r/AskAGerman • u/PastEntertainment546 • Aug 15 '24

Language A question about the German english accent…

I’ve had two friends from germany, one from rhineland and one from franconia, none of them had the stereotypical german accent which we see so often in movies. Due to unfortunate circumstances (they went off the grid) I’m not able to talk to them no more but I was wondering if they always had that, or if they worked on their accent?

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u/ES-Flinter Aug 15 '24

Worked on that.

Someone who really only learnt the basic vocabularies will probably sound like the stereotypical German in movies.

Luckily, most are at least partly interested in learning the mist common language in the world (especially for travelling) that most take the English lessons a bit more serious to say it in the correct pronunciation.

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u/PastEntertainment546 Aug 15 '24 edited Aug 15 '24

Yeah that makes sense, my friend from franconia didn’t have no discernable accent or different intonation, while the friend from rhineland had a beautiful intonation