HOW HARD IS SWISS GERMAN? (with English subtitles) 

Wow, that sounds nice and like mixed together German and Norwegian, just my personal experience, hope didn't offend anyone:)

2 other things I find remarkable about Swiss. 1. Verbal diminutive: Swiss like their as in . Well there is also an equivalent for verbs: from but with the meaning of doing it only a bit, for fun & w/o taking it seriously. But the mechanism has another superpower. It enables to convert any noun into a fun activity, e.g. hündələ = dog -> go for a walk with a dog> or käfələ = coffee -> having coffee time>, etc. 2. Lego kit like morphology: take and compare it to high german . This is with 2x as in , as in , as in , as in , 2× as in and as in . This would be an equivalent of English to 'Swinglish' or after sound shifts .

Awesome video! I spent a month in Switzerland and, as a non-native German speaker who is pretty fluent in the language (since I do translate from it), it took me a while to get the gist of Swiss German. I got somewhat used to the Zurich dialect, but then when I went to Zermatt, it was completely different!

Thanks for the video, it was excellent! A few inputs regarding tenses: As german speakers we equate tense = time. But in reality tenses mark for time + aspect. English has a balanced tense system. Hence for each aspect (continuous, perfect, etc.) and each time (past, present, future) there is a tense. German has an unbalanced system. Not every combination of aspect and time has its own tense. Now Swiss, does not really mark for time at all! Only for aspects. So you can surf in time, simply by changing time words, e.g , . So the so called 'Vorvergangenheit = pre-past', can happen in the future 😅

Vielen Dank für dieses sehr interessantes Video. Als Deutschlerner habe ich es immer so schwer gefunden, Swchweizerdeutsch zu verstehen. Ich liebe wie es klingt (Dank der Lieder von Faber). Bravo!

I for one love Swiss German and find it easier than High German. It’s just a challenge to write, for me.

Yes!! It's awesome that you made this. And Instructive for me too! I would love at some point to hear the various types of Schwiizerdütsch side by side too. I know some cantons can sound really different. Also, can we get you to pronounce Chuchichäschtli? Didn't kömerle mean shopping? Or running errands or something? I always equated it with the italian "fare commissioni" for some reason...

Hey, merci viumau für di Bytrag - sone Ufsteuer, das ds Schwyzerdütsch mou vor Region Bärn chunnt und nid immer nur ds (für mini Ohre chlei weniger schöne) Züridütsch. E sone gueti Idee, merci viumau! 🙏🏼☀️ E liebe Gruess vore Solodurnere, wo sid Jahre z'Bärn läbt

- kömerle reminds me a lot of 'comer', Spanish for eat. Funnily enough, we also use the ¨ (but for very few words, and we use it for the letter u). - Gieu is capitalized, it could be a proper noun. It think it's a first name. - Gstungg is also capitalized, I want to believe it's a last name. I knew Switzerland has many official languages, never thought Swiss German alone could be that complex. Very educational as always :) Greetings from Argentina!

The vocalisation of L in west Swiss, has nothing to do with a conscious desicion to differ from Germans. I mean, did they hold a referendum? 😉 Changes like this happen all the time, this is why there are different dialects & languages at all. Now, west Swiss tend to put their tongue lower, open the mouth more and slightly round the lips when pronouncing A, E & I towards Å, Ø & Y. This is what gives Bernese its relaxed 'bumblebee' feeling, e.g. compared to the more lively 'hummingbird' vibe of St. Gallen. This pronunciation leeds to some 'inconveniences' when pronouncing ÅL, ØL, YL, etc., given that for L the tip of the tongue has to go to the teeth and that the jaw should almost be closed. Therefore in west Swiss the corresponding Ls slipped to the throat - it happens automatically, when you say L with the tongue at the bottom of your mouth. So ther are two Ls: one at the tip, and one in the throat. English did the same: tip Ĺ in ĺife & reĺease, but throat Ļ in baļļ & abļe. In the Emmental the throat Ļ became an U, which seams stranger than it is. Pronounce Ļ as in baļļ and then an extra throaty U as in grew while observing the position of your lips, mouth and tongue. They are surprisingly similar. This is why many languages underwent L-vocalisation, including English to some degree. E.g. in yolk which is spelled with an oL but pronounced with an oU. And then this trend propagated out of the Emmental, wherever the field was already sown with Ļ. And why did everybody just copied this? Because it is fun! I hope this was a good explanation. Thanks for reading!

Ich habe mal 3 Monate in Zürich gelebt und habe auch ein paar Tricks gelernt, um Züridytsch zu verstehen: Hochdeutsch "e" wird "a" ausgesprochen, und Hochdeutsch "ung" wird "ig ausgesprochen. d.h. Rechnungslegung wurde zu Rachniglslagig. Das mit dem verschwindendem "l" gibt es auch in Bayern. Das kann "ois" mal schief gehen.

Als Brite, ist es schon gut, dass ich mit ein paar anderen Sprachen zu Recht komme! Aber bei meinem ersten Mal in CH, konnte ich kaum verstehen. Jetzt verstehe ein bisschen mehr und finde die Unterschiede zwischen dem Hochdeutschen und Schweizerdeutschen schon lustig, eben dass ich auch Fränkisch reden! Danke für's Video!!

Chasch no meh söttigi Byträg uf Schwyzerdütsch mache? Es isch henne interessant und beriichernd! 🤗

Wenn man den Dreh raus hat, kann man es verstehen. Besser als Niederländisch auf jeden Fall. Trottoir sagte meine Oma immer. Sie kam aus dem Ruhrgebiet. Wir haben im Kölschen auch viele Wörter aus dem Französischen übernommen wie Plumeau (altes Wort für Couette). Nur, dass ab den späteren Boomern kein Kölsch mehr gesprochen wurde. Sonst war das ja auch hier so mit dem Dialekt. Schriftsprache und gesprochene Sprache. Sehr interessantes Video, danke!

Jetzt wos gseit hesch ghöri de Solothurner Dialäkt use ;) Sehr informativ & interessant gsi!

Tried to learn German and failed miserably 😅. It's really hard

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Swiss German sounds like Dutch.

POV: learning German all his life to move to Switzerland Another POV: dUtsche