Christoph Waltz’s Austrian German Accent in Inglourious Basterds — Dialect vs Standard (B2–C1)

Sometimes in life, things are not what they seem to be.. . because it says it's "he Italian scene", but to me, today it's the Austrian German scene! :O And with that being said: Hallo zusammen and welcome to another video of me analyzing German for you guys wanting to learn German or just being interested in the German language and culture and how it works and everything and today once again we're going to take a closer look at in glorious bastards and especially Hans Landa he's the main antagonist the villain of the movie A Nazi from Austria but right now right here he's in Paris in order to take part in a movie premiere So today we're going to take a closer look at Christoph Waltz - also Austrian - portraying Hans Landa speaking Austrian German and what may be different to standard or high German aka "Germany German" [Music] German we're mainly going to focus on Christoph Waltz speaking and not Diane Krueger even though she's from Germany and also speaks standard German I have studied German language studies at University but I'm not like a the 1000% expert when it comes to Austrian German I'm not but I know a few things and I want to point them out because they are certainly different to standard German the kind of German High German also called that people speak in Germany for the most part when they don't speak a Regal or a dialect that is also worth noting Austrian German isn't Austrian German per se there are many different varieties of it for instance in Vienna you speak a slightly different type of Austrian German or you would verbalize certain words differently sometimes use different words and terms all along and Christoph Waltz is from Vienna (Wien), Austria so keep that in mind we're going to start the video in there is something that I immediately noticed and that is so to my Germany German ears so typical when it comes to Austrian German which is the a instead of i diphthong pronunciation in this case Hansa Landa aka Christoph Waltz says fine