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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4829 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 1 of 21 23 April 2013 at 2:37am | IP Logged | ||
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Does anyone know of a website or other good source one could use as a guide to the
various German accents? It is only accent I am really interested in, not full-blown dialect, and it doesn't need to be over-sophisticated or over-detailed. Just a broad-brush guide to the main regional accents. I'm primarily interested in those within Germany, but a broad guide to the main accents of the other German-speaking countries or areas could also be of interest. This is purely for recognition purposes (not imitation!). Many thanks! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| morinkhuur Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 4678 days ago 79 posts - 157 votes Speaks: German*, Latin, English Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Maghribi) | Message 2 of 21 23 April 2013 at 3:57am | IP Logged | ||
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I found some videos of the most important regional accents. The last three are full-blown dialect as i couldn't
find anything else but the others are all accents. Berlin Cologne Bavaria Eastern Germany/Saxonia Northern Germany/Hamburg Austria (very similar to Bavarian) Hesse Swabia Switzerland Edited by morinkhuur on 23 April 2013 at 3:58am 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4829 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 3 of 21 23 April 2013 at 8:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Many thanks Morinkhuur!
I'm slightly familiar with some major accent differences, but wouldn't be able to pick them out reliably, except perhaps to say that someone was either Austrian or maybe from Bavaria. I've heard Daniel Glattauer (from Vienna), for example, speaking at length, and I've noticed a very distinctive thing he does with the "ei" sound in "ein", "mein", "Teil", etc; I suppose you would call it a more closed sound. I think of it as leaning on the "ei", which isn't very meaningful objectively, but I know what I mean. :-) Daniel Glattauer Regarding Swiss accents, I found this just now: Swiss lady compares Hochdeutsch, Hochdeutsch in Swiss accent, and Swiss German (She gabbles away in English for the 1st half or so....). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Antanas Tetraglot Groupie Lithuania Joined 4813 days ago 91 posts - 172 votes Speaks: Lithuanian*, English, Russian, German Studies: FrenchB1, Spanish | Message 4 of 21 23 April 2013 at 9:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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A guide from Deutsche Welle:
Dialektatlas 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4534 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 5 of 21 24 April 2013 at 1:19am | IP Logged | ||
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You could watch episodes of the weekly crime show Tartot, which is filmed in different cities in Germany. It's available online for at least a week after it is shown for free. Edited by patrickwilken on 24 April 2013 at 1:20am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Antanas Tetraglot Groupie Lithuania Joined 4813 days ago 91 posts - 172 votes Speaks: Lithuanian*, English, Russian, German Studies: FrenchB1, Spanish | Message 6 of 21 24 April 2013 at 2:11pm | IP Logged | ||
He sounds very Bayrisch for my rather deaf ears. Several allegedly native Bavarians in Rosenheim-cops are in fact from Austria. It's interesting to note that while "the others" (die Preussen) in Rosenheim police department usually speak hochdeutsch, the accent of "the locals" seem to me to vary considerably from one actor to another. See also here the main page of Rosenheim-cops 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| caam_imt Triglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4863 days ago 232 posts - 357 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, Finnish Studies: German, Swedish | Message 7 of 21 24 April 2013 at 2:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Not sure if this is what you want, but try these:
Dialektkarte Der Kleine Prinz in 100 Sprachen 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4829 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 8 of 21 24 April 2013 at 11:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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Many thanks for the contributions folks.
@caam_imt: the Dialektkarte is a nice concept. Unfortunately, the extracts are too short to be really useful. Hopefully that may change over time. The "Little Prince" is fascinating though. The most strange-sounding was the Old English, which is rather worrying in some ways! :-) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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