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Hello my lovely viewers, what's uuuuuuuuup
So, when Iived in Mannheim I lived in a wonderful part (Stadtteil eigentlich)
known as Neckarstadt-West
And for those of you who are from Mannheim or
know anything about Mannheim
know that Neckarstadt-West actually
yeah okay, it's not the most lower-class area
but let's just say, it's not the nicest of areas
and for those of you learning German, this video is for you today
because
there are always to ways when it comes to speaking
well how you speak another langauge
Firstly, there's the normal version
the one you learn in school, at University or wherever
and then there is the 'slang' language
and when I was in Germany, really, nobody had taught me that
Sometimes, for example
the first word I learned when I was in Mannheim
was the word "raffen" (to understand sth.)
"Did you understand?"
or "checken" Hast du es gecheckt?
And I was like what? What, what am I supposed to check?
and checken or raffen just means to understand
so to speak
Have you understood it? / Have you got it?
and above all, when you're living in Neckarstadt-West
there is the "anti-social" language (from da hood haha) for example
people say "Hey man, wassuppp"
Man what's going on, what's up
Do you have a problem?
Is there a problem?
Can you lend me a pen?
Let's go out
nichts - nothing
I'm keen / I'm interested / I'm hungry
Nothing, I haven't seen anything
Do you have/ do you know/ can you?
Could you please do that for me?
when you want to say or use the word "very"
depending on the case
"sehr" (very) has a few synonyms
for example
hey, I'm really happy
I have a super friendly/nice neighbour
and we'll see each other soon!