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Hochdeutsch is, in my experience, relative. Swiss people call the language of Germany Hochdeutsch, regardless of region. The southern Germans I've met seem to c
by thwd 9y ago
Hochdeutsch is, in my experience, relative. Swiss people call the language of Germany Hochdeutsch, regardless of region. The southern Germans I've met seem to collectively agree that they do not speak Hochdeutsch and that Hochdeutsch is what is spoken in Hannover. I don't know many people from northern Germany, but I recall an instance of someone mentioning Hamburg as being the Hochdeutsch standard in their ears.
- egeozcan 9y agoI've recently been to Hamburg and even that they sounded just a little bit different than the German I hear on television, it was for the better. As someone who learnt supposedly Hochdeutsch from a Swabian teacher and lived for more than half a decade near Stuttgart, I could understand people in Hamburg much easier.