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 ...

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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 ...

Teacher Sandra Cronimus teaches a nursery class immersed in Alsatian in Brumath, eastern France on October 12th, 2023. Photo: FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP For years, the German dialect of Alsatian was ...

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 ...

A team of researchers in Germany recently published a study examining the relationship between language and trustworthiness when it comes to human views on talking robots. The question at hand was ...