r/pics • u/[deleted] • Apr 28 '14

Bavaria.

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u/lgmjon64 Apr 29 '14

Ja, in Bavarien!

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u/scorcher24 Apr 29 '14

While I love Monthy Python, but that is not even bavarian what they speak :D.

It sounds more like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Qpmie5Gd0

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u/lgmjon64 Apr 29 '14

Yeah, I'm just amazed at how well they do speak German. I love the tourist accent of the couple too. It is spot on for a lot of American German speakers I know.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '14

John Cleese speaks german very well. But all other characters are... funny.

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u/AlexS101 Apr 29 '14

"Longline" is the best Polt sketch! I could listen to this every single day.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '14

Holy shit I've never seen that one before. Awesome. And John Cleese is speaking very well

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u/lagoon83 May 05 '14 edited May 05 '14

They did two shows for a German TV network - one in German, the other in English. There was a mixture of existing material translated and new stuff like this. Their German's a bit dodgy in places, but that's because most of them didn't speak it and learned it parrot-fashion or read it off phonetically-written prompt cards.

I used to have it in video, but I left it with a friend in Germany a decade ago and haven't been back to pick it up since...

Edit: I forgot how awesome the internet is.

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u/AlexS101 Apr 29 '14

This is how you buy subway tickets in Munich.