14 thoughts on “Language quiz

  1. I admit my German is rusty, but it sounds just slightly too far off to be a dialectal difference. I’m guessing I’m wrong and it’ll turn out to be German anyway, but I’m going with Frisian.

  2. Definitely not Frisian. Something German, certainly. Something Plattduutsch, an eastern dialect probably.

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

  4. 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.

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

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

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