German was the first language of at least four of my great-grandparents.
Two of my grandparents also had that experience.
Nobody younger than them can say the same thing in my family. At most, you might find the occassional descendent who took a few years of German in high school.
(But Spanish is what my siblings and I are trying to become fluent in now).
It’s interesting how these things change over the generations.
That’s what I’m thinking about tonight.
Lydia Schoch /
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