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From someone living near Frankish, Hessian, and Swabian germany, this is still accurate (for now).
I have a Syrian coworker who speaks in the thickest regiolect, and it’s incredible to watch racist old people immediately change their minds about him when he opens his mouth.
I’m also an immigrant and was complaining to a German friend about how I can understand Dialekt, I just can’t respond in turn and I felt like that was a failure in my German ability. She noted that it’s like that for Germans too, which is why it’s mostly older people who have a strong dialect (in the cities).
Yeah I don't have dialect pretty much
It’s about 80% of young urban Germans I know whose grandparents have a strong regiolect that they can understand, but not produce. I find that super unfortunate, but I do hear a lot of strong dialect from young people in rural areas, so I hope it’s a problem over exaggerated by a selection bias.
And my coworker has only been here around a decade, so it’s still there somewhere
Those grandparents did not understand, notice, care or resist the eradication of regiolects, I assume, but now it seems almost too late. I do not really understand Plattdüütsch (Lower Saxon language turned regiolect) anymore.
As far as I know, the traditional German dialects almost have disappeared after WW2. What's remaining is people speaking regionally "coloured" variants of Standard German. E.g. Bodo Bach doesn't speak traditional Hessian, but New-Hessian.