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<font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">L O W L A N D S - L - 10 November 2013 - Volume 01</font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.727272033691406px"></font><p align="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center">

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</p><font color="#000000"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">From: <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">"Fonken, Gael M. [<a href="mailto:foga0301@stcloudstate.edu">foga0301@stcloudstate.edu</a>]" <<a href="mailto:foga0301@stcloudstate.edu">foga0301@stcloudstate.edu</a>></span></div>

</font></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.727272033691406px"><font color="#000000"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">Subject: <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">LL-L "Resources" --Iowa op Platt</span><br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Roger found this interesting clip on the topic of <b>Limburgish tonality</b>: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhG0kCJxZEA" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhG0kCJxZEA</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">When I looked it up, I found lots of new videos that I hadn’t seen before.  <b>The travelogue of a visit to Iowa</b> (near me) on the Mississippi river really “hit home”.  It’s very well done and must have had a great impact locally in Iowa, especially since one of the German nationals in the video is an African German.  The people he interviewed must have struggled with that, given the racism that we still struggle with here in the USA.  Wonderful stuff.<u></u><u></u></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Gael Fonken<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

(I live one mile from the Mississippi in Minnesota)<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN">42:58 -<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnV0vfvil88" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Iowa op Platt </span><span style="color:blue;font-weight:normal">by Brian Junker331 views</span></a></span></b><b><span lang="EN"> </span></b><span lang="EN">May 26, 2012 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/brianjunker?feature=watch" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Brian Junker</span></a>·<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/brianjunker/videos" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">12 videos</span></a><b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN">               -Iowa in Low German! Iowa op Plattdüütsch! Iowa auf Plattdeutsch!<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

<b><span lang="EN">8:20 - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of9P3AhaBRw" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Die Welt op platt </span><span style="color:blue;font-weight:normal">by hnbawue30,644 views</span></a>   </span></b><span lang="EN">Jun 15, 2008<b>  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/hnbawue?feature=watch" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">hnbawue</span></a>·<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/hnbawue/videos" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">4 videos</span></a> <a href="http://ndr.de/" target="_blank">ndr.de</a>  Die Welt op platt ausschnitt ---good subtitles <u></u><u></u></b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN">24:42 - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBj0lsfEvpM" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">UFOs - ALLNS OP PLATT !Ufos (Op Platt)</span><span style="color:blue;font-weight:normal">.aviby sisteruli172 views</span></a></span></b>—A funny TV show</p>

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