Ah, Germans...you know this is really cool, right?
Hey everyone, Dana here! Back again with some more questions that I have for Germans. But first,
side note: I recently tried out the shorts function here on YouTube with two videos,
one in German and one in English with a question for Germans. Yes, yet another question.
But I don’t know if YouTube sent out notifications for those shorts like it does for my
“normal” YouTube videos. Mr. German Man, for example, did not get a notification for either
video. So if you haven’t seen them yet, there are two shorts, link to those in the description
box below. Check them out after this video for yet another question that I have for Germans. And yes,
there is also a German version of this video here. Link to that in the description box below as well.
But now: danke schön or
vielen Dank. Which would you say is stronger? Which one shows my thanks more
enthusiastically? Which one do you prefer? If you had a danke schön bucket and a vielen Dank bucket,
which bucket would have more thanks in it? I don't know if that makes any sense. Yeah but just like,
uh, which one is stronger and do you use one sometimes and the other sometimes. Either way, I
cannot thank you enough, a bucket of thanks to you for your thoughts on this down in the comments.
Okay, so and now: I have noticed something when it comes to northern Germany.
Liebe Grüße aus Norddeutschland. This is something that I feel like I have seen and heard quite a
bit. Liebe Grüße aus Norddeutschland. It seems to be a thing that people say. But I feel like
I haven’t heard liebe Grüße aus Süddeutschland as much. I live in Munich, so I feel like I could say
"liebe Grüße aus Süddeutschland". But so far I don't think I ever have. I usually go for Liebe
Grüße aus München if I want to mention where I am. Or I might describe Munich, like what's
going on here. Liebe Grüße aus dem regnerischen München, oder...yeah. So I might describe it as
greetings from rainy Munich. So my question is: could I write Liebe Grüße aus Süddeutschland?
Is that something the people write but I just haven't noticed it? Anybody watching this video
write Liebe Grüße aus Süddeutschland at the end of emails? Let me know in the comments, thanks!
Okay so now for this next one, everyone say “cheese”! Cheese!
Okay, no, not that kind of cheese. Melted cheese. So, for me any kind of melted cheese
in, like, a container that you could dip stuff into and eat was always cheese fondue. And you
can dip carrot sticks or bread or apples. Cheese fondue. And you could also have chocolate fondue,
which is melted chocolate that you can dip stuff into and eat. Like marshmallows or
strawberries. As least for me. Cheese fondue and chocolate fondue. Americans watching,
would you say that melted cheese in a container and melted chocolate that you dip stuff into
and eat is for you also chocolate fondue and cheese fondue? The thing is, here in Germany,
I have picked up on that it’s not quite that simple. In this video here my parents reacted
to their New Year's Eve in Germany, and in that video I mentioned that we had had cheese fondue
and I showed a photo of it, or a video of it. I can't remember but I showed it.
And, but then a bunch of you let me know in the comments of that video that that what I had shown was not,
by any stretch of the imagination, definitely, definitely, definitely not cheese fondue.
You let me know that it's actually called Ofenkäse. So literally "oven cheese". And you
told me that Ofenkäse is definitely, absolutely, 100% not cheese fondue. So I’ve got a few
fondue questions here. For one, what is for you cheese fondue? Is there anyone out there watching
this video who considers this, also Ofenkäse, cheese fondue? Is it just me? Maybe it's just
me. That's okay. My next question is: when do you eat fondue? Is it just around New Years or
is it all year round? And what about chocolate fondue? What is for you chocolate fondue? And
what is for you just fondue? If somebody says “let’s have fondue” without specifying cheese
fondue or chocolate fondue, what do you think of? What's your go-to if someone just says
“let’s have fondue”? Do you automatically think of cheese fondue or some other kind of fondue?
Next up: what terms of endearment for one’s partner is there in German and/or which ones
do you prefer? So right off the top of my head I know of "Schatz" and "Schatzi", which
both mean treasure. So the German word treasure is "Schatz". I also know "Schmetterling", which means
butterfly. And there's "Schnuki-putzi", which I really find that one fun to say. Schnuki-putzi!
I don’t think that "Schnuki-putzi" actually means anything as far as I know, right? It just sounds
cute and kind of like, Schnuki-putzi. Like it's just sort of...it doesn't rhyme, but it just sort
of sounds, like, nice together. Schnuki-putzi. Did you notice that all the ones I mentioned
right now start with an S? Schmetterling, Schatz, Schatzi, Schnuki-putzi. Are there just lots of
German terms of endearment that start with an S, or is it just that all the ones I said here,
it's just a total coincidence that they all start with an S? Also could we please all agree that the
German word “Kosename” is a lot cuter than the English "term of endearment"? Kosename, awwww!
Term of endearment.
And last for this video: Toilets. Now, first of all, Germans, do you think that the flusher
on your toilets is awesome? As an American I think that flushers on German toilets are so cool.
They usually have two functions, rather than the American toilet flushers which can usually just do
one thing and one thing only. Flush the toilet. No, here in Germany they can do more than that!
They can do so much more. Okay, not so much more, but they can do a little bit more than that.
The thing is though, I have noticed that the two functions on the flusher
on the toilets in Germany can be different depending on the toilet. Some toilet flushers
in Germany have two flush settings: one for a big flush and one for a smaller flush. While
other toilets in Germany have one button that flushes and then one button that stops the
flush. My question for you here is which kind of flusher would you say is more common in Germany
and/or which kind of toilet flusher do you prefer?
Do you have a preference here? If you could choose which one you have, which one would you want?
So my question for you is: all the questions in this video. What do you think?
What are your answers? Please let me know in the comments below.
Thanks so much for watching. For more content from me you can follow me over on my Instagram
@WantedAdventure. I usually do my Instagram Stories in German with little English subtitles.
And speaking of German, I also made a German-language version of this video here.
Link to that down in the description box below.
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Buckets of "danke schöne" und "vielen Dank". Until next time, auf Wiedersehen!