3 Shortcuts to Understanding Austrian German for English Speakers in Vienna

Are you an English-speaker looking to move to Vienna or anywhere else in Austria? Perhaps you want to learn German? Well, if you come to Austria you'll find that the Austrian German accent is quite different from the German spoken in Germany or the German taught in language classes. So here are three shortcuts to help you understand us Austrians and especially people in Vienna more easily. I hope this will help expats in Vienna, international students or any other English speakers in Vienna.

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[SusanKG]

As a native English speaker, I am totally impressed by your command of English! Well done!

[sherylannejacobs]

Thank you so very much. My Mother and my Grandparents were from Pharrkirchen and I am traveling there next spring.

[aryan]

It would be a lot more useful if the slides remain on the screen for 5 more seconds and if you repeat the pronunciation a couple of times and slower. Thanks

[Karrikua]

A very informative video. Please make more like this! I have recently moved to Austria and my about 1-2000 german word vocabulary doesn’t help me much here 😅😅 This video helped a lot!

[brianmatt]

Thank you so much- I am so envious- you speak English so well & make it look so easy. My friends freak when they learn I can read Russian-basically, it really is Greek to them, I tell them! But I was inspired to learn TRUE Austrian by my favourite & only truly Euro classic rapper/rocker Falco ! I know that dates me ( really tells my age!) but I don't care, the way he manipulated so many languages& "Austrianisms", into his art, especially Vienna-Austrianisms, leaves me in awe. I try to learn by listening but without Context & Proper Explanations, like the ones you give, it is so impossible. I want to come live in Vienna for a year & see his "grabe", is that right, his beautiful gravesite? But I want to learn as much as I can when I come. I'm older, about 48, but I look in my 30's, I think I'd pass as looking like and BE a great student( I pick up languages like other people pick up their mail ). So what, as advice, if you would not mind a recommendation, should be my 1st course of action ? Like I said, a year in Austria to learn as much as I can- can you give me some ideas? Books I could start here with ? Best places to stay( if younger people don't mind an avid older learner around, I did find the student house near Vienna- I think? - where you can stay & be enrolled for a year for not too much money/Euros, right? We just call money bones or scratch here. )Thank you !!! Great job !! - brandy in NorCal, coastal Eureka, CA, USA- The Red & White stripes, as Falco would say.

[buddcz]

Super video, I hob im joah 2005 Deutsch gelernt in Sri Lanka. Woa mal in Deutschland e. Daun bi 9 joah I in Tschechien gelebt neben dea Grenze von Österreich (weinviertel) hob viele frende vo Österreich, jetzt I spreche Deutsch oaber es is Mix hoch Deutsch und Österreich Deutsch. I bi von Sri Lanka.

[michaelharvey]

This is an absolutely fantastic video! Please make more. Please make a series of this. If you make more videos like this then I and many others will subscribe.

[HG-wngz]

Thanks for this explanation of different types between German and Austrian pronounce.

[Gaeilgeoir]

Lots of good information here, but you run through the examples/comparisons way too fast! If you're trying to teach us any of this, you need to go slowly, not give us a whole verb conjugation in 5 seconds!

[rorosp]

This is perfect! Please make more videos :) I need help... My textbook has not prepared me for Austrian german

[tamushatamusha]

Hi, i am ushangi nice to hear this differences between german lenguage and Austrian 🎉i have a question please! Can you teach also german lenguage from A2 to B2 level?

[RichieLarpa]

There are three reasons why I want to learn Austrian:

1) I am Czech and although our relations were not always the best, we are closer to Austria, than to Germany, I would say, plus Austria simply have marvelous mountains, which are my favourite thing
2) since there is a stronger influence between both lands, compared to Hochdeutsch, there are words that are incomprehensible for them, but perfectly understandable for me, such as "Heisl", "Zwetschke" or "Kren"
3) my good friend is a native German and hates it, when I try to speak classic German, as it is irritating to her ears, so I decided to go for Austrian, which she does not know, so I have a little bit more piece and so I can tell her that I do not speak her Hochdeutsch

[machoke]

In a lot of slavic languages the word for we is mi/my, so it's likely a slavic influence that Austrians say mia instead of wir

[alxb]

Ultimately my comprehensive skills are far more advanced than my speaking skills but I think that once i would surround myself with nothing but native speakers gradually it would even out! But i also have this feeling that I would reach maybe even native speaking status if i had the pleasure to always learn from this amazing young lady who’s teaching in this one particular video . Not just because she seems very intelligent plus she’s native but her English is very flawless and i must also admit that I developed a crush on our teacher here as well. Incase she’s taken already I apologize but if not then I definitely do not apologize because either way she is amazing person!

[Leo-uudu]

Everyone seems to mix up the "Austrian German" and the "Austro-Bavarian language".
Those are not the same!

[nosferadu]

Great video, very helpful! (but please next time slow down the bits where you're pronouncing the different words, since you just raced through them in this video :) I actually learned German in Vienna, but they never taught us how to speak "Austrian", just Hochdeutsch pretty much.

[xff]

Thanks a lot, it is really useful, but please slow down, I need time to read and pronounce what you have written.

[dennisvogejr.]

These would be great. It helps me I'm learning the language so I could find my dad he is from Austria and I'm a Filipino/ Austrian. I was born here in the Philippines. I never been to Austria but soon.

[adcroitoru]

Okay, so if I speak German German instead of Austrian German in Vienna, people will understand what I'm talking about, but it might become a problem for me - as they will answer me with Austrian German? (which is probably why it's a good idea to grasp the Austrian German in the first place?) :D

[stephaniehuerta]

Gracias por el video ✨💚
I want to learn How to speak german (of Vienna) any recomendations? Some Apps oder books?
Muchas gracias de antemano!