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Illiways, the Café at the end of the UFieverse | by krikkert | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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Guten Morgen Liebe Sorgen, seid Ihr auch schon | by ideur | 2005-05-04 00:42:06 |
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Nei... No! | by krikkert | 2005-05-04 00:44:53 |
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OK! What about swissgerman? (n/t) | by ideur | 2005-05-04 00:45:44 |
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Ah, Swiss-German | by naqoyqatsi | 2005-05-04 01:23:07 |
| Depends on who you ask... |
by LourensVeen |
2005-05-04 01:50:43 |
I spent three months in Switzerland doing an internship (at the ETH Zürich). Now the German German I could get the hang of after a while (I'm Dutch, but I'd only learnt the basics in secondary school and it had been a few years) but the Schwytzertütsch? Hmm.
Anyway, the interesting thing was that I thought it sounded a bit Swedish, but the Swedish guys I met there (stereotypically named Stefan and Magnus :-)) thought it sounded Dutch. After much thought I decided that it was the hard G (chüchichästchli anyone?) that made it sound Dutch to them, and the little hesitations halfway a word that made it sound Swedish to me. Interestingly, Swiss German has some similar simplifications as Dutch has with respect to High German, like not using the genitive, and merging the dative and accusative forms into one (actually, Dutch is even simpler, we don't use genitive, and the other three cases are the same).
I suppose it's mainly the weird pronunciation. The Germans I met there seemed to be able to understand Swiss German relatively well, but if German isn't your native language then it's quite a bit harder. |
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