Bavarian German vs. Standard German (German Pronunciation & Dialects)

[@jinig4833]

A bavarian guy: "Servus!" A foreigner: "I don't speak Latin, sorry!" :(

[@jinig4833]

+Julien Schneider In Latin, "Servus" means "slave" or "servant" :P

[@jinig4833]

funnily enough, in the 1950's and 1960's Poland, they used "servus" as an informal hello as well apparently, my mom told me about it. at least that's what she claims to have heard when she still a child :D so not only a thing in Bavaria :D it was spelled with a "w" instead of a "v" though.

[@ukaszm9824]

Correct, you can say "serwus" in polish and everybody will understand it as hello. Even polish youtubers like klocuch use it often, so it's not so backwards.

[@jinig4833]

+Łukasz M Nie wiedziałem że nadal to urzywają :O ciekawe :).

[@TheBavarianpride]

Bavaria once was part of the roman empire....

[@shoutash]

This scares me! The Bavarian dialect sounds like a new language altogether!

[@IslamBenfifi]

Ashish Vinayak that's because it is

[@danielcetina5790]

+Islam Benfifi Damn it, no way im learning bavarian, got enough work with regular deutsch

[@IslamBenfifi]

The good thing is you don't have to

[@MadnessOfMarmots]

+Ashish Vinayak When I was in Germany, I watched a movie that took place in the Bavarian Alps and was in Bavarian German. They had to have regular German subtitles so the Germans could understand.

[@MaxMustermann-go8xf]

+Ashish Vinayak Yeah, but interestingly it's easy to understand for Germans from (at least some) other parts of Germany. For example if they say "siggst du des ned?" it means "siehst du das nicht?" ("don't you see that?"), it's not that big of a difference.

[@Learnamericanenglishonline]

This is good to know. My terrible knowledge of German would be even more useless in Bavaria. Interesting video.

[@walterross9057]

LearnAmericanEnglishOnline No! Every German learns Standard German at least in school. Most Germans don't learn their local dialects anymore. But in South Germany, especially Bavaria, they yet do. And all young Germans can speak Standard German, if they want to do.

[@suertesandra]

Kill me

[@kmit9191]

Don't think that. Basically any German yiu want to speak to already speaks english or is at least very understanding. We're happy for anybody who learns German, so don't worry. You might expect Germans to talk slower or with slightly wrong, but flear sentence structure when noticing they're talking to foreigners. Don't mind it.

[@kmit9191]

clear*

[@senorbit2868]

@@kmit9191 can´t say that´s the case here in Hamburg or maybe it´s a racial thing. Sometimes I try to ask the speaker to go slowly, and they don´t always oblige,, I´m from Nigeria by the way

[@starseed2168]

When I was a kid from cologne going to vacation with my family in Bavaria I asked my mom which country we are in bc I literally understood nothing

[@HeroHoundoom]

Starseed Now that is funny! How did your mother reply?

[@ferdinand8994]

@@HeroHoundoom we are in the third reich Hanz! What kind of question is that?

[@marie_12]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@bauerhermann222]

@@ferdinand8994 Genau!

[@Someone_from_Bavaria]

@@ferdinand8994 Hans hoi amoi de Panzerfaust

[@SirArcade36]

Today is a nice dog

[@ychic7015]

+Yuri ja, of course lol

[@Jessasmaria]

Heid is so a schneena dog, lalalalala, und i fliag, fliag, fliag wia a flieger bin so stark stark, stark wia a tiger...

[@edge6488]

+Yuri sp br? asudfhuadsh

[@SirArcade36]

sei lá mil tretas mano uheueuheuh

[@edge6488]

isso aí mano asidhfaudshfua

[@TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsLW97]

Ich komm aus Norddeutschland Sie is a Preiß :D.

[@TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsLW97]

Daniel Bartolini Actually, Düsseldorf is middle Germany, not nothern German y

[@MrDrachnag]

Everything north of munich in southern bavaria gets called Preußen/Preißn due to the prussian who ruled over northern germany like a 150 years ago. So, you could say it is a nick name, mostly to differentiate Bavarians from everyone else ^^

[@TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsLW97]

Dominik Loisach Düsseldorf isn't Northern German, tho. (but it's - historically - Prussian) And Munich hardly any people speak the Bavarian dialect.

[@MrDrachnag]

***** As said, anywhere south of munich we call it Preißn :D Doesn't matter where you live, not in bavaria, north of munich: Prussia. And in my experience at least some guys speak it.

[@TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsLW97]

Dominik Loisach Wrong again. We say "Preissn". We don't use the "ß". And are you telling me Straubing is Prussian?

[@AgentAdorno]

I just realized my english is better than my bavarian. And im german!

[@evawallner7787]

JustFish wennst bairisch scho net amol verstehst dann sulltest net noch österreich kumman😂

[@beejj6190]

PMSL!!!

[@annajones880]

LOL

[@hirdy161]

JustFish that's the way we like it 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@quyvuipham5046]

Nothing weird. Because English is the most popular language in the world.

[@netminderchuck9320]

I took 4 years of German in high school, and was taught Hochdeutsch. I was fortunate to get stationed at the American Consulate in Frankfurt in 1986-1987. It was easy enough to converse in Hochdeutsch, as Hesse Deutsch was similar. When I went to Munich for Octoberfest, I didn’t understand a lot of what the locals said, though they understood me. I learned that they spoke Bayerisch (?). I also learned that if you weren’t Bavarian, you were considered a Prussian by the locals. In my travels around West Germany , I encountered several dialects. The only other one that was as confusing as Bayerisch, was Schwabisch, which is what they spoke in Stuttgart. Regardless, it was an educational two years that I thoroughly enjoyed.

[@Hun_Uinaq]

Schwäbisch has a very pretty sound. It’s almost like they sing when they speak.

[@AradSP]

You are a Preiß (0:28)

[@R3AktoRMacedonia]

Heute ist ein schöner Hund

[@thatisme9046]

+R3AktoRM hhhhhhhhhh

[@windowssux3196]

hahahahahahaha .. Finally, something from Germany made me laugh ..thank you! today is a historical day in my life.. I am not joking

[@nathanhofmann2645]

hahahahaha

[@john1212333333333333]

It's like that but more similar to how people in Ireland have mixed Gaelic with English

[@jassmthk7476]

hahaha das habe ich auch gesagt " Dog" hah

[@usablefiber]

"where is the biergarten" should have been the first one... it should be the first page on every german textbook.

[@marcmengel1]

You should get the "Wicked German" english-german phrase book...

[@catshugging]

There’s more to Germans than beer...

[@ArsinoMeteor]

Hello, I'm a german man and I hate beer. And now? :o

[@12tanuha21]

the 2nd sentence should be "where is the wine festival?"

[@forestmanzpedia]

It should be rather "When can we fly to Mallorca?"

[@alwaysuseless]

I have the impression that if native German-speakers from different parts of the German-speaking world want to communicate with each other, they can all more or less switch from their native dialect to Hochdeutsch. How true is this? For example, I met some Swiss Germans in Costa Rica a few years ago. They switched to Hochdeutsch for my benefit. That was very kind of them. Otherwise, I would have been lost.

[@lillianlindsay-lawless8868]

Not speaking from experience; never actually been to Germany. But what I've heard is that yes, it's strongly encouraged for everyone in the German speaking world to learn Hochdeutsch for the sake of communicating with others and understanding literature and media and all of that. But at the same time your region's dialect is an important part of your identity, so you've also gotta hang on to that too.

[@alwaysuseless]

Daenerys Targaryen Thanks for the reply. I have the impression that the difference between Hochdeutsch & Swiss German or Bavarian is greater than the difference between most dialects of American English. I grew up in the South (not deep South) of the U.S., sort of Midwest / South. From living other places, my accent has changed. I never had a dialect that I wanted to retain. I think I'm typical of Americans in speaking the same English wherever I go. Sometimes when I'm watching a dramatic program (as opposed to an informational program) from the UK, in which the actors speak in their character's regional dialect, I wish there were English subtitles.

[@HyenaBlank]

alwaysuseless That's something I've noticed too. English doesn't really seem to have variations in dialect. Just mostly accents, but the words are still pretty much the same all across

[@alwaysuseless]

Hyena Blank I think what you're saying applies more to American English than English spoken in the UK. And of course, there are a lot of differences in vocabulary between American English & British. Some well known ones: lift = elevator, bonnet = hood, boot = trunk. In the US to table an agenda item means to take it off the table (not discuss it). In the UK it means to put it on the table (to take it up).

[@steffimeier3238]

As a German (Bavarian actually) I have to say everybody is able to switch to hochdeutsch :) it might sound a little fake sometimes as we only use Bavarian all day, but we learn talking Hochdeutsch from the beginning. Not every child talks Bavarian, you get to know many people who don't use Bavarian and maybe your parents only use Hochdeutsch so naturally you give your best to make the understanding easy. At certain situations at school we must not use Bavarian, for example during presentations and stuff like that :) well, there are some exceptions, like grumpy grandparents who refuse to talk Hochdeutsch but who cares about those c:

[@yaneyd93]

Franzi was speaking pretty clear for a Bavarian. Go to Passau and you have troubles to undestand them... Even as a German

[@corneliusscipio777]

Come to Berchtesgaden... Every town speaks different 🤣🤣🤣

[@JoJo-kd9hd]

Kimmst du leicht aus Passau

[@Zareezzz]

Ich komme aus Passau lmao

[@MrPeachapple]

Come to Austria or Switzerland -> next level xD. Btw. I love Berchtesgarden, just accross the border from my place :D

[@klausrtmr]

@• Südtirolerisch is really easy to understand, at least for us Bavarians. But in some parts of Switzerland and Vorarlberg, it gets really complicated for us

[@Kumi12341]

Omg it's like another language.

[@flutterlump]

It IS another language. Read up about it. Linguistically it's a language but officially it's a dialect because the government doesn't recognize Bavarian as a language.

[@NoriMori1992]

+Morgan W German is a pluricentric language, and there's no consensus as to the difference between a language and a dialect, so calling the varieties of German "dialects" isn't incorrect.

[@i.i.iiii.i.i]

Morgan W If you define a language the way that it is a language when two people can understand each other then you can't really draw clear lines... I speak northern german and can't understand people from Austria at all... But you can (most likely) understand them easily. If you hear Plattdeutsch it's probably hard for you to understand, but for me it's easier to understand than Bavarian, although Plattdeutsch it's actually considered another language ;)

[@quyvuipham5046]

Bavarian German seem to less Germanic than proper German, "los" in Bavarian German is pretty Spanish.

[@lars9925]

The difference between standard German and Bavarian is much smaller than people might think. The most noticeable difference is the use of a slightly different vocabulary, but this vocabulary (with a few exceptions) also consists of standart German words that every German understands. And the slightly different sentence structure and the filler words do not bother at all at least if you understand German to a certain degree.. In fact, the biggest difficulty is the accent, if the Bavarian speaks quickly and indistinctly, then it is difficult to identify the words. If someone speaks as clearly as in this video, then it is absolutely no problem for a German to understand almost everything.

[@-tz9gq]

And today I gave up on learning German...

[@lividlivius7618]

Oh c'mon, German is a great language.

[@u_w5822]

Try to learn swiss german. Maybe you understand it in 10 years :D

[@lynch8067]

Lol, officially

[@kiara.Machado]

U_w swiss german ist hochdeuscht alle andern dialect braucht man nicht...finde ich

[@lukasmuller9384]

it's like saying you gave up learning Portuguese because Spanish exists. C'mon m8.

[@luiscondeblazquez8518]

Dialect? They seem two different languages! They remind me Spanish and Catalan

[@andys4319]

It do be like that

[@recepakbalik3304]

Absolutamente ellos son diferentes idiomas como español y catalán. Tenéis estudiar si queréis entenderlos

[@jorgemora2436]

U can understand catalan even dough u didnt study the language, its too similar.

[@Adson_von_Melk]

@@jorgemora2436 no, I've studied Spanish and speak it pretty good but I don't understand maybe 60% of spoken Catalan, and up to 40% of written one, more or less depending on the context. Catalan is grammatically very different from Spanish. Bavarian seems to be a way closer to Standard German.

[@jorgemora2436]

@@Adson_von_Melk Im colombian, of course I speak spanish and I can tell you that I can understand too many words from Catalan

[@StarryNightSky587]

"Ich komme aus Norddeutschland" "Sie is a Preiss"... 10/10 in der Breznwertung :D

[@Jamesucht]

Note to self: avoid Bavaria.

[@easylanguages]

Lol

[@neveniusvondubowatz7705]

StuffandThings85 Ja. Karlovačko bier besser schmeckt.

[@LoneWolf-wp9dn]

StuffandThings85 no its awesome... and austria and tyrol too... its the unboring part of the german world :D... well and hamburg of course

[@victormartens7444]

Nevenius von Dubowatz Hahah where did you hear of Karlovacko? Croat here.

[@hemalathavegi7910]

+StuffandThings85 Unfortunately it is a beautiful place

[@RhymesWithCarbon]

Even my German friends from Hannover struggle with this. I'll never forget my friend looking at a shopkeeper with a blank stare......... and finally........... "was?"

[@habück]

It's not that hard. Ok, my generation grew up in the 90's with television, and tv was full of Bavarians since it is the biggest state in Germany. Don't know if younger kids (who grew up without watching much tv) understand it as easy as we older generations 25+ do.

[@eviloreo5439]

well at least "where is the beer garden" is the same in both german dialects and drunk american me

[@pablerarav9016]

This was an issue I had with learning German. With French, you learn the standardised dialect and you can understand most French speakers around the world, barring the Quebecois, who speak a pretty old version of French. But with German, even within the country itself, there are so many dialects. Bavaria was the toughest for me; in Munich, most locals were friendly and tried to avoid local colloquialisms, and even Erding was okay about this, but in smaller towns, it was easier to just find someone who spoke English.

[@kathis.3973]

I feel like it is worth noticing that Bavarian is not the same throughout all of Bavaria. In the North, there are the Franken (which I believe is Franconians in English) who speak very differently, sometimes using other words even. And in the parts of Bavaria where 'typical Bavarian' is spoken it still varies, sometimes from village to village. Also, Franzi is definitely speaking Bavarian, but she doesn't have as heavy of an accent as some other people do and is obviously making a conscious effort to speak understandably because she is being recorded. I think this video is great in showing how different Germany is from Germany itself and I just would like to say that as someone growing up very close to Munich with a Franconian mum and an Austrian dad I feel qualified enough to comment my opinion on this but also bear in mind that it is just an opinion :) and also I hope that this video may help some people who are genuinely interested in the German language and dialects, no matter where they are from or how much they know about it.

[@bauerhermann222]

Note: There is also a mix of Swabian and Bavarian in western Bavaria

[@wissenschaftenundpraxishan1952]

@@bauerhermann222 In Lindau and the Allgäu, yes.

[@seb64600]

bavarian german = lord of the rings xD

[@dergereatl8796]

Then you havent heard the swiss xD im living in bavaria and this is nothing compared to switzerland

[@MrPeachapple]

Jo foi. Als Salzburger: Bayern geht, Tirol geht, Vorarlberg geht. Dann kommst in die Schweiz und kennst di gar nimma aus xD.

[@victorfergn]

@@dergereatl8796 Walser German is even weirder.

[@InsaneMetalSoldier]

Hahaha, when you discover that there are numerous ways of speaking a language, you get overwhelmed when you're just starting to learn it :( but I won't give up :( I'll learn "all those germans"

[@matrimonl]

***** No no, start with Standard Deutsch and then work your way to other german dialects. This will make it much easier.

[@TheLukas135]

***** good luck :D there are many more accents like -Platt (north germany) -Sächsisch -Rheinisch -Berlinerisch -Schwäbisch -Fränkisch -Friesisch

[@degurkin]

***** There are many dialects each different de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Dialekte#/media/File:Deutsche_Dialekte.PNG See those coloured bits? each one is like 50-100 km across These are noticable dialect rooms each room has their own seperate distinctive dialects within them each with their own distinctive vocabulary and grammar rules...and pronounciation depending on major area I'd advise to just learn Hochdeutsch as it is the most common

[@AR-lq5sp]

TheLukas135 du hast thüringisch vergessen! Wir haben auch so unsere redensart mit 'isch' statt 'ich' zum beispiel :D

[@degurkin]

Alexa Roth Dat is' doch überall so

[@buzzingtalk]

aaaand now i understand why the german i learned from my Bavarian family when younger made NO SENSE when i went back to (north) Germany later in life and tried to communicate and people looked at me funny, i always thought it was my english accent but no. Bavaria is beaut tho!

[@craigsavarese8631]

I remember how depressed I was after four years of high school German when my college freshman teacher played us a tape of a few phrases in several German regional dialects.

[@miamihurricane555]

The differences between Bavarian German and standard German is much bigger than the difference between Portuguese and Spanish.

[@daisyfaithfull8559]

But the difference between Greek and Finnish is much smaller than the difference between Portuguese and Spanish. :))

[@JoaoPaulo-ot4ez]

​@@daisyfaithfull8559no, it's not!

[@DeeeeeeeeezzNutzzz5]

It sounds like the Austrian dialect *_*

[@namenlos40]

yes, both belong to the Bavarian dialect-family.

[@kiraknightly2884]

it's very similar

[@fabianvirgil726]

Bavaria is more Austrian than German anyways

[@buddcz]

Yes yes Austrian dialect..servus

[@Topvidi]

Austria belongs to Bavaria

[@WaltySteel]

Jetzt weiß ich ganz genau, wenn ich endlich mal nach Deutschland reise, who ich nicht gehen soll (Bayern). Cari spricht so klar und deutlich dass also ein Argentinischer Hardkopf wie ich alles verstehet. Bitte macht mehr videos wie diese, ich brauche sie!

[@fremejoker]

WaltySteel Als Nicht-Bayer würde ich sagen, dass du ein paar schöne Orte nicht missen solltest.

[@Jonathan-PDX]

When I was in Germany a friend demonstrated this diversity in dialects. Pretty amazing.

[@zdog1490]

I think the Bavarian is cute and folksy but is a lot to learn .. The prepositions in Bavarian and Austrian are cute .... Obbi and the other ones .. I used to work with an older Bavarian lady in the US, and she refused to speak German to younger Germans who spoke hochdeutsch because she felt like a country bumpkin around them. I would speak regular German sometimes, and of course she understood it.. She still read German magazines and had worked in Nurnberg as a younger woman .. She grew up in a village 😊

[@mournblade1066]

Wow, and I thought as a native English speaker (mid-Atlantic region of the United States) that the Scottish dialect could be incomprehensible. . . . I took German in junior high and high school (5 1/2 years worth), and we were taught Hochdeutsch, so I was able to follow along with Cari pretty well. Franzi, on the other hand. . . I couldn't understand anything she said. Oddly enough, my grandfather was from Bavaria (came over on the boat circa 1920).

[@chrisg.7285]

Some of the Bavarian words have direct equivalents in Standard German, even though Cari used different words in her sentences: Preiss - Preusse, kanntn - könnten, dahoan - daheim, do - da, auffi und obi - auf und ab, Woang - Wagen

[@wissenschaftenundpraxishan1952]

Well, that's true. Still there are different tendencies to use one expression or the other. Bavarian "dahoam" is much more common than Standard German "daheim", which is more regional. Bavarian "do" has not the same meaning as Standard German "da", the latter is "there", the former is rather "here".

[@Vintagevintagegirl]

I love it! Only problem is, people will start to understand what the Bavarians and Austrians say. I think you guys should do a episode asking the Austrians and Bavarians how they feel if people will start to learn their dialect. What do you think Cari? I speak Austrian dialect and usually speak dialect with my husband in public places because no one understands it.

[@kidaria1333]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeendlich mal jemand der über die deutsche Sprache berichtet und es schafft hochdeutsch/niederdeutsch und Standarddeutsch vernünftig zu trennen! Ich bin glücklich :)

[@dawnc5797]

This is like hearing Louisiana Cajuns speak vs the rest of the U.S.. I lived in Stuttgart for a couple of years (2000-2002) and loved hearing the small differences in dialects when I visited other cities, towns and villages. At the time it wasn't quite as noticeable because I was used to it. Now, almost 20 years later it is quite a difference! A few years ago I bought a language course to learn German again and need to get back into it. I love the language and hear it from time to time here in North Carolina, especially when I shop at Aldi.

[@Speedyconnor18]

My German grandmother told me she used to have a Bavarian neighbour and she couldn’t understand a single thing she said. This used to confuse me for a while. Watching this video now makes me realise what she meant.

[@Nagrachlp]

If some wonder if different german dialects can't understand each other: I'm from south Germany and my Wife is from north germany. Our parents struggle to understand each other, we literally need to to translate for them sometimes xD. Mostly it works though, and its getting better.

[@heinzditer7286]

Können die kein Hochdeutsch?

[@Arjetube]

Die Bayerin spricht den Dialekt sehr künstlich und unharmonisch. Wieso geht ihr nicht auf ne Alm und sucht euch da nen Opa, die können das wenigstens richtig sprechen!

[@Torben43]

Jeffrey Lebowski besser als was man schon sonst als "bayrisch" erleben musste. Evtl sollte sie besonders deutlich sprechen damit man es besser nachvollziehen kann

[@TheLukas135]

Jeffrey Lebowski ich nehm an des war münchner stadtbayrisch :D

[@lapolix8080]

Jeffrey Lebowski Das is ganz normales Oberbayrisch :D .Niederbayrisch ist harmonisch :D

[@meine.wenigkeit]

+Jeffrey Lebowski joa von mia aus hod des madl aa ned so gscheid gsprochn..ois hätt an preiß a weng boarisch gleand fia an baa doge awa mei - des hätte i bessa mochn kenna und i bin kei gstandna bayer ned awa mei is an scheena dialekt auf olle fälle :) dad etzad gean iwo in da näh vo minga sei

[@z3lop59]

+Marcus WTF?! den ersten Satz hab ich ja noch verstanden, aber den Rest????

[@chuuberry5778]

I spent my last vacation in Korea and I shared a house with a Dutch couple. He was fluent in German because he used to work for a German company but his girlfriend didn't speak German. But whenever I talked to my best friend in German, she was able to understand everything we said but I didn't understand a word Dutch. I think all the German dialects + Swiss German + Austrian dialect + Dutch are like one big family haha. As somebody who speaks only high German, I can't understand most of the dialects while they have no problem with understanding me

[@walterross9057]

All these were once called "Deutsch". Varieties of one language.

[@SinilkMudilaSama]

And a advice for you, before high german, nicknamed hochendeutsch, learn others deutsches langs like bavarian, jysk, anglo saxonian, frisian, pomeramian cos these langs have strong expressions out of germany and are independent of high german, hunskerian german is the same importance and way. Specially if person wants to live in germany or work in a german company with a post gradution or for MBA or work stage for promotion in Germany....

[@blackphoenix_02]

I practically speak high standard german, although I'm from around Stuttgart. When I moved to Passau to study and met new friends, it was incredibly hard for me to follow and understand my friends who came from around Passau. It gave me a headache. But now I'm more used to it and honestly, I kinda like bavarian german :)

[@Cubance]

At first I thought, "whoa! they look really different" but as I was listening they sound similar, though not exactly the same. This may be a dumbass question, but is it just like how people in Britain have different accents? Like the London/Scottish are completely different.

[@easylanguages]

Cubance Yes it's just like that ;)

[@echt114]

Easy Languages Totally disagree. English vs Scottish are most of the time just different pronunciations of the same words. In many examples in the video they are actually different words. But I can see how London vs Edinburgh may SOUND as far apart to those who are new to English.

[@iankahn6426]

echt114 Bavarian is a dialect but it's also an accent so it can be confusing to make a distinction there. Ask a true bavarian to speak hochdeutsch and you'll still probably hear things like "ei" switched to "oa" pretty often.

[@pompei1968]

+Ian Kahn its not a dialect but a language ...before 1871 Germany was never a country but kingdoms and city states and had its many languages !!!! when unified they choose the standard German language ...but people are still traditional and spoke these ancient language ...same as Italians

[@meine.wenigkeit]

+Ian Kahn oans zwoa gsuffa :D

[@emiliolopez1747]

Ich bin in der Oberpfalz seit Endes August und manchmal kann ich nichts verstehen! Aber, die Bayern sind sehr freundlich und immer glücklich 😊 Servus, Grüß di, habediere!

[@damaslpressath]

bueno....en algunas partes del Oberpfalz se hablan Nordbayrische Dialekte...aki empiezan a hacer listas de los pueblos, como se pierda mucho y las jovenes ya saben solo la mitad ...la propia gramatica esta casi desaparicido...: igual te interesa (con sonido): www.mundart-lexikon.de/index.php?topmenu_id=3&submenu_id=1

[@12tanuha21]

Spicht man in der Oberpfalz bayrisch oder pfälzisch?

[@bayerwaldtv2720]

@@12tanuha21 Bayrisch

[@TravisHyllMusic]

There are lots of similarities between the Bavarian dialect and Pennsylvania German. "Mia" instead of "Wir," "schee" for "schön," dropped "n" at the end of infinitives, etc. Very interesting. "Standard German" is just the dialect that won out when it came to national level education.

[@waltergro9102]

Standard German is no dialect. It's from several old chancery languages, like 15th c. Gemain Teutsch (Common German), based on Austro-Bavarian. That's the reason Bavarian and Standard German share the unusual high amount of 99 % lexical cognates (normally it's more like 85 %). Apart from the North German origin of the prestige pronunciation of Standard German it's closely related to Bavarian.

[@craighill388]

This is so true. I talked to a married couple once where 1 came from Cologne Germany and the other came from Berlin or some other far flung German city. She said that she really couldn't understand her future husband when they first met. I often wondered how different it could be, now I know.

[@martinfrostnas6610]

How old were they? Dialect is not widely spoken in Cologne anymore

[@dpankra]

Nicely made video, great idea! Talking about dialects in general is so abstract--it's awesome to have side by side comparisons with a single dialect. Thank you!

[@510oaklandca]

The Bavarian girl is hot!

[@garima-ologist]

Give me the Munster chick anytime

[@jeremyemilio9378]

510oaklandca FHRITP!

[@maximilianziegler7916]

510oaklandca like nearly all Bavarian girls

[@harrytrotter5267]

Maximilian Ziegler Noooo this dialect is discusting

[@Roger-mz4lx]

Yes she is.

[@charlottedawnmusic]

Im November reise ich nach Bayern (von Australien).. jetzt hab ich mega Angst, weil ich fast nichts von dem bayerischen Dialekt verstehen konnte.. :(

[@patrick-sprachenmusikstudi5351]

In Bayern sprechen alle auch Hochdeutsch, das sollte kein Problem sein :)

[@sloughery]

Keine Sorgen........wenn sie bemerken, dass du Ausländer bist,, werden sie bestimmt Hochdeutsch sprechen. Gute Reise!

[@kiraknightly2884]

ich wünsche dir viel Spaß :) selbst wenn du Probleme mit Deustch hast, werden alle Menschen unter 50 genug Englisch sprechen um dir helfen zu können :)

[@hanafikrova2176]

I'm quite afraid I won't understand anything in München :D

[@KristalBlut]

Every German speaks normal german, and when your a foreigner, we mostly wont speak in accents ;)

[@Oachlkaas]

could you explain "normal german" to me?

[@KristalBlut]

Orangethunder "normal german" means "Hochdeutsch" which is clear German thats teached in school. It has no accents and strict rules. Every book which is published in German is in Hochdeutsch. Hochdeutsch is teached in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and in some parts of the Netherlands. And ofc all around the world is special classes in school.

[@Oachlkaas]

Graf Vladumir Hmm yeah, i figured as much. Although I'm really not happy with you calling it "normal german" or "clear german". Since it is neither. All it is is the standardised version of german that is taught to simplify communication. Just like the other types of german standardised german is based on the Thuringian Dialect, meaning that to the people of that Area it is normal and clear but everywhere other than that area their local respective dialect would be the normal and clear variant of german.

[@huraxdax_2467]

Orangethunder actually, standard german developped oujt of bavrian

[@Isochest]

Good knowledge. My son's former teacher is Bavarian and I hear her mother speak her language. It is very different to the German I was taught in college.

[@derekperry1745]

I think standard German sounds absolutely brilliant. I'm an American, but my ancestors were German, Italian and a fraction of Welsh (we think) but one day I want to be perfectly fluent in first German then Italian. I have found Italian to be much more difficult especially the flamboyant pronunciations which I find troubling, so I will learn German first. I prefer the sound of German a little bit over Italian too. Anyway, greeting from the US.

[@YareahLilly]

It’s no different than being in the rest of Spain and being in Catalonia where Barcelona is. If you need to speak Spanish, they will understand and speak Spanish to a non native instead of their dialect. It’s no different in Bavaria. Bavarians are some of the kindest people...from my experience. I’m here even now as I write this! ❤️

[@realmcpofficial]

Des geile is, das wir Bayern alle andan verstenan. haha

[@paulinegerards4251]

Aba die uns foi neda :D

[@juliz2500]

Also i versteh koa Platt. Und manche Dialekte in der Schweiz san aa ganz schee schwar zum versteh.

[@arsoudarded363]

i moan scho a

[@heinzmustermann8416]

aso mer schwizer verstönd üch bayer mega guet 😂

[@Larrypint]

Bavarias Finest na gloobste etwa wir Berlina vastehn euch nich?

[@ArvoHD]

Aiso de red ja echt koa gachs boarisch. Mia in Niederbayern ren ma do scha ganz anders :D (That's not a strong Bavarian dialect. The people in Niederbayern speak a much stronger dialect) xD

[@andreasgschwendtner6608]

Arvo ᵐᵒᵗᶤᵒᶰ ᵈᵉˢᶤᵍᶰ | Andreas A. Mei is a a oane aus minga. Desdo weida ma ans land ause kimmd desdo stirga wead a da dialekt. Des merkt ma bei ins in Obabaiern erst rechd wenn a Obalandla auf an Undalandla driffd.

[@v-g-z3689]

So schauts aus, wer´s ned hibringt as r zum roin... des is scho fast de hoibe Sach!

[@Humpelstilzchen]

@@andreasgschwendtner6608 Obalandla do 😁

[@fragbuwa8144]

Obapfoiz buam

[@Boarisch_Flori8280]

De Oida hod doch gsogt das se aus Minga kimmt.

[@nightflame2037]

This was very helpful because I have to bring in a comparison of a Standard German word and a Bavarian German word for my German class :D Thank you for posting this!

[@JanJohanssonmusic]

very different from each other. Is Swiss German difficult to understand? I know German pretty good but when I went to Switzerland years ago the language made no sense to me at all. In my ears It sounded Germanic but not really like German... If you can Imagine a Dutch speaker trying to speak Icelandic with a Copenhagen Danish accent... I love your videos

[@roommoor3021]

I love the girl speaking normal German ***-****

[@kaylee660]

Bavarian German sounds Slavic. I like it. It sounds so refined and calm.

[@BrendanRiley]

Spent 10 years learning standard German and now I got a girlfriend speaking Bavarian Austrian which is incomprehensible :(

[@gtc239]

How is it going for you?

[@BrendanRiley]

@@gtc239 we broke up 😅

[@marcocisneros4379]

@@BrendanRiley Well just move on

[@wissenschaftenundpraxishan1952]

@@BrendanRiley Just because of her dialect? 😉

[@greenhillburma]

In my country, the very same language with all the same alphabet, lexicon and grammar is spoken in three quite different accents / dialects which to unfamiliar ears would be a complete enigma. You can call them, 1) standard Burmese, 2) Rhakhine / Arakanese and 3) Htawei or southern dialect. However, once you get to know some key phonetic changes, it becomes all clear.

[@fabriziocaragiulo4812]

At 1:58 the subtitles seem wrong, I heard something like "Gfoid des das do?"

[@walterross9057]

You are right! She said: Gfoid dia des do? Standard German: Gefällt dir das dort?

[@nnms-t7k]

As a german guy, I can't speak the Bavarian dialects but I can kinda understand them. They are like High German but with different pronounciation. You can kinda derive the meaning.

[@cristianespinal9917]

I'm not a native German speaker and when I stopped focusing on the subtitles, it became easier for me to hear the similarities instead of trying to read them. That said, I spent 1 month in Berlin and Potsdam and a few years later, I spent 2 weeks in Munich and Bavaria. I didn't run into many people in Berlin whose German I couldn't understand, but in Munich I definitely remember times when someone would have to switch from more Boarisch to Hochdeutsch for me to understand them.

[@PhellipeDiaz]

2:46 = chama a mãe.

[@Luis-de7lf]

do native German speakers understand Bayernisch?

[@steffimeier3238]

They can conclude some words from the context or the sound but I guess it's really hard for non-Bavarian people to understand it, at least that's my experience

[@Luis-de7lf]

***** what part of germany kommst du?

[@realmcpofficial]

+Luis Berg nope haha

[@Astrostone666]

+Luis Berg Well, I'm bavarian native speaker and when I say native speaker I mean it. There are so much "wannabe bavarians" and the culture and traditions are used for commercial benefits. So all in all, native german speakers often want to understand us, but in fact they won't. At least in the region where I'm living.

[@MaxMustermann-go8xf]

+Steffi Meier For me as a person from Swabia (that's also in the south) it's quite easy to understand the Bavarian dialect, as long as they don't mumble (unfortunately many do when they speak in their dialect, including me).

[@markusv.3447]

Fast richtig.... bei 0:37 wird das "fei" noch hinzugefügt. "Fei" ist super um etwas unterstützend oder steigernd ausdrücken zu wollen... bei 1:40 hat's die Bayerin anscheinend eiliger... das 😉. Danke, hat Spaß gemacht.

[@SimoneJumbelli]

❤🇪🇺✝️ Ich bin Brasilianerin portugiesischer Abstammung, aber wenn es etwas gibt, was ich mir im Leben wünsche, dann ist es, DEUTSCH zu sein

[@Der.Geschichtenerzahler]

That's not just accent, but it looks like they are speaking quite different languages. Aqui no Brasil é tipo o que acontece quando você fala o português e o nordestês kkk

[@dan74695]

Dialect*

[@helenlouiseadams]

Nordestês is awesome!

[@themasstermwahahahah]

Here I have been trying to perfect my pronunciation of German vowels, but apparently I can just say whatever vowel I want

[@adelaidehamburger4810]

0:38 Sounds like Slavic.

[@LL-pg3bh]

Hallo easy language Ich finde diese Video einfach genial. Ich bin selbst in München für 8 Jahre aber habe noch nie richtig Borisch gelernt. Es fehlt mir so ne Video, Hochdeutsch mit Borisch zu vergleichen. Gut gemacht und noch mehr bitte Liebe Grüße Delin

[@ornellaputti6691]

Loved it! Just moved to München and really want to get to know a lil of it, great job girls!

[@acesul8811]

3:07 - She's doing an impression of Hitler at the train station

[@ericthegreat7805]

Lol...

[@chan625]

How dare you put the Easy German sticker on this?!! :P

[@Friedbeer]

Bavarian German is like a completely different language...

[@Doktor_Jones]

+Friedbeer usually, the rest of us pretend that Bavaria is not part of Germany :p

[@Doktor_Jones]

+Joseph Beltran I don't believe you.

[@flutterlump]

Linguistically (scientifically), Bavarian is a different language. Officially, it isn't.

[@daisyfaithfull8559]

Timo Stop lying. And I don't think people from Swabia hate Baden-Wurttemberg.

[@familieblumbergers4052]

and it surely isn't the only german "dialect", that differs that much from standard german

[@pythonmentor]

I really liked this video, very well done! It isn't "Bavarian German", just "Bavarian" or "Austro-Bavarian". It's not a dialect of German, I don't know why people keep repeating that myth. It's like saying "Duch German" or "Swedish German", just because they are in the Germanic language group doesn't mean that they aren't their own languages/dialect groups.

[@nirutivan9811]

Yes, the south german dialects could easy be their own languages. The dialects spoken in switzerland have bigger differences to standardgerman, than norwegian to swedish. They are just still dialects, because we have no standardized written language and keep using the standardgerman one.

[@damaslpressath]

as nativ eastern bavarian speaker i may say...this is a very standarisized city-bavarian....spoken whitout all its special vocals....and there is not 1 bavarian language...there is many dialects...it is also not a dialect of standard german but of Upper germanic language.. hera another variety to see some more archaic version: www.mundart-lexikon.de/index.php?controller=lexikon&action=wortliste

[@woahkudros]

One phrase in particular is interesting in Bavarian, when she says “nimma” which in Ukrainian is немає sounds almost the same and with the same meaning

[@maximoritzleo]

The word "nimma" doesn`t only exist in Bavarian but also in Standard German (spelled "nimmer", but it`s pronounced the same way) Actually I think it exists in almost all german dialects in some way

[@Ima184mm]

Sound like some different language

[@bernardo7120]

The bavarian girl didnt spoke like "deep" bavarian, and she had a little standard german accent 😂😂

[@v-g-z3689]

True, that´s quite funny, you could clearly hear that she wasn´t used to speaking bavarian :D

[@kurby1259]

WHAT? I UNDERSTOOD NOTHING THAT SHE SAID AND YOURE TELLING ME THERES EVEN DEEPER BAVARIAN? And I’m fully German…

[@realblindpenguin]

@@kurby1259 She's talking a different Bavarian dialect. Her use of "Minga" instead of "München" makes me suspect that she might not be from Munich city, but rather from the rural area. If you go farther away from the city, things get weird. Especially if the Bavarian Woods. Their dialect almost sounds like an entirely different language. Kinda like a mix of Bavarian and Czech.

[@admontblanc]

@@kurby1259 she was speaking Bavarian, but her accent was not the thickest, if you want an example go look how the name of the city of Augsburg is pronounced in Bavarian and you will see just how the thick accent might sound like.

[@DanielLeoSimpson]

Wow, I had no idea there was such a difference even though of course we all hear about "high" German - but Cari is speaking what I just think of as "normal" German and Franzi is speaking more of what I would consider a dialect of German. (If I offended anyone with that statement I officially apologize in advance ;) Daniel Léo Simpson Composer San Francisco

[@Vintagevintagegirl]

+Daniel Léo Simpson Yes, its a dialect. It's not an official language. Learning it might be tough unless you are young and live there or born there. You won't find notary papers in Bavarian Dialect, it what everyone speaks in their community and the dialect can change from village to village. I learned Austrian dialect when I was in my teens. Austrian dialect is very similar to Bavarian dialect.

[@dinacaraveo]

Danke für die Videos! :D könntet ihr so eins für jedes Dialekt machen? Es wäre super!

[@radpol2738]

Let's make Bavaria great again ;-)

[@deutscher9790]

english as official language in the Bavaria

[@Roger-mz4lx]

Lol

[@Boarisch_Flori8280]

Fralle

[@andresnoriegam2228]

Heute ist ein schöner Tag- Heute gibt es aus china ein dog. jhhaha

[@Myrrmoasta]

Heid is a schena Dog :)

[@ychic7015]

+andres noriega m lol was halten sie von erwarten der Chinesisch?

[@Oachlkaas]

+andres noriega m Nur das man das Ch in China wie ein K ausspricht.

[@clintonp5395]

Oh my God! I felt German language was difficult, but now i have a feeling that its extremely difficult..! God, how am I going to learn it :-(

[@krisschimmel2997]

+Clinton P Im learning it now to in college. one step at a time brotha! learn one and then the other.

[@MaxMustermann-go8xf]

+Clinton P Maybe it will motivate you when German people tell you how impressed they are, when you can form a sentence, even if your pronunciation is entirely wrong. Seriously, for most of us, it's impressive when foreigners learn German.

[@vinhtaquang9498]

+Clinton P same here T_T

[@lagiipie4531]

Im from germany ^^ JAAAAAAA

[@MaxMustermann-go8xf]

Gabriel Andrade Maybe they wanted to make it easier for you.

[@tanyabrown9839]

wow so different. I play a game in a German team which helps my German learning but till now did not realise that the Germans who greet with "servus" were like having an entirely different language.

[@davecullins1606]

When I was in Munich for two weeks as a part of a course, I never heard anyone speak Bavarian ever. Everyone I met spoke Hochdeutsch.

[@linaredhead3601]

It could be way more bavarian 😁

[@damaslpressath]

this sounds for me (east-bavarian) like a modest city-bavarian....and not one of the (many different) authentic forms you will find across the country.....

[@diebasi9813]

First reaction: speechless, right after: officially dumb 😶

[@ThomasNigelHawkins]

A question for northerners - Do you better understand Bavarians or let´s say the Dutch? :-)

[@dougspindler4947]

Wonderful video - Well done. Now I understand why it is my wife who is fluent in German has a really hard time communicating with Bavarians. And even more difficult with Swiss-German speakers.

[@toxicbee990]

Do Bavarian people talk in their accent when people from northern Germany visit Munich or do they switch to hoch deutch?

[@nonosquare1066]

They usually talk hochdeutsch with them

[@MargaretPing]

The Bavarian German sounds like Dutch.

[@alraunevonegenolf4307]

No. More like Czech.

[@nicolasqi5373]

It likes just 2 different languages!

[@ajulianj]

wait a minute 2 pronunciations??..i cant even speak what i say speak...understand the first i now this...you ,bavarian girl, have just kill me

[@Jamesucht]

ajulianj wat

[@ViolentFEAR]

ajulianj two? mate, we're talking here about 10 and more. :D

[@Batista77387]

+ajulianj hahahahahahahaah 2? hahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhahaahhaaha

[@paulinegerards4251]

Woah, my friend like, i guess theTwo dialects you're Talking about are one Part of the City. In my opinion, there is even a difference between the bavarian you Speek in Giesing, Munich and in Haidhausen, Munich and, i mean, These Parts are even next to Each Other. But saying that there are only 2 dialects in Germany is like saying There only live 2 People in Germany of you Know what i mean

[@sergeantsilly5239]

@@ViolentFEAR And there are way harder pronounciations than bavarian xD

[@alaminmughrabi84]

2:53 where the hell did the "langsam" come from? lol

[@astrologyfit]

lol

[@Legodude552]

It's amazing how different they are.

[@anthonyfrancis7033]

In Bavaria do they spell differently than Standard German, or is it like that in this video to show the difference in pronunciation,

[@Antithesis808]

+tony francis its just to show the difference

[@anthonyfrancis7033]

+manu roell Danke

[@naseemhamid773]

+manu roell same bro. just accent changed just like english american briitish etc

[@HesseJamez]

It's diglossic like in Swiss. They write in High German but speak another language.

[@RFergusson]

Different languages in my opinion.

[@terrendously]

I told this to my girlfriend in Upper Austria and she got all offended.

[@warriorzx816]

Have you ever heard of the Yorkshire dialect or even some American dialects? That should destroy any misconceptions.

[@Igorr2010]

bavarian is more beautiful, like italian

[@adelaidehamburger4810]

Agreed. Bavarian German sounds like a bit of Slavic influence.

[@bennemann]

I don't know any German, but even then I can tell that the subtitles are very questionable sometimes. Like at 1:58, she doesn't say "Des gfoid ma do?", but probably "gfoite des do?" if my ears are not tricking me.

[@walterross9057]

bennemann Yes, you are right. It's "Gfoit der des do?". Standard German: "Gefällt dir das da?"

[@gaithguesswhat6827]

it sounds nicer than high german