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 ...

FEW Germans now say Appel rather than Apfel (apple) or maken instead of machen (to make). The north German dialects that use such variants are mostly dead or dying. But the cultural differences that ...

How do you like those Apfelüberrests? Cambridge researcher develops smartphone app to map Swiss-German dialects Researchers at the Universities of Cambridge, Zurich and Bern have developed a ...

Dialects enrich the German language. They create sense of belonging and show regional diversity. In this episode, we talk to linguist Leo Kretzenbacher and Philipp Hockenberger from Hofbräuhaus ...

“My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing), in 30 hours, French in 30 days, and German in 30 years.” – Mark Twain, “That ...