Comments by "BunzeeBear" (@bunzeebear2973) on "Feli from Germany" channel.

I have relatives in West & East Germany and the East is still a poorer part of Germany.(former USSR) Even after 25 years, it has not equalized out.
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@davedaring9823 Could be too as she was a nanny she did not have access to 230V receptacles for her electric stuff.(they use the round pin type of wall outlet) so she has nothing electrical with her. Australia has 240V but it is the flat tangs similar to 120V but the tangs are bent inward like "/ \" so I could bend my elec shaver tangs in with pliers and turn the setting on the shaver to 240V (from 120 V)and use it.
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@mikulagen As I have hunting rifles made in Czechoslovakia, I liked the quality & feel of the rifle. Also grew up learning Czech. was a country. I have not learned the newer maps. I be an old phart. I hope it is not insulting if I think of it as Czechoslovakia. They have some good hockey players.
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It could be Russia, or the U.S. or Germany or the Poles themselves with an errant shot or France or Britain. So a fair question IMHO. Everybody was busy dropping bombs. There were German Nazis and Polish Nazis.(The Nazi party was a political movement that seemed positive in the beginning so much so the Netherlands joined it) As for starting the war, Poland started it with the goading and backing of Britain(who quickly turned a blind eye as Poland was getting attacked by the Germans) It is (ALL) in the history books. You got to read more than 1 source.
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moving men can get things in
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then she started looking like a cow trying to digest this information. "now that is an image I visualized & can't get it out of my head." She probably wore pink too?
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@ConnorNotyerbidness Stores are not banks so they do not know the value of the Euro that hour of that day. So, they do not want to be under-paid. Which is why they demand that you exchange your foreign currency at a bank.(which only deals in money all day long) Not every bank does the exchange thing but they know which one does and will direct you to it. Or you pay by Credit card.
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It is funny; I have never "tried" to sound German. though you are picking out the sounds that my Dad does. I would copy Australians, English, Scottish, Swedish, Chinese, Texans, Jamaicans, French as I can clearly hear that. The German I grew up with.
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Look for a book called Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes. Peter,Peter, Pumpkin Eater (and I don't speak German) It is a rhyme for children maybe up to age 10. I don't know whether the pumkin eating makes any sense (thinking pumpkin pie) or it was just because it rhymed. He had a wife but couldn't keep her (she would be baking pumpkin pies for him to eat all the time.??) At 10 you do not go into deep analysis of it, otherwise how did an egg get on top of a wall?(Humpty Dumpty) since when do eggs "sit"? Like I said , little kids do not ask these questions. This is Low German
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@derhinek should have said we use the "TRANSPORTER" made by VW
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I don't use half of them(me with German parents//. dummkopf though I would spell it dumkoff. Considering that the UK was called Anglo-Saxons (Saxony was Germany) Maybe some of those Vikings were Saxons(when they did their thing of raping, pillaging, & plundering)? I believe it is easier to understand German (because of word similarities) then say FRENCH. Bread= brot beer=beer good=gute shisse=schit wasser=water milch=milk
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I am surprised that I can't hear any German accent? My dad came from Westphalia region when he was 17, and he never did lose the German accent on certain words. Mind you, he had 8 years of German schooling (he pronounces is Shule)"shula" and then he worked in the construction industry, so with other immigrants from Europe(Germans, Bavarians, Czechoslovakians, Yugoslavians and English. Little speaking, more working. He picked up more and more of the English language when his 4 children went to school and TV. He was bilingual. I understand them speaking(for most words) but that is about it. I speak "kinder Deutche" so very children type words and phrases with hand movements. My mom's German is part Polish so there is that. Their married life in the beginning was interesting. . I always criticize things but also with a bit of a comedic viewpoint. . When I did travel I went down-Under instead of Germany. I had to speak "children German" there for mine auto "sint kaput" and I had to follow a car who had headlights because mine died. (For200KM and they spoke 95% German and only a few English words.) But it was enough to get them to understand I needed them to be the lead car in the dark. . I am Kanadisha. My dad's pronunciation
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I think I will stick to "Kinder Deutche" and common street words. Kinder deutche is a phrase I made up to say I speak like a child. "Keep it simple stupid applies" No wonder the early Vikings were depicted as a nasty bunch---those words are scary sounding. I would hear what I thought was German on Hogan's Heros . I would ask my dad who is from the Weimar area and he said it is NOT GERMAN. It is just made to sound German but was unintelligible to Him(so made up words that sound German because of the hard "k" or hard "g" sounds. American actors make the best "Germans" because Germans don't act that way. Hitler was Austrian which is close to Bavaria so would sound like that guy with the beer mug. There are many dialects as there are cities in Germany.(no different than California surfer's way of talking to a Texan to an Alabama to a New Yorker. It is all ENGLISH but each with its hook or lean on pronunciation.
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My moms family was split because of the wall. They are "still poor like pigs" in the East.(my mom's expression) She talks with family on both sides of the wall now. My mom is 89 and she was the baby in the family. Telling you how old the others are.(11 kids) It is what it was. When you live in that kind of country ... there is nothing to miss if you NEVER HAD IT. The old days were simple.
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@pablohammerly448 I used Google translate "The lint wind"? I do not understand the meaning of that phrase." so it is more an inside joke...for you & your buds.
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I assumed it is a hold over due to the Victorian era (Queen Victoria reigned 1837-1901) had a BIG influence. The English travelled the world in their ships and enforced Victorian era thinking (prudish & conservative) They went to Greece & Rome and the statues are anatomically "correct" but they saw it their way and "Broke off" those appendages on the males. . They didn't stop there. They went on to Egypt and did the same there to even older statues and hieroglyphics. The break off points can clearly be seen. YOU Tube has decided to follow in this Victorian prudishness and it came while I was on You Tube. Stuff I saw before(year 2000) is now gone. I was doing much research on Ancient Egypt and like the images became conservative(those images are GONE)or were blurred out. & they were erect penises. . Ancient Egyptians were interested in what made man "tick". They assumed it was the heart. (so the brain was not important.) The penis had a brain of its own. Though, through careful examination, they could not find it...so it remained a mystery. Sexual activity was an important part of Egyptian life...just like dragging big blocks into a pile. I am part of the "Boomer" generation, and never had single shower stalls in high school. 8 shower heads in an oversized shower stall so groups of males showered together. The dressing room was also a large room(beware of the wet towel snap) from a few students that sometimes happened. Rarely did anyone NOT shower. There has been the occasion only because Physical Ed was not that physical that day so they did not work up a sweat.(maybe they got benched from the game?) so did not participate all that much. .There were no Co-Ed showers at school. Boys had their own washrooms & showers. . I speak from a MALE perspective in a Canadian public school(which is not subservient to any religion.
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A Canadian born in a German speaking household - zo You know what the kids got = single bed or bunk bed and a room WITH a bifold door to a closet. I might have seen the older style closet door to the little room in OLDER homes(houses built in the 50's or older.(because the door swing needed is wasted space) Bifold doors were most common and were in most homes(I am a house painter so these doors were hollow and light and ran on a track in the door frame. Inside was a long wooden pole that hung in the air horizontally for clothing that used hangers like your good clothes for Sunday best clothes. Your everyday wear I put on a chair that may have arms and drape it over that. It was worn every day, everywhere so socks were laid under the chair as it is a multiple day wear before they need washing. All rooms are carpeted(wall to wall) except for the bathroom and sometimes the kitchen. (I have indoor/outdoor carpet there which is a short pile) . While I have heard of klidashrunk (clothes closet) I may have seen 2 in 50 years. Everyone has a closet with bifold doors in even the smallest bedrooms. The closet and in house doors were usually mahogany hollow doors and were stained and varnished. . My windows are opened at night in the summer cuz I don't have AC(nor do I need it for the month that it gets 30C or higher. I have a feather duvet from Germany but at the moment use a sleeping bag that is fully open like a blanket because my body is used to the 'weight' of the cheap summertime sleeping bag....instead of a single sheet. I have a lower sheet and know I should have an upper sheet, but it is my sleeping bag which bears ruined one end so I sleep in the living-room on the chesterfield/or sofa/ or couch because the queen mattress hurts my back. I just changed from a queen size water bed to a box spring mattress to the couch. Trying to narrow down the cause of the hurt. The bedroom also has room for a stand alone chest of drawers where all the washed underwear gets stored. I can't compare campus living to real life living. Younger bodies can handle less mattress. . No TV in the bedroom. A reading lamp and a book if that. . Winter in Canada can be like Russia so as I am heating a whole house the windows stay shut...and sometimes curtains of cloth cover over it.
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You are comparing the house you are staying at with home in Germany? Maybe go view a new home during OPEN HOUSE and see the difference. It will be NEW. Carpets are a thing for some houses, while some have gone to tile and some to real oak hardwood floors with a throw rug in the middle. It depends on the builder's desires...on what he believes will sell. Windows may have changed too. I have not had to deal with wooden windows for years.
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I have no idea how I got to your site, but I love it because "your German accent is totally gone" I did not think it was possible, I only knew from my dad who never got rid of the accent in 77years. He came over when he was a teenager and basically worked around groups of the same speaking people(1950) . I am not interested in Karen (who is a girl raised in a German household - by German parents who had to conform to the new life. So her opinions would be the same as anyone born in the U.S., the difference is that she is bi lingual and can also understand the German her parents spoke. But her parents were trying to learn ENGLISH & the ways of the land. I DON'T CARE. . YOU however are different. You managed to lose the German accent completely, I can't hear it "und ich haben ina goot" EAR. My "kinder Deutche" is the best I can do as I cannot read German hardly at all.Ich forstate mina parents German (my dad is German & my mom is Polish) so it is really a mash up especially when the kids only speak English. My dad came out of a small village town closer to the center of Germany. I can't tell you the name as it did not stick in my head because it was not important. They never talked about Germany all that much(he was too young to be in the war or to be a Nazi or whatever. This is for the big cities, not for villages. It took 77 years before he knew my Mom was at the gates of Auschwitz. That is how much they talked about the old country. They didn't, and I did not ask. He knew Nutting. (Sargent Schultz on Hogan's Hero's TV show). My mom is still alive, she has sisters and brothers still alive in Germany. I want nothing to do with them because I don't speak German. They are strangers to me and that is that. You are the first English speaking German I have run across that KNOWS WHAT IT IS LIKE IN GERMANY NOW. I have had the impression that Germans were SOUR & BITTER. You changed that perspective for me. I hope I don't lose you so I can learn MORE. Feli from Germany
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@18:38 With the 3 finger thing....middle, ring, pinky fingers is how I do it( but then I am left handed too zo it means nothing to me as it is personal preference as I am usually holding something with the thumb and pointer finger being a mechanic.
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tot gemacht. My father used the same phrase central northern Germany. That was his language.
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@RichardOlsonJr You were spot on with the reply(like you were waiting for that type of question-just right "On the money". It must have been hard to keep a strait face-esp. when she had a surprised look "not cluing in"
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@brianplum1825 The Nazi salute is not original. Heil Hitler means "Hail Hitler" Go back to when Romans ruled the world for 1000yrs. Caesar was not a king, but a Leader and a fighter in the front lines. That is where you see the straight arm salute to "Hail Caesar" Move up through the eras and Rome is no longer the dominate force it once was and the last region was the Holy Roman Empire (or Germany) Hitler was a Leader (or Führer) He accepted that title. (He was not self absorbed in grandiose title names.) Same arm salute as Caesar got(so it is a Roman salute) Mussolini got it too.
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