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How easier or harder is Swiss German to the German spoken in Germany?
| I can't say much about the learning part as I grew up in switzerland and learned both that way. Swiss german varies a lot depending on where in switzerland you are. It does simplify german, but there is no way to learn it except to just live in switzerland and learn it from others. Swiss german has no grammar rules. Everyone just writes how he/she thinks is fine.
I live pretty close to the german border and the swiss german spoken here is the one that is closest to regular german.
| Swiss german also borrows words from french. Instead of "Fahrrad" (bicycle) we say "Velo" or instead of "Gehsteig" (sidewalk) we say "Trottoir". Some Swiss German dialects also replace some words with their own like "Abfalleimer" (trash can) is "Küderchübu" in Bern. Like I said before swiss german simplifies and shortens words e.g. "Das ist ein Beispiel" (This is an example) I would say "Das isch e bispiel". Swiss german also lacks 2 tenses of regular german.
| Im also spanish and i think swiss/southern german is a bit more complicated if you had german lessons because many things are not the things youre were taught
| Hmm interesting. Which of the four languages do y'all suggest I learn first if I should ever go there? I was thinking French but I read that the majority speak German, but French would be easier for me because I already know Spanish lol.
| Wtf is a gender based language
| >>e32dc0 languages like Spanish, Italian, or french. For English, you don't have different grammar rules for gender. For example, in English you can say "The girl is tired" or "the boy is tired." The only thing changing there is the words boy and girl. In say, Spanish, it'll be "Ella está cansada" and "Él está cansado." A for female, o for male at the end of the word tired.
| >>66e31b I'm actually leaning towards learning Finnish ATM. Although if I ever get the chance to visit Switzerland, I'll start with French. Finland was another country I was kinda interested in visiting as well.
| Swiss German, like Austrian German is a dialect.
In Austria at least there are dialects for every small region with different variations.
Germans who go to Austria or Switzerland often have a very hard time to understand the language. They often can understand Viennese people because that specific dialect sounds like a smooth version of High-German.
| But in other areas it could go so far that they don't understand anything. Usually its even hard for Austrians to understand people with a strong dialect, who live in other regions.
The problem is that the Austrian dialects often use loanwords from neighboring countries and usually say every word in a very different way than the standard German.
English: I go home
German: Ich gehe nach Hause
Austrian: I geh ham
| Also funny enough as a Austrian you can understand some Yiddish, which uses unique words which were adopted in Austria.
Also funny enough Swiss and Austrian people usually don't have as hard of a time to understand each other.
| oh shit I just realized that I'm too drunk and high and understood the question in a wrong way lmfao
| >>97d654 I'm actually finding this with Finnish. I speak Spanish as well as English, and my Finnish course is hitting me with "historia, auto" and similar words & I'm like "wait whAT?" (Spanish auto is pronounced Ah-oo-toe. Same as Finnish! Surprising)
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| Just curious. I tried learning German, but the fact that it was gender based threw me off. Even though I speak Spanish, which is another gender based language, it was a bit perplexing for me lol