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03 May 2012 at 10:41am | IP Logged

Solfrid Cristin wrote:

I understood more than what I usually understand when people speak German with an Austrian accent, but then I generally find it incomprehensible, so anything is better than nothing.

Do you really find Austrian German in general incomprehensible? Do you understand me when I speak German in my videos (I speak standard Austrian German there)? I wonder if Austrian German is really that hard to understand for foreigners (I'm not referring to dialects now).
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03 May 2012 at 11:17am | IP Logged

Jeffers wrote:

I read somewhere that because of his accent, they wouldn't let him do his own parts in the German dub of The Terminator. Supposedly, he sounds like a farmer to an average German speaker.

On the other hand, it sounds like it might be an urban legend. I would guess the real reason is that he would have been too expensive. Still, an amusing little story.

Believe me, this is not a legend. Even though he would generally be comprehensible to an Austrian it would be kind of bothersome to listen to him "butchering" the language ;-)

I am so used to the voice of the man dubbing him I have come to think of it as his own. As for subtitles, on German TV most Austrians are subtitled if they speak in dialect (the same happens with Swiss people on Austrian TV). There are also quite a few German dialects which are hard to understand for Austrians but I have hardly ever seen any subtitles for that on TV - I guess we are just supposed to make an extra effort to understand them ;-)

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03 May 2012 at 12:18pm | IP Logged

koba wrote:

It's very messy and fast,

That's an interesting way to describe Austrian German :-) I hope you enjoyed your time in Austria. Did you make it to the "Weinstraße" (wine growing region) south of Graz (close to the border with Slovenia)? It is also called the "Austrian Tuscany" and is quite a picturesque area. The dialect spoken there, however, needs some time to get used to. But again, people will speak in "standard" German with you if you are a foreigner, so people having studied German should be able to get by in Austria as well.
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03 May 2012 at 3:50pm | IP Logged

Rob_Austria wrote:

koba wrote:

It's very messy and fast,

That's an interesting way to describe Austrian German :-) I hope you enjoyed your time
in Austria. Did you make it to the "Weinstraße" (wine growing region) south of Graz
(close to the border with Slovenia)? It is also called the "Austrian Tuscany" and is
quite a picturesque area. The dialect spoken there, however, needs some time to get
used to. But again, people will speak in "standard" German with you if you are a
foreigner, so people having studied German should be able to get by in Austria as well.

Unfortunately we didn't get to visit it. Me and my girlfriend stayed in Graz for three
days only and most of the time we were downtown near the bridge. After that we went to
Klagenfurt (where my girlfriend lives) and that was when I really got to hear people
speaking in dialect, since her family was also there and they were talking among them.
Personally I love Austrian dialects (specially Kärntnerisch), and even more than the
Hochdeutsch now since I'm able to understand them. Still, the best I can do is to fake
a little imitating the intonation. It's not easy to reproduce all the sounds and speak
in the same fashion, but at the moment let's say I'm happy that I can only understand
it.
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04 May 2012 at 8:47pm | IP Logged

koba wrote:

Rob_Austria wrote:

[QUOTE=koba] It's very messy and fast,

Still, the best I can do is to fake
a little imitating the intonation. It's not easy to reproduce all the sounds and speak
in the same fashion, but at the moment let's say I'm happy that I can only understand
it.

I hope next time you will make it to the south of Styria. If you come here again, let me know and I can take you to a "Buschenschank" :-)

I understand all Austrian dialects quite well (except for the one spoken in Vorarlberg which, however, is much closer to Swiss German than to the rest of Austrian dialects) but I would not be able to pass for a local in any other region of Austria either if I tried to actually imitate their accent.

If you come back to Austria, you definitely should go to Vienna as well. For me it is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe.

One of my favourite towns/cities in Carinthia (where your girlfriend comes from) is Villach by the way.
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04 May 2012 at 9:45pm | IP Logged

Rob_Austria wrote:

koba wrote:

Rob_Austria wrote:

[QUOTE=koba] It's very messy
and fast,

I hope next time you will make it to the south of Styria. If you come here again, let
me know and I can take you to a "Buschenschank" :-)

I understand all Austrian dialects quite well (except for the one spoken in Vorarlberg
which, however, is much closer to Swiss German than to the rest of Austrian dialects)
but I would not be able to pass for a local in any other region of Austria either if I
tried to actually imitate their accent.

If you come back to Austria, you definitely should go to Vienna as well. For me it is
one of the most beautiful cities in Europe.

One of my favourite towns/cities in Carinthia (where your girlfriend comes from) is
Villach by the way.

Sure, we should definitely meet up sometime. By the way, I hadn't realized you were
Robert Bigler from YouTube until now :) I sent you a message about Slovenian materials
a few weeks ago.

About the trip, actually, we went to Vienna this time as well and stayed there almost
a week, that was before Graz. I have been to a few other cities in the state of
Carinthia like Villach, Mariawörth, Velden, but i have only passed through them.

I will send you a PM shortly.
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03 June 2012 at 5:14pm | IP Logged

Of course he wouldn't dub his own voice. He makes or at least used to make $20 million dollars per movie. Why would he want to waste his time in a studio dubbing his voice for peanuts?

Edited by newyorkeric on 03 June 2012 at 5:15pm
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03 June 2012 at 6:10pm | IP Logged

newyorkeric wrote:

Of course he wouldn't dub his own voice. He makes or at least used to make $20 million dollars per movie. Why would he want to waste his time in a studio dubbing his voice for peanuts?

I said that.

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