😂 Im Vergleich zu anderen deutschen Dialekten ist "Texas German" noch Hochdeutsch! 😂

@IBims1Mark

3 жыл бұрын

ja das ist gut!

@alexanderzippel8809

3 жыл бұрын

wenn die Yanks besser Deutsch Sprechen als die Bayern (kein Hate an euch Bayern)

@antonjensen1088

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexanderzippel8809 Wos! Des hast net gsagt! Des kannst net sang!

@trdrudedude6099

3 жыл бұрын

ja man versteht sie teilweise nicht mehr

@derweiehelge9087

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@herbertlandschmid3012

3 жыл бұрын

or just general saxon accent

@radschele1815

3 жыл бұрын

@@herbertlandschmid3012 Nein. Einfach nein.

@inrising6658

3 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.

@dnordwest

3 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.).

@gottfriedwegemuller3223

3 жыл бұрын

@@herbertlandschmid3012 true

Es ist gar nicht leicht, eine Muttersprache in einem fremden Land über mehrere Generationen zu halten. Glückwunsch!

@atinemassare

3 жыл бұрын

@@Trollportphosphat klar, eher geschlossenen Gemeinschaften fällt es leichter

@ralfburon6179

3 жыл бұрын

…wird in 30 Jahren dann Amtssprache sein…

@habibi_bloxxxberg

3 жыл бұрын

@@ralfburon6179 was wird Amtssprache sein?

@ehrlichgegensich3575

3 жыл бұрын

@@habibi_bloxxxberg der möchte sich wahrscheinlich gerne als opfer von irgendwas darstellen, weil er angegeilt davon ist, gewalt auszuüben.

@Lootboy3000

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@flowerdolphin5648

3 жыл бұрын

Hard to avoid while living in an English speaking country

@angelsjoker8190

3 жыл бұрын

@@flowerdolphin5648 Depends on how big the community is and whether they mix with the English speakers.

@florianphilipps2370

3 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" ?)

@angelsjoker8190

3 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.

@florianphilipps2370

3 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.

Uff kann alles verstehen, das ist ja mehr Hochdeutsch als'n Dialekt

@ichbinich1775

3 жыл бұрын

Kann fast gar nix verstehen, dank der Hintergrundmusik! 😤😡😠

@lividlarry1026

3 жыл бұрын

Haben halt nur teilweise einen texanischen Akzent.

@blackforest_fairy

3 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)

@schnitzel4584

3 жыл бұрын

Ne bin aus nord Deutschland das is doch nochmal was anderes.

@ichbinich1775

3 жыл бұрын

@@blackforest_fairy Chrrr...

"No we weren't even allowed to speak German at all!" Freedom of Speech 100

@ZenoDovahkiin

3 жыл бұрын

Also: "First time?" -Hawaii

@flyingaviator8158

3 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!

@bloodysunday3192

3 жыл бұрын

@@flyingaviator8158 was labert du

@xXBlackIce7Xx

3 жыл бұрын

@@flyingaviator8158 maximal lost

@bloodysunday3192

3 жыл бұрын

@@xXBlackIce7Xx du sagst es

„Du siehst aus wie ein Deutscher.“😂😂😂😂😂

@Komprimat1111

3 жыл бұрын

"Ei Kant zih sis!"

@trollololololololo1173

3 жыл бұрын

Sag das mal hier in Deutschland, da biste sofort n Nazi ^^

@ehrlichgegensich3575

3 жыл бұрын

@@trollololololololo1173 lass doch das geheule. das ist doch erbärmlich!

@stevenhammerich6368

3 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?

@kukuV.3

3 жыл бұрын

Er sieht nicht mal deutsch aus eher wie ein Franzose

Der Moment, wenn man Taxas Deutsch besser als Bayrisch versteht😂

@ExtremeDeathman

3 жыл бұрын

Der Moment, wenn man realisiert das Bairisch eine Kultursprache ist und Texasdeutsch eben veraltetes Schriftdeutsch. 😉

@Elitus

2 жыл бұрын

Oder Plattdeutsch oder jeden anderen Dialekt

@juliuswalte6858

2 жыл бұрын

@@Elitus ne plattdeutsch kann ich, das ist aber auch eine eigene Sprache

@kamrulhasan3468

2 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?

@juliuswalte6858

2 жыл бұрын

@@kamrulhasan3468 many words are similar to the english words, so some sentences are easier to understand than others

The Germans were the best settlers apparently, bc they always had good relations with the Indian tribes.

@Fififogone

3 жыл бұрын

With Mexicans, too. This is why you hear the accordion in música norteña. :)

@noizW

3 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.

@Fififogone

3 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.

@BrendonCarr

3 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."

@EdwinDCrab

3 жыл бұрын

It's kinda different to read something positive about us Germans instead of being a shitty Nazi ^^ Cheers and Love

Da verstehe ich ja mehr als bei den Bayern:D

@Bi6M4C

3 жыл бұрын

bayern sind auch nicht deutsch

@peterlustig6888

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bi6M4C Doch? Frankfurt ist nicht mehr Deutsch

@Bi6M4C

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterlustig6888 und du bist nicht mehr am leben

@kukuV.3

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bi6M4C Berlin ist nicht mehr deutsch

@Bi6M4C

3 жыл бұрын

doch, ist sogar die hauptstadt von deutschland. falls du es nicht wusstest :)

2:08 Die Omma spricht akzentfrei. Ich verneige mich ganz ganz tief. Kotau

@RetsamX

3 жыл бұрын

Die ist ja auch deutsch, oder hab ich das falsch verstanden?

@Mikehaelohim

3 жыл бұрын

@@RetsamX Nene die ist glaube ich auch Amerikanerin. Hat ja gesagt, dass es keine deutschen Schulen mehr gab nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg

@crossebi1232

2 жыл бұрын

@Rasta Koots ?

@dualfluidreactor

2 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.

@gunnarzsiross2666

2 жыл бұрын

@@dualfluidreactor Ist nicht selbstverständlich da keinen Akzent einzubauen nach so einer langen Zeit.

Wir sind hier in Texas, hier spricht man Deutsch!

@x2Soulsx

3 жыл бұрын

Omg 🤣🤣 ich kann net mehr ✨

@flothchtronk2068

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@SNAKE_PLISSKEN1979

3 жыл бұрын

Jawoll! So gehört sich das. :-)

@marcoader9095

Жыл бұрын

Ausländer raus aus US of A!!

German was one of the most commonly spoken languages in the USA until WWI.

@agomezjunco

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, getting into a couple of world wars gets you a little bad reputation.

@abroxyz98

2 жыл бұрын

@@agomezjunco still, America is so german you could call the world wars civil wars

German/Deutschland im Titel: Diese Kommentarsektion ist ab sofort deutsch.

@thegermansherlock9845

3 жыл бұрын

Ist das GIBI in deinem Profilbild???🤣🤣🤣

@likekai

3 жыл бұрын

@@thegermansherlock9845 jup

@maaax1173

3 жыл бұрын

Du meinst „Die Kommentarsektion des KZread Videos der Kennnummer x ist ab sofort Staatseigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.“

@likekai

3 жыл бұрын

@@maaax1173 absolutely

@thegermansherlock9845

3 жыл бұрын

@@maaax1173 So wäre es natürlich zu 100% korrekt!🙂

I'm Dutch, but I can understand them no matter if they talk German, Texas German, or English, lol

@mr.knochenhosentyp4359

3 жыл бұрын

Weil Niederländisch eine germanische Sprache ist. Ich versteh euch Niederländer als deutscher auch. :)

@bloodysunday3192

3 жыл бұрын

@@mr.knochenhosentyp4359 ich nur Bruchstücke

@mr.knochenhosentyp4359

3 жыл бұрын

@@bloodysunday3192 weil du eventuell kein Plattdeutsch sprichst? Das macht es dann sehr schwierig, ja.

@mikeymike437

3 жыл бұрын

@Linda: Warum ist das eigentlich so? Lernt ihr dann Deutsch in der Schule? Schon beeindruckend wie viele Niederländer so gut deutsch können👍

@bloodysunday3192

3 жыл бұрын

@@mr.knochenhosentyp4359 jap daran liegt es

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.

@nichtich4633

2 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

@oberstjanfeldmann7158

2 жыл бұрын

@@nichtich4633 ja genau das habe ich mir gedacht

@Danileptic

2 жыл бұрын

In der Fremde wird das natürlich mehr wert geschätzt

@c3dr1c79

2 жыл бұрын

@@nichtich4633 Nein, das wüsste man, du irrst und der originale Kommentator hat recht, aber das sind beides auch sehr schöne Lieder

@blabladuweier8654

2 жыл бұрын

Also meine Großeltern und Mutter singen das auch noch

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 😂

@gregor-samsa

2 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.

@Lekirius

2 жыл бұрын

Probably during ww1 they stopped speaking it. Too bad.

@gregor-samsa

2 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 :-)

@ExtraDipson

2 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

@leone.6190

2 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...

I studied German for 5 years. I purposefully ignored the subtitles and realized I understood 95% of what they were saying, yay!

Texas ist einfach fast doppelt so groß wie gesamt Deutschland 😂😂😂

@deinemutter7397

3 жыл бұрын

ja wen juckt es digga

@mrwut2902

3 жыл бұрын

@@deinemutter7397 .

@maxmustermann611

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevenhammerich6368 Nein es ist wirklich fast doppelt so groß

@rz3798

3 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.

@rz3798

3 жыл бұрын

@Thorin 0204 und er hat einfach seine Kommentare gelöscht haha

Der Typ am Anfang klingt wie Willi von Willi wills wissen

@madds6766

3 жыл бұрын

Oha ich hör‘s- hahahha

@bolloxed1056

3 жыл бұрын

OMG

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

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.

@honkhonk8009

2 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.

@-41337

2 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.

@Dickstick

2 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.

@stevecochrane8799

2 жыл бұрын

Go back to Germany Fritz.

@largoembargo8090

2 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.

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

@waterley_

2 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

@molybdenumrose

Жыл бұрын

@@waterley_ Glasgow Kentucky is near London Kentucky, on a kentucky river called the Thames lol

@awax2585

Жыл бұрын

She probably said "Mach's gut, Heinrich" which roughly translates to "Farewell, Heinrich"

So schön das der Mann am Schluß singt 😊😋

the German with southern drawl kills me everytime

This is a blessing to my Texas heart

@PersonausdemAll

2 жыл бұрын

❤️

I love going to the Texas German towns for short trips, Fredricksburg, New Braunfels and Gruene.

@arthurteddy91

2 жыл бұрын

My best friend lived in New Braunfels for a large part of her life, she went to high school there!

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.

@peterlustig6888

2 жыл бұрын

The Mexican music was heavily influenced by Bavarian settlers👍🏻

Sehr interessant! Auch hier in Südbrasilien gibt es seit dem 19. Jahrhundert viele deutschsprachige Gemeinden. Mein Großvater kommt aus Bayern.

@peeron6829

2 жыл бұрын

Nice

@zsx782

Жыл бұрын

Kommst aus Santa Catarina ? :D

@marcoader9095

Жыл бұрын

Also nazi :DDD

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!

I'm happy I found this. Have a good day.

I’M LEARNING GERMAN SO THANKS FOR THE SUBTITLES

@ralfburon6179

3 жыл бұрын

Visit Germany - you are welcome!

@heh.9166

3 жыл бұрын

@@ralfburon6179 natürlich! ich lebe in nord frankreich und kann daher einfach nach deutschland reisen :D

@Vampirepriestess

3 жыл бұрын

@@heh.9166 sei herzlich gegrüßt nachbar 😃

@lilaclupin5966

3 жыл бұрын

@@heh.9166 findest du deutsch ist schwieriger als französisch?

@heh.9166

3 жыл бұрын

@@lilaclupin5966 ich glaube schon, besonders die Grammatik😭😭 aber eure Rechtschreibung ist vielleicht ein bisschen einfacher als unsere :')

Kind of sad that the Texas Germans dissappear after ww2

@couchcamperTM

3 жыл бұрын

you just saw them alive and kicking. more alive and kicking than the Germans here in Germany, I might add. lol

@tyrannus00

3 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.

@fawfulexpress

3 жыл бұрын

@@tyrannus00 Er/Sie/Es meint das die Leute im Video ja Texas Deutsche sind. Spricht: sie exestieren noch

@tyrannus00

3 жыл бұрын

@@fawfulexpress schon klar, aber darum ging es op ja nicht

@agoatwithnonamd

3 жыл бұрын

@@fawfulexpress Existieren ja, aber es ging ja mehr darum dass die neuen Kids es nicht mehr weiterführen... Machen ja nur die Alten...

Proud to be a Texan with German roots. 🇩🇪

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.

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.

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.

@tommyd3813

Жыл бұрын

You can get German citizenship if your fully German

@marcoader9095

Жыл бұрын

@@tommyd3813 why would he be a nazi? :D

Der Moment, wenn ich als Deutscher die englischen Untertitel mitlese. 🙈

@PersonausdemAll

2 жыл бұрын

Ich auch xD automatisch musste mich zusammen reißen lol

@whosthedena8440

2 жыл бұрын

😅🤣 ich auch haha

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.

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.

@lukasg4807

8 ай 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.

I am learning German. I will come back to this video once I am fluent and see if I can understand only by listening

They really sound like a cowboys who are trying to speak German..but they are actually German

@nancyjanzen5676

2 жыл бұрын

No they are actually Texans whose ancestors came from Germany. They have been here at least 150 years.

@Ritter2749

2 жыл бұрын

@@nancyjanzen5676 yes I am aware of that, and it's amazing.

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.

2:22 "They can understand but they can't talk" That's the exact same thing I have.

@brumm0m3ntum94

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

Ich glaube, es gibt ja gar keine offizielle Amtssprache in den USA. Und deutsch ist glaube ich die häufigste "Abstammung"

@axityouuknoow

3 жыл бұрын

Soweit ich weiß wurd mal gewählt ob Englisch oder Deutsch Amtsprache sein soll und für deutsch hat lediglich 1ne einzige stimme gefehlt

@Simbamon_der_echte

3 жыл бұрын

@@axityouuknoow nein da ging es nur darum dass Gesetzes texte auch in Deutsch verfasst werden sollen

@axityouuknoow

3 жыл бұрын

@@Simbamon_der_echte achso so war das danke der Aufklärung

@Sc-tb2qu

3 жыл бұрын

Ja das stimmt da hab ich mal eine Grafik gesehen da war fast alles deutscher Herkunft

@thinkingandwondering4725

3 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 .

Ich bin nicht einmal Deutscher. Und ich fand es immer Unmöglich Deutsch zu lernen. Aber das ist sehr emotional. Dankeschön!

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.

@TheMusicLauncher

2 жыл бұрын

American society as a whole was deeply influenced by german immigrants. You'll find in nearyl any american corner some german influence.

@user-nw7hc5vm2c

Жыл бұрын

Das Regime von Roh Moo-hyun tötete den Bauern Jeon Yong-cheol und im November 2005

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

@adrenaliner91

2 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...

@einmeister9087

2 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.

@adrenaliner91

2 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.

@einmeister9087

2 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" .

@carvilia143

2 жыл бұрын

@@adrenaliner91 Durchschnittliche Größe der Männer in DE sind 1,80.

Deutsche: Nach so vielen Generationen reden wir noch Deutsch Türken in Deutschland: Hold my Ayran

@sanem4208

3 жыл бұрын

Mit dem Unterschied, dass die Deutschen- Texaner 1866 dahin gekommen sind und die Türken “etwas” später

@user-yy7tr2hg8s

3 жыл бұрын

Mit dem Unterschied, dass sie fließend Englisch sprechen und sich wunderbar assimilert und integriert haben.

@sarahvonnissen5733

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-yy7tr2hg8s wie in dem Video erklärt wurde, wurden sie während und nach dem kriegen gezwungen Englisch zu sprechen.

@zensurminusmenschenarbeite2338

2 жыл бұрын

Ähhm, die meisten von euch reden kein richtiges Deutsch und unterhalten sich fast nur auf türkisch, in türkischen Siedlungen mit türkischen Läden, zusätzlich seid ihr nicht seit ~1850 in DE sondern erst seit vlt 1960-1970 -> das isn kleiner Unterschied. Abgesehen davon ist türkisch halt...naja türkisch eben :D.

@maxmustermannmustermann4741

Жыл бұрын

@@sarahvonnissen5733 ??? das heisst ja trotzdem dass sie fließend englisch sprechen konnten, sonst könnte man sie ja auch nicht dazu zwingen. mich könnte niemand zwingen chinesisch zu sprechen weil ich kein wort chinesisch kann

Unglaublich wie man über so viele Generationen eine Muttersprache wie Deutsch noch aufrecht erhalten kann. Mein Respekt!

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 😅

Ich liebe das Lied am Ende… “Schatz ach Schatz” ist mein Lieblingslied

Ich finde es toll das die alte Sprache hoch gehalten wird. Wie Cajun.

the german with a southern accent sounds so funny

2:02 Sie redet einfach perfektes akzentfreies deutsch. Wahnsinn!

@Voller84

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.

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.

@Johmatri

2 жыл бұрын

Wie heisst das dorf? Wenn ich in argentinien bin würde ich es gern mal besuchen.

@Tobias_K_

2 жыл бұрын

@@Johmatri Es heisst Leandro N. Alem

@reverze2031

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tobias_K_ Hast du Deutsch von deinen Großeltern gelernt?

@holger_p

8 ай бұрын

Nach Argentinien war die Auswanderung auch erst viel später 1920-1935. So 3-4 Generationen überlebt eine Sprache meistens.

Immernoch besser zu verstehen als schwäbisch

Ach Gott schönes Texas, schöne USA 🇺🇸 Bin auch bald dort...

@HeliodromusScorpio

3 жыл бұрын

Was ist schon uber amerika?

@Fififogone

3 жыл бұрын

@@HeliodromusScorpio our barbecue: ;)

@davidschaefer17

3 жыл бұрын

ne ist kacke

@Gorg-oe1hu

3 жыл бұрын

@@HeliodromusScorpio Everything is good about america

@entonduck

3 жыл бұрын

@@Gorg-oe1hu What avout the healthcare system?

I don’t understand 99% of the comments here but god damn we love the German influence on Texas culture and food

@MadeByBTH

2 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. ^^

@francis484

2 жыл бұрын

@@MadeByBTH I live in houston texas and German class was offered at my school!

@MadeByBTH

2 жыл бұрын

@@francis484 Oh, that's so cool, thank you for the answer! Maybe one can work as a German teacher then. Interesting!

@qadan1

Жыл бұрын

@@MadeByBTH German was one of the languages offered at several High Schools where I grew up in Oregon.

@MadeByBTH

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. 😃🤙🏻

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.

Sounds a bit like plattdeutsch. In comparison to bayrisch or hessisch it's basically hochdeutsch

@kenobents992

3 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.

@zwanni20

2 жыл бұрын

@@kenobents992 it's called low german, descending from "niederdeutsch"

@kenobents992

2 жыл бұрын

@@zwanni20 Weiß ich doch. Lebe in Ostfriesland :D nur falsch übersetzt, aber danke für die Korrektur

Pennsylvania Dutch ist auch geil. Gibts ne Doku darüber, "Hiwwe wie Driwwe". Sehr interessant anzuschauen.

New Braunfels and Fredericksburg are 2 great towns, love those places

@seemore......1322

2 жыл бұрын

also Gruene ist das best

Dass sich das noch so lange erhalten halt. Das ist fantastisch 🇩🇪😘🙏

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

@boxsterman77

2 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.

@zegmakker010

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.

@kuuhgle

Жыл бұрын

No, middle german sounds wayyyyyy more ancient and different. This is definitely a quite modern high german derived dialect

@TexboyGamer

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

@thereareantsbehindyoureyes7529

Жыл бұрын

@@zegmakker010 likely because its low german which maintained the same consonants as dutch rather than high german

With towns like New Braunfels and Fredericksburg it surprised him to find German speakers. My grandmother spoke German and Polish.

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.

@TheMijman

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.

@mattie3405

4 ай 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.

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 😊

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 🇩🇪❤️‍🔥

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.

Sehr schön! Die netten deutschen Urlauber sollten diese netten Leute auf jeden Fall besuchen!

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"

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.

@turkey4957

Жыл бұрын

They’re super nice to white folks and Christians and not much else

@paulsbunions8441

10 ай бұрын

​@@turkey4957sounds like an ignorant take from somebody who has never been there.

@hesiiii

7 ай бұрын

@@turkey4957just say you’ve never been lol. southern hospitality is real

Absolutes Legendenvideo. Kurz,Knackig und man bekommt von allem etwas mit :D Super :)

i worked in new braunfels area with a small fire dept, we had a older couple that would call 911 yelling fire fire fire, so we show up and they would be fine no fire but would have a huge meal prepared they spoke no english and we never understood why they did this, flash forward 25 years i asked my friend from germany about it he looked at me and said it was a slang term for party party party.

Interessant Klingt wie Düsseldorfer platt Gutes video

@couchcamperTM

3 жыл бұрын

Die kamen von überall und haben eine eigene neue Mischung kreiert. Bremer Schwäbisch mit Brandenburgischem Hessisch. Ich find's geil.

@sanguisvinum

3 жыл бұрын

Absolut! Kam mir auch direkt in den Sinn.

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

If anyone’s wondering I believe the folk song at the end is “Die Vögelein im Walde”

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

Is there more of this trip to Texas? Very interesting, I love documentaries like this.

Texas Germans: Explains their ancestry in perfect German. Italian Americans: Gabagool?! Ova ereee!!!!

6th Gen Texas German here

@jenson1896

Жыл бұрын

Hallo 😊

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!

Fun fact: there are German descendants around the world... America, South America, Russia... even in Kazakhstan.

@campbellstomato

3 жыл бұрын

Australien, Namibia...

@kampfstarkerrichter6676

3 жыл бұрын

Argentinia

@lucroe3964

3 жыл бұрын

Globalisierung

@linajurgensen4698

3 жыл бұрын

@UploadNINJA ;)

@linajurgensen4698

3 жыл бұрын

@@kampfstarkerrichter6676 I count that as „South America“.

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

@kriegshammer2161

3 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.

@PersonausdemAll

2 жыл бұрын

Lol wie Geil xD

My wife’s Grandma was born in the 1930’s in that area and learned German as her first language. She only learned English after German was shunned during the war.

Meine Kameraden, diese Kommentarsektion gehört uns!

Der Dialekt dort klingt so wie in der Herborner Gegend

@oscarfra5170

3 жыл бұрын

Ja ne mit dem r vor allem

@psyqovalkyrie9295

3 жыл бұрын

da nennt man dieses gelbe Obst bestimmt auch Barrrnarrrne XD

@PersonausdemAll

2 жыл бұрын

@@psyqovalkyrie9295 lol xD

@Alinor24

2 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.

@oscarfra5170

2 жыл бұрын

@@Alinor24 herborn ist im Lahn Dill Kreis in Hessen

So ähnlich ist es auch in manchen Tellen Brasiliens. Meine Vorfahren sind irgendwann im 19. Jh. ausgewandert, und meine Mutter hat von ihrer Mutter Deutsch gelernt. Leider geht die Sprache immer mehr verloren und von meinen Cousins und Cousinen spricht nur Einer Deutsch :/. Mit ihren Sprachkenntnissen ist meine Mutter dann nach Deutschland ausgewandert, sonst könnte ich vermutlich auch kein Deutsch mehr

My family came to Russia in 1855, but we preserver a German culture and we still speak German at home

Here in southern Brazil there's still the exact same thing. Many German immigrants founded colonies here and the German language is still spoken by many

@cevirthek262

2 жыл бұрын

Brazil has far more German speakers as far as I know

@welingtonweiss9402

2 жыл бұрын

@@cevirthek262 Hmmm I didn't know that, though I know more than 200 German speakers from Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná and Mato Grosso do Sul; and obviously there are many more who I don't know, so it's quite possible that what you said is true

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.

@jolol2808

3 жыл бұрын

Over half of all white americans are ethnically german

@MattMangels

3 жыл бұрын

This is a German-ass country. Hotdogs and hamburgers are both German.

@PersonausdemAll

2 жыл бұрын

@@MattMangels Hamburgers 😍

@XXXTENTAClON227

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

Germans are welcome everywhere. They are hard workers, respect local people, they are a good species

@waleed8530

Жыл бұрын

The Jews would agree.

@jJLDY.0gskJtOHZcju_o8e3v

Жыл бұрын

@@waleed8530 you're racing

Thank you for teaching me about this I had no idea 💪

My grandfather was from New Baden, Texas. My German ancestors came here to central Texas nearly 200 years ago.

Die ganze USA sollte deutsch sprechen! Wer ist dafür? 👍hoch😂

The algorithm is back at it again

What's interesting is that the Texas Germans also look very typically German. Many other groups like the amish have mixed heavily but these folk have been keeping a lot more to themselves it seems.

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