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Though many Germans can speak English perfectly well, they have trouble pronouncing many words.
Like ‘squirrel.’
In this video, ten Germans try their best to pronounce the name of the fluffy tailed rodent.
“To be fair, most native English speakers can’t say the German word for “squirrel” (eichhörnchen) either.”
Watch German television host Barbara Schöneberger’s facial expressions as she rides with rally legend Walter Röhrl.
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Look, when you mix rally legend Walter Röhrl and a turbocharged Audi, the accompanying video is almost certainly going to be worth a watch. We’re unsure if German television host Barbara Schöneberger knew just what the potent combination of Röhrl and a new Audi S3 would do when placed on a demanding section of track, but the way it’s rendered her silent, aside from a few muted squeaks, is amusing all the same.
The two-time WRC champ clearly puts the fear of the car gods into his passenger, as he, seemingly without any effort at all, flings the S3 around the track. Meanwhile, the facial expressions of the television host are all you need to know about how quickly Röhrl is driving.
How German sounds compared to other languages like English, Spanish, French and Italian.
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Because of all those World War 2 Nazi movies, the German language really has a bad reputation in the States. But as Copy Cat Channel points out, they can’t help it. German just sounds so harsh compared to other languages, like French or Italian.
To demonstrate this, they compare common words in English, Spanish, French, and Italian with German and end up with hilarious results.
On a group of beautiful deserted islands in the middle of nowhere, the following people are suddenly stranded by, as you might expect, a shipwreck:
2 Italian men and 1 Italian woman
2 French men and 1 French woman
2 German men and 1 German woman
2 Greek men and 1 Greek woman
2 English men and 1 English woman
2 Bulgarian men and 1 Bulgarian woman
2 Japanese men and 1 Japanese woman
2 Chinese men and 1 Chinese woman
2 American men and 1 American woman
2 Irish men and 1 Irish woman
One month later on these same absolutely stunning deserted islands in the middle of nowhere, the following things have occurred ,..
One Italian man killed the other Italian man for the Italian woman.
The two French men and the French woman are living happily together in a menage-a-trois.
The two German men have a strict weekly schedule of alternating visits with the German woman
The two Greek men are sleeping with each other and the Greek woman is cleaning and cooking for them.
The two English men are waiting for someone to introduce them to the English woman.
The two Bulgarian men took one long look at the endless ocean, another long look at the Bulgarian woman, and started swimming.
The two Japanese men have faxed Tokyo and are awaiting instructions.
The two Chinese men have set up a pharmacy, a liquor store, a restaurant and a laundry, and have got the woman pregnant in order to supply employees for their stores.
The two American men are contemplating the virtues of suicide because the American woman endlessly complains about her body; the true nature of feminism; how she can do everything they can do; the necessity of fulfillment; the equal division of household chores; how sand and palm trees make her arse look fat; how her last boyfriend respected her opinion and treated her nicer than they do; how her relationship with her mother is improving and how at least the taxes are low and it isn’t raining.
The two Irish men have divided the island into North and South and setup a distillery. They don’t remember if sex is in the picture because it gets sort of foggy after the first few liters of coconut whisky. But they’re satisfied because at least the English aren’t having any fun.