PALAVA

How does NRW speak? Explore the colloquial languages ​​in North Rhine-Westphalia with us.

The PALAVA app is intended to provide insights into how people in North Rhine-Westphalia speak on a daily basis. That can sound very different between Aachen and Minden, between Kleve and Siegen.

Where do you come from? Do you call your grandmother grandma or omma? Do you say goodbye or goodbye? And what do you say to the end of the bread? Knust, bargain or crust?

Join PALAVA now and answer exciting questions about your everyday language.

Anyone from NRW can participate!

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Behind the first button you can discover the exciting question rounds. You can speak most questions as easily as with voice messages. All anonymous, of course. When you have answered eight questions, an extra task awaits you. Here your knowledge of interesting and funny idioms, proverbs or formulations from NRW is queried!

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So what do the others say about comfortable slippers? Slippers, slippers or slippers? Behind the "Listen" button you can discover all the recorded answers of the other users from NRW!

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And how are colloquial languages ​​structured in NRW? Behind the "Results" button we provide you with evaluated language cards and statistics. All your voice recordings will be listened to and evaluated for scientific research purposes. Here we give you first insights. More and more results are added. Please visit here regularly!

Thank you for participating! It wouldn't be possible without you!