Yo! Alex Paxton-Beesley gives us a primer on Plautdietsch for Pure on WGN America. Pic credit: WGN America Actor Alex Paxton-Beesley explains the arcane language used by her character on WGN ...

Plautdietsch (Low German) sounds like a fun language. I don’t speak it, but when I hear it, I do sense a lightheartedness to it. In this edition of the Mennonite Heritage Village’s (MHV), I hope to ...

“What was interesting … was that the [Plautdietsch language that Mennonites] spoke — you can’t Google it, you can’t find much about it. It’s this unwritten language,” says Buckley, 41.