Recording and transcription is from the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: language.mki.wisc.edu/german-....
Thank you so much for this. I've been searching for authentic recordings of Pennsylvania Dutch native speakers and they are very difficult to find. Most on the internet are L2 speakers with heavy English accents. This is the real deal!
There are Germans that can't understand them sometimes though and some words have meanings that differ from it's origins. Everyone knows that it is a German originated language, even the Amish would tell you that lol Everyone from that part of the world was referenced as "Dutch" : "Deutsche" at a certain point of US history
No it is absolutely not just German with an American accent. It is the German-language dialect indigenous to an American population. These people do not have a standard American accent that is influencing their spoken German. They are an America-based population that has their own accent in their own German-language dialect.
@@VisenyaAtoms "There are Germans that can't understand them sometimes though and some words have meanings that differ from it's origins" that means nothing. The German dialects differ extremely, even within the same dialect-families, that people from other parts of German speaking Europe can't understand each other. That is, why Standard German was created
Thank you so much for this. I've been searching for authentic recordings of Pennsylvania Dutch native speakers and they are very difficult to find. Most on the internet are L2 speakers with heavy English accents. This is the real deal!
Beautiful language.
Es hört sich an wie Pfälzer-Deutsch, ich kann es ganz gut verstehen. Sehr interessante Sprache.
A lot of Amish in America descend from settlers from the Palatine so that makes sense.
this is literally german (a german dialect) with a very thick american accent. so interesting to hear as someone who’s fluent in german
There are Germans that can't understand them sometimes though and some words have meanings that differ from it's origins. Everyone knows that it is a German originated language, even the Amish would tell you that lol Everyone from that part of the world was referenced as "Dutch" : "Deutsche" at a certain point of US history
@@VisenyaAtoms you don’t say 🙄
No it is absolutely not just German with an American accent. It is the German-language dialect indigenous to an American population. These people do not have a standard American accent that is influencing their spoken German. They are an America-based population that has their own accent in their own German-language dialect.
@@VisenyaAtoms "There are Germans that can't understand them sometimes though and some words have meanings that differ from it's origins" that means nothing. The German dialects differ extremely, even within the same dialect-families, that people from other parts of German speaking Europe can't understand each other. That is, why Standard German was created
Is the Swiss Amish dialect?
They were being punished for speaking German during recess? Sounds pretty brutal. I wonder if they can still speak any German at all now.
Yea in school we were supposed to speak English the whole time unless we were in first grade and still learning.