Ebbie, can you give us any pointers on the differences between Pennsylvania Dutch and Hochdeutsch pronunciation?

I'd also like some pointers on Yiddish pronunciation. Mrs. Lev kvetches that I sing Yiddish songs with a German accent....

I suppose most English-speaking people are familiar with television Hochdeutsch, and I guess I have to admit it isn't a very pretty-sounding way of speaking. Some of the dialects and regional accents sound even worse. Bavarian (Bayrisch) German sounds very harsh - but if you go just across the border into Salzburg in Austria, you can hear some of the most beautiful, melodic speech you could dream of.
-Joe Offer-