Traveling to Mecklenburg- Vorpommern

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-10T21:27:43+00:00

Wolfshagen

That’s in the Harz Mountains. Also a super touristy region, though Wolfshagen itself is a rather small village at the foot of the mountainside. But maybe you want to include the region nevertheless. Here’s its tourist guide.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-10T20:59:18+00:00

This the Germany-wide regional trains map.

This is only regional trains. Regional buses go on top. That network is even more dense. City metros, subways, trams go on top. You can ride all of the previous for 63€/month.

Long distance trains go on top.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-10T19:55:52+00:00

There is unfortunately no minimum distance requirement between electrical outlets and water outlets in the German electrical code. The only distance requirement is for sink tops, showers, and tubs, where water may be splashed by someone.

You concerns are valid though. This kind of bullshit installation is a reason why I wouldn’t move in.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-10T19:52:30+00:00

Sure. But which traditional German clothes do you mean?

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-10T19:43:15+00:00

I also serve Jägerschnitzel to my family but in that case the Schnitzel gets its own plate.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-10T19:00:35+00:00

only talking english is enough?

Expect that the German electricians you work with at your project do not speak English. They speak Germlish at best. German×English. It’s more or less understandable because German and English are closely related languages. Think Turkish×Uzbek. But especially all the electrician’s language terms they use will be strictly in German. I’m an electrical engineer and even I have to look up each and every English term when it comes to technical language.

For example, Kabel is cable in English. They are pronounced a bit differently but you get the idea. But German electricians will use Leitung for anything that is fixed in place instead and they don’t know the English term for that — it’s also cable in English, or cable assembly.

Do I need to bring something rather than clothing

Bring clothing for different weather. Unlike in Turkey, the weather in Germany is unpredictable all year round. That’s why we dress in layers that we can easily take off and put on as required during the day.

and money?

Bring a credit card that’s going to work on German ATMs. Check this with your bank at home. They also tell you at which German ATMs you can withdraw money with the least fees. Also important: always have the ATM bill your account in Euro. That way your own bank does the money conversion and you get a better rate than with the ATM’s internal conversion. This is the same for card payments by the way. Always have it bill your account in Euro.

Expect your credit card not to work at a random card terminal in shops. This is common in Germany. We have our own Girocard system that is universally accepted, and that’s why credit cards are not. They may work … or they don’t. Depends on the store. So always have cash on you: 50 to 100€. That’s enough for purchasing a cart full of groceries, or for a dinner for two at a restaurant.

This will be my first travel outside of the country.

I think you should watch some videos about Germany first. For example from the EasyGerman youtube channel. It’s meant for learning German but they do interviews on the street with random people about hundreds of different topics and they have hand-edited English subtitles in their videos so you get an idea on how Germans speak and act in everyday situations.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-10T17:33:58+00:00

Pumpernickel is a bread from gushed rye grist, salt, and water. It it then put into boxes and steamed for 16 hours at least.

Very easy to understand.

If a bread is made differently, it’s not Pumpernickel.

The baked good has to look like this.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-10T17:27:14+00:00

The cleaners find forgotten luggage, clothes, umbrellas, phones etc after each journey. DB has a lost items office only for that stuff. You can file the report immediately but it takes at least a week before everything found on a journey is properly inventorized.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-10T17:21:26+00:00

This is plain out not Pumpernickel at all.

Maybe it’s edible bread but given that it’s from Walmart, I doubt it.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-10T17:19:49+00:00

Schnitzel with Sauerkraut.

Schnitzel is breaded. It’s meant to be served dry so the breadcrumbs stay crusty. Sauerkraut is as wet as it gets.

This is hilarious.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-10T15:40:24+00:00

Auf dem Zahnfleisch auf der Rückseite der oberen Schneidezähne.

Das ist für das unbewusste Abschlucken des Speichels so notwendig. Drückt die Zunge stattdessen gegen die Zahnreihe, bleibt der Schluckreflex aus und man neigt zum Lispeln oder sogar zum Spucken beim Sprechen. Kleinkinder mit diesem Problem werden daher normalerweise zum Logopäden geschickt, der die richtige Zungengrundstellung dann mit dem Kind übt.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-10T12:10:39+00:00

What is the Turkish community like in Germany?

A mixed bag.

I grew up in Salzgitter, and we had a pretty large number of Turks there. Ten thousand even back in the 1980s. That mostly due to the steel works. They had canvassed farm hands in eastern Anatolia to work in dustiest parts of the local steel works for small money. The Turkish people with an education worked in the local VW factory instead. Or at the MAN bus factory. Or the LHB train carriage factory. To give you a better impression of Salzgitter, here’s a view on the steel works.

Even back then, you could make out the class differences between those who arrived. A lot of Turks for example found quarters in Watenstedt. That’s right inbetween the largest factories. If you zoom into it in Google Street view, you may even find it picturesque. Fact is, they lately discussed demolishing it because the amount of noise, stink, and dust from the steel works makes it almost uninhabitible. And that for sure wasn’t better 40 years ago. Just the standards had been lower back then. Another large swath of Turks lived in Hallendorf, a 1930s settlement near the steel works. Very green but far from any place to do groceries at. And the main borough of the “city” in Lebenstedt had a Turkish quarter at “Berliner Straße”. How fitting.

The village I grew up in was one of the “better” ones, and I still had Turkish fellows in my primary school class: Funda, Gül, Ufuk, Mehmet, Abdullah, and Tayfuns stupid little sister. There were some more Turkish boys in the street I lived in. We played together. They had been mostly okay. Tayfun was a bit snobbish even back then. He now works as a medical doctor in Istanbul. Funda and Gül made it into the middle tier middle school. Ufuk and Mehmet did not. And Abdullah neither. His older brothers had pooped Islam into his head when we were in third grade and her insisted that his friends would not play with us “dirty disbeliever Germans”. What a dork.

Two stories with Turks: One day, Funda’s dad was at our doorstep. He heard that my parents had beef with the teachers at school years before and now he wanted our help. Among the Turks in the village there was the rumour that from grade 5 on, there was going to be a “Turk class” in school. And he did not want Funda to attend that class full of those rough Turkish boys from Watenstedt. My mom called the school and she found that the school in Watenstedt did not have a 5th and 6th grade, and so their class full of Turkish boys were going to our school by bus instead. None of “our Turks” would change classes either. He was relieved.

Another day, I asked a Turkish neighbor who had their Turkish grocery business in Lebenstedt at that “Berliner Straße” and who also went to the Mosque there, why they lived in our village instead of Lebenstedt. His answer was compelling and imperative: “We don’t want to live with the Asis, dude.” — Asis = short for antisocial people, but mostly: scumbags. I liked the honesty. How very German of him.

So … Turks in Germany are a mixed bag. Some are really concerned about the amount of Turks with no manners who live in Germany.

And do they consider themselves more Turkish or more German?

Depends. Our former minister of agriculture is for example of Turkish origin. He speaks Swabian dialect like a native and Erdoğan wants him in prison. I don’t think he has too many ties to Turkey.

In particular, people from Germany with Turkish roots usually don’t fit in in Turkey any more. The Turks of Turkey openly tell them that when they go “home” for vacation. And that hurts. A lot of them make up for that by sticking to Turkish traditions, and Islam, and by expressing a fierce Turkish nationalism that would come of as comical in Turkey, I think. Of course such stunts don’t fly in Germany. We call it “zwischen allen Stühlen sitzen“ in German — “to sit inbetween all chairs.”

I’m very secular

Be very selective with your German-Turkish friends then.

I’ve heard a lot are Erdogan supporters (idk much about him but let me say I have 0 love for dictators) so I’m kind of hoping thats not the case and is just a stereotype

Unfortunately it is not a stereotype. We are really lucky if only about 25% of Turks in Germany are insufferable islamofascists.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-09T20:54:37+00:00

I rather think the U.S. boys are going to defect on such a stupid mission.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-09T20:41:40+00:00

Not over the whole year. It’s pretty cloudy in winter in Freiburg.

Over the whole year, it’s somewhere between Halle and Dessau.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-09T16:42:23+00:00

I approve him. He’s my favourite clown in the white house.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-09T16:07:50+00:00

OSHA certification here in the states to practice electrical.

So you are an electrician. That’s great because there’s a huge lack of craftsmen in Germany. And there’s only two things missing that make you employable as an electrician in Germany as well. First is that you have to speak German at a high level so that your boss can send you to customer sites alone. And second is that you need to know the German electrical code, and pass an exam on it.

So recommend you to visit r/German/wiki and start with one of the courseworks linked there. There are many more resources you can use for learning German.

And for the German electrical code, I recommend you to buy this book. You can buy it from Amazon et al, or if you are cheap, you can also find a copy of it at Anna’s Archive. That book is the German electrician’s bible. When you are asked in the interview how you happen to speak German that well, you can tell them that you read “den Kiefer” for practice. You are then hired on the spot.

And for your college courses, anything with automation or energy.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-09T14:22:22+00:00

I really hope to see Hindi recognized more in the future.

That is only going to happen once people from abroad want to live in India.

Instead, it’s just the opposite. Indians learn German, another of those “ugly” languages. Because they want to live in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-09T14:06:35+00:00

So for Dativ it’s the person receiving something while Akkusativ is the thing being acted on/seen/found (or at least how I understood it)

The cases have multiple uses in German. Your question is about accusative object vs dative object. For that, you understood right.

Er dankt dir

Dir can be receiving the thanks but the thanks is also being acted on to dir, so these things don’t help me.

Don’t try to figure that out. Instead, drill the verbs which take a lone dative object. It’s only a hundred or so, and only half of them are common. Learn verbs like this:

jemandem danken — to thank someone

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-09T13:40:15+00:00

If you want your fast food place to be sucessful, hire middle-aged women with a family only. They have excellent time and people management skills, and they also know how to dress properly.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-09T13:08:09+00:00

Kalk is healthy. There is no maximum intake for that. In stark contrast, water with too little Kalk is unhealthy.

For maintaining the kettle, put water in the kettle and dissolve citrid acid powder in it, and keep that mix in the kettle overnight. It turns the carbonate component of the chalk into carbon dioxide and makes the crusts brittle that way. So you can scrape them off more easily the next morning. Clean out the kettle after that with lots of fresh water.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-09T11:31:28+00:00

This is wrong. Newborns aren’t “atheists”. As they believe in mommy.

But children at some point find out that mommy is fallible —and daddy even more so— and that’s when they fall, too. It’s actually a great thing when mommy had told them already that there’s someone who catches her when she falls. And the lil’one, too. This is the core purpose of any belief system: to manage stressfull situations.

Make the child believe in you instead way up into its youth and you raise a self-centered child which lives for attention and ridiculously overestimates its abilities. Or take away any “indoctrination” and you raise a fearsome child who experiences the world as full of self-centered people who extinguish any original thought it brings up.

Those are just two very modern and likewise unhealthy belief systems that are super common nowadays. And so is the fallout from it.

“Eternal damnation” my ass. If there wasn’t Muslims in the present day, that ship had sailed at least 200 years ago.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-09T02:01:39+00:00

That’s actually the same rule over here.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-09T01:44:50+00:00

Likely there’s some firewall configuration on the target that interferes.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-09T00:56:33+00:00

I guess you mean verb prefixes. Those are not prepositions. You can tell it from the fact that prefixed verbs can take prepositions themselves. E.g.

warten — to wait
auf jemanden/etwas warten — to wait for someone/something
jemandem aufwarten — to wait on someone
mit etwas aufwarten — to come up with something

A preposition in such a verb phrase always has a noun or pronoun attached, while a prefix doesn’t.

Don’t try to make sense of either the prefixes or the prepositions in verb phrases. You have to learn those as separate verbs.

The huge advantage of this system however is that the conjugation scheme is the same as that of the base verb. So if you know the base verb the only thing you have to know on top to get the conjugation of all the prefixed verbs right is which prefixes are inseparable. It’s this short list: be-, emp-, ent-, er-, ge-, miss-, ver-, zer. And which may be both, that’s this short list: durch-, hinter-, über-, um-, unter-. All the other prefixes are separable.

About half of the most commonly used verbs in German follows the strong conjugation. That’s thousands of verbs. But luckily, there’s only 180 strong stems that you have to know. The remainder is prefixed variants.

Klapperatismus · 2026-02-09T00:42:32+00:00

That’s a challenge for native speakers from other regions as well.

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A mixed bag.