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Video on
Reserve at the Language Resource Center [this video is on reserve during the time when we cover Kapitel 9 in German 102, and also for a few weeks before and after that time]:
Vienna 1900
A lecture in English by George Steiner on Vienna around 1900, the site of
an intellectual flowering in music, language, philosophy, politics, economics,
architecture and other arts. In this Vienna also, the seeds of anti-Semitism
were sown, which influenced Adolf Hitler and led to the Holocaust.
(47 minutes) Links
Viennese
for Americans - A Phrase Book A humorous page with a wide range of sample
phrases in the Viennese dialect, ranging from "Wieso kinnt's ia Deppn net
wia jeda nuamle mensch a emericen redn?" [="Why don't you [fools] just speak
American like everybody else?"] to "Hoid da Goschn!" [="Shut the %#$#* up!"].
For each phrase, you are given the English equivalent [as opposed to a literal
translation], the Viennese phrase, and a flippant transcription of how an
American might pronounce the phrase. Please be warned that some of
the phrases on this page are likely to offend some people, possibly including
yourself, for a variety of reasons! |
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