Ha. I grew up in Southern Germany and even though my mother and grandmother (who was my main carer back then) spoke with their native southern dialect, I couldn't properly understand them, let alone speak this dialect myself. It was a bit of a riddle for other people, because my younger brother could speak the dialect and I couldn't. I'm always joking about it, telling people I was raised by television but now I'm actually pretty relieved that my German is "pure" enough nobody here in the North asks where I'm actually from (they see me as one of their own, lol, yeah! ).