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Many of the online comments below the original clips are in English. “I don’t speak German, but damn this was fire,” one Instagram user wrote. “Just amazing, I don’t understand a thing but I just can’t stop listening to it,” said another. An“I think it surprised a lot of people that the German language can sound so cool,” Wartke said, pointing to praise for his “– we don’t know how to have fun, we don’t have a sense of humour, our language sounds totally aggressive.