😂 Im Vergleich zu anderen deutschen Dialekten ist "Texas German" noch Hochdeutsch! 😂
@noraw.26473 жыл бұрын
ja das ist gut!
@IBims1Mark2 жыл бұрын
wenn die Yanks besser Deutsch Sprechen als die Bayern (kein Hate an euch Bayern)
@alexanderzippel88092 жыл бұрын
@@alexanderzippel8809 Wos! Des hast net gsagt! Des kannst net sang!
@antonjensen10882 жыл бұрын
ja man versteht sie teilweise nicht mehr
@trdrudedude60992 жыл бұрын
Bei der Frau ab 1:02 könnte man fast denken, dass sie aus Norddeutschland kommt.
@derweiehelge90872 жыл бұрын
Sounds like Germans trying to do an English accent of German.
@quuaaarrrk80562 жыл бұрын
or just general saxon accent
@herbertlandschmid30122 жыл бұрын
@@herbertlandschmid3012 Nein. Einfach nein.
@radschele18152 жыл бұрын
I live in Northwest Germany and most of them speak in a similar manner as people who grew up speaking the local dialects. e.g. pronouncing Tag as Tach, or gewohnt as gewount. A lot of people from north-west germany emigrated to the us so im not that surprised. Unfortunately the different dialects and languages in northern germany are dying because high german was seen as more benefitting for children and most of the media became high german.
@inrising66582 жыл бұрын
@@inrising6658 So true, unlike to Bavarian, Lower German is a dying dialect. "Mien Gott he kann keen plattdütsch mehr", met gröten ut Ollnborg (Oldb.).
@dnordwest2 жыл бұрын
@@herbertlandschmid3012 true
@gottfriedwegemuller32232 жыл бұрын
Es ist gar nicht leicht, eine Muttersprache in einem fremden Land über mehrere Generationen zu halten. Glückwunsch!
@atinemassare2 жыл бұрын
@@Trollportphosphat klar, eher geschlossenen Gemeinschaften fällt es leichter
@atinemassare2 жыл бұрын
…wird in 30 Jahren dann Amtssprache sein…
@ralfburon61792 жыл бұрын
@@ralfburon6179 was wird Amtssprache sein?
@habibi_bloxxxberg2 жыл бұрын
@@habibi_bloxxxberg der möchte sich wahrscheinlich gerne als opfer von irgendwas darstellen, weil er angegeilt davon ist, gewalt auszuüben.
@ehrlichgegensich35752 жыл бұрын
integration gescheitert XD
@Lootboy30002 жыл бұрын
What's weird is that even those that still regularly speak German, while having a pretty solid pronunciation, partially have an odd grammar which isn't really dialectal but rather sounds like an interference from English.
@angelsjoker81902 жыл бұрын
Hard to avoid while living in an English speaking country
@flowerdolphin56482 жыл бұрын
@@flowerdolphin5648 Depends on how big the community is and whether they mix with the English speakers.
@angelsjoker81902 жыл бұрын
I couldnt find any peculiarities that I would conclusively say aren't dialectical. There are some where, due to pronouncistion, I am not sure which exact words are spoken ( "in uns im Haus gewohnt" or "in unserm Haus gewohnt" ?)
@florianphilipps23702 жыл бұрын
@@florianphilipps2370 "Großvater ist gekommen 1866", "meine Großeltern sind VON Deutschland gekommen" "Deutsch das hier gesprochen wird ist VON 18. Jahrhundert" "Bist du VON Deutschland?" I don't know any German dialect that uses "von" in those cases, that's a typical English construction.
@angelsjoker81902 жыл бұрын
@@angelsjoker8190 It reminds me of this one old Christmas poem ("Drauß vom Walde komm ich her..."), and I'm just guessing here but I would attribute those to the fact that these strands were seperated from the mainland Germans before unification and standardisation of the language. So there might be some substantial shifts that this form of German just didn't have and, also of course due to your point, it made shifts itself due to English influences. Which one is which I would withhold final jugdement on, I am not a linguist.
@florianphilipps23702 жыл бұрын
Uff kann alles verstehen, das ist ja mehr Hochdeutsch als'n Dialekt
@trollololololololo11732 жыл бұрын
Kann fast gar nix verstehen, dank der Hintergrundmusik! 😤😡😠
@ichbinich17752 жыл бұрын
Haben halt nur teilweise einen texanischen Akzent.
@lividlarry10262 жыл бұрын
schriftdeutsch... Hochdeutsch ist sprachhistorisch betrachtet die Süddeutsche Dialektgruppe... dazu gibt es noch die Niederdeutsche Dialektgruppe die im Norden heimisch war.. was kein Dialekt ist Schriftdeutsch kein Hochdeutsch sonst würden die Schweizerdeutsch sprechen (kein scherz. Schweizerdeutsch ist dem ursprünglichen Hochdeutsch von allen Dialekten am nächsten)
@blackforest_fairy2 жыл бұрын
Ne bin aus nord Deutschland das is doch nochmal was anderes.
@schnitzel45842 жыл бұрын
@@blackforest_fairy Chrrr...
@ichbinich17752 жыл бұрын
„Du siehst aus wie ein Deutscher.“😂😂😂😂😂
@laraeber9293 жыл бұрын
"Ei Kant zih sis!"
@Komprimat11113 жыл бұрын
Sag das mal hier in Deutschland, da biste sofort n Nazi ^^
@trollololololololo11732 жыл бұрын
@@trollololololololo1173 lass doch das geheule. das ist doch erbärmlich!
@ehrlichgegensich35752 жыл бұрын
@@trollololololololo1173 nicht in Deutschland du vollidiot. In jedem anderen Land wirst du als deutscher nazi bezeichnet. Warum sollten wir uns selbst als nazis bezeichnen?
@stevenhammerich63682 жыл бұрын
Er sieht nicht mal deutsch aus eher wie ein Franzose
@kukuV.32 жыл бұрын
"No we weren't even allowed to speak German at all!" Freedom of Speech 100
@ZenoDovahkiin2 жыл бұрын
Also: "First time?" -Hawaii
@ZenoDovahkiin2 жыл бұрын
Well... during the war. There is no freedom of speech. Lol But actually it's sad that they stopped teaching there children german!
@flyingaviator81582 жыл бұрын
@@flyingaviator8158 was labert du
@bloodysunday31922 жыл бұрын
@@flyingaviator8158 maximal lost
@xXBlackIce7Xx2 жыл бұрын
@@xXBlackIce7Xx du sagst es
@bloodysunday31922 жыл бұрын
The Germans were the best settlers apparently, bc they always had good relations with the Indian tribes.
@loganross18613 жыл бұрын
With Mexicans, too. This is why you hear the accordion in música norteña. :)
@Fififogone3 жыл бұрын
@@Fififogone I always wondered why the Accordion is used in Mexico - i learned it was once ruled for a short time by an Austrian King.
@noizW3 жыл бұрын
@@noizW “Maximilian I was an Austrian archduke who reigned as the only Emperor of the Second Mexican Empire from 10 April 1864 until his execution on 19 June 1867.” Wow. I guess if the French can love Jerry Lewis and the Turks can invent the croissant, anything’s possible in this crazy world.
@Fififogone3 жыл бұрын
Author Henry Miller wrote in his 1934 novel Tropic of Cancer, "I have often thought that the Germans make the best Americans, though they certainly make the worst Germans."
@BrendonCarr2 жыл бұрын
It's kinda different to read something positive about us Germans instead of being a shitty Nazi ^^ Cheers and Love
@EdwinDCrab2 жыл бұрын
2:40 der Text stammt aus dem Volkslied "Morgen muss mein Schatz verreisen" das in den 1860ern als sie ausgewandert sind sehr bekannt war. Wahnsinn dass die das unter sich bis heute weitergegeben haben.
@Oberkommando2 жыл бұрын
Ich denke eher, dass der Text aus dem Soldatenlied Lore, Lore oder Im Wald im grünende Walde, wie auch immer man es nennen mag kommt
@nichtich46332 жыл бұрын
@@nichtich4633 ja genau das habe ich mir gedacht
@oberstjanfeldmann71582 жыл бұрын
In der Fremde wird das natürlich mehr wert geschätzt
@Danileptic2 жыл бұрын
@@nichtich4633 Nein, das wüsste man, du irrst und der originale Kommentator hat recht, aber das sind beides auch sehr schöne Lieder
@c3dr1c79 Жыл бұрын
Also meine Großeltern und Mutter singen das auch noch
@blabladuweier8654 Жыл бұрын
Der Moment, wenn man Taxas Deutsch besser als Bayrisch versteht😂
@juliuswalte68582 жыл бұрын
Der Moment, wenn man realisiert das Bairisch eine Kultursprache ist und Texasdeutsch eben veraltetes Schriftdeutsch. 😉
@ExtremeDeathman2 жыл бұрын
Oder Plattdeutsch oder jeden anderen Dialekt
@Elitus2 жыл бұрын
@@Elitus ne plattdeutsch kann ich, das ist aber auch eine eigene Sprache
@juliuswalte68582 жыл бұрын
Is it weird that, me (someone who have never been exposed or learned the language) get a gist of what you guys are saying?
@kamrulhasan34682 жыл бұрын
@@kamrulhasan3468 many words are similar to the english words, so some sentences are easier to understand than others
@juliuswalte68582 жыл бұрын
2:08 Die Omma spricht akzentfrei. Ich verneige mich ganz ganz tief. Kotau
@julianmahler23882 жыл бұрын
Die ist ja auch deutsch, oder hab ich das falsch verstanden?
@RetsamX2 жыл бұрын
@@RetsamX Nene die ist glaube ich auch Amerikanerin. Hat ja gesagt, dass es keine deutschen Schulen mehr gab nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg
@Mikehaelohim2 жыл бұрын
@Rasta Koots ?
@crossebi12322 жыл бұрын
Sry aber wovor verneigst du dich? Die spricht einfach das womit sie aufgewachsen ist, so wie ca. 8 Milliarden andere Menschen auf dem Planeten auch.
@dualfluidreactor2 жыл бұрын
@@dualfluidreactor Ist nicht selbstverständlich da keinen Akzent einzubauen nach so einer langen Zeit.
@gunnarzsiross26662 жыл бұрын
Da verstehe ich ja mehr als bei den Bayern:D
@anatomie63402 жыл бұрын
bayern sind auch nicht deutsch
@Bi6M4C2 жыл бұрын
@@Bi6M4C Doch? Frankfurt ist nicht mehr Deutsch
@peterlustig68882 жыл бұрын
@@peterlustig6888 und du bist nicht mehr am leben
@Bi6M4C2 жыл бұрын
@@Bi6M4C Berlin ist nicht mehr deutsch
@kukuV.32 жыл бұрын
doch, ist sogar die hauptstadt von deutschland. falls du es nicht wusstest :)
@Bi6M4C2 жыл бұрын
Wir sind hier in Texas, hier spricht man Deutsch!
@the_niss3 жыл бұрын
Omg 🤣🤣 ich kann net mehr ✨
@x2Soulsx2 жыл бұрын
😂
@flothchtronk20682 жыл бұрын
Jawoll! So gehört sich das. :-)
@SNAKE_PLISSKEN19792 жыл бұрын
Ausländer raus aus US of A!!
@marcoader9095 Жыл бұрын
Huh. My ancestors on my dad's side of the family came here from Stuttgart in the 1800s. Wish they passed down their German, but it became kind of taboo for awhile so they stopped speaking it. A lot of my family didn't even know my Grandfather spoke fluent German until he got drunk at a party 😂
@ExtraDipson2 жыл бұрын
don't bother. the dialect from near Stuttgart (schwaebisch) could and until today can almost not or only hard be understood by many.
@gregor-samsa2 жыл бұрын
Probably during ww1 they stopped speaking it. Too bad.
@Lekirius2 жыл бұрын
@@Lekirius Yes. maybe. I once heard they killed German Shepard dogs in Canada during 1.ww ... as they where - somehow- German, too! If you miss it - why don't you start to learn a little Deutsch. Check out reports of people who lived some time here from US in youtube. Could be easily enough for a visit and over here most to all speak a kind of English :-)
@gregor-samsa2 жыл бұрын
@@gregor-samsa I definitely still would have loved to learn it, just because rare dialects and endangered languages are kind of interesting to me despite not having any practical use. I'll definitely study German at some point, it's just a matter of finding the motivation to start studying again haha
@ExtraDipson2 жыл бұрын
@@gregor-samsa don't Talk rubbish. I'm Hessian and understand a lot. Most young people are just too lazy to bother themselfes with trying to get a grip on dialects. Or they'll be getting told that it is uncool to learn about their own culture...
@leone.61902 жыл бұрын
I'm Dutch, but I can understand them no matter if they talk German, Texas German, or English, lol
@Linda-hs1lk2 жыл бұрын
Weil Niederländisch eine germanische Sprache ist. Ich versteh euch Niederländer als deutscher auch. :)
@mr.knochenhosentyp43592 жыл бұрын
@@mr.knochenhosentyp4359 ich nur Bruchstücke
@bloodysunday31922 жыл бұрын
@@bloodysunday3192 weil du eventuell kein Plattdeutsch sprichst? Das macht es dann sehr schwierig, ja.
@mr.knochenhosentyp43592 жыл бұрын
@Linda: Warum ist das eigentlich so? Lernt ihr dann Deutsch in der Schule? Schon beeindruckend wie viele Niederländer so gut deutsch können👍
@mikeymike4372 жыл бұрын
@@mr.knochenhosentyp4359 jap daran liegt es
@bloodysunday31922 жыл бұрын
German was one of the most commonly spoken languages in the USA until WWI.
@abroxyz982 жыл бұрын
Yeah, getting into a couple of world wars gets you a little bad reputation.
@agomezjunco2 жыл бұрын
@@agomezjunco still, America is so german you could call the world wars civil wars
@abroxyz982 жыл бұрын
I studied German for 5 years. I purposefully ignored the subtitles and realized I understood 95% of what they were saying, yay!
@JUMALATION1 Жыл бұрын
German/Deutschland im Titel: Diese Kommentarsektion ist ab sofort deutsch.
@likekai2 жыл бұрын
Ist das GIBI in deinem Profilbild???🤣🤣🤣
@thegermansherlock98452 жыл бұрын
@@thegermansherlock9845 jup
@likekai2 жыл бұрын
Du meinst „Die Kommentarsektion des KZhead Videos der Kennnummer x ist ab sofort Staatseigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.“
@maaax11732 жыл бұрын
@@maaax1173 absolutely
@likekai2 жыл бұрын
@@maaax1173 So wäre es natürlich zu 100% korrekt!🙂
@thegermansherlock98452 жыл бұрын
I live in an area of Texas that was full of German settlers; damn near every school and many of the streets are named after them. There's even a museum nearby with their actual houses. Really cool to see that the German subsect of Texas culture is still alive
@Mona-kg6hy2 жыл бұрын
Der Typ am Anfang klingt wie Willi von Willi wills wissen
@saturnatnight34792 жыл бұрын
Oha ich hör‘s- hahahha
@madds67662 жыл бұрын
OMG
@bolloxed10562 жыл бұрын
Texas ist einfach fast doppelt so groß wie gesamt Deutschland 😂😂😂
@maxmustermann6112 жыл бұрын
ja wen juckt es digga
@deinemutter73972 жыл бұрын
@@deinemutter7397 .
@mrwut29022 жыл бұрын
@@stevenhammerich6368 Nein es ist wirklich fast doppelt so groß
@maxmustermann6112 жыл бұрын
@@stevenhammerich6368 Ich weiß echt nicht, was du gerechnet hast, aber Texas hat eine Fläche von 695662 km² und Deutschland ist 357386 km² groß, also ist Texas ca. 1,95 mal so groß wie Deutschland, was ich schon als fast doppelt so groß bezeichnen würde.
@rz37982 жыл бұрын
@Thorin 0204 und er hat einfach seine Kommentare gelöscht haha
@rz37982 жыл бұрын
So schön das der Mann am Schluß singt 😊😋
@akikost58003 жыл бұрын
My grandmother lived in Weimar TX for years, and when she was getting to the end of her days she would tell me "Machen sie gut, Heinrich!"... Dad told us she thought i was her son at a younger age and was telling me to be good. She was 98; we used to marvel at the things she must have seen since 1899
@davebob75542 жыл бұрын
pov: you live in the weimar in germany and still think its funny that many settlers just named their towns after the ones in germany
@waterley_ Жыл бұрын
@@waterley_ Glasgow Kentucky is near London Kentucky, on a kentucky river called the Thames lol
@molybdenumrose Жыл бұрын
She probably said "Mach's gut, Heinrich" which roughly translates to "Farewell, Heinrich"
@awax2585 Жыл бұрын
The anti-German discrimination after WWII is the reason my mother and I don’t have our ancestral dialect as our first language. My family is from a Hessen majority community in Oklahoma which had their own dialect that is now virtually extinct, my Opa remembers a bit but he was scolded by his own parents for trying to speak German cause they feared he’d develop the accent and be attacked by Anglos at worst, or lose out on career opportunities at best. He eventually became an American army veteran, but he had to hide his ethnicity and pretend to be Dutch. After the war my family dropped the Von from their surname name and my great uncle Johannes quickly became Johnnie. Post war anti-German, anti-Italian, and anti-Japanese discrimination has really fucked up a lot of communities and our cultural identities. Many Germans moved out of the cities to avoid abuse, the Italian mob resurfaced to protect their communities from other Americans, and many Japanese moved out of the south back to Japanese majority areas in California. I live about an hour away from a neighborhood with gorgeous Alpine architecture, but the community is now all Hispanic and the name has been changed to a Spanish translation of what it was originally in German. The original inhabitants were run out by Anglos after the war and the banks assumed ownership of their properties and ending up selling them for cheap (cause no one wanted to live in the evil German houses) to a wave of poor Latin immigrants as a way of conveniently funneling them all into an area the Anglos didn’t have to interact with (aka redlining). I’m glad to see that communities like Arab Americans are still keeping their cultural identities strong despite them having been the target/scapegoat for hate and fear in recent decades. We have to stop this cycle of intimidation and assimilation into complete cultural eraser.
@BunsBooks2 жыл бұрын
Before, that type of stuff only happened because of the general avoidance of taboo stuff. After all that hippie movement stuff, discrimination like that became the real taboo.
@honkhonk80092 жыл бұрын
@@honkhonk8009 definitely. russians living in russia or abroad definitely don't face any prejudice from anyone due to the war. we're not that ignorant anymore.
@-41337 Жыл бұрын
@@-41337 Is that ironic? If not youre definitely not living in Europe where russians are now fearing to get purged. Russians are moving to Russia again because they fear discrimination and violence. Everyone who speaks russian here catches weird looks.
@Dickstick Жыл бұрын
Go back to Germany Fritz.
@stevecochrane8799 Жыл бұрын
Is your family German nobility? "von" would usually indicate nobility (doesn't have to though) It's a pity that these dialects are dying out, especially as also the dialects in Germany are facing the same fate.
@largoembargo8090 Жыл бұрын
This is a blessing to my Texas heart
@enaszaq30513 жыл бұрын
❤️
@PersonausdemAll2 жыл бұрын
the German with southern drawl kills me everytime
@banjobill84202 жыл бұрын
I love going to the Texas German towns for short trips, Fredricksburg, New Braunfels and Gruene.
@lindastarr46992 жыл бұрын
My best friend lived in New Braunfels for a large part of her life, she went to high school there!
@arthurteddy912 жыл бұрын
Proud to be a Texan with German roots. 🇩🇪
@rosea23507 ай бұрын
Sehr interessant! Auch hier in Südbrasilien gibt es seit dem 19. Jahrhundert viele deutschsprachige Gemeinden. Mein Großvater kommt aus Bayern.
@gtPacheko2 жыл бұрын
Nice
@peeron68292 жыл бұрын
Kommst aus Santa Catarina ? :D
@zsx782 Жыл бұрын
Also nazi :DDD
@marcoader9095 Жыл бұрын
I'm happy I found this. Have a good day.
@numberoneappgames3 жыл бұрын
I’M LEARNING GERMAN SO THANKS FOR THE SUBTITLES
@heh.91662 жыл бұрын
Visit Germany - you are welcome!
@ralfburon61792 жыл бұрын
@@ralfburon6179 natürlich! ich lebe in nord frankreich und kann daher einfach nach deutschland reisen :D
@heh.91662 жыл бұрын
@@heh.9166 sei herzlich gegrüßt nachbar 😃
@Vampirepriestess2 жыл бұрын
@@heh.9166 findest du deutsch ist schwieriger als französisch?
@lilaclupin59662 жыл бұрын
@@lilaclupin5966 ich glaube schon, besonders die Grammatik😭😭 aber eure Rechtschreibung ist vielleicht ein bisschen einfacher als unsere :')
@heh.91662 жыл бұрын
Das sehr gut!!! Glad they're keeping their language. It was mostly lost here in Arkansas. Some of us younger generations are trying to bring it back.
@ashleysmith21099 ай бұрын
The Germans were good friends with the Tejano population, since they were both discriminated for being Catholics and not Anglo saxons. Many Germans even immigrated to Mexico.
@elpidiovillarreal62462 жыл бұрын
The Mexican music was heavily influenced by Bavarian settlers👍🏻
@peterlustig68882 жыл бұрын
I am an American from German heritage and I never knew about these German-Texans. Really interesting information! Thank you for uploading this video. God bless from an American with German blood.
@cherrynutz2 жыл бұрын
You can get German citizenship if your fully German
@tommyd3813 Жыл бұрын
@@tommyd3813 why would he be a nazi? :D
@marcoader9095 Жыл бұрын
I am learning German. I will come back to this video once I am fluent and see if I can understand only by listening
@jjackandbrian56242 жыл бұрын
The algorithm really just doing whatever at this point huh
@user-su9fh6ct4d2 жыл бұрын
Ich bin Deutsch-Amerikaner in der 5. Generation. Ich kann kein Deutsch, aber ich versuche zu lernen, dass viele meiner Familienmitglieder nach Texas gegangen sind, nachdem sie Pennsylvania verlassen haben. Es gibt eine lange Reihe von uns. Es freut mich sehr, dass es deutsche Rednecks auf der Welt gibt!
@kevingumfory2 жыл бұрын
This is so fascinating. I'm Texan and I never knew we still had communities like this. I knew that area had heavy German influence, but I didn't know they were still speaking the language. It doesn't really surprise me, though. I went to college in a Midwestern city that also had German influence, and they spoke German and printed the local newspaper in German up until WWII.
@IzzyKawaiichi2 жыл бұрын
Das fasziniert mich einfach so sehr, dass sich Deutsch dort einfach festgesetzt und sich auch individuell weiterentwickelt hat. Es ist einfach nur großartig dieses kurze Video zu sehen.
@Robin-ct1sy2 жыл бұрын
Guttentagen, I'm Mexican American born in Dallas. Being bilingual myself, I like hearing the German language being spoken by German Texans. I really also enjoy the German style foods that are in Fredericksburg, and New Braunfels. I hope to learn the German language someday.
@stevenserna910 Жыл бұрын
I'm English, but my mother is German, she did speak a lot to me in German when I was growing up, but not enough for me to really learn the language, but still it always surprises me how much I understand. That being said, English and German are very similar languages anyway, a lot of the words are very similar.
@yakacm Жыл бұрын
Same, my father always spoke german to me growing up, but I responded in English and never learned how to speak it without stumbling over the words.
@lukasg48077 ай бұрын
Kind of sad that the Texas Germans dissappear after ww2
@DrHydra472 жыл бұрын
you just saw them alive and kicking. more alive and kicking than the Germans here in Germany, I might add. lol
@couchcamperTM2 жыл бұрын
@@couchcamperTM was laberst du haha op findet es einfach nur schade dass die Texas deutschen erzwungener Maßen ihre Kultur nicht mehr weitergeben durften.
@tyrannus002 жыл бұрын
@@tyrannus00 Er/Sie/Es meint das die Leute im Video ja Texas Deutsche sind. Spricht: sie exestieren noch
@fawfulexpress2 жыл бұрын
@@fawfulexpress schon klar, aber darum ging es op ja nicht
@tyrannus002 жыл бұрын
@@fawfulexpress Existieren ja, aber es ging ja mehr darum dass die neuen Kids es nicht mehr weiterführen... Machen ja nur die Alten...
@akantorixful2 жыл бұрын
Ich bin nicht einmal Deutscher. Und ich fand es immer Unmöglich Deutsch zu lernen. Aber das ist sehr emotional. Dankeschön!
@greatspirit Жыл бұрын
Ich finde es toll das die alte Sprache hoch gehalten wird. Wie Cajun.
@theobserver13202 жыл бұрын
The Amish and Mennonite communities in the US speak German as well. My grandmother was one and she used to teach me German growing up. Sadly I've forgotten most of it. Germans made up the majority of immigrants in the mid to late 1800s so you see a lot of German influence in the states. Especially in rural areas where traditions tend to live longer.
@Cowabungas2 жыл бұрын
American society as a whole was deeply influenced by german immigrants. You'll find in nearyl any american corner some german influence.
@TheMusicLauncher Жыл бұрын
Das Regime von Roh Moo-hyun tötete den Bauern Jeon Yong-cheol und im November 2005
@user-nw7hc5vm2c Жыл бұрын
2:22 "They can understand but they can't talk" That's the exact same thing I have.
@kennarajora65322 жыл бұрын
same here, my teacher actually had two versions of most tests, and if we took the one where we answered in german we got extra credit
@brumm0m3ntum94 Жыл бұрын
I just love this video and have seen it many times. I so wish that there was a longer video of your trip to Texas.
@taustin266 Жыл бұрын
Unglaublich wie man über so viele Generationen eine Muttersprache wie Deutsch noch aufrecht erhalten kann. Mein Respekt!
@Hegii694202 жыл бұрын
Ich liebe das Lied am Ende… “Schatz ach Schatz” ist mein Lieblingslied
@humptydumpty33452 жыл бұрын
Das erinnert mich sehr an die Albaner (wir nennen sie Arbëreshe), die vor über 500 Jahren von Albanien nach Süditalien vor der osmanischen Invasion geflüchtet sind und immer noch die albanische Sprache und Kultur beibehalten haben. Ich finde es faszinierend, wie ich Texas German besser verstehe, als einen Bayer 😅
@leod.14152 жыл бұрын
Man, I would have loved to see you head to Fredericksburg, I believe it was another almost entirely german-settled community, a small ways outside of Austin. A lot of people are surprised to learn that Texas has insulated communities like that - that's not to say that these communities don't interact outside of themselves, but rather it's just cool that these communities have been able to stay close-knit enough, so as not to lose their heritage. Awesome video!
@TakeaSwigBro Жыл бұрын
Ach Gott schönes Texas, schöne USA 🇺🇸 Bin auch bald dort...
@felixss41203 жыл бұрын
Was ist schon uber amerika?
@HeliodromusScorpio3 жыл бұрын
@@HeliodromusScorpio our barbecue: ;)
@Fififogone3 жыл бұрын
ne ist kacke
@davidschaefer172 жыл бұрын
@@HeliodromusScorpio Everything is good about america
@Gorg-oe1hu2 жыл бұрын
@@Gorg-oe1hu What avout the healthcare system?
@entonduck2 жыл бұрын
New Braunfels and Fredericksburg are 2 great towns, love those places
@rawhidelamp2 жыл бұрын
also Gruene ist das best
@seemore......13222 жыл бұрын
In meinem Dorf, in Argentinien, wird Deutsch meistens von den alten Leuten noch gesprochen, beide meine Großväter und meine Großmutter sprechen Deutsch als Muttersprache. Zum Besipiel mein Großvater hat mir erzählt dass in dem Haus seiner Mutter nur Deutsch gesprochen wurde, und wenn er Spanisch sprach dann wurde er gestraft. Sie sprechen häufig Hochdeutsch, aber mit einem Bißchen ihres Dialektes.
@Tobias_K_2 жыл бұрын
Wie heisst das dorf? Wenn ich in argentinien bin würde ich es gern mal besuchen.
@Johmatri2 жыл бұрын
@@Johmatri Es heisst Leandro N. Alem
@Tobias_K_2 жыл бұрын
@@Tobias_K_ Hast du Deutsch von deinen Großeltern gelernt?
@reverze20312 жыл бұрын
Nach Argentinien war die Auswanderung auch erst viel später 1920-1935. So 3-4 Generationen überlebt eine Sprache meistens.
@holger_p8 ай бұрын
Man sieht das es deutsche sind. Ich lebe in Paraguay und sehe auch hier das ich unter den vor 100 Jahren eingewanderten Deutschen mit meinen 1,80 klein bin. Die altdeutschen sind stets recht große Leute ;D UND die können alle deutsch besser als ich castelano XD
@einmeister90872 жыл бұрын
Das ist Unsinn o.o ich bin deutscher und 1,65, meine Abstammung ist auch immer recht klein, 1,80 ist allgemein ne große Seltenheit, der schnitt ist so 1,70. Mein Opa war glaub nicht annähernd 1,80 oder so...
@adrenaliner912 жыл бұрын
@@adrenaliner91 Nur weil du ein Zwerg bist ;D Auf dem Lande wo ich herkomme sind die einheimischen immer größer als ich gewesen, und zwar alle. Ich bin aber auch russisch-deutscher Abstammung. Die Germanenstämme waren bekannt für ihre großen und starken Menschen.
@einmeister90872 жыл бұрын
@@einmeister9087 das wär mir echt neu. Aber vielleicht sind wir Deutschen nur in Baden-Württemberg klein. Und das hier war früher auch mehr Land. Auch wenn die Bauernhöfe mittlerweile wohl kaum mehr existieren in dieser Stadt die mal n Dorf war.
@adrenaliner912 жыл бұрын
@@adrenaliner91 Ich komme aus Niedersachsen aus der Nähe von Bremen. Aber ich bin auch ausgewandert und lebe jetzt in Südamerika. Und die Menonniten die ich bisher gesehen habe sind auch alle ziemlich "lang" .
@einmeister90872 жыл бұрын
@@adrenaliner91 Durchschnittliche Größe der Männer in DE sind 1,80.
@carvilia1432 жыл бұрын
Der Moment, wenn ich als Deutscher die englischen Untertitel mitlese. 🙈
@HansDampf52 жыл бұрын
Ich auch xD automatisch musste mich zusammen reißen lol
@PersonausdemAll2 жыл бұрын
😅🤣 ich auch haha
@whosthedena84402 жыл бұрын
2:02 Sie redet einfach perfektes akzentfreies deutsch. Wahnsinn!
@norbertnowanskiLP Жыл бұрын
Including typical German "mistakes" like "während dem Krieg" instead of "während des Krieges". I half expected her to say "Kriech" because it would have fit the sound so well.
@Voller84 Жыл бұрын
Is there more of this trip to Texas? Very interesting, I love documentaries like this.
@Mikishots2 жыл бұрын
the german with a southern accent sounds so funny
@VAbel032 жыл бұрын
God they are all so nice. I really really would have loved to see more of it and would have loved to HEAR more from them. I've been to Texas and the people there are all super super nice and friendly and also always happy to meet a German and they will tell you about their German roots.
@maxkopfraumpoops2 жыл бұрын
They’re super nice to white folks and Christians and not much else
@turkey4957 Жыл бұрын
@@turkey4957sounds like an ignorant take from somebody who has never been there.
@paulsbunions84419 ай бұрын
@@turkey4957just say you’ve never been lol. southern hospitality is real
@hesiiii7 ай бұрын
In 1979 a group of us went on a trip to the western United States. We stopped at a grocery store to get something to eat on the road. This was in New Braunfels, Texas. I remember the architecture of the downtown buildings looking somewhat like an Alpine village. Anyway, while checking out our purchases I heard two people speaking German. They were teenagers. I was pleasantly surprised as I figured even back then that only the old people spoke German. There was a lot of suppression back in the mid 20th century for children speaking foreign languages outside of home. In my home state of Louisiana Cajun children were punished at school if they spoke French. Same apparently in Texas with German. Much later people realized the folly of this and are trying to bring back the languages to those respective areas.
@elizabethmuhleisen357 Жыл бұрын
I’m from Germany and I know that some of my ancestors left Europe in the 1850s but they went to Colorado and not to Texas. btw I love the fact that people who have German origins keep their language alive outside of their home country, keep it up 🇩🇪❤️🔥
@TedMosby_OhioBoy2 жыл бұрын
Absolutes Legendenvideo. Kurz,Knackig und man bekommt von allem etwas mit :D Super :)
@DaKoRTE17 Жыл бұрын
Pennsylvania Dutch ist auch geil. Gibts ne Doku darüber, "Hiwwe wie Driwwe". Sehr interessant anzuschauen.
@CK-br9mn2 жыл бұрын
They really sound like a cowboys who are trying to speak German..but they are actually German
@Ritter27492 жыл бұрын
No they are actually Texans whose ancestors came from Germany. They have been here at least 150 years.
@nancyjanzen56762 жыл бұрын
@@nancyjanzen5676 yes I am aware of that, and it's amazing.
@Ritter27492 жыл бұрын
Ja verrückt, ich war vor 5 Jahren für 2 Jahre am College in Clarendon Texas und ich war verblüfft, weil ich da genau so eine Familie getroffen habe, die immer noch Deutsch gesprochen hat. Nicht weil die vor kurzem ausgewandert sind, sondern, weil die das Jahre lang so weiter geführt haben. Und Clarendon hatte nur 2000 Einwohner. Freut mich so ein Video zu sehen, da bekommt mal ein Lächeln auf dem Gesicht 😊
@Erik123302 жыл бұрын
My great grandparents moved out to Texas during the 1800s. I didn’t know that there were so many Germans in the area they raised their children. I wonder how many relatives I still have there in Texas… Harberger and Schwartz. 💕
@desertrat55432 жыл бұрын
Sounds a bit like plattdeutsch. In comparison to bayrisch or hessisch it's basically hochdeutsch
@koffeinx67382 жыл бұрын
There are communities we're flatgerman is stil a thing. I remember they even had newspaper in flatgerman so they were up to date with what happened in Germany.
@kenobents9922 жыл бұрын
@@kenobents992 it's called low german, descending from "niederdeutsch"
@zwanni202 жыл бұрын
@@zwanni20 Weiß ich doch. Lebe in Ostfriesland :D nur falsch übersetzt, aber danke für die Korrektur
@kenobents9922 жыл бұрын
As a Jew it is a terrible, terrible shame that these poor people were terrorized out of not speaking their native tongue because of something they had zero involvement in. Niche languages are so beautiful and unique, but this dialect of German will probably not survive once this generation of speakers dies out. Thank you for documenting it.
@jonnj9701 Жыл бұрын
Especially given in the last 50 years children are less and less likely to move back home after college. My sister, nor I moved back home. Both took jobs half way across the country. That would spread the language even further.
@TheMijman Жыл бұрын
My great uncle Otto used his fluency in the German language to serve as a translator while he was in the U.S. Army during WWII. Once he came back, however, the world he left was changed and he no longer spoke German, even with his family.
@mattie34054 ай бұрын
Ich glaube, es gibt ja gar keine offizielle Amtssprache in den USA. Und deutsch ist glaube ich die häufigste "Abstammung"
@danielgerber84522 жыл бұрын
Soweit ich weiß wurd mal gewählt ob Englisch oder Deutsch Amtsprache sein soll und für deutsch hat lediglich 1ne einzige stimme gefehlt
@axityouuknoow2 жыл бұрын
@@axityouuknoow nein da ging es nur darum dass Gesetzes texte auch in Deutsch verfasst werden sollen
@Simbamon_der_echte2 жыл бұрын
@@Simbamon_der_echte achso so war das danke der Aufklärung
@axityouuknoow2 жыл бұрын
Ja das stimmt da hab ich mal eine Grafik gesehen da war fast alles deutscher Herkunft
@Sc-tb2qu2 жыл бұрын
Stimmt. Deutschland ist Herkunftsland nunmer 1 was weiße Amerikaner angeht. Danach kommt Irland danach Großbritannien, danach glaube ich Italien und Polen, aber da bin ich mir nicht sehr sicher .
@thinkingandwondering47252 жыл бұрын
Thank you for teaching me about this I had no idea 💪
@NoFaceCobain Жыл бұрын
Wie krass ich verstehe jedes Wort! Wirklich toll eine Sprache so zu bewahren.
@larsjakob7039 Жыл бұрын
Dass sich das noch so lange erhalten halt. Das ist fantastisch 🇩🇪😘🙏
@fr98532 жыл бұрын
1:21 the guy on the left is using my go to trick for getting through a german conversation with my grandparents. The trick is to just say “genau” whenever they look to you to contribute to the conversation. Even if they ask a direct question just say genau and stare back at whoever you’re speaking to, its worked a thousand times for me
@charlesbwilliams Жыл бұрын
I don’t understand 99% of the comments here but god damn we love the German influence on Texas culture and food
@SpoookyBooogie2 жыл бұрын
Is German being taught in Texan schools or is it a "famous" subject in schools? Because when I was in America a while ago, I thought that this would be the case. I visited some High Schools, etc. and many students said, "that they love German(y)!", which I thought was very cool as a German native. ^^
@MadeByBTH Жыл бұрын
@@MadeByBTH I live in houston texas and German class was offered at my school!
@francis484 Жыл бұрын
@@francis484 Oh, that's so cool, thank you for the answer! Maybe one can work as a German teacher then. Interesting!
@MadeByBTH Жыл бұрын
@@MadeByBTH German was one of the languages offered at several High Schools where I grew up in Oregon.
@qadan1 Жыл бұрын
@@qadan1 Thank you for your answer as well. That is soooo interesting! Because, as I said, I also had the impression that many American students like the German language or come in touch with it in HS or at University. 😃🤙🏻
@MadeByBTH Жыл бұрын
I love the video, so cool to hear these people speak this dialect! what is the song in the background by the way? i have heard it SOOO many times and love it. Get back to me whenever you find the time. Great content
@klide1615 Жыл бұрын
I didn't even know my grandpa spoke German until very recently. They weren't allowed to speak it anymore after ww2, but he continued to speak to his grandparents in German
@Ne1lcul2 жыл бұрын
6th Gen Texas German here
@apacifistmachinegunner669 Жыл бұрын
Hallo 😊
@jenson1896 Жыл бұрын
The algorithm is back at it again
@nathanheuvelink33792 жыл бұрын
Weiß jemand woher das Video kommt? Ist das eine Sendung? Wie heißt der Interviewer? :D Ich würde gerne noch mehr sehen!
@GigatLP2 жыл бұрын
Der Dialekt dort klingt so wie in der Herborner Gegend
@saidabachabergschdaigamuesli3 жыл бұрын
Ja ne mit dem r vor allem
@oscarfra51702 жыл бұрын
da nennt man dieses gelbe Obst bestimmt auch Barrrnarrrne XD
@psyqovalkyrie92952 жыл бұрын
@@psyqovalkyrie9295 lol xD
@PersonausdemAll2 жыл бұрын
Wo liegt Herborn ungefähr? Für mich klingt der Dialekt so grob Richtung Norddeutsch, aber ich bin für sowas allgemein nicht gerade ein Experte.
@Alinor242 жыл бұрын
@@Alinor24 herborn ist im Lahn Dill Kreis in Hessen
@oscarfra51702 жыл бұрын
I heard that Germans were actually the biggest immigration group moving to America. More than Irish or Italians. So most Americans must have at least a bit of a german background.
@bezugsstelle2 жыл бұрын
Over half of all white americans are ethnically german
@jolol28082 жыл бұрын
This is a German-ass country. Hotdogs and hamburgers are both German.
@MattMangels2 жыл бұрын
@@MattMangels Hamburgers 😍
@PersonausdemAll2 жыл бұрын
No it will be majority English followed by Spanish, that is almost a guarantee. Germans are the most recent so they show up in the census like Italians, but that doesn’t mean the other 200 million odd Anglos just magically disappear, most just assume American = Anglo in the first place
@XXXTENTAClON227 Жыл бұрын
Hallo, wie heißt denn das lied bei 00:25? Ich bin schon seit Jahren auf der Suche danach
@halimech12 жыл бұрын
This dialect must be derived from middle german, It is almost exactly the same with a few variations and some mixture of anglicisms. Extremely understandable as someone who speaks standard german, it is much easier to understand than Schwäbisch or Bayrisch
@TexboyGamer2 жыл бұрын
Yes. I was stationed in Der Pfalz and after some time there, I took a trip to Nurnburg and I couldn't understand a damn thing, and vice versa. I made out from someone that I had a thick Pfalzer accent. I was really amazed at how the brain just picks up accents without even knowing it.
@boxsterman77 Жыл бұрын
The guy saying "A little bit" at 1:34 sounds really close to modern day Dutch. Lots of the others also pronounced some words in a way that sounded completely Dutch to me.
@zegmakker010 Жыл бұрын
No, middle german sounds wayyyyyy more ancient and different. This is definitely a quite modern high german derived dialect
@kuuhgle Жыл бұрын
@@kuuhgle I’m sorry i meant location not time frame. I don’t know the exact dialect families but I looked it up and I meant Oberdeutsch. The way the R is pronounced as well as the U and G is very typical for both Swabian and Swiss dialects as well as some high German dialects like bavarian
@TexboyGamer Жыл бұрын
@@zegmakker010 likely because its low german which maintained the same consonants as dutch rather than high german
@thereareantsbehindyoureyes7529 Жыл бұрын
Ich war 2018 in Florida und wurde dort auch auf deutsch angesprochen, sie meinten ich würde deutsch aussehen 😂 aber es hat sich ähnlich wie Texas German angehört
@xDerRusherx2 жыл бұрын
Deutsch ist in den USA, soweit ich weis,eine der Top 3 Fremdsprachen die an Schulen gelernt wird.Sofern nicht verwunderlich wenn man auch mal auf deutsch angesprochen wird.
@kriegshammer21612 жыл бұрын
Lol wie Geil xD
@PersonausdemAll2 жыл бұрын
Texas Germans: Explains their ancestry in perfect German. Italian Americans: Gabagool?! Ova ereee!!!!
@IlGattoCheFuma2 жыл бұрын
If anyone’s wondering I believe the folk song at the end is “Die Vögelein im Walde”
@benjamindanner55942 жыл бұрын
With towns like New Braunfels and Fredericksburg it surprised him to find German speakers. My grandmother spoke German and Polish.
@nancyjanzen56762 жыл бұрын
There were many unique dialects of various European languages across the Louisiana Territory. These were brought over by the settlers of the area, primarily in the 1800s. Their children and grandchildren were raised with these languages, often developing unique dialects in their communities. Unfortunately, due to societal changes, many of these unique dialects are dying out and are often only spoken by the elders.
@dare78782 жыл бұрын
Toller Beitrag. Ich hätte gerne noch mehr Interviews gehört und mehr Hintergrundinfos wären auch schön gewesen.
@t.s.40912 жыл бұрын
Guck mal im Netz nach Texas German Dialect Project von Hans. Hab seinen Name vergessen aber die haben Stunden von Aufnahme gesammelt
@Ian-dn6ld2 жыл бұрын
This is amazing !
@kissingerd2 жыл бұрын
Where are you from?
@mo99392 жыл бұрын
My grandfather was from New Baden, Texas. My German ancestors came here to central Texas nearly 200 years ago.
@sjones56162 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: there are German descendants around the world... America, South America, Russia... even in Kazakhstan.
@linajurgensen46982 жыл бұрын
Australien, Namibia...
@campbellstomato2 жыл бұрын
Argentinia
@kampfstarkerrichter66762 жыл бұрын
Globalisierung
@lucroe39642 жыл бұрын
@UploadNINJA ;)
@linajurgensen46982 жыл бұрын
@@kampfstarkerrichter6676 I count that as „South America“.
@linajurgensen46982 жыл бұрын
Can anyone tell me which song is this in the background? Sounds so familiar...
@bojanvirag75062 жыл бұрын
Vielen Dank für die Doku :)
@pdb9296 Жыл бұрын
I understand them better than some of my local folks here. Im looking at you Bavaria xD Really have to visit Texas before it dies out i guess. So cool how they kept their culture preserved for so long.
@RoxxSerm Жыл бұрын
Interessant Klingt wie Düsseldorfer platt Gutes video
@fhhu31672 жыл бұрын
Die kamen von überall und haben eine eigene neue Mischung kreiert. Bremer Schwäbisch mit Brandenburgischem Hessisch. Ich find's geil.
@couchcamperTM2 жыл бұрын
Absolut! Kam mir auch direkt in den Sinn.
@sanguisvinum2 жыл бұрын
My dad and his family spoke Texas German. He said some of the interesting differences are in idioms that developed alongside technological advances in the 19th century - the example I remember is Continental German says "mach das licht aus", while Texas German says "schneide das licht"
@meowmeowsaymeowmeow Жыл бұрын
I always love things like this. I hope they won't dissapear.
@El_Presidente_5337 Жыл бұрын
I have some Texas German ancestry on my mother’s side, some of the first settlers around Fredericksburg who came through with the adelsverein.
😂 Im Vergleich zu anderen deutschen Dialekten ist "Texas German" noch Hochdeutsch! 😂
ja das ist gut!
wenn die Yanks besser Deutsch Sprechen als die Bayern (kein Hate an euch Bayern)
@@alexanderzippel8809 Wos! Des hast net gsagt! Des kannst net sang!
ja man versteht sie teilweise nicht mehr
Bei der Frau ab 1:02 könnte man fast denken, dass sie aus Norddeutschland kommt.
Sounds like Germans trying to do an English accent of German.
or just general saxon accent
@@herbertlandschmid3012 Nein. Einfach nein.
I live in Northwest Germany and most of them speak in a similar manner as people who grew up speaking the local dialects. e.g. pronouncing Tag as Tach, or gewohnt as gewount. A lot of people from north-west germany emigrated to the us so im not that surprised. Unfortunately the different dialects and languages in northern germany are dying because high german was seen as more benefitting for children and most of the media became high german.
@@inrising6658 So true, unlike to Bavarian, Lower German is a dying dialect. "Mien Gott he kann keen plattdütsch mehr", met gröten ut Ollnborg (Oldb.).
@@herbertlandschmid3012 true
Es ist gar nicht leicht, eine Muttersprache in einem fremden Land über mehrere Generationen zu halten. Glückwunsch!
@@Trollportphosphat klar, eher geschlossenen Gemeinschaften fällt es leichter
…wird in 30 Jahren dann Amtssprache sein…
@@ralfburon6179 was wird Amtssprache sein?
@@habibi_bloxxxberg der möchte sich wahrscheinlich gerne als opfer von irgendwas darstellen, weil er angegeilt davon ist, gewalt auszuüben.
integration gescheitert XD
What's weird is that even those that still regularly speak German, while having a pretty solid pronunciation, partially have an odd grammar which isn't really dialectal but rather sounds like an interference from English.
Hard to avoid while living in an English speaking country
@@flowerdolphin5648 Depends on how big the community is and whether they mix with the English speakers.
I couldnt find any peculiarities that I would conclusively say aren't dialectical. There are some where, due to pronouncistion, I am not sure which exact words are spoken ( "in uns im Haus gewohnt" or "in unserm Haus gewohnt" ?)
@@florianphilipps2370 "Großvater ist gekommen 1866", "meine Großeltern sind VON Deutschland gekommen" "Deutsch das hier gesprochen wird ist VON 18. Jahrhundert" "Bist du VON Deutschland?" I don't know any German dialect that uses "von" in those cases, that's a typical English construction.
@@angelsjoker8190 It reminds me of this one old Christmas poem ("Drauß vom Walde komm ich her..."), and I'm just guessing here but I would attribute those to the fact that these strands were seperated from the mainland Germans before unification and standardisation of the language. So there might be some substantial shifts that this form of German just didn't have and, also of course due to your point, it made shifts itself due to English influences. Which one is which I would withhold final jugdement on, I am not a linguist.
Uff kann alles verstehen, das ist ja mehr Hochdeutsch als'n Dialekt
Kann fast gar nix verstehen, dank der Hintergrundmusik! 😤😡😠
Haben halt nur teilweise einen texanischen Akzent.
schriftdeutsch... Hochdeutsch ist sprachhistorisch betrachtet die Süddeutsche Dialektgruppe... dazu gibt es noch die Niederdeutsche Dialektgruppe die im Norden heimisch war.. was kein Dialekt ist Schriftdeutsch kein Hochdeutsch sonst würden die Schweizerdeutsch sprechen (kein scherz. Schweizerdeutsch ist dem ursprünglichen Hochdeutsch von allen Dialekten am nächsten)
Ne bin aus nord Deutschland das is doch nochmal was anderes.
@@blackforest_fairy Chrrr...
„Du siehst aus wie ein Deutscher.“😂😂😂😂😂
"Ei Kant zih sis!"
Sag das mal hier in Deutschland, da biste sofort n Nazi ^^
@@trollololololololo1173 lass doch das geheule. das ist doch erbärmlich!
@@trollololololololo1173 nicht in Deutschland du vollidiot. In jedem anderen Land wirst du als deutscher nazi bezeichnet. Warum sollten wir uns selbst als nazis bezeichnen?
Er sieht nicht mal deutsch aus eher wie ein Franzose
"No we weren't even allowed to speak German at all!" Freedom of Speech 100
Also: "First time?" -Hawaii
Well... during the war. There is no freedom of speech. Lol But actually it's sad that they stopped teaching there children german!
@@flyingaviator8158 was labert du
@@flyingaviator8158 maximal lost
@@xXBlackIce7Xx du sagst es
The Germans were the best settlers apparently, bc they always had good relations with the Indian tribes.
With Mexicans, too. This is why you hear the accordion in música norteña. :)
@@Fififogone I always wondered why the Accordion is used in Mexico - i learned it was once ruled for a short time by an Austrian King.
@@noizW “Maximilian I was an Austrian archduke who reigned as the only Emperor of the Second Mexican Empire from 10 April 1864 until his execution on 19 June 1867.” Wow. I guess if the French can love Jerry Lewis and the Turks can invent the croissant, anything’s possible in this crazy world.
Author Henry Miller wrote in his 1934 novel Tropic of Cancer, "I have often thought that the Germans make the best Americans, though they certainly make the worst Germans."
It's kinda different to read something positive about us Germans instead of being a shitty Nazi ^^ Cheers and Love
2:40 der Text stammt aus dem Volkslied "Morgen muss mein Schatz verreisen" das in den 1860ern als sie ausgewandert sind sehr bekannt war. Wahnsinn dass die das unter sich bis heute weitergegeben haben.
Ich denke eher, dass der Text aus dem Soldatenlied Lore, Lore oder Im Wald im grünende Walde, wie auch immer man es nennen mag kommt
@@nichtich4633 ja genau das habe ich mir gedacht
In der Fremde wird das natürlich mehr wert geschätzt
@@nichtich4633 Nein, das wüsste man, du irrst und der originale Kommentator hat recht, aber das sind beides auch sehr schöne Lieder
Also meine Großeltern und Mutter singen das auch noch
Der Moment, wenn man Taxas Deutsch besser als Bayrisch versteht😂
Der Moment, wenn man realisiert das Bairisch eine Kultursprache ist und Texasdeutsch eben veraltetes Schriftdeutsch. 😉
Oder Plattdeutsch oder jeden anderen Dialekt
@@Elitus ne plattdeutsch kann ich, das ist aber auch eine eigene Sprache
Is it weird that, me (someone who have never been exposed or learned the language) get a gist of what you guys are saying?
@@kamrulhasan3468 many words are similar to the english words, so some sentences are easier to understand than others
2:08 Die Omma spricht akzentfrei. Ich verneige mich ganz ganz tief. Kotau
Die ist ja auch deutsch, oder hab ich das falsch verstanden?
@@RetsamX Nene die ist glaube ich auch Amerikanerin. Hat ja gesagt, dass es keine deutschen Schulen mehr gab nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg
@Rasta Koots ?
Sry aber wovor verneigst du dich? Die spricht einfach das womit sie aufgewachsen ist, so wie ca. 8 Milliarden andere Menschen auf dem Planeten auch.
@@dualfluidreactor Ist nicht selbstverständlich da keinen Akzent einzubauen nach so einer langen Zeit.
Da verstehe ich ja mehr als bei den Bayern:D
bayern sind auch nicht deutsch
@@Bi6M4C Doch? Frankfurt ist nicht mehr Deutsch
@@peterlustig6888 und du bist nicht mehr am leben
@@Bi6M4C Berlin ist nicht mehr deutsch
doch, ist sogar die hauptstadt von deutschland. falls du es nicht wusstest :)
Wir sind hier in Texas, hier spricht man Deutsch!
Omg 🤣🤣 ich kann net mehr ✨
😂
Jawoll! So gehört sich das. :-)
Ausländer raus aus US of A!!
Huh. My ancestors on my dad's side of the family came here from Stuttgart in the 1800s. Wish they passed down their German, but it became kind of taboo for awhile so they stopped speaking it. A lot of my family didn't even know my Grandfather spoke fluent German until he got drunk at a party 😂
don't bother. the dialect from near Stuttgart (schwaebisch) could and until today can almost not or only hard be understood by many.
Probably during ww1 they stopped speaking it. Too bad.
@@Lekirius Yes. maybe. I once heard they killed German Shepard dogs in Canada during 1.ww ... as they where - somehow- German, too! If you miss it - why don't you start to learn a little Deutsch. Check out reports of people who lived some time here from US in youtube. Could be easily enough for a visit and over here most to all speak a kind of English :-)
@@gregor-samsa I definitely still would have loved to learn it, just because rare dialects and endangered languages are kind of interesting to me despite not having any practical use. I'll definitely study German at some point, it's just a matter of finding the motivation to start studying again haha
@@gregor-samsa don't Talk rubbish. I'm Hessian and understand a lot. Most young people are just too lazy to bother themselfes with trying to get a grip on dialects. Or they'll be getting told that it is uncool to learn about their own culture...
I'm Dutch, but I can understand them no matter if they talk German, Texas German, or English, lol
Weil Niederländisch eine germanische Sprache ist. Ich versteh euch Niederländer als deutscher auch. :)
@@mr.knochenhosentyp4359 ich nur Bruchstücke
@@bloodysunday3192 weil du eventuell kein Plattdeutsch sprichst? Das macht es dann sehr schwierig, ja.
@Linda: Warum ist das eigentlich so? Lernt ihr dann Deutsch in der Schule? Schon beeindruckend wie viele Niederländer so gut deutsch können👍
@@mr.knochenhosentyp4359 jap daran liegt es
German was one of the most commonly spoken languages in the USA until WWI.
Yeah, getting into a couple of world wars gets you a little bad reputation.
@@agomezjunco still, America is so german you could call the world wars civil wars
I studied German for 5 years. I purposefully ignored the subtitles and realized I understood 95% of what they were saying, yay!
German/Deutschland im Titel: Diese Kommentarsektion ist ab sofort deutsch.
Ist das GIBI in deinem Profilbild???🤣🤣🤣
@@thegermansherlock9845 jup
Du meinst „Die Kommentarsektion des KZhead Videos der Kennnummer x ist ab sofort Staatseigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.“
@@maaax1173 absolutely
@@maaax1173 So wäre es natürlich zu 100% korrekt!🙂
I live in an area of Texas that was full of German settlers; damn near every school and many of the streets are named after them. There's even a museum nearby with their actual houses. Really cool to see that the German subsect of Texas culture is still alive
Der Typ am Anfang klingt wie Willi von Willi wills wissen
Oha ich hör‘s- hahahha
OMG
Texas ist einfach fast doppelt so groß wie gesamt Deutschland 😂😂😂
ja wen juckt es digga
@@deinemutter7397 .
@@stevenhammerich6368 Nein es ist wirklich fast doppelt so groß
@@stevenhammerich6368 Ich weiß echt nicht, was du gerechnet hast, aber Texas hat eine Fläche von 695662 km² und Deutschland ist 357386 km² groß, also ist Texas ca. 1,95 mal so groß wie Deutschland, was ich schon als fast doppelt so groß bezeichnen würde.
@Thorin 0204 und er hat einfach seine Kommentare gelöscht haha
So schön das der Mann am Schluß singt 😊😋
My grandmother lived in Weimar TX for years, and when she was getting to the end of her days she would tell me "Machen sie gut, Heinrich!"... Dad told us she thought i was her son at a younger age and was telling me to be good. She was 98; we used to marvel at the things she must have seen since 1899
pov: you live in the weimar in germany and still think its funny that many settlers just named their towns after the ones in germany
@@waterley_ Glasgow Kentucky is near London Kentucky, on a kentucky river called the Thames lol
She probably said "Mach's gut, Heinrich" which roughly translates to "Farewell, Heinrich"
The anti-German discrimination after WWII is the reason my mother and I don’t have our ancestral dialect as our first language. My family is from a Hessen majority community in Oklahoma which had their own dialect that is now virtually extinct, my Opa remembers a bit but he was scolded by his own parents for trying to speak German cause they feared he’d develop the accent and be attacked by Anglos at worst, or lose out on career opportunities at best. He eventually became an American army veteran, but he had to hide his ethnicity and pretend to be Dutch. After the war my family dropped the Von from their surname name and my great uncle Johannes quickly became Johnnie. Post war anti-German, anti-Italian, and anti-Japanese discrimination has really fucked up a lot of communities and our cultural identities. Many Germans moved out of the cities to avoid abuse, the Italian mob resurfaced to protect their communities from other Americans, and many Japanese moved out of the south back to Japanese majority areas in California. I live about an hour away from a neighborhood with gorgeous Alpine architecture, but the community is now all Hispanic and the name has been changed to a Spanish translation of what it was originally in German. The original inhabitants were run out by Anglos after the war and the banks assumed ownership of their properties and ending up selling them for cheap (cause no one wanted to live in the evil German houses) to a wave of poor Latin immigrants as a way of conveniently funneling them all into an area the Anglos didn’t have to interact with (aka redlining). I’m glad to see that communities like Arab Americans are still keeping their cultural identities strong despite them having been the target/scapegoat for hate and fear in recent decades. We have to stop this cycle of intimidation and assimilation into complete cultural eraser.
Before, that type of stuff only happened because of the general avoidance of taboo stuff. After all that hippie movement stuff, discrimination like that became the real taboo.
@@honkhonk8009 definitely. russians living in russia or abroad definitely don't face any prejudice from anyone due to the war. we're not that ignorant anymore.
@@-41337 Is that ironic? If not youre definitely not living in Europe where russians are now fearing to get purged. Russians are moving to Russia again because they fear discrimination and violence. Everyone who speaks russian here catches weird looks.
Go back to Germany Fritz.
Is your family German nobility? "von" would usually indicate nobility (doesn't have to though) It's a pity that these dialects are dying out, especially as also the dialects in Germany are facing the same fate.
This is a blessing to my Texas heart
❤️
the German with southern drawl kills me everytime
I love going to the Texas German towns for short trips, Fredricksburg, New Braunfels and Gruene.
My best friend lived in New Braunfels for a large part of her life, she went to high school there!
Proud to be a Texan with German roots. 🇩🇪
Sehr interessant! Auch hier in Südbrasilien gibt es seit dem 19. Jahrhundert viele deutschsprachige Gemeinden. Mein Großvater kommt aus Bayern.
Nice
Kommst aus Santa Catarina ? :D
Also nazi :DDD
I'm happy I found this. Have a good day.
I’M LEARNING GERMAN SO THANKS FOR THE SUBTITLES
Visit Germany - you are welcome!
@@ralfburon6179 natürlich! ich lebe in nord frankreich und kann daher einfach nach deutschland reisen :D
@@heh.9166 sei herzlich gegrüßt nachbar 😃
@@heh.9166 findest du deutsch ist schwieriger als französisch?
@@lilaclupin5966 ich glaube schon, besonders die Grammatik😭😭 aber eure Rechtschreibung ist vielleicht ein bisschen einfacher als unsere :')
Das sehr gut!!! Glad they're keeping their language. It was mostly lost here in Arkansas. Some of us younger generations are trying to bring it back.
The Germans were good friends with the Tejano population, since they were both discriminated for being Catholics and not Anglo saxons. Many Germans even immigrated to Mexico.
The Mexican music was heavily influenced by Bavarian settlers👍🏻
I am an American from German heritage and I never knew about these German-Texans. Really interesting information! Thank you for uploading this video. God bless from an American with German blood.
You can get German citizenship if your fully German
@@tommyd3813 why would he be a nazi? :D
I am learning German. I will come back to this video once I am fluent and see if I can understand only by listening
The algorithm really just doing whatever at this point huh
Ich bin Deutsch-Amerikaner in der 5. Generation. Ich kann kein Deutsch, aber ich versuche zu lernen, dass viele meiner Familienmitglieder nach Texas gegangen sind, nachdem sie Pennsylvania verlassen haben. Es gibt eine lange Reihe von uns. Es freut mich sehr, dass es deutsche Rednecks auf der Welt gibt!
This is so fascinating. I'm Texan and I never knew we still had communities like this. I knew that area had heavy German influence, but I didn't know they were still speaking the language. It doesn't really surprise me, though. I went to college in a Midwestern city that also had German influence, and they spoke German and printed the local newspaper in German up until WWII.
Das fasziniert mich einfach so sehr, dass sich Deutsch dort einfach festgesetzt und sich auch individuell weiterentwickelt hat. Es ist einfach nur großartig dieses kurze Video zu sehen.
Guttentagen, I'm Mexican American born in Dallas. Being bilingual myself, I like hearing the German language being spoken by German Texans. I really also enjoy the German style foods that are in Fredericksburg, and New Braunfels. I hope to learn the German language someday.
I'm English, but my mother is German, she did speak a lot to me in German when I was growing up, but not enough for me to really learn the language, but still it always surprises me how much I understand. That being said, English and German are very similar languages anyway, a lot of the words are very similar.
Same, my father always spoke german to me growing up, but I responded in English and never learned how to speak it without stumbling over the words.
Kind of sad that the Texas Germans dissappear after ww2
you just saw them alive and kicking. more alive and kicking than the Germans here in Germany, I might add. lol
@@couchcamperTM was laberst du haha op findet es einfach nur schade dass die Texas deutschen erzwungener Maßen ihre Kultur nicht mehr weitergeben durften.
@@tyrannus00 Er/Sie/Es meint das die Leute im Video ja Texas Deutsche sind. Spricht: sie exestieren noch
@@fawfulexpress schon klar, aber darum ging es op ja nicht
@@fawfulexpress Existieren ja, aber es ging ja mehr darum dass die neuen Kids es nicht mehr weiterführen... Machen ja nur die Alten...
Ich bin nicht einmal Deutscher. Und ich fand es immer Unmöglich Deutsch zu lernen. Aber das ist sehr emotional. Dankeschön!
Ich finde es toll das die alte Sprache hoch gehalten wird. Wie Cajun.
The Amish and Mennonite communities in the US speak German as well. My grandmother was one and she used to teach me German growing up. Sadly I've forgotten most of it. Germans made up the majority of immigrants in the mid to late 1800s so you see a lot of German influence in the states. Especially in rural areas where traditions tend to live longer.
American society as a whole was deeply influenced by german immigrants. You'll find in nearyl any american corner some german influence.
Das Regime von Roh Moo-hyun tötete den Bauern Jeon Yong-cheol und im November 2005
2:22 "They can understand but they can't talk" That's the exact same thing I have.
same here, my teacher actually had two versions of most tests, and if we took the one where we answered in german we got extra credit
I just love this video and have seen it many times. I so wish that there was a longer video of your trip to Texas.
Unglaublich wie man über so viele Generationen eine Muttersprache wie Deutsch noch aufrecht erhalten kann. Mein Respekt!
Ich liebe das Lied am Ende… “Schatz ach Schatz” ist mein Lieblingslied
Das erinnert mich sehr an die Albaner (wir nennen sie Arbëreshe), die vor über 500 Jahren von Albanien nach Süditalien vor der osmanischen Invasion geflüchtet sind und immer noch die albanische Sprache und Kultur beibehalten haben. Ich finde es faszinierend, wie ich Texas German besser verstehe, als einen Bayer 😅
Man, I would have loved to see you head to Fredericksburg, I believe it was another almost entirely german-settled community, a small ways outside of Austin. A lot of people are surprised to learn that Texas has insulated communities like that - that's not to say that these communities don't interact outside of themselves, but rather it's just cool that these communities have been able to stay close-knit enough, so as not to lose their heritage. Awesome video!
Ach Gott schönes Texas, schöne USA 🇺🇸 Bin auch bald dort...
Was ist schon uber amerika?
@@HeliodromusScorpio our barbecue: ;)
ne ist kacke
@@HeliodromusScorpio Everything is good about america
@@Gorg-oe1hu What avout the healthcare system?
New Braunfels and Fredericksburg are 2 great towns, love those places
also Gruene ist das best
In meinem Dorf, in Argentinien, wird Deutsch meistens von den alten Leuten noch gesprochen, beide meine Großväter und meine Großmutter sprechen Deutsch als Muttersprache. Zum Besipiel mein Großvater hat mir erzählt dass in dem Haus seiner Mutter nur Deutsch gesprochen wurde, und wenn er Spanisch sprach dann wurde er gestraft. Sie sprechen häufig Hochdeutsch, aber mit einem Bißchen ihres Dialektes.
Wie heisst das dorf? Wenn ich in argentinien bin würde ich es gern mal besuchen.
@@Johmatri Es heisst Leandro N. Alem
@@Tobias_K_ Hast du Deutsch von deinen Großeltern gelernt?
Nach Argentinien war die Auswanderung auch erst viel später 1920-1935. So 3-4 Generationen überlebt eine Sprache meistens.
Man sieht das es deutsche sind. Ich lebe in Paraguay und sehe auch hier das ich unter den vor 100 Jahren eingewanderten Deutschen mit meinen 1,80 klein bin. Die altdeutschen sind stets recht große Leute ;D UND die können alle deutsch besser als ich castelano XD
Das ist Unsinn o.o ich bin deutscher und 1,65, meine Abstammung ist auch immer recht klein, 1,80 ist allgemein ne große Seltenheit, der schnitt ist so 1,70. Mein Opa war glaub nicht annähernd 1,80 oder so...
@@adrenaliner91 Nur weil du ein Zwerg bist ;D Auf dem Lande wo ich herkomme sind die einheimischen immer größer als ich gewesen, und zwar alle. Ich bin aber auch russisch-deutscher Abstammung. Die Germanenstämme waren bekannt für ihre großen und starken Menschen.
@@einmeister9087 das wär mir echt neu. Aber vielleicht sind wir Deutschen nur in Baden-Württemberg klein. Und das hier war früher auch mehr Land. Auch wenn die Bauernhöfe mittlerweile wohl kaum mehr existieren in dieser Stadt die mal n Dorf war.
@@adrenaliner91 Ich komme aus Niedersachsen aus der Nähe von Bremen. Aber ich bin auch ausgewandert und lebe jetzt in Südamerika. Und die Menonniten die ich bisher gesehen habe sind auch alle ziemlich "lang" .
@@adrenaliner91 Durchschnittliche Größe der Männer in DE sind 1,80.
Der Moment, wenn ich als Deutscher die englischen Untertitel mitlese. 🙈
Ich auch xD automatisch musste mich zusammen reißen lol
😅🤣 ich auch haha
2:02 Sie redet einfach perfektes akzentfreies deutsch. Wahnsinn!
Including typical German "mistakes" like "während dem Krieg" instead of "während des Krieges". I half expected her to say "Kriech" because it would have fit the sound so well.
Is there more of this trip to Texas? Very interesting, I love documentaries like this.
the german with a southern accent sounds so funny
God they are all so nice. I really really would have loved to see more of it and would have loved to HEAR more from them. I've been to Texas and the people there are all super super nice and friendly and also always happy to meet a German and they will tell you about their German roots.
They’re super nice to white folks and Christians and not much else
@@turkey4957sounds like an ignorant take from somebody who has never been there.
@@turkey4957just say you’ve never been lol. southern hospitality is real
In 1979 a group of us went on a trip to the western United States. We stopped at a grocery store to get something to eat on the road. This was in New Braunfels, Texas. I remember the architecture of the downtown buildings looking somewhat like an Alpine village. Anyway, while checking out our purchases I heard two people speaking German. They were teenagers. I was pleasantly surprised as I figured even back then that only the old people spoke German. There was a lot of suppression back in the mid 20th century for children speaking foreign languages outside of home. In my home state of Louisiana Cajun children were punished at school if they spoke French. Same apparently in Texas with German. Much later people realized the folly of this and are trying to bring back the languages to those respective areas.
I’m from Germany and I know that some of my ancestors left Europe in the 1850s but they went to Colorado and not to Texas. btw I love the fact that people who have German origins keep their language alive outside of their home country, keep it up 🇩🇪❤️🔥
Absolutes Legendenvideo. Kurz,Knackig und man bekommt von allem etwas mit :D Super :)
Pennsylvania Dutch ist auch geil. Gibts ne Doku darüber, "Hiwwe wie Driwwe". Sehr interessant anzuschauen.
They really sound like a cowboys who are trying to speak German..but they are actually German
No they are actually Texans whose ancestors came from Germany. They have been here at least 150 years.
@@nancyjanzen5676 yes I am aware of that, and it's amazing.
Ja verrückt, ich war vor 5 Jahren für 2 Jahre am College in Clarendon Texas und ich war verblüfft, weil ich da genau so eine Familie getroffen habe, die immer noch Deutsch gesprochen hat. Nicht weil die vor kurzem ausgewandert sind, sondern, weil die das Jahre lang so weiter geführt haben. Und Clarendon hatte nur 2000 Einwohner. Freut mich so ein Video zu sehen, da bekommt mal ein Lächeln auf dem Gesicht 😊
My great grandparents moved out to Texas during the 1800s. I didn’t know that there were so many Germans in the area they raised their children. I wonder how many relatives I still have there in Texas… Harberger and Schwartz. 💕
Sounds a bit like plattdeutsch. In comparison to bayrisch or hessisch it's basically hochdeutsch
There are communities we're flatgerman is stil a thing. I remember they even had newspaper in flatgerman so they were up to date with what happened in Germany.
@@kenobents992 it's called low german, descending from "niederdeutsch"
@@zwanni20 Weiß ich doch. Lebe in Ostfriesland :D nur falsch übersetzt, aber danke für die Korrektur
As a Jew it is a terrible, terrible shame that these poor people were terrorized out of not speaking their native tongue because of something they had zero involvement in. Niche languages are so beautiful and unique, but this dialect of German will probably not survive once this generation of speakers dies out. Thank you for documenting it.
Especially given in the last 50 years children are less and less likely to move back home after college. My sister, nor I moved back home. Both took jobs half way across the country. That would spread the language even further.
My great uncle Otto used his fluency in the German language to serve as a translator while he was in the U.S. Army during WWII. Once he came back, however, the world he left was changed and he no longer spoke German, even with his family.
Ich glaube, es gibt ja gar keine offizielle Amtssprache in den USA. Und deutsch ist glaube ich die häufigste "Abstammung"
Soweit ich weiß wurd mal gewählt ob Englisch oder Deutsch Amtsprache sein soll und für deutsch hat lediglich 1ne einzige stimme gefehlt
@@axityouuknoow nein da ging es nur darum dass Gesetzes texte auch in Deutsch verfasst werden sollen
@@Simbamon_der_echte achso so war das danke der Aufklärung
Ja das stimmt da hab ich mal eine Grafik gesehen da war fast alles deutscher Herkunft
Stimmt. Deutschland ist Herkunftsland nunmer 1 was weiße Amerikaner angeht. Danach kommt Irland danach Großbritannien, danach glaube ich Italien und Polen, aber da bin ich mir nicht sehr sicher .
Thank you for teaching me about this I had no idea 💪
Wie krass ich verstehe jedes Wort! Wirklich toll eine Sprache so zu bewahren.
Dass sich das noch so lange erhalten halt. Das ist fantastisch 🇩🇪😘🙏
1:21 the guy on the left is using my go to trick for getting through a german conversation with my grandparents. The trick is to just say “genau” whenever they look to you to contribute to the conversation. Even if they ask a direct question just say genau and stare back at whoever you’re speaking to, its worked a thousand times for me
I don’t understand 99% of the comments here but god damn we love the German influence on Texas culture and food
Is German being taught in Texan schools or is it a "famous" subject in schools? Because when I was in America a while ago, I thought that this would be the case. I visited some High Schools, etc. and many students said, "that they love German(y)!", which I thought was very cool as a German native. ^^
@@MadeByBTH I live in houston texas and German class was offered at my school!
@@francis484 Oh, that's so cool, thank you for the answer! Maybe one can work as a German teacher then. Interesting!
@@MadeByBTH German was one of the languages offered at several High Schools where I grew up in Oregon.
@@qadan1 Thank you for your answer as well. That is soooo interesting! Because, as I said, I also had the impression that many American students like the German language or come in touch with it in HS or at University. 😃🤙🏻
I love the video, so cool to hear these people speak this dialect! what is the song in the background by the way? i have heard it SOOO many times and love it. Get back to me whenever you find the time. Great content
I didn't even know my grandpa spoke German until very recently. They weren't allowed to speak it anymore after ww2, but he continued to speak to his grandparents in German
6th Gen Texas German here
Hallo 😊
The algorithm is back at it again
Weiß jemand woher das Video kommt? Ist das eine Sendung? Wie heißt der Interviewer? :D Ich würde gerne noch mehr sehen!
Der Dialekt dort klingt so wie in der Herborner Gegend
Ja ne mit dem r vor allem
da nennt man dieses gelbe Obst bestimmt auch Barrrnarrrne XD
@@psyqovalkyrie9295 lol xD
Wo liegt Herborn ungefähr? Für mich klingt der Dialekt so grob Richtung Norddeutsch, aber ich bin für sowas allgemein nicht gerade ein Experte.
@@Alinor24 herborn ist im Lahn Dill Kreis in Hessen
I heard that Germans were actually the biggest immigration group moving to America. More than Irish or Italians. So most Americans must have at least a bit of a german background.
Over half of all white americans are ethnically german
This is a German-ass country. Hotdogs and hamburgers are both German.
@@MattMangels Hamburgers 😍
No it will be majority English followed by Spanish, that is almost a guarantee. Germans are the most recent so they show up in the census like Italians, but that doesn’t mean the other 200 million odd Anglos just magically disappear, most just assume American = Anglo in the first place
Hallo, wie heißt denn das lied bei 00:25? Ich bin schon seit Jahren auf der Suche danach
This dialect must be derived from middle german, It is almost exactly the same with a few variations and some mixture of anglicisms. Extremely understandable as someone who speaks standard german, it is much easier to understand than Schwäbisch or Bayrisch
Yes. I was stationed in Der Pfalz and after some time there, I took a trip to Nurnburg and I couldn't understand a damn thing, and vice versa. I made out from someone that I had a thick Pfalzer accent. I was really amazed at how the brain just picks up accents without even knowing it.
The guy saying "A little bit" at 1:34 sounds really close to modern day Dutch. Lots of the others also pronounced some words in a way that sounded completely Dutch to me.
No, middle german sounds wayyyyyy more ancient and different. This is definitely a quite modern high german derived dialect
@@kuuhgle I’m sorry i meant location not time frame. I don’t know the exact dialect families but I looked it up and I meant Oberdeutsch. The way the R is pronounced as well as the U and G is very typical for both Swabian and Swiss dialects as well as some high German dialects like bavarian
@@zegmakker010 likely because its low german which maintained the same consonants as dutch rather than high german
Ich war 2018 in Florida und wurde dort auch auf deutsch angesprochen, sie meinten ich würde deutsch aussehen 😂 aber es hat sich ähnlich wie Texas German angehört
Deutsch ist in den USA, soweit ich weis,eine der Top 3 Fremdsprachen die an Schulen gelernt wird.Sofern nicht verwunderlich wenn man auch mal auf deutsch angesprochen wird.
Lol wie Geil xD
Texas Germans: Explains their ancestry in perfect German. Italian Americans: Gabagool?! Ova ereee!!!!
If anyone’s wondering I believe the folk song at the end is “Die Vögelein im Walde”
With towns like New Braunfels and Fredericksburg it surprised him to find German speakers. My grandmother spoke German and Polish.
There were many unique dialects of various European languages across the Louisiana Territory. These were brought over by the settlers of the area, primarily in the 1800s. Their children and grandchildren were raised with these languages, often developing unique dialects in their communities. Unfortunately, due to societal changes, many of these unique dialects are dying out and are often only spoken by the elders.
Toller Beitrag. Ich hätte gerne noch mehr Interviews gehört und mehr Hintergrundinfos wären auch schön gewesen.
Guck mal im Netz nach Texas German Dialect Project von Hans. Hab seinen Name vergessen aber die haben Stunden von Aufnahme gesammelt
This is amazing !
Where are you from?
My grandfather was from New Baden, Texas. My German ancestors came here to central Texas nearly 200 years ago.
Fun fact: there are German descendants around the world... America, South America, Russia... even in Kazakhstan.
Australien, Namibia...
Argentinia
Globalisierung
@UploadNINJA ;)
@@kampfstarkerrichter6676 I count that as „South America“.
Can anyone tell me which song is this in the background? Sounds so familiar...
Vielen Dank für die Doku :)
I understand them better than some of my local folks here. Im looking at you Bavaria xD Really have to visit Texas before it dies out i guess. So cool how they kept their culture preserved for so long.
Interessant Klingt wie Düsseldorfer platt Gutes video
Die kamen von überall und haben eine eigene neue Mischung kreiert. Bremer Schwäbisch mit Brandenburgischem Hessisch. Ich find's geil.
Absolut! Kam mir auch direkt in den Sinn.
My dad and his family spoke Texas German. He said some of the interesting differences are in idioms that developed alongside technological advances in the 19th century - the example I remember is Continental German says "mach das licht aus", while Texas German says "schneide das licht"
I always love things like this. I hope they won't dissapear.
I have some Texas German ancestry on my mother’s side, some of the first settlers around Fredericksburg who came through with the adelsverein.