Comments by "Psiberzerker" (@Psiberzerker) on "German reacts to AMERICAN CELEBRITIES speaking German! | Feli from Germany" video.

  1. Holland is right across the channel from England, so it's literally the closest German (Deutsche, or "Dutch") speaking country, to where we get English from. We even call Mennonites, and other Anabaptist colonies "Pennsylvania Dutch" here, even though they speak (A very old, and somewhat evolved) German. I'd say the second most common German accent is actually Suisse, (Einstein when they're trying to sound Erudite) or Austrian. A lot of Austro-German speakers have influence our culture, including Freud, Schwarzenegger, and some guy from the 30s, and 40s that was shouting on the radio a lot. Ruined the crumbduster moustache, he was Viennese as well. (Hedy Lamar, Wolfgang Puck...) It's mostly Ahnold that gets parodied as an Austrian accent, which bleeds over to the American-German Accent as well.
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  2. I say "Holland" instead of "The Netherlands" because there's other Dutch accents like Flemmish, which sounds like German with a Scottish accent. Point being, German is spoken all over Northern, and central Europe. So, there's a lot of non-German Germanic accents.
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