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    Posted: 20 February 2007 at 11:34pm
Hi,
I'm studying this course and, at the same time, the one made by Deutsche Welle, and as I noticed they are taught in different accents, I just became curious about wich are each one. Anybody could help me solve this doubt??
 
Thank you, and sorry for any English mistakes (I'm still studying...)!
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Quote Karat Replybullet Posted: 21 February 2007 at 4:31am
Could you post links?
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Quote The Savage Replybullet Posted: 21 February 2007 at 10:04am
By the way, I'm following the Beginner's course, Deutsch - warum nicht
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Quote Karat Replybullet Posted: 21 February 2007 at 10:41am
Hm, those are quite a lot of lessons. :D Which do you mean?

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Quote The Savage Replybullet Posted: 21 February 2007 at 5:14pm

In Deutshe - warum nicht, the characters are the same in the whole course, and there aren't many differences between the way each character sounds (at last to my ears...), so any lesson could serve as base of comparison. But the German spoken in the FSI course is remarkably different, specially the first male voice of lesson 1.1, with that "rolled" like R and incredibly fast pronunciation. Is this just the way normal colloquial German sounds?

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Quote Karat Replybullet Posted: 21 February 2007 at 6:09pm
The guy is really talking a bit faster than a normal speaker. I think the average German speaks slower. (at least I do) He has also an accent, that's true. But you will hear this kind of pronounciation all the time, it is quite common to say "Guten Tach" (instead of "Guten Tag") and "bidde" instead of "bitte".
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Quote The Savage Replybullet Posted: 21 February 2007 at 10:26pm
Vielen Dank!

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Quote alexss3 Replybullet Posted: 06 March 2007 at 8:53am
I believe that the rolled "R" comes from Bavarian german in southern germany. I could be wrong but I heard that once. Also if you listen to Rammstein, the lead singer rolls his "r's" quite a bit, so maybe find out where he is from.  There is definitely a difference in north and south german dialects, but not too severe to where it's a complete language barrier.  I say learn textbook german (listen to news or political german for non-regional dictation) and learn the basic concepts of the different dialects, and you'll be able to pull off being a local anywhere you go in germany.  Just my two cents.
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Quote Exocrist Replybullet Posted: 09 April 2007 at 11:13am
The rolled R is definitely a Bavarian thing.  You'll hear it in Austria too.  It'd probably a really good idea to expose yourself to different accents, so that when you meet someone from, say, Badem-Württemburg, his Schwäbisch accent wont verhinder your conversation.

Definitely try to learn the Hochdeutsch pronunciations and a standard accent (i.e. one that doesn't give you away as an Ami).  After you get that down, maybe try learning a dialect or two, but that's really only possible if you live in an area where the dialect is spoken (or have access to, say, native Bayrisch speakers). 

If you get your accent to be un-Americanized, people will just assume you're a German who grew up speaking Hochdeutsch instead of a local dialect.  I sort of disagree with alexss3 that you'll be able to pull off being a local, because so many local areas have somewhat strong accents, due to their dialects.


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