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German - accents guide?
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lingoleng
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06 May 2013 at 10:05pm | IP Logged

Medulin wrote:

There's no need to get so defensive. I was only adding examples to the list.
I learned German for 9 years (it was an obligatory school subject when I was a child.
Thank God this is no longer the case in Croatia).

I am not being defensive, I am just wondering how 9 years of German did not lead to basic fluency, but gave you such a sharp ear for rather subtle details.

Edited by lingoleng on 06 May 2013 at 10:06pm
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montmorency
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06 May 2013 at 10:22pm | IP Logged

Medulin wrote:

There's no need to get so defensive. I was only adding examples to the
list.
I learned German for 9 years (it was an obligatory school subject when I was a child.
Thank God this is no longer the case in Croatia).

I appreciated your examples Medulin. Thanks.

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beano
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Message 19 of 21

06 May 2013 at 10:49pm | IP Logged

Medulin wrote:

I learned German for 9 years (it was an obligatory school subject when I was a child.
Thank God this is no longer the case in Croatia).

Surely language learning in school is a good thing? Croatia throngs with Austrian and German tourists every
year so it's certainly a useful language to know. I actually went on holiday as a teenager to Croatia when it
was part of Yugoslavia and I had to rely on my school German in shops.....which I regard as a positive
experience looking back.
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lingoleng
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Message 20 of 21

06 May 2013 at 10:57pm | IP Logged

montmorency wrote:

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!

I am not sure I understand what you mean. I speak Bavarian dialect, one could say it is my native language. When having a conversation with a foreigner, or in formal situations, I speak Standarddeutsch, Hochdeutsch, whatever you want to call it. Depending on how formal the situation is I speak Standarddeutsch with noticeable Bavarian accent, remnants of Bavarian vocabulary and grammar (not very formal) or Standarddeutsch with a slight southern color, I could even fake a northern color, but agreed, that's fake.
Every native speaker of a German dialect will act in a similar way. What exactly is the accent you are interested in, if you are not interested in the underlying dialect? I am not sure one can talk about German "accent" in an interesting way without knowing something about the corresponding dialect.

Edited by lingoleng on 06 May 2013 at 11:10pm
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06 May 2013 at 11:36pm | IP Logged

My father in law was a farmer in Brandenburg. He only ever spoke to me in his own dialect. I'm not sure if he
could even speak Hochdeutsch. It took quite a while before I could understand anything he said.

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