Comments by "Britta Kriep" (@brittakriep2938) on "East Germany's Secret Walther Clone: The Pistole 1001-0" video.
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@zbigniewgurak8261 : When i was a little child, i only knew my dialect. One day i got a childrens book with many pictures of Farm annimals, i knew the annimals, because my parents and some neighbors had little farms. But when my grandmother took the noted book and told Stories about the annimals, I thougt, why does my grandmother speak so strange? She read the Texts to the pictures, this was the First time, I noticed, that there are two variants of german language: The unregulated dialects and regulated Standard German/ Hochdeutsch. Today most german people speak either a watered down dialect or Standard German mixed with dialect words. The number of real dialect speakers is declining rather fast, while the number of Standard German speakers is rising fast, especially in large Towns. Some months ago i was at a Gas Station, the Young Lady didn' t understand me speaking dialect, and the older lady working there had to explain.
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