10 VERY GERMAN THINGS I DO, SINCE LIVING IN GERMANY🇩🇪

Hi Antoinette, you know I am from Germany and totally in love with New Zealand. This video was really funny and interesting. I think you adapted the best habits from Germany - being more directly, not spending money you do not have, bringing your own bag 😁 All the best for you and your sweet little family. You can make a video which NZ habits your husband or your kids were adapting from you. 😉😆😁

german habit No.1: watching YouTuber's, which come from other countries visits/live here, and find out what they think about germany..

here in germany interrupting people while they are talking is actually considered being rude... at least in my family :)

Point 0: "I'm gonna get straight into it, because I do have a lot to say..." Germany confirmed...

The German word for debt is "Schuld", which literally translates to "guilt". There are reason why many Germans try to avoid debt.

Could you maybe also make a video about kiwi-habits that your husband has adopted because of living with you? That would be very interesting for me.

I'm from Germany as well and it's really interesting what is considered "German"- didn't know most of the points before😂

It's a sign of respect to let you speak. You want to tell me something, and I will give you my time and my attention and be patiently until you finish...

I never thought about the positive effects of verbs at the end of a sentence. Thank you for pointing this out! I sometimes become desperate with reading specialist books with really looong phrases. When you come to the end of a phrase to finally find the verb and could understand the meaning, you have already forgotten the beginning of the phrase and have to read some sentences over and over again until you finally get the meaning. Now I can make peace with this tricky part of my own language :-)

Interesting. I have already seen some videos of this kind and I am pleased to see new, deeper aspects here.

In English they use the term "like (something)" or "like when ..." And we don't really have that equivalent in German - the use of "so (ähnlich/etwa) wie ..." is a bit awkward in German language. Your "like" is our "zum Beispiel". There's a little word game which was created by the great comedian Heinz Erhard, he used "zum Bleistift" instead of "zum Beispiel", and it takes the others in a conversation quite a bit to notice this (intentional) "mistake", if they notice it at all. Which is funny sometimes.

Apfelschorle is bitter? I've been drinking it my entire life and have never noticed any hint of bitterness. Makes me wonder if it has a more pronounced taste when you try it for the first time later in life.

To be direct doesn't mean automatically to be unkind or unfriendly.

We only use the "24 hour time" only when we are speaking "Hochdeutsch"! Most people use the "12 hour time" when speaking their regional or home dialect! 😊 In Swabian for example we would rather say "Wir teffen uns um halb Vier heute nachmittag" instead of saying "Wir treffen uns um 15:30"!

Now start to use the term "Tempo" and "Tempos" (pl.) instead of tissues (or "Papiertaschentücher") and you're totally german. Hast Du mal ein Tempo? Tempo was the brand that first came up when paper tissues were invented, and the name became a synonym for Papiertaschentuch (-tücher).

"to beat around the bushes" is generally a typical thing in the whole english spoken world ...not just Kiwis do that ..every native english speaker does it....that´s why those always think in the first place "Native german speakers are rude" by just being "direct" , don´t they?

24 hour time is very common in the German language. But where I live, we often also use the 12 hour system, especially when it is clear from the context which time of the day you‘re talking about. So for the most time when talking with my friends about going to a bar I say „um acht Uhr“, because they know that this must be in the evening. But when I text to them the same, I use „20 Uhr“. So I think I use still kind of a mix of both, perhaps because analog watches still only show 12 hours. But in official letters or documents or on TV you only/mostly see the 24 hour system.

Haha the silence and awkwardness when you're talking and the Germans are just there, staring at you, listening intently and waiting until you finish!

I'm polish and we always had sandwiches like that and also tissues with you all the time and since our children also wet wipes ;) I think I'm general these are more an European thing (outside the English speaking countries- so like mainland Europe ) and about politeness (speaking as a Polish person living in UK) a very polish thing Is to hold the door open for someone but you also expect them to say thank you.

I am from Germany and it makes me just so happy that you enjoy Germany that much also your content is just the BEST