Since I'm monolingual I can't do justice to this question. Although I did study Latin, French and Spanish at school. French for 10 years, ye gods!
Runter! I love it! Haven't even done the Google translate, don't care, I love it!Das geht runter wie Öl(very flattering)
Plattdeutsch!
Hm, love the idea, just not sure about the casting. Don't know who to suggest and I'm not sure I want the biopic casting team to deal with it.That sounds so much worse than it is (well, it isn´t a bad thing at all lol)
It makes an awsome movie title, though:
COMING TO YOUR THEATERS SOON!
THE MONOLINGUAL HEATHEN
One woman and her mesmerising story of challenge, transformation and - finally- triumph!
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runter = DOWNRunter! I love it! Haven't even done the Google translate, don't care, I love it!
hahaPlattdeutsch!
Hm, love the idea, just not sure about the casting. Don't know who to suggest and I'm not sure I want the biopic casting team to deal with it.
Cool, cool idea though. I think I might be somewhat stalled in the 'challenge' part of the story, right now, but I will keep plodding on. Onwards and upwards!
That's how I did it.
I dithered so much over Portuguese and, truth be told, I haven't heard it in my life absolutely loads so stuck to the ones I've heard from childhood.
I'm already minded to swap around Russian and Swahili, lol.English and some dialects (I love how Adele speaks, for example
French
Russian
Spanish
- ranking may change according to mood
I've heard lots of people say this about Portuguese and Russian. Not sure I've heard the distinction being made about Brazilian Portuguese but, generally, yeah, loads of people say this. It's intriguing, what with Portuguese being one of the 'Romance' languages.
Interesting. I don't have anything useful to add bc these convos are not ones I've been able to take an active part in. I've heard numerous convos about whether Portuguese is harder to learn than Russian - or vice versa - and sooner or later the question of similarity between the two comes up. That's pretty much all I know.
OK, this guy's hair is lamentable and probably means he should be banished to ... I don't even know where. I can't think of anywhere dreadful enough, lol.Cologne dialect
Forgot to say, have you listened to Adele's 'Vogue 73 Questions' interview? It's my fave!
That said, his voice, accent, sound and the general energy of his delivery is so amazing ... ALL IS FORGIVEN.
If that's the Cologne dialect / accent, maybe I need to move there. I need to find out how widespread English is, first. Bc I'm not going to suddenly develop a mid-life talent for languages. Not happening, lol.
But it sounds amazing. Even better than my guy from Cologne!A skit with Berliner dialiéct. The comedians mock how rude it sounds and how "rude" Berlin vitizins often appear to foreigners
But it´s true: Berlin dialect is not for the faint of heart lolol
Berlin dialect is also called BERLINER SCHNAUZE (hard to translate: Berlin potty mouth comes close lol)
Good grief! I don't remember hearing about this.It reminds me of the tragedy in Genua in 2018
Is there any dialect that is for you as a native (almost) impossible to understand at all?Yes, indeed!
Some dialects are better understandable, and you can get used to them pretty well as a German. And then some of them like Bavarian, Swabian, and Schweitzerdeutsch are quite tricky.
omg, Bavarian! When I was a kid we knew someone from Bavaria so I think, apart from random stuff on tv, that was the first spoken German I ever heard. Not saying I would be able to recognise it nowadays. But I hold the idea of it in my mind very fondly.Yes, indeed!
Some dialects are better understandable, and you can get used to them pretty well as a German. And then some of them like Bavarian, Swabian, and Schweitzerdeutsch are quite tricky.
No. Oh, hang on! Maybe - just maybe - a Glaswegian if he (trust me, it's nearly always 'he') has had one too many. Other than that, no.
