@PeteTheWargamer
I'm currently in the process of learning German and I've found the compound words to actually be really helpful. Being able to figure out what a word means based on the words it's made up of is much easier than having to learn an entirely new word. Great video!
@franciskafayeszter4138
I grew up bilingual, learning German and Hungarian as a child. My favourite German word is Geborgenheit. For me this word expresses a very deep sense of intimacy, feeling secure, like a parent lovingly carrying a child, who is slowly falling asleep.
@Weltenbummlerrrin
Kein Deutscher spricht so aggressiv, wie es dargestellt wird. Niemand rennt wütend schreiend in der Gegend herum.
@paulfoss5385
People say German sounds angry, and do exaggerated voices, but whenever I hear actual people speaking German it sounds like they are very carefully setting the words down. I'll say that I think people have gotten the angry impression from Hitler and Rammstein, and the stereotypes that emerged from that, and that now they are just hearing what they expect to hear, but they just reject that and insist that it sounds impossibly angry.
@whitehawk4099
German doesn't really sound that aggressive. It's basically just because people's main exposure is a certain Austrian war veteran who had been exposed to poison gas.
@Emil-v1k
Some other great german words: 1. Kabelsalat: literally cable salad, meaning a mess of cables 2. Schadenfreude: literally damage joy, meaning the joy of someone else's suffering. 3. Verschlimmbessern: literally worse improving, meaning trying to make something better, and the result is worse than what it was in the beginning 4. Ohrwurm: literally ear worm, meaning having a song in your mind you just cant forget, so you always sing it in your mind
@Rudelherz
When I was living in the States, speaking German to my parents on the phone, my dormmates wouldn't believe it was German. They thought it sounded too soft, too eloquent and too friendly to what they had in their head. I had to read them German texts they had picked out and even pointed out the many similarities 😂 they were astonished 😂. Good times, still my friends to this day ❤
@ze_baronkrigler7611
I have been learning German for 5 years and It really doesnt sound agressive, I quite like how the Vowels are so precise and each word has no tricks to how it is pronounced, It is such a logical language and that is what I love about it
@TheUntypicalGerman
News flash: When you yell you sound aggressive, no matter the language.
@RachelRhiarti
Really don't understand why this myth persists. German sounds aggressive because people shout it in an aggressive voice that would make any language sound aggressive... I always found it rather beautiful and soothing.
@tatamieoka9100
As an asian who lives nowhere near europe or americas I love when I speak german out of nowhere and everybody looks at me like I did something embarrassing. I love the German language!
@GeekmanCA
"Weltschmerz" was a word I needed to learn today. sigh.
@zboson
One of my favorite composite words is Wortfindungsstörung, the problem of not finding the right word, even though you know it exists.
@sdweston8
As a native German speaker I can tell you that German sounds harsh mostly in Hollywood movies
@nullings.
Two underrated German words are "Zweckoptimismus" and "jein". The former means "purposeful optimism", i.e. when things are shit and you know they are and you might not even genuinely believe things will get better, but if you give into despair, you're doomed, and so you force yourself to be optimistic anyway just so you don't fall apart. "Jein" is made of "ja" (yes) and "nein" (no), and means - you guessed it - "yes and no". I love how efficient and convenient it is. It's much more fun than the standard "it depends" answer.
@yourDecisi0n
There is a reason why many popular artists and writers were German in the past. German is a complex, yet very vibrant language. It is honest, well-structured, playful, full of love, and also dark at times. Whatever you want to express, you can express. This is the beauty that lies hidden in it
@mousermind
I used to hate German, never thought I'd ever wanna speak it... then I found Faun, Wolfsheim, And One, and more via Pandora. That's when I realized how beautiful it can sound, and I found myself wanting to learn it so that I could truly listen to all these magnificent songs I'd found. It's one thing to listen to it and be able to read the lyric translations, but it's another to actually listen along and understand. I'm not there yet, but I'm learning. :chillwcat:
@DarsusD
Short answer: it doesnt. People just think it because celebreties who know some english always act like they are hitler when saying something in German
@DoubleDownLive
it's all about framing. German sounds soft when you're able to speak it right. If you are able to speak 3 languages they call you trilingual, 2 - bilingual, just one - American.
@fern-tv