>>I have heard Germans speak in German and in English, of course. I know that you have some sort of connection to German, but I'm not sure what the connection is (family, school, friends or other)... I am going to guess and hope that you have heard different kinds of German accents in English. I've heard Alsatian, Berliner and other accents. Some sound like singing to me because of the intonation, at least one accent sounded like buzzing to me in English. That's not my area. Of course, some Germans sound like native speakers of English.<<
Aside from the area I live having formerly been German-speaking (and having had relatives, now deceased, who spoke German), my real connection to German has primarily just been having known a number of native German-speakers over the years here in Wisconsin (all of whom were from Germany except this one girl who was born to German parents here) more than anything else. Of course, there having been non-negligible cultural influence here from German-speaking areas historically as well is a factor, even though such is far weaker these days than it was in the past.
I am not familiar with different German accents in English, largely almost all of these individuals have had relatively slight accents in English (except for one coworker of mine who speaks really marked RP without any noticable trace of a German accent (to me at least) and the aforementioned girl, who for all practical purposes lost her English after she moved away from the US) and rarely spoke German (at least in the presence of English-speakers; said girl almost certainly spoke German with the rest of her family). The fact that until relatively recently I knew basically nothing about German dialects does not help either.
>>BTW, Travis, what does "German's" with the apostrophe mean? Are you really Travis?<<
That was just a typo.
Aside from the area I live having formerly been German-speaking (and having had relatives, now deceased, who spoke German), my real connection to German has primarily just been having known a number of native German-speakers over the years here in Wisconsin (all of whom were from Germany except this one girl who was born to German parents here) more than anything else. Of course, there having been non-negligible cultural influence here from German-speaking areas historically as well is a factor, even though such is far weaker these days than it was in the past.
I am not familiar with different German accents in English, largely almost all of these individuals have had relatively slight accents in English (except for one coworker of mine who speaks really marked RP without any noticable trace of a German accent (to me at least) and the aforementioned girl, who for all practical purposes lost her English after she moved away from the US) and rarely spoke German (at least in the presence of English-speakers; said girl almost certainly spoke German with the rest of her family). The fact that until relatively recently I knew basically nothing about German dialects does not help either.
>>BTW, Travis, what does "German's" with the apostrophe mean? Are you really Travis?<<
That was just a typo.