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    My impression of German accents as a non-native speaker

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    1. 2x2Master1240 on

      The fact that Bottrop, Gelsenkirchen and Essen all have different colors is interesting… As someone from that region, I barely notice the difference

    4. Pedarogue on

      If you have the feeling that standard German is spoken in Berlin it may be because most people you’ve talked to in Berlin where not from there (be it from another part of Germany or abroad does not matter, really) and **did** speak standard German to communicate with each other – because they did not understand the locals’ language,

      Eastfrisian Platt being green … I don’t know if I want to believe that.

      Baden for the most part being red and black while Svabia is more orange breaks my heart, though. (It is not, wrong, strictly speaking, but still. ^(Das schönste Land in diehiser Welt das ist das Badener Land …))

    5. agrammatic on

      I guess you didn’t come across any Urberliner yet. Not the most challenging dialect if you understand the phonology, but still far way from Standard German.

    6. Any_Yogurt1860 on

      very wrong

      I live my whole life in cities and everybody I know speaks standard German.

    7. marvinluene on

      The colours don’t make sense. Hamburg does not speak standard german, they speak a Version of low german (Plattdeutsch) implementend into Standard german, but it’s not “nach der Schrift” (after the grammatic standard)

    8. rowschank on

      Having lived in the south for now 6 years, I can manage with Bavarian and Swabian, but I interacted with a couple from Ostfriesland and I was so lost 😬

    9. Opaldes on

      I think you never talked to people in the north, you can’t tell me you can handle Plattdeutsch

    10. Soetpotaetis on

      The black marks are absolutely spot on… Coming from someone who lives in Cologne and goes to work in Bavaria for a guy coming from one of those areas… It’s so darn difficult to understand anything he says 😅😂🤣😭

    13. JohnLurkson on

      I was born in the Ore Mountains region (the one black area in Saxony) and I’m certainly biased, but I don’t think *Erzgebirgisch* is that much different or harder than other dialects in Saxony. I mean, it isn’t easy, but to single it out as the one really hard dialect? Nah, disagree.

    14. Komandakeen on

      Platt is more of another language than just a dialect. But to be honest, if you speak English its easier to understand than old-school swabian.

    15. Danihilton on

      It’s kinda funny that the area in and around Karlsruhe have three different colors although they speak the same dialect

    17. Ke-Win on

      I can see that berlin is understandable but Standard? Cleanst version is afaik in Hannover.

    19. Klangzeug on

      You probably wouldn’t understand anything in some of the green areas if they would use their real accent. But yes, in the south it‘s more common to speak „native tongue“ 🙂

    21. luca86c on

      As someone living in one of the western orange parts: dialect is incredibly diverse and, more importantly, very dead around here.
      While I can understand it (mostly), I definitely can’t produce it authentically and none of my friends can either

    23. SonnyvonShark on

      Schwäbisch ist schwer zu verstehen? Wir in Stuttgart verstehen die Bayern net!

    24. Defiant-Dare1223 on

      Black in the extreme SW seems super gentle to me.

      Try crossing the river lol.

    30. Weak_Hospital_7854 on

      I am from Austria. My partner is from one of your black regions. I absolutely agree with your assessment. I meant they say carpet to a blanket and say it tastes good when they talk about smell. Tf. XD

    33. ParkinsonKruso on

      Ich sag es mal auf deutlich und verständlich.

      Diese Karte zeigt, dass du absolut nichts verstanden hast und das lag keinesfalls an der Region in der du warst.