He/she speaks clear, "perfect" german, for everyone to understand. He does so in his job only, in real life he sounds just "normal", like everyday people, or...
When I was into flat-sharing, one of the guys came from South Germany. He talked a bit funny, but was a nice guy.
Until... he went to visit his parents. Everytime he stayed there for a while we had a hard time when he was back. It took at least 1 1/2 days til he was back to normal.
Same when he was excited!
Once he came over and asked if I have a carpet to borrow to him, he´ll have guests over.
I was thinking, huh??? What celebrities are to come, does it have to be red?
In south Germany a "Teppsch" is not a "Teppich" (carpet/rug), as you could guess, but a blanket!
How was I to know?
When Ingo fulfilled his military duty ages ago he was based in south Germany.
Grommbiera, that sounds... yummy? It´s Kartoffel an ordinary potatoe.
That doesn´t even hardly sound alike, Grommbiera – Kartoffel, does it?
They teased him, saying, boy, what an arrogant type of guy you are – think you´re better than us by speaking like the newscaster ?!
Gosh, no, we talk like that and ahhhhh – on Wednesday I´m off to South Germany, all alone!
My company sends me for skill enhancement to Stuttgart. Ok, it´s just two days (and one evening). But... geez.
Ok. I making fun here, I bet they won´t tease me and if they try hard they can speak like the newscaster, too ;-)
Everybody makes fun of the "Schwaben", there are entire dictionaries on Schwaebisch-German )partly german);-)..., Ingo found a crash course with all the rules like saying "sch" for "s" or leaving out the word wir (we) and simply add an "r" to the word before that.
Actually they deserve some respect, those guys, I think.
I could imagine it´s quite difficult when you grow up with that dialect, then come to school and find all the words are written entirely different to how they sound – extra complicated, is it?
I was ensured the seminar is in "high" or "standard" German, too!
It is called "high German"?!!! No wonder people think of "arrogant"!
Good evening, ladies and gentleman,
I now leave you to make up your own mind.
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