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- A German reacts to spoken Texas German from the USA! I've never heard this dialect of the German language before so it was super fascinating! Texan Germans treasure their German heritage and many still seem to speak it! Let's compare it to Germany German and Get Germanized!
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Its sad that most of the American German dialects are dying out with maybe the exception of PA Dutch. Damn World Wars and the "Don't speak the language of the enemy" propaganda.
Storm King Is that ever true! PISS on the German haters too!!!!!
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Storm King bji kurdistan
Storm King thats because dutch is not German
@@TheFoofights True, dutch isnt german but Pennsylvania Dutch(Pennsilfaani Deitsch) is a German dialect
It’s wonderful that German is still spoken in parts of the US. Many non-Americans think that in the US we don’t care about or remember our European roots. Yet there are people in Texas and Pennsylvania speaking German, Cajuns in Louisiana speaking French and folks in South and North Dakota who speak Norwegian.
Judith Vornbrock people speak german in north Dakota too. German is the 2nd most spoken language in north Dakota and 3rd most spoken language in south Dakota
My Maternal Grandparents were Czech-Americans mymaternal grandfather was 100%Czech and my maternal grandmother was half Czech half Irish. And my grandfather died he spoke Czech-American and their children my mom and her brothers and sisters really speak Czech-American ,and even in the 70s Someone wanting to learn how to speak Czech was mocked, my brother and I through our mother learned some Czech words and sayings.
Low German used to be spoken in parts of Iowa too, buts its almost all gone.
Judith Vornbrock we remember Spanish a little bit too much! L
@Harold Potsdamer what people seem to forget is that the European migrations had a beginning and an end so by the second generation they had assimilated. The migration from latin America started in the 40's and has never stopped. My parents emigrated from Cuba, I was born there and came here at the age of four. I am bilingual but I'm much more comfortable speaking English. My children while they can understand some Spanish are English speakers only.
So it seems like Hispanic people don't want to assimilate because of there is a steady stream of Hispanic immigrants.
How Texas German sounds to me: Alter ich habe über die Fence gejumpt und hab' YEEHAAW geschrien
AI Productions 😂😂 i died laughing to this comment
Like someone den wir alle knowen
Du hast well recht
i literally rolling on the floor haha
Oh shit, this is like American Spanish lol
I'm a Texan of German heritage & I watched this with my dachshund.
Texan Norman/German Heritage, 1821 Northern territories paternal family from early 1500s south Carolina stock & I836 Nacadoches maternal family from saarland region . I found Blut Deutsche near Saraland similar. Sitting with a descented shtinkkatze.
@@hoppermantis7615 From what I know, my ancestors came from Magdeburg(then part of Prussia, now the capital of Saxony-Anhalt) in the 1870's & 1880's.
80 percent is an influence of English that lasts for years
Dashchund --> Dash hund --> Dash hound --> Dash dog?
Der Dackel ist neben dem deutschen Schäferhund, dem Rottweiler und Dobermann, ein typisch deutscher Hund!
the texas drawl with german is so bizarre
Alice Geus
The Texas accent is most pronounced !
YEE HAWTEN!
I find it bizarre as well. Sounds like a speech impediment almost.
It's inevitable, really. In Fredericksburg they are learning the two languages alongside each other.
@@Hammster69official not so much any more. its more of english and maybe spanish now.
“Shul” is actually an Yiddish word for synagogue/school, Yiddish is highly related to German in many ways.
It isn’t german and it never will be German, death to traitors
@@reichbunny713 He didnt say it was man, chill out
Despite what others think there are forms of Yiddish that can be called dialects of German. Yiddish speakers from the New York City are close enough to Pennsylvania Amish country that they sometimes visit there, and there is a large degree of mutual intelligibility between the two languages. Also, some of the features of Texas German that were pointed out in this video (zb omitting final e in 1st person singular - often accompanied by devoicing the now-final consonant, and vowel changes) are common in German dialects both in Europe and elsewhere. That first woman’s cadence though was 100% Texas, unmistakable to my American ears.
@@reichbunny713 weak bait
Awesome! We learned Texas German in our German Language class in high school. When you get to talking with speakers, they tend to mush in more Texan speech patterns. You're right that European German speakers can pick up on everything pretty well but if they aren't English speakers as well, it throws them a little.
It's an awesome cultural aspect that's been more embraced in the last 30 years or so. Texas Germans have an amazing history. They came over as farmers in the 1830s and farmed central Texas. They had much more success than the Anglo-American immigrants did because they would communicate and trade with the Comanche and other tribes while the Angelos often fought them instead. Texas Germans were also one of the groups that voted against secession before the Civil War. They lived in rural farm towns where German (and then Texas German) was the primary language.
Unfortunately, due to xenophobic culture during WWI, many German immigrants and those descended from them who still speaking (and sometimes exclusively speaking) German, were ostracized and harassed. Parents, in fear for the safety of their children, didn't allow them to speak German in public. This happened all over the USA for Germans and other groups. With WWII following soon after, another generation of Texas Germans had their culture stifled. Texas (and other states) passed laws forbidding the teaching of any language at a public school that wasn't English. The Texas German schools were shut down or had to fully convert to English. Since children weren't exposed to Texas German, it dwindled and further disappeared from the next generations. Unfortunately, most of the current Texas German speakers are elderly and the dialect is nearly extinct. There are several language projects happening to properly document the dialect and teaching it to Texas students studying German. It's so sad that this big part of Texas history is disappearing especially due to hateful actions of the past.
I'm happy you took an interest into the dialect! Thank you!
Julie Anna Clark no if you were only correct..
Doc Holliday Has the dialect not dwindled since WWI? Is it not currently being revived?
Julie Anna Clark Danke for the history lesson Ms Clark!!!
@The Idiodyssey Quite true!
@The Idiodyssey Right, I was asking what was not correct.
its funny. im from Texas living in Nürnburg. i speak German and yet most people that are native German think im from Hamburg. Been to Fredricksburg and its Beautiful. Its its own dialect of German sence you have to remimber that Fredricksburg was set up back during the 1800's
Im in texas and my family came from Hamburg 🤣 i live hur away from fredricksburg in burnet 😅
@@Bucky1836 es ist ein kleiner Welt.
@@germanic-texan 😬 to google i go 😅
@@germanic-texan im 7th gen texan i dont speak a word of german 🤣
@@Bucky1836 🤣. „It’s a small world“.
Hans Boas was the German professor at UT, who really launched the research into this dialect. He's a cool guy and I had the opportunity to work for him and go through some of the audio files, transcribing conversations he'd conducted with speakers in and around the Texas Hill Country. As others have mentioned in the comments, some features can be rather cleared attributed to the English spoken around the area, while other elements may very well emanate from the original dialects.
one funny one from back then was "nach ... raufmoven" - to move up to ... (somewhere).
I am glad this dialect is getting some exposure because it'll be more or less dead within the next 20+ years given the age of the majority of the speakers is 60+ currently.
John Henry Roenigk I think that I have come across this man’s work before. I was a student of German in high school and I have always been interested in the language. During a bit of researching, I ran across a series of conversations that a German man had with several Texans that spoke the language. It was interesting to hear them speak. I noticed a lot of the same things that the creator of this video did. I recall that one particular speaker was telling him about three German princes that came to Texas in the 1840s to settle. I don’t know why that stuck with me but it did. At any rate, thank you for calling it to mind. It’s been about 15 or 20 years since I ran across the archive. Another thing I remember because I could relate to it so vividly in my own experience was one woman saying how she used to be subject to verbal and sometimes physical abuse from teachers and school personnel in the 1930s for speaking in German. This language was literally beaten out of some of the people that spoke it. My native language is Spanish. I remember when I was a child being hit in the back of the head by a teacher for speaking Spanish with another student. She did not like not being able to understand what we were talking about. It was innocuous enough. I think we were discussing playing marbles. We were only seven or eight. Anyway, her story really resonated with me. I went through what she went through in the 1980s some 50 years later.
For me it sometimes really sounded like Bavarian and sometimes like Plattdeutsch... that's funny
bbonner422 Now I learnt something new...Thank you! (If it sounds ironic, it isn't)
@bbonner422 she is definitely influenced by the dialect still spoken in rhineland^^
I can also clearly hear Plattdeutsch influences
I understand platt deutsch ... It doesnt really Sound like it.
I guess normal speaking germans would unterstand her better than an real platt deutsch speaking german.
I have sometimes problems, to understand my own grandpa, because he speaks a different platt, than the grandpa im living with.
Just a weird fellow human I am half Bavarian and it sounded nothing like it to me...
You should react to the German spoken in southern Brazil :D
The Hunsrück Deutsch, or as they call it? :D
Don't you mean *Argentina* ?
@@xobile.123 No. Brazil has the largest number of German-speakers outside the German-speaking World. Estimates suggest that number is 5.000.000 people... most of them living in the Southern Half of the Country (Espírito Santo, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná mostly... and to a lesser extend Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rondônia, Goiás and Minas Gerais states).
@IndoTurk Man Yeah dude. Didn't you watch X Men First Class. Lol
there are more then 300.000 people in brazil süeaking german
Nice, I'm from Texas and live near Fredericksburg
The Hill Country is pretty.
I grew up in Fredericksburg
I live up in the north
I live closer to New Braunfels, but the peach orchards and barbecue places in Fredericksburg were always my family's siren songs during the summer when I was growing up. Mega props to Marburger Orchard!
Half of my family is Texas German from New Braunfels, Seguin and Castroville.... Yep, I remember having family to n that side of the family who spoke this dialect of German.
So this video was a long time ago, but it's so cool that you did this! I work for the Texas German Dialect Project in Austin, and these sound patterns (unrounding of umlaut vowels, so Kühe = Kie, König = Känig; cutting off the final schwa from a lot of words; etc) are all still happening! The dialect is definitely dying though, partly because of the English-only laws passed during the world wars. The last estimate was that it'll be dead by 2040. The people I've interviewed within the last couple years have been a lot less fluent than this because almost no one speaks it actively anymore. It's great to see that it's taught in some high schools! That's something we're trying to push for in the areas with Texas German heritage. But yeah, this was awesome!
I'm so afraid that the American German dialects are going to die out soon
That would be so sad . They bring such a rich and fascinating history to their communities
the german german dialects are dying out too
@ItsZachTV soon their will only be one Germanic language left
English
@Badass Beaver in contrast here in texas the german language is pretty much forgotten about and most do not bother to even whisper about a revival is no where near a dream
Texas German is on the FAST track to being dead. I live near a very small community of Texas German speakers and they told me they are losing around 1000 speakers every decade at this point, and right now there are only about 4 - 6,000 left. Almost every native Texas German speaker is over 60 years old. If something isn't done fast to preserve it and teach young speakers, it is going to be gone. On the plus side of preservation, if you learn Texas German, you could get by in Germany so there is value in young people to learn it. This isn't some completely isolated language that you can only speak to 200 people with.
Some of the grammar differences are also present in Yiddish. I remember seeing that video last year and realizing how easy it was for me to understand.
I speak Yiddish and some German.
I went to the Oktoberfest they throw there in Fredericksburg, and surprisingly enjoyed it. I say surprisingly because there are so many failed attempts at recreating or even trying to pass something off as German in character.
This was interesting. I understood, but it was slightly funny how the Texas twang reared it's head in.
Fredericksburg is one nice town!♡
Well Oktoberfest isn’t even German. It’s Bavarian. Like many people always connect it with Germany as a whole but little do they know that it isn’t even celebrated in most parts of Germany.
@@janrichter5428 Quite true!
@@rockyracoon3233
Agreed! Central Texas in general is my favorite part of the state
@@janrichter5428 So Bavaria is not a part of Germany?
I'm born and raised a Texan, I've heard Texas German but didn't realize it was different. Thanks for this video. It's interesting
I'm a Texas myself but I can tell she's definitely speaking German with a Texas accent. It's really cool.
Germans have been in Texas a lot longer then Englishmen. A lot of German culture and especially the language was suppressed during WWII and the German Texans who did fight in the war where sent to Asia. This is why the Pacific War monument is in central Texas. Fortunately a lot of renewed interest has come to preserving the German language and culture. The culture of Texas, especially central Texas is heavily influenced by a mixture of German and Spanish culture. I'm really happy to see people taking an interest in what our state really is and not the very inaccurate picture of it promoted by Hollywood.
rednight wrote: "Germans have been in Texas a lot longer then Englishmen..." I'm not too sure of that, however they have been in Texas longer than there has been a country known to us Americans as "Germany." For instance, Boerne, Texas has been around since the early 1850's. The various Germanic city states, kingdoms, principalities, etc., or what ever they were called, were unified into one country in the early 1870's. So you can truthfully say, Germans have been in Texas since before there was a Germany.
The first German settlements in Texas were established in the mid-1840s; after Texas gained its independence from Mexico and became part of the US. English speaking people were well established in Texas before the Germans arrived. That being said the Germans did mesh very well with the locales. My roommate's grandfather, for example, was from that part of Texas and was of German-Mexican decent and spoke fluent English, Spanish, and German growing up.
I'm English American. My family came to Texas in the 1820s. BS to pass on the notion that Germans have been here longer especially the idea that you've been here a lot longer. The United States was built by the English.
Yes! All my family members in the armed forces were sent to Asia during WWII, none were allowed to go to Europe. Reason: most all were member of "German Clubs'. Some were closely surveilled by the US government, simply because their first language was a German dialect; and, one had been reported for purchasing 'chemicals' - he was a chemist!
In WWI, all of my father's immediate family were refused enlistment into the US armed forces .... because they spoke with a Swabian-German accent. They also volunteered to 'guard' their local (German speaking) church because of the effects of the 'war propaganda' against 'the savage Huns'.
i guess this would explain the texan obsession with meat
Texanisches Deutsch - verrückt, was es alles gibt :D
Hier in Texas nennen wir die Dialekt "Texasdeutsch"
I'm so glad you did this one! I'm in Texas, lots of Germans around here, love it!
Danke to the person who gave me a like!
Alles in Allem sind die grammatikalischen Unterschiede zu 95% dem alten Dialekt geschuldet. Sie spricht einen ziemlich südhessisch anmutenden Dialekt von vor mindestens 100 Jahren. Lediglich die amerikanische Aussprache mancher Wörter ist klar dem Englischen geschuldet. Alles Andere ist wirklich Dialekt.
Würde auf Hamburger bis nordwestliches platt tippen
Stimme zu! Manchmal empfinde ich die Wortwahl dem Englischen entlehnt, im Sinne von wörtlicher Übersetzung von englischen Wörtern, die man im Hochdeutschen so nicht wählen würde (aber natürlich versteht).
Etwas ähnlich dem Sudetendeutschen meiner Tante.
Ist auf jedenfall südhessisch dabei, sie verwendet viele Worte wie meine Oma und teilweise ich ... ich würde gerne mehr im Dialekt reden können, früher konnte ich das auch aber mittlerweile nicht mehr so gut. Zumindest verstehe ich den Dialekt noch ohne Probleme.
Wirkt auch ein bisschen wie platt
lmao I'm from Texas and I've never heard of this, its very interesting though. Love Germany💕
edit: at 8:14 "respuesta" is in spanish, meaning answer
Respuesta -- Yes, it means answer, but it's also closer to response and respond. (English borrowed the French word.)
Visit New Braunfels and other nearby towns and you'll find German background from early settlers that's carried forward. So sometimes there are still native speakers. It's really cool! You'll get real insights into Texas history, how people did or didn't blend together.
The pan handle, West Texas, North Texas and East Texas do not have this. It is a Texas Hill country thing as well as into the Houston area. We are a large state with 5 distinct regions.
I would like to hear the German spoken by the descendants of German immigrants to Argentina or Mexico.
@Nicoletta Ciccone haha that is very funny coming from Argentina. Every American country is racist and has blood on its hands, but then I'm not surprised an Argentinian would say something like that.
As far as German- Mexicans (in north Mexico) it's actually not far off from the German dialects spoken by the Christian immigrants to the U.S. has some north mexican speech sprinkled in as well. The menonitos love their Wal-Mart.
@Nicoletta Ciccone An Argentine speaking of racism hahaha
Nicoletta Ciccone the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree.
They probably just adapted and started speaking spanish
Just commenting here for some Texas pride. BBQ in German-settled towns is amazing!
Abderian It is!!♡
I love that BBQ joint. I was just there last month for my Father-in-law's funeral. It was cold as a witch's tit so we had to have the gathering in the room to the left of the front entrance.
YOU'RE SO CORRECT! Also, a real Texas BBQ isn't a real Texas BBQ without some bratwurst and Polish kielbasa. Though I'm personally partial to meat sourced from Polish meat markets (Wiatrek = legends).
Im from Germany and I want to buy a house in Texas. Texas is so cool. I love the people, the BBQs and the hot sun. Im really in love with the state
You won't like the price of healthcare or social support systems that u have now- factor that in-but quite open space wise and opportunity wise
@Balls and balls u know -like if u get cancer and here in USA u can easily go bankrupt- doesn't happen in Germany- if u have a sickly child, parent,ANYONE FOR THAT MATTER, is taken care of,little to no co- pay,schools are equitable,not just good in wealthy areas,University's free,( paid by equitable taxation),,no one has to be homeless,subsidized universal housing for poor- RICH PAY BIG TAXES UNLIKE HERE!!
@Balls and balls Next time send your Varsity team- u just winged it- no research,, facts- I looked upACTUAL NUMBERS,BUT LIKE TRUMP,U JUST MAKE SH@@ UP!!I have a neice who lives in Berlin was married to a native,been there 5 years,so u are SO busted on facts,loser!2017- USA PAID per cap.healthcare$10,207 vs $5,848 Germ,and they had better health overall and EVERYONE FULLY COVERED WE HAVE MILLIONS NOT COVERED;LIVE 2YRS LONGER;higher taxes less savings investment etc- BULLFECES!!G' S RATE OF SAVINGS- 16.7% US RATE 5.5% ; workers pay 7.5% of their wages for Healthcare that's it NO BANKRUPTCIES FROM MEDICAL SITUATIONS- # 1 REASON FOR BANKRUPTCY IN USA TODAY FOR PEOPLE!!!WAGES- G MAKE AVG OF $ 20 HR - plenty for Germany's low cost of living as they haven't t our burdens of huge medical expences,transportation( most use cheap public),daycare,elderly care( also subsidized),college also,life much more predictable and worry free!!Population growth is negative,u FOOL!!!CULTIST OF TRUMP NEEDS TO DO RESEARCH SOME DAY,BUT IM NOT HOLDING MY BREATH!!L,U LOST " BIGLY"!!!Oh,and our poor are well below all other poor in every category- we are the cheapest in industrialized world w/ support for poor and yet Republicans keep saying just get a job to sickly toddlers and elderly!!
@Balls and balls I'm waiting for a" fairy tale stories" no factual basis Trumpian responce from you
@Balls and balls I give u the facts after u give me fairy tales made up sh@@ and u tell me to get help?? Our country IS in desperate trouble with people like you here!!!
Yeah, interesting how easy to understand it is. I guess her ancestors didn't move to Texas that long ago. But you can tell they're out of practice by the way how long it takes them to form complete sentences.
Two points to note. (I'm from Texas, I only know.a little German, but I'm good with languages and I know a little of the history.) --
Early Texas had settlers from German-speaking countries, various dialects, as well as Czechs and other Slavic people. American settlers and later events influenced German in Texas, because the languages are similar. (There was English influence on Cajun and Creole French as well.) Besides this, there were already "Pennsylvania Dutch" (Deutsch, German) settlers dating back to before American Independence, not only in Pennsylvania. Plus there were Dutch (Nederlands) settlers in the Colonies. Note also that there were enough German speakers in the 13 Colonies that Benjamin Franklin and others had to deal with the question of whether German should be an official language of the new USA along with English. Franklin favored English; others favored both, and there were newspapers and other publications then in German and Dutch. So there were already sources in America besides European German-speaking immigrants, plus Dutch influence, as Texas was being settled from Americans and Europeans, besides existing Mexican Texans. With a lack of formal schoolingg for country (rural) people, often, you'd have spoken languages interacting, dialects and non-standard speech happening among native speakers, bilingual effects, and so on. So since English, German, and Dutch are closely related, you had a lot going on to influence German kept in Texas. And yes, you get a Texas accent, depending on how rural or city a person is. It's possible to visit towns in Texas that were settled by Germans, so that you can find little historic churches with German frakturs for important events, records of people's lives, needlework and stitchery samples, and so on. In my own family history in America, you can look back on one or both sides and find German ancestors, or instances where the names are unclear as to German or Dutch origin, because either the people themselves or the people recording them might or might not know how to write German words. So in my dad's side of the family, going back to the arrival in America, you'll find English, German, Scottish, and other people's names. For example, the two brothers (or father and son or cousins) who came over from Europe, my great-grandfathers many times over (going back to about 1755) were recorded as Phillip and Johann or John, with several other spellings, even though they (apparently) knew how to read and write, and the family name was (and still is) often misspelled multiple ways. So what you get is this very mixed up history over generations of people whose education dn knowledge and levels of fluency with German or other European languages varied widely, and often was overwhelmed by English, or consciously chosen to drop the old country language in favor of English, becoming American. But you will still find this in towns throughout Texas and the old 13 colonies. Many Americans have this mix of several European countries in their family trees. You can go to very Americanized or blended Oktoberfest celebrations in Texas, and when I was a kid, you could go to restaurants in towns like New Braunfels and get, hmm, what was supposed to be authentic Texas German food from people who still had Texas German ancestry or still spoke it. Very probably some of my ancestors in the mid-1800's still spoke some form of German along with English from their area (Virginia in the Appalachian mountains.) Besides that, you have people who study German in school because of their family history. Plus, I have known German immigrants and their children, so you still have connections in various places if you look. (One of my college roommates' friends was American but his parents had immigrated from Germany, so he and his brother spoke fluent German. Also, there was at least one German foreign exchange student at my high school.) So how things interconnect can get very complicated, I guess. :)
I've been studying English for two years and I'm so excited because I'm almost fluent already and the second language that I've been studying for months is German as well. I'm thinking that it's a lot bit harder than English but I'll keep going because one day I'll speak German fluent too. I'm from Brazil and I love your videos man.
It makes sense that you find English easier since it has more Romantic influence than German.
"Ich heisse" Also in Hessen sagt man auch "Ich heiss" .. Dialekte gibts auch heute noch in D, nicht nur hochdeutsch ;)
In the part of Saxony I live in with my German husband, the people here also often drop the -e in first person singular verbs.
Ich sag' auch "ich heiss'" und bin aus Nordhessen. Die meisten Deutschen sagen beides.
Texas German sounds like grammatically in correct German with an American Southern Accent somewhere in there
Thanks for creating this. My grandparents were from Fredericksburg and they spoke this language, as with all of my great aunts and uncles and great grand parents. Sadly they were the last generation in my family to speak Texas German. Your video reminded me of how special the language of my Oma and Opa really was. Thank you.
I never knew there was a German community in Texas! Great video, very interesting. They sounded like they were slipping in and out of a German accent to me.
Doreen Farley 90% of South Texas and the Hill country were German!
Doc Holliday Cool! I F#@KING LOVE Germans!!!!!!!
I heard many Germans in TX & Louisiana stayed after POW camps in those states?? I had NEVER heard that before? Several years ago from one man who is around 70 or 80 now that his Father worked or was in charge of a POW camp of Germans & many of them cared so much for him & the way they were treated so kindly that they decided to stay in America?!? Same story in TX I heard too?
The slipping in and out is because it is a native tongue influenced by a local drawl. If a German speaking New Yorker were to move to Germany and live for years, their accent would change because it would be influenced by the local dialect.
@@ritadaniels3175 yes lotta german pows kept here in texas near the coast and up in central texas
I Live in Texas and I ❤️ ALL things German!! God Bless You Dominikus👍😇
Me too heh and I agree! :)
Michael Pratt Very Nice!!👍I'm in Dallas, and you???
Kristina Romano Never been to Dallas. I've visited the San Antonio twice and most definitely LOVED Fredericksburg and New Braunfels!!
I am what U call a EMBALMED Germanophile!!!♡
Rocky Racoon OHhh I ❤️ San Antonio! 👍😊 LOL @ Embalmed Germanophile. 😆🤣😄
Kristina Romano Danke! I guess it all started when I got a Fokker WW1gilder when I was about 5 or 6. Something about that Iron Cross just made me fall in love with all that is German!!♡
I loved this video, and I was laughing at the auto-generated subtitles!
sex, alcohol, commies... rofl. Good job on him for keeping a straight face while making this video.
Fredericksburg is such a fabulous little town. I'm from San Antonio and lots of us city folk love going out there to shop at their cute little stores.
Valerie Alwood Jawohl!♡
My grandfather is from Comfort TX and still speaks Texas German to me! I am trying to learn German right now so we can converse easier. Very cool video!!
how a jeweled daffy off the alcohol turn! haha! Thanks for the video. Very interesting and entertaining!
Wow! I’m from Texas but had no idea that this was a thing. Thanks for enlightening me :)
No problem! :D
7:36 Don't know what a "sex scene Mona alpha" is but I really want one.
usta one yes, but they were being funny.
I asked on Joy and Fetlife, but nobody could give me one!
This sounds exactly like the German that was spoken by the students at my American university in Wisconsin. They are German words, but spoken with a very American pronunciation and often with very English grammar. A lot of American English idioms are directly translated into German, which ends up making little sense.
When I was living in Germany, I once went to the barber to get my hair cut. After he was finished he gave me a mirror to look at the back of my head and say whether it was okay.
As I’m very nearsighted and need my glasses to see, I said “Ich bin blind. Ich brauche meine Brille.”
The barber responded “Sie sind nicht blind, Sie sind nur kurzsichtig.”
This taught me that a) English and American hyperbole and other idioms do not necessarily translate well into German, and b) Germans can be quite literal.
Just wanted to throw this in here, maybe it'll be of use. In Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Danish, Swedish) we say "I married myself to xxxx" and considering our languages are related, it might be a dialectal variation.
I'm really curious about this too. Even in English "I married me a husband" doesn't sound unusual. It comes across as informal and you wouldn't say it that way in a business letter. But for a casual conversation it's not out of place.
I think this use of "myself" is called an intensive pronoun.
I think she was saying " I got myself married". Her dialect, or accent, to me, sounds like it is heavily influenced by US English. This is what soldiers stationed in Germany sound like when they first start to learn the language.
This is exactly the video that I was hoping for...Wow!!!
great video and commentary. it was educational and not critical. very humble in your approach. great job!! I live about 2 hours south of Fredericksburg and new braunfels, tx. Fredericksburg is in the texas hill country and is just gorgeous.
If you ever visit Texas definitely stop by Fredericksburg and New Braunfels Texas.
Network S I have visited both those towns and LOVED them!!!!!
Walburg is also a great place to visit north of Austin
New Braunfels is a super awesome city!
I can understand 95 percent of what she is saying, vs 10 percent of a German. My mother was born in Germany so I have some exposure- I think it may be a combination of American pronunciation and sentence structure. Fascinating.
Great video !
Big support from Houston,Tx !!!!!
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I thought the title was interesting. I was born in texas with a swiss father.
This is so cool to see just because I know that not many people speak german here in Texas anymore but the Frederiksburg and New Braunfels area are well known for their german heritage so again.. so cool to see :)
Vociferated Yes!!!!
Would love to see how much from the Amish language you can understand...It would be interesting.
Racheal Lange I would too.
They Dutch, but German can understand a little.
@@LittleImpaler like others have said. You are incorrect it is NOT Dutch. It's Berenese Deutsch.
I am German and listening to Amish for me is pretty much comparable to you listening to the Sims. I can sometimes understand a few words or parts of a sentence if I concentrate but I can’t really understand what they are saying. It’s very different from modern German.
@@janrichter5428 The Amish speak mostly Bern Switzerland Deutsch (there is some old Deutsch in there). Most Germans don't understand Bern Deutsch. My husband is from Bern and he says it's like being in Switzerland. Their accent is a tiny bit different, but that's it.
Thank you for doing this! This is what I speak with my family.
My Great Grandmother was from Fredericksburg, TEXAS…..She spoke TEXAS German. She had some friends from Germany, they said that TEXAS German was full of “OLD” words that you’ll never here in Germany anymore.
The reason you’ll here the “extra sounds” is because WE’RE TEXAN we barely speak English here. 🤣
Ich glaube "ich hab mich verheiratet" könnte einfach auch altes Deutsch, das so vielleicht vor 150 Jahren verwendet wurde, sein?
Korrekt. Nicht nur das. Sie sagt sogar "Ich hab mich verheirat!". Etwas ähnlich wird es noch heute in einigen südhessischen Dialekten verwendet.
Mit Sicherheit, sowie man im 19. Jahrhundert auch noch gesagt hatte "Mir träumte"
Texas German kommt vom Norden also plattdeutsch👍
@@yamiimax Die Leute im Video sprechen aber hochdeutsch.
MacX85 6:12 kriech das ist platt😉 bist Jahrgang 1985 cool bin ich auch👍
I love seeing this video. Deutschsprachiger Texan hier, aber not one of these from an older settlement. My family kam a few decades von Bayern und Österreich vor, und ich hab mit meiner Familie zuhause deutsch gesprochen, und mit a definite boarische mundart. Mein generazion hat englisch zur Schule und von Peers gelernt. I like going to New Braunfels and Fredericksburg to hear the Texasdeutsch Dialekte in it’s real linguistic form, unlike the way i and my siblings just go in and out of it. Not many texasdeutsch speakers left, just the codeswitchy nonsense I’m doing.
Good video. I have always been fascinated with languages and dialects. Being familiar with both German, Pennsylvania Dutch, English and Texas slang this Texas German was particularly interesting to listen to.
Dominik, you commented that the lady saying, „ich habe mich verheiratet” was not high German, but I remember it being taught that way in German class. So I searched for the phrase on the internet, and this is what I found:
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Wörterbuch Deutsch-Englisch
„ich habe mich verheiratet” könnte 1. Person Perfekt Konjunktiv I sein von
sichAkk verheiraten Verb
get married v
wed v (wed oder wedded, wed oder wedded)
Maybe this usage is uncommon where you live, or maybe it is "altmodisch."
I bet it's just old fashioned. Some expressions just die out. "heiraten" can still be used actively or passively "wir haben geheiratet" or "wir wurden verheiratet", the latter having a stronger focus on the the priest or official during the procedure.
German was the primary language spoken in German American communities until the world wars. The bandleader Lawrence Welk was born in a German American town in the Dakotas and he did not learn English till he was 21 years old.
Ich bin in Texas aufgewachsen und mein Deutschlehrer hat Texas German gesprochen (und auch Hochdeutsch). Mein Lieblingswort des Dialekts is "Stinkkatze" (Stinktier, skunk). 🇩🇪🦨
Hi bro. i am watching all your videos .
its all nice . very informative all.
Lol! Too funny, those subtitles! I love this vid. I studied German in college and I find it interesting that the first lady, in the full video, said she had difficulty understanding Hoch Deutsch, I think she said... I'll have to go back and listen again... But both you and I can understand these women. I had a similar experience on a train in Canada where I sat between German -speaking Amish men and a young fellow from Europe who wanted to practice his German language skills. I could understand both sides but they couldn't understand each other.
Die Auto-Untertitel bei Evelyns Video sind ja 'n Kracher! :D Ich konnte beide Frauen problemlos verstehen. :)
Me too! And I don't even speak German, only Yiddish.
3:50 that's funny here in norway we could say that "jeg giftet meg med noen" "i married myself with someone"
Ha! I was just going to go to the comments to ask you if you had subtitles turned on but then you also noticed the funny sentences it was putting out.
great reaction video
One of my relatives speaks Texas-Deutsch. Thanks for the attention.
We Texans even do German correctly!
No.
@@affirmationaffirmations7456 Well technically their German phonetic system got mixed up with English phonetic system leading to different pronunciation. And a shift in the usage of certain grammar rules is still fine. It is still German. However it is a different dialect.
And think about how it is if your native language is limited to a small group of speakers who were forbidden to speak their language in public because they feared being discriminated. Of cause your language changes. 🤷♂️
This is pretty cool. I live in Texas and never knew these people existed. One of my great great grandparents emigrated to the US from Chemnitz in the 1890s I think. Took a little German in high school and college but didn't retain much.
@Julie Anna Clark:I'm from around the region.ty for passing it on.im older,been some time since I was back,in the area.I remember German church services on A.M. radio in the day as a lil dude.glad to know it's gonna get saved.👍
Damn, I’m reading all these comments about how people are learning so many languages and getting good so quickly. I’ve done 3 years of German so far and can hardly write it still, and speaking it isn’t much better. Still trying though
Nigel Thornberry your lazy! Study harder!
Nigel Thornberry keep at it, sometimes you don't really realize how much that you have learned until later.
There are some great resources for learning languages on UA-cam.com. Keep working on your German! Find someone that knows German to learn conversational German, too! Viel Glück!
Roger Quarton the friend thing is awesome bc not so much conversational German but so that they can correct your mistakes in order to make you better..
Doc Holliday ~ Very good point!
Hello from San Antonio, Texas 😋😊 and I love listening to the German Language.
This is so interesting!!! Please do one for Wisconsin German!!
As a native Texan learning German this is one of the most interesting video as even though I’m only learning German i can hear a similar accent in the words.\
I’m an American, I speak B1 German. This just sounds like a strong American accent to me, like a lot of my classmates.
Part of the reason that Texas German may sound slightly different is because it has been separated from regular German for about 250 years. They didn't evolve together.
Wirklich spannend. Ich habe selber Englisch und Deutsch studiert und so einen gewachsenen Dialekt zu sehen, ist wirklich toll.
Again, short, but really fascinating. Shows how various Texas people and communities are maintaining their heritage.
Ich lebe hier in Texas und es gibt viele, viel Deutsche hier. Als ich ein Kind war, sprachen meine Grosseltern die Sprache.......
immobilien oh brother!
I funded wikitongues. I still support them. Edit: I didn't fund them by myself but I did give them money for the project. If you speak any language or a dialect please consider making them a video.
Didn't realize it was so similar. Cool.
That woman sounds like an American tourist that picked up some German while staying on her holiday in northern Germany.
Das klingt ein wenig, wie der Dialekt aus meiner Region (badisches Franken).
Du kannst dir ja mal den Comedian Rolf Miller anschauen, seinen Dialekt meine ich.
I suspect the most difficult dialects for standard high German speaker will be European ones, like Austrian and Swiss variations.
I live near New Braunfels Texas and churches still have both English and German services on Sundays.
Right now I'm working south of their area, you still meet some older people whom do business with eachother, or talk to family (privately in public areas etc.) in German.
Unfortunately most people under 50 or so, do not speak it. So the line was broken. There are more Czech speakers of my age (mid 30's) in south/central TX.
Wow this is super interesting...
Fun fact, the United States almost adopted German as our official language.
The proposal was shot down by a single vote in Congress.
Edit: Shul is also Yiddish for "school" or "learning place" and is typically a byword for synagogues.
Ooh, another Edit: The "I married myself to xxx" is actually a loan from Spanish grammar, as well as that of most other Romance languages. It's used to add an extra but of emphasis. For example, I speak French and if I were to say "I bought a bicycle" I could say either "J'achete une velocipede" OR "J'achete moi une velocipede," both are correct but the second is usually better.
We never had an official language nor ever considered it
Vélo or bicycle, I’ve never heard anyone call it a velocipede, I didn’t even know or remember that’s what it’s short for
I didn't even know this was a thing. I live in Louisiana a know a lot of Texans, but this is the day that I am just learning of this
You did a great job to understand her at all!
A plurality of European Americans are descended from German settlers, like myself. Of course, European Americans are really a melting pot of North Sea cultures, such as Scandinavians, Germans, Dutch, Anglo-Saxons, and Celts. And even then, the overlap between those peoples is great (eg, Anglo-Saxons being descendants of Germanic peoples).
I suppose my point is that these people are your ancestors and part of your history, cherish them.
The largest European group in the US is English... its just the majority of them identify as "American" after 300 years.
@@jeffmorse645 Really ? Then why does Wikipedia and other sources claim that Germans are the largest ethnic group in the United States?
@u.s old glory I don't need a DNA test because I'm German. But you're right, the German settlers have overtaken the English since the 17th century. Here is a relatively well done video on the theme. goo.gl/9rw9vQ
I have 77% German blood (the rest English/Irish/Scottish). Too bad the language didn't get passed down to me. I was raised with German values though and I feel that cultural similarity now that I live in Germany (the East).
Most of My Grand parents are Texas Germans..Small world..What a great video..
My Grandfather on my Mom's side is a Texas German. Well, his family was from Texas for several generations, but he was born in Brillion Wisconsin. They then moved back to Texas. After he divorced my Grandmother he moved back to Spring Texas where he remarried. The elementary school is named after her, Pearl Hirsch. When we visited her in 1958, the small towns that the highways went through had many signs in German.
Great video! Thank you very much for bringing to light the Texasdeutsch dialect. “German Texans” founded the Texas cities of Bulverde, New Braunfels, Fredericksburg, Boerne, Walburg, and Comfort in the Texas Hill Country; Muenster in North Central Texas; and Schulenburg and Weimar to the east of San Antonio. Next time you’re in the USA, I recommend you take a day trip through the German influenced towns in the Texas Hill Country. The scenery is nice and the people are friendly. The Hill Country is easily reached from either San Antonio or Austin. Thanks again!
Hello Dominik, Very interesting for me on two levels. My sir name is Wunderlich, my ancestors come from Kline,Texas area. My father and uncles & aunts could all speak German. They were 3rd generation in US. Mother was 3rd generation Norwegian, but learned German at Uni. They often referred to high German speakers and low German speakers. The ancestor that first came over to Texas was a Peter Wunderlich, I believe his brother came over first, then he did. I think they were trying to avoid service in the army (1860's). Later a sister also came over. I enjoyed the oma's, wish I could speak German. This is a great series, keep it up, vielen Dank : ))
Living in Argentina for some 9 years, I found that there's a sizeable German community speaking German today found in Misiones province on the border with southern Brazil. I would love for someone to find a video of German from that region, too. There also are quite a few Argentines whose ancestors came from the British Isles (Irish, Scottish, Welsh, etc.), and they also still speak English. I remember my first wedding in Quilmes, Buenos Aires province, was a couple where the groom spoke English fluently, while his wife didn't speak any English at all! (Robin Skellorn - not a very Spanish-sounding name - wore a kilt at his wedding. He looked great!)
bbonner422 ~ Yeah! I've seen a few videos about the Southerners who moved to Brazil after the U.S. Civil War. It would be so interesting to visit there!
A place I would really like to visit is Patagonia, in Argentina, where the Welsh settled! My mother's family is originally from Wales (even though they came over to the U.S. more than 200 years ago). The world has some very interesting cultural experiences.
Sounds Yiddish kinda makes sense though related high German languages kinda like what Amish speak.
Yiddish is also a German dialect. About 70% of the words come from the German language, the rest is Slavic.
Omg! Shout out UNT lol! Go Mean Green. I feel like this is how I'd sound if I ever learned German, with a big ol' Texan drawl 😂
This is very cool!
Guten tag yall
Interesting - I have never heard Texas German before, but it has a lot of similarities to Pa. German. Where the first lady said, "Ich Heiß", the Pa. German would be "Ich Häß", again dropping the final 'e'. I think the Texas German is derived from a South German dialect, but I haven't heard which one.
Vielen Dank, Dominik.
Texas German has NOTHING to do with Penn Dutch!
DH, how would you know? They are both South German dialects.
Arch Stanton Bc IM a Texas German!
It's not really a dialect Thing. Dropping the -e ending in Verbs is pretty common in modern standard German as well. It's a matter of how accurate you want to speak. In informal speech you're more likely to omit it while in writing you would say it.
I live near these people. I speak german to lots of the older people (even though I’m not german haha) and they love it when I speak with them. Texas German (Texisch) is becoming its own language now, I think.
the subtitles are hilarious lmaooo. I was like "is this lady just saying a bunch of random words in German"? I was confused. hahahaha