Hey everyone! Dana here,
and today while I'm hanging out with Trixi from the Don't Trust The Rabbit
YouTube channel, which, by the way, today we've made several videos, and so be sure
to go over and check out her channel to watch those videos.
And now, while I'm here, I'm excited to talk a little bit about dating; dating people from
different countries, different cultures, different kind of relationship issues, so yeah, maybe
some mix-ups sometimes.
So I'm excited to look at all of that good stuff today.
Did you have anything that sticks out in your mind where you notice like, oh wow! That's different!
Well, I would say that Germans are a little bit more careful and calm when
it comes to flirting. - Okay. - And stuff like that.
When a German guy wants to approach me he's really careful.
He would, like, make sure that he doesn't disrespect me in any way. - Uh-huh.
Just like approach me really carefully.
And when I met Erick it was completely different.
He asked me, like, in the first, like the first three sentences already included if
it would be fine if I would move with me. To my flat.
So he basically asked me the same evening - That's fast. - we met if he could live with me.
One of the first questions he asked me was if I had a boyfriend, which is of course the
code for: are you available?
Yeah, so getting really quick.
He was really straight forward and I think German guys, of course, there are exceptions,
are usually not.
You speak English with Erick, right? - Mostly, yeah. - Yeah, okay.
So same with me and Mr. German Man.
I mean, we try to speak a little bit of German but it's mostly in English. - Yeah.
And you can have definitely some mix-ups with the language or just with cultures.
Is there anything that comes to mind that you had?
Yes, we have some really funny anecdotes.
For example one time I tried to explain to Erick what a mixed pickle is.
So I told him that this was a Gewürzgurke, and he understood it as Geburtsgurke and he was like,
"Birth cucumber?!"
not getting that it was actually a spiced cucumber. - Yeah. - And stuff like that always happens.
Stuff that out of our languages just gets into our accent, and I say something like,
"Not yet," to mean, to say "not now." - Yeah, yeah. - Because "yet"
sounds really similar to "Jetzt," and he has the same thing going on with Spanish.
Yeah, that would be hard because
English is both of your second languages. - Yeah. Exactly. - At least for me,
I have the advantage of English being my first language.
But you're both working with a - Yeah. - second language.
Man, yeah, that's a lot going into it.
With Mr. German Man we definitely had, still do have mix-ups.
Um, but one that I think I mentioned in another video was with "eventually." - Yeah.
Getting that confused with "eventuell."
That when we first met he asked me something like, okay so do you want to have dinner tonight?
And I said, "Yes, eventually!" And he was like, well... - Okay. - I kind of need to know,
we have to go to the store. - Yes, yes! Eventually.
And yeah, eventually we got it figured out but, yeah, you can definitely have those mix-ups.
And how about living together?
I recently made a video about that in Germany you often take your shoes off and don't walk
around the house with your shoes on, whereas in the U.S., you often do walk around the
house with your shoes on, so that was something for Mr. German Man and I to, ah, have some
nice discussions about at the beginning.
He won, we take our shoes off.
But what about you? Any differences in living in the house?
The question about, like, letting air inside of the house.
I think for Erick it's something completely normal to, to, like, open all the windows. And I'm like, no!
I'm gonna get a cold! - Es zieht! - Es zieht! Exactly.
Germans are afraid, like, of air sometimes. At least I am. I'm scared that I get a cold.
And we just had to, like, find some agreements, like open all the windows when we go out so
that the air can be there without us.
Fans also, right? - Fans, yes. - No fans, yeah. - Erick loves fans.
And he was like let's buy a fan, let's buy a grill, all of that stuff.
And I was like, I don't know if it's, like, allowed to have a grill on the tiny balcony here.
And also a lot of stuff about noise.
For example, Erick talks really loud, and he phones his friends all the time, and it's,
like, 3 o'clock in the night, like 3 a.m., and he phones his friends, and it's really
loud, sometimes he had a beer before.
So that was something that we needed to have some discussions about.
But basically we got together in a really good way.
I also just thought of: shopping.
Going out, grocery shopping together.
Has Erick mentioned that it's different?
You know, that it's really fast paced and stressful here in Germany.
Actually, he never said that it was stressful - Okay. - because he's like the calm, himself.
Okay. - If he's hurried by someone, he just doesn't care. - Okay. He's just doing it
extra slow to piss the cashier off.
What he mentioned, though, is that shops close on Sunday, something that he will never understand.
He always tell me on the weekend, like, Saturday, no I don't wanna go shopping.
Let's do that tomorrow. - Yeah. - I'm like tomorrow is Sunday, and then it like rings a bell, - Yeah. - and he's like,
aaah we have to go now.
So our question for you is: what kind of dating experiences have you had in different cultures,
different countries, and what kind of dating rules or norms exist wherever you live out there?
Please let us know in the comments below.
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don't like the D so much.
Germans don't like the D so much.
Instead we take many Ds and make a T out of it.
Still many Americans stick to their love for the D and pronounce German words wrong.
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