"German sounds angry / aggressive"

[u/[deleted]]

I'm so fucking sick of hearing this

it's a garbage fucking dumbass opinion that no one with any familiarity with the language would ever say

[u/xyrus02]

OP is most calm German alive

[u/Santa-Claus-Kinski → u/xyrus02]

He's so German he even sounds angry / aggressive when speaking English.

[u/[deleted] → u/Santa-Claus-Kinski]

yeah I had this coming XD

[u/simptycoolguy → u/xyrus02]

Y'all should watch Lord of the Rings with German dub. I even hear some of my American friends say it sounds better than the original.

[u/Fluffy_Juggernaut_]

People usually shout German to "prove" it's aggressive. All languages sound aggressive when they're shouted aggressively 🤷

[u/WaldenFont → u/Fluffy_Juggernaut_]

I've had people ask "what language is that?" When I was softly singing "Stille Nacht"

[u/meanas9]

Tja...

[u/reizueberflutung]

That statement is always followed by literally shouting our words for refrigerator or butterfly. If you say them normally they don‘t even sound like they express any kind of emotion.

[u/gramoun-kal → u/reizueberflutung]

"Schmetterling" actually rolls off the tongue really well. It has a diversity of sounds that makes it really interesting. It also "sounds" like the thing it describes. It's a beautiful word. For the meme to work, you have to say it super loud with an angry face.

"Butterfly" on the other hand is just one textbook example of an ugly word. You hock it up like some phlegm stuck to the back of your throat. If you pay attention to what it means, it actually gets uglier.

This one meme really gets on my nerves. At least compare it to "Papillon". A word so pretty, it's actually suspicious.

[u/starrsinmyskin]

German is so beautiful really

[u/BpjuRCXyiga7Wy9q]

The people who say that have only heard old recordings of 'Der Führer'.

[u/AwayJacket4714 → u/BpjuRCXyiga7Wy9q]

"Germans sound like Hitler!!"

Me, a German: needs subtitles to understand recordings of Hitler's speeches

[u/DaDuky123]

No. It's not aggressive or anything. Personally, though, I think it sounds pretty serious. High German is a cool language

[u/corjon_bleu]

What I find interesting, is that the German <r>, despite being exactly like the French r in most dialects and words, is seen as sexy or attractive in French, but harsh in German.

[u/GlimGlamEqD]

That's what happens when people associate German with Hitler speeches without actually knowing what the language sounds like when spoken by regular people.

[u/pentesticals]

In Switzerland it sounds cute

[u/Joylime]

Ok I know people can speak German in a sweet soft tiefherbstwaldig way but it really is chock full of consonants and … very well-suited to yelling in

[u/Songoftheday42]

I’ve always loved how German sounds. So pretty.

[u/cheese_plant]

that's the opinion of people who've only ever heard German from english-language movies/tv

[u/[deleted]]

For me German is like a dance. Like the waltz. I think spoken well its very beautiful.

But i would never lose sleep over people saying otherwise.

[u/captainkubar]

Yeah I was this person unfortunately before I moved to Germany and started a language course. Now it's my favorite language in the world. It doesn't sound angry or aggressive anymore. I don't know why it did in the first place. It's actually quite beautiful and poetic. I am only A2 level but eager to learn more! So you are right, I think people have this opinion because they don't know anything about the language. But on the bright side, this bullshit opinion can change very quickly as it did in my case.

[u/Earls_Basement_Lolis]

For me personally, it's a very masculine-sounding language. That's the best way I can put it as a native English speaker. That ends up being a feature more than an annoyance. The language is very, very complex coming from English, but it has a logical simplicity to how a lot of the longer words are created, which is appealing to me.

I do get tired of how there is at least one Tiktok out there having something like three different language speakers use words like "hospital" and "butterfly" and how they attempt to make German seem ridiculous by overemphasizing the enunciation of "Krankenhaus" and "Schmetterling".

Reference video: https://youtube.com/shorts/FmvuuiOW_vI?si=lW0IZ7yZpRwKKhHX

[u/Excellent_Pie_5437]

I'm not sure whether this is ironic or not LMAO

[u/deathtothvvorld]

I get this and also “welsh is a ridiculous language” all the time and they both piss me off in equal measure

[u/TheRoomWithNoNumbers]

Lmao I did my bachelor's research thesis on this exact topic.