Thread: [Learn] Swiss German or High German
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Old 17.10.2007, 21:22
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Re: Swiss German or High German
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I can understand a lot of Swiss German, but in my early days here I got used to "tuning out" to it, and still find myself doing that.

I recently bought the English version of Hoi - your Swiss German survival guide, but am finding the phonetics used hard to get into, and am thinking of buying the German equivalent Hoi Zäme - Schweizerdeutsch leicht gemacht
one sentence is interesting

the author confirms that Swiss German is no official language
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Obwohl das Schweizerdeutsche keine offizielle Sprache ist – als Sprache weder standardisiert noch in formellen Dokumenten geschrieben – sind die Schweizer aller verschiedener Bildungs- und sozialen Schichten sehr stolz auf ihre Sprache. Das Schweizerdeutsche ist einer der wichtigen Grundpfeiler des schweizerischen Nationalbewusstseins
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