Petra van Cronenburg

#FotoVorschlag: Typisch für deine Stadt/Region // Typical for your city/region

You will be surprised: #bluegrass. We have a vibrant #music scene in the area and a #festival at our heritage centre.

#Alsatians emigrated to #Texas and later introduced their music to their families at home. And we exported an original house to #Castroville: https://texashillcountry.com/castroville-little-alsace/ rebuilt stone by stone by students of our region.

Music knows no boundaries and draws inspiration from many regions as travelling.

Mar 17 at 1:31pmWeb
Show threadPetra van CronenburgMar 17

2/2 If you find the mixture of "Germans" and "French" in that US article quite wild: Many people in the USA don't know that Alsace changed it's nationality several times in history, often with horrible consequences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace#History

We are bilingual: the official language is French (like the nationality), the regional language is the Alemannic Alsatian.

Alsace - Wikipedia

Show threadWylieCoyoteUK Mar 17
@NatureMC I only realised that when I saw Flammenkeuche labelled as "Tarte flambée"
Show threadPetra van CronenburgMar 17

@wyliecoyoteuk Yes ("kueche"), we have both versions, mostly the menus are bilingual, too.

For me, as an emigrated German from alemannic Baden, it's great: I understand Alsatian fluently but speak a wild mixture of Alsatian and Baden dialect. It works because the villages at the border of the Rhine often sound quite similar.
And Germans say that I developed a French accent when speaking German. 😁

Show threadWylieCoyoteUK Mar 17
@NatureMC During a holiday in France, I was just curious, so I looked it up and went down the whole Alsace rabbit hole.
Population assimilation attempts are not unusual.
At one time in the UK, teaching the local languages (Welsh, Gaelic, Cornish etc.) was illegal. Russia is doing it in occupied Ukraine, and so on...
Show threadSteve WoodsMar 17
@NatureMC 5 decades ago I was a student in Saarbrücken in Germany and quite often used to pop across to France (Lorraine/Lothringen). At that time lots of the elderly French residents spoke German amongst themselves, whilst in the Saarland, the speech of their German peers was peppered with French vocabulary.