 yeah its pretty hard but speaking other languages like Spanish make it easier especially at this gender part =P
anrigoan 1 year ago
@anrigoan same for portugueses :)
carlosroberto366 1 year ago
@RustyNaiil2 easy
emofestjazz 1 year ago
@RustyNaiil2 It's easier if your native language is related, such as english (many words are the same and derive from the same place), but it's hard if your native language is something such as Spanish. Virtually it's easier for english speakers to learn german than it is to learn spanish, french, italian (the romantic languages are mostly all from the same family).
CCody92 1 year ago
@CCody92 Actually, it's about equally easy for an English speaker to learn German or Spanish. First, the grammar in German is very different than English (for one, has gender like Spanish). Second, common roots are often difficult to spot due to large spelling and/or pronunciation differences. Third, English has vastly more Latin roots than your typical Germanic language. Hence, the label (Germanic/Romance) does not answer the equation.
baigandine 1 year ago
@baigandine Oh.. I was gathering random information I've accumulated from Spanish class and independent German studies..for me personally German was easier because I grew up listening to my family talk in German (although I didn't know/understand it) and Spanish was very difficult for me.. The thing I dislike most about Spanish is learning the gender sensitive pronouns.. German has it too but I guess it just clicks with me better, but anyways thanks for teaching me something during the summer :)
CCody92 1 year ago
@RustyNaiil2 its hard
jeder9 1 year ago
@RustyNaiil2 nein, it is easy
roberto0709 1 year ago
@RustyNaiil2
The grammar can be confusing to native English speakers, who often put the predicate and verb at the start of the sentence, whereas German phrases often have the predicate first, then a verb near the end.
eg- The red ball rolled down the hill=English
The ball that was red went down the hill, rolling= German
I love the German language but it can be hard to learn conversational grammar.
lot24 1 year ago
@RustyNaiil2
I understand Asian Languages are harder because Western Speakers cannot distinguish the subtle vowel sounds.... Russian is the most difficult in the Western languages as I believe it has 6 declensions which I beleieve ends up being 24 articles whereas German has 4 declecsion being 16. However, the German language concatinates words for a meaning that differs more broadly than our English compound words. I believe that German has a more irregular verbs than English.
tigress63 1 year ago
Deutsche ist schwer Ich hoffe, daß es lernen einige Tag ist es kommen in verwenden, wenn ich bewegen Sie es hoffentlich :)
MrHobbsdog 1 year ago
i want to learn German i know a little cause of my grand father but after the second time of wathcing this i final got it then i laughed and people looked at me -.-
BellRacingTeam93 1 year ago
Germans laughing, now that is a first!
Jejkan95 1 year ago
@Jejkan95 who said germans dont laugh o_O ?
Mannschaft99 1 year ago
@Mannschaft99 Sorry , mate it is just a common stereotype that Germans lack humour, which know is not true!.D
Jejkan95 1 year ago
@Jejkan95 LOL ! im not german so relax lmao ! and i used to think that too until i met alot of german people who proved me wrong .. & there is a lot of hilarious *german* people LOL !
Mannschaft99 1 year ago
Wow, It's German, and my buddy in Germany can't see it cause it isn't available in his country... WTF.
DeadlyInsanity69 1 year ago
can we seriously use ''de'' it would be fucking awesome !
Mannschaft99 1 year ago
@Mannschaft99 nah, wouldn't be the right grammar :P But I think the german will understand you. ;)
Homestonearts 1 year ago
@Homestonearts ahahahah it would've been awesome :( im having such a hard time learning those articles although german is very easy to learn .
Mannschaft99 1 year ago
@Mannschaft99 Yeah, I'm kinda lucky that I was born in Switzerland (over 60% of the swiss inhabitants do have german as native language). Nice language :)
But anyways, I wish you much look with learning more german.
Homestonearts 1 year ago
@Homestonearts well danke schön ;D
Mannschaft99 1 year ago
The subtitles are not quite right.. Example "They first stumble over der die das...
Danny30011980 1 year ago
jaja qué putooo
BMTH0084 1 year ago
Wow, I could hardly keep up. He spoke so fast!
BassBwoy3 1 year ago
i love this language, (Y)
fytyreguri 1 year ago
well in spanish we have this articles: la , las, lo , los, un ,unos, una ,unos!!!!
german grammar and spanish grammar are difficult!!
locajajajabnonotanto 1 year ago
@locajajajabnonotanto No es la las lo los. Es la las el los.
Puedo hablar cuatros idiomas jaja.
I speak English
Yo Hablo Español
Ich spreche Deutsch
Я говорю по-русский
threedaygracer 1 year ago
@threedaygracer a muy bien, pues te felicito mucho. pero no necesito que me enseñes español ya que es mi lengua materna, áun así muchas gracias
locajajajabnonotanto 1 year ago
@locajajajabnonotanto Mas personas necesitan aprender español. Sí?
threedaygracer 1 year ago
@threedaygracer Si como tú, te deseo suerte para que lo logres pronto y correctamente
locajajajabnonotanto 1 year ago
@threedaygracer
locajajajabnonotanto 1 year ago
Being a native spanish speaker I understand the confusion between the articles, because even I think that our articles are often illogical, but the best piece of advice that I can provide for people seeking to learn a new language, especially native English speakers, is that they shouldn't see the Nouns as single words, but as two words, in other words, don't just learn Rock, Auto, or Pflanze. Learn them as Der Rock, Das Auto, and Die Pflanze. It'll save you a lot of headaches.
MaGiLo90 1 year ago
the three grammatical genders are illogical, but i remember learning french, its the same. you just jave to learn every noun with its gender. then its easy and you dont make mistakes.
kralle7611 1 year ago
In the beginning, he says
"Ich mag (???)..."
What is after "mag"?
I'm learning German.
jcao219 1 year ago
@jcao219 he says: "Ich mag die deutsche Sprache"
kralle7611 1 year ago
French has 2 articles,
Le
La
It's stupid, but its not that big a deal. and if this guy doesn't know that der is used for something when it is not either gender is pretty sad...
ustolemybeer 1 year ago
Deutsch auch den und dem haben.
WIDR101 1 year ago
In Sweden we have no articles.. suck on that
BornForkoRn93 1 year ago
@BornForkoRn93 "en" "et" - Whatchoo talkin bout, Sweden?
CherishWiseShouting 1 year ago
@CherishWiseShouting "en" "ett", yea thats right. But we dont have to put thoose words in a sentence when we are talking like you have to with, "Gonna catch the bus". We just say.. gonna sounnd strange in english but, "Gonna catch bus". But I could be wrong also, hehe didnt really pay mutch attention in school.
BornForkoRn93 1 year ago
@BornForkoRn93 Hey, im from oklahoma - I don't speak english correctly. I realize all the time --- If I say tree it sounds like chree, dragon sounds like jragon. It's funny when I realize this stuff because then I think about it every time and try stubbornly to correct myself. I'm just getting into Swedish, btw, i've been reading up on german but i think swedish and finnish sound more pleasant to the ear
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angelofdeathx9 1 year ago
aber alter englisch lernste auch nochmal
DerPunkfreundGER 1 year ago
Absolut herrlich! xDDD Bin wirklich froh mit Deutsch aufgewachsen zu sein...Deutsch lernen muss furchtbar sein xD
Chialingling 1 year ago
@Chialingling Geht eig, bin im AUsland und hier findet das keiner wirklich schwerer als Französisch, Spanisch usw...
DerPunkfreundGER 1 year ago
his name is Kaya Yanar
Austria4ever1000 1 year ago
I think german is one of the easiest languages to learn
xXhighwolfXx 1 year ago
@xXhighwolfXx lol
smikizzz 1 year ago
@smikizzz Ich denke, seine sehr einfach zu erlernen
xXhighwolfXx 1 year ago
Sehr gut!!! :D:D
AngelosInside 1 year ago
do german people talk this fast?
mushroom313 1 year ago
@mushroom313
no we don't ...
lol sure xD
what do you think how "fast" we speak, like in language class? lol
so the answer is: yes haha ^^
GermanDragon91 1 year ago
@GermanDragon91 lol hearing the voices of german people, it reminds me of Call of Duty, when I hear the Germans yelling to eachother :P It seems like a cool language. Although, seems very hard to learn.
Acceptable76 1 year ago
@mushroom313 English people talk this quickly, too. The problem is that, because you speak English, you understand where one word ends and where another begins (there are actually no spaces between spoken words, we only perceive them)... When listening to another language, we can't hear those spaces, and so everything sounds like it runs together, making it sound much faster.
xxhintoftearsxx 1 year ago 14
@xxhintoftearsxx. i couldn't of said it better!
mackychloe 1 year ago
@mackychloe Cognitive psychology classes ftw.
xxhintoftearsxx 1 year ago
@xxhintoftearsxx he could hardly breath, he is talking fast mate...
camelsmaycry 1 year ago
@xxhintoftearsxx so it would be much easier if the native speakers of certain language spoke more slowly so we, the foreigners, can percieve those fucking spaces. lol.....or they could give us a signal when a word ends.
WagnerPrA 1 year ago
@mushroom313
its fast cause you cant understand it
Rdsxfn17 1 year ago
@mushroom313 You havn't seen anything yet. I was at a wedding in bayern this past weekend, and now THOSE people speak fast. Pretty tricky to follow as a Canadian who has lived in Switzerland for the last few years...
this guy is speaking relatively slowly =)
Dynamicedeception 1 year ago
@mushroom313
Sure, most of 'em do, when they're talking to other German people... or when they've been talking to you for two minutes and forget to speak slowly. Get used to it. :D
MaiaRikae 1 year ago
I'm an American in german 1. This guy's reading my mind, lol
happygolucky002 1 year ago
Funny!!!
mackychloe 1 year ago
I remember being in Germany and being like "is it der?! Is it die?! Das?! What decides this?!" So I just said the article so fast that it didn't matter. Haha.
Lucida0lownes 1 year ago
jajajaj very funny!!!! where can i see the rest???
metalfairytheater 1 year ago
Caution! This video includes the truth.
Hilarious. And I love Deutsche sprache, though I can't speak it.
HeartRixu 1 year ago
suc ma dic
suckmadic1 1 year ago
lol! He's funny! "Das Buuuus!" "Der Bus? Why "der Bus"? Has it a dick? or what?" LOL!!!
imwithMindfreak 1 year ago
hahahahaha I love this - I learn German at school and we have to do all the different cases... dative... genitive... grrr :( XD
parsprincess 1 year ago
sehr cool ! Danke schön !
loki2504 1 year ago
Lol we have three articles too...
Dillybean95 1 year ago
that's when grammar sucks
WaterFor3st 1 year ago
@WaterFor3st That's when German sucks? Maybe before you start bagging on a language you should learn English, asswipe.
austin123aw 1 year ago
@austin123aw German? When did I say German suck? Maybe you should learn how to read.
WaterFor3st 1 year ago
@WaterFor3st You said "thats when german sucks."
austin123aw 1 year ago
Wow, DER Mann ist funny! haha. This really made me laugh.
WaterFor3st 1 year ago
@WaterFor3st Nein, Nein, Nein, DE Mann ist.... funny... lol ich vorgessen warum zu seh "funny" in deutsch
austin123aw 1 year ago
vhat do you vant? I already love the language for the fun it is talking as sexy draculas' vife! Hee-hee
RobinSpence100 1 year ago
Das ist lustig. Bringt mich zum Lachen viel
2d181 1 year ago
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2d181 1 year ago
Does anybody know this guy's name?
kkurki 1 year ago
@kkurki
*facepalm* dude its written in the video and in the description xD haha ^^
GermanDragon91 1 year ago 4
@GermanDragon91
Gosh I'm stupid !! :DDD I just noticed the part explaining the german grammar :P
kkurki 1 year ago
@GermanDragon91 no its not it just says german comedian ..
angelofdeathx9 1 year ago
@kkurki kayar yamar
guitaristwagner 1 year ago
@kkurki yah his name is Kaya Yanar he is a famous comedian stand up guy he is half or full turkye !!!
freshaashiq 1 year ago
The comedian is very funny, but the subtitles aren't of the best quality. ;)
asmodeus585 1 year ago
articles with gender ? I alreday had that in spanish ,french, italian, portuguese... so I can deal with them.
( the strange thing about german is that the sun is a female and the moon a male, why??? the sun is so manly !)
the only scaring detail about learning german are those loooong very looooong german words... but the sound, at least , is beautifull.
I'll try german lessons... some day
rociodesanroque 1 year ago
@rociodesanroque....because the sun is volatile, where as the moon just sort of stands around having to listen to the sun as it spews out a lot of hot gas. The Germans got that one perfect!
ucd77 1 year ago
@ucd77 , OHHH!
never thought about that...
I like it, you made a point !
rociodesanroque 1 year ago
love it! as an American struggling for years to learn this (wonderful) language, I can totally relate!
nosleep62 1 year ago
I recently enrolled on a German evening course. It's a shame really, because if we had lost the war, we'd all be speaking German anyway and I would have saved a nifty £82. Sometimes history comes back to kick you in the arse, doesn't it?
00woolley 1 year ago
This comedian hit a very good point. In hebrew we have 2 articles (Masculine and Feminine) so I find it easier than an American native speaker to learn Deutsch but it is still tiresome :)
I love Deutsch and this comedian is extremely funny! I would like to know his name please :)
Gidizz 1 year ago
@Gidizz its kaya yanar!!
impactoprofundo 1 year ago
@impactoprofundo Thanks! :)
Gidizz 1 year ago
@Gidizz you're welcome, he is an awesome comedian!!
impactoprofundo 1 year ago
bomb all jews. Hitler didn't finish the job! It's up to the new German generations to put an end to the international jew tyranny.
SuperKLC 1 year ago
ひー、ドイツ語って三つも冠詞あるの?? In Japanese, there is no article.Even English is difficult for me.
bookmari 1 year ago
Sorry Sundered17, but you cannot use "de" as substitute for "der", "die", "das". This is highly colloquial and absolutely not suitable especially in the written language.
Aber ich stimme dir zu, es wäre sehr hilfreich :)
oniricaable 1 year ago
Hey can we really just use "de" when speaking? OMG if we can, I'm so going to do that! I fucking hate der, die, das, den, dem... Ugh! But in terms of words in general, German is actually pretty easy to learn. :)
Können wir wirklich nur "de" sagen? Das wär so behilflich!
Sundered17 1 year ago
That's Kaja Janar :D He's German/Turkish, and he's very funny :)
Nissyenify 1 year ago
der, die, das. GENDER IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL IN GERMAN.... ich habe deutsch seit 2009 gelernt... oh mein Gott, ich hasse es (der, die, das).
lunapavo 1 year ago
And gender is just the tip of the fucking iceberg ^_^ You've got cases too.
one5643 1 year ago
dutch s better we have indead "DE" for every word
EpicUnreal 1 year ago
Haha this video is so funny XD In Spanish there is female and masculine articles and some don't make sense so when i watched this i couldn't stop laughing XD!
Skymoonstar 1 year ago
@Skymoonstar Feminine*
Skymoonstar 1 year ago
i can't understand what the comedian says if there's no subtitles..
and it's too fast for me.. : (
lakucifire 1 year ago
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lakucifire 1 year ago
I'm learning german, but he talks so fast so I used the subtitles xD
It's not hard to understand the 3 article thing for me, because I know french and they have different for male and female so i know it's not because the object is female or male xD but I understand it would be hard for someone who only knows english for example.
canadasreallybig 1 year ago
dutch: is it het or de?
fairyheli2 1 year ago
Trying to speak objectively, I think it was appropriate that English became the global lingua franca. It's perhaps the closest thing to a pan-European language, so many different influences. French, for instance, despite the Latin influences etc, is generally just that - French.
tomsega 1 year ago
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jassoto80s 1 year ago
Deutsch ist eigentlich nicht besonders schwer zu lernen, Russisch finde ich persönlich viel schwieriger.
Überigens, woher kommt denn dieser mann? Aus Süddeutschland oder Österreich? Sein akzent fällt mir etwas anders auf. Bin einfach nur neugierig^^
Gammafan94 1 year ago