I’m Part Italian, Part German

I was born in Florida. But a close family member took an ancestry test and found out that most of my heritage comes from Italy and Germany. She was a native German speaker until she was 6, but no one in my family speaks German anymore. I am trying to learn German, but I’ve realized that for my entire life I’ve been lied to about what a German accent sounds like because so many fictional characters have had an entirely fictionalized German accent. I am German, but I can’t even do a German accent right. The Germans on TV are too bugged up to be German. I’m not smart enough to learn German, but I’m definitely German enough. <br><br>I’m pretending to be German because I have an uncle who is fluent in German and he’s my inspiration. But he’s actually American and not German (he is part German however). He lived in Germany for a year and was a devout German speaker. I want to be like my uncle because he is the coolest person ever. I am an entirely American German, but I’ve realized that I can’t do a German accent like the Germans do. I have to be an American German instead. <br><br>My favorite three German words are Lebkuchen, Zigarette, and Weltschmertz. My favorite German song is “Ich kann Dich nicht haben” although I’m embarrassed to admit that I can only understand the chorus. My favorite German food is Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte, although I’ve never actually had any. I am a German resident of Florida but I don’t know how to do a German accent and I’ve only been to a German restaurant once in my life. I don’t know how to pronounce “Weltschmertz” because I’ve only heard it in one song and nobody says it anymore. I’m German but I only speak English. I don’t have a cool German accent, I have a Floridian accent. I am a native English speaker but I’ve never even heard a German accent in real life. I am part German but I don’t know what the Germans sound like because I’ve never actually met a German.