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Interesting, A Generation that has lost touch with It's Native Language.
'I'm Arab but I don't speak Arabic'
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Dubai
Abu Dhabi
Languages
Language Student
Foreign Language
Posted 8 y ago
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My German Ancestors came in the 1880s and1890s thru Ellis Island... and my dad and I only Speak a Little German because we were stationed There and Learned it ... over 40 years ago...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Although My Maternal Grandmother was Born in his Country she was brought up in a St Louis, MO where the Dominant Language was not English but German and as Alzheimer's claimed her the more and more she returned to the Language of Her Childhood
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SFC George Smith Also get a Kick that my Great Grandfather, Grandma Emily's Husband's, Father William Henry Wesling was registered at Ellis Island as Willie Wesling (Female) Seamstress, Big Strapping 12 year old with Big Fat Fingers that his Son William Everett Wesling would put to great use as a Butcher. Yeah he was an Illegal Alien. (I have this Humorous Vision in my Mind of his Older Brothers who came to this Country before him, Putting a Dress on him and convincing or bribing the Officials that he was a Girl)
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Not the first time a generation has lost touch with it's native language.
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It's like I'm of German decent, but I only speak a few words of it, and some are the curse words.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
That is my Problem I speak about a dozen words in a dozen different languages most of which get my face slapped. I do know Sweinhundt (Pig Dog) growing up in a German American Community I know it well. Yeah I'm a fellow Kraut.
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - like you I know words from different languages, have to watch what I'm saying around my grandson when my is there too, she has for warned which are the bad words. It's not bad being a Kraut.
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