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We have to talk briefly about dialects. And with that, welcome to German with Benjamin. Yes, today we're going to do a little bit of something different than usual. I was in Zell am See for the last few days, or rather last week I was in Zell am See for five days. By the way, it was beautiful, so I can really recommend it to you. We were there from Monday to Friday. On Tuesday we went to Kitzsteinhorn, saw the glacier there. The day was a bit rainy, so we didn't have the best view from up there that day. But we were also several times at Schmittenhöhe up there. That's the house mountain of Zell am See. And once, that was on Wednesday, we had really bomb weather there. And with that, a really great, dreamy view from up there. So if you like the mountains, you should definitely go to this area, Zell am See, Kaprun. It's in the state of Salzburg. And why am I telling you all this? Well, I'm originally from Germany. I'm also often in Vienna. Meanwhile, I've been living in the Czech Republic for a few years. That's why Vienna is not so far from where I live. And now in Zell am See, I've noticed four sentences over and over again. So four sentences, I felt like I heard them a hundred times a day. From all kinds of people, over and over again, I've heard them. And in Vienna, I usually don't notice them that much. And that's why I decided, when I was in Zell am See, to just share this video with you. Because I found it very interesting. And these sentences are said in many parts of Austria, and also in some parts of Bavaria. That means, you will definitely hear them when you're in Bavaria, when you're in Austria, for example in the state of Salzburg. As I said, I haven't heard them that often in Vienna, but even there, I think, you can hear them over and over again. It probably also depends on who you're talking to there in Vienna. Vienna is also relatively, or not relatively, but very international. And in big cities, the pronunciation is of course also mostly adapted a bit. So not so many people speak dialect anymore. And the further you go out, the more people speak in their dialect, or at least the pronunciation is also dialectally colored. And by the way, even if you say now, no, I'm not really interested in Austrian German, because I live in Germany, or I want to live in Germany. You can still watch the video. It's not that long either. Watch it anyway, because there are also a lot of dialects in Germany, and many people speak dialect, or their pronunciation is dialectally colored. So it's useful if you just take a look at the various varieties of the German language, and train your hearing a little bit, not to hear this very fine, so to speak, or clean, beautiful standard language, but also the different varieties, the different facets of the language. And that's generally the case, if you learn a foreign language, then, at least that's my opinion, you should actually learn it in all its facets. The sentences I'm going to show you now are big formulas. Let's start with the greeting. And since the pronunciation of some of you will probably not be quite common, I'll give you a little tip in advance. And you probably know this greeting formula, because it is used all over Germany. Yes, so this greeting formula now here for the greeting, to say hello, it is used all over Germany, only the pronunciation is probably a bit unusual for some of you. So let's listen to it, directly from an Austrian native speaker. We'll hear it again in a moment. So this is once the greeting when you speak to one person. And now the greeting when you speak to several people. So the first is actually like, but here again the pronunciation from Austria. Yes, and the second then accordingly, Now the farewell. Yes, that's even more difficult to understand if you don't know it, because it's not that easy to learn. This is the short form of and this in turn means in Bavarian This is subjunctive 1, so that means Yes, this is an old greeting formula and today it is no longer meant religiously. So in Bavaria and many parts of Austria they just use it normally to say goodbye. So instead of goodbye, they just say when they say goodbye to one person. And when they say goodbye to several people. These sentences include you, and that comes from you, so these are all forms that we normally use when greeting. And if you look at the dictionary now, then you can also see that they are there as informal expressions. And now I'll tell you how I personally experienced the last week in Zell am See. So we weren't there for a whole week, we were there from Monday to Friday and in my experience, everyone used it there. So regardless of whether it was cashiers in the supermarket or train staff, cable car staff, partly also in restaurants I heard that, in the hotel I partly heard it, and I also generally had the impression that they were a bit more relaxed there with the greeting than in Germany. So in Germany it is actually already the case that we often also greet strangers. So if you go to a cafe in Germany, for example, then it is common practice that the waiters greet you, the baristas, and you can also greet them as a guest. But there are situations in Germany where you still see it more often. So, for example, at the supermarket cashier you still see it more often. Or train staff, so when the conductor comes in the train and wants to see the tickets. So normally they wouldn't greet you in Germany. And I had the feeling there in Zell am See that you go a little further with the greeting than in Germany. And what I also noticed is that partly the people used these greeting formulas, so this du-form or ihr-form actually. And when you then talked to the people, they greeted me again. Yes, so it's probably the case there, at least in Zell am See, I can't say that for all of Austria now, but at least for Zell am See and maybe for the Federal State of Salzburg, that you can use it there regardless of whether you would actually greet the person or greet them.