I thought I was getting good at german before I stumbled on dialects

[Jason Voorhees]

As you'll know I took up german as a foreign language subject a few months back. I started getting a hang off it. Started consuming german content. German movies, started reading german books german rap, learnt the Grammar rules slowly, picked up the tempo and practiced it regularly. I thought I was pretty good at it before I stumbled on dialects. I am completely clueless when someone with a heavy dialect, different from Hochdeutsch talks.

I am barely able to understand swiss and austrian german. They both sound like two completely different languages all together with austrian being some king of hilly billy slang version of german. The german spoken in netherlands is also different and there are a million other dialects within germany itself. "High" german , "low" german etc and unlike in English where its just pronunciation and a few phrases these dialects have different sentence structures, words and even grammar all together. Brutal. Getting fluent in german would take a lot more time than I had anticipated tbh.

@cucklek @deadstock @Beastimmung @Akhi @LancasteR @motiascension

 

[homovirgin]

As you'll know I took up german as a foreign language subject a few months back. I started getting a hang off it. Started consuming german content. German movies, german rap, learnt all the Grammar, practiced it regularly and I thought I was pretty good at it before I stumbled on dialects. I completely clueless when someone with a heavy dialect different from Hochdeutsch. I am barely able to understand swiss and austrian german. They both sound like two completely different language all together wirh austrian being some king of hilly billy slang version of german. The german spoken in netherlands is also different and there are a million other dialects within germany itself. "High" german , "low" german and unlike in English where its just pronunciation and a few phrases these dialects have different sentence structures, words and even Grammar all together. Brutal. Getting fluent in german would take a lot more time than I had anticipated tbh. @cucklek @deadstock @Beastimmung @Akhi @LancasteR @motiascension

I get it bro
For example I’m Italian and we have different dialects
Sometimes we can’t understand each other if we speak in different dialects
So don’t worry about it it’s normal

 

[Jason Voorhees]

I get it bro
For example I’m Italian and we have different dialects
Sometimes we can’t understand each other if we speak in different dialects
So don’t worry about it it’s normal

English has dialects and accents too but they are a lot easier to understand than dialects in german.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Why hmm? @deadstock

 

[deadstock]

Why hmm? @deadstock

I get it bro
For example I’m Italian and we have different dialects
Sometimes we can’t understand each other if we speak in different dialects
So don’t worry about it it’s normal

 

[Jason Voorhees]

I also struggle with the "ch" in Ich. Like how do you even say it. It sounds like some tongue twsiter @deadstock.

 

[Mosh12]

Learn Yiddish instead bro and you’ll know every German dialect

 

[deadstock]

I also struggle with the "ch" in Ich. Like how do you even say it. It sounds like some tongue twsiter @deadstock.

Dw... all the ethnics just say Isch

 

[alurmo]

why do u want to learn german

 

[asdvek]

ja wie erwartet

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Dw... all the ethnics just say Isch

My teacher tells me if you don't understand how to pronounce it however the way you want and there's a 90% chance some random german village pronounces the word exactly like how you do.

 

[deadstock]

My teacher tells me if you don't understand how to pronounce it however the way you want and there's a 90% chance some random german village pronounces the word exactly like how you do.

Germans will most likely understand u

I think certain sounds really take practice. On google translate u can let the software speak words for u if u wanna try to learn it

 

[sub5outsider]

start learning bulgarian

 

[Akhi]

English has dialects and accents too but they are a lot easier to understand than dialects in german.

yea like u said we not only have different pronounciation but also different words altogether

its hard for me to understand people from the next valley sometimes

 

[pprimus43]

Mirin for learning a foreign language tbh, that shit is high IQ

 

[Beastimmung]

I also struggle with the "ch" in Ich. Like how do you even say it. It sounds like some tongue twsiter @deadstock.

Berliners say ik or ike lol

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@motiascension

 

[Deleted member 93434]

@motiascension

The ch in 'ich' sounds like a hiss
Kind of like how you pronounce the 'h' in 'human' or 'huge' you don‘t really pronounce it like an h