Dialects Hotline
Rahel learns Swiss German

What does Gigetschi mean? And what are the linguistic peculiarities of Swiss German? Our sixth episode of the Dialect Hotline is all about Swiss German! Rahel meets with Valerio Moser to take a closer look at his dialect.

Dialects Hotline

Saxon, Kölsch, Swabian, Platt - there are many ways of speaking German. But what do these different dialects sound like? Who speaks them? And what’s so special about them? Rahel Klein asks those who know best because they speak a dialect themselves.

Translation: Eric Rosencrantz
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December 2022

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Dialects Hotline Rahel learns Swiss German

Dialects Hotline

Dialects Hotline
Rahel learns Swiss German