Texas German dying out is largely due to the stigma after both world wars ended. Before the wars, it was the second most spoken language in the US. Nowadays the second most spoken language is Spanish.
@kitkakitteh
6 ай бұрын
That’s just porous borders and bad immigration policies.
@hyperlagacy436
5 ай бұрын
3rd most is probably French now
@Jaredman68
3 ай бұрын
No shit, the video mentioned that.
@irgendeinname9256
2 ай бұрын
@@hyperlagacy436 idk, might also be Italian or mandarin
@sassycat6487
2 ай бұрын
The older generation definitely still feels that way. I found out through ancestry that we have a lot of German ancestors and I told my dad and he said he already knew that and shrugged it off. My dad told me growing up that we were 100% Scottish. He also hates Germany and anything German.
@mrtoast244
Жыл бұрын
"Howdy, digga" - Texas German Youth's
@TheGermanAmbassador
Жыл бұрын
Howdy!
@michaelburggraf2822
Жыл бұрын
I find those pockets of German heritage sprinkled across the US and America absolutely amazing.
@macwinter7101
5 ай бұрын
There are also dialects of German in South America and other portions of North America outside of the USA.
@NelsonClick
7 ай бұрын
Wo ich was jungen in 1960s to mid 1970s der stadt Fredericksburg was still speaking mostly German. The street signs said "strasse". It slowly changed over to Englischen and now German in Fredericksburg is tourist kitsch. I still go to Fredericksburg because it's a nice fun town and the best place to get hearty German food.
@NelsonClick
7 ай бұрын
Texas German mixed with English, Spanish and Czech and I've learned and forgotten all of them. German folk music and Mexican folk music are strikingly similar and whenever you hear one or the other - it's a party 🥳
@notninelivesbrian8471
6 ай бұрын
und Bier ?!?!?
@abeedhal6519
4 ай бұрын
Mexican folk music has many of it's roots in German folk music brought over by German immigrants. Something very few people are aware of.@@NelsonClick
@cs292
7 ай бұрын
Tejano music is a descendant of German Polka music.
@Mr1990hjc
7 ай бұрын
Look at Feli From Germany, she found some interviews of elder women from Fredericksburg, Texas. There was Quite a bit of material there. She pointed out some interesting Americanish affects in pronunciation but she seems to understand it perfectly also.
@ridesharegold6659
9 ай бұрын
I'm from Pennsylvania and have heard lots of Pennsylvania German. I don't understand maybe 5 words of German. What came through loud and clear in this video was the Texas accent 😂
@bobwallace9814
7 ай бұрын
A reversal is Gert WWII vet speaking English. He was captured near the end of the war and was sent to America to work on the rocket program with Von Braun. He learned all his English while working and living in Huntsville, Alabama. The You Tube interview is in Germany but in English. He opens his mouth and a thick southern accent comes out.
@marzan6561
Жыл бұрын
Nahh my worst nightmare mid-west germam
@fredmeyeriii7858
5 ай бұрын
There are other German speakers in Texas. My relatives who spoke German were from the Schulenburg-La Grange-Weimar area. Schulenburg is at the intersection of Interstate 10 and US Hwy 77, that is east of Interstate 35. Fredericksburg is west of I 35.
@StarshipTrooper32
Жыл бұрын
I live in San Antonio and I'm from New Braunfels, so I know some Tex Mex Spanish and Texas Hill Country Deutsch.
@Niko-yb9pt
4 ай бұрын
You’re trinlingual?
@jerolvilladolid
6 ай бұрын
Australian, north american, british english are all very different. So thats how it may have sounded like to different german speakers
@johnniehouston1816
6 ай бұрын
You might want to check the small farming communities in west Texas. Lamesa, Texas has good population of German farmers.
@louchat333
7 ай бұрын
There were German settlers all over the American south. Minden LA was settled by Germans. There were also a lot of Germans in Meridian MS. Those are two I know of personally. Just like a lot of south Louisiana speaks Cajun French. Not as much as before. That is sad.
@michaelreinwald7694
4 ай бұрын
Video ist heute zwar ein Jahr alt aber dennoch sehr interessant. Ich Abonniere dich jetzt in der Hoffnung noch mehr interessante Sachen zu hören und zu sehen.
@robertarce5377
5 ай бұрын
All my life living in Texas never met anyone from Germany 🇩🇪 there’s first time for everything from watching videos about Germany what i can see in common is the farming landscape Texas is rich with farming land!
@brit4294
Ай бұрын
They aren't from Germany they're from the US. They just speak German due to their German heritage
@robertarce5377
Ай бұрын
@@brit4294 German Heritage I still haven’t meet anyone that speaks German around here!
@notninelivesbrian8471
6 ай бұрын
I'm British and can speak German. Sounded like straightforward normal German spoken by Sheldon's Dad.
@eytonshalomsandiego
6 ай бұрын
Germantown , Chicago, on Lincoln ave will be another interesting dialect center...
@droidbetter231
Жыл бұрын
mid west german is already here
@eytonshalomsandiego
6 ай бұрын
a normal german? you mean ein Schwab? ein Hunsrucker? ein Bavariusch? ein Frankfurter? Hamburger? Berliner? Prussian?
@SternenruferinPatchouli1
4 ай бұрын
ein passendes Wort in Texas German ist STINKE KATZE für STINKTIER ( SKUNK) was auch passt
@illizizon9569
4 ай бұрын
your reaction was typical german = nonexistent.
@hanneweber9211
5 ай бұрын
I understand this German.
@stevelangstroth5833
7 ай бұрын
In the US it seems, everyone has at least some German blood, or some Irish blood. I have both.
@qwert_yuiop7506
Жыл бұрын
suggestion for reaction video: What's The Dumbest Thing an American Has Ever Said To You?
@troychavez
Жыл бұрын
Lol
@schweppesoriginal9265
8 ай бұрын
German Pewdiepie?
@paulocrotalico
11 күн бұрын
Das ist genau so auch hier in Südbrasilien
@TheGermanAmbassador
10 күн бұрын
Wie nennt man den Dialekt da?
@paulocrotalico
10 күн бұрын
@@TheGermanAmbassador Riograndenser Hunsrücksch. Auch Pommeranisch wird gesprochen.
@@paulocrotalico cool, ich schau mal ob ich mwhr dazu finde, danke!
@paulocrotalico
7 күн бұрын
@@TheGermanAmbassador meine Grosseltern haben Portugiesische gelernt weil die wollte das Fersehen verstehen. Das war Ende des 1980s. Meine Mutter hat Portugiesisch im Schule gelernt. Kannst du so verstehen, wie Deutschland eine sehr riesiege Einfluss in Südbrasilien hat. Wenn du eine Person kennenlernen willst, die diese Dialiekt spricht, habe ich meine ganze Familie hier und die sind sehr freundlich.... Ich habe leider nicht Detusch zu Hause seit Kind gelernt, weil mein Vater "ist kein Deutsch". Er kommt von der Grenze zwischen Uruguay und Brasilien. So war er gegen Deutsche Sprache zu Hause.
@ps-tl4ls
8 ай бұрын
Machen Amerika groß wieder! 😂
@johnveerkamp1501
Жыл бұрын
that's stupid. why. !!!!!
@shalakabooyaka1480
10 ай бұрын
Whats stupid? That German immigrants spoke German and their families kept speaking it and it morphed over time?
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