swissgerman lessons via twitter

Here’s a twitter account that I just discovered that made me chuckle: @swiss-german teaches you a swiss german word a day. While I don’t fully agree with some of the words, as we say things a little differently in my Heimat corner of the alps, but nevertheless, it made me smile. G, this is for you!

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  1. September 5th, 2010

    @ 4:34 am

    René posted:

    This link was on the site of the Swiss National Library, so it must be a somehow reliable source for questions around the Swiss German:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_German

  2. September 5th, 2010

    @ 5:27 am

    Lena posted:

    There is no such thing as Swiss German, just lots of different dialects. About as many dialects and mix-dialects as there are Swiss Germans. You could say there is no real Swiss German, just Swiss German speakers.
    Still a cute idea.

  3. September 5th, 2010

    @ 5:56 am

    swissmiss posted:

    Different parts of Switzerland have different words for the same thing. i.e Butterfly is flikflauder where I am from and schmetterling in other parts. Make sense?

  4. September 5th, 2010

    @ 6:20 am

    Matt Convente posted:

    Don’t agree as in the word selections or they’re incorrectly written?

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