Don't forget the german speaking part of Belgium.

@@juergend4904 Has not been forgotten! As I said in the video, there are many more countries where people speak German natively. This is not a representative video, it just shows 5 of countless German dialects.

Yep… ❤ kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lZ90d5B109_ZhH0.htmlsi=-8hBcCZT2FX_h65c and don’t forget the Volga Germans left behind though in the reunification 18 million came home.

@@juergend4904and France the Tyrol, Italy, Poland, Czechoslovakia, the former eastern Provence’s, Russia, and mainly former territories settle under Catherine the Great, and that at the start of WW1 70% of the population of the USA was German immigrates… many of who were here to escape the constant warfare from where they came!

​@@kimballscarr In many of these countries there are german speakers. But german isn't their "language no.1" In Germany a lot of persons or their anxients come from turkey. But no-one will say that Germany is a turkish speaking land. But In "Ostbelgien = Eastern Belgium" german is the Language No.1 Perhaps also in southern tyrol which belongs to Italy

Das stimmt nicht ganz, bei uns habe ich das vlt 1 mal gehört und dort wusste ich nicht was es bedeutet

wo wohnst du denn? bei uns in wien und niederösterreich sagt das nämlich echt jeder!@@steamsalty6594

I have to agree.... Baba is very common.... But the "time confusion" Fabian mentioned is new for me. There is just 1 way to tell the time 😂

I'm not Austrian but the „bā-bá“ was the first one I expected from the Austrian but then it didn't come at all.

I always thought, ba-ba was merely used in Vienna (Wien, capital of Austria). And it possibly comes from english "Bye-Bye".

From ancient Greek πλακούντας(plakountas) which was a flat bread, but also the organ placenta.

I am staying in western Romania at the moment our geman dialect word for Kartoffel ist "Krommbern", here it is "cartofi"-spoken "kartof" and in Hungarian it is "Krumbli", so I understand both words even though my Romanian is very limited and i dounderstand Hungarian next to nothing

In Saxony, pancakes are also called "Plinse"

@@andrekunert7254 that sounds like it derives from Slavic "blintz"

Well, in Latin _placenta_ means _Fladen_ or cake. So it makes sens.

I live in an area of the US where people literally refuse to learn other languages (I hate it here), and people still say ciao not as a greeting, but as a farewell.

Well, as an Italian and also as an Italian teacher here in Germany, I have to tell you that even here in Germany the “Ciao” is only used as a farewell and not as a greeting, as we usually do in Italy. Let's say, it's something that was imported from Italy, but it's not really used in the way we use it in Italy.

But we have an interesting way to write it down the german way 😉 It's 'Tschau' 😎

Red Bull and Geh scheissn! can't keep up with that.

In Hungarian, it turned from Ciao into Csáó and then Cső (which means pipe as well) and then as the connection was forgotten about, csőváz (pipe “frame”)

Same, it's the best part of the bread

@@CaptainLuk03 Correct. It doesn't matter where you live or whether it's black bread or white bread, the "Scherzerl" is the best piece of 🍞 bread! I can't believe that there were 6 people who see it differently... 😁😂

In the '80s (central US) I was with a group of at least 40 people making our own sandwiches. (At the back of the line) there was still "good" bread on the tray, but everyone else had left the end slices, so I got to make a sandwich with two crusts! Back then most people called that the "heel" of the loaf, after the back of a shoe, but I have not heard that term in many years.

I also cant believe the austrian called that thing a Semmel. How could he

@@EinsteinsHair Seems like it's common practice in America to cut the "heel" off the bread...

In case you did military service in Wiesbaden. You remember the housing area you lived in? Things changed a lot.... And more than just once. 🙃

@@mariokrings I was there from 1975 to 1983, then again from 1989 to 1994. Neither time did I live in the American housing areas. Lived in the single airmen's dorm until i married in 1980, then lived on the German economy. Never wanted to live in base housing, but instead, wanted to experience the German lifestyles and customs.

Also ended up in GA

That's cool. I wish I could meet you in Georgia. It's interesting, because German rapper Casper was born in Deutschland but lived in Georgia for several years as a child and then moved back to Germany 🙂.

That was some cultural shock I had when I came to Zuerich for my PhD, seeing German taking school at the MigrosClub evening classes to learn about "Zueriduetsch" because the Hochdeutsch and the Zuercher dialect are so different (and I could after couple of months discriminate German versus Swiss German).

Das kann ich als Schweizer aber nicht Recht Glauben. Hier in der Schweiz sprechen alles Hochdeutsch und Bayern und Schweizer verstehen sich sogar im eigenen Dialekt. Deutsche und Deutsch-Schweizer sprechen Englisch miteinander? Wie krank ist das denn?

@@rogermettler9354 Finde ich auch ein bisschen übertrieben. Ich hab auch meine Probleme, wenn Schweizer im vollen Dialekt sprechen, aber eig alle Schweizer, mit denen ich bisher gesprochen habe, konnten Hochdeutsch (mit Akzent & einigen lokalen Wörtern), und das ist zumindest für mich immer einfacher als sich auf Englisch zu unterhalten.

Ich weis nicht was für probleme ihr mit der sprache habt, ok ein Norddeutscher oder Ostdeutscher hat vileicht probleme alles zu verstehen. Ich bin aus Baden (ca. 2 Km von der Schwäbischen Grenze enfernt) und habe öfters in der Schweiz gearbeitet, da bin ich mit meinem Badisch-Schwäbischen Dialekt besser weggekommen als mit Hochdeutsch, aber in allen Alemannischen "Ländern" (Baden- Würtemberg, Elsass, Schweiz, Norditalien...) kann man sich ohne probleme untereinander unterhalten (haben ja alle den gleichen Sprachstamm, das Alemannisch) ohne auf Hochdeutsch oder sogar Englisch ausweichen zu müssen. Hier im süden von Deutschland( norden der Schweiz, osten von Frankreich) sind selbst die Bayerische sprache (Österreichisch) soweit verwandt daß jeder fast jeden versteht, selbst wenn er dialekt spricht. Mir hier südlich vom "Weisswurstäquator" (grenze zwischen Franken(Bayern) und Baden-Würtemberg gegen die Pfalz, Hessen, Thüringen und Sachsen))sprechen alle ähnlich so dass jeder fast jeden versteht

Funny enough, we Swiss often use English between each other to bridge between the four languages. We do learn at least one other national language in School but most of us don't speak those fluently. For example, I am currently a Peacekeeper with the Swiss Army abroad and within our team we have French, German and Italian speakers. So we communicate exclusively in English instead of using any of our four official languages. However, in Switzerland itself and generally in the Army, the official language is always Swiss German and the others just have to adapt and are expected to understand

West Upper German/Alemannic dialects are not only spoken in Switzerland. The term "Swiss German" is rather nationalistic and misleading, as dialect/language development largely took place before there were national borders, rarely stops at these borders and have usually also survived a change to a other main language. West Upper German dialects can also be found in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, France and Italy, where the transitions are rather fluid, even if there can be strong differences from village to village. There are also isolated West Upper German dialects in Romania, the USA and Venezuela, which have emigrated there and retained their dialect to some extent.

As Swiss living in Canada with the occasional trip to Switzerland for work, I consider Swiss to be a language of its own. There are so many words that the Germans working in Switzerland don't understand. I have had many work colleagues from Germany over the years and I find that English is easier in most cases when dealing with them. Although I can understand German written/oral, I find I have a hard time understanding someone from northern Germany. The term Swiss German is a misnomer. I would just call it "Swiss". From my count, there are about 20 dialects of "Swiss" in Switzerland. Of course there are also about 10 or so dialects of French and Italian. Then there is "Romansch" which is in a class of its own.

Swiss German dialects are part of the Alemannic dialect group within the German language continuum though.

it's a bit misleading to say that one form of a language was in general closer to a previous stage of language. it's just like many Americans love to believe they speak like Shakespeare when no, they absolutely don't (mostly it's just that they preserve rhoticism.. and not even all dialects do that nor are all British ones non-rhotic). Swiss German dialects are no different here: they still underwent certain changes (like the vocalisation of syllable-final /l/ to /u̯/ and following vowel changes in varieties around Bern). it's just that those changes are different than in other regions of the dialect continuum. you can say that they are more conservative (and thus closer to Middle High German - whatever that language may even be bc there never was a centralised language, we just took some corpus we had and put a pin in it for convenience) in respect to long vowel diphthongisation (and even that is actually highly oversimplified if you're talking about all dialects lumped together) but it is highly innovative in having a single unified plural form in verbs and having merged the accusative case into the nominative.

Every German speaking country has it's own standard German. Even the GDR had their own. That still doesn't mean, that dialects are variations of national standard German. Because the lather is always artificially created (and gets propagated by media, schools and academia). It's more the other way around, the dialects influence to some degree the respective national standard German.

Dear God your English is flawless. As an American we're embarrassed about not being multilingual.

Standard German is from around Hannover !

​@@aoilpeThe most accepted/influencal written German was the Prague German for a long time. This was basically Central German (Saxon and Silesian) orthography with Upper German (Bavarian) grammar (So Austrian German might be closest to that today). Modern Standard German is based on the same Central German dialects, but with the pronounciation of Hannover and also some Low German vocabulary. While Prague German might not be the direct ancestor of Standard German, it still had a strong influence on it. Also, the northern centered Standard German alone would have been alien to southerners and probably not well accepted if it was not for the "intermediate" Prague German that came before it and was used next to the Upper German standard.

As an American who has traveled through Bohemia and Moravia, and wondered about the German-Czech cultural relationships, I found this fascinating. Thank you!

@@aoilpe Hannover was originally Low German speaking. Their native language was just so far removed from Standard German that it was basically completely replaced by it. Calling it "accent free" is a more modern concept, cause there has never been a "right" way to pronounce Standard German.

Omelett und Pfannkuchen sind aber nicht das Gleiche!

@@ubierin4797 Bei uns in der Schweiz gibt es den Begriff Pfannkuchen nicht wirklich bzw. habe ich ihn in der Schweiz noch nie gehört

Meinsch ned cools video 😅😂? und guet grutscht?

Hacktätschli sounds a lot more intuitive than the other terms I heard in this video. Thanks for sharing!

in der Schweiz schon @@ubierin4797

Erpfi dürfte auch von Erdapfel kommen, wie in manchen fränkischen Gegenden die Äad‘äbbfl, Ad‘öbbfl, Ärbfl, Är‘öbfl,............

Pasta flour/course white in the US is "semolina flour" so that one names makes a lot of sense to me. My great grandparents spoke German as a first language and settled in a primarily German farming community in Wyoming. It's always fun to me to see what's regional, family or actually traditionally German with certain expressions and foods

Thank you! I was so upset when "gäll" wasn't mentioned!

Yeah, Loris really messed up there. I was upset when he didn't say "schwätze" or "gell"

@@magdolyn Absolut gäll?

So many triggers, it’s really hard to stay quiet 🤐 and here I am 😂 but who the hell would say „hüendli“ instead of „güggeli“?

Korrekt !! - Was auf dem Bild abgebildet ist, nennt sich definitv "Kafi Complet" ! .

For me it looks like a kind of a "kalts plättli"🤔

"Brot mit" in my home.

Brotzeit - Jause - Vesper (Schwaben) Wenn es nicht zu üppig ausfällt, ist in der Deutschschweiz auch z'Vieri gebräuchlich = Zwischenmahlzeit um 4 Uhr. Analog zu z'Nüni am Vormittag (um 9). Jause in Österreich klappt übrigens für Vormittag und Nachmittag (auch für die Pause in der Schule!). Wichtiger als das z'Vieri ist den Schweizer:innen sicher ihr Apéro. Irgendwas zwischen Afterworks-Umtrunk und Aperitif vor dem Abendessen. Oft mit kleinen Häppchen. Wenn die üppiger ausfallen (ähnlich der spanischen Tapas-Kultur), dann auch Apéro riche genannt (franz.).

@@markusdinhobl4907 - Um Gottes Willen ! - Was soll Ihre Genderei !? Sie beleidigen damit jede normale Frau, wenn Sie sich dem Diktat der links-grün-versifften Tyrannei unterwerfen. Generisches Maskulinum scheinen Sie noch nie gehört zu haben. Nur linksextreme Faschisten gendern. .

I guess we Germans are mostly exposed to the thin ones as crêpes, because we already have a name for our normal pancakes. And yeah, you mostly get them at stalls here, too. When I was still in school (9th or 10th grade), I was in a "Cêperie" (cêpe restaurant) with my French class once, and the cêpes there were mostly like German pancakes.

Same in Switzerland (in the French speaking part), we do them like the photo at home and not super thin

In Romania and Hungary they are like in Germany

@@bastiwen Do you know if they actually call them Omelette in Schweiz?

A crêpes is a crêpes, but if you try to make them at home in a normal pan they get thicker. There are other variations of a "pancake" in Germany. The completely unsweeted "Flädle" for a soup, or the sweeter and thicker Version called "Pfannkuchen" in the most Regions, but in Berlin its the name for the thing somerwhere else is called "Berliner". Towards Southeast, also the italien name is used and there are also Versions with beer in the dough .... 🙄 The only way to get a thin crêpes in the German language room is at these stalls or a Crêperia as in France. 😅

Bin seit 50 Jahren Berliner und hab Gänsewein noch nie gehört...bei uns ist dit ne Selter...

Bin geborener Berliner. Dit is ne Selter. (Gänsewein habe ich echt noch nie gehört!)

Update: Es ist wohl ein älterer Begriff. Ich habe ihn inzwischen in alten Texten aus den 70er und davor gefunden. Vornehmlich aus dem Osten Brandenburgs. Dazu passt, dass ich "Gänsewein" von meiner Oma kenne, die Baujahr 1901 war. Aber in meiner Schulzeit (geb. 1974) war der Begriff noch geläufig. Hm, ich werde wohl echt alt! ^^ Update: It's probably an older term. I have now found it in old texts from the 70s and before. Mainly from the east of Brandenburg. It fits that I know “Gänsewein” from my grandmother, which was made in 1901. But when I was at school (born in 1974) the term was still common. Hmm, I guess I'm getting really old! ^^

Entweder du chasch es oder du chasch es ned!

why not just call it a Güggeli?

or just use the french word: Poulet

@@swisspeach67Poulet is more a reference to the meat. Much like how in english you call the animal cow(germanic) and the meat beef(romance). I would call the Hünchen/Huhn just „Huen“.

Remembers me of german "Müsli" vs. swiss "Müesli". "Wir essen keine gehackten Mäuse zum Frühstück, gottverdammi!"

@@Sunny-ik2jj *Reminds

@Ecolinguist has done a bunch of those kinds of videos

I’m American and when I was in High School English class my teacher gave us a poem written in “Old English “. My German mother could read it.

Swiss here who is learning Norwegian. I've noticed that Norwegian has a lot of words that are more closely related to Swiss German than to German. The most obvious ones are "Nei" and "Jo/Ja". But that could also be because there are several variants of each Swiss German word. These are some ways to say "and" in Swiss German: "ond, und, u, o" and the last one is pronounced the same as the Norwegian "og"

​@@loislewis5229 Old English is almost the same as Low German. Low German is still spoken by some people in northern Germany

I remember from a holiday trip to Sweden that I was surprised to encounter so many almost unchanged German words, like "ungefär". Strangely, it has become very fashionable in Germany to say "roundabout 300" instead of "ungefähr 300". The English term not shorter, more difficult to pronounce and actually doesn't have this meaning in real English. I just don't get it!

You could have just stuck to Hochdeutsch. They know Hochdeutsch. It's what they learn in school. If you're at the border of Switzerland and Germany Swiss assume you understand Swiss German and stick with that. My husband worked in Basel which is a stones throw from Germany and he stuck with his Baslerdeutsch and most people understood. Every so often he would run into someone from Hamburg and they would be confused. Interesting information Southern Germany, Switzerland (German part), Alsace France, and I think western part of Austria are part of the Alemannic language and they understand each other.

@@jessicaely2521 this "Alemanic language" is what's called "Franconian". It can be Alemanic, like in Alsace and Switzerland, but there are Rhenan, Moselle and Ripuarian versions, too. You can include Yiddish (without the Hebrew words) and Pennsylvania Dutch in this family, too.

Appenzell is a nice town/kanton but rather isolated. Swiss German takes some getting used to, but it is interesting to see Dutch words coming back (not used in high German).

@@hellemarc4767 Today Amish in the US speak an old (naturally) form of German that I read is like Swiss German from the 1800's, but throw a lot of English words in (as do younger Germans, sometimes entire phrases) but with English word order, making it very confusing to word order dependent Germans.

@@jessicaely2521 I think a lot of Swiss people are a bit too confident about how understandable their standard German is.

In Lower Austria (guess also Vienna) the same... "Semmel" are the round ones, the oval ones with just 1 "cut" are "Brötchen". But as in styria the oval ones are also called "Semmel", there are also the "Steirersemmel"

Wir nennen die auch wecken in Freiburg (Breisgau) Baden and the “Knust” is the knäusele.. end of bread, similar to the Swiss we have “le” for the diminutive in Baden wurtemberg and Schwaben , where my dad is from.n super fun!

@@Techartskitty In Vienna we don't use "Knust" for the last bit of the bread, instead we say "Scherzal" to it. My grandmother told me that this was because at certain Würstelständen the ones receiving the last bit considered that as a bad joke (Scherz) by the owner and as such the term "Scherzal" as a cosy word for it established. how much of a truth there is within this explanation, I don't know. In Vienna in particular, if you go to such a Würstelstand you can i.e. order a "Eitrige mit am Buckl, an G'schiss sowie an Krokodü und a 16er Blech": - "Eitrige" would be translated directly with matter or pus is a Käsekrainer, a rather spicy sausage with cheese in it that when cut looks like you's cut into a pus-filled bulge when all of a sudden all that sh*t is draining outwards - "Buggl" or "Buckl" would be translated with hump or hunch directly but in Viennese refers more to the back of the chest of a person and here refers to the last bit of a bread or Scherzal as it is more known in Austria - a "G'schiss" would directly translate to the excrement of your toilette visit or more colloquial the "sh*te" but in this context it refers to a sweet mustard that is added. Some even refer to it as "G'spiebener" (vomit) as if you see the mustard on the plate where the sausage is, it usually doesn't look very tasty in this situation :D But that's Vienna basically, always making fun of stuff. We also use a term like "G'schissana" to a person we usually don't like that much. At times though we mock our friends with such expressions as well - A "Krokodü" or Krokodil in higher German or crocodile in English refers to a horizontally cut sour pickle/gherkin that looks similar to a crocodile lurking in the water - "16er Blech" directly translated as "16th steel sheet" refers to a tin of Ottakringer beer. Ottakring is the 16th district in Vienna and therefore refers to the brewery which beer should be served. Further terms one might here in Vienna are: - "Oida" or "Alter" in high German would refer directly to an elderly person, but most likely will be used to refer to someone else. It can be used to refer to your partner/husband/wife the same way it can refer to just a guy or gall you know but also refer to an idiot you're talking to. Quite often you might hear "Heast Oida!" (do you hear me [elderly] person) which depending on how you say it might only want to grab the attention of the other person or straight out insult him/her - "Hawara" - a good buddy. Some people might know the Viennese translation of the bible "Da Jesus und seine Hawara", if you don't I highly recommend it. It is actually quite a funny read! - "ur leiwond"/"ur leiwand" or "fett" (or plenty other expressions used by teens nowadays) would translate to something like super or mega in German language to express a strong feeling for (or at times against) something. The "ur" in that context is always used to form an augmentation of the said stuff - "fesch" would refer to something beautiful. But it can also refer to a disappointment, i.e. when your cats messed up your home and you come home and see the mess, you can say "Na fesch!" - °Fetzn" - could refer to a fabric of cloths, a hangover or a bad mark in a test/school report - "grantig" - We Viennese are said to be grantig (grumpy) a lot and I don't disagree on that one :D Never join my uncle when he has to drive on the Südost-Tangente :D - "Schmäh" originates from the middle German term smaehe ("beschimpfen" or "verächtliche Behandlung") but is often referred to it nowadays as "Scherz" or "Spaß" and refers to us making fun of something. It is said that Viennese have an own "Wiener Schmäh" which usually refers to a slightly morbid take on the world which therefore attributes Viennese people their own charm which especially German people often find cute or funny because we often say stuff that we don't really mean it and always use a bit of irony to talk about things. - "G'stopfta' would translate to a "stuffed one" and refers to a person that has to much money or brags about having to much money (or daddies favorite (spoiled) child that gets everything showed down their a**) - "Blunzn" refers originally to a blood sausage but may refer to the head of a person you're talking about - "Zwutschkal" refers to a tine person or a person that usually isn't able to calculate 1 + 1. - "Heisl" from the high-german "Häuschen" refers to a toilette. In old times a toilette was an own external little hut where people could go to and get their business done. Over the years buildings then first offered a toilette on each floor an later on in each flat/apartment but we still refer to it in the old terms. - "Reparaturseidl" - A "Seidl" is 1/4l of beer, a "Grügerl" would refer to 1/2 a liter of beer, and the "Reparaturseidl" is the beer you should drink after a hangover to prevent a bad "Fetzn" (or Kater) - "hussen" to mock someone to a degree that the other one is close of getting physically aggressive. - "baaaasst scho" is a phrase to tell an other person that everything is all right. In the supermarket you use this to basically say the can keep the change or the like. - "I hob eam ane aufglegt/ogriss'n" means that I hit someone on purpose because he deserved it - "Des is ma wuascht" a typical Viennese phrase when they don't really care about something.

@@Techartskitty In Austria we also have -le as diminutive, at least all over the south. The north does it's own thing with -erl and -l, which sadly is extending into the south. We have -ale, -le in singular and -ala, -la in plural (The plural is like that at least in Styria. I think in Tyrol and Vorarlberg they use just -le).

In Curitiba, einer Millionenstadt im Süden Brasiliens sagt man "penal" zum Federmäppchen, "vina" zur Wurst (Wiener Würstl), xineque zur Rosinen-/Nussschnecke, chimia zur Marmelade (aus Schmier) und tesão für geil, was genau die exakte gleiche Bedeutung hat auf Portugiesisch, wie auf Deutsch (ho* ny). Dort gab es eine sehr große Flüchtlingswelle aus Deutschland, Österreich, Polen, der Ukraine und co. während der WKe.

So it’s auch in Freiburg!

Interestingg!! yeah so, in most regions all over northern germany where lower german was (or sometimes still is) spoken, Rundstück is the actual word in that language. I'm from Hamburg where people don't usually speak the lower german language anymore, but even here you still come across the word Rundstück, even though most people also call them Brötchen :) Is the word rundstykker also regional (like to southern Denmark) or is it used all over?

We say rundstykker in Norway too.

Potatis, not potati, in Swedish.

Ive noticed that as a native german speaker i do understand a lot of northern languages if they are written or at least spoken very slow and clear. Enough words are similar enough for me to piece together something that makes sense. A lot of influence from germanic all over europe, heck even modern english started out as anglo saxon germanic.

Hi, I’m originally from the Hunsrück area

​@@Manou1999 Zu kuhl, sprischt du deitsch (dialekt)?

Wow, thats cool. I've never heard of this😮

Just looked it up and if it's the Tüßling am Inn I came up with, then I would hardly describe it as being just outside of munich. It's between Mühldorf am Inn and Altötting and thus almost in Austria.

@@mangachu3626 Yes, that’s the one and I’ve been to both those cities also. I didn’t realize that Tüßling was closer to Austria than München. All my German family lives in Müchen. I live in a small town in Northern California, near Sacramento. But most non American people would not know where that is, so I usually just say near San Francisco.

@@loislewis5229 i guess the Interpretation of distance is quite different in two countries with such different population densities. Just wanted to warn you that most Germans would not expect a one and a half hour drive to be in the vicinity of a city. Anyway, Munich's the best city in Germany so lucky you ;)

Well, todays German, Austrian and Swiss German are all dialects of high German. There’s actually a second German language (low German) which is much closer to Danish, Dutch and English but it’s dying out. 😅

@@Sebastian-us5of Interesting

First generation American here, half Swede, half German. While my German mother could mostly understood Swedish, my Swedish grandparents had a hard time understanding German 🤪

@@Sebastian-us5ofthat’s what I learned in school, but when I spoke high German to my Bavarian cousins, they were offended 😮

@@loislewis5229 I'm British born, but my mum is from Sweden. I can speak both English and Swedish, and I understand certain German words which are the same as or similar to Swedish

fr war ur enttäuscht w/ the lack of baba representation

BaBa (türkisch) = Papa

Well I have to disagree with you on some, I know that people im Mittelland use those terms, but the 'Weggli' is most definitely a 'Schwöbli' and so that you can pinpoint where I am from it is an 'Öpfelgiägi' 😜 I also found it a bit bad that Loris wasn't using 'gäll' and went with 'odr' Abr am beste fangi nit ah mit angerne wort, süst si mir ewigs do, vor allem wenn mir zu 'Bonbons' chömme (Bummeli wo i här chum). Chlöpfer fingi au no sone super wort wo super regional isch 😂

Regarding Eier, I recall that in some parts of England a few hundred years ago, eggs were called ayren.

Where I am from there is a difference between a Sömml (round) and Weggerle (long). A croissant is called Kipferle and the inner piece of an apple Putz or Pitz(/sch)gi if you are a child or want to sound super cute. Mushrooms are Schwammerla and the specific sort you mentioned are called Oaschammerla, where Oa means egg as well.

English / Australian jam donut

We have "toadstool" in English too.

​​​​​​ @pierreabbat6157 but a toadstool in English is usually poisonous fungi

hello: goedemorgen/-middag/-avond/-nacht/goedendag, hoi bread heel: kapje, kontje (means ass, buttocks or bum and mostly used for the end of a baguette but also for a bread)

seems to have a lot in common with swiss german dialects

I'd say this is also rather common in Austria and in parts of Bavaria. By the rules the past tense needs to be used if you're talking about past activities that are interrupted by activities that also ended in the past like i.e. "Ich las ein Buch als es plötzlich an der Tür geklopft hat" though in Vienna we would much rather say "Ich hab gestern ein Buch gelesen und dann hat's an der Tür geklopft". Which would usually describe an action (the knock on the door) that followed when I finished reading the book. But from the context it is obvious that the door knock probably interrupted your reading activity. I therefore had a hard time in German lessons at times as I wrote texts like I was talking to others and therefore always had point deductions for using the wrong tenses or "colloquial language" :D

Same in Austria

There's also no Plusquamperfekt or Genitiv in Swiss German. I find the differences fascinating.

@@magdolyn Genitiv gibt es im Österreichischen auch nicht (mehr). Plusquamperfekt eigentlich auch nur sehr vereinzelt.

@@antohein. Der Dativ ist der Genitiv sein Tod. 🙃 Wie sagt man in Österreichischen ,,Genitiv" wie ,,wegen des Busses"? Auf Schweizerdeutsch ist es ,,wegem Bus" (wie ,,wegen dem Bus").

Oh that is a fantastically relatable story - :-)

All French people don't speak the exact same kind of French, either, there are regional dialects.

Also bitte, Potsdam ist doch kein suburb ;).

Woman who grew up in Hungary in the inter war period said that German was always the "foreign" language that was compulsory in Hungarian schools at the time. Logical, as Hungary was and still is a successor state to the Austro-Hungarian Empire (and I understand that in theory, Hungary could still revert to being a kingdom?). She demonstrated how it is possible to say a whole sentence in Hungarian using words where the only vowel is "a".

The guy from Berlin speaks the least „weird“ dialect out of all of them. He only named a few specific terms from Berlin but apart from that the pronunciation is very close to standard German, unlike Bavarian, Swiss and Austrian German

@@ktipuss Well, German was an official language here in Hungary in the late 19th century and before the World War I because of being a kingdom of the Habsburg empire. Children in school and at home studied that to be able to connect the official elite. Also in the army German was the language in those times but many Hungarian people didn't speak German fluently (or in any way), this is why many command phrases pullulated in a funny distorted shape. By the way the children in secondary schools studied Latin and Greek, too, those were the international languages of the educated people. The last Hungarian king, Charles (Károly) IV abdicated in 1918. In 1990, at the time of proclaiming the new republic there were people who wanted to invite Otto Habsburg, the son of the last king for President of the republic (he was speaking perfect Hungarian with an amusing German accent), but nobody talked about becaming kingdom again. From 1950, as being the part of the socialist countries the Russian was compulsory. On the university in the early 80's we still were bounded to study Russian computer technical language (and disgusting ideological courses) but at the same time we studied English computer technical language, too, so that was an open situation. In the late 70's in the secondary school I studied also Russian and English, the parallel class studied Russian and German. In those times Germany was the "top of the West" for us, the international commercial agents were required mostly to speak German and Russian, but English, Italian, French were also good options. Nowadays everybody studies English with full effort, the USA rules. With vowels 'a'? That was rather difficult. The vowel 'e' is more frequent in Hungarian. Writers and poets in the early 20th century, first of all Frigyes Karinthy often played with that, this "language" was titled as 'eszperente' after the Esperanto. Nem lehetetlen, eme nyelvezeten kedves embereknek mehet mese lelkesen. But I'm far from experts.

@@afjo972 Okay, you're right, the pronunciation in Berlin is not too strange, but not too nice. Decades ago I heard good stout German somewhere close to Munich, and in Hungary there are still schwäbisch people with funny dialect, too. PilotsEye is a great video series about airplanes, in German and English languages, there is a Swiss airline among the participants, that Swiss German pronunciation of the cockpit crew was the most funny I've ever heard.

Very intersting considerations. Our last emperor Charles I at the same time your last king Charles IV pretended during the exile period that all his childrens speak Ungarian and he learned them personally the language. The mother Zita was Italian so the childrens were as far as the languages are concerned in a happy situation. All the rest was TRAGEDY ! @@gregor_man

Selterswasser bezeichnete ursprünglich ein Mineralwasser aus Niederselters (Hessen), war oder ist auch eine Marke eines Mineralwassers wird aber in Norddeutschland oft als Ausdruck für beliebigen Sprudel (Sprudelwasser) verwendet.

Yes, gel is more used to ask about agreement while oder is used to ask if he understood.

or „gället Sie?“ in the formal version, which I find hilarious for some reason! 😂

Dangschee! I hatt a ganz vui gaudi beim Zuaschaugn. Dir a no a guads neis Joahr. Pfiat di z'München na Wien.

"Bavarian and Austrian seem similar." Makes sense geographically.

I think most countries have dialects in different areas. I habe been learning Italian for nearly 20 years. When I was in holidays in Calabria and asked for the way in a small village, I didn't understand one word of the answer. Same in Sicily on the beach when I heard the lifeguards talking. Then think of all the dialects/ accents in Great Britain!

@@sigridholzner2807 Agree. Even the US has its own troubles. Take somebody from Alabama and have them talk to somebody from Maine. That will take a bit of time understanding each other. In my business I did a lot of work with people from Maine and I learned one thing quickly. They only use 25 letters of the alphabet. The letter R is nonexistent. If you refer to bar harbor Maine they pronounce it bah ha ba. If somebody has a heart attack, they basically enunciate it hat attack. Funny. I’m from Michigan and we have our own quirks no doubt

@@sigridholzner2807 On the other hand, it's often so easy to communicate with people even if you are not really capable of speaking their language. I had never learnt Italien, but when holidaying in the small villages in Liguria, I used to sit around sketching the buildings and mainly older people approached me, being curious about what I was doing. We had very interesting chats, me speaking Spanish ( I had studied Spanish) and they Italien. It's very often a matter of wanting to understand each other.

@@tjdent7166 I would rather say that people in Maine have "heart attacks" while other people in the US have "hard attacks".

Not in swissgerman however. Of course dialects become weaker too, however, speaking standardgerman is like giving up your dignity. Dialect is worshipped here which you can see in the proud Loris has about his words

@@ramonsuter7435 True. Swissgerman is often considered a separate language, not a dialect.

potato = Grombiere = "(Boden)krume Birne" = "crumb pear"

rdbjr77, I spent four years at Hahn AB in the early seventies and it would seem that the entire area is the "red headed step-child" or "black seep" of Germany. In this presentation a representative of the area was noticeably absent.

Ich glaub ma gehört zu haben, es kommt von "Krume" (wie Erdkrume) und "Beer" als der pfälzische Ausdruck für Birne. Also Erdbirne sozusagen. @@thomasnittel4561

@@earlewhitcher970 my employer is based at former Hahn AB and I live about 20 km away, in a small village, but I'm originally from West Berlin. If there are two old farmers speaking to each other in their dialect, I don't understand a word.

@@thomasnittel4561 I always thought "Grum" or "Grom" stands for "Ground", so "Erdbirne", not to confuse with "Erdbeere" ;-)

Alemannic is spoken only in Baden and along Rhine to Lake Constance. Other dialects in South Germany are Schwäbisch, Mittelbairisch, Südbairisch. A nice map of dialects can be found by searching: Deutsche Mundarten seit 1945

Not always. Allemanic dialects are mostly spread around Switzerland and parts of the german region of Baden-Württemberg, unlike bavarian/austrian dialects. Sometimes words in allemanic dialects, as you saw in the video, are much closer to northern german dialects or even dutch than it is to bavarian/austrian.

"Odr" is very common in the Allgäu - one of the Swabian parts of Bavaria - as well.

Ahhh good point! I stand corrected :)

And people in the Swabian part of Bavaria call "Weinachtsplätzchen" "Loible"

Brötchen eher "Weckle" Meine schwäbische Oma sagte immer, "willsch a Weckle mit Gsälz"..😂

Potato also Ebiare, Erdbirne Chicken: Geggele

Picky Eater: "Schleckhafa", or:" der isch schleggich"

Why not start it in German and get the videos captioned in English?

That is fascinating! Growing up speaking PA Dutch my mom would sometimes use the word Wecke or Weckle for dinner rolls. We also used Grumbiere for potatoes. It's so interesting discovering all the different influences to our native language.

In Buffalo NY USA area a beef on a bun sandwich is Beef on Weck!