Listen to 23 Swiss German Dialects!
Learn Swiss German the fun way! Swiss German language has hundreds of dialects that vary depending on one's home canton, city or even village. In this video, I ask 23 people from different cantons to say different words and sentences in their local dialect.
Learn Swiss German for Beginners with me and find out if you're able to understand people from different regions in Switzerland.
🔥 Link to additional learning material for this video no. 23 (for Patrons only): / 50617898
❤️ ADDITIONAL LEARNING MATERIALS: Become a Patron on Patreon and get instant access to many additional learning materials and to our private community where you can ask me any question and find learning friends. / swissgermanbeginners
❤️ LESSONS: Interested in online private or group lessons? Sign up here so I can keep you updated. swissgerman.wixsite.com/begin...
#swissgerman #switzerland #dialects
👉Written material: As a patron, you'll be able to download transcripts, vocabulary lists and visuals from ALL videos. Get serious about learning Swiss German now! (cancel anytime) 🤩www.patreon.com/swissgermanbeginners
Nöd so gierig Ludi gierig. Gierludi Comes from swiss herman micky mouse on tape as far as I know.
Gömmer eis ga zischä.
At least we can all agree how to say Rösti. :D
Haha true! But I know that there are some differences too but somehow none of these peeps used another word. :)
Bröisi.
rösti is a word originating from berne, so no wonder
Rös(ch)ti😉
actually it isn't, in fribourg we say "brägu"
I once worked for Credit Suisse in Zurich. Staff meetings were attended by Swiss from 6 different Kantons. As an American just getting a handle on High German, which the Swiss hate to speak, I was left with a splitting headache after listening to 6 dialects for several hours!!
😂😂😂
It's interesting to hear so many regional dialects in such a small country.
In my canton alone (st.galler) there are 4 different dialects.
@@BlackStarTelevision guys, how you manage this? it doesn't make sense in my head as a beginner. can you perfectly communicate all over the country?
@@talitaneres7054 the dialects actually differ in every village. But we understand each other pretty well, because the words are mostly the same but the pronounciation is different. Also: context.
@@aneleh6 thank you, Helena. Hope to visit Switzerland in a near future and learn more about the Swiss German
„Ich spreche den Schwiizer. Dialekkt“ -sagt er in Hochdeutsch! 🤣😂🤣
Yet with a heavy accent
...also dieses Video ist so Hammer, musste so lachen. Wunderbar diese Dialekte aus der Schweiz 👌🏻
Rösti is pronounced the same even in Tessin for me 😁 I would add that in Tessin we also don't quite speak Italian, as it is intended in Italy. We have tens of dialects that vary quite a lot! Welcome to our lovely Switzerland 🇨🇭
Since I lived a few years in the Engadin Valley as a child I still speak a bit Vallader. It's a Rumantsch language. I was surprised that I immediately could hear when somebody was speaking dialect in Tessin. It's really almost the same as Vallader or Putèr Rumantsch. I understood everything, you even use the "ö" and "ü" which I thought is specific for Rumantsch Ladin. I understood people speaking dialect much better than people speaking standard Italian.
When I was doing my military service in Ticino, we were getting our equipment in Monte Ceneri and I noticed that the guy giving out clothing told another worker the size „quarantadü“ instead of „quarantadue“.
Nach dem lange Lockdown mueni sege, es hett sich wahnsinnig guet agfühlt, wenn so vil Persone eim fraged, obi eis wett go zieh 😁 Grossartigs Video ⭐
😄 danke vielmal! Ja, gäll.. 🥂
When I was stationed in Zürich, I hired a girl from Kanton Wallis as a sales personnel. Few months later she came to me saying she wants to resign due to the fact that she had difficulty in communicating with the people of Zürich. I had already complaints from customers that they could not communicate with a particular personel which was that girl. So we shook hands and parted.
Everybody: Switzerland, how many dialects do you have? Switzerland: Yes. Thanks for a great video!
Having the Bündner dialect as the last one was a great choice! She has a great delivery and did't shy away from the more "rude" expressions. 🤣👍
1991 war ich in Aargau Region, in einem dorf Villigen und bei der Migros Schule Schwiizertuetsch gelernt. Aber ich habe erst heute zum erstem Mal so viele Dialekte erfahren. Sie haben so toll erklaert. Danke
Vielen Dank dir! Das freut mich :)
In my family we sometimes use the sentence "s chunnt cho trischaagge" for "a storm is coming". Thats probably a regional word from Emmental, because the family from my mothers side is from Emmental.
I have also heard "dä esch vertrischagget worde" meaning "he got his ass beat".
Each dialect is interesting in its own way, but I'm rather taken by "Heidi's grandfather" speaking Nidwalder-dialekt. :)
As a Suisse Romand living in Australia, this absolutely made my day!!! Thank you so much!!!
Yayyyy happy to hear this! 😃😃😍
@@SwissGermanBeginners my father is from Bern, from Schüpfen. This video brought back so many memories!! Just wanted to make clear that I'm not being sarcastic or anything, I really loved it
How wonderful! 😃😁 no worries, I understood correctly 😄😍
Love your videos. As a polyglot Ticinese from Ascona, who lived on/off in Graubuenden/zurich, and now in California for 30+ years (and 32 in CH) I can appreciate your lessons and I love sharing your channel with my American friends to help them understand Swiss linguistics. Is there a similar person who details the many Insubric Italian dialects.
Just recently had the discussion with some of my foreign coworkes about the different dialects. and since we all come from a gastronomical background, it was really interessting to see how many different names we have for our beverages.
You have done an amazing job, outstanding! Thank you for your time and hard work.
Thank you so much! 😃🤗
another difference with "Rösti" was the R. People from eastern Switzerland usually pronounce it retroflexly (in your throat) while people from other parts of Switzerland tend to pronounce it at the front of their mouth.
Very cool, especially the Lady from Baaaasel and the Nidwaldner Alpöhi! "Wähe" is probably the most diverse word, always fun!
love it!! please post more videos like this 😍😍
Will do! They are just quite a lot of work 😅😘
My favourites are Nid and Obwældish and Uri Dialects. I really like their melody. Appenzeller Innerrhoden Dialect sounds melodical for me too. Thank you for your efforts while making this awesome video.
Oh cool, the dialects from the centre of Switzerland! I love them too :) Thank you for watching my video, Emre!
Danke vielmal! 🙂Dieses Video ist wunderbar.👌 Es ist wirklich schwierig Schweizer Deutsch zu verstehen oder zu sprechen.
Vielen Dank dir! Ja, ich weiss.. und deshalb bin ich ja hier :) Ich hoffe, meine Videos helfen dir ein wenig :)
Was ist mit dem Seisler-Dialekt? Ein sehr interessantes Dialekt aus Freiburg, das leider oft vergessen wird!
Och hab genau nach diesem Kommentar gesucht. Team Seisler Dialäkt😁✊
#Seislerdütsch
Dä hetti müesse da drin si!
I love seeing different dialects - my partner's from North-Western Germany so I doubt I'll speak Swiss German anytime soon, but I think as a Dutch person I'd have less of a hard time learning Swiss due to pronunciation tbh Bonus: for sniffing back snot we have "neus ophalen" which translates to "nose bringing up"
Great vid as always 👌 thank you for your work
And thank YOU for watching. 🤗
I am from luzern too and i thought it was really intereting how even someone from the same canton has very diffrent pronounciation or diffrent words!:)
bi 4:56 hani nume denkt die zürchered jo me als ich und ich chum us Züri
I thought i could speak german, but swiss dialects are totally differents to me a new language
Here in berne we have a saying, no matter how good you speak Dialect, try the wallis. Some walliser you cannot understand. Adelboden and kandersteg have also hard words. Especially the older generation
@@feuerschlange6374 the key to understand and speak any swiss dialect is to live daily there in these canton .this way you practice the dialect and as u mention the eldely generation have their own words .and the younger too
@@feuerschlange6374 Oberbärn dialäkt is also tough.
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH😍
Thanks. This was great. I’m from Australia but lived briefly in Schaffhausen when I was younger. They even had differences within the Kanton. (Check out Schleitheim Dütsch). Amazing that locals even struggle with some of the other dialects. As for spelling this stuff - WOW.
Das war echt super! Vielen Dank!
Such a good video! Liked and subscribed. Enjoyed the Bern dialect quite a bit.
Thank youuu 🥰
Thank you! It was great!!!!
Thank you very much, Angelica 😃
It's interesting how some words vary considerably while others are almost the same across the whole Swiss German speaking areas. I grew up in an area where you could tell whether someone was from our village or the next depending on how they pronounced certain words. Funny how certain regional dialects still bear the influence of the dialects their former occupiers and overlords from centuries ago spoke.
My favourite was Appenzeller! What a dialect. Thank you for all your edition.
Why the dislikes??? My swiss husband and I enjoyed this Video a lot when we watched it. Very interesting! Merci viel mal!
Thank you very much! I'm happy both of you liked it! :)
Probably frustrated Germans 😂😂😂
I am fascinated by Swiss dialects! 😍 Sooo different than standard German. I thought Austrian dialects were challenging.... Ehem, I'm obviously wrong. 😂
A mother, her little boy and her aunt are travelling by train from Appenzell to St. Gallen. The little boy is amusing himself by licking the window glass. Seeing this, the aunt is visibly upset and disgusted. The following verbal exchange takes place. Aunt: DAR DA DAA - (darf der das) Mother: DA DAR DAA - (der darf das) Aunt: DA DA DA DAR - (das der das darf) No offence to anyone speaking Appezöller dialekt.
I am native from zurich but love bern and bündner dialects. interesting for me was the asian girl from luzern whose pronounciation I could almost identify more than the guy from my own canton.
To draw back one's spit/snot (before spitting) is to "hocker up." To spit it is to "hock a loogey" and the end result is called either a "hocker" or a "loogey." I will add that a hocker is usually on the ground and loogeys are usually found on a wall . . . hanging.
Hallo! Here neue Abonenten:) Hab lange in Deutschland gelebt. Da ich mehrmals in der Schweiz war, wollte ich schon lange Schweizerdeutsch lernen. Bin froh, diesen Kanal gefunden hab:) Tschau!
So schön! Das freut mich, dass du hier bist! 🤗
@@SwissGermanBeginners Ja, ich auch. Grüße aus Indonesien. Mach's guet :)
Really great to hear the different dialects. I miss however the different words for the first cut of the bread. In canton of Bern it is called "Müürgu" while they call it "Gipfi" in the canton of St. Gallen. This is also an important word to us, since Swiss bread usually has a hard crust. Would love to hear this Word in the other dialects
Yes true! Might do a sequel.. 😁
I call it „Mugger“ and I grew up in Obwalden😁
“Chröpfli” für Baselbieter
Bödeli im untere Baselbiet
ahöili🤣
Dies Video isch Hammer! I gratuliere Dii. LG vo Ängland!🐞🇨🇭
Merci vielmal, Steve!! 😃🤗
Greetings from the other side of the roestigraaben ! 🇨🇭 (didn't understand anything, but it was quite interesting)
Oh bonjour Pierre! C'est un plaisir de t'avoir ici! Glad you found it interesting! Do you have lots of different dialects too in Swiss French?
@@SwissGermanBeginners Yeah, we do have some dialects, but Swiss French is much more close to French French than Swiss German to Germany German. On dit par exemple "faites seulement" au lieu de "Je vous en prie" ou "huitante" pour "quatre-vingts" (C'est comme ça que les Romands ont pu éviter de mettre en place le système vicésimal qui prévaut en France). I have Swiss German ancestors, but I don't speak German at all, so this vidéo was very interesting
@@pierrecharpentier1224 I see!! And yes I remember the thing with huitante and nonante etc. :)
@@SwissGermanBeginners its not that simple hehe! lets take ninety; in French Switzerland, its nonante, in France though quatre-vingt dix...
How many dialects are in a country? As many as there are people. Everybody sounds somewhat unique.
It has something. And sometimes we kinda repurpose words for fun, still easy to understand for Swiss people.
You are correct! Even born and growing up in a mid- upper Zürichsee Town, my Father originally from the rural Aargau and Mother from the mostly French speaking Berner Jura Region, I've frequently been told that I'm not speaking real 'Züridütsch'. There are apparently even some recognizable slightly differences in the Dialekt spoken in the City of Zürich and in the mid-upper Zürichsee Region.
Danke fuer die Vielfalt!
A hiccup to me will always be a “hitzgi.” Hitzgi hätzgi hinter em haag, nim mir doch de hitzgi ab! Great video. Like you, I speak Züri Dütsch, but I loved how you displayed so many unique and lovely Swiss Dialects. Your English is wonderful, and I can’t wait to watch more of your videos! Aber, stat “chlämmerli” würd ich “chlüpperli“ säge. And if you ever want to make a part two to this video, I’d suggest asking how to say “trash / trash can.” Is it abfall? Chübel? Güsel? Rundi Ablag? Or, also mashed potatoes. Is it “hedöpfel stock“ oder „gummel stunkis?“
Ok gueti Ideä! Merci! 😃
Uh ja! Met 'Gösu' (LU) werdi z Bärn emmer usglacht😋 Ob ehre 'Ghüder' besser esch😂
Chaschperli 😅 I think that Chaschperli took a big influence on most Swiss people. Mondchalb z.B.
Yaaay!!! Best video ever!! 🥳🌟
Yayy, thank you!! So gad you like it! It was by far the most challenging for me so far :)
Amazing country and so beautiful languages !
When I was very young my parents immigrated to America. Naturally they're friends were mostly Swiss. I found it difficult to speak my native tongue due to the various regional dialects. People from Germany find it difficult to understand the Swiss.🇨🇭
It's called a dialect continuum. It's how language develops by itself without easy modes of travel and communication. This extends over the borders of Switzerland. To the north Flamen in Belgium is the northwesternmost limit of the continuum, in the northeast Platt at the baltic sea. In the south the extremes are the highest alemannic dialects of Wallis, Valserdeutsch, Berner- And Fribuger Oberländer.
The Appenzell examples were stellar!
I am a native of the city of Bern and come from a long line of Bernese people (Stadtberner, Oberaargauer, Oberländer and Emmentaler). I have spent more or less my whole life in the city of Bern but I have never, but really never met a Bernese who says "Wäye". Everyone calls this pastry here "Chueche" or "Chuächä".
My father-in-law was from Bern! Your dialect is music to my ears. 😊
I always say, if Switzerland ever gets into an Civil war it's because of the dialects. I don't know how many discussions I had with People from other Kantons of how to prononounce certain words.
Or because of the washing machines 😂 Wöschrumchrieg.
Super interesting episode, thanks! I know that Yiddish borrowed the Old High German "smalz" meaning animal fat and applied it to chicken fat (schmaltz) -- which nowadays has entered "Yinglish" as a synonym for sappiness (sickly sentimentality). I'm just curious, of those Swiss who call butter "smalts," what word do they use for other kinds of animal fat, such as lard? Also: a schnorrer in Yiddish means a beggar or layabout, often one who displays a lot of "chutzpah." So cool to see the use of "Shnorri" here to mean loudmouth.
Can we get the gentleman from Nidwalden to just tell us stories for hours straight? That man looks like he has stories to tell!
Yess that would be lovely 😍
@@SwissGermanBeginnershave you asked him already? We are fans of him 😂
Awesome video!
Thank you! 😃
Interesting the different prononciations of "R" in rösti.
Het mega spass gmacht und hesch öppis mega schöns drus bastlet. Gern wieder c:
Danke vielmal! Bin so froh, dases eu allne gfallt! 🤗😃
Hammer geils Video wod gmacht hesch!
I thought it was interesting that some pronounced the word rösti with a French or German gutteral R, and others with a trilled Spanish R
Im from Winterthur. Its just 30 minutes away from zurich by train. But still: their many things we pronounce different than people from Zurich. We say some words completely different. And: we in Winterthur hate the zurich(city) dialect. Or as we call them: “zürischnöri”
Danke tolls viedo❤❤❤
Danke dir
D Seisler säge übrigens de Röst Häpperebrägu.
The woman at 11:37 just pronouncing "Pferdeäpfel" in what sounded to me like the most neutral Standard German after a video of completely foreign sounds and pronounciation was really funny, I cracked up. Interesting video though, especially as someone from North Germany :)
das isch hochdütsch gsi, als ob die in luzärn das so sage würde?!
@@joana1560 doch... 😂 Bi vo Lozärn. Genau so säge mers. 😉
@@l.j.g.1172 ok haha denn hani mi wohl düscht
@@joana1560 aber jo hesch scho recht, wo ich drüber no dänkt ha, es tönt bi üs wirkli gliich wie hochdütsch. Vielleicht wűrd I eher am Schluss wie es "u" säge. I würd entweder Pferdeäpfel oder Pferdeäpfu säge...
also ech be au vo lozärn und ech säge Rossbommele. Geht sogar e guugemusig wo so heisst
I'm Romand and I'm really proud, now people don't ask me any more from which country I come, they ask what is my dialect haha (of course it's a mix, so some people get confused or they ask if I'm seisler or from Wallis. Funny!)
now my schedule is on germany german, french, italian, and finnish languages, each for 50 words a day
no more Swiss German? :)
Really funny! The Obwäldler isch de bescht !!
As for "I love you", for the most part, the older people say some form of "I ha di gärn", whereas the younger ones have watched too much German TV and translate "ich liebe dich" into their dialect.
Its not bc of high german its bc today its a difference between those two. "I liäbä di“ goes deeper. Like "love" and "like"
@@ragedinah4610 Since "i liebe di" did not exist some decades ago in Swiss German, where would it have come from if not from High German?
@@andyarken7906 for me it still sounds strange and I'm a mid 80' kid Ich ha di gärn.
translate the sentence "I lay my heart at your feet" ("Ich leg dir mein Herz zu Füssen") in Bern German and then back again! "i ghei dr pumpi vor d'scheiche" (Bern German) I'll throw the pump in front of you (Ich schmeiss dir die Pumpe vor die Haxen) So much for Swiss romanticism 😂
@@xxx_phantom_xxxw_t_a9479 ha no niemer ghört so öbbis sägä
Eifach Spitze dini Idee! Mach so wiiter!
Sogar als Schwizerin find ich das spannend.😄
Soooo guest!! 💕
de "brotanschnitt" wäre auch noch eine typisches Wort mit vielen Variationen👍
Füddeli 😂
@@TrangDB9 fudi und pfiffeli
@@smolli91 nei, mir sägäd s'füddeli vom Brot 😅
Cools Video! Schaad hets ken Friborger dinn ghäbe, wiu s Seislerdütsch isch au uu spannend. Aber das passt ja denn in en Teil zwö ;)
Genau! Ich mues schono ein Teil zwö mache...
Es huärä schöns Video! I wett Schwiizerdütsch lerne u plane au Ferie i dr Schwiiz mache. Grüssi us Tschechie (Hoffe hanis richtig gschribe)
Wow dis Schwiizerdütsch isch super! 😃 Wieso chasch du das so guet? Liebi Grüess us de Schwiiz 🤗
@@SwissGermanBeginners Cha hochdütsch rede und lern Schwiizerdütsch scho seit fasch zwöi Jahr. Merci vilmal
Kennsch du öper in Graubünda (sehr=huara & ich=i & der=dr)🙂? Das isch da klarverständlichschti Dialekt zum lerna👌 Und erscht no dr beliabtischti mit Bärn Düütsch zäma in dr CH❤
@@Sandra-mq1nb Nei, i kenne niemert i dr Schwiz. Wägä däm chan i nöd sage i red Bärndütsch, Züridütsch, Bündnerdütsch oder Baslerdütsch. I benütze eifach Wörter us verschidini Dialäkt.
@@jirichladek3380 Beidruckend👌 Wiiter aso!!! Gruass us dr Schwiiz😊
Je suis romand et je trouve votre vidéo très intéressante. Vous comprenez maintenant pourquoi les romands ont de la peine avec le dialecte :) Je me réjouis de découvrir d'autres mots et phrases. Merci :)
Je suis très heureuse que vous aimiez mes vidéos. 😃 Oui, je comprends que nos dialectes sont difficiles pour les romains... 😅🤗
Ich liebe Luzern, Zug, Zürich und Thurgau Dialeckts
On parle français aussi en Suisse ;)
C'est comme en Romandie tetcheu on papote avec notre patois de chaque canton Romand ! Entre les quatre vingt gnevois et les huitantes vaudois.... Ich spreche hochdeutsch ,von schule aber ich habe Dutch verstanden 😂 ein bitzeli !
They sound more like Dutch or even Swedish people than German Germans. Crazy, sounds like a completely different language than Standard German, even to my untrained English ears.
Germans cant understand us either:)
It is almost a different language. Some linguists compare it to the difference between Lowland Scots and Standard English.
Good video.
🤣 absolutely spot-on hilarious
My Great Great grandparents are from Oberbalm, bern,Switzerland i know nothing about them..❤❤
Excellent dialect.
sehr cools video👍
Merciii
Züüritütsch. s’Video isch Mega Cool!
Merci vielmal 😃😁
ENG - What's your name? SWG - What kind of person are you? 21:48
As a norwegian, to my ear the Swiss German dialect sounds like dutch.
So e cools video! Grüessli vom basler wo im aargau ufgwachse isch und izt z luzern lebt = mixtur us x dialäkte red.
Ich,schwizeri, lise kommentär, niemert schribt schwiizerdütsch🥲 Wo sind mini schwiizer?
Sehr es tolls Video. Mega kool so eppis zgseh :) Secher voll ufwendig gsi zum plane usw :o und jetz ratet mal vo dem woni gseit ha, uus welem Kanton ich chume ;)
"eppis" - ich hät jetzt uf NW tipped ;-) gruess us zug
@@Crsh0vrrd nop xd aargau :)
@@axsna4387 ah echt? tja so chamr sich irre ^^
How the lady from Basel smiled after swearing 😂
Hei! Do you think you can do a video about family members in Swiss German with their English meaning, please? Like Grandmother, great grandmother, older sister, etc. ☺️☺️☺️☺️ Merci vielmals!! :D
Ok yes! Will do in one of my next videos! Good idea :)
@@SwissGermanBeginners thank you so much for helping me before with Swiss German! It’s a beautiful language and I look forward to learning more Swiss German! :D How would I write the word “Swiss German” in Swiss German? I feel like I’ve done it before but now I can’t remember how it’s written. :(
Schwiizerdütsch :)
@@SwissGermanBeginners now I remember!! XD Merci vielmals!! :3 Ich gärn Schwiizerdütsch! ☺️❤️ Gärn means love or like. Am I correct? :)
Yes! You could say "Ich ha gärn Schwiizerdütsch." To be 100% correct. :)
Soo guet gmacht, gfallt mer👍
Mercii vielmal! 😃😘
What a nice video! But what about Glarus?
Jöö! Beautiful job! I just love the diversity in the different Swiss dialects. Never ending learning for me. PS: my favorite dialects are now Wallis and Nidwalden
Very interested
"PFERDESCHISSI" ich cha nümme, das isch iwie so usem nüt cho
Hesch aber au di geilschte Wörter gno.. 🤣 aber cools Video. Abo hesch. Ah jo.. s beschte Wort vo allne musch mol erkläre. "Auwää" Bärndütsch för eifach alles 🤣. Gruess us Luzern.
😂🙈 Grüessli zrogg!
Aso du meinsch äuä "äuä" ;-)
@@ragedinah4610 äuä scho 😂
12:55 Schreeg (schräg)