Hunter, a first year graduate student and a New Braunfels High alumnus, first began noticing the difference between Texas German and Deutschland German in German class in high school when great Texas German words such as “geschmauken” were not to be found in the dictionary or written on tests. He went on to learn German as an exchange student in Austria and became even more interested in dialectology based on his experience with Viennese. Hunter hopes to begin researching German Sprachinseln in South America summer 2006 and would like to continue working on language contact situations.
