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

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

Today is a nice dog

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

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

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

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

Sigh, I already find German difficult enough. Now there's a German that Germans can't even understand...? :(

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

Ich komm aus Norddeutschland Sie is a Preiß :D.

And today I gave up on learning German...

Heute ist ein schöner Hund

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

Note to self: avoid Bavaria.

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

Omg it's like another language.

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.

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

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.

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?"

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

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"

bavarian german = lord of the rings xD

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

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.

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 😊

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.

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.

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!

I absolutely love dialects, although they are horrible for everyone trying to learn the normal standardized language. I am from Düsseldorf and we sometimes change to a dialect that is very close to Dutch. SO we and Dutch people can basically communicatie without problems. ^^ Just an example: at 1:04 in my dialect would be: "Eraf un eronger." or another at 1:44: "Pass op, do kütt en Waren eröm." :'D

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

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!

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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!

It sounds like the Austrian dialect *_*

It's amazing how different they are.

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

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.

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.

Does anyone remember the singer Nicki? We I was first introduced to her music I thought she was singing in Swiss German. I didn't realise until now that she's German and sing's in Bavarian dialect! It's definitely different and it's "softer" sounding German language.

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.

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).

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

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.

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 :)

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

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

Wow Amazing ❤ Please upload more

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

Der Tag sieht sehr schön aus!🙂

Cari, I would love to see a video on the differences between standard German and the Hessian dialect!

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.

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

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.

I speak a Schwowish Balkan German dialect, and Bavarian sounds very similar.

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

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!

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.

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

Bavarian German is like a completely different language...

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

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.

I’m trying to learn the high German but all the apps and other German language tools only teach the standard German. Where and what app can I use for the Bavarian German?

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! ❤️

Sound like some different language

Near die Alte Pinakothek? Passauer Deutsch sounds different. Is it still Boarisch? Thanks for posting. There is a nice cafe in die Alte Pinakothek, but it is always crowded.

I spent 3 and a half years in northern Bavaria (Wurzburg) and learned enough German to easily get around. I made several trips to Munchen (Southern Bavaria) and found that the German I learned worked just find there.

The Bavarian girl is hot!

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

Super , durch euch konnte ich innerhalb kürzester Zeit einige Wörter bayerisch auswendig

Both look extremely good

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

Different languages in my opinion.

I remember how difficult it was to understand people in Tirol. I knew about the different dialects but had no way of learning the words. Are there Bayerisch dictionaries?

Interestingly, the word "Servus" is used in Czech as well, although not much often nowadays. It is considered a bit obsolete.

Let's make Bavaria great again ;-)

2:46 = chama a mãe.

Das ist gut. I don't understand either but it's interesting to hear the difference.

I’m just out here trying to remember the artikels and conjugations.

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

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

Reminds of my German language teacher, a classmate when pronouncing Ich to her it sounded like he was saying Ike. Her reaction was you sound like a Bavarian, that was in 1990.

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.

It likes just 2 different languages!

do native German speakers understand Bayernisch?

I showed this to my friend from the UK to show her the differences cause im from Bavaria and she is learning german

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

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

First reaction: speechless, right after: officially dumb 😶

Many 'translations' are not literal though, like when the bavarian woman said "Obacht, do kummt a Woang" the standard german equivalent would be "Gib Acht, da kommt ein Wagen", so it's not just the dialect/pronouncation but also a different style of saying these phrases.

I'm going to Bavaria soon. I can get along with quite well in Hamburg with my German, but I'm wondering if I'll struggle in the south.