everyone calls me Henny

[redorox8passion]

omg the house is SO BIG. lol the houses in my country are puny

[magauchsein]

yes, there are regional differences. But her language is close to perfect.

[starsoverthere]

This German sounds different from the German I'm used to hearing, is the German spoken in the West different?

[tofusauce]

Ausgezeichnetes Video!

[scalzofratello]

Very well! Nice film:)

Prima und sympathisch!;)

[Heneuso]

I really appreciate your work Janusz.

Well done.

[flybybutterflies]

THANK YOU so much! =)

[nobelbachelor]

cool..really like it..gut gemacht! :*

[Treebard]

Thank you, Henny and Janusz, for making this great video! Ich lerne jetzt Deutsch -- dieser Film ist nützlich und leicht zu folgen!!! I also have an older brother and two older sisters, so I can understand being the youngest and "last to leave the nest"!

One sentence I had trouble with was: "Es sind jeden Tag 20 Minuten..." Warum "sind" und nicht "ist"? Probably something like the subjunctive, or something. :)

Thanks again, and viel Glück mit deine Schularbeiten!! Viel Späß!!!

[magauchsein]

20 Minuten is plural = 20 minutes. So this is why you say "sind" (are) and not "ist" (is)

If it would be only one minute (eine Minute) then you would say: Es ist nur eine Minute. :)

Please make a similar video for us. Please.

If you would have questions how then visit us on our site: solarnet tv.

[Treebard]

Thanks for the explanation on the "sind".... That makes sense!!

I would love to make a video but do not have a video camera.... Maybe someday!!!

[magauchsein]

that's the point we are trying to prove: you don't need an expencive camera. We did this video using an Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3, a very simple and quite cheap camera. Everybody can do this. You just need to want to do it.

[Treebard]

How do you even know if I own a camera at all? As it happens, I did buy my first digital camera just a few weeks ago, but it was way cheaper than yours (which I don't consider "cheap" by the way, because I certainly couldn't afford it). In fact, we debated for months before we decided to go further into debt to buy this camera.

Perhaps if I really "wanted to do it," I would "find a way," but your attitude seems overbearing. You win more flies with honey than vinegar. But thanks for the info.

[magauchsein]

sorry for being overbearing. It's my experience that most of the people rule the possibility of making a video by their own out fearing the costs or complicated techniques. But the situation has changed in the past few years. It has become simple and affordable for everybody. I would wish I could find people willing to support my "simple made" films. The real point to this concept is that those films are mostly a short text read aloud. The video footage is secondary to it and somewhat random.

[Treebard]

That's OK. The idea of simply putting some running text in two languages below the video which (approximately) illustrates it is a very helpful way to learn a new language by "immersion."

Even if my camera would work for this, it might be difficult for me to translate the English into "good" German. My German skills are new and very rusty. I'd probably need help for the translation part. Also, right now my life is pretty boring, so not much to take videos of! But thanks for the idea to do this.

[magauchsein]

ok, thanks

[septip123]

You did this with a $250 camera? Wow, I'm impressed.

[julia2night]

sieht wundervoll aus! :) gut gemacht!

[Yourx3JustStopped]

Can you do one of these with someone in Niedersachsen, so I can learn the dialekt and how it sounds a little better before I get there as an exchange student? (:

Thanks!

[skippyXG]

Loved it!

[Estmeralda]

great job!

[MartinWauligmann]

wow, the result is really awesome!

[jcnme27]

Genial!! :)