and it make the germans rachel stewart investigates how the german language has been invaded by some english words. since 975 unesco world heritage sites have been protecting and conserving monuments natural sites and buildings that are concerted and in sensual paul collins legacy this with the agreement of practically every country in the world and every year a committee from unesco meets to look at more sites from around the world that are nominated for this special global protection. you could hardly pick a better backdrop for this year's unesco world heritage media the ancient walled city of baquba the azerbaijani capital already has 2 world heritage sites. palace built in the 18th century and the 12th century maiden tower this is stork setting is where unesco members will decide what other landmarks deserve to be considered

an official part of the world's cultural legacy. among germany's contenders a very insidious school which argues its medieval system of water management artificial drops canals sluices and sawmills some nearly 500 years old deserving asco recognition. it's a 12th century mine in the or mountains straddling the german czech border is also in contention communities on both sides came together to lobby unesco on the project. from the beginning on it was a project to bring together all the municipalities on both sides of the border and to give them the chance to work for the 1st time together not against each other to work together for a better development of this area on the basic over scott full of natural richardson's. natural richness and natural for gelati at the center of i.

nomination. national park includes europe's largest as well as 10 active volcanoes unesco nomination would also be a political statement the glacier is rapidly shrinking due to climate change. full attacks of a different kind could impact russia's bid for recognition of the historic center of scoffed one of the oldest cities in russia the russian cultural ministry has warned us though it would not be fair or right if this cough was not included among this year's selections. are joined by the author of reports rocks for a. unesco world heritage site sounds impression presses but they really mean anything does it matter if a site gets picked well it can yeah i mean there is a legal connection to this as well if a psych is recognized as the u.s. world heritage site it gives it legal protection also under the geneva convention

so it cannot be destroyed even in an act of war so there's that but also it can also have another effect in sort of revive a site i mean there's a great example. of the ancient city in the suburbs of in italy it's where the residents live in these caves in the mountainside now. years ago was really in disrepair and the italian government actually wanted to bulldoze but the residents got together and the wall between esko to name it a world heritage site they got the designation and lo and behold money poured in tourists poured in the whole place was completely revived and this year just this year it was named the european capital city of culture ok but now the u.s. going to badger of all know if you like also comes with responsibilities to protect to maintain the site and i will have happens if countries don't do this yeah ok you know he does have a few sort of tools to enforce the regulations around protection these

sites they can put aside on an endangered list to warn countries that they have to protect that they can even remove a site from the list but in practice those kind of toothless i mean they don't tend to do. that much i mean a great example there is is venice i mean venice has been on the nasco world heritage site list since 1907 but of course venice is really threatened by these huge cruise ships these massive cruise ship see as as we see which are which which are really coming into the lagoon destroying the lagoon flooding the city with with with with tourists causing a lot of problems for locals make you know it's impossible for locals to even live in venice the locals have a lot. to remove venice from from other world heritage site this there's been a lot of protests against that but so far though as hasn't really done anything they've talked about removing it but they haven't really done it has have they haven't revoked we have just texas in the u.s.

the entire history it's only happened twice what examples here in germany happened because then the elbe. river valley that runs by dress and that was designated a world heritage site back in 2004 but dresden wanted to build a bridge over. which the u.s. go didn't want them to build it they opposed it dresden did build the bridge yes go then pull the plug and they remove them from the world heritage now us earlier this year the u.s. pulled out of unesco why would anyone want to pull out of something called the united nations educational scientific and cultural denies asian briefly if you will yeah well i mean united education culture science i don't know don't trump was good with any of those words but no seriously was a political decision. unesco named have drawn a palestinian cultural heritage site that offended israel who called the decision anti-semitic us agreed with us and israel pulled out and you see that way what we call whole heritage has

a lot to do with politics it always is all right all right i'm thank you very much the decisions will be made this weekend. now to the cook's town folk festival in america where you can experience the traditions of the pennsylvania dutch who started settling there of a 300 years ago is that it pennsylvania dutch is an aside form of deutsch in other words german nothing to do with holland anyway many traditions originate from german immigrants who settled in pennsylvania including a kind of pats wad of german and english which you're going to hear in a minute but 1st of all these was a cold bomb stuff was. the stars can be spotted from a distance on many barns nestled in the hills of pennsylvania a centuries old tradition brought to america by german immigrants as part of the local culture. tetrick don moir of could style and university has documented hundreds of foreign stars in the region he believes the immigrants painted them as

a reflection of their everyday lives as farmers. they thought about the stars in the sky as being emblematic of a sense of cosmic order and that's something that's very important to an agricultural people so when we see stars in the artwork of the pennsylvania dutch we can see that there's there's a narrative that runs through all aspects of life. like many in this part of pennsylvania patrick don moyer is a descendant of immigrants from the palatine region in southwestern germany at the folk festival and on lawyer shows how to paint barn stars an art form he's trying to preserve for future generations. this particular star utilizes contrast colors of yellow and black to create edges that appear to move when you paint them many of these designs alternate the color so that they appear to have a spinning effect. the festival showcases the region's german heritage drawing

130000 visitors over the course of 90 days and the highlights are barnstormers in all different shapes and colors. german american treats and music familiar from the other side of the atlantic. even the so-called pennsylvania dutch and german dialect from the peloton region is still spoken here today by something. that few of puna do and. even mine in canada can. 100 hits. of the german cultural heritage center a classroom from $870.00 which now serves as a museum as were pennsylvania dutch is still today. idioms like.

your money for a shuffle it so hot don't work too hard close to dialects of southwestern germany but her dawn meyer says pennsylvania dutch has developed into a language of its own. me and feel my overall tone on such broke box for television so go to so is this episode of is this olympus ny has. vox and it winds the light we are in america artificial light skinned or for the right want your so or brokers or not you should die just as all american if you. over the centuries this piece of heritage has become a part of what pennsylvania stands for today the marne stars are a reminder of the many german immigrants who made america their new home the. same with language it's time to meet the germans were. all about special quirks of the inhabitants of this country and germans do love the english language and use

english words a lot but not always correctly and just to remind you there's a word that might upset our american viewers right now that we don't find rude rachel mentions it briefly at the beginning of this report so you'd be warned. welcome back to english words the german news wrongly in part one we have a handy little viewing well that often thought but there's plenty more where that came from here we go. in english a mob is a rowdy group of people to mob is to crowd into or around your. failed stop with the mob found. then of course them all. but in german mobbing specifically means bullying usually at school or in the workplace. a german asks you to send them something by mail you're a little thrown pay sure there are still plenty of phones of analog here you set

your house for a number by a stamp and pop it in the post box of course that turns out they actually meant email english mail german mail. this is a personal pet hate the shows like to. down on inferior breadmaking cultures and fairness they have great bread but that does not excuse this abuse of the english language the germans call this toast i call this is the verb to toast means to cook or brown something by exposure to radiant heat toast is only toast if it's been toasted there's all this however appetizing you might find it it's still bread. we need to clear this one up if someone starts talking to you in german about a shooting don't worry they're probably just talking about a photography or filming session the correct english term would be issued a subtle but very important difference. shooting star a meteor that produces a bright light as it passes through the earth's atmosphere the gens of rather

poetically adopted this as a specific terms or someone who is shot to success but the sad thing about shooting star is that it turns out pretty quickly. thanks rachel i'm glad we've cleared those ones up especially the one about toast you'll find more meet the germans episodes on our website d.w. dot com slash culture and of course lots more about all things cultural. show bob i . think.

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