Happy holidays!
A big pet peeve of mine is when people criticize the German language as harsh and angry sounding. Obviously, when you speak in a harsh tone in any language will sound that way like this racist viral YouTube video where the man shouts and yells in German portraying it to be so. Truly ignorant.
Words such as Schmetterling (butterfly) are in reality really beautiful. I love the way the German language sounds and allows you to describe feeling and action on a deeper level than English. My wife and I speak primary English but when we really need to get into a subject we often use German to describe how we are feeling.
Anyways, back to the subject of this post, here are some beautiful pieces and I suggest you give them a listen to get you into the Christmas spirit. You probably already know some of them.
This first one is my favorite Christmas song of all time. If you don't listen to any others please check this one out.
This is a modern children winter song that we love and so do the kids!
A modern take of a German classic song by the famous Helen Fischer.
Another nice classic children song.
Bonus piece
And finally, of course, the famous oh Christmas tree in ist original glory!
Hope you all have a nice and safe holiday!
What, no Stille Nacht?!
That first one sounds very familiar. I wonder if our school choir sang it back in the day. When you attend a Rudolf Steiner school you can't help but get acquainted with some German music!
I think that German is the only Germanic language we really encounter much in the English speaking world, yet ironically, the English language is still classed as Germanic with its roots being Gaelic. In the video they're comparing with romance languages, which are completely different and they're picking the romance words which have made their way into the English language over the years from various occupations of the British Isles. We actually probably have more Germanic words which are similar the German ones. They could have picked out Dutch and Scandinavian words to compare, but the contrast wouldn't have worked very well. 😆
What I love about the German language is its clarity. It's so much easier to hear what native speakers are saying than with the romance languages where they almost blend one word into the next and sometimes even phase parts of words out. I also like how they link words together to make other really long words. My favourite has got to be Schwartzwälderkirschtorte, although I'm not sure if they separate that into two words now.
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Ah! I completely forgot about that one! 🤣 the funny thing is I don't think I have heard it once since I moved here. Maybe it's too churchy for the North German heathens. It's taboo to say chrisktkind around here, it's the weinachtsman!
German is so hard though. Every time I feel like I have it down I talk to someone and can't understand a word. I guess we all have our days though. Gaelic is a cool language and always wanted to study it. We use to re-enact the American civil war on the US and when we played the Irish brigade we got to tell things in Gaelic!
The cake sounds delicious!!! 🙂
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Only two of the videos played for me, the others said "Video Unavailalbe," but this looked like a good selection of songs and the ones that played were lovely! Thanks for using the #wintermas tag! 😊
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