Scheiße!

By Xerfox - 03/07/2016 18:05 - Germany - Löwenstein

Today, I found out the German I've been learning for nearly a month is a dialect only spoken by people in a small area of the country. This means I'll need to re-learn most of what I thought I knew. FML
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mliajkfml 15

Maybe only ever visit a small area of Germany?

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cornwallus24 8

Germans will help you.They probably know better English than you.

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DonULFonso 22

Well, the official slogan of Baden-Wurttemberg is "We can do everything, except speak German", and while it's kind of a joke, it's dead earnest, too! They are honest about it, so what did you expect? ;)

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shade34 19

welcome to Germany dude! where each and every tiny village has its own dialect!

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Elkawea 5

You'll be understood in almost the whole rest of germany. I think your english accent is going to be stronger than the baden-Württemberg accent

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Mightytall 35

You're very optimistic... Schwäbisch Denglish would be almost like trying to understand a Frenchman speak English. Even they say it's easier to learn French than to try to understand them speaking English.

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Unenunciable 14

I wouldn't be so sure... If it's an "extreme" dialect like Plattdeutsch people might have some difficulty, but if you're just speaking some kind of Badisch, other Germans should still understand you. My father, whose native language is English, speaks German but can't understand a word of dialect. However, native German speakers usually understand what you're saying.

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TanteTine 5

I'm German and I've never heard a dialect that I can't understand. The basic vocabulary is usually the same, so I'm sure you can still use it to communicate. Where in Germany are you?

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neverready 25

Good old Schwaben. Poor you :D But you won't have to relearn everything, just leave most of the "sch" out of the words :D I am German, can speak a few dialects and understand the most, because I have relatives all over Germany. But now that I live in B-W since a few months I have to admit, sometimes I don't understand a word. Even when the other part is trying to speak High German. It's true. "Wir können alles, außer Hochdeutsch!". From my experience there should be living lots of people from other parts of Germany around you, too, try to befriend some of them (the best would be someone from the north-west who doesn't speak low german. They have the most understandable accent to an English speaker, if they have one :D)

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Shay_Shay97 23

Yikes. Das ist nict gut. Tut mir leid OP.

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SiraSiemens 21

as a swiss person i definatly understand your problem. this is one of the reasons its hard for foreigners to integrated well in switzerland. they have to learn standard german to able to read and write but we all speak dialect that differes quite a lot from standard german :(

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