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Old 24.02.2007, 14:34
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Re: Where does French speaking Switzerland start
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Frizzyfinn
I wondered if any one could help me. My husband has been offered a job in Zug but we wanted to the children to go to a French speaking school. Does anyone know the closest area to Zug that is Fren ch speaking and not ghostly quiet! Any help would be very much appreciated
many thanks
Rachel

The "Roestigraben" divides german and french speaking Switzerland and you can see it on this site http://www.mapserver.ch/en/gallery.htm if you click on the second map down "geopolitics", because aside from language the politics are much different too.

Basically you need to go to Freiburg or past Bern to get to the french speaking region in the west, so probably not a practical commute to a french school.

PS Why do you want them to learn french rather than german?

Daniel
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