• tourist@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Is the difference between the kinds of German obvious in text too? Or is it more like comparing American English to UK English

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      6 months ago

      All official texts use standard German, but the differences appear in day-to-day communication. People usually write in their dialect and since there is no orthographic standard, it looks quite bizzare. If you know a little bit of German, take a look at Tapakapa Erklärt. An Austrian guy speaking and subtitling in his (Vienna?) dialect.

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        6 months ago

        The grammar and pretty much all of the spelling is the same, but there are some words that are different, and some idioms and similar