Dialects Hotline  Rahel learns Hessian

Rahel and Dominik
Rahel learns Hessian with Dominik Foto (detail): Max Humpert © Goethe Institut

Hessian babble is not just Hessian babble - because the Hessian dialect is characterized by special linguistic nuances. To find out what these sound like, Rahel met with Dominik and listened more closely to his dialect.

 

Dialects Hotline

Saxon, Kölsch, Swabian, Platt - there are many ways of speaking German. But what do these different dialects sound like? Who speaks them? And what’s so special about them? Rahel Klein asks those who know best because they speak a dialect themselves.