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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6058 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 17 of 20 08 November 2007 at 4:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think dialects are out there but are being eroded by Hochdeutsch.
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| Henryk Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 6135 days ago 34 posts - 35 votes Speaks: German, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish | Message 18 of 20 11 November 2007 at 7:35am | IP Logged | ||
I beg to differ. I remember when I had to attend a seminary with people from all over Germany. Some people from Saxony told me they had a hard time understanding the participants from Berlin even though they spoke as they always do. And if a Bavarian speaks normally (as they do with other Bavarians) it will be very difficult for anyone who's not from that area to understand them. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6695 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 19 of 20 11 November 2007 at 8:09am | IP Logged | ||
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There will always be natives saying it's "impossible" to understand people from region X. Swedish has a lot of dialects and we get these questions now and then, if a person from Stockholm understands a person from Gothenburg et.c. Once in a while there are idiots in the newspapers suggesting that TV shows from the southern part of the country should be subtitled.
Of course German (and Swedish, and other languages) have regional differences, but although my German is still at a basic level, I trust Zorndyke: "I still think this German dialect thing is overrated here in the forum." Perhaps it is simply that speakers of a language which is fairly standard in their country get surprised when they read or hear about dialects in German. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6058 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 20 of 20 12 November 2007 at 1:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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I find Austrians, for example, a little harder to understand than people from, say, Cologne, but I suppose most people, even dialect users, avoid the most local forms of speech when talking to people from a different area.
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