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HelpRe: Another German sibset
in reply to a message by Helena
Dunno. I'm not a fluent German speaker...I'm only in my 3rd year at school. I may be much closer to fluency than many of my peers, but still, I only speak enough to get the gist of written German. Thankfully nobody writes in Swabian German or I wouldn't be able to understand a single word...it's like another language! Unfortunately I think that may be the primary dialect spoken in my family.
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Yes it is a regional dialect.
It's spoken in the area of Baden-Wuertemburg (sorry for the "ue"...I don't know how to do umlauts or accents on this thing!). That's west of Bavaria. They have a very distinct dialect, that's so different from standard German or anything else it looks like an entirely different language, perhaps in a different family...I have an easier time reading Swedish, and that says something! I don't even know a word of it!
I think I forgot to mention that the post said nothing about Japanese...it did say something that looked a lot like fantastical or fantasy, but I can't be sure of the meaning.
I'm also learning French.
It's spoken in the area of Baden-Wuertemburg (sorry for the "ue"...I don't know how to do umlauts or accents on this thing!). That's west of Bavaria. They have a very distinct dialect, that's so different from standard German or anything else it looks like an entirely different language, perhaps in a different family...I have an easier time reading Swedish, and that says something! I don't even know a word of it!
I think I forgot to mention that the post said nothing about Japanese...it did say something that looked a lot like fantastical or fantasy, but I can't be sure of the meaning.
I'm also learning French.
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