hey guys welcome to foreign reacts like i said before guys we're gonna be doing a series of uh
videos related to germany so uh this one's gonna be the truth about living in germany
if you have any suggestions please do leave those in the comment section down below if
it is uh related to germany i uh promptly will get that video done it's not about germany i
will get it done eventually but it won't be as prompt as the german suggestions because
like i said i've done a series where i did a lot of finnish videos
now it is time for germany so um if you do have any suggestions related to germany
those will be promptly done as soon as possible but either ways we're gonna be checking out the
truth about living in germany an american point of view uh so without further ado guys if you're
not subscribed subscribe and uh let's get right into this video so when i landed in germany i
remember the first thing that was kind of a shock was hopping on a train i had never been on a train
now it seems really normal but i hopped on a train went through the beautiful countrysides of
germany down to a little city called marana and i remember being kind of shocked at how small it was
and that we had a car and then there were little tiny things that were shocking to me
i mean just for the fun of saying what they were there was like a light switch they're not like
switches they're kind of like pads so you hit a whole entire pad or the pillows they're not
rectangle they're squares and they're windows they don't open up and down or side to side they tip in
and out and they open kind of like a door so there was there's a lot of little differences like that
they have i mean our apartment had our washer and dryer in the kitchen and then i i thought
that was just our apartment then i realized a lot of a lot of apartments are like that so
those were little tiny things but nothing big my favorite food in germany is just schnitzel and
rotco road calls just red cabbage and they would have pleuza so that's basically it's it looks
like a potato but it's but it's not it's just a dumpling i guess that's what it is in english
and uh and that was my favorite was when we just had schnitzel wrote cole and
kalooza i also really liked the laden which was just meat rolled up in and they'd have
they'd marinate it and it just tasted really good i like their meat
simply said i really learned to like red cabbage which i disliked i also liked sauerkraut didn't
like that either so but by the end i pretty much liked anything they put in front of me the weather
in germany is similar to here in utah i mean the hots are a little bit hotter and the colds are a
little bit colder due to the humidity i really like their traditions that revolve around music
and the traditions that revolve around christmas they start christmas the at the very beginning
of december and they have the advent site which is the time of the advent and they have these
advent calendars and they have advent wreaths and they celebrate each sunday prior to the christmas
morning and that's a tradition that i would want to hold up for the rest of my life with my family
and another tradition that i found interesting was on they opened their gifts on christmas eve
which is interesting to me i always thought you do it christmas morning but germans are a little
bit different that way let's see another cultural thing about germany is the public transportation
so you don't see as many cars in cities and the roads aren't very wide because they they all take
public transportation it was interesting because i spent majority in on the east side which is
where which was under communist rule where the ddr was in this last uh not too long ago and
so we met a lot of people who were communists i never thought that i would would become friends
with a bunch of communists i just never crossed my mind as an american but it ended up being
wonderful i had a lot of friends that had a lot of different political views that i had never really
viewed before i learned to respect other people's opinions a lot more to not be so hasty to judging
and i realized that the ideals of communism can be appealing i mean maybe i shouldn't categorize
them all as communists a lot of them were just socialist and had more of those communistic ideals
but it was still an eye-opener to me when i when i started making friends with people with other
political perspectives if you're wanting to learn german the key to speaking any language i think is
just speaking it constantly and you can't do it i i i didn't think i was going to be
able to learn a language but i got a lot of support from my siblings who would write me
letters saying oh you can try something more like this try something like that for example
my sister she plays the piano so she kept telling me to continue to study and memorize the charts
of the german language which tell you dare d and dos so the masculine feminine and neuter cases
and when it's going to be nominative dative genitive um things like that and you memorize
these endings and she compared those to a scale like when you're learning the piano so she said
just keep memorizing those and that proved to be really beneficial um also
in learning the learning german the first thing i mean i learned is vaspadoit so what
does this word mean so you say vaspadit uh house and then it's an english house
you know so that makes it so you can continue a conversation just by asking somebody uh what is
what does that word mean and then they can answer that and then the second sentence i learned was uh
means uh what does how do you say uh tree so veezak montree and then they'd say
so those two sentences were the first things i learned in german and then from there if you're
stranded on the street you and you have to speak you can always struggle to put a sentence together
but really in the end learning the language wasn't the issue after about four months
that was a really beautiful video guys very very very interesting video
and um yeah pretty pretty cool actually i i i really did enjoy um what he was talking about
he um seemed very pleasant regarding to uh germany and you know hopefully one day i can actually
share my own experience regarding other countries but either ways guys i'm out of here peace
you