Plaut was my original and only language. When I began public school I quickly learned English and my parents switched to mostly Engish in the home and somewhere along the way I lost the Duietsch... At this point, at 80 years of age! I am interested in learning a bit of it. Have no one very near who speaks it. One second cousin is several hours away so I am relying on the internet.

I speak Danish like a native, so I recognize many words.

I love it! I'm sad that my Dad never taught me, but I'm planning on learning. Thank you for this!

We have been learning Plautdietsch for over a year. still need lots of help, hearing different dialects helps. Thank you very much

Please make more I'm trying to learn because all my friends speak this language and I don't have a clue what their saying they teach me some but these clips help

Thanks! only 3/4 generations ago this was our family's language! Danke shein.

Please make more of these type of videos! I am trying to become more fluent in this wonderful mother tongue of mine, and while my wife and her family are helping, videos like this are just great as a source of knowledge and entertainment. Your fan always. :)

Ten years later, just starting this journey with you two, but good job slowing down a little.

I absolutely LOVED this...informative without being pretentious....you guys would love Afrikaans......Ek praat afrikaans wat julle wel sou kon verstaan (I speak afrikaans which you'd understand well!).

Hey Mr. Neufled, This video was the best. Thanks for speaking slowly. Oh ya when the kids get home from school today, I will be sure to show them how great of a teacher you really are!

I just love how most of the words have recognizable English cognates. ❤

Haha I enjoyed this. My grandparents speak Low German and live in Manitoba as well (don't suppose you've been to Rosenort? :) ) and they would always use it to talk about me to relatives while I was in the room... so I learned Standard German at school and surprised them when I could understand the gist of what they were talking about! Haha I should probably learn plautdiestch as well but I can't seem to catch on very well

Well done! Easy to understand and funny. Enjoy your Terere!

Thanks guys, i have been waiting awhile for another plautdietsch lesson! thnx!!

This is wonderful!

Thank you for these videos. My opa was from föhr and I never learned it but I wish I did. I am trying to understand it now. This is helpful :)

*FUN FACT:* The Modern English word "mate" comes from Middle Low German "maat", which meant originally someone you share the dinner-table with. It was borrowed during the "Middle English" language period when the trade-confederation "Hanseatic League", "Düdesche Hanse" (in MLG) still existed (and Middle Low German was the Lingua Franca of this trade-confederation). The Hanseatic League (existed from approx. 1100 to approx. 1500) stretched all the way from the British Isles all the way to Latvia and Estonia even. It was like the European Union of the middle ages. So no wonder that even people in the British Islands (who spoke Middle-English) were influenced by the Modern Low German language at the time, hence the borrowing of MLG "maat" into "mate". I would go even as far as saying that many Middle-English speakers (especially traders) in the 1200's and 1300's could very well understand Middle Low German, not only because it was a Lingua Franca of the Hanse, but also because Middle-English was in fact very much mutually intelligible with Middle Low German in general, minus the bulk import of Latin, French, and Greek vocabulary due to the Norman Conquest of 1066. The true challenge in communication between Middle English and Middle Low German speakers would have been the loanwords from French, Latin, and Greek, which would cause the MLG speaker to become extremely puzzled, unless the MLG speaker at that time also happened to know some French or Latin.

Outstanding lesson. Thanks.

Sehr gut. Ich weiß sehr wenig, obwohl meine Familie aus Ostpreußen stammt

nice to hear my native tongue. Which is sadly dying... :-(

very helpful!! please make more!!!

These are awesome guys! thanks! Keep em coming! :)

These actually really help me.

@lginther08 welcome, hope it was helpful

Awesome!!! Love it.

Even without the English subtitles, just reading the Low German ones, one can see so many cognates with English...

Thank you

this is great :) thanks

Well, living in the east of the Netherlands, i can almost understand it.

einfach großartig.

I speak Low German a little different than you guys do. For example, I say "migen" for mosquitoes, not "mije". :) Good job, though. (and I'm not saying you're wrong in any respects, there's a lot of different dialects)

Ick luiste, kyk ung sie, dat dy praut byna skwone Nederduitsch ung Laaglands! :-D Viele Groeten van Land duiw Voaderke, Culmigerland, Konings Pruisen, Laagland (Polen :-D

Hi guys :) I think a nice addition to the format would be if you were to repeat everything you say, saying it slower the second time. That would help me follow along and repeating the works a lot easier :) A format similar to Rosetta Stone would be nice, actually. Have you used that programme perchance? It's a shame there is no Plautdietsch language pack for it :(

this is new to me 😊

... If this was your main intention - well done! In order to approach beginners, one might act a little more on the teacher/pupil situation. Divide the video into three parts and let the viewer become interactive: 1) Opener (the pupil is presented with a new situation) 2) Intermezzo (a speaker's voice teaches new phrases, the viewer is given an opportunity to read, to listen and to repeat) 3) Closure (end of the situation, the pupil is using the new phrases = last repetition). P.S. Thumbs up !!!

hilarious.....love seeing the yerba too :) seeja goot

I need more, I want to speak to my great-gram in low-German when I see her again

at last I get to know this language a little better

I like this language

I know them they are awesome

Very similar to the both Dutch and Old English.

Do you have basic phrases? I don't care about mosquito words.. I want to learn basic phrases that can be used in a variety of situations!

Please excuse me for giving feedback in (bad) English, as I do not write Low German. I found this video lots of fun to watch. However, I wonder whether it is intended for beginners or for people who already know Plautdietsch and who wish to improve. As I am familiar to another variety of the same language (Plattdüütsch), I found the video very interesting as it gave me an opportunity to compare your dialect to the one I happen know and, thus, to learn something new. [to be continued...]

Chortitza (Old Colony) and Molotschna (New Colony) Dialects of Plautdietsch. Which one is this? Thanks.

das is soo cool "jungs"...

Wo wohnst du? In deitschland, oder kanada? Ich wohn in der USA, aber mein opa komt aus Osnabrück, und meine oma komt aus Overijssel, in Niederländen.

Are you drinking maté ("mate " in Spanish) in the video??? That´s what I do every day. I´m Argentine. I didn´t know Canadian people drink maté :)

oh ba yo

same time you write different, but it sounds the same. Where are you guys from? I do speak plautdeitsch, but don't now to write! i´m from brazil

Gendach Sewoztje

Als jullie nu eens allemaal beginnen met ons goede oude Vlaams proper uit te spreken ;) Zou de wereld dan niet een mooiere en betere plek worden? :)

and here i thought it was "Plattdüütsch" instead of "plautdietsch". is that more of a dutch thing? because i only the dutch call it "dietschland" if i recall correctly.

Anyone tried the Rocelangue Method (do a google search)? We've heard numerous awesome things about this popular learning language course.

están tomando tereré Mientras hablan????

Is that a normal German fireplace because they must lose a lot of houses, sorry it's not in German.lol

best grappig dat ik dit zo kan verstaan. de zinnen kunnen lezen is overigens hele andere koek

I would like to see an app.to teach me how to speak plaudietess

Are they drinking Mate??

Page 704 lout (T) = n a crude or oafish person; boor. [C16: ? from OE lutan to stoop]

Etj veschtu mest olles, 99 Prozent

El inglés se parece al aleman bajo pero el inglés se nota que tiene influencias del francés.

just been watching a few vids in low german, and from what I've seen, it's kind of like a southern american accent? relative to standard german, I mean. I can really only speak english, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

Wat fö dialekt ess dat?

de akzeent hem se aube n bietche. ik proot ostfreeske platt und verstau dat wall

Ek kan van die woorde uitmaak as ek daarna luister, maar die spelling is te moeilik om te ontleed. Dit klink 'n klein bietjie na Afrikaans.

Dot es ein Biel

jag förstår ganska bra som svensk :) spännande!

Unklug

lame you must be bored

weirdos