Brit Reacts to Can American identify GERMANIC languages? (Austria, Germany, Swiss) 

And an Austrian from Tirol vs. a German from Munich. Or a Vorarlberger vs. a St. Galler.

Or just pick a Swiss person who speaks with more energy, like Hazel Brugger. A Swiss person who also sounds "harsh", like German.

@@dn3087 The German girl spoke the clearest purest form of German IMHO , the Austrian girl's German was a stranger idiosyncratic form ,a dialect maybe . The Swiss girl I couldn't understand what the hell she was saying and I know German !

@@hurtigheinz3790 Hazel can speak much more softly. But she lives in Germany and has adopted the tone.

@@gregorygant4242 Neither the Austrian nor the Swiss girl spoke German, both speak an Alemannic dialect.

They don’t even know what they’re talking about 😂 they’re just trying to badmouth the language

In Austria it sounds different whether you come from Vienna or Styria.

Yeah, talk about Ammerländer Platt and you think you're in a different country.

Yeah, it's like when people outside the UK talk about "British English". Like a scouse? A geordie? A highlander?

Auf jeden Fall zu ähnlich. Und auch wenig repräsentativ. Ich denke andere Dialekte wären passender gewesen... Sie hätten alle drei "Standard German" sprechen sollen. Die Unterschiede hätte man trotzdem hören können, und es wäre eher repräsentativ gewesen.

There are actual german accents in germany, that are way worse to understand for me, coming from nothern germany, than austrian and swiss. Damn, i can't remember where the father from an old friend in my youth was from, somewhere from the south, but when he spoke in his accent, you thought it wasn't german at all. It sounded more maybe turkish than german, or whatever. I think it was somewhere from Hessen / Rheinland .. but the region had a special name, i just don't get it anymore 🤔

@@beldin2987 Maybe Rhineland-Palatine, Saarland or Baden or Swabian?

Yep, same here

@@beldin2987 Südpfalz, Hinterpfalz, Hardt, Kurpfalz, Rheingau, Odenwald, Hohenlohe, Spessart ?

You forgot Liechtenstein as a neighboring country ;-) A quarter of the inhabitants have French as their mother tongue. Italian and Romansh are only small minorities.

@@Mischnikvideos ah yeah! Now I feel bad for forgetting Liechtenstein 🇱🇮

Yeah, Viennese dialect would sound a bit different, for example

Yeah, it'd haven gotten someone from ANY other state because Vorarlberg speaks Alemannic German compared to the majority of the country speaking what's essentially Bavarian,

I would say that any woman who spokes a German dialect would have made it harder. 😀

Swiss German isn't official, is it?

Actually the languages documented as official languages to the rest of the world are German,French ,Italian and Romansh. Are you just calling these in your own language there?

Schwyzerdütsch is not an official national language, it is High German. The German-speaking Swiss do not want to speak High German.

Basel has no train station in Germany, but there is a German railway station in Basel! There are also various bus and tram connections (cross-border) to Germany and France.

You are absolutely right. If I had represented the German language there with my Rhineland dialect, the American would not have had the idea that I am a German. Of course, this also applies to other German dialects that are spoken in Germany. 😀

this video is not a science PhD thesis

@@tangente00 Yes, that's right.

Yes, you are right. One is speaking standard German and the others are speaking regional dialects. It is like comparing a Glasgow dialect with received pronunciation.

I mean since they were mentioning people that are still alive and you'd say a name that people from the US might know... Merkel is not a bad one for that. A lot of the most famous Germans in history are quite dead.

The person you're thinking about is not FROM Germany. That's why the Austrian quickly added "still alive" before picking Arnold.

On an international Level, Merkel is for sure well known. Who else do you think would be known more than her...?

@@matt47110815 Heidi Klum?

She is for sure the most famous one.

Or take someone from the French or Belgium border, Aachen or so.

Dia alten Xiberger

riiight? Fellow Austrian here 👋

kinder Überraschung (Surprise) would be famous in the US because it's banned there... so maybe she thought of that.

According to the Swiss government website 22,8% is French speaking.

*That's a matter of taste, today you can make tasteful, excellent chocolate everywhere, if the ingredients are of the best quality...., but I can agree on Switzerland.* 🍫🍫

dude, it is june 13th and we had around 3 sunny days since january. the weather in may and june up until now was horrendous, mostly rain and cloudy.

@@tangente00 she said we have more winter than anything else

No, he was referring to a smorgasboard, which is what you defined. You are referring to s‘mores, which are flat cookies with a thin layer of chocolate and a melted/roasted marshmellow, usually eaten at a camp fire…: Smörgåsbord ([ˈsmœrɡɔsˌbuːɖ] ) ist ein schwedisches Buffet, das in Gaststätten und bei privaten Feierlichkeiten angeboten wird. Das Wort smörgåsbord kommt von smörgås „Butterbrot“ und bord „Tisch“, wobei der Wortursprung von smörgås (wörtlich Buttergans) aus der Zeit stammt, als noch selbst gebuttert wurde. Ein S’More [smɔəɹ] ist ein Lagerfeuer-Snack in den USA und Kanada. Er besteht aus einem Stück schmelzender Schokolade und einem gerösteten Marshmallow eingebettet in zwei Graham Cracker. In den USA wird jährlich am 10. August der National S’Mores Day gefeiert.

… if you happen to know the specifics. Or are able to understand them when they are told to you in the proper pronunciation 😊

It's good but Swiss, Belgian chocolate is considered more high class ! German cars are the best overall regardless if they are budget or luxurious .

Vorarlberg is the most western country in Austria and it's bordering Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Vorarlberg is separated mainly by the river Rhine from the swiss Kanton Sankt Gallen. There's a quite smooth transition between the dialects spoken in Vorarlberg and the ones spoken in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, especially towards the German region called Allgäu - the border region.

Picking someone from Vorarlberg, the only region of Austria with an Alemannic dialect (and a small minority of the total population) is honestly a pretty poor choice.

@@Alias_Anybody So you think people from Vorarlberg cannot represent Austria? 😉😄 The dialects of Vorarlberg are a bit different of the ones in neighbouring regions of Switzerland and Germany. But I'm conceding that they are difficult to tell apart by people from an entirely different region. I think that the dialects in Vorarlberg have a special sound or accent which seems to me as a Swabian very Austrian. Often I can hear it even in places near or at the border between Austria and Switzerland. West of Lake Constance along the border between Switzerland and Germany I could have more difficulties distiguishing Swiss and Germans

@@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl Yes. If they don't make an effort to approximate Standard German it's often barely comprehensible to the speakers of Bavarian dialects.

@@Alias_Anybody There's probably a smoother change from Alemannic via Swabian to Bavarian in Germany. In the administrative region of Schwaben in the German state of Bavaria variations of Swabian dialects are spoken mainly. I'd even count the dialects in the Allgäu region into that family of dialects. They're very well understandable for people from Upper Swabia and even Ulm. They sound a little bit different but that's well within the variation of Swabian dialects. The situation is obviously quite different in Austria. There are the massive mountain ranges of the Arlberg and Silvretta regions which are separating Vorarlberg from the rest of Austria. For centuries Vorarlberg was unreachable from Inner Austria during winter. Vorarlberg is much more accessible from the west, ie. Switzerland, and the north, ie. Germany. Culturally the southern part of the Allgäu region in Germany and Vorarlberg are quite close. And the same can be said about the Swiss region of the Kantons Sankt Gallen, Appenzell and partly even Graubünden/Grischun/Grison as well as of the duchy of Liechtenstein. Lake Constance was historically rather a connection than an obstacle which allowed access by several port towns like Bregenz, Friedrichshafen, Romanshorn, Rorschach, Konstanz, Überlingen, and Lindau, to name a few. Some of them were built or fortified by the ancient Romans already (Constantia, Brigantium, Lindovia). When railway lines were reaching the coasts of Lake Constance ferry boats were provided and operated to ship even railway cars across the lake. Several historical trade routes were passing through Vorarlberg mainly serving trade across the Alps, ie in north-south direction. However, in summer, the Arlberg passage was used too, supported by resting stations and hostels in St.Anton and St.Johann.

As a Swabian it really appears to me like that. But then the Swabian dialect is a special variant of Alemannic (some minor additional sound shifts, I think).