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| You were misinformed, to my knowledge no classes were or are teached in Swiss German. We can observe the opposite trend, canton Zurich made High German mandatory for kindergarten.
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Our son is in Kindergarten and they will officially start to use High German next year . In the mean time , all the kids ( including the Swiss Kids ) have to learn High German twice a week to ensure they are prepared . The kindergarten teacher told me that they are doing this because they realised that kids who speak dialect ( Swiss German ) outside of school find it hard to cope when they start primary school etc. Also , the standard of written german among a lot of the young graduates these leave a lot to be desired .
So , High German for sure . Swiss German you will definitely pick up from your daily life ( faster if you have kids who in school
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