AMD 3

For this AMD post, I read the Viennese for Americans phrase book. I thought that there would be similarities regarding Viennese German and German but I was quite taken aback by how differne t the two languages were. Some of their phrases don't even sound remotely German (not that I have a huge knowledge on German just yet but from what I've learned and heard) and I thought that some part of their dialect sounded kind of French.

For example, one of the more simple phrases in this book is good morning!

In German we would say Guten Morgen but in Viennese German, we would say Gun Moang. It sounds similar but at the same time very different. Even such simple concepts as numbers seem totally different as six is sechs in German and sechse in Viennese German.

I find it very interesting that a dialect derived from German can be so different from the original language. I guess in Korea, the dialects from different regions can also be very different from the Korea spoken in the bigger cities. However, I feel like it is understandable unlike Viennese German...