PA DUTCH LEARNING RESOURCES
Explore the ultimate hub for learning Pennsylvania Dutch—where language, culture, and heritage come together. Dive into our many YouTube video series covering grammar, vocabulary, and cultural insights, all designed to make learning engaging and accessible. You’ll also find helpful links, music, and resources that support learners at every stage. Whether you’re just getting started or deepening your connection, we’re here to guide you every step of the way.
Language
- Deitsch
- Greetings
- Asking Someone Their Name
- How are you?
- Being Polite
- Numbers 0-10
- Numbers 11-20
- Numbers 20-100
- Telling Time
- Family Terms
- Happy Birthday and your Age
- Days of the Week
- The Months
- Weather
- Gleiche
- Personal Pronouns
- Conjugating Verbs
- SEI – to be
- HAWWE – to have
- Colors
- Hungry and Thirsty
- Feelings – part 1
- Feelings – part 2
- Feelings – part 3
- The Lord’s Prayer
- House Work
- In the Bathroom
- At the Table
- Drinks
- Furniture
- Valentine’s Day
- Sports Terms
- Grocery Shopping
- Body Parts – part 1
- Body Parts – part 2
- Body Parts – part 3
- Watching TV
- Before Bed
- Pronunciation Help
- Flowers
- Illnesses
- Cooking Terms
- Clothing Items
- A Funeral
- Leaving the House
- Yard Work
- Visiting People
- Motherly Questions
- Farm Commands
- At the Doctor
- Parent Phrases
- Dog Commands
- In a Restaurant
- Fall Words
- THE and A/AN
- Fall Holidays
- Hunting Terms
- Weather Forecasting
- Accusative Prepositions
- Dative Prepositions
- Two-Way Prepositions
- Church Service Vocabulary
- Running Errands
- Modals – part 1
- Modals – part 2
- Past Tense
- Past Tense – WAARE
- Vacation Phrases
- After a Meal
- At the Deli Counter
- Command Forms
- Coordinating Conjunctions
- Subordinating Conjunctions
- Names and Definite Articles
- Subjunctive Mood
- Halloween Vocabulary
- Morning Phrases
- Fire and EMT Vocabulary
- Winter Words
- ZU + Infinitives
- Baseball Vocabulary
- Insects
- Fishing Vocabulary
- Expressing Frustration
- Talking to a Baby
- Garden Vocabulary
- Back Seat Drivers
- Giving and Asking for Directions
- Trees
- Four Helpful PA Dutch Words
- School Vocabulary
- New Technology Vocabulary
- The Dreaded Letter W
- Church Music Vocabulary
- Signs of the Zodiac
- Herbs and Spices
- Musical Instruments
- Tools and Hardware
- Geography Vocabulary
- Fractions
- Giving Compliments
- Horse Vocab
- A Basic Conversation
- What do you like to eat and drink?
- Driving and Car Words
- Phrases for New Learners
- Opposites – Part 1 – Part 2
- How to write and spell in PA Dutch
Grammar
Vocabulary
Culture
Music
Famous PA Dutch People
Miscellaneous
- Learning Tools
- Online PA Dutch Dictionary
- Kutztown Folk Festival 2017
- A Visit to Christmas on the Farm
- Davey Applebutter
- Kutztown Folk Festival 2018
- First 1,000 Words Book
- Hiwwe wie Driwwe, the Newspaper
- Damn Dutch and As American As Shoo Fly Pie
- Virginville Zammelaaf
- The Pledge of Allegiance
- Kutztown Folk Festival 2019
- Kutztown Folk Fest 2022 – Part 1 – Part 2
- August in Europe 2022
- Heemet Fescht 2022
- How to make a Landis Cake
- PA Dutch Folktales
- The Gideon Stolz Mysteries
- How do we pass our PA Dutch knowledge on?
- Kutztown Folk Fest 2023 – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5
- The Nativity according to St. Luke
- Honoring our Heritage
- Interview with Dr. Bill Donner – What does it mean to be PA Dutch – Part 1 – Part 2
More Learning Materials
Helpful Websites
Places to Visit
Your PA Dutch Minute
A series of short videos dealing with topics associated with the Pennsylvania Dutch language, history and culture.
Videos 1-100
- Deitsch
- Greetings
- Asking someone their name
- How are you?
- Are you all Amish?
- Being Polite
- Our German Connection
- Numbers 0-10
- Numbers 11-20
- Numbers 20-100
- Learning Tools
- Telling Time
- Family Terms
- Happy Birthday and your Age
- Days of the Week
- The Months
- Weather
- GLEICHE
- Ich un Du
- Personal Pronouns
- Conjugating Verbs
- SEI
- HAWWE
- Amerikaa
- Hungry and Thirsty
- 5 Phrases dealing with feelings
- Feelings Part 2
- New Online Dictionary
- Feelings Part 3
- The Lord’s Prayer
- Thanksgiving
- House Work
- Christmas Part 1
- Christmas Part 2
- New Year’s Traditions
- In the Bathroom
- At the Table
- Drinks
- Furniture
- Groundhog Day
- Valentine’s Day
- Sports Terms
- Grocery Shopping
- Faasnacht
- Body Parts
- Body Parts # 2
- Body Parts #3
- Watching TV
- Before Bed
- Easter
- Pronunciation Help
- Flowers
- Illnesses
- Cooking Terms
- Clothing Items
- A Funeral
- Leaving the House
- Yard Work
- Visiting People
- Folk Festival 2017
- Schnitzelbank
- Motherly Questions
- Farm Commands
- Conrad Weiser
- At the Doctor
- Conrad Beissel and the Ephrata Cloister
- Parent Phrases
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Dog Commands
- In a Restaurant
- Gov. Simon Snyder
- Milton S. Hershey
- Fall Words
- Professor Schnitzel
- THE and A/AN
- Fall Holidays
- RV Workplace Questions
- Hunting Terms
- Elsie Singmaster
- Pow Wowing
- A visit to Christmas on the Farm
- General Carl A Spaatz
- PD Poets
- A PA Dutch Princess
- Schlof Bobbeli, schlof
- Weather Forecasting
- C. Richard Beam
- Accusative Prepositions
- Dative Prepositions
- Two Way Prepositions
- Roy Smeck
- Church Service Vocabulary
- Running Errands
- PA Dutch 101
- Modals Part 1
- Modals Part 2
- Past Tense
- Davey Applebutter
Videos 101-200
- 2018 Kutztown Folk Festival
- Past Tense – waare
- Vacation Phrases
- The Muhlenbergs
- Rittenhouse and Hillegas
- After a meal
- At the deli counter
- Command Forms
- Coordinating Conjunctions
- Subordinating Conjunctions
- PA Dutch Remedies
- The First 1,000 Words in PA Dutch
- Names and Definite Articles
- Rev. Henry Harbaugh
- The Subjunctive Mood
- Halloween
- Lloyd A Moll
- Morning Phrases
- The Belsnickel
- O Grischtdaags Baam
- Fire and EMT Vocab
- Winter Words
- Yiddish
- zu + infintives
- Just What is PA Dutch?
- Sebastian Kresge
- Hei Lie, Hei Lo
- Hiwwe wie Driwwe, the Newspaper
- Damn Dutch and As American as Shoofly Pie
- Virginville Zammelaaf
- The Pledge of Allegiance
- Powwowing / Braucherei
- Baseball
- 2019 Kutztown Folk Festival
- Hiwwe wie Driwwe Movie Showings
- Insects
- Fishing Terms
- A Stranger Here Below
- How to make Sauerkraut!
- How to make Corn Pie!
- Marrying into the PA Dutch
- Raising our children with PD
- PA Dutch Folk Art
- Follow Up with Mrs. Madenford
- The PA Dutch Flag
- A Rant
- How have we survived?
- Speaking with the Amish and Mennonites
- Happy Birthday Song
- Expressing Frustration
- PD Personality Traits
- Another New Year’s Tradition!
- Idioms
- Earl C. Haag
- Ben Rader’s Album – Heemetkunscht
- Two Quick Weather Terms
- Is PA Dutch a living language?
- Talking to a baby
- St. Gertrude of Nivelles
- Penny Olive read by R. Yoder and D. Madenford
- Davey Applebutter read by R. Yoder and D. Madenford
- Kutztown Folk Festival Essay Contest
- Schmierkaesboi – Cottage Cheese Pie
- In the garden
- The Virginia PA Dutch!
- Back Seat Drivers!
- Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
- A potpourri of questions!
- Directions
- Elder John Kline
- Peter V Fritsch
- O she’s coming round the mountain when she comes!
- PA Dutch Words in English
- Trees
- Sauerkraut Yankees, Powwowing in Pennsylvania
- PA Dutch in Brazil – The Hunsrücker!
- Our Accent and our Identity
- 4 helpful PD words!
- How to make Shoofly Cake
- Molly Pitcher
- Our Unhyphenated Identity
- How to play the card game Haasenpeffer (Haasi)
- School Terms
- Heemet Fescht 2020!
- Mennonite vs Amish
- Hiwwe wie Driwwe on Amazon!
- Dr Don Yoder
- Plautdietsch Mennonite Low German
- 2 Children’s Songs!
- New Technology Terms
- How has PD Survived?
- Silent Night
- Swiss German and PA Dutch
- Virtual Christmas on the Farm 2020!
- Away in a Manger (Da drausse im Schtall)
- Alt Lang Sei
- Save the Kemp Family Cemetery
- Der Baer iss grank!
- Maedli witt du heiere?
- The dreaded letter W!
Videos 201-300
- Church Music Vocab!
- Signs of the Zodiac!
- Children’s Rhymes
- Herbs and Spices
- Fern “Sholly” Shollenberger
- Abrill!
- Instruments
- AP / APIE Cake!
- Tools and Hardware
- Daheem uff der alt Bauerei!
- Geography Terms
- A Table Prayer
- John Birmelin
- Edelweiss
- Fractions
- Giving Compliments
- O Pennsylvaanisch Land Wie Schee!
- Famous Movie Quotes
- Mei Vadder un Mudder sin Deitsch!
- Conestoga Wagons
- The Irish Palatines!
- PA Dutch Presidents!
- Horse Vocabulary!
- A basic conversation!
- Kutztown Folk Fest 2022 – Part 1
- Kutztown Folk Festival 2022 – Part 2
- A Powwow Account
- der Kaschebaam
- August in Europe 2022!
- Heemet Fescht 2022!
- What do you like to eat and drink?
- How to make a Landis Cake!
- New Year’s Resolutions!
- Monroe A. Althouse
- Folk Tales of the PA Dutch!
- More Pet Phrases!
- The Gideon Stoltz Mystery Series
- The Dutch Fork Settlement
- How do we pass our PA Dutch knowledge on?
- Driving and Car Words!
- The 2023 Kutztown Folk Festival Part 1
- The 2023 Kutztown Folk Festival Part 2!
- The 2023 Kutztown Folk Festival Part 3!
- The 2023 Kutztown Folk Festival Part 4!
- The 2023 Kutztown Folk Festival Part 5!
- Phrases for new PD learners!
- The Traditional Days of the Week Activities!
- PA Dutch Trivia 1700s Edition!
- The Nativity from St Luke in PA Dutch!
- PA Dutch Trivia 1800s Edition!
- Honoring our Heritage!
- Opposites Part 1
- Opposites Part 2
- An Interview with Dr Bill Donner: What does it mean to be PA Dutch? Part 1
- An Interview with Dr Bill Donner: What does it mean to be PA Dutch? Part 2
- How do I write and spell PA Dutch?
- PA Dutch Trivia 1900s Edition!
- Tongue Twisters
- Kutztown Folk Festival 2024 Music Video!
- 30 Useful Phrases for Beginners!
- 30 Useful Phrases for Beginners Part 2!
- Our Regional Accent!
- The Easton Flag!
- “Wann mir Deitsche zamme kumme.”
- “Heemkumme – Homecoming” A new PA Dutch Poetry Collection!
- Two Famous PA Dutch Painters!
- Emphasis Words in PA Dutch!
- Famous People who are PA Dutch!
- Words Associated with Allergies!
- Famous People who are PA Dutch! – Part 2
- The Goschenhoppen Folk Festival 2025
- Mammi Gans: Mother Goose Rhymes
PA Dutch Video Blogs
All videos are completely in PA Dutch!
Videos
- The Broken Spokes: Ich un Du
- The Broken Spokes: Yerusalem mei frehlich Heemet
- Punkin’ Chunkin’ 2014 – Karebs Schmeisse 2014!
- Grischtdaag Video 2014
- 76th Barricks Kaunty Versommling – 2015
- Grischtdaag 2015 un Nei Yaahr 2016 Reed
- Oschder uff die Bauerei 2016
- 77th Barricks Kaunty Versommling 2016
- Deitsche Gottesdinscht: September 2016
- Grischtdaag 2016 un Nei Yaahr 2017 Reed
- 78th Pennsylvaanisch Deitsch Versommling vun Barricks Kaunty
- Grischtdaag 2017 un Nei Yaahr 2018 Video!
- CWTAP TV Grundsow Lodsch Nummer Ains 2018
- In Die Leesport Vendeu Ess-Schtubb 79 Fersomling
- Assabe un Sabina Readers 5-4-18
- Doug Madenford and Chris LaRose 8-3-18
- Grischtdaag un Nei Yaahr 2019
- Deitsche Faasnachts Mache!
- An die Paelzer Leit!
- Interview iwwer PA Deitsch mit Saarlandwelle
- Uff der Virginville Zammelaaf!
- Mach’s gut 2019!
- Wenger Meeting House Pennsylvania Dutch Service – 13 September 2020
- Grischtdaag un Nei Yaahr 2021 Video (in the Pennsylvania Dutch language).
- Die Nacht vor der Grischtdaag – The Night before Christmas
Ask a PA Dutchman!
“Ask A PA Dutchman” is a series in which Chris LaRose and myself answer viewer questions emailed to us. Our answers are full of good old PA Dutch Common sense and a little bit of humor too.
Videos 1-100
- Twerking
- Selfie
- Scrapple
- Obvious Signs
- Manscaping, PA Roads and Cable TV
- G Strings and Hand Sanitizers
- Video Games
- Amish Mafia
- Yoga
- Rap Music
- Blonde Jokes
- NSA, TSA, and Personal Privacy
- Types of People
- Sexting
- Snack Foods
- PD Foods
- Scrapple Follow Up
- ADD and ADHD
- PD Food Part 2
- The Belsnickel
- How to be PD
- Politically Correct
- Fancy Coffee
- Real Questions?
- Vegans
- Mani Cams
- Dutchified English
- The War on Women
- Favorite Beer
- Foreigners
- PA Dutch and Germany
- Trump for President?
- All about that Bass
- Dippy Eggs and Firehall Weddings
- Drag Queen Craze
- Fall Holidays
- Frugality
- Just Say No!
- Elbedritsch Hunting
- Fail Videos
- Online Assistants
- Smorgasbords
- Pow-Wowing
- Getting our Due
- Macadam
- Haasie
- Man Buns
- Ask A PA Dutchman: LIVE
- City Dutch
- 50th Video
- LIVE Show at the Kutztown Folk Festival 2016
- Lebanon Balogna
- Styrofoam, Dishwashers, and Scrapbooking
- Mud Sales
- Gas Issues
- Gas Issues Part 2
- Der Belsnickel
- A New Year
- Holding a Grudge
- Pokemon Go
- Looking for Love
- Oysters!
- We’re Famous
- Grundsau Lodges
- Anywhere other than PA?
- Live 2017
- Do it right the first time!
- PA Dutch Movies
- PA Dutch Music
- Wunnerfitz?
- Live at the 2017 Kutztown Folk Festival
- Transgender Bathrooms
- World Diplomacy?
- 7 Sweets and 7 Sours?
- Craft Beers
- Dumb Men and Pretty Ladies
- Zammelaaf
- Pennsylvania Potholes
- Douglas J. Madenford and Chris LaRose: “Ask a PA Dutchman”
- You Can’t Hold It In
- Spreading Out
- Birch Beer
- Self-Serve Checkouts
- Special Announcement!
- Roadside America!
- A Distracted Society
- Marrying into the PD
- Stating the Obvious
- Nicknames
- Talking about other People
- Facial Hair
- Tattoos
- Hiwwe wie Driwwe – Trailer USA
- Multi-Cultural World
- Country Fairs
- Having Fun, PD Style
- The Pot Pie Debate
- New Country Music
- Corn Husking Party
- Cucumbers vs. Pickles
Videos 101-200
- Junk Drawers
- German as an official language
- Answering a question with a question!
- Fresse, Rutsch, and beyond!
- A Corona PSA
- Dutch Ovens!
- 24 Hours of Lemons!
- Butter in the Fridge?!
- Our PA Dutch Roots
- PA Dutch Card Games
- PA Dutch Town Names
- Why do we start with WHY?
- Dutchie Insults!
- Share the Boomba love!
- Understanding Auctioneers!
- PA Dutch Last Names!
- PA Dutch Words before English Words!
- Was Yoda PA Dutch?
- Sprinkle your English with some PA Dutch!
- Apple butter Bread
- Best little PA Dutch Towns!
- Your yards always look so nice
- Define Multi-tasking
- Superstitions surrounding getting dressed!
- Just who is Sam Hill?
- PA Dutch Idioms
- Too many syllables!
- Another Bodily Function Question!
- Thoughts on Hex Signs!
- 10 Scrapple Questions!
- Ending a Sentence with “Not!”
- The Philosophy of our Earthy Humor!
- How Many Boxes Do You Have?
- Showing Love to our Lesser Loved PD Foods!
- Are the PA Dutch Cynical?
- Can the PA Dutch be Vegan or Gluten Free?
- How Do You Take Your Coffee?
- The Christmas Putz!
- Another Powwow Question!
- New Year’s Resolutions!
- Who do you belong to?
- Just what is “blotze”?
- The Aye Aye Aye Scale!
- SOS and no, our ship isn’t sinking!
- Is there traditional PD clothing?
- Do the PA Dutch discourage big egos?
- Aging gracefully!
- A couple of what?
- Grandmom’s Recipes!
- Just throw them away!
- AI, the Next Frontier!
- Chicken and Waffles…the Real Way.
- Aye Aye Ayes in the Wild!
- How Do You Eat Your Corn?
- Is a Hotdog a Sandwich?
- How Now Brown Cow?
- My Mother Used To Say
- Do We Need A Disclaimer?
- Triathlons!
- Is Bigger Always Better?
- Dancing in the Pig Trough!
- Predicting Snow!
- What’s so great about antiques?
- Just what is real anymore?
- Are there regional differences?
- Three Universal Truths!
- Morning Routines!
- Are Your Ears Ringing?
- Are the PA Dutch stoic?
- Putting on an Accent!
- Do you have the Coffee Gene?
- Unwelcome Party Guests
- What’s the Deal with Sauerkraut?
- A Non-PA Dutch Spouse Needs Help!
- Urinal Etiquette!