It was Henry Ford, not Kaiser Bill, who was responsible for the decline of the distinctive German dialects spoken by immigrants and their descendants in five Kansas and Missouri settlements during the ...

The most important word at the Oktoberfest that you must be able to pronounce in Bavarian is, of course, the “Maß”. The a is pronounced short and the ß like a double S, i.e. “MaSS”. If you keep this ...

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 ...

Bettina Wilpert grew up in Bavaria. But she was soon drawn northwards, to Berlin and Leipzig. She is hardly homesick for Bavaria. However, some unique Bavarian words and phrases still accompany her ...

How well do language models understand Meenzerisch, the dialect spoken in the German city of Mainz? A research team led by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has now investigated this question ...