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American reacts to TEXAS GERMAN
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- Thank you for watching me, a humble American, react to Speaking Texas German
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Texas German is not the only type of German still spoken in the USA. There is also Pensylvania Dutch, which is not Dutch, but German, and Amish, Mennonite and Hutterite still speak, in part, an old German dialect and use an old German Bible.
true, but german is actully spoken in many countries. German People only live in German villages together. In early 1700 years, u could get killed or throw out of the village if u marry an non German man/girl. In Brazil is an village with only german people with a Oktoberfest
Yes the Pennsylvania Dutch is very close to what they speak in Rheinland Pfalz
@@oskarprotzer3000 yeah right
I always wondered why this is called Dutch, while its actual German. Ok, Dutch is "friesisch" and in the north of Germany they also speak "friesisch". Maybe that makes sense.
@@vinnvinnvinn000 In German, we don’t say ‚german‘ but ‚deutsch‘. This sounds a lot like dutch.
That Gentleman saying: "Ja, jedesmal dasselbe!" sounded completely native speaker German to me as a Northern German! When we were in Canada, we visited a German congregation. So nice of them to welcome us. They had more of an 'American' accent, especially the American 'r' (which my language Professor told me is actually the older version of the 'r' that got preserved over there, more like the Irish 'r' - the British 'r' is actually the newer one, he said) So in villages or immigrant settlements, often the older dialect is preserved longer, so what the Lady says about the 'old-fashioned' words makes sense!
Totally agree
ja, isso :)
Yeah, non-rhoticity (when you drop your Rs) is a relatively new thing.
It sounded native, but not natural, like he was saying something rehearsed.
100 % stimme zu, komme auch eher aus dem deutschen Süden. Wenn mir jemand nur den Clip gezeigt hätte, hätte ich gesagt, dass er Deutscher wäre ^^
The 9 Pin Bowling is called "Kegeln" and it has shorter lanes with 9 pins placed in diamond shape. There are different "Game modes" you can play but the normal one is similar to darts. You try to bring down the points to exactly 0
Ja, and the bowls are a bit smaler and have no holes!
The lane is bit shorter and much tighter in the front.
It's more difficult I think.
@@berndmoormann8486 They are wider usually than bowling. But also means wider gaps between pins so should be harder
@@alexn8172 Oft haben die 2 Löcher
And the track is also slightly inclined, which means you have to gain momentum to get the bowl up
There were only a few German sentences but these are easy to understand for Germans.
But there are probably regional words, like there are in German dialects.
German-Americans make up the largest self-reported ancestry group within the United States accounting for roughly 49 million people and approximately 17% of the population of the US. Peace out. Pennsylvania German (Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch). Pennsylvania German is a variety of German spoken by about 250,000 mainly in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. Peace out.
Just to let you know: In Germany we learned in school about the destinations where Germans are immigrated to. So as Texas and we learned about Texas-Deutsch. Did you know that there are larger Germany-Speaking communities in Southern Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Namibia just to name a few. And we don‘t have no skunks in Germany therefore there is no native German term existing. That might be reason why call it Stinktier. You should definitely make some reactions to Northern Germany. Everything is so different compared to the south. The language, the food, the towns. And especially you should check the North-Sea-Beaches like St. Peter-Ording and the three sister islands Amrum, Föhr and Sylt. Highlighting Föhr that’s where my home is.
Lol what school have u viseted nothong of this here 😅
Same here. We also talked about Germans migrating to japan in our japanese class
Also ich weiß nicht wohne in Niedersachsen hab nich das Gefühl das wir anders sprechen, im Gegenteil sogar hier wo ich wohne spricht man das wahrscheinlich sauberste Hochdeutsch
I'm from Germany and we didn't learned about that in school. I mean speaking of geography class we first learned about the town we were living in, than later on the history of the town and after that my teacher went on with stuff like what earthquakes are, why it's raining, how the weather is different around the world,... etc. but we never learned about that. Not even in history class. I mean history class was more like we started with stone age, than old egypt, middle age and than WW2.
@@ottonormalverbraucher9679 Das sauberste Schriftdeutsch und Niederdeutsch vermutlich. Hochdeutsch wird in Hochlagen, also eher in Bayern gesprochen.
Yes I knew about the fact that there's Texas German. Feli from Germany acually has a video where she reacted to it. She explains how understandable it is and how it sounds. Spoiler alert: Texas German is very understandable for us Germans. I was really surprised that I can understand every word without a problem. And to the stinking cat: we call it "Stinktier" which means stinking animal.
There is a reaction video by Feli from Germany to some videos about Texas German.
Also: Yes, this is interesting, even for someone who already knows this stuff exists! (ok, I'm a language nerd) And by the way: Amish language is also pretty German-ish.
And the Amish are a strong community in Indiana, I'm surprised Ryan didn't know this! 🤨
Isn‘t it the same way in Quebec. They speak a very old version of French there. Like they branched off in the 1800s when the settlers arrived and the language hasn‘t gone through the same development as the European French language?
I know Texas German from „Feli from Germany“. It is interesting. 😊
Nine pin bowling = Kegeln
It's the same for English people when they hear Americans speak "English".
You can understand them, but it's also very different.
What they call Stinkkatz (stinking cat), in Germany we call Stinktier (stinking animal) ... so it's not that different :)
Also an old term for squirrell in many regions is eekkater/eekkat, basically an oak cat.
@@hightidemidafternoon Thats absolutly stunning, because squirrell is called "Eichkätzchen" in Germany. Literally: "Eich(e)"=oak and "Kätzchen"= little cat.
Thanks, that is interesting.
5:50 - It's not bowling, it's "Kegeln"
6:04 - Amish people also have German ancestry
Yes, different pins, different ball with no holes.
Texas German is rather easy to understand for any German as the differences between the input dialects evened it out. It's closer to Standard German (Hochdeutsch) than most German dialects in and outside of Germany. Though I studied linguistics, the first time I ever heard spoken Texas German was about 10 years ago. Other German minorities like the Pennsylvania Dutch or the Blumenauer German in Brazil are better known in Germany.
Concerning intelligibility between Germans and German-speaking Americans: It's a different thing with Pennsylvania Dutch. Their varieties are closer to their input dialects. I can barely understand Amish or Mennonite varieties but I have no problem with the Lutheran variety as it is very close to my native Palatinate dialect.
The first German people immigrated to Texas significantly later that to the eastern colonies. So the 19th century German is significantly easier to understand than the 17-18th that partially survived in Pennsylvania.
@@Psi-Storm That may be a contributing factor. Still, there is the fact, that I can perfectly understand Lutheran PD, but have no clue on Amish or Mennonite.
Australia has a few German towns in South Australia - Hahndorf, for one, is mostly intact! Approximately 108k Germans have migrated to Australia post WWII! Previously, in 1838, 32 Prussian Lutheran families settled and farmed in the Adelaide Hills their wineries, history, buildings and traditions still remain! 🤗👍
we have German villages also in South west africa, because of 1915 from the KaiserReich. Many of them still speaking german, with a dialekt
@@elijagrammel6896That's interesting, and unexpected! 😃👍
@@jenniferharrison8915 Thanks man, ik many side facts about my culture and county, also the bad onces. if u have any questions, may i can awnser them ;)
let me guess, you put them in prison camps during WW1 and WW2....
because you wanted to impress the Brits, to show you are even better Brits...
while they just looked down on you!
and they still do, because you gave them the trade deal they wanted to so much...lol!
More than 40 million Americans claim German ancestry :D its not just Texas, just this Video is about this part and aspec. about the "talking" :) have a nice one, like your content. (btw Pennsylvania hade the most German settlers if im not wong) chears
There is a lot influence of germans in america. I watched a documentary about bbq and they came to the clue that the origins of bbq were brought by german settlers. Never forget: We are all human, from the same origin, even we live in different countrys.
I live near the OG Braunfels in Germany. It has a nice castle and a beautiful old town. So it‘s worth visiting.
Same
Me too 😊 right between Braunfels and Montabaur, also mentioned in the Video 😄
There's also "Pennsylvania Dutch" which is actually not Dutch but a variant of German (Pennsylvania Deutsch),
the 9 pin bowling is called Kegeln. the ball is much smaller and without the holes for your fingers. The Germans brought it to the states but it had a bad reputation. Intoxicated beatings, winning bets and other bad stuff happend a lot so they forbid the "kegeln". However, some clever guys changed the forbitten game from 9 to 10 pins and increased the size of the ball and made 3 holes in it for the fingers and voila, the bowling was invented.
I knew about texas german, too bad they didnt talk much in the video.
These days Stinkkatze is called Stinktier that literally means stinky animal 😁
I know of Texas German and Pennysilvania Dutch and I find both of these dialects fascinating.
As a German, I could just stroll over there and start talking to them in German and we'd understand each other.
The fact that they managed to keep a pristine dialect for 180 years essentially as a niche language so that I as a native German speaker could talk to them in German in the 2020s is insanely cool.
In History lessons in school, I have learned, that there was a referendum amongst the People of Texas, to choose, If they would use english, or German as the official language.
Not Texas but America and English won with only about 1000 voices ahead of german language, which surely would be world language nowadays, if not elected this way and not stupid German king went in ww1 and not the Austrian painter startet ww1.
The guy sitting at the end of the table sounded so authentic german as if hes lived in germany his whole life...
Oh, it's THAT Fredericksburg! Around the 2:30 mark, the sign with the partner city in Germany is shown - Montabaur, the place I grew up in, featuring our castle. I did NOT expect to learn something new about my hometown here, so thank you!
Feli from Germany made some interesting videos aboutTexas German and also Pennsylvania Dutch. She wanted to know whether she as a native German could understand these dialects, so she watched some videos where these dialects were spoken. Sometimes she struggled a little bit but she could understand most of it.
Haven't heard of Texas German until now.
And we do not have 'Stinkekatze' here in Germany
All I know is that lots of people from Bavaria migrated to Texas back then.
It's not very helpful and my history teacher was terrible at her job but yea, German roots are certainly big in Texas.
I also know this happend to Canada, but the video I saw about it (which was a German docutmentary by Galileo) showed that they were a lot outdated. That means besides a few little things like a modern kitchen and modern washing mashine in a big building that everyone shared, all other things were oldschool and the women and men wore outdated German fashion from like the 1890s and all women worked together to feed the comunity. Kids were all thought in German at school untill the 3rd grade where they started with English. As soon a kid is finishing school they than let them decide if they still want to be part of the comunity or go to the next big city (I think they ment Toronto) and surprisingly even tho it was super oldschool in this small village, most people wanted to stay with the comunity since they had no idea what would be different for them if they would go to Toronto. Also the documentary said that many younger people were fearing to not be able to live in Toronto since they wore outdated clothing, had no money, them not having graduated from a Canadian school could also make it impossible for them to find work etc. They also had inteviewed the woman who came to work in this town as a English teacher and she said she noticed how her former students often returned to the village after going to Toronto and failing or fearing of failing. She said she found the village odd when she first was asked to work as teacher there but now she just dosn't questions it anymore.
Well, I did know about Pennsylvania Dutch, which is also pretty similar to German, and can mostly be understood by native German speakers. But these few sentences I heard, they sounded like usual German to me.
In Germany we actually have a complete different word for 9 pin bowling. We have the usual 10 pin which is just called bowling, and we have "kegeln", which is with 9 pins and it looks a bit different too (and there are no holes in the bowles). And these Kegelklubs (9 pin bowling clubs) are pretty beloved especially in the older generation.
Yes, northern Germany! It would be great if you check out some videos about „the real north“. 😁
You just want him to try and pronounce "Schleswig-Holstein" 😅
😂😂😂 well, that would be fun to watch of course. 🤓
Or he could make some videos about Bavaria which is also very interesting (it also has to offer more than the North)
@mk no, it doesn't. All it has is more stereotypes.
@@vommThey are equal, why would it have to offer 'more' than the North?
4:30 Stinkkatz... that is a Stinktier
I once saw a report on German television which was very interesting , which showed where German was spoken everywhere in America. In New York where there was original German sausage and bread. Texas German was also shown you can understand it quite well. And the city of Solvang in California was also shown , where the danish emigrants live and where danish is also spoken.
The German word for skunk is "Stinktier" (stink animal), but apparently it's "Stinkkatz" (stink cat) in Texas German.
That made me roar with laughter (the good kind, not the mocking kind!): You looking forward to maybe getting a real German brezel in Texas and then instantly shouting "Mazel tov!". Thank you, Ryan, that made my day! Love your videos, keep them coming!
The "real" Braunfels is next to my town 😂 It has a beautiful castle. And in our region, we speak a hard "R" like they do in that region(texas)
got me scared for a second
at first reading I thought that they say the hard R (synonym for the N-Word) in your region
@@La_Ke th-cam.com/video/CpsfB9B7yzg/w-d-xo.html OMG !😱😳 Nooo! I didnt know that. We speak the "r" different from other german regions. The guy in the makes fun of how we pronunce the letter and place the letter in words, that typically got not even the letter in the word. Sorry again, if I offended anyone 💐
Haha, I always thought that name was strange, sounds like it was founded by a couple where one was from Weißenfels and one from Braunlage :D
@@La_Ke That would fit because "Braunfels" contains the word "brown," the color for right-wing extremism in Germany.
@@vomm the german Braunfels was first mentioned in 1246. So there where no brown parties like today🤦♀️
German Texan (German: Deutschtexaner) is both a term to describe immigrants who arrived in the Republic of Texas from Germany from the 1830s onward and an ethnic category that includes their descendants in today's state of Texas. The arriving Germans tended to cluster in ethnic enclaves; the majority settled in a broad, fragmented belt across the south-central part of the state, where many became farmers. As of 1990, about three million Texans considered themselves at least part German in ancestry, a subgroup of German Americans. Luckenbach is an unincorporated community 13 miles from Fredericksburg in southeastern Gillespie County, Texas. Named for German nobleman Jakob Luckenbach, who helped settle the Texas Hill Country in 1845, Luckenbach is known as a venue for country music and for its German-Texan heritage. Made famous by "Willie, Waylon & The Boys," Luckenbach Texas. Peace out.
I've been to Fredericksburg a few years ago and there was some kind of Volksfest going on with lots of people dancing and playing music.
I ate Schnitzel (with ham and cheese on it, lol) and drank beer and talked to some people, but it was only the old people who still spoke some german. They have a certain US accent and peculiar word choices and sentence structure sometimes, but overall pretty understandable for me as german.
It was a lovely town, but like most towns in the US it was hit hard by huge out of town chains driving all the local stores out of business over the past 4 decades. So it had this look of decay and abandonment that pointed towards former glory. Like most towns in the US...
Overall a weird oddity with very nice people.
i looked it up and yes , you can get all sorts of realistic looking german dishes and bakery stuff including real brezels in the old german bakery in fredricksburg in texas ^^
Two weeks ago I just drove through New Braunfels and Fredericksburg. It was realy funny to see what is left from Germany in Texas. Mostly Biergardens and Restaurants an some german words. In a Beergarden we met a german servant that just migrated from Nuremberg. And I also saw a german Continental plant close to New Braunfels. Later we met an older couple in Louisianne that came from Fredericksburg. They told us, that during their jouth you had to speak german to live in the city, but that changed a lot. Today only a few people are speaking Texas german. My opinion: If you like Biergarten (Beergardens) with real german beed and german food, then it is worth a visit. Both are nice little towns with a good vibe. But they are not at all german towns. And - we don't have skunks in Germany, there is nothing Amish in these towns, in Germany we are mostly also playing Bowling. But there are some places where you can play "Kegeln" which is with 9 pins and the bowl is smaller without holes.
I am ten minutes away from a Bavarian Beer garden in Sydney! 😄
@@jenniferharrison8915 Very nice, but be careful and don't drink too much 🍻🍺. Greetings from Bavaria, Peter
@@dabadavodahoam894 Prost! 🙋👍
@@jenniferharrison8915 😁😁👍👋👋
9 pin bowling or "kegeln" is the most common version in germany. Kegel Clubs are the bane of mediteranian tourist towns.
You should research some about US-German heritage. Germans are the biggest heritage group in the US after all according to census data.
A branch of my family moved to San Antonio and New Braunfels our last common ancestor lived in the late 17th century. He died 1693.
Admiral Nimitz was born in Ferdericksburg.
I had the same experience in the southwest of Brazil. It's very interesting to hear the old language spoken in the streets.
Pansilfani dutch ( pennsylvania german or Pennsilfaani Deitsche) is also very intersting for german and english speakers
When I heard a bit more of Texan German some time ago it felt like their tungoe is bound to a stone and they put an s at the end of words where it doesn't belong to.
But it's totally understandable.
I live near Montabaur, the "westerwälder und rheinisches Platt" is realy very similar to the texas german. And in 9 pin bowling you do not only strike, but throw different pictures out of the pins.
Maybe interesting:
In Bavaria people use the word "Oachkatzlschwoaf" which means "Eichhörnchenschwanz" without bavarian idiom (=tail of a squirrel). So the squirrel is the part "Oachkatzl" which means literally "oak cat". You see classifying fuzzy animals as a 'cat' seems to have a kind of tradition at least in Bavaria 🙂
Over that: The 9 pin bowling is called "Kegeln" which seems to be 'ninepins' or 'skittle' in english however the lane ist curved so that you need to achieve a kind of weaving of the ball.
You might want to have a look at the Account Feli from Germany and her reaction video "German reacts to Texas German"... There you will hear Vernell Ehler speaking Texas German.
I´ve heard about texas german before, but always as like a mix of english and german. A sentence that i´ve heard in this context would be:"The Kuh is over den fence gejumped." But these people just sound like germans!
These German speaking gentlemen in the restaurant spoke a very clear and accent free German. I once spoke to an Amish .I was able to understand his German quite well but he could understand my German.I am German and I tried to speed very slowly and clear to him.
Over 45 million US citizens reported "German" as their primary ancestry in the American Community Survey conducted in 2015. This makes German Americans by far the largest ethnic population group in the United States. One to two thirds of Americans have German roots.
In the USA bowling starts 1875. The Dutch and German brought this game (9 Pins) with them. But bowling is known since the ancient egypts :).
Well, up next then: "Pennsylvania Dutch". It's also the same phenomenon. A form of german in the US, from an area of immigrants. Similar story to Texas German.
In Germany we have Bowling and the much older Kegeln, that is basically a ancestor to Bowling.
Kegeln uses 9 pins... Bowling is the reimported version from the US.
In your state Indiana live Armisch, they speak a southern German dialect with Swiss influence, you can understand some words. Who speaks German very well is Sandra Bullock. Leo di Caprio also speaks some German, the mother is German.
"Ja, jedes mal das Selbe!" - "Gut" means "Everytime the same!" - "Good". I live in Northrine-Westfalia and this could be a complete conversation :D
Germans hate smalltalk. This was very new to me. I knew about german settlers and the really funny "Schnitzelbank"-Song, wich helps to train some old german words and save a bit of german culture, but that there are families who speak german in private is fascinating.
Traditional bowling is 9 pin, but in Germany most bowling places has the American system by, you can guess, Brunswick.
Also in East Germany was it from Brunswick.
Thats why #41 played for the Mavs ; )
History of Bowling: "Modern ten-pin bowling derives mainly from the German Kegelspiel, or kegeling, which used nine pins set in a diamond formation.[43] The enjoyment of kegeling by German peasants contrasted with (lawn) bowls that was reserved for the upper classes, consistent with bowling's enduring reputation as a common man's sport."
In the East New Britain Province, a remote part of Papua-Neuguinea, you can find a small group of locals who speak "Unserdeutsch", a mixture of German vocabulary and the grammar of Tok Pisin, the Creole English that is predominant in Papua New Guinea. The roots of "Unserdeutsch" go back to the German colonial period in the South Pacific (1884-1914). There are other parts of the world, where German nowadays still is spoken, e.g. Namibia. German is the main or mother tongue for app. 30,000 Namibians.
Other places - besides the US - where German speaking locals can be found are some parts of Australia and Canada as well in several Southern American Countries.
Greetings from Germany, Westfalia, City of Recklinghausen 🙏🍀👍🍺 thnx for your vids
I lived in Iowa City, and the nearby German speakers from Amana speak with a Hessian dialect.
We play "Kegeln" with a smaller ball and nine pins set up in a square or diamond.
I heard Rogan talk about small originally German towns in the neighbourhood of Austin. He said that they were very good at barbecuing meat.
I really would like to see a video of you going to Texas and interview them there and just show your impressions about the German influences there.
I had a elderly colleague from Bulgaria who learned german when she was younger at a german school and this was the same: basically absolutely correct german, but it included a lot of older word germans would not use anymore (like "Burschen", "Leibesertüchtigung")
You can not find a legit german Bretzel or any other "Laugengebäck" anywhere in the US. As far as I know it is not allowed to put a Bretzel in lye (Lauge) which is nessesary to make a legit german Bretzel.
It's funny, genital mutilation on boys is allowed because of "religious freedom" and as "protection of culture", but the tradition of dipping a pretzel in lye, that's forbidden.
9 pin bowling is the German version, called „kegeln“
I worked a year in Austin, TX that is close to New Braufels with the wurstfest and Fredericksburg. I found a lot German heritage and history but mostly they didn't speak German anymore. So you can go into a traditional German restaurant, they are happy if you speak German but they don't understand a word.
In Brasil there is a "German immigrants town" named Blumenau. The people there (often still with last names like Weber, Hartmann or Schulze!) speak a funny mixture of German and Brasilian-Portugese and still maintain old German customs.
They talk exactly like my german grandparents. It also reminds me of a video testing if germans can understand dutch, swiss german and a few others and vise versa. I think i understood all if them a little bit but they couldn't understand german as easily. I'll send it to you if I find it because it was funny
9pins is called Kegeln here but it's more of an adult drinking game. I literally know nobody who plays for fun only. it's always about drinking massive amounts of alcohol. Dude even my grandmother around 80 with her rolling walker plays and drinks heavy.
The sport of bowling was developed in the USA at the end of the 19th century based on the sport of bowling. European immigrants - especially Dutch and Germans - had brought bowling with them to their new homeland. In bowling there are 9 pins, in bowling there are 10. In Germany you play both.
I need to go to Texas! I need to talk to all the people there! :D
And "Stinke Katz" for Skunk ist new for me. The most people in germany say "Stinktier". Means word by word "Smelly Animal" lol.
They came as large groups that had pooled their resources and bought adjoining tracts of land. land was very cheap when they did it. Towns like Fredericksburg, New Braunfels, and Greune are still here today.
Texas also has old czech and polish languages that are not heard outside the state. But most of the youth do not speak these languages anymore.
German had a rich history in America. Most immigrants from Europe came from German speaking regions and there existed so many German schools. Especially in the northern part. But since WW1 and especially WW2 German was the language of the enemy and therefore it wasn’t allowed anymore. Many people stoped speaking it and changed their names to avoid racism. Otherwise maybe today English wouldn’t be the language of the USA 🙃
And all armish people speak a form of German as well :)
I learned in history class that most Germans were easy farmers and not really active in politics and the creation of the USA. That’s why there aren’t many important German founding fathers although most immigrants were German.
At the other end (=in the north) of your state you can also find some people speaking German, "Pennsylvania German".
5:37 I think what they mean is Kegeln. I am not too sure where the differnece is, but a lot people (mostly elderly women) go to a Kegelclub that is mostly in the basement of some restaurant or bar and some even go to a competition. I am not 100% sure where the diference is between Kegeln and Bowling since Germany also has some (not many) bowling places where you can go to.
Well - many of the cities names you mention in Texas are based on cities (still exist) in Germany.
My father always told me, if the stupid ww2 wouldn’t be, maybe the language in USA would be german not english. After war the huge community of germans in the US avoid to speak german in public not to be punished as enemy and nazi.
Love from Austria/Europe 🇦🇹
That English is the official language was decided long before WW2. The war and the resulting rejection of anything German sped up the extinction of some German dialects and the decline of German traditions, but it certainly did not cause the U.S. to speak English today.
@@vomm yes I know, and I am happy that english became the language of USA - it makes it easier to understand each other. The grammar of the german language is to difficult to learn the basics quickly. So the whole world is to go knowing a bit english - and to communicate is maybe the way to live peacefully together. (my english is obviously not the best 😅 but I try)
I only wanted to mention there where many people speaking german all over the USA and why he doesn’t know about.
Yes , nothern germany. Cuxhaven is a beautiful town at the north coast.
holy sh... that sounds really like german.... warm greetz from Bavaria!
It's intersting for sure. In Germany most people never heard of this either.
Reminds me of Namibia. A former German colony in Southern Africa. There German is spoken everywhere. Even the street names or shops, all in German......and it is quite funny, because some bushmen or blacks might speak like typical North Germans :-)))
So cool how this lady has the same last name as the Langerhans islands of the pancreas 🤯👌
9 pin bowling is actually how it's supposed to be played, but it was forbidden in the US, so they added a tenth pin.
Interesting... love that video. Thx.
German here.
The way I see it is that it seems to be correct what the lady was saying. The few bits and pieces you hear them conversing in german contain either a hefty american accent.
At 1:41 the man with the thinned out grey hair and grey shirt and glasses is saying "Wir haben kein Wasser ins Haus ghabbt", and the man with the Moustache replies "Well, das ist wie wir gestern Abend". You can hear the glasses-donning man sport a very noticeable american accent and pronounciation, he even does an american mistake of of saying "ins" instead of "im", the correct wording is "Wir haben kein Wasser im Haus ghabbt", where the "ghabbt" is just me pointing out the hurried wording he uses for "gehabt", "had" in english. The moustache donning man even uses a straight out english word, "Well", instead of the german word for it, which would be "Nun", meaning "Well" as in, "Well, lets go", for example.
I apologize for the excessive usage of quotation marks, but the only way to highlight the actual words that are explained by me, is to use a highlighter, and I find quotation marks the easiest to read and recognize, and its harder to make text bold, or cursive or both, due to youtubes faulty formatting system.
At 2:56 I can't really understand. "Er [...] das immer gern", somebody "always likes something", but I can't tell what he's saying. I think he is saying "Er sah das immer gern", but with a very hefty american english accent, the word "sah" is hurried and the "das", so the "sah das" is too hurried so it sounds like "sahdass", almost like the english "sawdust". Too fast to recognize at first, and I may be wrong.
The other man then replies with "Jedes mal das selbe?", he asks him, "The same, every time?". They then exchange "Ja" and a "Ja gut". You would say "Ja gut" as a closer for a short exchange if you have nothing else to say. Typically germans who converse would just add more questions from the person who replies, and saying "Ja gut" is rather a closing statement to end the conversion about that topic, or it is a open ended reply that can be resumed with another sentence from the person who said "Ja gut", or the other one. It's just how extroverted someone is, and how much they like to converse, if they want to keep the topic alive, or if you rather focus on eating or whatever task it is you are doing while chatting.
You can only hear him speak something as he leans over to inspect the food, something about "Gut ist... kann man die..." and then it becomes incomprehensible because the lady is narrating over it.
The young man with the buzzcut has a very strong german accent in my eyes, and the Lady, btw., has a very small accent remaining, you can almost not tell she is german, but for the man, it is obvious, he sounds like a person from germany who immigrated to the US, the accent and pronounciation remains.
When the lady and the older gentleman with the grey hair, grey moustache, glasses and dark grey shirt are sitting and discussing, she says "Und die... da war keine Wagen, so der Herbst und seine Frau und die Jungens sind bei Fuß...", which is a wonderful sentence in itself.
So she is explaining the History of someones family, I presume, as she explains Mister Herbst and his Wife and the boys travel by foot, without wagons, somewhere. She does a mistake, almost says "die", and corrects herself to say "da war", but makes a mistake, it should be "da waren", as "war" is singular in this case, and "waren" would mean multiple, since it could be assumed that settlers use wagons, and not a single wagon. If there was a single wagon, she would also be wrong, as it would be "da war kein Wagen", "kein" is singular, "keine" is plural in this specific case. "Keine" can also be female and mean "keine Frau", "no woman", whereas "no man" is "kein Mann". Male versus female words, a big thing in german.
Wonderful I find the way she speaks german. She rolls the R in "Frau", "wife", and when she says "Jungens" she sounds exactly like someone from the north, the word is used in middle- and north germany. In other regions other words like "Bub" for "boy" is used, but especially towards Hamburg and towards the north, the "Jungens" for a plural wording of "Jungs", "boys", is often used. Of course, a true german can understand nearly all dialects with some easy or only a minor struggle.
The way she says "Frau", and then uses "Jungens", she throws together multiple different dialects, and that may be what she is explaining throughout the clip, that Texas German is unique, as it incorporates its very own mashed up dialect.
Nine Pins are used in "Kegeln", which is the predecessor of Bowling if I remember correctly? A much narrower path to the pins, and a much smaller, smooth ball is used to try and hit the pins. "Bowling alleys" are much wider, almost double the width, compared to "Kegelbahnen", as a reference. A bowling ball is also... I would be lying but I think double the size of a "Kegelkugel".
I also watched this clip years ago, but the thing is, it is too compressed. You learn nearly nothing about what makes Texas German different from German and American English, the history of where it comes from is too compressed and the majority of the video is just talk about "This is the facts, this is how my family was, this is fact, we live here and speak Texas German", but I would have loved to actually heard and seen a longer exchange, throughout the video you always expect people to break out into a discussion in german, but it never really happens, you only hear snippets.
I mean Germany was second place of Colonizing the US 😅 and the Germans didn't stop in Texas. For example Pennsylvania also was colonized. There Pennsylvania Dutch was born which is a German dialect mixed with English.
mazel tov was a good guess as roughly 250k of people in the US speak Yiddish: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish
PS: That after seperation the much smaller community sticks to a lot of the wording from the time of the separation is very typical. Likewise the canadian quebec french is a very 17th century french.
the "Stinkekatz", or "stinking cat" was replaced by "Stinktier", or "stinking animal". Yes, we are very creative lmao
I would love to see a reaction on the Westfälischer Frieden or in English the peace of Westphalia .
On the 12th of May the 475th anniversary will be celebrated.
I hope this is something you are interested in .
yeah I knew they spoke German in Texas and to me the older people spoke very clear northern German, couldnt really hear many accents mixed together. However the word "Stinkkatz" is definitely a Texas invention. In regular German its called "Stinktier" (stinky animal).
Hallo Ryaan,please do me a favour and don't say always pretzel,I know that u guys call them so,but the correct name is Bretzel wit a "b" at the beginning and it sounds like " brake"bretzel.I used to live in Canada and US and spent quite a while with old order mennonites who still speak a very old German dialect,but I could understand them very good.Greetings from Köln Fred
Many folks in the us have german roots. Not just the ones from op paperclip 😁 The old peoples german sounds really good btw.
Funny you should mention the Amish, if I remember correctly, the Amish and Mennonites are "originally" from Switzerland and the southern German regions before they immigrated to the States.
4:54 Actually we have them in Germany too. Their name is also actually Skunk too but almost everyone only reffers to them as a Stinktier (Stinking/bad smelling animal) so yeah. I actually had no idea that we use the same word, because I only know them as a Stinktier
The skunk (Stinktier) came original from America. Funny enought one brake off the zoo near my town last week.
A more common American exotic animal is the racoon (Waschbär, literally translated washing bear).
In Germany "9 pin bowling" is "Kegeln". Look in wikipedia.🧐