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IANANS, but whenever I've had a choice between learning a feature common to northern varieties of Standard German and one common to southern varieties, I've always gone with the southern variant. As long as I avoid obvious dialectalisms (e.g. bissle for bisschen, ade for tschüss, gäll? for nicht wahr?), no one ever remarks on it.IpseDixit wrote:Thanks vijay, my question arose from the fact that a foreigner learning a variety of Italian different from the standard one would very probably provoke the reactions I mentioned above, so I was wondering if for German it was the same.
Car wrote:I know that when the football player Giovane Elber first came to Germany, he had a slight Swiss accent (in addition to his Brazilian one) because he played in Switzerland before and people here found it funny, but in a cute way.
Did he have an Ach-Laut for his Ich-Laut?vijayjohn wrote:Car wrote:I know that when the football player Giovane Elber first came to Germany, he had a slight Swiss accent (in addition to his Brazilian one) because he played in Switzerland before and people here found it funny, but in a cute way.
I remember somebody telling me that when I spoke German, I sounded German, and then an American guy who worked with German colleagues saying that when he spoke German to them, they said he sounded Swiss.
Lauren wrote:Am I correct thinking that "Fluss" comes from Latin "fluvius"?
Levike wrote:Lauren wrote:Am I correct thinking that "Fluss" comes from Latin "fluvius"?
No. It comes from Old High German fluz.
der Fluss - river
fließen - to flow
I asked myself the same question about the Hungarian "folyó", but that also comes from "fólyni", meaning "to flow".
enricmm wrote:Meine Herren! Mein Deutsch wird immer wieder katastrophaler! Ich muss mindestens einmal pro Tag Deutsch üben!
Linguist wrote:Genau wie mein Spanisch, langsam verabschiede ich mich von meinen Kenntnissen und vergesse sehr vieles. Ich muss dringend mehr üben!
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