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| Nature Diglot Groupie Canada Joined 5238 days ago 63 posts - 80 votes  Speaks: English*, French | Message 1 of 6 17 December 2010 at 8:39pm | IP Logged |
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Are there any sites or learning materials to learning Swiss German? I know it makes much more sense to learn standard German but there's just something about Switzerland that I love and I'm learning this for fun so I'm not really concerned with learning the best "variation".
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| BartoG Diglot Senior Member United States confession Joined 5448 days ago 292 posts - 818 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Spanish, Latin, Uzbek | Message 2 of 6 17 December 2010 at 11:50pm | IP Logged |
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Pimsleur has a Swiss-German course, at least through Conversational Level. Assimil has a pocket guide (but not a course). I believe these both teach a standardized form of Swiss-German. From what I understand, though, in real life Swiss German is actually a continuum of Alemannic dialects.
To see what Alemmanic looks like, you should check out the wikipedia articles. Assuming you have a little German, you'll find them vaguely familiar in places and utterly incomprehensible in others. http://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5697 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 3 of 6 17 December 2010 at 11:59pm | IP Logged |
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When I saw the Pimsleur version I was really excited, but unfortunately it's only 10
lessons. Should you learn standard German first, I'm sure there'd be a lot more resources available to you. Good luck with your search, Schwyzerdütsch sounds awesome. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| CheeseInsider Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5123 days ago 193 posts - 238 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* Studies: French, German | Message 4 of 6 18 December 2010 at 11:13am | IP Logged |
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In the German speaking cantons they do learn standard German in school. So you could always learn standard German and later on go to Switzerland and make the necessary alterations there. Even if you never end up learn Swiss German you'll still be understood as their standard German is excellent, or so I hear :)
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| michau Tetraglot Groupie Norway lang-8.com/member/49 Joined 6227 days ago 86 posts - 135 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, NorwegianC1, Mandarin Studies: Spanish, Sign Language Studies: Burmese, Toki Pona, Greenlandic | Message 5 of 6 18 December 2010 at 5:14pm | IP Logged |
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Pimsleur doesn't seem too useful, it's too short. I would try something mentioned here, especially:
Züritüütsch isch aifach schön Die Schweizermacher Hoi: Your Swiss German Survival Guide I haven't used any of them, but that's what I plan to get when I finally start learning Swiss German (I too want to do it just for fun, since Switzerland is one of my favourite countries). Edited by michau on 18 December 2010 at 9:00pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6920 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 6 of 6 18 December 2010 at 7:25pm | IP Logged |
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Swissmade.com
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