Speaking Swiss German in Zürich | Easy German 335

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Host of this episode: Claudia Faes und Nino
Camera: Carina Schmid
Edit: Janusz Hamerski / Carina Schmid
Translation: Ben Eve

[Iluminatum]

Switzerland: How many "umlaut" do you want to use?
Zurich people: yes.

[MrAhmedUA]

that moment when you need to translate from swiss -> Deutsch -> english -> your language 🤷‍♂️

[gemsandlasers]

Zürich is pretty easy as far as Swiss German goes. You've got to head the the hills to get the hard stuff. Go to Uri or Emmental.

[upfreaks]

*You need to interview someone who speaks Walliserdeutsch, it's a dialect from a different planet..!!*

[IvonaFlakus]

At least now I feel like I understand high German perfectly!

[tcleung]

After having learned German for one year intensively I was originally quite confident to go to Switzerland.

Now I'm reconsidering my decision😂

[ianng]

Everyone: Where does the umlaut go?
Thë Swïss: ÿës

[nsosymn]

What I've understood from the video: Swiss people like muesli for breakfast.

[cendahng]

Ich habe Deutsch vor 4 Monaten selbstständig Deutsch gelernt. Ich war in der Schweiz, um in einer Hotelfachschule zu studieren. (Aber ich studiere auf Englisch). Ich habe gedacht, dass ich mit die Schweizer reden kann. Am Ende erfinde ich, dass Schwizdüütsch sehr komisch und crazy ausklingt. Trotzdem interessiere ich mich sehr für Schweizdeutsch!! Eine schöne Video mittenand!

[BFDT-]

I was for a short time in Switzerland, but I barely spoke Hochdeutsch. However, I enjoyed listening and trying to decode Swiss German. I did have several experiences where -- I THOUGHT -- I understood Swiss German perfectly: Chatting with the train men who stayed up at the Jungfraujoch for the night after 6pm, drinking beer, and enjoying the fleeing sunlight through the windows of the hotel. This was before the 1972 fire at Berghaus Jungfraujoch where I worked as a waiter in the Snack Bar.

Great experience!

[Jerry]

Is the entire Swiss population fasting?

[amaliaameel]

*went to Switzerland 3 times
*motivated to learn German
*learning German
*watching this video: What I have been studying will not help me to understand how swiss
*depressed

[Nostalgia-pchb]

When I studied English in Canada, I had tons of Swiss friends and they told me they didn't speak Standard German on the streets, but dialects of German. As a Portuguese speaker I thought: but German is hard enough. Well, now that I got intermediate Deutch kann ich sehen the differences between the standard and the dialects. It's pretty much like standard Italian and the various dialects. Though in Switwerland you got many.

[thepsychonaut]

Phew, thank you for clarifying that I should learn standard German first, bc that’s what I’ve been doing!😅 I’m grateful for teachers like you for the Swiss dialect!🙏🏼

[adgbnn]

More videos about swiss german please :)

[LauraM.Swaager]

Im a cassier from the Netherlands and today I had a customer from Switzerland. I speak German fluently, but I couldn’t understand him so I helped him in Englisch. Then he said he spoke Schweizerdeutsch and I was really surprised that it was in fact German what he was speaking.

[andrelopes]

Germany: There are many incomprehensible dialects in Germany.
Switzerland: Hold on!

[HenkKroonenburg]

Als gebürtiger Niederländer mit Wohnsitz in Deutschland habe ich alles verstanden!

[maclarke]

I love hearing the different dialects! I hope you get to make a Platt Deutsch video, one day.

[kudratortikov]

Hallo aus Usbekistan! Danke fuer shoenestes Video und es ist klar dass Swiss Menschen moeglich zu verstehen von der Deutschspraechger Fremden wie wir=) Viel Glueck and Erfolg beim Kreativitaet!!!