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America, there are many things that I love about you.

But there are just some things that I think Germany does better.

Hey everyone! I'm Dana and you're watching Wanted Adventure Living Abroad.

I already made a video about 5 things that I think the USA does better than Germany,

so of course you should definitely go check that video out too.

But now here are a few ways that I think Germany has the USA beat.

Germany, you rock at getting people around town.

Sure, you can go by car in Germany if you want to.

But you know what you can also do?

You can also go by public transportation!

Okay, in some smaller towns and villages that's not really always so possible.

Public transportation isn't necessarily as numerous there, but in the cities of Germany,

there are often buses, trams, trains.

And it is amazing.

I love living in a city with public transportation.

Not into that? Prefer to feel the wind in your hair as you go?

Well then, how about riding a bike? In a bike lane.

Yes, some places in the U.S. do have bike lanes too, but I've talked to friends and

family who ride their bikes in the U.S., and they've told me that

sometimes the bike lane just ends. All of a sudden. With no warning whatsoever.

And that in winter the bike lanes often end up as the place that the snowplows just kind

of pile the snow into. Not the case in Germany.

So yeah, Germany, you definitely get two thumbs up for your public transportation and your

bike lanes.

I'm currently planning a whole video going into more detail on healthcare and insurance

in Germany soon.

But here I will just say 5 words: universal healthcare Germany thank you.

Of course, it's not a perfect system.

Nothing is, right?

But in my opinion it is pretty dang great having universal healthcare, and it has been

there for me when I needed it.

As I mentioned in this video here, I lost my voice and then had voice problems for,

like, a year due to some kind of weird throat infection, and I cannot express how grateful

I was to have German healthcare covering me.

I was able to go to a string of different doctors trying to figure out what was wrong,

get tests run, get medication, and go to speech therapy to help me get my voice back.

I'm just so grateful to have this kind of health safety net here in Germany.

So yeah, going to public university in Germany is basically free, or at least really cheap.

For a while there was a fee of I think five hundred euros per semester.

Then those fees were gone again, and it was once more free, and now I've heard that

in some places those fees are starting to creep back in.

But even if you've got those fees and you're paying around 500 euros per semester, that's

still quite amazing and low compared to the thousands and thousands of dollars that many

public universities in the U.S. cost.

If you want more information on that, by the way, I made an Ask An American video all about

college tuition in the U.S., so I will link to that in the corner up there and also down

below if you want to check that out.

Oh, and the cost of going to college in Germany?

Or non-cost in some places...yeah, it's the same whether you're from Germany or not.

Unlike in the U.S. where universities often charge way more just for out of state students,

in Germany it doesn't matter where you're from, everyone pays the same thing.

So yeah, I gotta give Germany full credit for this one.

As far as I'm concerned, they do university tuition right.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, it's our natural freaking body; I don't

know what the U.S. is so up-tight and uncomfortable with.

As I've mentioned in a couple videos before, which I will link to down below, here in Munich

there are even several designated areas in the city where you are allowed to walk around

totally naked, and one of these is in the English Garden, just around the corner from

the main downtown city center.

And even in parks where it's not a designated naked area, in the summer I very, very often

see women just chilling out on the grass topless, and nobody seems to care.

Why not?

Because they're just boobs. It's no big deal.

I've told some of my German friends about the breastfeeding in public scandal slash

controversy thing in the U.S. and they've just been completely baffled by it.

Like, controversy?

How can breastfeeding in public be a controversy they ask.

Yeah, in Germany it's just a non-issue.

And saunas here in Germany have both men and women in them, together totally naked, and

it's totally no big deal.

So yeah, I really just do prefer this more laid-back, chill attitude toward the naked

body here in Germany, because I'm mean, there's no need to freak out.

It's just the naked body. We've all have one.

I'm still not going to show you mine. As I said in the other video. They're my boobs to do with what I want.

In the U.S. there's actually no federal law mandating paid maternity leave, making the

U.S. one of the very, very few countries in the world not to guarantee

paid days off for new mothers.

And yes, some companies in the U.S. do offer some kind of maternity package.

But because there is no federal law in place mandating it, many companies and jobs don't

offer any paid days off, forcing many women to go right back to work after giving birth.

In Germany by law both mothers and fathers are provided paid time off after the birth

of their children, and mothers are provided paid time off before the birth too.

How much time? Six weeks off before the birth.

So my question for you is: same question as for the other video, what do you think of

these things, do you agree or disagree?

And what, if anything, do you think Germany does better than other countries?

Please let me know in the comments below.

Thanks so much for watching.

I really hope that you enjoyed this video.

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And my plan is when I hit 200,000 subscribers, I'm going to put out another video in German.

That's the plan anyway.

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Until next time, auf Wiedersehen!

Provided paid time off.

You know how hard it is to say that?

And one of which is in the English...

Okay...

How grateful I was to have Gerin...Ger...Gerance?

German insurance is Gerance.

And it doesn't...

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4 English Sayings I REALLY HATE - Duration: 9:29.

Time is money. Actually, you know what? I don't think it is.

Hey everyone, Dana here! Let's talk idioms that drive me up the wall.

Eh, eh, you see what I did there?

Idioms that drive me up the wall, drive me up the wall is also an idiom, uh-huh…I know.

I'm corny.

But anyway, really, there are some common English sayings, at least commonly used where

I'm from in the U.S., that I just can't stand.

I really hate these sayings.

I hate the sayings and I hate what they mean and I hate how they are used in our society today.

Maybe at some point in time these sayings made sense, and served an important purpose,

but in my opinion, how they're used today is simply not good.

I don't like the ideas that these sayings represent or I don't like how I've often

experienced these sayings being used.

And let's start with the saying that I mentioned in the intro, time is money.

As with many sayings, this one just kind of gets tossed around so much - time is money - that

I've found it really easy to internalize it and without really even realizing it, just accept the

idiom as some kind of fact of the world or inevitable certainty, but that's not the case.

It's just a saying, not a fact.

But hearing it over and over and over again, time is money, time is money, time is money

kind of brainwashed me.

Like I found myself just kind of buying into this idea that time is money.

That we shouldn't waste time because we need to be using that time to earn precious money.

I hate that this idea has wormed its way into my brain.

First of all, don't even get me started on the phrase "wasted time," I don't

like that one either, but anyway; how ridiculous is the saying "time is money," getting

at that basically any time not spent toward earning money is wasted time.

Um, excuse me, no, what kind of crap is that?

There are countless, endless beautiful and wonderful and important things to do in life

that have nothing at all to do with making money.

So if I never, ever hear this saying again I will be very happy, but I know that's

probably not going to happen because as I said before, it's a pretty common saying

and one that I think people just often toss out without, I would say, really thinking

about the implications of what it actually means.

I know that I have certainly done that before.

I've used this saying so much without really thinking about it.

And that's exactly the problem.

People keep repeating over and over again, time is money so often that the world, I feel

like, actually starts to believe it.

But so I'm going to do my little tiny part in striking this saying from my vocabulary.

I'm going to try really hard not to say time is money.

Time is time and money is money, but no, time is not money.

And while we're on the subject of money, another saying that I really don't like

is "money can't buy happiness."

Now, okay, I do feel like this saying has good intentions, trying to remind people that

happiness doesn't come from money alone...although we do need a certain amount of money in this

world in order to live.

But okay, the saying is there to try to remind us that we need to look inward for our happiness

rather than just expecting money to simply poof, solve everything and make us happy.

But it really irritates me and I think is potentially dangerous that this saying is

so commonplace and so often tossed out in a world where the previous saying, that I

just finished pulling apart - time is money - is also so ubiquitous.

It's like, come on society, you can't have it both ways.

One moment you're standing there telling me time is money, don't waste your time

on anything else.

You gotta go earn that cold hard cash.

And then in the next breath I feel like society is looking down at me, shaking its head in

disappointment, like, silly Dana, everyone knows money can't buy happiness.

Then why did you just tell me time is money? It just feels to me like the world is

tugging me in two completely conflicting directions

with both of these sayings existing in the same world and both of them being used so often.

What do you want from me?

Another saying that drives me crazy is "it's now or never."

Nope. Wrong. Wrong. Just...wrong.

In my life more than anything else this saying and the idea behind this saying has been used

by myself as well as by others to try to pressure me into doing things that I simply have not

been ready to do at that point in time.

And while, yes sometimes it really is truly a now or never situation, a lot of the time,

in my experience, when this saying has been used by me on myself or by others on me as

a way to try to pressure me into doing something, it wasn't actually, truly a case of

now or never.

It was really usually more of a case of now or at some other point in time in the future,

which would probably end up being a little bit more inconvenient to myself or the other

person trying to pressure me into doing the thing.

And the last hated English saying for this video, because there are more, there are more

of them, and maybe I'll make another video about some of those other ones in the future,

but lastly for this video, we have "don't cry over spilled milk."

So this saying is supposed to mean that the person shouldn't worry about events that

have already happened and which they cannot do anything about, like, for example, if you

spill milk, no point sitting around crying about it because, well, it's already been

spilled...there's nothing you can do about it, might as well just move on with your life.

And while I do think that it's important to try to focus on the things that we can

do something about in life, and try not to dwell on the things that we can't do anything

about, I know that in my life both internally from myself and externally from others, this

saying has been used to try to discourage me from allowing myself even a single second

to be disappointed or frustrated or sad about something, just because that something is

something that I can't change, it's something I can't do anything about, so I'm not allowed

to feel disappointed about it.

Which I am learning is also not so healthy for me.

Okay, right, it might not be so healthy for me to dwell on it, but I've also learned

that it is important for me to allow myself to feel the feeling of disappointment of sadness

of frustration or whatever it is I'm feeling.

Even if that feeling comes from something that I can't change.

I still need to give myself some time to feel that feeling.

And then after that, make the decision to move on with my day.

So my question for you is: What is your take on these sayings, and what sayings in English

or any language do you dislike?

Please let me know in the comments below.

Thank you so much for watching.

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Until next time, auf Wiedersehen!

I'm like jumping an invisible jump rope. I don't think that's how jump ropes work.

When this saying has by...yeah.

Eee!

As with many sayings, feels...yeah.

Pretty clever I think. I know I'm corny. But I like it.

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Women's football experts help FIFA on Pilot Projects - Duration: 2:31.

Well, women's football division together

with the Technical Development Division has

met with the 9 experts on women's football

to discuss 2 new pilots that the women's

football development department will be

implementing. The pilots focus on participation

and youth elite development that we also call

the academy project.

You know, if we look at academy and participation

it is different because one way is you know access

to all the fields to coaches just to play and have

fun and be part of society pretty much, be on the field.

But also you have the academy, you want to play with

the best players, you want to have the best coaches.

you really want to know how far can you get by just

play and try to improve your game.

The participation pilot consists in really strengthening

the structure competition structure Mas already have

so how we can strength on that and how we can go from top

to down in the increase of masification of the sport.

The main focus right now will be how do we increase

the mass of participation through schools.

It's about growing the number of girls playing

the game, it's about making sure that those who

have some more talent have the opportunity to

shine and to get better competitive opportunities, stronger

coaching and that we make sure that at the top end

of the game the quality is growing.

I think everyone that has been involved over the

last few days and actually anyone that is involved

in football full stop is very much aware of the power

that football has as a platform to reach people, and

to overcome some barriers, and make a positive impact

on the life of not only women and girls but people

in general, and any project that we do as any part

of the women's football strategy that we are creating

it's important that there is an aspect of it that has

a positive social impact and that we use the power that

we have as the governing body of football to use the

power of football for good.