Dialects Hotline  Rahel learns Viennese

Dialects Hotline host Rahel and the Viennese guest Gabriel Photo (Detail): Max Humpert © Goethe Institut

What makes the Viennese dialect so special? And what is the "Meidlinger L" all about? Rahel meets Gabriel to listen more closely to his dialect. 

 

Dialects Hotline

Saxon, Kölsch, Swabian, Platt - there are many ways of speaking German. But what do these different dialects sound like? Who speaks them? And what’s so special about them? Rahel Klein asks those who know best because they speak a dialect themselves.