How anyone (including YOU) can read German

That was super!! New subscriber! Danke

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Now that was clever.

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The "ß" invites you to speak it harder than "ss", often leaden to a longer emphasize on the sound before (e.g. "Fuß" sound more like foooosz).

That was a cool lesson. Afrikaans is similar to Dutch, so also good as a middle language. 🤔

German is really easy to read, because the sounds are well represented in the writing. Then the main difficult is learn the phonemes and their associations and the really few exceptions.

I am rusty in German actually and I still can read easily (in the correct way to pronounce) out loud their texts. It is a great point about learning this idiom.

I spoke Alemanol.

In Germany there is a female word for god (Gott). Its called Göttin.

Must really be amazing being dutch. One foot on the right and you're german, one on the left and you're English

Really informative video tho, the menu and list of tricks in themselves are something I might feel like Id need to rote memorize for all those following along the learning. Practice is making it easier but I might just forget it after a while

Trying a little visualization of this. Th, D and T of english all have german replacements so they can be one group cus they sound similar. GHT and TH are interchangably similar sounding so I can keep them close and the rest of the tricks are single english alphabet replacements. Roughly three groups. Maybe with more tricks these groups will feel much heavier and solid in my memory. Maybe i should just demonstrate it lol

Great Video! this has been very helpful to me with learning Yiddish.

Everything started from pie. Aww! That's sweet!

Absolutely FAB!!!!! Thank you!

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Danke! 😊

Couldn’t zugzwang be equlivent to our happy hour?

I trying to learn.... I don't know how much my French speaking husband knows how to speak..

mine and only miine The Deuce

Brilliant!

Your name is Rob and you actually look a bit like Rob Brydon. Coincidence?

Here;s a German Joke, knock , knock, ....... who is this ? it doesnt fcking matter, open the door, open the fcking door now, open it now. bang bang bang.

german is easy to read, but english is not so much.

Can you make a video about Swiss German?

this explains why I was able to somewhat read the German menu at the local German café. I couldn't read it word for word but now the ones I did figure out on my own make sense.

Brilliantly done and communicated. I appreciate the simplicity of your presentation. Well done and well spoken.

I am German-American and can speak and write both languages. Ice bin Deutsch- Americana und spreche und schreibe Deutsch und Englisch.

is the d sound swapping with th sound because thorn looks so close to a d? or is that just a coincidence?

Your English is unfortunately terrible Ami English. Please learn Oxford English. Ami English is a ghetto language. It has no grammar.

Oxford English has the same grammar as Hochdeutsch.

I love videos like this. The English language was greatly altered by the Norman Invasion in 1066 and by the obsession with Latin and Greek words during the Renaissance. We should undo the Great Vowel Shift and make English more Anglo-Saxon.... Like it should be. The other Germanic languages should be more recognizable to English speakers.

As a native English speaking American who studied the German language for a couple of years in school, this is a really interesting and intelligent method for learning more vocabulary between the two languages. I did very well in my class 😁 but I think this might have been a good way for me to practice and learn even more efficiently!

Great video!

need more video like this. this is so much fun!

Is there a "How to learn English without speaking English" video? Hoping it will help on the GRE!☺

Thank you for acknowledging me around 15 minutes.

As a native English speaker trying to learn German, this is super helpful!

🤷🏻‍♂️ i still don't get it

Entertaining Lautverschiebung

Germanic in German is Deutsch and not Dutch

Spoken English is Germanic and written English is more mixed with foreign languages

Very cool!

As a figured out before… German is an English man who doesn’t know how to speak..

As a german I love to watch your videos and it even helps me understand my own language more. Thank you!

You have taught me two things at once. By swapping sounds, you're teaching Dutch and also making German language more understandable to people who understand English. Nice 👍

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As a German I say: Very interesting! I learnt facts which I did not know before!