have you been to any german.speaking countries?

[FDR_Reagan]

Why leave out Luxembourg? All school kids are taught Luxembourgish, French, German and English...not that they retain all of it.

Almost like Switzerland

 

[Zebra]

Why leave out Luxembourg?

They might be offended .....
They dont want to be seen as Germans .... despite their German dialect

 

[Moonglow]

if so …. which?

Southern Texas..

 

[FDR_Reagan]

They might be offended .....
They dont want to be seen as Germans .... despite their German dialect

Stimmt

 

[ShahdagMountains]

They might be offended .....
They dont want to be seen as Germans .... despite their German dialect

Those people who live over the border in Alsace speak some form of German.

 

[Zebra]

Those people who live over the border in Alsace speak some form of German.

but the French do their best to kill off the inigenous German there.

 

[irosie91]

but the French do their best to kill off the inigenous German there.

herr Z ---check your english ----uhm "INIGENOUS" is not a word even
in German. As to visiting German speaking countries, I spent lots of time
in a German speaking household----my little girl friend spoke some and her
parents and visiting grandparents did it all the time. PS---it's just a typo
up there----missing a "d". They're MURDERING the BOSCH? (damn franks--
they hold a grudge)

 

[Zebra]

herr Z ---check your english ----uhm "INIGENOUS" is not a word even
in German. As to visiting German speaking countries, I spent lots of time
in a German speaking household----my little girl friend spoke some and her
parents and visiting grandparents did it all the time. PS---it's just a typo
up there----missing a "d". They're MURDERING the BOSCH? (damn franks--
they hold a grudge)

it was a typo ..... that can happen

and the French are murdering the German language there, not the people ......

 

[irosie91]

it was a typo ..... that can happen

and the French are murdering the German language there, not the people ......

oh----that's ok-----lingo-cide is not a crime---the limeys imagine that
WE do it all the time

 

[Zebra]

oh----that's ok-----lingo-cide is not a crime---the limeys imagine that
WE do it all the time

the people in Alsace speak the same Alemannic dialect that I speak