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| schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5352 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 25 of 27 02 April 2011 at 3:47pm | IP Logged |
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Hallo Mae
Can you tell us how you actually managed to learn Swiss German (when it is reputedly so unpracticable)? I've noticed a couple of similarities with Dutch myself, like "five" is pronounced a bit like "fijf" 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4783 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 26 of 27 04 April 2011 at 12:20am | IP Logged |
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I'm a native speaker, I grew up with that language ;-) so I cannot give any special tricks or hints to learn it. I think exercising phonetics is a great help, but from my point of view not only important for learning Swiss German.
There are many variations to pronounce five: "fiif" (Uri), "foif" (Zurich), "füüf" (Thurgovia), "föif" (Lucerne), "fünf" (Basel), etc. I wrote the cantons in brackets. Of course, dialects are not attached to geographical limits, but some regions have things in common. I know a few persons from the Netherlands, and they didn't "suffer" learning Swiss German. Some of them speak with a heavy Dutch accent, some of them not at all. Edited by Mae on 08 April 2011 at 7:27pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6451 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 27 of 27 07 April 2011 at 5:05pm | IP Logged |
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All of this reminds me of what I've gone through with Portuguese. I've learned some Spanish, enough that Spanish comes out when I'm trying to speak Portuguese.
Perhaps people who think in German have to make a particular effort to switch mental gears when learning Schweitzerdeutsch. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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