Obviously it has the word "arsch" in it
which means
ass so yeah it's not you don't want to
use this in an essay or something like
that.
In an interview
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.
And for today's video i actually
connected with another Youtuber
Montana Showalter she's an American who
lived in Germany for about
seven months. She did a high school
exchange in Passau
which is a city in Bavaria so the same
state that i'm from
and just like me she makes videos about
her experiences with all of the culture
and language differences between Germany
and the US
just from the opposite perspective so if
you're not familiar with her channel yet
I definitely recommend checking it out.
For this video we thought it would be
fun to talk about something that
as a non-native speaker of any language
really
is a huge challenge in the beginning and
nobody really prepares you for that
and that's slang terms or colloquial
expressions.
People often use them with you without
even being aware
that you might not understand them and
obviously you don't learn those
expressions in a classroom setting
usually so especially when you first
come to a country you
often have no clue what people are
saying.
So i made a list with german slang terms,
youth language, colloquialisms
and Montana did the same with English
slang terms and we kind of
quizzed each other on what those
expressions mean. So the other person was
supposed to explain
or guess the meaning. I actually learned
quite a few new expressions from her and
I taught her some german ones too
so while you watch definitely try to
guess together with us and then
let us know in the comments below which
of the words you were familiar with
and which ones you had never even heard
before. We obviously didn't meet up in
person
because Montana lives in Virginia so we
talked via Zoom
which is also why you see me look down
to the screen when I talk to her
and this is the first part of the video
so after you're finished make sure to go
over to Montana's channel and check out
the second part on her channel.
It's the first link in the info box
below and with that
let's jump right in and see how much
street credibility i really have -
spoiler it's not a lot. So my first
word for you is actually pretty simple
and i feel like you've definitely
heard this a few times or probably a lot
of times in germany
um and it's "verarschen"
I don't think i've ever heard that word
before. Really?
Maybe the past tense like
Verarscht? Is that the past? Or, "Jemand hat mich verarscht."
Um like someone did something
bad to me? Screwed me over?
It's definitely not a nice thing.
What does it mean?
Um it's like to hoax
somebody but also like, "Are you kidding
me?" "Willst du mich verarschen?"
I'm not quite sure how to
perfectly translate the
the word itself. I mean i don't think
I've ever used that word
but also when I was in Germany I tried
not to use slang too much because I
didn't know how
severe, how bad it was. Versus in the
US I can use slang because I know
if a word is super bad but in Germany I
was just never
sure so I kind of stayed away from those
words. Yeah that makes sense. Well this
one I feel like people just use a lot
it's not even
like youth language really. My parents
use this I feel like everyone uses this, but like obviously it has the word
"Arsch" in it
which means ass so yeah it's not you
don't want to use this in an essay or
something like that.
In an interview. Okay so
my first word is cuffed.
Okay i know that one, like to be
cuffed right?
Okay and like cuff season or cuffing
season.
Yeah that's a dating term. "I'm cuffed" means I'm in
a committed relationship,
and cuffing season is
this season when people try to find a
boyfriend or girlfriend. Yeah
and people normally say cuffing season
is around
fall and winter because that's when
they're all the cute
activities like ice skating and going to
christmas themed events and so they call it
cuffing season because everybody wants a
boyfriend or girlfriend. Okay the next one on my list is "Lauch"
"Lauch" as in a term
to call a person. I think I know this one
when someone's super duper skinny
and kind of tall. Yeah so it can
be that it can also just be
like an insult saying someone's an idiot
or someone's not smart or
unsuccessful but it also definitely has
that part where someone's just tall and
skinny, yeah.
Yeah there was this one guy in my class
and everyone would use that word for him,
it was so mean.
Oh really?! But he was so tall.
Wow um also guys everyone who's watching
it's raining here a little bit in
Cincinnati so like whenever you hear
that in the background it's just
the rain coming back again. My next one
is to "call shotgun"
You know this one too?
Well i think so, is when you want to
sit in the passenger seat in a car.
"I call shotgun" means like i get to sit
there. Mine are too easy for you you know
all of the english ones. Well do you have
like
some that are a little more tricky? Yeah
I think I have a few that are more
teen slang so you probably won't know
them. Well i can also
go with like a few more basic ones so
let's do this one next. Do you know "pennen"?
"Pennen," "Ich penne schon"
or you're calling your friend
and her mom answers and says oh no
"Sie pennt gerade." Is busy? I've no clue.
Pennen it's p-e-n-n-e-n
I have no clue. It's schlafen.
Oh okay pennen, is it more
like a nap? She's napping? No it's
really just the same as schlafen, to sleep.
is that a dialect word like only in the
South or North or is that
all Germany. I don't think so I think it's
all Germany
and i use it all the time instead of
schlafen. I just go with schlafen because
I've never heard of that and I don't think
any of my friends said it either.
But is that a word that parents use
too or more younger people.
Well my parents would use that yeah,
yeah I think whenever my brother or I would sleep in super long and
everyone else was up already and
they would ask, "Well where is
Feli?" they'd be like "sie pennt noch."
Maybe i'll use that now. Okay well i'm
actually teaching something
that's cool.
Okay my next one I'm hoping you
don't know.
It's "thirst trap." Okay I've heard this
one before
but I can't remember what it means. Let
me let me think for a second.
Thirst trap. Is it something dating
related? It's not really dating related.
It doesn't really have to do
with dating. No then I don't know it.
It's when girls and guys too
you go and take really scandalous photos
to post on instagram or on social media
and then in hopes that people will like
dm you
and comment and say that you look really
good in them.
Okay so kind of like fishing for
compliments. But with photos and people
say
like today i want to go take thirst
traps.
Oh wow okay yeah, none of my friends
have ever
said that I don't think. Yeah it's more
of a young
teen thing. Wow, okay
I learned something, cool. Let's try this
one, "läuft bei dir."
It's a it's a phrase, "läuft bei dir."
So you're doing something you're
telling me about something and I'll go,
"Oh, läuft bei dir Montana."
Is that okay with you? Mm-mm
it's not really a question. I
guess it could be a question in this
example was like a statement.
Is "läuft" laufen, like run?
Mm-hmm. Like run by you?
Well, okay do you want to know? Yeah.
Okay people actually use this a lot but
it's pretty new i think it's like
just a few years old, and saying "läuft bei dir"
kinda means "you're killing it" or
"things are going well for you" or like
you can even just say it "läuft bei mir," like
"I'm killing it my life's going great"
or you can also use it as a question if
you want to.
Okay, läuft bei dir.
My next one is definitely common
but it's got a ton of different meanings
so i don't know which ones you know
it's when people say "low-key." Ok yeah
I definitely know that.
Yeah it's kind of hard to translate
I feel like because,
I know how to use it in a sentence
"I low-key just wanna
go swim in a pool right now." You
can really use it in almost any sentence.
Yeah. I would say it means "kinda" or
"basically" and it's really turned into a
filler word,
when you want to say something but you
don't want it to sound too harsh.
So if you want to call something ugly
but you don't want the person to get
offended you could say that's
low-key ugly and then they'll know that
you're kind of joking but
still serious. Yeah I've definitely used it sometimes but
it's more of
a younger people's thing and some people
use it so much that it kind of annoys me.
Some people say it so much and they also
started, because low key got so popular and now
people say high key.
They're both unnecessary words. Do you
know "Kohle"?
Well it has different meanings.
It has like a real meaning but then it
has like the colloquial meaning. I'm trying to think of an example
something like,
"Ich habe keine Kohle."
I have no coke?
i have no money?
Yep! Oh really? That was such a guess.
Kohle is money. Does "Kohle" normally
mean coke right?
No, that's cola. So this one you spell
k-o-h-l-e.
Like for the viewers it'll be on the
screen but this one usually means coal, as in what you need for a
grill out.
Oh okay okay. Cola and then Kohle, okay.
A lot of mine are actually
relationship based, I didn't know
that when i was writing them but this
next one is "simp."
Okay this one I actually know
from Youtube because people have used
this in my
comment section to like call other
people in my comment section out and I didn't know what it meant so I
actually looked this up on urban
dictionary.
Okay let me think if I can
explain it or if I remember exactly,
but I guess
it's a usually a guy who
is just complimenting a woman
but in kind of like a disgusting way, I
guess?
Is that kind of what it is? Uh I wouldn't
say that's what it is.
Maybe i remember it wrong. Or
maybe there's multiple
definitions.
What i would say "simp" is, is someone who does whatever a girl needs.
So he's running after her kind of. Who
wants to impress a girl so much that
they'll
run to their house as soon as they text
them or,
I think the definition on urban
dictionary because I looked it up too
was a guy who will put the girl before
any of his guy friends.
Oh wow okay I don't think I've ever used
that or I don't think i've ever actually
heard
a person use this. So do you and
your friends use that?
Simp, I would say my guy friends
definitely use that word. Okay
like if if a guy is doing everything he
can
to go and impress a girl they'll
definitely call him a simp
and even if he just has a cute date planned and
someone mentions it they'll call him a
simp, so it's definitely a common word.
Yeah, it's kind of mean actually. It is
especially as a girl I find it cute if
the guy was
trying to do something sweet and then
other guys are just making fun of him.
Do you think you know some Bavarian
colloquialisms?
I would think so at least a few words
because my friends would speak
like Bavarian at parties and at
hangouts,
but my host family is actually not from
Bavaria
so i learned hochdeutsch from them.
But go ahead and try me. So this one
is not only used in Bavaria but i think
it's mostly Bavarian and it's
"passt schon"
"It's good" or "that's okay." Yeah,
I think i would use that in my
vocab and then people would be like "wow!"
Yeah, like you sound like a native. That's
actually funny because I didn't know
that was Bavarian.
Well I think that it was initially
Bavarian because to me it has more
of a Bavarian connotation to it, and
Bavarians use it as
in "basst scho" like in actual Bavarian
dialect you would like replace the "p"
with a "b" and then leave out
the n in the end. But people in the north use it too.
Can you speak
full Bavarian when you normally speak
German? Is it
like Bayrisch? No, I speak
hochdeutsch because I'm from Munich city
and I feel like in most big cities
at least
people don't really speak a strong
accent or dialect.
My dad can speak Bavarian dialect and
a lot of
people that I actually grew up with can
speak it but in everyday life in like
school and stuff people would still
speak hochdeutsch instead. In my generation at
least. It's kind of changed in the past
few generations.
Yeah I think that it was a little bit
hard for my host sister because
they speak so much Bayrisch outside of
school
and whenever she'd speak it people would
kind of not make fun of her but just
it wasn't natural because they're not
from there.
I tried learning some
but it never worked out too well.
Well that's cool though that you
tried, I don't even sound like a native
Bavarian speaker when i
try to speak it just because like i
didn't really
grow up with it in my in my household.
I kind of have an accent I guess if I speak it.
Passau is also a lot more
Bavarian than Munich is.
There's also, "Österreichisch? Or an
Austrian accent. But i like that one more
I think it sounds funny.
Yeah I think that Austrian
sounds super cute honestly,
sorry to all Austrians but you sound
cute.
Ok my word is "yack."
Okay yack is just like something's gross,
right? No okay it's not that?
Well then I don't know. I think you're thinking of "yuck."
Yeah. What did you say? Yack is with an "a"
yuck is with a "u."
Okay so but it's just like y-a-k?
y-a-c-k. I have no idea but can you give me
like an example sentence or something?
Okay this is a big hint.
It's a verb, it's
"to yack" and you could say "he
yacked last night."
He puked? Yeah, but it's only in terms of
alcohol. You wouldn't say yack
at an amusement park really because if
someone rode a roller coaster you'd say
he threw up or he puked but normally in
terms of drinking and when someone gets sick
after drinking you say yack.
Like "they yacked" and it's kind of a gross
word. I feel like I may have heard this
before and just understood it out
of context and therefore never
remembered the word if that makes sense.
It's definitely not formal so I wouldn't
use it in daily vocab.
Do you know what a Spezi is? But not
the drink.
Not the beverage, but a Spezi would
be a person.
But like what kind of person? The only
one I know is that coke orange
beverage.
Yeah it's that too, it's that too.
It could also be "Spezl"
in Bavarian with an "l" instead of an "i" in
the end. Spezi or Spezl.
What's it mean? Okay it's a good friend.    
Oh!
yeah, "Ich treff mich jetzt mit meinem Spezi."
So like best friend? Yeah I'm not sure if
you would actually translate it to
best friend, but it's a close friend.
Okay. Mine is "sus."
How do you spell it?
s-u-s
Wait but it's not an abbreviation?
Kind of. It's turned into its own word.
I've heard this before but I
have no clue what it means right now.
So it's short for suspicious
but it's when people just say, when
something looks kind of scary
or just out of place you can say "that
looks sus."
And you're skeptical of something
so like an abandoned building you could
say that looks sus.
That looks sus. I would probably just
say that that looks creepy.
Yeah or sketchy. Okay this one's not
Bavarian this one's just a cool word
that we have in German and it's
"Jein." "Ja und nein"
Yeah okay that was easy. Yes, no.
I think in english it'd say
actually I don't know. I was about to say
naja but that's also German.
That's german I don't think there is
really an english equivalent I think you
can say "yes and no" or "eh"
but that's still not the right
translation. Okay the next one I have is
shook. "I'm shook" as in like "I'm
baffled?" I'm, I don't even know...
Impressed?
Yeah something along those lines...
It can mean all of those
but people normally say, when something's
crazy or when something bad happened they just say "I'm so shook."
Snd now it's turned into people say
"shooketh" which I don't really understand.
I've never heard that. Yeah i don't
know where that came about
but it means the same thing.
Yeah I feel like I hear people use it
when something's also like
unexpected or like when people act in a
surprising way and then
they'll say like oh wow he did that
I'm shook, or something like that.
Yeah I use that one a lot.
All right let's go back to like the
actual youth language,
do you know what an Alman or Kartoffel...
Okay so the rest of that
you'll find on Montana's channel in the
second part,
just click up here or the first link in
the info box. We covered words like Ehrenmann, goat
Bullen, snatch, blau machen and so on
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