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  1. Weib = woman in standard German, although Frau is more used

    Z(u)morgen(a)= For morning
    Z(u)mittag = For midday/lunch
    Z(u)abend = For evening

    The names of colors are similar, just the vowels didn't undergo the same changes as in standard German

  2. I studied German (Hochdeutsch) for 5 years at school in England and although it was a while ago, I always feel it flooding back when I visit Germany and after 2 or 3 days I'm speaking and understanding most things quite easily. But I have to be honest that when I visited Switzerland about 15 years ago that I could barely follow a word of Swiss German.

  3. The German lady really reminds me of the first-generation German family that were our neighbors in Wisconsin (Kretschmann). Perhaps they came from the Frankfurt area too. Their mom, who spoke only German, seemed to be pretty happy that their kids had some ethnic Bavarian kids to play with, so odds are they probably weren't refugees from Berlin back when it was East Germany.

  4. So much hate towards dialects from Germans in the comments…
    Standard German is a made-up compromise language. A 100 y ago, it was nobodies mother tongue. It was systematically used to forge unity among Germans – after all it is hard to feel as a nation, if somebody from Flensburg & somebody from Rosenheim can't understand each other in their mother tongues. 100 y of hammering this 'one people, one nation under one language' idiology, let to linguistic intolerance being part of the German mentality. It is truly a shame, which paints this country in the wrong colour (brown).

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