Why German Sounds So Aggressive
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Published 2024-02-23
German sounds harsh and aggressive. Why?
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All Comments (21)
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This is a reupload. It came as a surprise to us that YouTube wants us so to show authoritarian dictators with their clothes on.
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German doesn't really sound that aggressive. It's basically just because people's main exposure is a certain Austrian war veteran who had been exposed to poison gas.
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I grew up bilingual, learning German and Hungarian as a child. My favourite German word is Geborgenheit. For me this word expresses a very deep sense of intimacy, feeling secure, like a parent lovingly carrying a child, who is slowly falling asleep.
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German sounds aggressive, because you usually only hear it from comedians who think stereotypes by themselves are funny.
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hi, english speaker here, i find the german language to be incredibly beautiful! in fact, i have been obsessed with trying to learn it for the past two years now. it was honestly heartbreaking to see all of these examples of people hating on the language in this video, because it is genuinely one of my favorite things. german is such a gentle, poetic sounding language, and i wish more people would just give it a chance so that they could see that.
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People say German sounds angry, and do exaggerated voices, but whenever I hear actual people speaking German it sounds like they are very carefully setting the words down. I'll say that I think people have gotten the angry impression from Hitler and Rammstein, and the stereotypes that emerged from that, and that now they are just hearing what they expect to hear, but they just reject that and insist that it sounds impossibly angry.
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Really don't understand why this myth persists. German sounds aggressive because people shout it in an aggressive voice that would make any language sound aggressive... I always found it rather beautiful and soothing.
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No it doesn't. Every example where German sounds harsh it's because people are SCREAMING the words at you. Like if you yell BUTTTERFLY at someone, they're not going to consider your speech beautiful.
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Years ago I took a couple classes teaching classical singing, and we learned a number of art songs in German. They were lovely to sing
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"Weltschmerz" was a word I needed to learn today. sigh.
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Some other great german words: 1. Kabelsalat: literally cable salad, meaning a mess of cables 2. Schadenfreude: literally damage joy, meaning the joy of someone else's suffering. 3. Verschlimmbessern: literally worse improving, meaning trying to make something better, and the result is worse than what it was in the beginning 4. Ohrwurm: literally ear worm, meaning having a song in your mind you just cant forget, so you always sing it in your mind
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Fun fact: every language sounds agressive if you scream it!
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People find german angry because of that austrian man. But as a german learner, it sounds more cute than english for me
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Short answer: it doesnt. People just think it because celebreties who know some english always act like they are hitler when saying something in German
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I'm currently in the process of learning German and I've found the compound words to actually be really helpful. Being able to figure out what a word means based on the words it's made up of is much easier than having to learn an entirely new word. Great video!
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The German language is soft and extremely suited for singing, especially classical music. Hitler tried to be agressive in German, it sounded silly.
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I fiddled with a shortwave radio as a kid. Couldn't tune in much, but once, or was it twice, in the middle of the night I caught a program in German - women talking about opera. I still remember their voices were beautiful, even though I didn't understand a word.
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German does not sound aggressive unless the person speaking is being aggressive.
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Absolutely LOVE the sound of German. Es klingt gut zu mich! Currently learning it...and it is a pain but I'm one to not quit on anything I set out to accomplish! And I really love the video. Prost!
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I have always loved German language. I’ve been to Germany, I love German people and their culture. I’m from Ukraine, and our language is considered one of the 5 most beautiful languages in the world. We call it “Nightingale language” and it is so. But I cannot explain why I have always been drawn to German language, it sounds so beautiful to me. I even took it in college and still try to learn it on my own. Pronunciation comes easy to me. Maybe I was German in one of my past lives?🙄😍❤️
