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Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6667 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil
| Message 33 of 35 20 May 2009 at 11:03pm | IP Logged |
Tombstone wrote:
I learned to speak German in Berlin. Big mistake.
It was like a German coming to the United States and learning English in The Bronx or South Boston. |
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Really? I would have compared it to a city like New York, because there are so many people from all over the world. By the way, the Berlin accent doesn't really have a stigma attached to it; it's distinctive but relatively neutral.
Tombstone wrote:
When I returned to Germany a few years later my time was split between Darmstadt and Augsburg. I found the German spoken in the Augsburg/Munich area much more pleasant to the ear. |
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Now the Bavarian accent in Augsburg/Munich is definitely quite different from Standard German, and you'll find quite a lot of German speakers who'll find it unpleasant. But of course it's all a matter of taste and de gustibus non disputandum est.
Edited by Marc Frisch on 20 May 2009 at 11:04pm
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6274 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French
| Message 35 of 35 22 May 2009 at 1:40pm | IP Logged |
Studying German in the 1980s in West Germany, I was sometimes frustrated by Germans preferring to speak to me in English. One exception was one guy (less educated than the others I encountered) who spoke no English, but unfortunately he didn't really speak standard Hochdeutsch either, just a Saarland dialect I had real trouble following.
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