[monkeycantype]

30 yrs ago, I rode my bike from East Berlin to Amsterdam, hopping from tiny village to tiny village. I kept out of cities so I could sleep in the forest at night and it seemed as if the the local dialect drifted town by town from deutsch to dutch

[jacquesm]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_German

[nl]

And heading North: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisian_languages

[gumby]

That’s a good example! I remember being on a train where a woman was reading a book in Dutch to her kids and my then 5 year old son (a German speaker) walked over to sit behind her and listen.