German Reacts to SWISS GERMAN!🇨🇭| Feli from Germany

Germany and Switzerland are neighbors and even though a big part of Switzerland is German-speaking, they don't quite speak the same language! 😅 But how much can a regular German from Munich actually understand of Swiss German?
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0:00 Intro
1:35 Facts about Swiss German
5:31 Learn a language while watching TV!
7:50 @EasyGerman - Zürichdeutsch
17:15 @Wikitongues: Fabia
20:29 Weather Forecast
24:02 @Aditotoro Guessing Swiss Words
29:07 @EasyGerman 5 Swiss Dialects
32:30 Swiss Words with @rewinside
33:57 How much did I understand?
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[FelifromGermany]

*How much did YOU understand? 🤔😅 And which dialect/language should I react to next?* Edit: Just realized I said "beat" instead of "beak" for a bird's mouth. You know what I meant though 😅 I also said that Swiss people don't use the dative case a lot when I really meant to say they don't use the GENETIVE case a lot and use dative instead. Dang it! 🫠

[dorian]

In the French speaking part of Switzerland, we believe that Swiss-German is the language we will all speak in Heaven. Because it takes an eternity to learn.

[Mabinogion]

NO!!​ Müsli is the Swiss-German word for 'mouse' the Frühstück is Müesli. The Swiss say 'if the Germans want to eat mice for breakfast, that's up to them'.

[monikaunterwegs]

A Zug is also a Zug in Switzerland. A Zügli are only these small trains, which you sometimes find in zoos or citys for tourists.

[Baba]

I'm impressed by how well Feli researched the facts about Swiss German. As a Swiss, I also learned something new.

[Crisis-stove]

What they are saying for breakfast is „Zmorgä“, a sort of abreviation vor Zum Morgä, wich means for morning.
We have our own verb for it too, its zmörgälä:)

[Lala_]

I'm from Geneva in Switzerland and we speak French here.I'm not quite fluent in German but speak it well enough and have no problem understanding people whenever I'm in Germany. But when I visit German speaking parts of Switzerland? Good god, it's like I've never heard a word in my life😅

[msingh]

This lady's joy and enthusiasm is infectious. I just enjoy watching her speak...incredibly articulate

[svenolofandersson]

I’m a native Swedish speaker but I lived more than 20 years in Switzerland and speak both Swiss and high German. Swiss German can be really efficient. In most train stations, there is a little kiosk where you can buy some chocolate or a newspaper. In one of those, there was a girl who wasn’t particularly interested in her kiosk career and she spent her days chewing gum and looking bored. I paid for my stuff and then comes the issue of do I want a little plastic bag for my items. In high German, I suppose the proper wording would be: ”Möchten Sie gern eine Tragtasche dazu?” In the inimitable phraseology of Swiss German, the girl collapsed this into: ”Säckli wälle?” Bingo!

[christophmeier]

As a Swiss I must say that this is very well researched and described.

[ShefTimi]

In Swiss German, we usually call the meal times with a “Z’” before the word to indicate the time or event of the meal:

Z’Morge (German literally: “zum Morgen”, breakfast)

Z’Znüni (literally “zum Neun Uhr”, little break at nine o’clock)

Z’Mittag (“zum Mittag”, lunch)

Z’Zvieri (“zu vier Uhr”, little break at four o’clock)

Z’Nacht (“zur Nacht”, Dinner)

[tomboss]

There was a test on a Swiss website, where Swiss German speakers could choose how they speak around 30 words and then they were shown the location where they have grown up on a precision of 20-30 km (20miles). The regional variabilities were stunning. Of course, with immigration, moving around and the influence of media, it's not as exact anymore.

[Mad_Matt]

30:00 "Also understandable..."
Yeah he was very kind with you because "Walliserdeutsch" is in my opinion the hardest dialect in Switzerland. If it's spoken strongly even the swiss people from other regions struggle with understanding it. xD

[beady-eye_]

My Bachelor's degree is in German and though I'd never been to Germany, I felt really good about my fluency. Then I went to work for Swissair in Atlanta. The first time I heard two Swiss speaking to each other, I caught not one word. Not one! Quite the humbling experience.

[qeaslynr.]

So from someone who lives in Switzerland I have to thank you very much for making this video, because our language never gets mentioned anywhere. And here you made a whole video about it so thanks for that.
And the dude who said that he ate a …bread and you didn’t really understand it. He ate a bread with jam on it. He said he ate a ‚gonfibrot‘.

[thomasw.enderle]

Very good introduction! As a Swiss, I'm very proud how you summarized the differences. And I learned a bit on the way ;-) Great job!

[lelandunruh]

My wife is from a Swiss village not far from Lake Konstanz (Bodensee). I also studied law in Fribourg, on the Röstigraben (the border of French and German speakers). It is always funny to hear Standard German, of which I can just about catch 30%, then hear my wife's funny little hobbit language, of which I catch *maybe* 10%. I definitely won't have a clue when my kids are talking about me!

[init]

You did an incredible job at repeating some of the swiss german words - the pronunciation was really on point. Good job alround on the video. Cheers from Switzerland.

[musicofnote]

I LOVED how much you enjoyed diving into Schwiizer Düütsch. I moved to the Basel region from the US in 1977. In terms of language, like falling into a black hole, BUT ... most everyone has some experience with English, so that actually slowed down my learning of German. Then I met my Swiss wife from Bern and ... she does languages well, but HATES English, so through pillow talk at first, I learned some German. As a musician, I'd turn on German TV and watch/listen to political discussions while doing technical exercises on my instrument. These are muscle-memory exercises, so the whole idea is NOT to think about what you're playing or how. Watching German TV slowly, slowly opened up my bsic German knowledge. Everyday life then began to let in Swiss Hochdeutsch which is different from Basel-Düütsch. Teaching kids also helped, because they learn Schweizer Hochdeutsch in the school as an obligatory foreign language. So they too have to think about what they want to say. And I understand why you find Swiss German "cute", because these kids speak with a Germanised misch-masch, slapping on an "-en" onto a Swiss German verb. Anrufen auf Schwiizer Düütsch heisst "lytte" or "a-lytte" and always takes the dative form, not like anrufen takes the accusative form. So they ask "Kann ich Dir heute Abend a-lytten?" Even my wife, who, as I said, does well in languages stumbles on this. "Tom hat Dir angerufen".

Now, I'm sitting in an AirBnb im Odenwald. I take week-trips to southern Germany, maybe 3-5 times a year to visit towns with half-timbered houses (Fachwerkhäuser). When I speak my Scheizer Hochdeutsch, I often confuse people here, because they hear my light American accent in well formed German sentences, sometimes mixed with Swiss vocabulary (when will I learn in conversation that "parkieren" is Swiss and "parken" is German?). just yesterday at the Hessisches LAndesmuseum a guard asked me if I was American or Dutch or Swiss. So nice when it's not 100% obvious, that I'm an Ex-Ami.

[Vitti_Paldi]

„Chrämle“ is from Krämer, a small shopkeeper (der Krämer; Genitiv: des Krämers, Plural: die Krämer [mittelhochdeutsch kramære, althochdeutsch kramāri = Kleinhändler). In Fribourg we say „ga chremere“ (to go shopping/einkaufen gehen) what mean the same as „chrämle“. For children that can be candy but that isnˋt a special verb for buying candy (afaik). Many words are also a mixture of French and German