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Subject: Re: [BANAT-L] Spoken Banat German
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 16:43:19 EDT
In a message dated 9/1/00 1:32:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:
<< My Grandmother left Dolatz, Banat at age 4 with her family. She spoke
what I believe was High German. >>
My mother and her sisters continued to speak German while my grandmother was
still alive. She always maintained that it was high German. I remember when
I studied German in high school there were many differences in the way my
mother pronounced words then my teacher who said he spoke Berlin
German(despite the fact he was born and raised in Nebraska). One of the
words I remember was door and forgive me if I mispell this. My mother
pronounced it Tier while my teacher pronounce it Tur. I should probably not
comment on this at all since I've forgotton most of the German I learned
since becomming fluent in Spanish!
Sheila
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