Re: [Cz-L] Are you from Rumania ?

Dear Anny,
I always look forward for your e-mails, they are always informative and
you have knack writing. I lived 20 years in Germany and was also told that my German is without a regional accent.
You forgot Trottoir instead of Bürgersteig, Volan instead of Lenkrad and Plafon insted of Decke.

All the best

Arthur

--- On Tue, 3/2/10, Anny Matar <annymatar_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Anny Matar <annymatar_at_gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Are you from Rumania ?
> To: "yosi-jerry" <eshet1_at_netvision.net.il>
> Cc: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>, "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 10:13 AM
> I, personally, never felt Rumanian
> except for my travelling documents -once
> I had a passport and in 1942 on my long journey to Israel I
> had "a
> document"-. Although or despite of the fact that I studied
> in the Notre-Dam=
> e
> in Galati I felt an outsider everywhere- not Rumanian but
> very Jewish. For
> the first time I wore a star around my neck-. My roots were
> in the German
> language and during the first Russian occupation I went to
> the Moldavsaka
> scoala where we learned Rumanian NOT Russian but in
> Cyrillic writing. Our
> Russian teacher was a lovely lady and we learned Russian
> poetry as well. In
> that school we had a German teacher a professor of
> literature (refugee from
> Germany??) who gave me even more love for the language.
> When,- in a
> different century -it seemed to me- I lived in Austria and
> Germany, because
> my husband worked in German speaking countries, I was told
> that MY GERMAN
> was without accent the clear of all their dialects. O.K. so
> we called
> Semmeln and not Broetchen, Palatchinten not pan cakes,
> Weiss Kaese not
> Topfen etc. but I spoke it "wie mein |Schnabel gewachsen
> war" (not
> translatable, you won't even find it in the Wikipadia).
>   We never had Ruthenian  maids and I never ever
> learned the lingo. Ours
> were Zippzers. In the Meisler school we had German lessons
> and I learned
> Gothic and Latin letters. After that it was Rumanian but
> the lendinding
> library was, if I my memory doesn't fail me, in the
> Herrengasse not street
> level but steps down, German books and the Schreibwahren
> opposite Meisler
> school was either Fingerhut or .....schnabel does anyone
> remember?
> I don't know whom I hated more the Russians, Germans or the
> British in
> Palestine. It's good that I live in Israel, I'm at home.
> Anny
>
>

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