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| German -- High German -- is a foreign language to the Swiss. They do not speak it unless forced to do so, and even then it is typically not correct. | |
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I would not say that this is my experience in Bern, I have always made it clear that I cannot understand dialect fully & people revert to Hoch Deutsch.
Can be a little different in the Oberland granted .....
