Hello and welcome back. This video will be in German language.
I add English subtitle.
Japanese and French.
I met my friend Maxie. She is also a Youtuber.
She has the channel "German in Tokyo"
I will link it up here.
We are talking about German Christmas Customs and Japanese Christmas Customs.
This will be very interesting for my German viewers.
At the same time, if you are learning the German language, you can try to understand us.
Or just read the subtitle with us.
Let's go!
Martina: My name is Martina.
Maxie: Hello
Maxie: Today, we are talking about German Christmas chocolate and Christmas sweets. Martina: Christmas sweets.
Maxie: Do you know the brand Lindt chocolate? Lindt chocolate taste so delicious.
Maxie: It's a little bit more expensive than the usually one.
Martina: Lindt is available in Japan. In Tokyo is a Lindt Cafe. I think in .... Maxie: Shibuya
Martina: In Shibuya or Harajuku. Maxie: Yokohma as well. Martina: True.
Martina: However, I do not know, if this Christmas chocolate is available there.
Martina: This chocolate you got from Germany, correct?
Maxie: Yes, this one is from Germany. A fine filling with a touch of cinnamon and coriander.
Martina: Well, everything which has to do with cinnamon will taste like Christmas.
Maxie: True, it taste like Christmas for the German palate.
Martina: We are eating duck at Christmas Eve.
Maxie: Duck?
Maxie: In Deutschland, ja das ist wahr.
Martina: In Germany we (my family) eat duck for Christmas Eve.
Martina: What is your family eating for Christmas, Maxie?
Maxie: We often eat Fondue.
Martina: Yes, meat Fondue, correct?
Maxie: Fondue is a Christmas Meal. Especially when you sit with your family at the table.
Martina: Meat or cheese Fondue?
Maxie: We did meat Fondue or Raclette. Raclette is also with cheese.
Martina: True, Raclette is very yummy.
Maxie: I think Fondue is similar to Shabu Shabu. However, the meat is different.
Martina: The meat is filet. This will be fried in oil.
Martina: After you fry the meat you dip it in a sauce.
Martina: For example garlic sauce or mayonnaise or paprika sauce. Well, many different kind of sauce.
Martina: Sometimes these are home made or not from the shop.
Maxie: Correct and in your imagination, Fondue is similar to Shabu Shabu but in a German way.
Maxie: Raclette I have not seen in Japan, or?
Martina: I do not know, I have not seen it, yet.
Martina: Raclette is actually a hot stone. On top you can grill your steak or vegetables.
Martina: Under the hot stone you can put little frying pans filled with cheese.
Maxie: Correct.
Martina: That is so yummy, I am getting hungry.
Maxie: Yes, we are both hungry.
Martina: We have as dessert lemon creme (every year). It's a little complicated but still simple (?!)
Maxie: We had small slices of salmon on bread.
Maxie: Christmas we eat Fondue and after that we get our gifts.
Maxie: As children we didn't like to eat first because we were so excited to find out what we get as a present.
Martina: Didn't you go first to church?
Maxie: Yes, correct, in the morning you go to church. After church is lunch or dinner and after that finally presents.
Martina: This is on the 24th of December.
Maxie: Yes, the 24th, in the evening.
Martina: True, in the evening.
Martina: In the US you celebrate on the 25th of December Christmas and you will get your gifts in the morning on the 25th, after you wake up.
Maxie: Well, in Germany always on the 24th of December in the evening.
Martina: Correct.
Maxie: This is funny. Back in the day my family used to go united to church. My parents and us.
Maxie: Recently, my sister had to pay church tax and she didn't like that, so she left the church.
Maxie: What that means, she is not going to church anymore.
Maxie: So we went with one family member less to church.
Maxie: Actually, in Germany a lot of people go to church on Christmas, even if they are not religious. It is custom.
Martina: It is custom.
Maxie: Yes, it is somehow German culture.
Martina: Let's talk about the Christmas tree. When do you put the tree up?
Maxie: We always buy a real Christmas tree, firstly.
Martina: A real one.
Martina: No plastic tree.
Maxie: No plastic tree, no no.
Martina: Also real candles or artificial one?
Maxie: We have fairy lights.
Maxie: I think we buy the tree two weeks in advance.
Maxie: We had a hook at the ceiling to hang the Christmas tree.
Martina: A hook?
Maxie: Correct, we hang the Christmas tree on a hook because if you try to put the tree in a tree stand, this is to exhausting.
Maxie: A few years ago we went to the Black Forrest and cut our own tree.
Martina: Did you pay for it or did you steal it?
Maxie: No, of course we paid.
Maxie: There was a sale which promoted "cut your own Christmas tree".
Martina: Well, I lived on the country side. I have 3 siblings.
Martina: We went 2 or 3 days before Christmas with our father to the forrest, at night.
Martina: Torch light, my father always said, we have to be careful not getting caught.
Martina: We got a small Christmas tree.
Martina: This is actually not allowed.
Maxie: Actually people buy Christmas trees.
Maxie: Especially if you live in the city. You will buy your Christmas tree.
Martina: Of course.
Maxie: The countryside has different customs sometimes.
Maxie: I hope you have fun at Christmas.
Maxie: If you want to know more about Christmas in Germany, please ask and write a comment.
Maxie: Please let me know if you did not understand it. This is also interesting to know.
Maxie: Please write something, I am happy. See you next time.
Maxie and Martina: Bye
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