Listen to this episode of A People's History Of Kansas City, a new podcast from KCUR 89.3. For more stories like this one, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play and Stitcher. Gene Beckman ...

Few children, other than Amish and similar communities, have learned to speak anything more than a handful of words and phrases. The retired director of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies at ...

Large language models such as GPT-5 and Llama systematically rate speakers of German dialects less favorably than those using Standard German. This is shown by a recent collaborative study between ...

A motion to change the language of instruction in the schools maintained by the Warsaw Kehillah was defeated by a majority vote at yesterday’s session of the Kehillah executive. The motion aimed at ...

WISHEK, N.D. - George Just will give you a hearty "Guten Tag!" at Stan's Supervalu here. Beyond that, the 77-year-old won't promise you but a handful of other German words. The guy behind the meat ...

In the 1830s, a wave of immigrants from northern Germany settled in the area of Cole Camp, Missouri, bringing with them their farming skills and the dialect of Plattdüütsch. Now residents are working ...