I was in Vienna last weekend. Austria. Ahh. It's like a hot cup of tea.
The city, and the people have a certain charm and lively color that make me enjoy being there. It was years ago when I flew into Vienna for the first time, far away from home, scared, gripping my Langenscheidt English to German dictionary. Little did I know, there is no classroom German in Austria. My dictionary was never going to help me. If it had, it would have had translations for dialect phrases like i a ned, des is a woahnsinn, oida voda heast, and brauch ma no wos.
Slowly, very slowly, those strange phrases and vowel twistings became familiar to me. Going back to Vienna after living in Germany for several months was like hearing a friendly song.
And here's a famous one from Rainhard Fendrich:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMSa_xb2h5U
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