09-29-2016, 01:28 PM
(09-29-2016, 12:22 PM)RICHMONDBENGAL_07 Wrote: My grandmother was off the boat German, but you would've never known it. Though she could speak both German and English, she had no accent. In fact growing up I didn't even really think of it, she was just grandma. Then one day a distant relative from Germany visited and I heard Grandma talking to her German and I was like "holy shit Grandma can speak German?!?!" Neither her or my great aunt Ruth speak it today (Grandma is dead and I don't see Aunt but about once a year) both married American men. They're both of the WWII generation and both were somewhat ashamed to be German and wanted to prove they were real Americans.
My father and I both wish though that she would have passed down the language. They just never spoke it.
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