Comments on: Language quiz

by: BG

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:41:54 +0000

Yeah! Bavaria is the only part of Germany I’ve been to so that’s what I guessed. It did sound somehat familiar though.

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:01:22 +0000

It’s a mock about a TV campaign against illiteracy. If you know that, the joke is much funnier.

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:48:15 +0000

BG & ekill got it - it is Bavarian (Bayerisch) and the recording comes from YouTube.

Even though I don’t understand much of the video, I get the joke. It’s probably funnier if you understand the Bayerisch.

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:22:23 +0000

My bet goes for Plattdüütsch.

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:29:11 +0000

My first thought here was Swiss German. It’s DEFINITELY a German dialect.

d.m.f.

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:58:22 +0000

(Without looking) It sounds like a dialect/language of Germany. Vielleicht Bayrisch?

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:37:41 +0000

Luxembourgish.

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:03:59 +0000

I don’t know German, but the “tunes” sound Germanic - especially towards the end of the recording.

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:05:33 +0000

It’s German for sure. But what dialect….He says ‘grot’ instead of ‘gross’, I think. That means it’s a northern dialect.

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:40:13 +0000

Maybe Danish, spoken in Denmark, Germany, and Greenland?