Those subtitles are kind of the point of this channel, don't you think?

Thank you Sergio! And thank you Ben who shot and edited this video 😃

@@EasyGerman Yes, great filming and editing Ben. Great content too, excited for more :)

yup, keine Probleme alles verstanden :)

@@deinpapa3769 Vielen Dank!!!.

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Danke Wilruf!

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Wirklich! Ich komme auch aus Südbrasilien, und meine stadt heißt "Novo Hamburgo", genauso wie die kanadische version im video "New Hamburg" :) Obwohl, die hier eingewanderten Deutschen hatten nicht aus Hamburg gekommen, sondern aus der heutigen Rheinland-Pfalz

@@Asanderrodrigues Als jemand aus RLP bin ich gleichzeitig berührt wie auch beleidigt. xD

@@stevensiegert beleidigt? Wieso?

wow, wo genau ist das? Ich möchte mal nach Brasilien reisen und würde dann dahin fahren!

@@Asanderrodrigues Offenbar deshalb, weil Hamburg mit Rheinland-Pfalz de facto nichts gemein hat

Jawohl to that Sister!

Ich liebte die Akzenten des Pennsylvania Dutch Frauen! Dietsch!

I was about to comment that the "Mir" (instead of Wir) sounded very swiss!

A Wandering Gypsy I have also German heritage and situation which is very similar to your one.

it's an amazing language. As a Spanish speaker, German is a far more beautiful language than Spanish and it opens up your mind to different ways of thinking. It also makes you view English from another perspective(word order, cases). Learn what you can from Spanish but it's not too late to learn Deutsche. You can probably learn the basics and intermediate in 1yr or 2 and knowning Spanish helps too ( Cases,& Gender).

@Sam Fun fact: German is the biggest ancestry group of white americans way ahead of english, irish and scandinavian.

Danke Franciscooo! Sagt Isi für Ben und die anderen. 😂

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Keep up the good work. I (German) do the same with Spanish and I can relate that it is sometimes more difficult to have no real motivation behind. You can make it!

Same for me. I'm Brazilian, although i'm learning other languages since 10 years old. Focusing in Deutsch and French by now.

@@brunovallealmeida That will help you in the job world I would hope. German is tough for some people so respect :)

@@ReeN1995 tnks! Who knows, right? By now, learning foreign languages is more like a hobby for me. And well... I don't really use it in my job (lawyer and in a very specific niche), but... We can't predict the future, so this could get me prepared for whatever comes next. Thanks again and a wish you all the best :)

Sehr stark viel Erfolg!

Un bonjour d'Alsace ! Salut

Sprechen es die jüngeren Leute auch noch? Oft leider nicht, wie mir scheint.

@@aramisortsbottcher8201 Unter die Amische und manche Mennonitische Gruppen sprechen die junge Leute es noch immer. In die alte Gebiete in Süd Pennsylvania wo die Sprache ursprünglich entstand und wo vor hundert Jahre jedermann es sprach, sogar Leute die keine Amishe oder Mennoniten waren, ist die Sprache fast ausgestorben. Viele alte Leute sprechen es zwar noch, aber haben es an ihre Kinder nicht weitergegeben. Obwohl die Amische es noch immer sprechen ist es für sie keine schriftliche Sprache; jedermann schreibt nur Englisch, und es gibt keine offizielle Schreibweise, noch Literatur auf Pennsylvania Deitsch. Daher verändert sich die Sprache unglaublich schnell und jede neue Generation ersetzt mehr der alten Vokabular mit englische Worte oder englische Worte die leicht verändert sind, und dadurch stirbt die Sprache langsam aus. Ein guter Beispiel dafür ist die Mennonitische Dame im Video die nicht wusste was “language” heißt. Ihre Generation hat das alte Wort, ‚Schprooch‘ mit dem Englischen ersetzt.

@@nathanwenger894 danke für die Antwort! Diese Entwicklung ist schade, aber auch verständlich.

Eventough this comment is 2 years old... You seem to be a young person, does the young generation still speak or at least understand the german language and is it used in day to day life? Would be grateful if you answer, but if not no problem.

@@aramisortsbottcher8201 Hey! Yes, I'm 22. I'd say the younger generation doesn't use the language at all. At the local universities, German isn't taught past second year (contrast with French, which has courses available for all four years). There are Saturday German schools where they try to get the younger generation into the language but I didn't really learn much there in the years I attended (ages 9-13). Even having German grandparents I didn't understand much German (we always spoke English) until I started studying it on my own after high school. One of my friends has a very German last name too and doesn't understand a word. Sometimes at cafés and such you can hear older couples speaking in German. The locally owned bookstores have newspapers, magazines etc in German. The material is mostly targeted at adults/older people though, any German books I received as a kid were gifts from relatives in Germany/Austria. Honestly I think I've only heard one university student speaking it once on the phone. Oh, and once we had a German exchange student but I don't think anyone ever spoke in German to him. There used to be several German clubs but they're really struggling now because most of the members are older. Ex. my dad is part of the German-Canadian business club, I think the youngest members are in their late 40s & people don't think the young generation will really be interested in keeping these clubs running. I've come along a couple times to these meetings and they were held entirely in English. There are other clubs that perhaps do use Germans during their meetings but I wouldn't know. The anti-German feeling during WWI was very strong (it wasn't mentioned in the video, but that bust of Wilhelm II was stolen and still has never been found - there was also a German priest who was dragged out onto the streets and beaten). During the war, church services previously done in German switched over to English and never switched back. But even in the 50s/60s it still must have felt rather German because my grandfather who initially immigrated to Winnipeg (which is rather far away) was doing a trip to the U.S., returned through Kitchener and said how he felt really at home there & subsequently moved here. Nowadays it's more German in name/tradition - streets, Oktoberfest, Christkindl. We do also have a German remembrance day ceremony held at a church where German POWS are buried. There might be a bit of German used but the majority of such events are held in English. Hope this answered your question! And sorry for the wall of text, I got a bit carried away. :)

@@JenniferMN1998 WOW! It's very nice of you to answer even after two years. It is quite the contrary, the text is detailed and I like it that way, it shows the several fields where the language plays a role. Also nice to see you still have/had contact to your relatives in europe. It is kind of sad seeing the language die out, but very understandable though. Anyways, thanks for the answer and have a happy new year! I always like to have a conversation with people on the other side of the globe. PS: cool profile picture, I like Ahsoka.

@@aramisortsbottcher8201 I'm glad! :) Our city's German heritage has always interested me, it's just too bad that despite our history I didn't get much of a head start on studying German lol. Yes, my dad has a cousin in Hessen and my mom's mom moved back to Burgenland, Austria after her husband's death. Unfortunately there are many who we don't keep in touch with anymore. ..but I'm glad for those we do. Best wishes for the new year! It is fun to speak with someone all the way around the world. :) P.S. Thanks, I was a huge clone wars fan back in the day - still haven't gotten around to seeing S7 - waiting for quarantine to end so I can watch it with my friend!

@@JenniferMN1998 I live in Hessen too, near Frankfurt. Now that I think about it, I shouldn't have been so surprised about your family having contact to germany and you just knowing few german. I can draw some good parallels to my own family, my grandfather came to germay in the sixties, he is spanish. My father and his brothers were risen in spanish and really learnd german in primary school. My father wanted to give the language to the next generation, so my sister and I learnd spanish from a private teacher and later I had it for two years in highschool. But whenever I meet my grandparents and uncles they speak spanish to themselves (this sounds like they all have a "self talk", is there a better formulation?) and german to me, so I understand the language but can barely have a conversation. I haven't seen my spanish relatives since childhood, but my grandparents still have contact to them. Interesting how your grandfather left and mine came. Why did he leave germany? I am (or was) a clone wars fan too, embarrassingly until December I thought there are just three seasons... :D So I will watch it again in the next months just on time before Season 7 is available.

And its usually to watch hockey! haha

No wonder ;) It was mainly the heavily persecuted Mennonites from the Palatinate who emigrated en masse to Pennsylvania around 1860 and spread Pennsylvania Dutch from there. In the Baden and Palatinate area there were temporarily many Mennonites because those who had fled from Switzerland settled there (only to be threatened again and expelled from there after a short time).

Noooooo gib mal Credit im Middel West wo leit no deitsch/däätsch/diietsch/deutsch sprechen/verzählen können. Aha Als Uhrdeutschamerikaner, bin unglaublich Stoltz dass mein Deutsch eine Mischung vom Buchdeitsch, nordamerikanischem, und Dialekt wird. :D Even in small towns everywhere there are still old people who remember French being everywhere and German being everywhere. Even in kleinen Flecke sind da noch ältere Leit wo sich noch errinern können an die Zeiten wann Deitsch und Paw Paw French die Lingua Franca war. Es gibt Wörter wie Truck, Heimsteader, Cannery, Car, und ganz viele andere wie Gschwel für Eichhörnchen. Even Worte was man glaubt nur dem Texasdeutschdialekte gehören werden gefunden auf den Plains. Luftschiff saget wir in Kansas (aber die Plattredner und Plautdietscher saged Luftschipp), Stinkkatz' für den Skunk. Countrykirche für eine kleine Kirche wo im mitten einen Kornfeld oder Weizfeld gefunden wird. Manche dialekten des Mittleren Westens sind mehr wie Buchdeutsch als andere aber anyway.

naja schwätza / reden. ist halt Dialekt.... genau so wie die Schwaben andere Wörter für bestimme Sachen haben. Wie z.B. Topf / Hafa, Töfple / Häfele. Grumbira / Kartoffeln. Erdbeeren / Prestling, Brestling, Brästling, Breschdling, Preschtling

Die heutige deutsche Sprache hat sich sehr gewandelt. Pennsylvania Dutch gleicht eher dem Deutsch, dass vor etwa 100-150 Jahren in Deutschland gesprochen wurde.

Iowa too

Which towns

Most of the rural, small towns of the mid-west and even Pennsylvania contain obvious traces of 19th century German culture in the architectural design and subtle hints of culture: food, farming life, local festivities. I don't want to get criticized for this. Obviously, Germany is German and there is no comparison between Germany and the United States on many things, but there is probably more traces of the older German agriculture life in the United States then in Germany itself. I would only say that the traces of this culture is only really obvious when you visit the small towns and farming areas. Stay away from the larger towns, suburbs, cities, and "Germantowns". You have to visit towns like Berlin, Ohio or Amana, Iowa.

@@dorcylance540 they are yanks not german

@@casper6198 Ancestrally and ethnically they are still mostly German.

Ja das sollten wir irgendwann 😃

Hallo Jean, meinst du "Plattdeutsch"? Stammen deine Vorfahren, bevor sie in der Ukraine lebten, aus Deutschland? Norddeutschland?

Grete M: Meine Verwandten würden sagen „Plautdietsch“, aber ja ich habe Plattdeutsch gemeint. Sie waren ursprünglich von den Niederlanden und Deutschland.

@@mgrete7613 daut es "plautdietsch" op plautdietsch -- op huachdietsch es daut jo "plattdeutsch". Daut es wöö man die sproak nant, die die Mennoniten räden. (Entschuldigung für mein schlechtes Plautdietsch, ich bin kein Mennonite, sondern ein PA Dutchman, unsere "mudderschprooch" ist unterschiedlich)

​@@mgrete7613 Nicht zu verwechseln mit Plattdeutsch, "Plautdietsch" ist eine Varietät des Niederpreußischen, das zu den Ostniederdeutschen Dialekten gehört und von deutschen Siedlern in der Ukraine, den Russlandmennoniten, gesprochen wurde.