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Native (Low) German speakers are welcome
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tarvos
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19 February 2013 at 1:31pm | IP Logged

I have, in Bavaria. Bavarians have a pretty notorious dialect, and if I return to Germany
in the near future, it'll be there I go, and that dialect I need to understand.

Edited by tarvos on 19 February 2013 at 1:33pm
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19 February 2013 at 3:55pm | IP Logged

William Camden wrote:

A few years ago I got on a train from Salzburg to Vienna. A family got in at a stop in the town of Wels and sat in the same carriage, and their speech was "German, but not as I know it". I could hardly understand a word. I understood Viennese dialect a little better but still struggled with it. I understand Hochdeutsch well, and the litmus test for me of a German dialect is that I do not understand it well, because it is sufficiently different from the standard language. I have never overheard German in Germany that was sufficiently non-standard to give me real comprehension problems, the way I have in Austria.

When I was on holiday in Salzburg this past summer I loved getting on the bus and just listening to locals speak. I think the accent is really pleasant, but it's pretty difficult to understand local speech because the vocabulary is different from German (as is with most dialects).

It's funny, I had a temp job in a sales office once, and the Germans use the word "Versandbeutel" for a spare parts bag, whereas the Austrians say "Sackerl" :D ( -erl is the diminutive in Austria like -chen or -lein is for German, but not only that I think just -l, too, but I'd have to ask somebody..
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