It's amazing how much knowledge you have of this nearly extinct language! Im actually starting to pick up some of it! Thank you for the selfless time spent creating these videos!
Prussian 1, Thanks for the comments. Mir in PA Dutch is WIR in standard German. Also, as you noticed, the conjugation endings are not the same in German and PA Dutch. That's why! MIR is also the dative form for ME (that is like German). Hope this helps.
Hey Douglas, Wie geht's!! Awesome video!! I noticed that you have "mir kumme" and not "Ich Kumme". Just thought it might be worth an explanation. Looks like I have to break out my "German verb drills" book and change it to the Dutch. BTW, thank you soooo much for taking the time to do this.
Dear Mr. Madenford, In your example of the 3rd exception (around minute 12), you use the verb "foliye" (to follow). However, in your book the verb is spelled "folye" (cf. page 30). Is the extra "i" in the step an optional variation? Thanks! Richard
Hi Douglas. I’m trying to learn PA Deitsh. I’m using an app called “Dicty” and the words you are using is different in Dicty. For example, the word for book in Dicty is buch, but you said the word for book was something different. Is the dictionary, DICTY, for PA Deitsh accurate?
Dicty is probably using data downloaded from the PA Dutch online dictionary, at www.padutchdictionary.com . I have found that online dictionary to be useful, but I cannot attest to its accuracy as I, too, am attempting to learn PAD
It isn't German either. It is Pennsylvania Dutch, which was brought from Europe to America in a time when there was no German. What is now called Dutch or German was then all called Dutch. The most similar language in todays Europe would be some dialects spoken in south western Germany.
It's amazing how much knowledge you have of this nearly extinct language! Im actually starting to pick up some of it! Thank you for the selfless time spent creating these videos!
I'm a native speaker and I never thought about the grammar until I started learning Russian. These videos are cool
Thank you very much I follow you for a long time
Prussian 1, Thanks for the comments. Mir in PA Dutch is WIR in standard German. Also, as you noticed, the conjugation endings are not the same in German and PA Dutch. That's why! MIR is also the dative form for ME (that is like German). Hope this helps.
Hey Douglas,
Wie geht's!! Awesome video!! I noticed that you have "mir kumme" and not "Ich Kumme". Just thought it might be worth an explanation. Looks like I have to break out my "German verb drills" book and change it to the Dutch. BTW, thank you soooo much for taking the time to do this.
Dear Mr. Madenford, In your example of the 3rd exception (around minute 12), you use the verb "foliye" (to follow). However, in your book the verb is spelled "folye" (cf. page 30). Is the extra "i" in the step an optional variation? Thanks! Richard
Optional variation! Good catch.
Oh good! Thank you!
im not fluent but i do know a lot of Yiddish and its amazing how much i understand of PD.
Hi Douglas. I’m trying to learn PA Deitsh. I’m using an app called “Dicty” and the words you are using is different in Dicty. For example, the word for book in Dicty is buch, but you said the word for book was something different. Is the dictionary, DICTY, for PA Deitsh accurate?
I have never heard of DICTY before. I am not aware of any APPs out there that do PA Dutch.
Dicty is probably using data downloaded from the PA Dutch online dictionary, at www.padutchdictionary.com . I have found that online dictionary to be useful, but I cannot attest to its accuracy as I, too, am attempting to learn PAD
Great video but this is German and not Dutch as the title suggests
It isn't German either. It is Pennsylvania Dutch, which was brought from Europe to America in a time when there was no German. What is now called Dutch or German was then all called Dutch.
The most similar language in todays Europe would be some dialects spoken in south western Germany.