My GERMAN Sister-in-Law’s FIRST REACTION to the USA! | Feli from Germany

Get a 7-day free trial and 25% off Blinkist Annual Premium by clicking here: bit.ly/FelifromGermanyDecember23 👉Thanks so much to Steffi for sharing your thoughts and impressions with us! 😊Click here to watch them try Cincinnati Foods ▸https://youtu.be/xdUavDfB1kk (Both videos were recorded in May 2023

Feli's American English accent has been on-point for years now but hearing it concurrently with others that have a stronger foreign accent really makes you realize just how impressive Feli's accent is.

It never ceases to amaze me how easily the English language comes to Germans. They speak it and understand the inside jokes easily.

Feli, you are literally speaking english now with an American accent. Lol You are amazingly fluent, and english has a lot of nuances. Great video

So many German immigrants settled in Ohio. We're all connected. Growing up, and till today, my family has so many recipes and traditions that are German and my family came here from Germany in the 1770's. Amazing how we still honor that heritage through food and tradition

When our friend from Germany visited us in rural Kansas, we asked if he wanted to go clay target shooting. He couldn't believe that we could just do that whenever we wanted and he had such a fun time.

3 Bavarians all talking to each other in English😄

I spent a little time in Germany some years ago and I really enjoyed it. What really struck me was the fact that other than local customs, people around the world are pretty much the same. I loved discovering that.

I have visited Germany many times mostly for business but on several vacations as well. I found the people to be friendly and I was amazed how many Germans speak English with many I would though they were British and I met several who I would have believed they were American. The food was different, but I liked it all. I never did get used to the price of gas or buying it by the liter. My favorite places were Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Amberg, and Heidelberg. Germany is very scenic. Amberg looked like it hadn't changed since the Medieval times. Wonderful people. Heidelberg was quaint with lots of out door dinning and lots of people. I was surprised to see several palm trees there because it seemed to be too far north, but there they were. I did visit a small town called Moosburg (not far from Munich) for sentimental reasons. My dad was a B-17 pilot during the War and was shot down over Holtland on July 26, 1943 by Senior Lieutenant Decker flying a FW-190. Five of my dad's crew were killed and five, including my dad, bailed out and were captured. My dad told me that when he landed on the ground, angry farmers with farm tools wanted to kill him, but a German patrol looking for the downed crew actually saved his life. Decker was shot down and killed on July 30, 1943 by an unknown American P-47 pilot. Such are the whims of war. The Germans kept very detailed records. The Americans not so much. My dad was in Stalag Luft III until January 1945 when the entire POW camp was moved to Stalag VIIA outside of Moosburg where he remained until liberated by the advanced forces of Patton's Third Army in April 1945. So I was visiting Moosburg to see if I could find where Stalag VIIA had been. I found the old train station and the camp wasn't too far from there but it wasn't obvious where the camp had been. I went in to a local bar and asked if anyone spoke English. To my surprise and old man with gray hair spoke enough to understand that I wanted to know where Stalag VIIA had been and he took me to where the front gate to the camp had been. I had a map of the camp from 1945 that showed where the different nationalities had been kept. There were Russian, French, British, and American sectors. There were enough streets and other landmarks remaining that I could identify where the Americans had been kept. It was a housing area so I only knew the general area. I paid my respects to my dad and imagined where in that area he had been. It was February and bitter cold that day and I knew the camp was very over crowded and there were not enough barracks to house them all and so many lived and slept in the cold. I can't image it. There was one other city I visited for a few days: Frankfurt. I happed to be there during Octoberfest and very much enjoyed the street vendors selling sausages and beer. Later that night I walked across the bridge to what was called "Old Frankfurt" because the Frankfurt in which I enjoyed Octoberfest looked like it had been built in the 1950's and 60's and I wondered what Old Frankfurt was like. I ended up in what I would describe as a small rustic beer garden where everyone was celebrating the Apple Wine Festival and so I enjoyed a couple glasses of Apple Wine. There was no evidence of Octoberfest that I could see in Old Frankfurt. It was an odd experience for me. And one thing I really enjoyed was the fact there seemed to bakeries and coffee shops along almost every street. I liked everything about Germany and I would like to return but I'm now 77 and age is becoming an issue with regards to travelling long distances. Get your adventures and fun done while you are young and healthy.

Here in Arizona, it's the law for an establishment to give free water to someone who asks for it. Anyone who has spent five minutes here during Summer, will know why!

When she was talking about bears and nothing being all that dangerous in Germany, I am reminded of my frequent encounter with boars while we were in the field in Germany when I was in the US Army.They used to chase us up onto our vehicles to get away from them! LOL.

You're speaking American English like a true native now. You should be proud of what you've achieved in a relatively short space of time. Also, Steffi is such a lovely, sweet girl. She brings a lot to the channel and Timo is a VERY lucky guy.

The wild boars in Wildflecken, DE are pretty intimidating. When I was in the U.S. Army we used to go there for weapons ranges. And at night we had to pull guard duty on the shacks where the ammo was stored. We'd regularly see 200-300lbs boars passing by within 5 or 10 feet.

Feli, I have to salute your absolute mastery of the English language. I am a retired college professor who taught foreign languages, and I have many foreign friends. I am always shocked that people who have lived in this country for 20 years or more can barely put together a sentence in English, and even then they might not be understood. Others got to a certain stage of English, and since that seemed to work for them, that's where they stayed. I have been subscribed to your channel since you began, and your English was already very good, but now it's perfect, in both fluency and pronunciation.

Blows me away how well they could speak such fluent English!

I am a truck driver and have seen the skyline of many cities. The Cincinnati skyline is by far my favorite.

Outstanding. As a former Cincinnatian of German descent, loved this video! Living in Texas now.

As an German American as well, born in Munich. I prefer the skyline in Munich, so much more pleasant! I brought some cousins over to Tennessee, and we visited a casino in Tunica, Mississippi. I told the bartender that we were visiting from Germany and would like to try American beers He brought us Sam Adams, Yuengling (yes American) and Budwieser. Gave us them all for free, you get free beers if you play in the casino, but we were not playing, but he said, I think you are! We liked the Yuengling the best. Visited all over the south. Had a great time.

The free tap water experience made me laugh because that was my biggest culture shock in reverse. As an American in Germany, I asked for a glass of water with my meal at a restaurant and was given a bottle of sparkling water. It cost as much or more than the soda my mom ordered, and I had never had unflavored carbonated water before (I didn't like it). I just wanted plain old water. LOL!

Feli, you are SO perceptive!! Thank you so much for pointing out the often-missed aspect of American poverty: many of them own their own homes, or live with relatives who do, so it's much easier to SEE the poverty here; as opposed to many European countries (and especially their cities), where people living in poverty often dwell in apartments. (Of course, there is practically no such thing as "suburbia" in most of Europe, so it's pretty understandable.)