Posted on 01/31/2015 6:00:23 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine
There are over a dozen German dialects, from “Hoch Deutsch” in northern Germany to the more forgiving Hunsrucker dialect in the Eifel/Mosel region. Although it’s been over 30 years since I returned to the U.S., I still remember a number of phrases, such as “Bringen Sie Mir noch ein bier, bitte.”
LOL. That was part of the Schtick. You could not tell. It turned out it was a man and woman who were German.
“Ze drem vil finali kum tru.”
When in east Africa I thought the locals spoke German at first... then realized it was Somali.
Totally inaccurate. German television announcers can sound almost French. The Hitler-like accent isn’t from Germany, Hitler was Austrian, which is gutteral. The Bavarians and Swiss are beer gutteral as well. Hanover German is soft.
Spanish is for love? Tell that to the French and Italians.
Che bellissima ragazza!
:^)
That was the Okeh Laughing Record.
I used to check his books out of the library!
Which end of the horse?
>> Spanish is for love? Tell that to the French and Italians. <<
¿Different strokes for different folks?
(Para mi, prefiro strokes en Español.)
I've long noticed that Japanese (in movies, anyway) sounds very guttural. That doesn't really make sense; Japanese doesn't look like a guttural language when transliterated.
Interestingly, the same Japanese doesn't sound guttural at all when the speaker is female.
I think you mean "63 letters long."
Highly diluted by Norman French.
Russian is not harsh.
Russian MOVIES, now THOSE are HARSH!
When I was in Ancient Rome, I found that Latin had no set rules. It was different from region to region.
However, when the Aliens help we Egyptians build the pyramids, they insisted we develop a set Egyptian tongue.
In Switzerland, they say their roughest word to pronounce, with the extra guttural ch, is chöchichastli (kitchen cupboard) but that’s not it. The hardest one is chäschüechli because the first two vowels are Especally hard as well. A chäschüechli is a little hot savory cheese pie, bought from vendors on the street, delicious on a cold day.
I wasn’t sure but thought maybe Romanch (sp?), the 4th Swiss language, was the closest to Latin since it was an older. Preserved language from the mountains above Italy?
It’s uncommon to hear orders barked by females in Japan. Tourists in the US, now that’s a different matter, lol.
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