im a student studying abroad from the us in geneva and i am trying to see how to get from the airport to where i wil be staying.. i know bus 8 passes near the place i will be at, i guess taxis are ...
We are visiting switzerland shortly and planning to use swiss pass for our 8 days stay . When searched for a destination the site sbb.ch give all the connection trains / options etc. But if we were ...
The hotel I am looking to stay at while in Switzerland has a check-in time of 1300 listed as hotel policy. I realize that this means 1 p.m. Still, I will be arriving later than this to the city. D...
Seems to me that "everything" we hear about Switzerland and its people is that everyone is polite, proper, nice, beautiful county, peaceful, on and on and on.... I can easily determine ...
I am going to Lucerne for a day and would like to get some really good chocolate, but I obviously don't have time to look and taste all of the shops. Do you know where to find the best shop?...
Additional Details Sorry that i didn't add details:I have Macedonian and Australian passport,but I really plan to go to Switzerland,because it is Europe and it is different....
None. Swiss German is its own dialect. High German, however, is used in writing (such as signs, newspapers etc.), so if you speak High German, you will be understood, regardless of which canton you are in.
FYRE & REIGN
According to this website, they all use it in school and for mass media but don't use it for everyday situations:
http://switzerland.isyours.com/e/guide/contexts/german.html
PP1234
Ya Basel wud be right..... lies in the border ...
fluppenhupp
There is nowhere in Switzerland where anyone native will speak high German. The closest to halfway understanding what anyone is on about would be right at the border to Germany. So if you go to Basel and you have rudimentary knowlege of German you will most probably understand them.
Servette
None. But Basel-City would be the closest of German spoken in Germany border of Switzerland.