Grew up in Kazakhstan in a Plautdietsche family. It's kind of funny to understand someone from the other side of the world speaking language of our common ancestors. :)
@@johnschmitt9158 Our ancestors came from Holland to Western Prussia and some generations later, at the end of 18th century, to Ukraine being invited by Catherine the Great, where they lived in prosperous colonies until Russian Revolution. Being suppressed during the Stalin Era they went together with retreating German army during WWII back to Germany. In accord with agreements of the Yalta Conference, as "former Soviet citizens", they were delivered by Allied Forces to russian authorities and sent into banishment in Siberia. Some survived Stalinism and some years after his death, driven by the longing for being among "their people", they found relatives and friends, who were sent into banishment to Kazakhstan at the beginning of German invasion of the Soviet Union. This is an another story of an "wandering tribe" of Mennonites.
@@johnschmitt9158 You wouldn't find many of them there anymore. Most of the Mennonites left Kazakhstan in the exodus to Germany and some to Canada during easing of the Soviet regime in the late 70th and 80th.
@@CheburashkaGenovna I heard about some plautdietsche people living in Kazakhstan and wished I could meet them to see how similar we still are. I was born in Canada but my parents were born in Mexico
Hej! I am Austrian (thus speak Austrian German, a kind of Bavarian), have lived in Sweden (speak Swedish fluently), lived a bit in the Netherlands, and know my share of Swiss German. I love listening to and learning about new variants of German. Thank you for these videos, and best regards from Vienna!
I live in Canada--my parents came here from Chihuahua. My biggest regret is that I never learned Plautdietsch, which is ironic for me because I very much enjoy languages. (I'm pretty good at French.) If there were a place that taught Dietsch here, I would have wanted to go there. Growing up, we often drove down to Chihuahua to visit the grandparents. I was usually miserable, both because of the heat, and of being unable to talk with my dozens of cousins. I sincerely hope that we see an explosion of Plautdietsch literature, both original and translations of books in other languages.
I speak german and dutch and its very funny to hear some words similar to german and others to dutch. thank you for sharing your culture, Im from Juarez, Chihuahua and I've always wondered how is the Mennonite community and how your language sounds :D keep on the good work you are doing! and thumbs up for you
I enjoy the low German . Mine is very rusty, but I understand it ok. I spoke German always growing up, but my younger siblings started English because of school. I kept speaking to mom and dad when I could. My late wife was French and my kids learned French and English. Dad passed, mom her German became a “ germ/English mix. So I had to make trips to Manitoba spend time with my relatives just to keep what little German I have left . My cousins keep joking with me I should just marry a German speaking girl , she would keep my language lol. Who knows what God has in store but ....... let’s see what life does. Thank you for a god video, I enjoyed listening !
This is fascinating as a Mennonite language nerd. My family goes back to the Alexanderwohl congregation in Kansas, but in my family, the dialect is going out with my grandfather's generation. It's good to see it's not dieing out completely
Hi Dietsche Mejal, I'm a Mennonite gall my self, speaking German, low German, English and some Spanish, my parents both were born in Russia, and i was born in Paraguay, love to hear a little from your background.
I'm Catholic of Mexican-Spanish+German+French ancestry but have much respect for Mennonite community in North America, Mexico, and rest of Latin America. God bless.
Great video I loved and I'm from Juarez Chihuahua Mexico and I do have a lot of respect for the Mennonite community they're usually very hard working farmers and self contained community I do admire their hard work your community does in Mexico cheers Saludos desde Las Vegas Nv.U.S.A...
I just discovered your channel and love it. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the difference between Plautdietsch, Pennsylvania Dutch and Diets, but I guess it's just different dialects spoken in the northwest of mainland Europe during the reformation. As a Dutchie, I find it fascinating that I can understand part of what you are saying without translation, but feel that you are speaking Swedish or incomprehensible German at other times. Thanks so much for keeping the language alive and for being so funny whilst doing so :)
Et is verwant med et neadersassisk uut Neaderland, wat ouk in Noord-düütskland pråtet wördet. Y kennet et meskeen as twentsk, grönningsk, achterhouksk, esw.
As a Pennsylvania Dutchman who speaks some Pennsylvania Dutch, I can’t really understand plautdietsch at all, just a few words here and there. Our languages are completely different. Deitsch (PA Dutch) comes from south Germany, Alsace, and Switzerland. I will write this comment in PA Dutch for you, so you can see. Als Deitscher, der kann en Bissel Deitsch schwetze(draurigerweis net mei mudderschprooch), kann ich net ken plautdietsch verschteh, yuscht en paar Wadde eeletzich. Unsre schprooche sinn arrig unnerschittlich. Deitsch kummt aus Suddeitschland, Elsass, un da Schweitz. Ich wa den Comment fer dich uff deitsch schreiwe, um du es siehscht un verschtehscht.
@@Wearldsproake Ik wonde in hengelo voor een tijdje en in het begin kon ik niks van het plaatdeutsche begrijpen. Nu is het niet zo moielijk maar helaas kan ik het nog niet spreken.
I was born and raised on a farm in the Hague, Saskatchewan area. Many Mennonite people left this area in 1922 (long before I was born) and moved to Mexico. I have travelled to Cuauhtemoc several times in the 1980s. Made great friends and lasting memories. Thank you for sharing about your Mennonite journey. Very well said. Classy indeed.
Faszinierend! Diesen konservierten Dialekt so zu hören, ohne wirklich große Einflüsse der Umgebungssprache bzw. akzentfrei, ist wie eine Zeitreise. Selbst als Hesse verstehe ich das Meiste auf Anhieb. Vielen Dank dafür und Gruß aus der alten Heimat! :)
Was ist an dieesem Dialekt denn so konservativ deiner Meinung nach? Das Plautdietsche hatte doch ganz im Gegenteil seine eigenen Innovationen und Einflüsse die es zu dem machten was es heute ist und auch nahezu von den anderen Plattdeutschen/Niederdeutschen Dialekten trennte. Die konservativste Grammatik bspw. hat das Hochdeutsche in allen germanischen Sprachen abgesehen vom Isländischen.
@Mike Burn Ich höre ganz vereinzelt Worte raus, aber habe keine Ahnung, wovon sie spricht. Du hast echt das Meiste verstanden? Den Eindruck habe ich oft, wenn ich Niederländisch höre. Aber hier - keine Chance.
Das ist kein Dialekt. Niederdeutsch ist, anders als die hochdeutschen Dialekte, offizielle Regionalsprache in Deutschland und den Niederlanden. Und du hast wahrscheinlich nicht sehr viel verstanden.
Great Q&A, it was nice to get to know you a little! Thanks for entertaining us Mennonites, I really love having entertaining Low German content to watch now and then :) #RARE
I mistyped the word 'blue' as 'blie' this morning to my brother. He wondered what colour blie might look like so I looked the word up and ended up here, wanting to learn another language! I like your hat. 😁
Wonderful subtitles!!! It's so much fun to hear you speak and get the meaning. Your motivation is awesome: to preserve the language & share with those of that language so they have more to enjoy. And now you share with your English speaking geographic neighbors. Yay! *Fun*
I would say the main thing we low German mennonites have to improve is to be more open emotionally. I’ve lived my entire life in a Mennonite community and I know barely anyone who is open with their emotions. I think most of us are taught as children that our emotions are bad and to ignore them and that’s led to us being an extremely repressed people. I know I am and breaking out of that shell is very difficult.
Hi how are you. I liked your videos, especially for spreading interesting aspects about the Mennonite culture in Mexico. I celebrate the dynamism that you show in your presentations as you do them in an interesting way. Congratulations for your social communication skills. I send you greetings from Colima, Mexico. I hope you can visit this part of the Mexican province.
Love this! I’m studying my ancestors. We immigrated to US of America from Prussia in the late 1800s. I grew up Mennonite but by my mom and dad’s generation, we had all but stopped speaking Plautdietsch. I want to learn to speak it, but as you say it is a dying language. Any advice for that? I love this video and all of your videos! Much love to you sister 💕❤️
Thats so interesting! Wonderful that you're studying your ancestors, it's always interesting to see what one might find. I guess watching and listening to Plautdietsch could help you. I think there are dictionaries already from Low German to English as well. Let me check local book stores to see if I find any. 💕
How Mennonites oh thank you! I have one by Herman Rempel, Kjenn Jie Noch Plautdietsch and it’s good but it doesn’t teach me how to speak in sentences. 🤷♀️
About the sawdust on the floors... I remember my mom doing it after she cleaned because she had a cement floor and it probably helped with absorbing moisture after moping it and to keep feet warmer. Lol definitely not because it looked pretty 😂🤣 Some people even had dirt floors. Some people are still doing it even though they have nice floors but they’re only doing it out of tradition and not knowing the real reason behind it. I remember the pinole smell. Brings back memories.
Yes that makes so much sense! My parents had a dirt floor for the first years when they were married and she also added pinol so it’s would smell good 😂 mom says that they added sawdust to the floor because my grandpa was so concerned about the floor getting damaged when people came over to visit 🙄😂
Thank you for the subtitles in your video. You'll get more subscribers I think if you use them. There are probably many who are curious about your channel, but don't understand german.
But also have them up there long enough to read. The one she puts up in brackets at 3:38 I was curious what it said and has to go back and try to pause it at exactly the right time, took me like a dozen tries cuz it’s only up for half a second!
... und wenn, dann mit stark hochdeutschem Akzent. Oder Hochdeutsch mit hie und da ein wenig Plattdeutsch. Die junge Frau in diesem Video könnte genauso gut Dänisch sprechen, ich verstehe kein Wort. Ich höre heraus, dass es eine verwandte/germanische Sprache ist, aber ich kann ihrem Redefluss nicht folgen. Sehr schön! Das Niederdeutsche hat sich dort erhalten.
@@Spinnradler This sounds nothing like Danish. It probably is more difficult for a speaker of standard German (Hochdeutsch) to understand this than someone who speaks Dutch. Especially for a Dutch person who speaks ‘Twents’ dialect it is not difficult to understand. I think most people from around here (Enschede) could understand a lot of what was said in this video.
Lol, I live in Antwerp, we speak Dutch & most of it sounds reasonably closer to Flemish, than ordinary German. Nice vid, thx :) Also funny, that I know a few South African ppl too & I can certainly connect the dots now, by comparing some of the things you said lol. Groetjes uit Antwerpen, hier in Vlaanderen :)
I love you videos because you are the only Mennonite that I see that really embraces being Mennonite while also having a millennial side (like that hat hahaha) . I can speak plautdietsch but not on your level 👌. you able to convey so much more then most considering the limitations of our language and it's amazing. I also love the fact your from Chihuahua where my parents grew up #myRoots.
Felicidades, excelente que una miembro de una comunidad tradicionalmente aislada en México y el mundo del internet haga este intento de integración global, me gustan mucho los productos agrícolas y ganaderos de esa comunidad lo único es que ya deberían aplicar técnicas agrícolas más modernas para cuidad sobre todo el agua. Saludos por cierto me imagino que el idioma que usas es alemán bajo. O alemán antiguo.
Te entiendo el 60% pero me encanta escucharte ... jejejejejeje y es mas lindo escucharte asi, que en español... no se porque... se te ve con mas fortaleza...
Me gustaria que me conozcas en vivo por Instagram @vidadecocineros domingo 2 de agosto 6 pm Colombia 20:00 Argentina, Vida de Cocineros.. gente linda con conversaciones lindas, no especiales... especiales son las personas comunes, tal cual vos te mostras...
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Loved it! From a kid that grew up in a southern SASK , Mennonite town.spoke low German at home.and at school, when we didn 't want the English kids to know what we were saying!!I have lost alot of it.F from Lethbridge Alberta.🇨🇦👍
I understand half of it as sounding like Plattdeutsch. The other half sounds like Swedish or Polish. It has developed quite different from Plattdeutsch in Germany.
It's Mennonite German. Basically, force Dutch farmers to speak Low German for a couple of centuries then kick them over to Russia for a little bit. After that, ship them off to the Americas around the 1880s. It's practically a creole. Greatest disappointment of my life was being a language nerd and finding out that my grandfather and his siblings all grew up speaking like this but didn't raise their kids bilingual.
Like Theroa said, East Low German has a lot of Dutch influence in general as Dutch, Frisian and Flemish settlers moved to Prussia (when Hannover and Westphalia was not part of Prussia), These settlers moved to areas like Brandenburg, Pomerania (North western Poland now) and East and West Prussia. Those East Low German dialects of Low German are basically extinct in their original terrritories since the speakers wwere driven out of their areas after WW2. But those East Low German variants had always been a bit distinct to the West Low German variants. The eastern once also had Polish, Kashubian, etc influence.
Si yo tambien soy del estado grande pero de la frontera, y empece en youtube para empesar a hablar mas pluidamente y claro en español ya que hablo como los chicanos, solo que mi problema es que nadamas tengo el celular para grabar y editar videos
Big hi from St. Thomas Canada!Haha...my English and German come in together when I speak German. ..my grandma always thought it was funny but understood everything I tried to say lol great video! Oh and my hands are always cold too lol
It happens when you speak more than one language 😆 its a smoothie of words. Luckily English somehow is easier to understand if you know Plautdietsch so I guess that must've helped. Do you also get annoyed when your hands are warm for once? Its so uncomfortable haha
How Mennonites yes I think that did help a lot. I can understand a little Spanish but not enough to get by. My mom was born in chihuahua Mexico as well but moved to Canada at the age of 14 and she is almost 60 now. I get really annoyed with my cold hands and feet....rarely are they ever warm. Even in the middle of summer they are cold....it's a no win situation lol
Si esta gente emigrará más a menudo a estos países como México y Paraguay, otro “gallo cantará”. Gente laboriosa como los Druzos y los Alawitas y los Menonitas, Luteranos, Mormones y Sikhs, por no dejar de mencionar a los Zoroastrianos y Parsis, que ya se están haciendo escasos en el mundo. El trabajo dignifica.
As a native speaker of Austrian German ya understand most words but the context not so much, I need subtitles. Yet many northern Germans don’t understand Austrian dialects either. At least I can understand Swiss German almost perfectly. 😎
Wow.. I‘m German and I can only grab a word here and there, to me it sounds more like a hard sounding Dutch dialect with an almost Swedish melody to it. I can understand a good bit when someone speaks Pennsylvania Dutch though. VERY interesting, and great that such a dialect has been preserved through the centuries!
Plautdietsch is a form of Low German and as such its bascially a separate language from (High) German. German: Ich habe geschlafen Dutch: Ik heb geslapen Plautdietsch: Ekj hebbe jeschloape (Mennonite / East Low German) Platdüütsk: Ik hev slapen (West Low German / Low Saxon) Dutch (Low Franconian) was traditionally the language between Low Saxon and High German which contains all the Central and Upper Francionian dialects that border to Alemannic and Bavarian. East Low German got quiet some influence from Dutch settlers, and later from High German.
I love your chanels 👍🏻its very interesting how you speak 3 languages you are very unique 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻and lovely 😊 yo naci en Chihuahua algún día iremos a conocer los campos menonitas y nos gustaria conocerte my husband is from cuacte
haha this was really good and funny. Got here from the Yolo video and that's awesome that you have this page. I will ask my friends from various parts of Germany if they understand everything (they also speak various German dialects besides standard German). It would be cool to see a video on how the Mennonite towns look, if there are touristic things to do, and what the youth does after school or work I would guess? I feel like most reports and documentaries on the community are more superficial and this could be cool on a first hand account. Also love the food videos! Pie and soup at the same time? Interesting! Maybe have a front yard cleaning competition one day? haha and differences between the Mennonites int he USA, Canada and Mexico? Keep up the good work, I'll follow here and on Instagram! Cheers from London, UK!
Esau Farfan thank you! Great ideas, I don’t have lots of time to make videos but I hope in 2019 I’ll have more time 😊 there’s a lot of videos on mennonites but they’re always about the traditional ones which in this area where I live, are the minority so I’d like to show the other side of things 😊
@@DietscheMejal1 von wua tjemst dü? Das war im schießen, dieses Video über das Kleid und tnals :D Ich dachte du wärst so ne sehr strenge old Mennonites Lady... Voll interessant was du da machst 👍🏿
QUE TAL MARCELA, BUENAS TARDES, SALUDANDO DESDE LA CIUDAD DE MEXICO, MIRE TU CANAL, ME HA INTERESADO LAS HISTORIAS PERO TAMBIEN LA SENCILLEZ DE TU PERSONA Y LA CALIDAD HUMANA QUE EN TI SE NOTA, BIEN POR AHORA SOLOE S UN SALUDOS ESPERO QUE PODAMOS, MANTENER COMUNICACION, MAS ADELANTE DE ENTRADA TE BRINDO MI AMISTAD, ESPERO TENER LA TUYA, ME DESPIDO POR AHORA ADEMAS DE AGARDECER QUE HAYAS TOMADO LA MOLESTIA DE LEER MI COMENTARIO, HASTA PRONTO.
hermoza amiga, me matas el gallo haciendo el video en un idioma que no conozco, ojala por lo menos lo subtitularas, y como siempre eres una belleza de mujer
Marcela das hast du richtig Klasse gemacht !!!. Plautdietsch ist eine wunderschöne Sprache. Ihr Mennoniten habt eine wunderschöne Kultur und Religion. Kannst du noch mehr von Videos machen wo du diese Sprache erklärst ?
Besides the fact, that you are Mexican born, what part of you identifies the most with the Mexican culture? what makes you say, I am a proud Mexican? I am not Mexican, but I am curious.
Hola!! Te acabo de descubrir gracias a mi profesor Yolo Camotes, por el video que hizo de los menonitas. Luego leo bien con más atención éste video. Un saludo y es un gusto conocerte (un poco).
In our home we speak a 50/50 mix of english and plautdietch. We call our mixed language "engdietch". My question for you. Did backlash from some of the more traditional mennonites inspire you to do some of your videos?
I'm old colony and I find your videos quite funny. I'm thrilled to see my home country through the lens of your camera. You have some amazing pictures on your Instagram account.
Felicidades por tu canal, siempre he creído que somos ciudadanos mundiales, las fronteras las ponen los intereses mezquinos de unos cuantos, te mando un saludo respetuoso y con afecto sincero.
Plautdietsch developed from Low Prussian Low German, which was indeed Low German / Low Saxon with influence from Dutch and Frisian settlers on the Baltic sea, and later High German influence as well.
I use to think that plauttdietsch was german. Until a friend of mine at the Mennonite church I attend explained to me that Pennsylvania dutch is way different than plautdietsch. So different that nobody he knows who speaks Pennsylvania dutch can understand it. And when he does missionary work in south america, he has to converse in Spanish with those who speak plautdietsch in order to communicate. Although he can converse with people from Germany who speak german, easily.
Marcela hi this Joe giancana from LA, just want to wish you a beautiful new year, even in that language German or whatever that is you look so gorgeous. lot of kisses and good luck
Eine blöde Frage, aber kannst du auch Hochdeutsch bzw. wendest du es an? Ich frage mich, ob Mennoniten schon vom Kindesalter an nur mit Plattdeutsch groß werden oder ob auch Hochdeutsch irgendwie von Bedeutung ist.
Nee, ist keine blöde frage. Die meisten lernen Hochdeutsch aber gebrauchen es nicht oft. Ich gebrauche es nicht sehr oft, spreche es aber besser als es schreiben.
@@DietscheMejal1 Ah verstehe! Vielen Dank :-) Ich habe dieses Jahr in Mexiko gelebt (Auslandssemester in Cholula, Puebla) und war im Mai in Bacalar für ein paar Tage. Dort habe ich das erste Mal Mennoniten gesehen und ich wusste zu diesem Zeitpunkt sehr wenig von Euch außer, dass ihr deutschsprachig und protestantisch seid und gerne Käse produziert und verkauft :-) Ich hätte sehr gerne was gekauft, aber ich war doch zu schüchtern, um zu fragen xD
Thanks for the plugin. I'm unofficially retired from making Plautdiesche videos. I had a good run though... Like you said, there's not that much Plautdietsch content out there, and that's why I mainly started making them, but it needs to continue. All the best to you.
How Mennonites Wanna be in my (last) short Christmas videos? It would be a small part and it wouldn't require any dialogue. If interested or for more info, WhatsApp: 6251182784 Email: willfriesen@hotmail.com Filming starts in a month.
Buenas tardes y gracias por compartir aquí sus opiniones. Comprendí que usted sabe hablar el español, pero aparte de hablarlo ¿también lo puede leer y escribir?
Claro que si. La primaria y secundaria las complete en una escuela menonita pero con programa de SEP. Es igual a una escuela publica solamente también nos daban clases de alemán, inglés, música, canto y clases de Biblia.
Ojalá pudiese escucharle hablando nuestro idioma. Seguramente lo sabe mejor que muchos mexicanos que no son menonitas. ¡Saludos desde Francia y auf wiedersehen!
