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Escape to Fredericksburg, TX for authentic German charm, historic architecture, food, wine, festivals, museums and scenic ...
Researchers Samuel Stucki, Jan Deriu, and Mark Cieliebak at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) have developed an approach to synthesizing speech in Swiss German dialects from written ...
While the German government frets over the sudden chill in relations with the United States, residents around American bases hope that ties are too tight to cut easily.
German dialects differ, and the Wurlitzer family, originating in Saxony, could have readily understood the Alsatian dialect, but not been able to converse in it.
Germans began immigrating to Penn's-Woods in the late 1600s and have been here for a long time. In March 1918, area clergymen confronted the topic of whether or not to continue to conduct their ...
Mountainish by Zsuzsanna Gahse is a collection of 515 notes, each contributing to an expansive kaleidoscope of mountain encounters. Translated from the German by Katy Derbyshire in Prototype’s English ...
Apr. 25—About 245 people, most of Pennsylvania German ancestry, celebrated the Pennsylvania Dutch language and culture during the 84th annual Pennsylvania Dutch Gathering of Berks County held at ...
Strecker grew up speaking the Volga German dialect, but later learned to speak High German and was a high school German teacher until he retired and went to seminary.
A road trip through Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state leads to German and Italian cuisine, dialects and a surprising number of music festivals.
Other phrases sounded German, but weren't quite right. Boas discovered the people were speaking "Texas German," a unique dialect that developed as German settlers came to Central Texas in the 1840s.