Kind of like this singing thing, like wunderbaaar. Which we don't do in German at all.
Hallo, Servus, and welcome back to my YouTube channel. My name is Felicia, I'm originally from Munich
Germany but have been living here in Cincinnati, Ohio on and off since 2016.
As you guys probably know, Germany is a pretty Americanized country. Most people speak English
in Germany and we also consume a lot of American music, shows, and movies. So
American celebrities are a part of our pop culture as well, if you will. And we're used to either hearing them speak English
or they're dubbed by a German voice but when an American celebrity  actually speaks German it's mindblowing to us and really cool.
And there's a few clips on YouTube of English-speaking celebrities speaking German
So I thought it would be cool to watch those together.
There are some big names among them like Leonardo DiCaprio, Sandra Bullock, Kirsten Dunst,
Johnny Depp, Robert DeNiro, Keanu Reeves and many more.
And first up we have Donna Summer. So my laptop is down here, I'm just gonna move over a little bit.
And I will watch it here and you'll see it on the screen.
It is sometimes funny, the clothes and how I moved.
In Munich, Louis Vuitton sent me some
boots when I arrived yesterday.
I have met many, many German people who are now my
family.
And that’s why I went to Munich, that way I could bring everyone together and we could
have meals together because I’m in Germany.
Ok so I think it's funny, I feel like this is the case with a lot of Americans or English-speaking people speaking
German, they don't always have this
typical American or English accent
but like a Dutch accent. So she just sounded like she was from the Netherlands.
Which she obviously isn't. She was born in Boston.
But she just said that Louis Vuitton got her some boots,
And that she did some fun dance moves back in the day. And the background story here, because obviously I had to look it up because her German is really
good. She sounds like a Dutch person whose second language from childhood on
was German. But her background story is that she was born in Boston but actually lived in Germany
and also in Austria for a few years
in the 60s and 70s and
she played in a lot of German musicals at the time
so like she sang German
songs and as she said she lived
in Munich too which is my hometown
so that's really cool. Ok,
Next person up is Robert
DeNiro.
I am very grateful for this honor. And good evening.
This is sooo cute.
So he obviously doesn't actually speak
German.
This must've been some award show in
Germany. Maybe like Goldene Kamera
or Bumby or something.
He obviously tried to remember some German sentences for his speech, and in the end
he forgot how to say "have a nice evening." So he said "Gutenberg" instead which is just a name. And everyone tried to help him and screamed
"Abend!" "Abend!" and then he remembered
because Guten Abend just means
nice evening.
So yeah that was actually really adorable.
Ok next person is Justin Timberlake.
Where is the bathroom?
And Apfelschorle. Can I have a sparkling apple juice please?
Ok awesome. So he
obviously doesn't really speak
German either but he knows the most important
sentences which according to him
are Wo ist die Toilette
So where's the bathroom, but we say where's the toilet in German. And Eine Apfelschorle Bitte, in Germany and Europe we like to drink juices with sparkling water and then once
we mix those two we call in Schorle.
And Apfelschorle is an apple Schorle.
So apple juice mixed with sparkling water, so he knows how to order that. Which is definitely really important. Ok
next one is Christopher Lee.
From England.
I heard you can speak German?
No not so good.
Why did we conduct the interview in English earlier?
No I can’t speak very good German. - Noooo, not at all!
I never studied, I never learned it.
How do you know German then? - Yes, I'd like to know that too!
I’ve sung and acted in German.
Can you sing for us? - No. I did that two times. Not anymore.
Maybe the Nibelungen song a little.
Ok uhm so this is hilarious because basically they ask him if he speaks German, in German,
This is like an Austrian TV channel interviewing him and he just replies in pretty much fluent German
that he doesn't speak German and then they keep asking, but wait you do
and he says, but I never learned it and they were like but how do you speak German then. And then he says in perfect German, he understands every
single question, he has perfect grammar, and he just says that he sang in German before and acted in German before.
And then they asked him if he could sing something and then he says no.
But in the end he says oh maybe
the Nibelungenlied. It's like a German
classical song.
So that's hilarious, it's like German people saying they don't speak English but they're actually almost fluent.
That actually happens a lot with
German people or I wanna say
other Western European people.
Ok, super cute though. Next one is Sandra Bullock.
Man I’m nervous because over there on the floor is my language.
Ok so this is at the German
awards show Bumby which is a media and TV award in Germany.
Ok, what amazing times we
live in because at one point
at one point I was a waitress and then a cleaning lady and then a dancer and
then a dog groomer.
Who would have thought that all of those professions would lead me to
this stage?
But that is the best proof, that the public is so tolerant
that even people like me
have a chance.
My mother always said to me, “Be original, Sandra.”
And that made me crazy as
a kid but now I understand it,
because my mother was ahead of the times.
And thank god she
shared that mentality with me before she passed.
So thanks, Dr. Burda, thanks to my family,
thanks Caroline, Christina,
Gabriela, Barbara, Maxi go to bed now,! Aunt Christel Uncle Heinz,
thanks. Thanks everyone.
Ok so there’s another clip. So this first clip, just her speech, it’s probably pretty obvious
she’s fluent in German even though she’s an American actress.
I looked up the background story too – so she was born in the US in Virginia but she lived in Germany and in Austria
for the first 12 years of her life. So she went to school until 6th grade, maybe 7th grade.
So her mom was a German opera singer who she also mentions in the speech but her mom passed away so I think that’s why she’s tearing up almost.
And then her dad was an American who was in the military so I think that’s how her parents met.
And most of the time she lived in Nuremberg.
And I actually read when I did some research that she says about herself that she has a Franconian accent but when I just listened to it I don’t really hear that.
To me it sounds more like an Austrian or a Swiss accent actually.
Because in the beginning she says “In was für verrückten Zeiten leben wir.”
I can’t even do it but Swiss people have an interesting way of pronouncing the ending of certain words.
Anyway, there’s another clip of her where she teaches some German to Jimmy Kimmel so let’s watch that.
I speak German. Fluently in German? Really? Would you speak a little German?
How about I teach you how to say something. Oh yes, teach me how to say something in German.
Say “Ich bin ein Arschloch.” (I am an asshole).
Ok so YouTube is actually more chill than I think national television in the US.
So I think it’s pretty obvious but she taught him how to say “Ich bin ein Arschloch” which means “I am an asshole.”
This is also what my friend Katie said in one of my past videos, in my 100k subscriber special video.
She doesn’t know any German but she said she knows the most important words which are “Scheiße” and “Arschloch.”
Yeah so Sandra Bullock taught him the most
important words right there.
It’s hard to say, right? Well I’m not gonna say it again but yeah it’s hard to say.
Well it’s great to have you.
So he just learned the most important things obviously.
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And with that, let's see what Keanu Reeves has to say in German.
Tomorrow, tomorrow just not today, is what all lazy people say.
Ok that was quick. He says “Morgen, morgen, nur nicht heute, sagen alle faulen Leute.”
Which means “Tomorrow, tomorrow just not today, is what all lazy people say.”
Hey, that even rhymes in English too. That probably wasn’t even the proper translation
I just did that freestyle. Wow. That’s funny
I wonder what the actual translation would be. That’s just a saying in German.
Sounds like he doesn’t actually speak German either.
Now we have Leonardo DiCaprio.
My grandma is from a small city 2 hours away from Düsseldorf.
Spätzle, Spätzle with Wiener Schnitzel. Mother and Mom. My mom is a very good mom. (How old is that??)
Wow. Ok. So Leonardo DiCaprio speaks pretty good German, I mean it doesn't seem like he's fluent.
But it sounds decent and he can say a few things.
He actually said that his grandma
is from outside of Düsseldorf.
And then he said that
his mom, his Mutti,
is the best Mutti in the world and then he
and he also talked about Spätzle with
with Wiener Schnitzel so Spätzle which
I've talked about before.
It's these little dumpling thingies
they're not
like pasta but they kind of
look like little pasta
things. And he talks about
Spätzle with Wiener Schnitzel which
I totally approve of the Spätzle
not so much of the Wiener Schnitzel as a vegetarian
but Wiener Schnitzel is Vienna
Schnitzel so you probably know what that is.
Ok so his backstory is that he's actually
half-German because as he said
his grandma is from outside of
Düsseldorf but actually his mom is
too, so his mom was born there as well. So I'm assuming that his mom spoke German to him growing
up. At least a little bit.
But he never lived in
Germany. So the family lived in the US
the whole time and he was actually born
in LA. But yeah, pretty
cool that such a big celebrity
is half-German. And the next
person is one of my favorites.
Because I love the show Scrubs and
How I Met Your Mother.
And it's Sarah Chalke. And the first
clip that I have is actually a
snippet from the show Scrubs.
You speak German? I have a patient from Berlin
and I need to tell the gentlemen that he has fluid in his lungs.
Your wife has a nice chest. A nice chest!
Nice chest...
Ok so I think it's pretty clear what happened here,
She gave him a wrong sentence to
repeat in German
and she does have an accent but still like
really really good. The funny thing
in those shows is, and I'd like
seen that in several shows but definitely
in Scrubs several times,
is that the person
who plays the German character
isn't German at all and you can hear
that, like if you're German and you listen
to that he has a pretty strong
accent when speaking German, so
I don't understand why they can't just find
someone German to play
that and say those two sentences.
Doesn't seem like a huge role.
You know. Should be possible
to maybe find a native German speaker for
that. But they have another
episode where they have
two people from Germany and actually the
song 99 Luftballons plays
a role in that episode too. And
those two
German characters in that episode
have a pretty big role and they
speak kind of a lot of German and it sounds
like a Danish person or
again like a Dutch person speaking
like definitely not a German native speaker.
So I don't really understand why.
But Sarah Chalke's German
is definitely very good.
But technically she's Canadian, she grew up
in Vancouver and
her mom is from
Germany, from Rostock, and
there's another
there's actually lots of scenes
on YouTube but I picked another one
where she speaks German in
a talkshow with Conan OBrian
So let's check it out.
Is it true you’re trilingual? You speak English obviously, you speak French and you speak German.
(Canadians have it so good).
Yeah my parents thought it was a good idea if my sisters I went to school all day with all of our classes in French and then went to German school after school.
So you would speak French all day and then learn German afterwards. Yeah my mom’s family is German
so we would speak German with my grandmother and she lived like three doors away
so we would always go over there for hot chocolate soup with whipping cream for breakfast.
Is hot chocolate soup just hot chocolate?
Ok I just wanna say that is not a very typical German breakfast. Not all German food is healthy,
I’m not trying to say that, but we don’t eat German chocolate soup, what did she say?
Hot chocolate soup with whipped cream for breakfast everyday? Maybe that’s an old fashioned thing or a regional thing?
Because her mom is from the north of Germany. I don’t know, have you ever heard of that before?
I just wanted you guys to know that that’s not a typical thing we do in Germany. Let’s keep watching.
Is it like a thin chocolate soup of chocolate? It’s like
“heiße Schokolade Suppe mit Schlagsahne zum Frühstuck.”
That’s what she also does on Scrubs too.
It’s a nice chocolate soup why does it have to sound
like that. Yeah why does everything in German sound so angry.
Say hot chocolate soup again.
Heiße Schokolade Suppe mit Schlagsahne zum Frühstuck.
(Ok, yeah I’m actually scared of that too.)
And is that with whipping cream or is whipping cream (yelling)? Mit Schlagsahne!
Ahhh! I surrender!
It’s not a romance language. Like if I wanted to give you a compliment, I would say
“Ich liebe deine große wunderbare Welle mit einer großen roten Haaren Conan.”
What was that?? I really like the beautiful sexy wave in your big red hair, Conan.
Ok so I didn’t actually understand the very last word she said.
But it’s so funny how, of course she totally exaggerates I think that’s pretty obvious to all Americans watching this,
to all non-German speakers watching this. Like she totally screams.
You’ve definitely heard me speak German before, we don’t always scream when we speak.
English sounds pretty scary too when people scream it. But she plays with it, which is cool.
And she does that in Scrubs too. When they make her speak German in the show they make her scream something
and say it very aggressively. But I think it’s so funny how she gave him this compliment about his hair.
I’m sure she knows better because she speaks German but she uses this interesting sentence melody, kind of
like this singing thing, “wunderbaaare” which we don’t do in German at all.
Only people who imitate German do that. So I feel like she’s probably doing that on purpose
because she must know better speaking German and growing up with a German family. It’s still
funny though. I just still don’t really understand what her last word was. Haaren Kronen? Even
if it was Kronen it doesn’t really make sense. The English translation she did was with this really
nice voice and super lovely. That’s the actual difference obvious. But I like this, this was nice. I
thought, maybe that’s about my hair or a rollercoaster. It’s so funny when people try to imitate
German and don’t speak German and they just say these random syllables and it doesn’t really
sound German to me at all. Like what did he say? Hacken Zucken? Rucken Zucken? Doesn’t
sound that German to me. So if we were in German whispering sweet nothings to each other,
we would be “Ich liebe dich!” (I love you!) And that’s actually what it sounds like, I love you is
“Ich liebe dich.” (Yeah except you don’t scream it.)
Wow, that is very intense. Very intense. Do you get to break out your German very often?
Do you get to use it in everyday life or is it pretty rare? It’s very rare, actually on Scrubs the writers use it all the time now because the writers,
every time they’re looking for a button on a scene they’ll just have me scream at someone in German.
Well it’s still super funny, but this was full of stereotypes and clichés. Ok next up is Johnny Depp.
So now I don’t have to translate that’s cool. Alright next one is
Kim Cattrall who many of you might know from Sex and the City, she plays Samantha.
It is really not a big surprise I lived in Germany and I was married to a German so I can speak a little German
but I’ve forgotten so much so I’m sorry for my German this morning.
I’m very proud… So she started in German and then switched to English.
So she actually explained it herself. She was married to a German and lived in Germany for many years.
That’s actually really cool. And then she did this thing that so many people who speak German as a second language do,
she apologized for forgetting all of her German and apologized for her German not being very good.
Which it totally was. Honestly never apologize for poor language skills, unless they’re really really bad. But as long as it’s good
enough to communicate don’t apologize. Ok who is next? Chris Pratt.
Yes I can speak a little German, I learned it in school.
I speak a little bit of German.
And you can dance really well.
Yes, thank you, thank you.
Can you show me a move that will make all the women go crazy?
You should see "Guardians of the Galaxy".
I have! Three times.
Good advertising.
This looks like it was at the Oscars
because this German TV host
always does the red carpet reports
from the Oscars for the German TV channel.
This sounded
sooo typical American, like this was a
typical accent and
he just said that he learned German in school
so for that honestly it was really good.
but he didn't really say a lot
he just repeated twice, I think,
that he speaks a little bit of German
and that he learned it at school
and I think the host said
that
he is good at dancing
and he says, "Ja, ja!"
with this really over the top
German accent and then the
host asked him to do dance moves that will make the women go crazy, and then he just says "you'll have to watch Guardians of the Galaxy." So
And then the host says "I've already watched it 3 times."
Not a deep conversation here.
But pretty good German skills.
Ok Mark Strong.
My German isn’t as good as it was but I’ll give it a try.
In school, you grow up with Conan Dyle
und Sherlock Holmes.
I had fun, and the people are really nice and they don’t have any idea
what I’m saying.
So I can say what I want. So yeah, that’s it.
Das wäre es. That's it.
His German is perfect.
He has zero accent.
If you didn't know that he wasn't born in Germany, you would think he was 100 percent German
and was living in Germany his whole life.
He sounds perfect. There's not a single thing wrong
where I would notice that he's not a native German
speaker. But I did look up his backstory
so his dad is
Austrian so that's the German influence but he was actually born in London, and his parents changed his legal name
which was an Italian name at first
to Mark Strong, so they just picked
that name, which pretty good name
to pick because they thought it would
make his life easier in England, so.
I don't know if that's actually true, but
it's definitely a good
name for an actor.
Super impressive right here because
as far as I
found out during my research he never
actually lived in Germany.
And for that speaking German with zero
accent is really impressive actually.
Ok
and now the last celebrity on my list is
Kirsten Dunst.
How much do you know the culture there? Now you have a German passport. Do you hang out
there? Do you speak German? Yes, I can speak a tiny bit of German. I asked you a question, do
you speak German. Yeah a little bit of German. That was mumbo jumbo. That’s what you said?
What phrases do you know? Well I know good curse word phrases.
You are a shithead. I think I know, what is that? That’s shithead. It sounds really cute though. I don’t
think I would use that word if I were actually mad at someone. I think I would use it in a more
funny way. I know that kind of German. You are a big asshole. Ok we learned that one before
from Sandra Bullock. Oh, stop ok we get it. Anyone tuning in right now is gonna think I really
pissed you off. My mother’s gonna call, “Why was she so mad at you??” Do you find that you
can use those words? So what she just said, let’s go back. “You are a big asshole.” She actually
said “großes” at first and then corrected herself. Großes would have been correct. So it’s pretty
obvious that her German is pretty good but she’s definitely not fluent. Otherwise she would’ve
gotten this correctly. My mother’s gonna call, “Why was she so mad at you??” Do you find that
you can use those words over there? My friends have fun using them. Yeah I know that feeling.
All of my American friends always wanna know the curse words. We went to this place
Miniature Wunderland which is like a miniature city. “Miniatur Wunderland.” And it’s so great
it’s all it’s so great, there’s Los Vegas and there’s Switzerland and then in the bushes there’s
people having sex. They’re like sprinkled, cows boning, weird sprinklings of sex. Are tourists
having sex? Oh no, the miniatures. I thought you went to a theme park and everyone’s in the
bushes having sex. And I was like man, the Germans win again. But honestly even the miniature
figures having sex seems like something that would never happen in the US, so it’s still
interesting. We went to this castle called Neuschwanstein. Neuschwanstein is what the castle is
called, it’s actually the most popular and famous castle in Germany. It’s in Bavaria, it’s pretty
close to Munich. I wanna say an hour or two by car. I’ve only ever been there with people
visiting Germany. I’ve only ever been there as a tourist guide, never by myself. Because it’s such
a tourist destination it’s not that much fun to go there. There’s a really amazing view of it, but
the actual tour is pretty stressful, there’s so many tourists. But Neuschwanstein, from what I
hear, is in a lot of American history books so I’ve heard that a lot of American students know
that castle because it’s in the history books and also the Disney castle is based on this. Where
the Wagner music was written, he actually wrote the Carmen theme throughout…(I actually
didn’t know that one!)
Ok, it’s great what you can learn in those interviews! Now you guys know the most important words in German.
So Kirsten Dunst, she speaks German because her dad is actually German
her grandpa still lives in
Hamburg, Germany to this day. But she
never actually lived there.
I could actually tell because she
sounded pretty native
but she made that little grammar
mistake there, so a native German speaker
who grew up in Germany wouldn't say it like
that.
Yeah and that was the last
one for today, I personally really love
watching these clips, I don't know about you
I hope this was fun for you guys too
but as a German this is really, really cool.
to watch this. So let me know
in the comments below which one was your
favorite and which one totally
surprised you maybe. So
I think if I hadn't heard
Sandra Bullock before I would've
totally been mindblown.
But I think I had heard that before
that speech. And of course
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