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> it's also funny how Austria is coded as a Category 3 language while Germany is Category 2 :o Honestly, I'm not surprised. German Austrian dialects are quite
by The_Colonel 3y ago
> it's also funny how Austria is coded as a Category 3 language while Germany is Category 2 :o
Honestly, I'm not surprised. German Austrian dialects are quite strong, omnipresent and difficult to learn (few resources apart from going in the streets).
- rightbyte 3y agoThen why didn't Switzerland get the Austria treatment? The map or stats are probably just wrong.
- ghaff 3y agoI suppose it depends what language you're even using for Switzerland. I can handle the French in Switzerland more or less the same as I can handle French anywhere else (not that great), German and Italian not well at all, and Romansh pretty much non-existently.
- willsmith72 3y agoSwiss German isn't the same as high German
- rightbyte 3y agoYe I know. I meant that, since if Austrian is considered hard due to dialectal properties, the category of Schweizerdeutsch is surprising.
- The_Colonel 3y agoSwiss standard German is pretty close to the high German. What's difficult are the various Swiss dialects.
- aredox 3y agoSwitzerland is also French and Italian-speaking (and English is becoming the linga franca more and more, as even Swiss-Germans don't like to speak actual German ("Hochdeutsch") and prefer Schwyzerdütsch).
- la_fayette 2y agoI think this is an error in the article, the original source, doesn't mention that distinction: https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/ https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/