I've lived in Switzerland praticaly my whole life. I'm really going to miss it: my friends, my school, everything. But, I get really sick on planes. Should I risk it?...
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If somebody who has been to switzerland can help me it would be wonderful Additional Details Well I will be staying in Hotel Montana in Zurich & will be staying at Hotel Charlet in ...
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how does switzerland culture view women? its for a project.
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About 65% have German as a first language, 20% French and the rest is Italian and Rhaeto-Romanic (and other foreign languages) speaking. In the German cantons we start to learn french in 5th grade. The other language-regions learn at least one other national language as well (mostly german). The people in the french speaking cantons can speak german but most of them don't do it if its not absolutely necessary, they know that we learn french so they think we can speach french with them, what we try to do :) it's also common to just speak the native language and get answers in the native language of the other person...
Asianmale
Switzerland is a country, which has regions that speak different languages. Basically these regions are abit like mini countries. The regions speak French, German, Italian and Romansch. Its not very common for a french speaker in switzerland to speak another language that is spoken in a different region of switzerland. Same applies with German and Italian speakers.
Marry
French German
WooleyBooley again
I think you are correct.
Vicky T Viking
German, but French and Italian are also spoken.
Ian M
The Swiss are a multilingual group. Depending on which Canton you are in, expect to hear Romansce, (Apologies if that's misspelt), German, French or Italian. Most Swiss folk speak at least 2 and the majority have a good working knowledge of English as well.
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Anda's answer shows my point about the Swiss being multilingual. An excellent answer written by a German speaker in English and with good grammer as well.