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5 striking features of the Berlin Dialect Posted by Sandra Rösner on Oct 29, 2012
One of the most painful truths for foreign learners of German is that hardly any German speaks his or her mother language as textbooks propagate. To put it crudely, German is a kind of diglossia, which means that various spoken dialects coexist. These dialects can even be that different from the standard language that even…