Comments on: German-German dictionary needed?

By: I dare you to say Bremen

I dare you to say Bremen — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:11:22 +0000

I´m a foreigner who came to the right place in Germany to learn good German: Hamburg, the ´Hoch Deutsch´ land. But I struggle with the pronunciation a lot. A colleague of mine always laughs when I say ´Mahlzeit´. She says it´s very funny when foreigners pronounce it.

By: Sally M

Sally M — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:14:58 +0000

http://www.soundcomparisons.com/
This one could be interesting for the English language!
Let me know what you think:)

By: Vitoria

Vitoria — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:33:21 +0000

In Brazil it is sometimes pretty hard to understand people from the northen part of the country for me. But considering the fact that I come from the very south I must admit that my accent is probably the weird one in this conversation.
The biggest difference for me is that the word YOU is said “Você” all around the country — except in my state, where we say “Tu”

Well, Portuguese language aside, I have experienced a small problem with the Geman one. I lived for a while in Switzerland and learned, besides the wonderful “Schwiizerdutsch”, the Swiss “Hoch Deutsch”, which is not at all similar to what the German call a “Hoch Deutsch”. Now I am trying to learn some Hamburg German but it has been hard to pronounce the R correctly most of the times….