In the 1830s, a wave of immigrants from northern Germany settled in the area of Cole Camp, Missouri, bringing with them their farming skills and the dialect of Plattdüütsch. Now residents are working ...

Few children, other than Amish and similar communities, have learned to speak anything more than a handful of words and phrases. The retired director of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies at ...

Here's an amazing number. In 2007, an estimated 250,000 Americans could still fluently speak Pennsylvania German, often called Pennsylvania Dutch. And others beside the Amish are counted in that ...

FREDERICKSBURG — In a tidy wooden kitchen that smells of bread, Elizabeth Behrend slices a hard sausage she's just cut down from the smokehouse and tells about the time she and her husband, August, ...

Teacher Sandra Cronimus teaches a nursery class immersed in Alsatian in Brumath, eastern France on October 12th, 2023. Photo: FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP For years, the German dialect of Alsatian was ...

Approximately two hundred people tune in every week to the hour-long online radio show German Music—Texas Style, which is recorded in a tiny studio in New Braunfels. Most of them, it is safe to say, ...

Listen to this episode of A People's History Of Kansas City, a new podcast from KCUR 89.3. For more stories like this one, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play and Stitcher. Gene Beckman ...