"What's so funny about German?" from the BBC - Video 2

I hope you had ein gutes neues Jahr (a good New Year)! Here is video number 2 in the "What's so funny about German?" short series from the BBC, featuring the German comedian Henning Wehn.



For more info on the series, see my previous post at "What's so funny about German" - Videos from the BBC.

The main page on the BBC for this series is here: What's so funny about German?.

"What's so funny about German?" - Videos from the BBC

"What's so funny about German?" - from the BBC

The BBC has 10 short videos online from a German stand-up comedian taking a humorous look at the German language. Below is the first video in the series:



The main page for the videos can be found here: What's so funny about German?.

The comedian is Henning Wehn, a German stand-up comedian based in London, who calls himself the "German Comedy Ambassador in London."
(His official site is here: HenningWehn.de, which has more audio and video from him.)

Also, check out the rest of the BBC's German language learning resources here: BBC Languages - German.

"The Awful German Language"

By Mark Twain. A humorous look at the German language.

Some long German words.

In 1880, Mark Twain wrote the novel A Tramp Abroad, a humorous account of his experiences traveling through central and southern Europe. In preparing for his travels, Twain started studying German. As an appendix to the book, he wrote the essay “The Awful German Language,” which comically explores the difficulties and troubles of the German language for anyone trying to learn it.

Twain pokes fun at, among other things, the way the German language uses gender and the length of some German words.