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Olaf Ransome's avatar

I loved this. We have this challenge in spades here in Switzerland

We have all kinds of flavours of dialect - I spoke the Bernese flavour when I was a kid and now speak the Zurich flavour.

We have lots of folk from just up the road in Germany - some who try it with the dialect, many who don't. In meetings at big places, you have to ask - Mundart i.e. dialect or German.

I find it really hard to talk dialect to somebody who replies in German.

What I do find is that all the locals appreciate those non-native speakers who make an effort, even if that is in German and not dialect. And, over here, nobody minds English - in fact often. they want to practice their English!

So, keep going. figure out your own flavour of dialect and don't worry if you use some English

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Doug Thomson's avatar

Very interesting post Rocco! I’ll have some comments later after I have some coffee ☕️😂

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