Luxembourg 2013

[Vosem]

Quite hard to understand if you're not familiar with it or a similar dialect of German!

Isn't that true of any language, though?

[Vosem]

Quite hard to understand if you're not familiar with it or a similar dialect of German!

Isn't that true of any language, though?

Not quite. In fact, for me as a North German it is easier to understand Dutch than Letzeburgisch (or Schwizerdütsch, for that matter). For ZuWo, as a Swiss, it is obviously the other way round. The differences between German dialects, especially the North German (Low Saxon) and the Southwestern (Allemannic) ones are quite strong, with High German serving as a bridge.

It was a joke about how many German dialects there are -- the punchline being that you can comprehend any language in the world if you're just familiar with the corresponding German dialect