Comments by "SaBa" (@saba1030) on "Brit in Germany"
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@barvdw
The acadamics, when both have the title, don't call each other that.
Neither do people, like neighbours, collegues or whatever call each other that.
I only call my doctors of medicine that, or if writing an official letter, that's it.
As I'm from the North, the people over here tend to say more "Du", because of the Lower Saxon language, as there no "Sie" exists.
Therefor easy going. It really depends on, in which region/Federal State one is living 😊
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@James
"The German's" mostly love the Brits 😉
But, most of them have this image of :
"Miss Marple, Rosamunde Pilcher, great fashion, fantastic music, lots of fog (even though it was smog, but that "info" never arrived over here "gg"), Pubs, etc"
in their minds when thinking of Brits .... unfortunately Brexit is on that list now as well ...
One thing could be a point: the language.
Most German's are speaking English (like the Dutch), but what isn't liked so much is, when a foreigner lives in Germany since years, but still just speaks the own mothertongue.
At least one should show good will to learn the German language.
My London born spouse has been doing quite well with the German language...
All the best to you with greetings from Bremen 😉
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Showing what one has depends very much on regional habits.
Like in the north of Germany/Bremen, Hamburg etc it's more like the "Hanseatic understatement", only when you look closer into it you might see the money 😊
Go to Rome or Milan, never ever you would see a Roman woman walk around with a fur coat, but going to the beach with full make up, hair styling and juwelry 😊
while in Milan, hot summer time, some woman still wear a mink coat (apart from wearing mink/fur coats is 🤨), it looks rediculess, but there you go 😊
Happy Easter to everybody here, we'll celebrate our big Easterfire with our neighbours tonight 😊
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@james3547 Hi James 😉
Ze German's have a problem with the "th", I still remember learning it at school, we had "pronounciation training" saying "th" without the tongue "hanging out or spitting" at the person you were talking at LOL. Therefor "ze" is the "accident free" version...
We have the so called "community colleges/Volkshochschule", subsidiesed by Gvt, where one can do courses from painting to languages, all sorts of sports or whatever, cheap money, good quality, available up to the "smallest villages".
If moving to Germany living in the North, the German language is pretty "clean/Hochdeutsch", therefor good to learn.
Good luck and all the best with greetings to London from Bremen 😉
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@britingermany
About 2.2 million Germans are speaking fluently/very good the Lower German/Saxon/ Nedderdüütsch language, another 5 million are speaking Lower Saxon fluently/ good.
This language has, as every other languages, its regional dialects, and is registered as a "Unesco world heritage protected minority language", the same as the Frisian language, the Sater Frisian language and the Sorbic language
or the Welsh and Scottish languages.
Around the Sorbic areas in Germany (Kamenz is the "capital" of the Sorbic people), all signs etc are written in Sorbic and German languages (like in Wales Welsh/ English).
In Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, people which are able to speak both languages (Lower Saxon/ Nedderdüütsch and High German) get employed with priority when working at a bank, certain public gvt offices/ Behörden with public contacts, care homes and others.
At the Göttingen University you can study Lower German/Saxon/ Nedderdüütsch language.
There are talk shows, news, radio programms etc, all in Nedderdüütsch/LowerSaxon/German available.
Lower Saxon = English
he/se/mie/yi = he/she/me/you
wat/dat = what/ that
de = the (dd =th) = no "der, die, das"
us = us
modder/vadder = mother/father
water = water
school = school
broken = broken
soster = sister
melk = milk
klock tein = ten o'clock
de Welschen = the Welsh
"De Welschen/ the Welsh " means
"the other ones/ the ones from abroad/ the strangers".
The ancient Saxons were calling all those tribes which were living to the west of their territory (todays England) "de Welschen/the Welsh".
You're still "de Welschen" when moving into another town/village in Lower Saxony 😉
And of course the pronounciation is different to the English language, therefor English speaking people don't understand Lower Saxon language but the Dutch from the area around Groningen (Holland/West Frisia) do "gg".
Groetens ut Bremen
Greetings from Bremen
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@anm3037 🙄
The federal state of Saxony, with its capital Dresden, used to be part of the ex GDR, while LOWER Saxony is located at the north West of ex West Germany, along the north sea coast line with its capital Hanover, and Bremen and Hamburg within the territory of LOWER Saxony !!
LOWER Saxony Bremen and Hamburg have social democrats PMs (SPD), while Saxony/Dresden has a conservative PM (CDU).
About the history =
the ancient Saxons were living in todays federal states of LOWER Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg and partly Saxony-Anhalt (only the Saxony part).
The federal state of Saxony is by name only Saxon, as it got its name due to in those days usual wedding politics, the people of todays Saxony are the descendants of the ancient Slavic tribes = the Sorbic people.
The federal state of Saxony is neighouring with Chzech Republik, while LOWER Saxony is neighouring with the Netherlands ..
Get your facts straight, before posting ! !
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@britingermany
Moin to FFM 😉
Hausratversicherung is mandatory, sometimes even needed to rent an appartment.
This insurance pays for any sort of damage like Wasserschaden/shower/washing machine/dish washer etc, please look up for the conditions. Some include glass damage, stolen bycicles etc.
Also mandatory: the Haftpflichtversicherung, Covers any sort of damage, which YOU have caused on goods/people etc.
If you would have a car, there also is the Kfz/car Haftpflichtversicherung always to have. You can add the Kasko-/ or Teilkasko insurance to it, which covers damages like hale/water floodings/broken carwindows due to stones, a tree falling on your car, "Schäden durch Naturgewalten", etc, very usefull.
Speziell bei Hagelschaden 😊
Back to the "Haftpflichtversicherung":
Imagine the accident with your bike would have caused severe injuries on the other person (in most cases the "guilt/Schuldfrage" gets split 50/50 or simular, and suddenly you have to pay lifelong "compensation fee" to the other person, or "Verdienstausfall/loss of income" for various months etc, it would financially get you "stripped" pretty quick.
If you pay those two insurances once per year (in January) you'll save money opposit to when paying a monthly or half a year etc fee.
Sunny greetings 🙂
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@SpiritoftheDragonfly
Germany is the country with the worlds second largest immigration quota directly after the USA.
The recent German Gvt has just changed the law to get German citizenship, which gets reduced from 8 to five, and under extra circumstances can even be reduced to three years of living here.
Since years it's possible to claim for dual citizenship as well.
Being German myself and part of a family with includes six different nationalities (Belgium, Spain, Italy, Poland, British, German), I would say, that one can't generalise it to a whole country.
May be you've recognised, that there are quite various politicians around, which have migration backrounds.
And its not only politicians, but everywhere 😊
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