Stopped by at the Swiss TV blog for the very first time, and do you know what:<\/p>\n
“es hudlet”, “es chuutet”, “es str\u00e4\u00e4zt” oder “es chunnd ganz sch\u00f6\u00f6n cho sch\u00fctte”<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Looks like I’ll need to learn more Swiss German dialect to find out what kind of weather’s being forecast for tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Just wondering if there’s another European country that has a similar language constellation. I mean, if we consider the German speaking part, there’s:<\/p>\n
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- Standard High German – variant required to speak with Germans;<\/li>\n
- Swiss High German – often mistaken as being Mundart<\/em> by German visitors. (Typical duh<\/em> comment: Swiss German isn’t as difficult to understand as I thought it would be);<\/li>\n
- And then there’s the various regional dialects such as Basel-Deutsch, B\u00e4rn-Deutsch, Zuri-Deutsch. Basically every valley has its own language.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Swiss German has a lot of French loan words. New discovery of the week: couronne<\/em> as in couronne de Paris<\/em>. Never heard of the expression before, but Wikipedia had this description.<\/a><\/p>\n
Agglo<\/em> and quartier<\/em> are regular expressions heard often in Basel.<\/p>\n
(I know, I know. A very boring blog entry. Nothing new. But I did say “I’m blogging this” at the time \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n
A couple of interesting links:<\/p>\n