(German guys only).Can you speak "Bairisch","Berlinerisch"... "FrÃ¤nkisch" or other dialects?

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Rick the Alwin fan

I can speak Berlinerish, Fraenkish, Bairish and best of all Thuringiaish. I am also fluent in Vermon tisch

Rick the keyboard w anker

I speak SchwÃ¤bisch and Bayerisch :)
There are not many tourists who are able to speak a German dialect but I think I would like to hear that

Alwin E

I'm from lower Bavaria (Niederbaiern) and my language skills include several Bavarian dialects, Berlinerisch, Hochdeutsch, and some foreign languages like English, French, and some Spanish.

With a tourist, I'd always communicate in standard German (Hochdeutsch) and would continue to do so during our converstaion, unless I'd find out that he/she has real difficulties in understanding the language, and then maybe switch to English or French. Tourists trying to speak my local dialect will maybe try it two or three times, but then give up as it's too hard to speak. Some Prussians and north Germans try to imitate the Bavarian dialect, but usually also give up after a couple of tries, and I simply tend to ignore it. It's part of our common attitude of being friendly towards guests; you don't criticize them for mistakes.

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@frackled, the Bavarian language atlas is online here:
http://sprachatlas.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/
Mind the Bavarian genitive "von Bayern" instead of "Bayerns" in the headline!

andyj38467

I am from a town called Schweinfurt which is Unterfraenkisch.
For the most part I communicate in English, since I live in Houston Texas.
In german I speak with my dialect.
If a tourist was trying to communicate to me in this dialect, they maybe visiting from Germany. So I would talk to them and see how they respond. No mater who I will not laugh at someone for trying. It takes a lot of courage to try.
There are plenty of people here that refuse to try and speak english.

MarcelB

I can speak "Hessisch" :)!

ARRGH!!!

Everyone speaks their own dialects, except the region around Hannover which claim to speak purest Hochdeutsch.
I of course, coming from Hamburg, speak hamburgisch.
And I would find it amusing if someone tries to imitate that dialect, would I would also think it nice, as he or she is trying to please me.

MuFu

I can speak "berlinerisch"
sometimes i use it...unfortunately......without really want to speak it xD
i prefere the high german
berlinerisch sounds very funny....but it sounds also uneducated *haha*

frackledJJ

I'm from lower Frankonia originally, and I can speak the dialect. Well, one of them, as there are several. The University of WÃ¼rzburg did a "language Atlas" a couple of years ago and found out that there are more than 250 different dialects in my county alone, so... Though some of those were only different by a couple of words, they were separated by "a lot" of space (comparatively speaking), while the people in the surrounding villages had very different dialects and would often resolve to speak to the people from the other village in a butched-up version of the two dialects...
Anyway, with people being out and about in modern days, all those small dialects are disappearing.
So, yes, I can talk my local version of lower-Frankonian dialect, and I am not even that bad when trying Baierisch. Real Bavarians have me spottet in a flash, though.
Right now, I am speaking "Hochdeutsch" more often, because I have moved out of lower Frankonia.
A tourist trying to communicate with me in my dialect? I would ask him where he had lived, because a dialect is nothing you pick up in language class. I even know an American who always says: "Ja, mei." instead of "well", but she lived in NÃ¼rnberg for a year when she was 16, and that is about the only thing she can say in real dialect. She understands real dialect, though.

Oh, and make no mistake: There are several "Baierisch" dialects, as well as at there are several "Frankonian" dialects.

@Alwin: Close! I was talking about this one:
http://www.unterfraenkisches-dialektinstitut.de/

but they are, as I have read now, only a subdivision of the project you have provided the link for! ;))

Anja H

I speak "Schwaebisch" being originally from Stuttgart.
(Swabia)

Can understand Bavarian and Austrian and Saexisch.

When at home I speak my dialect, when out in the world it is Hochdeutsch. With tourists I would always speak Hochdeutsch, since otherwiser there is not much communication going on.

unknown

Hello, I am from the lovely city Regensburg in Bavaria.
At home we only speak Bairisch and with our schoolmates we do the same.
Only to the teachers we are talking Hochdeutsch, or better a mix of Hochdeutsch and Bairisch, because I don't think that anybody hear can speak Hochdeutsch without accent.
If a tourist would try to speak Bairisch with me I would really be enthusiastic.

Mimarspre

I come from Lower Saxony and I speak Hochdeutsch and "Plattdeutsch" or "PlattdÃ¼Ã¼tsch" (It sounds like a mixture of Niederlandish, English and German)

With a tourist I would speak Hochdeutsch or as Alwyn said would change to English (though my English is not so good, but I try to improve) , if the person has too many troubles with German. I also speak Spanish and a little Italian and French.

Plattdeutsch is a dialect from North Germany and it changes from place to place or citiy to city. Plattdeutsch in Oldenburg ist different from Plattdeutsch in Muenster or Osnabrueck, so it is quite sure that someone who learned Platt let's say in Bad Iburg will not be able to underestand o will understand just a little Platt from let's say Oppenwehe

Baka-Domi

Hi.
I live near Hof in Upper-Franconia and i speak hochdeutsch and oberfrÃ¤nkisch :)
Hmm i would speak "hochdeutsch" to tourists.

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