Erstes Date, Ex-Beziehungen und andere Partner 🔥 Dating in Deutschland - Learn German Fast🇩🇪

Hi guys, welcome to a new podcast episode. Today I'm with my husband again. My name is Natalia, I'm your German teacher. This is my husband Tobias, my co-host. Last year we recorded several podcast episodes together. And I saw that our first podcast episode came out exactly one year ago. On Valentine's Day 2024. Do you remember? If not, then make sure to watch the episode. It was really funny. There is also a playlist on my YouTube channel called Podcast. There you will find all the podcast episodes in which we speak German together and have fun. Mostly. Exactly. Oh yes, sorry. I'm a little sick or get sick. Let's see, I hope not. Okay, long story short. Today's topic again refers to Valentine's Day. Are you excited? Sure, I'm always excited. Guys, please support us with a thumbs up. And subscribe to my channel. We are already over 200,000. That's incredibly cool. I'm happy about every single one of you. And now write in the comments if you are single or forgiven. That's a dating platform now. Oh, dating platform on YouTube. No, the topic of today's podcast is dating in Germany. We have been in a relationship for many years. We haven't dated for a long time. That's why I'm curious how the episode will be. We are both forgiven. And you? Hold on, the battery is dying. Which one? Oh, from the PC. No. Okay, we'll start with dating culture in Germany. Have you actually dated in other countries? Am I the first foreigner you've dated? Define dating. Going out or ... Everything. Yes, everything. No, then you're not the first. So not just holding hands. No, but dating can also be the first date. Yes. It can also be that nothing develops out of it. I'm not the first? No. Okay, interesting. I don't know the story yet. Yes, you'll see. Where did you date someone in a foreign country? No, in Hamburg, but she didn't come from Germany. Oh, in Germany, but a foreigner. Just like you. By the way, I forgot to mention that we've been together for 12 years. This year it's 12 years. 11. 11, oh yes. We've been together for 11 years, so it's really been a long time. Yes. Nothing has changed for sure. Yes, let's see. I also dated someone in Ukraine before Tobias. That's why I also have a little bit of foreign experience. Wow. But how did you meet girls you dated before? Where were they? The places, or did you meet them online? How did it work before? So I never met anyone online. It was through friends, at the sports club, at school. You also met while dancing. Yes, well, that counts for sports. And very, I'll call it traditional. Traditional. Me too. I've never met anyone either. There was no Tinder when we dated. Crazy people, right? There was no Tinder. Exactly. So we met at a festival. Village festival. Yes, I lived outside of Hamburg, in a small village, in a small town. And there was a festival. And that's where we met. So it's also very traditional. And then we had our first date. But we'll talk about that later. Oh, okay. Okay, what are the typical first dates? Or were they before? What would you consider a typical first date? Understand. Yes, you meet somewhere, go for a walk, for example. Or go out to eat something together. Or drink coffee or something like that. But that was actually the typical first dates on independent ... How do you say that? Independent terrain. Terrain, what is that? What's it called? On independent ground. Yes. Where both know a little bit, okay, I can theoretically just go now, if I don't feel like it anymore. No, but ... Do you remember during Corona, we had a few friends who were single at the time. And they always went for a walk on the Main. Those were the typical dates back then. Yes, we also went for a walk on the Main. All people went for a walk on the Main during Corona. That's right. But can you still remember our first date? Do you count eating ice cream as the first date? Yes, that was so cute. I was very surprised. Tobias invited me to eat ice cream at noon at 1 p.m. That was so cute. Exactly. But what were your thoughts? I still know a story about why you actually invited me to eat ice cream first. Do you really want me to tell that? No, you can tell it a little nicer. It was a party where we got to know each other. And I didn't know anymore. It was late in the evening, at night, in the morning, whatever. And I didn't really know what Natalia looked like anymore. Above all, you didn't know ... Well, you already knew that I looked good. Yes, of course. But you always told me, you didn't know exactly if we understood each other well. Yes, but also how you really looked. And that's why I thought I'd invite her to eat ice cream first. See if it fits. It fit. And the next day we went to Hamburg on a longer date. First on the independent floor in an ice cream parlor. Well, and then on an independent floor in Hamburg. So we had two first dates, I would say. The first test date. And then the first first date. I passed the test. The beta version and then the ... That was a bad example, by the way. Why? The version didn't change. That's true. It was date 0.1 before 1.0 came. 2.0? No. So date? Yes, first the pre-date and then the first date. Okay, whatever. I hope you have fun with us. A short break. If you want to improve your German this year, then you can download my cheat sheet with German grammar for free. In this cheat sheet I explain the most important grammar topics from A1 to C1. There are even a few exercises for each grammar topic, so that you can learn the topic and practice it directly. And if you want to go one step further, then you are welcome to sign up for one of my intensive courses. At the moment there are intensive courses for all levels from A1 to C1, except for the B1 level. For the B1 level there is currently a waiting list, because we are working on a brand new, really great B1 course. 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I once had a blind date and I don't know if I was there. But if so, there weren't many flowers. So what you don't like. But I don't remember that anymore. For me, I prefer many flowers than no flowers. No. I prefer no flowers or many flowers. Now I'm confused. I don't like it when too few flowers are given to me. So how many is enough? An uneven number and at least five. Very good. Good son. Fun. I have prepared a very cool question. It's what? When something like that comes, it's always bad. No, nothing bad. But do you come up with any taboo topics that you shouldn't talk about on the first date? Religion, politics, economy, money. Except you have a lot of fun. You should talk about religion. Otherwise, I don't know. I don't know if it has to be on the first date. Maybe it doesn't have to be. If someone is extremely religious, you should say that beforehand. Otherwise, you don't have to talk about it philosophically on the first date. And you? Do you come up with anything else? Maybe not necessarily about personal traumas. My ex just left me. That made such a deep hole. But I would really like to date you now. Yes. Or what I also see as a red flag, when people talk badly about their exes. That's really not cool. I don't define it well, but yes. I would come up with one or two examples where that might not be so bad. There is a difference. You can talk badly about your ex with your girlfriend, but not on the next date. In general, the exes should not be on the first date. At least be a topic. Yes. Would be better. So what was that in summary? Church, politics, economy and ex-girlfriend. And trauma. And trauma, exactly. Maybe problems. I think that's the way it is. I have money problems. I'm also in debt. My job sucks. I want to quit. That's a complaint. That was a very long time in advance. Just talk about nice things on the first date. What you like, what you do. I don't think you'll understand that anyway. Highly indebted. I also wrote down a question for the first date. We're still on the first date. Who pays the bill? Basically the man. What? Yes. That from you? I'm not saying that I support that. But unfortunately it is often the case. It is often expected that the man pays. Also in Germany. Yes, indeed. It always depends on the situation. I would like to go on a date now to test it out. Okay, you've all heard that. I have the permission now. No, but I would really be interested in whether the men pay the bill today or not. Normally they do. Well, not normally. Many women do that. I pay myself. But actually they think, I would like him to say, no, I pay the bill. Whether the men do that, that's the other question. I guess we won't find out. Or if any of you in Germany has ever been on a date, then write to us in the comments how the experience was. I'm very curious about your comments. I'm sure some of you have experienced that 4,95 Euro the other person wanted to get back. Because he paid. Yes, please elaborate on that. Explain more. Okay, let's say the partner said, I pay and then I get 4,95 Euro back for whatever you ate or drank. Or 10,95. Whatever. That's such a no-go. Oh my God. That would be the first and the only date for me with that person. Either I pay or we pay separately. But not, prove me 5 Euro later. What? That's not possible. Okay, this is our Valentine's Day special. I know you're not a big fan of Valentine's Day. How many people here are not a fan of Valentine's Day? Yes, are you a fan of it? I think it's cool. We don't necessarily have to go out to eat or give presents. In Ukraine you always give presents to each other on Valentine's Day. Minimum budget. I think it's cute. The idea is cute to celebrate love. Yes, but you can do that every day. You don't need a special day for it. Do you love me every day? Yes, most of the time. But I wanted to brainstorm with you about the ideas what you can do for Valentine's Day. A little trip, a spa hotel. What have we already done for Valentine's Day? Nothing. Wow. Cooking. That's right, cooking. What did we do in Hamburg? Labskaus. Oh, was there a video about that? Yes, there was a video about that. I can link it. We cooked with your parents. I can say we almost always cooked together. I would even say every year. Because we always said we don't want to go out to eat because the restaurants are overcrowded and overpriced. And flowers are three times as expensive. Yes, flowers are overrated. Sure. We mostly wanted to spend time together. And because we work so much we decided to take the time for ourselves and cook together. Was that always on Valentine's Day? Not only, but on Valentine's Day. But it could also be that we gave each other something. I'm not quite sure. No. No? No. Did I say from the start that I wouldn't do that? Okay, very good. But do you have something you would like to do with me as a date? Maybe not necessarily on Valentine's Day, but generally? Yes, going on vacation to a spa hotel for a few days. Yes, we're doing that this weekend. Do you have anything else? No. Okay. Again. Very diverse. Vacation to a spa hotel. I have to tell you something, guys. We lived together in the USA seven years ago. In Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains. It was so cool to live in the middle of nature. We had mountains in front of our door. Sometimes we got notifications like, look out, there are mountain lions. So watch out. Don't go out. There are lions out there. And it was really great to experience this nature. And what I actually wanted to say, we were outside so much and we did so much. We were hiking all the time. We did some cool things. Skiing. We did really cool things in nature. And that's what I miss very much. We live very centrally in Frankfurt. Actually in the middle of the city. So I go jogging regularly in the forest or on the Main. But I don't think it's enough. We don't really take the time to go out. I think one of the reasons is that we don't have a car. In the USA we had a car, so we were very flexible. Here it's always a bit cumbersome because you have to think, do we rent a car or do we rent a bike? You can't get that far with a bike. You quickly find excuses why you don't do that. But that's something I would like to do more. Yes, but you didn't mean that. Romantic. Exactly. More hikes together. Take more things. Go out. Experience nature around us. Do we need a house in the mountains? Or our holiday in Austria. We went skiing during the holidays. It was so great to be outside all day and experience the mountains and nature. Unfortunately, we don't do that here. And the air is also better in nature. So if you have a date the next time, go out into the nature. And time goes by super fast. If you do a hike, you are really busy. You have to work a lot. It's also a sport. You can also talk about God and the world. Maybe not so much about God. Exactly. But that's all. 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