I saw a documentary on a German channel the other day about Appenzell. The whole Swiss-German audio was subtitled in High German. It did take me some around 2 years to understand the dialect but now I can I prefer to listen to it than High German.

I have no problem with assimilation policies, but assistance must be given. Correct me if I am wrong, but learning Swedish is a condition for all migrants in Sweden, but it is FREE. (A concept so foreign to the Swiss they never had a word for it,so they had to steal "gratis" from Latin). What I object to is being expected to speak a language for the purpose of assimilation and having to pay absurd amounts of money for tuition.