Talk:German language in the United States

Deletion review
Please see the discussion at Deletion_review/Log/2007_September_7. Badagnani 20:58, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Worthless
This article is really a worthless piece of tripe-- inaccurate, extremely incomplete, totally uninformed, sourceless. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.76.131.250 (talk) 22:56, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

... on this note, I removed a line in the education that was about % of schools offering German. It made no sense, and I read it's "source" article that was about Chinese language. --24.253.206.126 (talk) 13:04, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Rename?
I think that this article should be renamed to 'German language in the United States', per the articles about the French and Spanish languages in the United States. Thanks. Vis-a-visconti (talk) 03:29, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

picture File:German USC2000 PHS.svg
There's no key to the image in the picture itself, its description, not even on Commons. It's absolutely worthless.--91.10.94.239 (talk) 21:59, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Totally agree with that. --Lgriot (talk) 09:14, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Removed. I think it was trying to show what percentage of German speakers in the U.S. live in which state by means of how deep a shade of blue each state is colored with, but the explanation on the file description page isn't readily comprehensible, and the state level is really far too broad to be useful. If it showed percentage of German speakers at the county or township level (and had an understandable legend), it would be useful. Angr (talk) 19:50, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Dubious assertion
"As a result of anti-German sentiment during World War I, the fluency decreased from one generation to the next "

This is a dubious assertion on many levels. The proportion of any assimilated immigrant group who speak their ancestral language declines dramatically after the third and fourth generation, regardless of wars. I also think the word "fluency" is mis-used here.Eregli bob (talk) 07:03, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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Frankenmuth, Michigan
Since 8.74% of the population speaks German at home in Frankenmuth, MI (according to that town's Wik page), shouldn't this be mentioned, perhaps under "Michigan"? Kdammers (talk) 20:10, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Map
Can the map be improved? I find it almost impossible to distinguish between the two lowest categories. Kdammers (talk) 02:23, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Standard American German?
It's mentioned that Standard American German had usage, yet I haven't really heard much of this outside of this article and Texas German with the former using some of the "standard American German" from sources about Pennsylvania Dutch Davidalejandromc (talk) 22:14, 3 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Also noticed that reference 37 is entirely "Interview with a member of the German American Society of Dubois Indiana chartering the Volksfest" and that's it. No link, date, source in any form Davidalejandromc (talk) 22:17, 3 February 2024 (UTC)