Even though English and German are both Germanic languages, the two really don’t seem all that similar – at least from a layman’s perspective.
One such layman, Jimmy Fallon, just had his knowledge of the German language put to the test by a very unimpressed native speaker, Christoph Waltz.
On The Tonight Show, the German-Austrian actor quizzed Fallon on the meaning of some very long German words, including sitzpinkler, waldeinsamkeit, and bezirksschornsteinfegermeister. Read more…
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View More Christoph Waltz quizzes Jimmy Fallon on long German words and it’s wonderfully informative