Interesting facts - Germany Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
So when I went to Germany, I had the very wrong expectation that it was just going to be all German people there. And it turns out there are lots of different cultures there that you are going to run into. You will meet people from Africa, from Spain, Italy, from the Middle East, from China, and just from all over the world. And it's a really cool experience to be able to interact with so many different cultures. And also to appreciate the German culture. There's a lot of history and really old places that you just wouldn't see probably where you live. It's a really good experience.
Video 2 Transcript
So one fun fact you might not know is that Venice, Italy doesn't actually have the most bridges in the world. It's actually in Hamburg, Germany. There's more than 2400 bridges in Hamburg. It's just a big port city up north. And yeah, there's really so many. It's more bridges than London, Amsterdam and Venice combined. And so that's a lot. And yeah, you'll hear people say that all the time when you're there. And just honestly, they're like, yep, we're actually the best. And it's true.
Video 3 Transcript
A fun fact about Germany is that university in Germany is nearly free and that's why you'll find a lot of international people at German universities. Housing is probably the most expensive of all of it, but compared to like college and university here in America, it's just much cheaper and it's the best.
Video 4 Transcript
Now there are plenty of tourist places you can go and they will charge you a lot of money for reasonably good goods But what you really want to do if you want to get stuff like lederhosen, biersteins, dirndls, and whatnot Is you have to go to a second-hand store The thing is these second-hand stores contain biersteins and lederhosen that real Germans had and that's where I got all of mine They're beautiful beautiful treasure troves and I learned about him towards the end of my mission Which was probably a good thing because I bought a lot of stuff and brought it home So yeah, fun fact if you want souvenirs fun stuff go to second-hand stores. They're everywhere
Video 5 Transcript
Berlin is the biggest city in Western Europe besides London, if you count London out there in England. So, big city, huge, tons and tons of people, but tons of refugees. There's not only German-speaking, but there's Chinese, there's Persian, there's Turkish, and Spanish. So there's a lot of cultures out there. You're going to meet not only just Germans, but people from all sorts of other faiths, especially people from strong Muslim backgrounds. Berlin's got a lot of history, Berlin Wall, World War II, you can learn a lot of stuff. And that city also has both influences from when the Berlin Wall was up. You get a big chunk of Western Germany, you get a big chunk of Eastern Germany. And it's really fascinating to see how those two different sides still are today.