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Lene Voigt

Nov 29, 2007 18:39

For those who have never been in Saxony ( Read more... )

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marijke_rose November 29 2007, 18:15:18 UTC

My roommate and also a neighbour of ours are from Niedersaxon.. Mostly what I notice is our neighbour saying "Guten Tag" with a "ch" sort of sound on the 'g' in "Tag", and, then there is "Moin Moin!".. Generally, though, they both speak high German with a few local slang terms thrown in (such as "Moin")... occasionally our neighbour gets really slurry and his speech sounds similar to what you posted.

Anyway, a lot of the pronunciations there remind me of Dutch. LOL! Dunno how close they are, though, since NRW is closed to the Netherlands (bording it, afterall) than Saxony is.

arthenadent November 29 2007, 18:24:44 UTC

Niedersachsen and Sachsen are very different! Niedersachsen contains Hannover, the unofficial capital of Hochdeutsch. Just like people from Sachsen love their dialect, the people I know from Niedersachsen pride themselves on their clear, near-high German. In the area near Göttingen where I stayed, the only regional change is using "ü" instead of "i" in a few words, like Kirche. The Sachsen dialect is... well, almost unintelligible for some people!

pi_x_ie November 29 2007, 19:04:40 UTC

Niedersachsen is far away from Sachsen.
They don´t speak Saxon there but a complete different dialect.

breakingthrunow November 29 2007, 21:53:00 UTC

The Tach thing is north German, mostly coastal. I'm from Niedersachsen (the part where the most proper Hochdeutsch is spoken, no dialects) and understand 90% of Dutch just because it's so similar to East Frisian (also a region of my state). I've had many long conversations with Dutch people where they just spoke Dutch and I spoke Hochdeutsch and it all worked out really well. :) The same with Afrikaans, by the way, I've done that online and offline.

(And as others have said Niedersachsen and Sachsen really have nothing in common linguistically.)

akiko November 29 2007, 18:24:44 UTC

Sächsisch reminds me a bit of Hessisch. (Or should I say hezz'zch?) I picked up the worst dialectical pronunciation habits there.

I can't remember the whole thing (maybe someone here can?)but I heard a poem about Hessen:
Alle Hezze zind Verbrescher,
denn die klauen Aschenbescher.
??
ja, da zind die Mezzerstescher

(playing on the muted sibilant, and the indistinguishibility of ch and sch.)

arthenadent November 29 2007, 19:19:25 UTC

One of the Hessian girls in my dorm in Marburg used to annoy a non-Hessian girl by saying "Isch! Isch! Isch!" until she ran screaming from the room XD

akiko November 29 2007, 19:39:21 UTC

Did she then say "Marbooizh"? (or some similar approximation of that weird pronunciation)

I'm trying to teach my SO German, and I'm trying *not* to teach him Hessisch, but I can't not say 'zwanzizh.' *sigh* stupid Hessen.

breakingthrunow November 29 2007, 21:54:24 UTC

LOL! The isch thing IS annoying. But not all Hessians do "isch", some do "eich" (like my Dad, haha).

voldy06 November 29 2007, 20:05:48 UTC

Me: Born in Dresden (the capital of Saxonia) and raised by Saxons. XD

My friends always find it really funny when I'm talking on the phone to my parents because I switch from normal German to Saxon unintentionally.

breakingthrunow November 29 2007, 21:43:59 UTC

Haha, my Dad does that. He's from Hessen and has lived in Niedersachsen for decades now. He switches to the old Hessian dialect the moment he speaks to family there or we go visit, and right back to Hochdeutsch when he hangs up or we get on the Autobahn on our way home. It's cute. XD As a result of this, I have no problem understanding most of the Hessian dialects and can imitate them pretty well.

He came from Sachsen... lakritze November 29 2007, 21:34:55 UTC

And that was why my former boss was so hard to understand...even in English!