Canadian Reacts to Southern Germany: Meet the Germans Road Trip Part 2

btw female cattle (cows) have horns too

Your German pronunciation is very good but you pronounce the words a bit too aggressively. Probably because you think the language sounds aggressive but we don’t speak like that

In one of your videos you mentioned wanting to check out the video about how to read German as an English speaker. It’s the channel “RobWords” and the title is “How anyone (including you) can read German”. I think you would enjoy it :)

I am Swabian, from a very old and tiny village in Baden-Württemberg, just 20 minutes from the Bavarian border and Franconia. "Kässpätzle" are so delicious! Like mac and cheese, but better (sorry) Preferably homemade by grandma, of course. You could say they are egg noodles, so like pasta, but with egg. Best topped with fried onions

Interestingly, German problems with alcoholism have been relatively low for years - and are even lessening at the moment. Alcohol consumption overall has gone significantly down since pandemic times. Scandinavian countries and Britain as well as some parts of Eastern Europe have significantly more problems with this particular topic. Spätzle are not meant to be fancy! They are originally a poor man's dish! In Swabia (originally) and by now almost all over (southern) Germany, they are a very much liked form of pasta.

Great reaction 🤘 greetings from austria 🇦🇹 btw…. Passt scho 👍🏻😂🤘🍺

2:15 the marketplace of university town Tübingen with the old town hall in the background. 2:25 Nuremberg in Franconia 2:29 Munich 3:25 They share also Lake Constance - there is no fixed border in the lake. 3:29 Swabian Flädlesupp (pancake soup) at the left and Austrian Kaiserschmarrn (Emperor's mess) at the right. 5:00 "Tracht" means traditional (Sunday) clothes. Those were often specific for a region or village and very uniform within that place - that fostered not only a sense of belonging, but in particular helped with reducing the costs (the village seamstresses could use the same pattern and buy the fabrics at wholesale price). Those clothes were made to last not only the whole life, but to pass down the generations. Women's clothes could easily be adapted for young maidens, pregnant wives and older grandmas. But the Lederhosn (leather trousers) are a rather new addition - in the 19th century such trousers were only used by nobles at the hunt or sometimes lumberjacks, while other people used mostly loden cloth. But in 1883 a Bavarian teacher established with some drinking mates the first "Trachtenverein" (association for traditional clothing), and they ordered leather trousers for their association. The village people laughed, but the Bavarian king supported the idea, so it became a fashion. Even a little earlier the "Dirndl" became fashion with the Munich upper class, named after their maids ("Dirndl" is old Bavarian for maid), who often came from the countryside in their traditional Sunday clothes. But the Munich "Dirndl" costume got a far lower neckline, became more colorful and was mostly used for the summer holidays at the country estate. 7:52 The Oktoberfest is actually the anniversary of the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese, and it is hold on the Theresienwiese (Therese's meadow), therefore called (at the) "Wiesn". The Cannstatt folk festival on the other hand was initiated by King Wilhelm of Württemberg as part of an agricultural fair, which was itself part of agricultural reforms introduced after the famines in the "year without summer" 1816 caused by the Tambora eruption in 1815. 9:00 That is Hohenschwangau near Neuschwanstein, the summer palace built by Ludwig's parents. 10:40 "Grüß Gott" (lit. greet (with) god) is a greeting heard all over southern germany, but with a different pronunciation depending on the dialect. Swiss German has it reduced to a "Grüzi" or "Grüzi wohl!" "Servus" comes originally from Austria. In Latin "servus" meant servant or slave. It was originally used in the meaning of "I am at your service", but is now an all-purpose informal greeting. "Pfiat di" is shot for "Behüt dich Gott" - may God protect you. "Ade" comes originally from northern French 'adé' which is same as the French 'a dieu' which later also became (via Walloon adjuus) adjus and tschüss in northern and middle Germany. 11:11 Small, but important mistranslation: Semmelknödel are not made from potatoes, but from bread. "Semmel" is Bavarian for bread roll ("Weggla" in Franconian, "Weck", "Wecka", "Weckle" in all the different regions of Southern Germany). The dumplings are made from stale bread rolls dunked in warm milk, mixed with egg and herbs and then formed into balls. (There are also Breznknödel made from last day's Brezen.) 15:28 Sandra Bullock is also a Franconian and you hear it when she speaks German. 17:09 Old Württemberg was a Protestant state, the Pietist church had a lot of say there and propagated a special "Protestant work ethics"; if you did not maintain your property, you could be expropriated and your neighbor who finked on you would get a share of it. So people started to demonstrate their cleanliness and their tidiness. Old Württemberg had also the custom of "Realteilung" (gavelkind), where real estate was divided evenly between the heirs, which led to ever smaller and poorer farms. In 1806 Württemberg was appointed kingdom by Napoleon, who also more than doubled its size by adding large parts of Upper Swabia (most of it part of Catholic Further Austria or under the rule of Catholic Imperial Abbeys) as well as some former Imperial cities (often Protestant, but not Pietist) and parts of western Franconia. The culture and way of life in Upper Swabia is more similar to Baden than to Old Württemberg. After WW II the region was split into Württemberg-Baden (the zone occupied by the US), (South) Baden (occupied by the French) and Wüttemberg-Hohenzollern (occupied by the French, mostly Upper Swabia, but with the capital Tübingen in Old Württemberg). At the referendum on the unification of Baden and Württemberg a majority in South Baden voted against it, while the majority in the other parts was for it. In the end the Federal Government made a law by which no single region could veto the unification, and by a second referendum the united Baden-Württemberg was created. 19:51 Spätzle are extreme egg noodles. The recipe goes roughly like this: Mix eggs and flour (which should not be too fine milled, more like wheat or spelt middlings, but you could also mix some semolina into the flour), use a bit of water to regulate the consistence of the dough, but not more than half an eggshell per egg. The classic method is to scrape them from a wooden board, but (at home) you can also use special appliances instead like the Spätzle press or the Spätzle plane; you have however to adapt the consistence of the dough to the type of appliance used. For Cheese Spätzle you should use half Swiss cheese, half older mountain cheese. (In the Allgäu region they use also more tangy ones like Backstein = brick cheese or Romadur (a creamier variant of Limburger cheese), in South Tyrol Tyrolean grey cheese, but that may take some time getting used to.)

Moin!!!! Just subscribed! I have to tell you: like jour effort and success of pronounciation. You even can speak out a correct "R",and "A" and even "CH" never heard from any American or Canadian. Respect. I really appreciate that. Tracht fits it all,-well done!!

Thank you for your reaction, very interesting :) Greetings from Germany :)

According to my good old Websters dictionary, pernickety (or persnickety) means fussy, fastidious, over-attentive to detail. End of the English lesson, back to the video 😂

They also defined beavers as fish,cause they live in the water,therefore no problem on a friday.

In Bavaria is beer a food .

Greetings! Yo,you did nice trip- Until! 💪

You don't think beer could be an alcohol problem? Oh, you innocent human! Watch "Werner - Beinhard" and the following Werner films. It's a complete film each, mixed between Cartoon scenes and real acting. ^^

So much better than mac and cheese.no comparison.

2:29 and 10:30 is Hayley Alexis. A US YouTuber who lived in Germany for a few years. Now she's back in the States and if you follow her videos, she misses Germany

Hi! Once I read somewhere, that you could send a postcard or a letter to the adress "An das große weiße Schloss in Bayern" ("To the big white castle in bavaria") and the letter arrives! I`m not sure, if this is really true. But funny, isn`t it?😄

Bavarians don't have issues with alcohol ... just without 😜 Swabians at least got one thing right and that's called Porsche :) And I wanted to mention, that Germany has not only great medieval towns and castles, but also a lot of roman historical sights especially in the south, where the northern border of the roman empire followed the rivers of Danube and Rhine.

The good thing in Germany is that you don t have to hide your beer when watching the public fireworks like in Vancouver. In Ger.. you can drink alcohol at the age of 16 in public (wine and beer). Strong alcohol (whiskey etc.) is allowed from 18. Canada is ridiculous for its rules! In Germany you can even buy beer at Mc Donalds and at any gas-station.

5:17 German (like most European languages except English!) has no real "pronunciation". Every letter always sounds the same, no matter in which word and where in the word it occurs. So to "pronounce" German correctly, you only have to learn the one sound a letter makes and you're done. Incidentally, this is also the reason why there are no spelling competitions here: When you hear a word, you know the spelling (in most cases) - and when you see it, you know the pronunciation.