Welcome to Switzerland! I'm Swiss myself but my boyfriend is Catalan and we both live in Zurich. I've been trying to learn some Catalan and I hope you'll have an easy time with Swiss German, it's simpler than it looks at first sight :) I'd mostly recommend traveling as much as you can, especially to the mountains! Let me know if I can help you with anything getting settled in!
Awesome, thanks a lot Dominique! :) I hope my podcast and videos will be helpful, let me know if you have any questions. What I have done so far with Swiss German is listening to videos at least 10 minutes a day, but I want to take a course at the Volkshochschule to speed things up :D
Te empecé a seguir hace poco pero ya estoy muy invested en tus videos pues el aprendizaje de otros idiomas siempre me ha llamado la atención te deseo lo mejor y que disfrutes muchísimo tus nuevas aventuras!
Hi Laura! I've been in Switzerland for 5 years (Romandie). I speak Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian and a bit of Portuguese. I just started learning English 3 weeks ago. I've seen your video with Steve Kaufmann when you talk about your channel and learning languages. I loved it and now I'm a new subscriber at 🛋 polyglot 😅. So, welcome to Switzerland and see you later!
Great that all the moving and fuss is over. I hope you settle in quickly. The oddest thing I found in Switzerland, or rather just unexpected, was that quite a lot of service personnel in hotels and the like spoke neither German nor French (and maybe Italian?), but instead languages like Slovakian and Macedonian. So that lots of tourists and some Swiss were all speaking English with them. Seemed wrong somehow for a country with 4 languages! Btw, your English in this video has a noticeably 'American style' pronunciation. I can't remember if it was like this before because a lot of your recent videos have been in Spanish, Catalan or French.
Too little income paying for most swiss, but way more for most slovens etc, so it tends to attract lots of seasonal staff from outside of switzerland... especially in touristy areas... That said, I would not go twice to a restaurant where I can't speak my language for ordering (or the local majority language of the canton - obviously in the french cantons I don't expect to be ordering in swiss german)
thanks a lot for sharing your experience, I was only two days at a hotel and heard Swiss German. What I noticed though is that sometimes people speak in English to me when they notice I do not speak Swiss German or "native German" of another dialect. Even if I respond in German, they sometimes continue in English. But this only happened once or twice, so I will keep observing this, maybe it is also because they thing "tourist = English". If all else fails, I will say I do not speak English 😂 About my accent, I guess what I watch is mostly American, though I follow some Canadian, British and Australian RUclipsrs or comedians now that I think about it, so it might get all mixed up. I do not really mind what accent I have, it would be nice to have a specific one I guess and not mix them too much 😁
@@CouchPolyglot Ah yes, the immediate switch to English. Demoralising and sometimes unhelpful. In the past I pretended I couldn't speak English. I said 'Polish', but then they said there was a Polish person present who could translate and I almost had a heart attack. 😳😅
Switzerland is so beautiful. When you can, you must eat at the Blindekuh. It's an eat-in-the-dark dining experience. I loved it. They have locations in Basel and Zurich, as far as I remember, but it was years ago, so there may be more. Wishing you all the best, and thank you so much for your videos and podcasts in Catalán, which are helpful now that we moved to BCN from the States. Que vagi bé!
If you don't consider/ can't afford a GA (general abonnement) for public transport get a Halbtax (half price abonnement) it currently costs only 185.-/year and reduces any ticket to half it's price. (excluding some special transports such as mountain lines, cable cars and boats)
Hi Laura. Glad to hear you are “getting settled” in Switzerland! I lived there more than 50 years ago! ( from 1970-73). I live in Lausanne - along Lake Geneva. The road there was a beautiful drive! - and it’s worthwhile driving from the beach (lowest of the 3 levels of the city of Lausanne) to Montreux - making a stop to visit Château de Chillon along the way! YES - I’d LOVE to see a video by you regarding how you are going about learning Swiss-German. My understanding is that there are too-numerous-to-count dialects between the little regions in tiny Switzerland - so that raises the question as to whether as a polyglot foreigner there is a “path” for you to learn the “most accepted” version of Swiss-German. Finally - SUGGESTION - Any chance you might take your English videos and make the same visuals (video) in Catalan (for those of us learning Catalan)? If that turns out to be too much work - I would suggest adding additional languages to the TRANSCRIPT. While adding multiple languages to the subtitles of a video is more work (!) - my understanding is that once you have the ENGLISH for the TRANSCRIPT - it becomes easy to simply select any (and as many) other languages for automatic translation in the transcript. THANKS for considering! - and BEST of LUCK dans la belle et petite Suisse! - 😊
thanks a lot, Ken! I am really looking forward to discovering Switzerland :) The automatic translations are unfortunately not that good, I will keep it in mind for the future if I have more time (I have a new project in mind that is taking most of my time, let's see what comes out of it hehehe)
Switzerland is such an incredibly beautiful country. You only may not be lucky enough to discover the beauty as it happened to me and my wife when we travelled there once and it was raining everywhere all the time except in Ticino, the Italian speaking part. But living in the country makes it ,of course, different. One of the major thrills for language freaks like us is the multi cultural language identity in the country. I remember that I once hitchhiked through the country and one of the drivers let me out in Murten right on the Röstigraben. I'm making this up but I was sort of standing in front of the restaurant "Zum goldenen Adler" opposite de la floristerie Dechamps. The Ftench brand cars turned mostly left at the crossroads back into la Romandie whereas the German brands turned right towards Bern. Fribourg/Freiburg and Biel/Bienne are even bilingual.
Something I'd be quite interested in as either a podcast ep or a video, is how you make friends in new countries! I've been living in Catalunya for a while, and it's been difficult to make friends. What do you do to meet new people and make friends when you move?
that is a good idea for a topic. I basically join groups, go on group hikings, take courses... If you are starting a new job, you might meet somewhere there too, but I am now working 100% remote, so I have to actively search for opportunities hehe It is not always easy, I think it gets more difficult the older we get. But now there are many tools to help you meet people, so that's great :)
I haven't been to Switzerland often due to the high prices, but very high on my list to visit are Lauterbrunnen valley, Alp Grüm and Jungfraujoch. Jungfraujoch is the highest you can go with any train in Europe, but it's extraordinarily expensive (210 euros for trains, return), so Halbtax reduction is kind of required. ;) Juf is the highest settlement in Europe where people live all year, only contested by some settlement in the Caucasus, but I think people leave there in winter. Quite much to see there if you can afford it. I traveled to Bern over night with an ICE from Düsseldorf which was stressful but very cheap and I liked the city.
viel spass und alles gute! and: they do understand and are able to speak standard german, they just don't use it amongst themselves. which is particularly frustrating for french and italian speakers who have to learn standard german at school but don't understand actual conversation.
Danke dir, Thomas! Ich hoffe es geht dir ein bisschen besser. It is interesting that they do not learn the Swiss version, maybe it is because Swiss German has so many different dialects, so maybe it would be a political discussion "which dialect to choose"
danke, es braucht seine zeit... that's the problem most "regional" languages have - no standard. they have to either pick one variety or create a new one, kind of a compromise. both options are usually not accepted in "campanilistic" cultures. so, over time, standard german or maybe even english might become the swiss lingua franca💁♂️
En teoria no has de pagar el Zoll si et mudes a Suïssa. No hi ha Pfand. Has de tirar el vidre a contenidors especials i el plàstic a Coop o Aldi tenen llocs per tirar-ho. Tot i parlar molt bé alemany, segueixo llegint les etiquetes en francès;)
Només vam haver de portar una llista i pagar "Zoll" per les coses que havíem comprat feia menys de sis mesos. Però realment és un tràmit, me'n vaig fer una muntanya segurament sense motiu hehehe Moltes gràcies per tot això que em comentes, ho tindré en compte :)
Bienvenue Laura. Tu dois te balader à Gruyère. Décembre passé j'y suis allé. C'est magnifique. J'habite à Genève, si tu viens quelque fois, tu me dis et on se rencontre. Ah, autre chose... Le village de Heidi, à Maienfeld. Je le connais pas encore mais il faut y aller
La leche cambia de sabor en cada país, especialmente la fresca (pasteurizada) respecto a la UHT (la que en España suele ir en cartón). Un poco depende de las razas, un poco de los pastos, pero también de cuanta grasa la quitan (o no) antes del envasado para que el producto sea "el mismo" todo el año a pesar de que las vacas NO producen una leche con el mismo contenido graso todo el año... Te toca probar, encontrar la que más te guste...y adaptarte un poco.
Exacto, es normal. Pero me sorprendió, incluso el café de Starbucks sabe diferente :D Pero tendría que dejar de ir al Starbucks porque es muy caro jejeje
Estive três vezes na Suíça e visitei as quatro regiões linguísticas do país. Passei alguns dias na região de língua romanche. Segundo alguns falantes, estes podiam entender o catalão.
@@erikgardetemps Beleza, Erik? Está tudo ligado nessa România! Fiquei hospedado numa pensão no vale de Lumnezia, onde se fala o dialeto (lá eles chamam de "idiom") sursilvano. Algumas frases: "Car amitg, tia brev ha fatg grond plascher a mi" - Caro amigo, tua carta me alegrou muito (literalmente: tua carta fez grande prazer a mim.) "Salids cordials a ti ed alla famiglia." - Saudações cordiais a você e à (sua) família. "Tgi ha scret ina brev a Martin?" - Quem escreveu uma carta a Martin? Verbo "esser" (ser ou estar) Jeu sun Ti eis Ele/ella/ins ei Nus essan Vus essas Els/ellas ein. Tirei essas frases do livro "Romonstch sursilvan", de Theo Candinas.
@@fabiolimadasilva3398 O romanche é uma língua regional. Na realidade, não há diferenças do ponto de vista puramente linguístico entre "língua" (ou idioma) e "dialeto" ou língua regional. As diferenças entre umas línguas e outras sempre foram impostas pela política. No futuro vou aprender bem o português (por enquanto falo um pouco e entendo quando falam ou escrevem).
@@erikgardetemps Sim, você está certo. Acontece que o romanche é um conjunto de 5 dialetos/línguas/falares/idiomas bastante diferentes entre si. São eles: sobressilvano, subsilvano, puter, valáder e surmirano. Para complicar um pouco as coisas, o romanche standard e oficial a nível cantonal é uma língua de compromisso que é apenas escrita. Este romanche standard (ou romantsch grischun) foi desenvolvido por um linguista da Universidade de Zurique. Você é catalão?
Really interested to hear how you get on with Swiss German. e.g. is it only a question of tuning your ear to the different sounds, or will you need to adapt the way you speak as well? More generally, any stories about exploring Switzerland, particularly the mountains, very welcome! I used to hike a lot in the Valais region, but I imagine pretty much the whole country is a hiking paradise.
Hi Martin, thanks a lot! I love nature, so I am really looking forward to discovering this beautiful country. And the language is indeed very interesting, so I do not mind if it takes a little longer than I expected :)
Also learning Swiss German always be carefull because the old jokes goes "I learned that I learned Bärndütsch, Then I moved to Zurich" Dialects will be very different :)
Depèn d'on visquis. Però m'agrada molt: Sankt Moritz, Wallensee, Einsiedeln... No sé. Tot és bestialment brutal de maco. Fes-te la Swisspass i et recomano pagar el Halbtax. Així podràs viatjar en tren per tot el país a un preu millor. Val la pena.
Also, there is no "the swiss german", there is a miriad of dialects and depending on which region you are in some of the dialects are viewed as "ugglier" than others... (friendly banter amongst cantons style)... I would never use "grüezi" for example... My tip would be to focus on your local dialect where you live and try to broaden the understanding of other dialects once you manage with your local one... Generally speaking 99% of swiss germans wilm understand 99% of all dialects, most problems arrise between Wallis and Zürich/Basel or generally the further away on the map two dialects are... And mostly it affects small details like local idioms rather than day to day conversation... The intonation and words used might be a bit different but overall it should be similar enough...
Thanks a lot for the info, I think I will take a course of the local dialect and hopefully over time I will understand others too. I am training my ear with the channel I shared in today's video, but I feel like I want to speed things up and take a course or find a tandem. I will keep you all updated on how it is going hehehe :)
Hoooi! Ich freue mich sehr zu wissen dass du nun in der Schwiiz lebst. Hier ist eine echte Paradise mit einer Menge zu sehen und erleben. Atemberaubende Orte wohin du gehen kannst kann man Jahrzehnte lang nennen, aber einen ich dir sehr empfehle ist ohne Zweifel Blausee. Es liegt in Bern und man kann es einfach nicht beschreiben wie unrealistisch die Schönheit dieses Ortes ist. Meine Frau und ich wohnen in Zürich und durch meinen Name kannst du mich auf Instagram finden. Sehr gern können wir dir mit Tipps helfen. Wir lieben dein Kanal und lernen dadurch viel. Viele Grüße Rodrigo Kesselring 🇨🇭❤️🇧🇷
Hoi Rodrigo, vielen lieben Dank für deine sehr nette Nachricht :) Blausee ist ein super Tipp, möchte ich unbedingt mal sehen. Ich such dich mal auf Instagram, danke!
Hike. Hike. Hike. That’s the way to explore!
yeeees :)
Welcome to Switzerland! I'm Swiss myself but my boyfriend is Catalan and we both live in Zurich. I've been trying to learn some Catalan and I hope you'll have an easy time with Swiss German, it's simpler than it looks at first sight :) I'd mostly recommend traveling as much as you can, especially to the mountains! Let me know if I can help you with anything getting settled in!
Awesome, thanks a lot Dominique! :)
I hope my podcast and videos will be helpful, let me know if you have any questions.
What I have done so far with Swiss German is listening to videos at least 10 minutes a day, but I want to take a course at the Volkshochschule to speed things up :D
Te empecé a seguir hace poco pero ya estoy muy invested en tus videos pues el aprendizaje de otros idiomas siempre me ha llamado la atención te deseo lo mejor y que disfrutes muchísimo tus nuevas aventuras!
Muchas gracias, pues bienvenido :)
Si tienes cualquier idea, no dudes en avisarme :D
Hi Laura! I've been in Switzerland for 5 years (Romandie). I speak Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian and a bit of Portuguese. I just started learning English 3 weeks ago. I've seen your video with Steve Kaufmann when you talk about your channel and learning languages. I loved it and now I'm a new subscriber at 🛋 polyglot 😅.
So, welcome to Switzerland and see you later!
Welcome, Erik! Glad to have you here. Let me know in case you have any idea or feedback :)
@@CouchPolyglot 🤗🤗
We are hoping to visit a friend in Basel soon 😍 Switzerland is so gorgeous!
Hope you've settled in well xx
Thanks a lot, wishing you lots of fun travelling to Basel :)
Great that all the moving and fuss is over. I hope you settle in quickly. The oddest thing I found in Switzerland, or rather just unexpected, was that quite a lot of service personnel in hotels and the like spoke neither German nor French (and maybe Italian?), but instead languages like Slovakian and Macedonian. So that lots of tourists and some Swiss were all speaking English with them. Seemed wrong somehow for a country with 4 languages!
Btw, your English in this video has a noticeably 'American style' pronunciation. I can't remember if it was like this before because a lot of your recent videos have been in Spanish, Catalan or French.
Too little income paying for most swiss, but way more for most slovens etc, so it tends to attract lots of seasonal staff from outside of switzerland... especially in touristy areas...
That said, I would not go twice to a restaurant where I can't speak my language for ordering (or the local majority language of the canton - obviously in the french cantons I don't expect to be ordering in swiss german)
@@headstanding_Penguin Might be time for employers to start paying staff Swiss-level wages so the staff speak the local languages.
thanks a lot for sharing your experience, I was only two days at a hotel and heard Swiss German. What I noticed though is that sometimes people speak in English to me when they notice I do not speak Swiss German or "native German" of another dialect. Even if I respond in German, they sometimes continue in English. But this only happened once or twice, so I will keep observing this, maybe it is also because they thing "tourist = English". If all else fails, I will say I do not speak English 😂
About my accent, I guess what I watch is mostly American, though I follow some Canadian, British and Australian RUclipsrs or comedians now that I think about it, so it might get all mixed up. I do not really mind what accent I have, it would be nice to have a specific one I guess and not mix them too much 😁
@@CouchPolyglot Ah yes, the immediate switch to English. Demoralising and sometimes unhelpful. In the past I pretended I couldn't speak English. I said 'Polish', but then they said there was a Polish person present who could translate and I almost had a heart attack. 😳😅
Switzerland is so beautiful. When you can, you must eat at the Blindekuh. It's an eat-in-the-dark dining experience. I loved it. They have locations in Basel and Zurich, as far as I remember, but it was years ago, so there may be more.
Wishing you all the best, and thank you so much for your videos and podcasts in Catalán, which are helpful now that we moved to BCN from the States.
Que vagi bé!
This sounds like fun, thanks for the tip. Enjoy your stay in Barcelona, m'alegro que vagin bé els vídeos i el podcast, que vagi bé!
I'm from switzerland and you should definitely visit Graubünden. (Canton of Grisons) 🙂
Thanks, I will look it up :)
If you don't consider/ can't afford a GA (general abonnement) for public transport get a Halbtax (half price abonnement) it currently costs only 185.-/year and reduces any ticket to half it's price. (excluding some special transports such as mountain lines, cable cars and boats)
Great tip, thanks! :)
Hi Laura. Glad to hear you are “getting settled” in Switzerland! I lived there more than 50 years ago! ( from 1970-73). I live in Lausanne - along Lake Geneva. The road there was a beautiful drive! - and it’s worthwhile driving from the beach (lowest of the 3 levels of the city of Lausanne) to Montreux - making a stop to visit Château de Chillon along the way!
YES - I’d LOVE to see a video by you regarding how you are going about learning Swiss-German. My understanding is that there are too-numerous-to-count dialects between the little regions in tiny Switzerland - so that raises the question as to whether as a polyglot foreigner there is a “path” for you to learn the “most accepted” version of Swiss-German.
Finally - SUGGESTION - Any chance you might take your English videos and make the same visuals (video) in Catalan (for those of us learning Catalan)? If that turns out to be too much work - I would suggest adding additional languages to the TRANSCRIPT. While adding multiple languages to the subtitles of a video is more work (!) - my understanding is that once you have the ENGLISH for the TRANSCRIPT - it becomes easy to simply select any (and as many) other languages for automatic translation in the transcript. THANKS for considering! - and BEST of LUCK dans la belle et petite Suisse! - 😊
thanks a lot, Ken! I am really looking forward to discovering Switzerland :)
The automatic translations are unfortunately not that good, I will keep it in mind for the future if I have more time (I have a new project in mind that is taking most of my time, let's see what comes out of it hehehe)
Switzerland is such an incredibly beautiful country. You only may not be lucky enough to discover the beauty as it happened to me and my wife when we travelled there once and it was raining everywhere all the time except in Ticino, the Italian speaking part. But living in the country makes it ,of course, different. One of the major thrills for language freaks like us is the multi cultural language identity in the country. I remember that I once hitchhiked through the country and one of the drivers let me out in Murten right on the Röstigraben. I'm making this up but I was sort of standing in front of the restaurant "Zum goldenen Adler" opposite de la floristerie Dechamps. The Ftench brand cars turned mostly left at the crossroads back into la Romandie whereas the German brands turned right towards Bern. Fribourg/Freiburg and Biel/Bienne are even bilingual.
Thanks a lot for the tips! :)
Yeah, living here gives me the advantage to "choose the weather", so just go places when the weather is good hehehe
Something I'd be quite interested in as either a podcast ep or a video, is how you make friends in new countries! I've been living in Catalunya for a while, and it's been difficult to make friends. What do you do to meet new people and make friends when you move?
that is a good idea for a topic. I basically join groups, go on group hikings, take courses... If you are starting a new job, you might meet somewhere there too, but I am now working 100% remote, so I have to actively search for opportunities hehe
It is not always easy, I think it gets more difficult the older we get. But now there are many tools to help you meet people, so that's great :)
I haven't been to Switzerland often due to the high prices, but very high on my list to visit are Lauterbrunnen valley, Alp Grüm and Jungfraujoch. Jungfraujoch is the highest you can go with any train in Europe, but it's extraordinarily expensive (210 euros for trains, return), so Halbtax reduction is kind of required. ;) Juf is the highest settlement in Europe where people live all year, only contested by some settlement in the Caucasus, but I think people leave there in winter. Quite much to see there if you can afford it. I traveled to Bern over night with an ICE from Düsseldorf which was stressful but very cheap and I liked the city.
Thanks a lot for the tips, I should definetly get the Halbtax :)
viel spass und alles gute! and: they do understand and are able to speak standard german, they just don't use it amongst themselves. which is particularly frustrating for french and italian speakers who have to learn standard german at school but don't understand actual conversation.
Danke dir, Thomas! Ich hoffe es geht dir ein bisschen besser.
It is interesting that they do not learn the Swiss version, maybe it is because Swiss German has so many different dialects, so maybe it would be a political discussion "which dialect to choose"
danke, es braucht seine zeit... that's the problem most "regional" languages have - no standard. they have to either pick one variety or create a new one, kind of a compromise. both options are usually not accepted in "campanilistic" cultures. so, over time, standard german or maybe even english might become the swiss lingua franca💁♂️
Saludos desde Ecuador
oooh, gracias :)
In bocca al lupo :)
Grazie :D
En teoria no has de pagar el Zoll si et mudes a Suïssa.
No hi ha Pfand. Has de tirar el vidre a contenidors especials i el plàstic a Coop o Aldi tenen llocs per tirar-ho.
Tot i parlar molt bé alemany, segueixo llegint les etiquetes en francès;)
Només vam haver de portar una llista i pagar "Zoll" per les coses que havíem comprat feia menys de sis mesos. Però realment és un tràmit, me'n vaig fer una muntanya segurament sense motiu hehehe
Moltes gràcies per tot això que em comentes, ho tindré en compte :)
Como foi de mudança?
Obrigada, tudo bem :)
@@CouchPolyglot Foi tudo bem na mudança?
Wow, you're in Switzerland now? Congratulations on the move. I hope you are very happy there. It's a nice but very expensive country. 😂
Thanks a lot, heheh yeah I will need to watch my budget :D
Bienvenue Laura. Tu dois te balader à Gruyère. Décembre passé j'y suis allé. C'est magnifique. J'habite à Genève, si tu viens quelque fois, tu me dis et on se rencontre. Ah, autre chose... Le village de Heidi, à Maienfeld. Je le connais pas encore mais il faut y aller
Merci beaucoup, il y a vraiment beaucoup pour découvrir :)
La leche cambia de sabor en cada país, especialmente la fresca (pasteurizada) respecto a la UHT (la que en España suele ir en cartón).
Un poco depende de las razas, un poco de los pastos, pero también de cuanta grasa la quitan (o no) antes del envasado para que el producto sea "el mismo" todo el año a pesar de que las vacas NO producen una leche con el mismo contenido graso todo el año...
Te toca probar, encontrar la que más te guste...y adaptarte un poco.
Exacto, es normal. Pero me sorprendió, incluso el café de Starbucks sabe diferente :D
Pero tendría que dejar de ir al Starbucks porque es muy caro jejeje
I really love Switzerland ❤❤❤
yeeees, me too!
Estive três vezes na Suíça e visitei as quatro regiões linguísticas do país. Passei alguns dias na região de língua romanche. Segundo alguns falantes, estes podiam entender o catalão.
Se você fala catalão lento, é verdade que naquela parte da Suíça (e também no cantão do Ticino) eles podem entender muito do que você diz.
Que interessant, obrigada :)
@@erikgardetemps Beleza, Erik? Está tudo ligado nessa România! Fiquei hospedado numa pensão no vale de Lumnezia, onde se fala o dialeto (lá eles chamam de "idiom") sursilvano. Algumas frases:
"Car amitg, tia brev ha fatg grond plascher a mi" - Caro amigo, tua carta me alegrou muito (literalmente: tua carta fez grande prazer a mim.)
"Salids cordials a ti ed alla famiglia." - Saudações cordiais a você e à (sua) família.
"Tgi ha scret ina brev a Martin?" - Quem escreveu uma carta a Martin?
Verbo "esser" (ser ou estar)
Jeu sun
Ti eis
Ele/ella/ins ei
Nus essan
Vus essas
Els/ellas ein.
Tirei essas frases do livro "Romonstch sursilvan", de Theo Candinas.
@@fabiolimadasilva3398 O romanche é uma língua regional. Na realidade, não há diferenças do ponto de vista puramente linguístico entre "língua" (ou idioma) e "dialeto" ou língua regional. As diferenças entre umas línguas e outras sempre foram impostas pela política. No futuro vou aprender bem o português (por enquanto falo um pouco e entendo quando falam ou escrevem).
@@erikgardetemps Sim, você está certo. Acontece que o romanche é um conjunto de 5 dialetos/línguas/falares/idiomas bastante diferentes entre si. São eles: sobressilvano, subsilvano, puter, valáder e surmirano. Para complicar um pouco as coisas, o romanche standard e oficial a nível cantonal é uma língua de compromisso que é apenas escrita. Este romanche standard (ou romantsch grischun) foi desenvolvido por um linguista da Universidade de Zurique. Você é catalão?
¡maravilloso!
mis mejores deseos para tí en tú nuevo destino 💙💪
Muchas gracias :)
No there is really no "Pfand" in Switzerland 😂 the italian speaking part of Switzerland (Tessin) is also worth a visit
Hehehe good to know, thanks :)
Really interested to hear how you get on with Swiss German. e.g. is it only a question of tuning your ear to the different sounds, or will you need to adapt the way you speak as well? More generally, any stories about exploring Switzerland, particularly the mountains, very welcome! I used to hike a lot in the Valais region, but I imagine pretty much the whole country is a hiking paradise.
Hi Martin, thanks a lot! I love nature, so I am really looking forward to discovering this beautiful country. And the language is indeed very interesting, so I do not mind if it takes a little longer than I expected :)
Also learning Swiss German always be carefull because the old jokes goes "I learned that I learned Bärndütsch, Then I moved to Zurich" Dialects will be very different :)
hehehe I will try not to move then :D
Salut i èxit
Moltes gràcies!
@@CouchPolyglot A tu sempre Laura ...bell nom
Depèn d'on visquis. Però m'agrada molt: Sankt Moritz, Wallensee, Einsiedeln... No sé. Tot és bestialment brutal de maco.
Fes-te la Swisspass i et recomano pagar el Halbtax. Així podràs viatjar en tren per tot el país a un preu millor. Val la pena.
Moltes gràcies pels consells, me'ls apunto :)
Also, there is no "the swiss german", there is a miriad of dialects and depending on which region you are in some of the dialects are viewed as "ugglier" than others... (friendly banter amongst cantons style)...
I would never use "grüezi" for example...
My tip would be to focus on your local dialect where you live and try to broaden the understanding of other dialects once you manage with your local one...
Generally speaking 99% of swiss germans wilm understand 99% of all dialects, most problems arrise between Wallis and Zürich/Basel or generally the further away on the map two dialects are... And mostly it affects small details like local idioms rather than day to day conversation...
The intonation and words used might be a bit different but overall it should be similar enough...
Thanks a lot for the info, I think I will take a course of the local dialect and hopefully over time I will understand others too. I am training my ear with the channel I shared in today's video, but I feel like I want to speed things up and take a course or find a tandem. I will keep you all updated on how it is going hehehe :)
Hoooi! Ich freue mich sehr zu wissen dass du nun in der Schwiiz lebst. Hier ist eine echte Paradise mit einer Menge zu sehen und erleben.
Atemberaubende Orte wohin du gehen kannst kann man Jahrzehnte lang nennen, aber einen ich dir sehr empfehle ist ohne Zweifel Blausee. Es liegt in Bern und man kann es einfach nicht beschreiben wie unrealistisch die Schönheit dieses Ortes ist.
Meine Frau und ich wohnen in Zürich und durch meinen Name kannst du mich auf Instagram finden. Sehr gern können wir dir mit Tipps helfen. Wir lieben dein Kanal und lernen dadurch viel.
Viele Grüße
Rodrigo Kesselring 🇨🇭❤️🇧🇷
Hoi Rodrigo, vielen lieben Dank für deine sehr nette Nachricht :)
Blausee ist ein super Tipp, möchte ich unbedingt mal sehen. Ich such dich mal auf Instagram, danke!