Schwyzertütsch

Jul 15, 2005 17:03

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 ( Read more... )

personal/family, language, switzerland

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squidrigailov July 15 2005, 20:26:46 UTC
thanks to your timely lesson, i get the joke (well, as if the photo didn't explain it)

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erin_14 July 20 2005, 12:20:35 UTC
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.

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kunstler89 July 20 2005, 13:56:32 UTC
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!

:)
--j

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