Palatine German language Puns

I'm looking for visual references of what the nameplates on the German Palatine ships that sailed to North America in 1709 might have looked like.

Thanks!

The Palatine-Germans were refugees in England, and got sent to Ireland and North America with Crown assistance. Was there any popular or political objection to money being spent on this or was it seen as a good opportunity to get refugees out of England?

Lets take the number 21.

English would say twenty-one, from large to small. Which makes sense in larger numbers, like two thousand two hundred and twenty one.

But germans say einundzwanzig (1 and twenty). Still they would say zwei­tausend­zwei­hundert­ein­und­zwanzig. The order makes sense except for the 21. Why is that?

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This or That

List ordered in Alphabetical order A,B,C.

• Brazil
• Belgium
• Germany
• Guinea-Bissau
• Liechtenstein
• Luxembourg
• Macau
• Mozambique
• Portugal
• Sao Tome and Principe

List ordered by the number of the correct answer 1, 2, 3.

• 1 - Macau
• 2 - Guinea-Bissau
• 3 - Mozambique
• 4 - Portugal
• 5 - Germany
• 6 - Brazil
• 7 - Sao Tome and Principe
• 8 - Belgium
• 9 - Luxembourg
• 10 - Liechtenstein

German is an official language

Portuguese is an official language

I feel so frustrated as a native German non-binary person. I have such a strong desire to just dump my old pronouns and use genderneutral ones. I absolutely adore the fact that it took me zero effort to be adressed with "they/them" in English speaking contexts, but with German it's so different! I know a lot of NB-folks around here just use "dey/dem" - a derived version of the English pronouns as well as some other neopronouns that all try to fit into the German language nicely, but they all don't seem to work for me. I really need that a pronoun is used universally by most of the language community to adress non-binary people, so I can feel comfortable using it, but Standard German's like nope - "er/sie/es (eng. he/she/it) and that's it, no genderneutral pronoun for you :p " It's bugging me so much that I go to German Social Media posts discussing this general topic just in order to flame about the people who are too lazy to adapt to a new set of pronouns, so that it can be integrated into the standard language - which I feel very sorry about that in the end, it's so stupid do that, but what can I do though!?! ಥ╭╮ಥ

One that I just recently realised is the word 'Erwachsene'. I learned this word before 'wachsen' or 'erwachsen' so I never realised it follows a similar structure to the word 'grown ups' for adult.

In 2020 I lost my job because of Covid. I have lived in Germany for years but my German had for a long time stagnated at the B2ish level where I could do most things I needed to do to get by, but I still felt very far away from, for example, being able to do job interviews and work in German (which, thanks to my unemployment, was now an urgent matter).

I started using the extra, unemployed time to improve my German, getting my B2 certificate towards the end of 2020. I generally read books, watched shows, made (paper) flash cards and generally tried to immerse. I was also seeing a German girl for a good chunk of that year, which definitely helped.

As 2021 rolled around, I decided to continue with the German, while making it my new year's resolution to learn a new language: Italian. My father's side of the family is Italian and my grandmother lives in Rome, so I had been plenty of times, but had shamefully never learnt the language, even though my native language is Spanish.

I also (perhaps stupidly) decided to pick up Russian. I was still unemployed so it made sense I guess, although that soon came to an end as I got a full time job in February. It's worth mentioning I am not a beginner in that language: I studied Russian at university for 4 years, of which I lived one year in Russia. Nevertheless, although I got my degree with good marks and could reasonably hold a conversation, I felt when I finished university that I was still so far away from just being able to read a book in Russian, watch a show without subtitles, etc. I studied it in the old-fashioned formal way: lots of focus on grammar, not enough input. The sheer insane complexity of the grammar also led me to the belief that I would never be able to learn the language without attending courses, focusing lots on grammar, etc. I moved to Germany after university and basically didn't use Russian for a decade. I went to Kiev in 2019, tried to speak and was horrified to realise I'd even forgotten how to say the days of the week! One day in December 2020, out of boredom, I decided to listen to the Comprehensible Russian Podcast with Max to see if I remembered anything of the language. It turns out I could more or less follow what he was saying! So maybe there was some hope...

It is around this time that I also heard about LingQ and Anki, and decided to start applying these apps to my language learning. I used LingQ especially intensively for Russian.

My German was already pretty well developed and

I am a genealogy novice that has lately become fascinated with uncovering my family history. I recently posted for the first time in this sub about a brick wall in my family tree [solved!] and was met with a bunch of positive and highly helpful responses and resources.

As it turns out, I find myself at another brick wall! Here is the story as I currently understand it:

My fifth great-grandfather was named William Hynds (or Heintz) and was born 1741 in Durlach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is described as the son of Mary and Daniel and settled in Schoharie County at the tale-end of the Palatine German immigration wave. However, as excited as I am to find out more about this lineage, I cannot seem to find much. Details around Daniel Hynds/Heintz (who likely did not emigrate from Germany) or Mary elude me.

Is it likely Hynds was anglicized from Heintz, Heinz, Hines, or another German variant?

As a kid, my grandpa always told stories about this side of the family. When he was growing up, his grandmother, Elvia Hynds (1878 – 1961) lived in the same house as his family and would tell stories of her family, most notably of which is the family’s capture by Mohwaks from their homestead in Schoharie, NY, and subsequent captivity at Fort Niagara and Montreal that resulted in the death of numerous family members. By all accounts, it’s a pretty harrowing story.

William’s first wife, Catarina Schoolcraft, was born in 1741 in Schoharie, NY. They were married in Schenectady, NY, on Nov 1, 1761. In 1780, Catarina died in captivity in Montreal soon after the death of her newborn son, her ten year old son (William), her 2 year old daughter (Lana), and her 6 year old daughter (Elizabeth).

After the war, William and the remaining children returned to Schoharie and resumed their lives. William married Catharina Borst (1743 – 1840) and had a son, Peter, born in 1792. Peter Hynds, Esq. is my fourth great-grandfather, and the grandfather of Elvia who passed down family stories to my grandfather.

In 1832, William died at aged 92 in Sharon, Schoharie County, NY.

The village of Hyndsville in Schoharie County is alive and well today (albeit a bit small and isolated). Excitedly, I have made a few visits to the cemetery and driven past the Hynds family estate. Unfortunately, I have no local connections and have not been

Hi all! The title says it all. Dutch 34M here. Since the housing market in my country is very bad and it doesn't look like it will improve in the near future, I have bought a grundstück in Germany and they will start building a house in like one or two weeks. Its going to be in der nähe von Stadt Haren, Emsland region.

It's in a small village with about 800 inhabitants. My ex GF is from there. She's is also Dutch and after lots of years still very bad at the German language and I don't want to end up like her. However, because of her I know quite a lot of people in the community. I live pretty close to the border and they've tought me some basic German in high school, but that's about it. And that's also where the 'trouble' starts: I know Kneipegespräch, how to greet and say goodbye, ask people how they are etc, no problem. But I want to learn how to have a real conversation in German. Unfortunately pretty much of all the stuff I find on Youtube and Spotify is mainly about the basis sentences. Aka not what I'm looking for.

How do other people, like proper immigrants for example, learn your language fluently? I'm planning to do a language course once I'm going to live there. Can't do that right now since building the house is very time consuming. That's why I'm looking for other ways to learn German (fast, would be nice lol).

Also looking for tips on how to immigrate and how to become a real German citizen. Ofc I know you guys have a LOT more holidays than us Dutchies and that the church is quite important in the communities whether you are a belliever or not. I'm familair with Schutzfest (love it btw) and some other stuff like the 'maibaume' usw.

But the real question is: how would you like to see a foreigner integrate in your country? The do's and especially dont's. How to be socially accepted?

Looking forward to hear from all of you! Sorry for the typo's. My English also is not perfect. Thank you so SOOOOOO much!

"Menschenkenntnis" as defined by the German version of Wikipedia:

>Menschenkenntnis is the ability to correctly assess, recognize, understand and judge other humans' behaviors and personalities on the basis of a first impression and to accurately predict how they will think and how they will act.

German is known for coming up with all sorts of quirky terms and this is one of my absolute favorites. I find it incredibly convenient. That's why I've never understood that English speakers never adopted it as a loanword. There are countless German loanwords in English. Even bratwurst and sauerkraut somehow made it, but Menschenkenntnis didn't. English Wikipedia translates it as "knowledge of human nature", which I suppose is a good translation but awfully cumbersome.

So, this made me wonder if other languages have a term for this. I've got pretty good Menschenkenntnis but I have a friend who really has a ton of it. He can meet someone for the first time and after 5 minutes of talking to them, he can judge them as though he had known that person for years. It's almost a bit scary.

Hello Redditors! Been living in Nurnberg for 2 years, working for an IT company. Even though I did learn some basic german (A1) through online resources I find it difficult to learn it by myself after work hours. Would like to know from you if you have any recommendations for German language schools in the city through which I can do a german integration course.

Thank you!

I need help, please. I want to introduce Cardano to a German friend of mine. His english is really not great (and my german is horrible) so I am struggling to explain the concepts to him.

Are there any German articles or videos that you can recommend to me? I was hoping for a good overview of what Cardano is and what it stands for. An introduction of sorts.

Thank you in advance.

Like for example "das ist nicht ohne" or "wie ist die Stimmung?" like a German friend asked me once.

In other words if you speak more than one language is it easier or harder to learn a new one?

And why?

Hello Everyone,

I have recently moved to Frankfurt and started working here about two weeks ago. But I don't speak German at all and I can use English at work. My company will bring German teachers starting on January for emplpoyees who don't speak German also I started to study on my own.

I already speak English and French as foreign languages. From your experience; living, working and learning German in Frankfurt when do you thing will I be able to speak German for day to day conversations? It would also be nice to speak German at work instead of English as I do now.

My aim was to learn German to a decent degree in a year, is this achievable?

Hey, so I’m fluent in English, and German and Turkish are both my native languages. I grew up bilingual. I am getting quite good at Japanese

So I was wondering what language could make good use of all the languages I know so far? I know that Turkish, Japanese, and German+English are all completely separate language families, but just wanting to get some opinions.

I actually like the sound of Shanghainese. But not sure about how to get into it.