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.).
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)
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.
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.
@@trollololololololo1173 nicht in Deutschland du vollidiot. In jedem anderen Land wirst du als deutscher nazi bezeichnet. Warum sollten wir uns selbst als nazis bezeichnen?
@@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."
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.
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 😂
@@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 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
@@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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
@@couchcamperTM was laberst du haha op findet es einfach nur schade dass die Texas deutschen erzwungener Maßen ihre Kultur nicht mehr weitergeben durften.
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.
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 😅
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.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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" .
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.
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. ^^
@@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. 😃🤙🏻
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 .
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 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.
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 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.
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
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.
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 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
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.
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 🇩🇪❤️🔥
Meine Tante ist ganz jung in die USA ausgewandert. Wenn sie Deutsch sprach, hat sie immer breitestes Sächsisch gesprochen. Ihre Geschwister haben sich nach und nach alle Hochdeutsch angewöhnt, aber sie hatte immer noch das Sächsisch ihrer Kinderzeit drauf, das war wie konserviert.
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!
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😂 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.
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
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
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...
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.
„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
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 :)
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.
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
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...
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!!
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
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
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 TH-cam Videos der Kennnummer x ist ab sofort Staatseigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.“
@@maaax1173 absolutely
@@maaax1173 So wäre es natürlich zu 100% korrekt!🙂
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
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"
Der Typ am Anfang klingt wie Willi von Willi wills wissen
Oha ich hör‘s- hahahha
OMG
So schön das der Mann am Schluß singt 😊😋
the German with southern drawl kills me everytime
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👍🏻
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
This is a blessing to my Texas heart
❤️
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!
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.
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 :')
The algorithm really just doing whatever at this point huh
I'm happy I found this. Have a good day.
Proud to be a Texan with German roots. 🇩🇪
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 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!
I am learning German. I will come back to this video once I am fluent and see if I can understand only by listening
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.
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.
Ich bin nicht einmal Deutscher. Und ich fand es immer Unmöglich Deutsch zu lernen.
Aber das ist sehr emotional.
Dankeschön!
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.
the german with a southern accent sounds so funny
Unglaublich wie man über so viele Generationen eine Muttersprache wie Deutsch noch aufrecht erhalten kann. Mein Respekt!
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...
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.
Even so, the fact is that English is the largest ethnic ancestry group in Texas by far.
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 😅
Germans are welcome everywhere.
They are hard workers, respect local people, they are a good species
The Jews would agree.
@@waleed8530 you're racing
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.
Der Moment, wenn ich als Deutscher die englischen Untertitel mitlese. 🙈
Ich auch xD automatisch musste mich zusammen reißen lol
😅🤣 ich auch haha
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.
Immernoch besser zu verstehen als schwäbisch
Texas Germans: Explains their ancestry in perfect German.
Italian Americans: Gabagool?! Ova ereee!!!!
Ich finde es toll das die alte Sprache hoch gehalten wird. Wie Cajun.
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.
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
Deutsche: Nach so vielen Generationen reden wir noch Deutsch
Türken in Deutschland: Hold my Ayran
Mit dem Unterschied, dass die Deutschen- Texaner 1866 dahin gekommen sind und die Türken “etwas” später
Mit dem Unterschied, dass sie fließend Englisch sprechen und sich wunderbar assimilert und integriert haben.
@@user-yy7tr2hg8s wie in dem Video erklärt wurde, wurden sie während und nach dem kriegen gezwungen Englisch zu sprechen.
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.
@@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
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
Dass sich das noch so lange erhalten halt. Das ist fantastisch 🇩🇪😘🙏
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.
Ich liebe das Lied am Ende… “Schatz ach Schatz” ist mein Lieblingslied
New Braunfels and Fredericksburg are 2 great towns, love those places
also Gruene ist das best
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.
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
Absolutes Legendenvideo.
Kurz,Knackig und man bekommt von allem etwas mit :D
Super :)
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.
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.
Die ganze USA sollte deutsch sprechen! Wer ist dafür? 👍hoch😂
Sehr schön! Die netten deutschen Urlauber sollten diese netten Leute auf jeden Fall besuchen!
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.
6th Gen Texas German here
Hallo 😊
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. 😃🤙🏻
Pennsylvania Dutch ist auch geil. Gibts ne Doku darüber, "Hiwwe wie Driwwe". Sehr interessant anzuschauen.
With towns like New Braunfels and Fredericksburg it surprised him to find German speakers. My grandmother spoke German and Polish.
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 .
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 😊
Meine Kameraden, diese Kommentarsektion gehört uns!
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.
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
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?
My family came to Russia in 1855, but we preserver a German culture and we still speak German at home
Thank you for teaching me about this I had no idea 💪
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
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
Imagine being so German that you moved to Taxes, USA.
Is there more of this trip to Texas? Very interesting, I love documentaries like this.
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 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
Ha, the lady even had a Dachshund!
Och war des schön... vielen Dank an den youtube Algo😁🤙🏽
I'm English, this is beautiful to see. Long live Germany and long live the American Germans!
Fall of Man, Texans. They are Texans. I descend from the German Texans and I am just a Texan.
@@goforbroke4428 Why are Black Americans African Americans?
@@fallofman855 because they demand to be called that.
@@goforbroke4428 WRONG
@@fallofman855 I’m not wrong. I am American, you are an Englishman. I know my own country and you know fuck all.
Diese Menschen sprechen besser deutsch, als manche Deutsche. Das hat enormen Respekt verdient.
kommst bestimmt aus ner Großstadt wo eh kaum noch deutsche leben 😯
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.
If anyone’s wondering I believe the folk song at the end is “Die Vögelein im Walde”
The algorithm is back at it again
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 🇩🇪❤️🔥
Texas German: EIN HOWDY, DAS YEEE HAW
Correct
Vielen Dank für die Doku :)
Digga ehrenbrüder sprechen einfach texas deutsch
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.
Meine Tante ist ganz jung in die USA ausgewandert. Wenn sie Deutsch sprach, hat sie immer breitestes Sächsisch gesprochen. Ihre Geschwister haben sich nach und nach alle Hochdeutsch angewöhnt, aber sie hatte immer noch das Sächsisch ihrer Kinderzeit drauf, das war wie konserviert.
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!