The Big Ponder
The Big Ponder
Goethe-Institut
Texas German - Auf Wiedersehen to a Dialect
28 minutes Posted Jun 19, 2019 at 10:00 am.
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America is a country of immigrants. Most people know that Spanish is the most widely spoken language in the US besides English, but there’s more than just Spanish here - German immigrants helped found this country. In some parts of Texas, their culture and language still live on... But probably not for much longer. This funny-sounding dialect, a mixture of Texan English and German from the immigrants who settled here in the mid-1800s, is slowly dying out.