Hochdeutsch (standard German) is what's taught in schools, and what you hear on mainstream TV. But a huge variety of dialects are alive and thriving - especially in Bavaria - says Augsburg local Nic ...

Large language models such as GPT-5 and Llama systematically rate speakers of German dialects less favorably than those using Standard German. This is shown by a recent collaborative study between ...

Standard German is called Hochdeutsch and is heard all over the country. But there are many regional dialects and other languages spoken in Germany. Please sign up or ...

The ability of children to speak any two dialects - two closely related varieties of the same language -- may confer the same cognitive advantages as those reported for multilingual children who speak ...

Dialects enrich the German language. They create sense of belonging and show regional diversity. In this episode, we talk to linguist Leo Kretzenbacher and Philipp Hockenberger from Hofbräuhaus ...

The ability of children to speak any two dialects -- two closely related varieties of the same language -- may confer the same cognitive advantages as those reported for multilingual children who ...

Europe is home to 24 official languages, while as many as 200 are spoken across the continent. That might not seem like a big number when compared to Africa, where 1,500 and 2,000 languages are spoken ...

FEW Germans now say Appel rather than Apfel (apple) or maken instead of machen (to make). The north German dialects that use such variants are mostly dead or dying. But the cultural differences that ...