After three weeks, I'm starting to get enough of a grasp on the language here to understand it, albeit still with a bit of a time-lapse, and even to start coming out of my shell and playing with it
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i was wondering when the swiss german lessons would begin! when emilie and i visited her family in Zurich, i couldn't understand a damn thing anyone said to me. emilie's aunt Hedi made me watch tv with her and translate the swiss german into high german until i began to understand a little better.
hahaha yes. well do I remember watching news in Berlin and seeing a Swiss interviewee, and the news program ran SUBTITLES. someone told me shortly thereafter that this drives the Swiss up the wall.
but you know what drives them up the wall even more? when Americans confuse their country with Sweden!
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but you know what drives them up the wall even more?
when Americans confuse their country with Sweden!
:)
--j
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