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....and to complicate matters more, the Geordies are drunk and inhaling helium from balloons.
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Oh the despair I had walking out of my "Hoch Deutsch" course and into the local supermarket and getting hit with impenetrable "schwiiizer tiitch". Like learning the "Queen's English" in a rough, drunken part of Glasgow.
My German teacher in Australia (ex Hamburg), said "Good luck, I find Dutch easier to understand than Swiss German". Still my favourite was my wife (native Swiss German) asking for directions in Munich. Response back from a local, "Should we speak English?". Gold! And was my wife peeved