Monday, November 09, 2009

German immigrants hopeful their children will retain heritage

Another article about trying to be American while keeping their language and culture alive. Let's hope this helps more people be bilingual and they don't lose the second language. - - Donna Poisl

By KEVIN PENTON • STAFF WRITER

In Dorothea Drew's Middletown household, the Frankfurt native speaks to her bilingual children in German while her American husband speaks to them in English.

Over at Michaela Greco's house in Atlantic Highlands, the mother of two also speaks to her children in German. They respond in English.

"I don't think they find it fashionable for me to speak in German," said Greco, 46, who emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1995. "But you hope that something sticks."
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