Definitely High German first. You will find that living here you will automatically absorb the Swiss German, but as you said, there are many dialects of which Züri is just one.
You can also get Swiss German courses once you consider yourself fluent enough. And then you should buy yourself a Mani Matter CD.
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| I am thinking about buying a set of Pimsleur CDs to supplement my German tutoring sessions before moving to Zurich.
After reading through posts on EF, it seems like lots of ppl recommend learning German, and not to bother with Swiss German due to its various dialects. I have zero knowledge of German and will start private tutoring of German next week. Should I just get the German CDs then and not to bother with learning Swiss German? Would you recommend still getting the Swiss German CDs anyways?
One other question is that some comments about the Pimsleur's Swiss German CDs seem to suggesst that the phrases are sometimes out of date. Does anyone have any experience with the CD?
[comments with out of date phrases:http://www.amazon.com/Swiss-German-U...164801&sr=1-3]
[very good comments of the same product: http://www.amazon.com/Pimsleur-Swiss...7165070&sr=1-1] | |
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