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 ...

The history of the United States is multilingual, and many non-English speaking communities have managed to maintain their languages, sometimes for hundreds of years. Here are six dialects of French ...

Listen to this episode of A People's History Of Kansas City, a new podcast from KCUR 89.3. For more stories like this one, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play and Stitcher. Gene Beckman ...

FREDERICKSBURG — In a tidy wooden kitchen that smells of bread, Elizabeth Behrend slices a hard sausage she's just cut down from the smokehouse and tells about the time she and her husband, August, ...

From north to south, east to west, the German language varies significantly - travel site Expedia's new quiz is a pretty neat way to demonstrate this. German is the native language of around 90 ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This bibliography continues and supplements one that was published by Wolfgang Viereck, Orbis 16 (1967), 549-568; 17 (1968), 532-535. Journal ...

The first German settlers arrived in Texas over 150 years ago and successfully passed on their native language throughout the generations - until now. German was the main language used in schools, ...