Happy Tag der Arbeit Germany
May 1st in Germany is the “Day of Work”, a national holiday, so nobody goes to work. In honor of that spirit, we’re not working here either. Instead, watch this short video about the German Coast Guard. Happy May Day.
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May 1st, 2008 at 11:58 am
Fröhlichen ersten Mai!
Good video, but although it’s funny, a lot of us are pretty good at speaking englisch
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:21 pm
e.g. our Deutsche Bahn!
sänk ju for treveeling wis deutsche bahn!
Well on the other hand, I don´t think English or American people in Germany mind that. I was on my way home lately n there were some Americans on the train. They didn´t even notice that, which made me quite happy, I´m really ashamed at times…
May 5th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
small flaw: Germany has no coast guard like the US do, a number of public and private organizations do what the U:S. Cost Guard does (Bundespolizei, Zoll, Wasser- und Schiffahrtsverwaltung, Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung, Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrografie and the Navy)
May 6th, 2008 at 9:45 am
lol about the video. We also have another great tradition on 1st of may: starting riots for no reason just for the sake of the riot
May 6th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
As German said, a lot of germans, specialy the younger ones, speak a really good english. But you find a lot of international companies directors speaking like the “Coast Guard” rookie.
Anyway, a small tip: May 1st is not public holiday (and Labour Day) just in Germany but in almost the whole world…
I laughed a lot with the video !
May 6th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
the German public holiday “May 1st” is based in history by a strike in 1886 in the USA where the labour union fought for working only 8 hours a day.
The fight escalated and many people died.
After that this day is known as labour day in many countries and is celebrated as a public holiday.
At least the German celebrate a holiday that based on a american event.
(It is not the only one - the Christopher Street Day (CSD) [Gay Pride] is also well known in Germany)
May 8th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Raul: Germans, young or old, do NOT speak English well, they only THINK they do. The better you get at it, the more you realize how awful your English actually is. That is true even for native speakers.
May 8th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Germans aren’t very good at English. But still better than the French, the Spanish or the Italians. The Dutch are good. So are the Swedish…
May 9th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Let`s talk about americans speaking german. Let`s compare the share of germans speaking fluent english to the share of americans being able to express themselves in german/french/dutch etc. language. Nevertheless i think Luke is right about the dutch and the people from sweden.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
The problem is that there’s no need for knowing German. It annoys Germans that it isn’t “Wissenschaftssprache” anymore.
I’ve heard of German companies paying their employees English lessons in advance just in case the company gets aquired ;).
Concerning the English skills of the Dutch and Scandinavians: It’s time to found that “Verein zur Förderung von Untertiteln - e.V.” ;).
May 11th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Das mit der “Wissenschaftssprache” ist Unfug.
Ich finde es schon grenzwertig und überheblich bis arrogant von 80 Millionen Sprechern einer eigenen Sprache zu verlangen, das sie fehlerfrei eine andere Sprache sprechen sollen, deren Benutzer dasselbe anscheinend nicht wollen.
Nettes Video!
May 11th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
> Das mit der “Wissenschaftssprache” ist Unfug.
Da kennt sich aber einer aus…
May 11th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Na, ist doch so: wieviele Deutsche kennst Du, die genervt sind, dass Deutsch keine Wissenschaftssprache mehr ist?
June 17th, 2008 at 2:09 am
I’m pretty sure most Americans cannot speak English properly. Trust me…it gets annoying after a while.
February 4th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
“May 1st in Germany is the “Day of Work”, a national holiday, so nobody goes to work.”
Another interesting fact is, that Germans do work on “Freitag”. They get it all wrong.
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:55 am
Seems there is a lot of knowledge about Germany especially with bored english speaking guys,who never have visited Germany. That`s OK, we are amused, go on muckering, have a nice time but drink less Scotch.
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:21 pm
roll, I don’t know any, but I know LOTS of Germans who seem unable to understand exaggeration for humorous effect.
April 24th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Melian, dafür kenne ich auch einige Amerikaner, die unser manchmal nicht so ganz ernst gemeintes Geschimpfe über Amerika in den falschen Hals bekommen
June 18th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
I love the video XD It brightened my day, as I’m trying to learn the German language by myself. It’s quite hard..
June 18th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
i love that video. but seriously, for us germans there are no difference between “s” and “th”…..sanks for underthtanding. :-))))
October 11th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
It’s sad you didn’t write anything about the 1st of May.
Our nation divides into the people who but an amazing amount of beer in a Bolerwagen and get awfully drunk somewhere on a nice Wiese, and Linksextreme who have street fights with the police in every bigger city (especially Kreuzberg, Berlin, of course). It’s an awesome holidays.
October 14th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
nice vid, it says it all.
more beer please!
August 31st, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Tanja, you forgot the large fraction of Germans who just enjoy the holiday without getting drunk
September 6th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
Wenn Deutsche sich rundheraus weigern würden, auf englisch zu sprechen und zu schreiben, wie es die Franzosen mit ihrer eigenen Sprache tun, müßten die Sprecher des Englischen auch deutsch lernen, oder Dolmetscher und Übersetzer (zusätzliche Arbeitsplätze!) einstellen. Deutschlands Wirtschaftsmacht ist groß genug, daß die englischsprachige Welt die Deutschen nicht einfach ignorieren könnte. Und dann wären Deutsch- und Englischsprecher auf gleicher Ebene und Deutsche hätten keinen unfairen Nachteil, weil sie sich nicht gezwungen sähen, sich in einer Sprache ausdrücken, die nicht ihre Muttersprache ist.
(Weil ich aber doch nett bin: If Germans flat out refused to speak and write in English and insisted in German, like the French do with their own language, the speakers of English would have a need to learn German, or hire interpreters and translators (additional jobs!), too. Germany’s economic power is large enough so that the Anglophone world couldn’t simply ignore the Germans. Then, speakers of German and English would be on equal footing and Germans wouldn’t be at an unfair disadvantage, as they wouldn’t feel forced to express themselves in a language that isn’t their native tongue.)