Thanks to ExpressVPN for sponsoring, go to expressvpn.com/xiaomanyc and find out how you can get 3 months of ExpressVPN free! In America people speak English, right? Well not if you go to Holmes County Ohio where despite having been in this country for centuries hundreds of thousands of Mennonite and Amish people, the more conservative of whom are famous for rejecting many aspects of modern life including cars and electricity, speak as their first language a dialect of German known as Pennsylvania Dutch. This language is actually surprisingly similar to my own ancestral Jewish language of Yiddish so I didn’t find it too hard to learn, and I was really excited to go and practice both with @millertimemusic3565's family, whom you may have seen in Peter Santenello’s videos, and also with total strangers which you can see in the second half of this video.
0:00 Intro
1:35 Arriving in Amish country
2:13 Meeting Haitian refugees
3:23 Mennonite dinner
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5:23 Mennonites react to Jewish Passover food
7:13 Biggest misconception about Amish & Mennonite
8:58 Amish don’t use electricity?
11:11 Hunting
11:25 Why Amish have huge businesses despite not going to high school
14:32 Singing practice
15:22 Speaking Dutch at the hotel
15:59 An Amish hardware store
18:37 Massive Amish horse auction
19:29 Speaking Dutch at flea market
20:51 Speaking Dutch at Amish market
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