Swiss german

I'm studying Japanese language in uni, but I can offer some universal language learning advice.

Immerse yourself in the language as much as possible. Watch movies, browse the internet, read books, talk to people. I made my internet homepage a Japanese news site have to look at Japanese everytime I want to browse the internet. The key to getting good at a language is not just practicing it, but making it a part of your daily life

>>17456046
Seriously, just fuck off

actual swiss german person from there speaking here. You can just talk germany's german here as a foreigner, nobody expects you to speak dialect (of which there are like 10 variations across the country anyway). Even germans living here for decades (supposedly the group that has it the easiest to learn the dialect) do an absolutely awful job at it.
And swiss german is spoken only, most people write in germany's german.

> I've read they're completely different languages with different pronunciation rules and grammar.
There's maybe a handful of small grammar things, like, we have no "real" past tense, (meaning you can't say "he memed", only "he has memed"), but that's by far the biggest difference. Pronunciation can be very different though, and we have quite a few words that only exist in the dialect. It's essentially like comparing scottish english to american english, maybe a bit more extreme. And again there are many regional differences. People from Bern or Zurich have trouble understanding people from Sion (mountainious area in the lower west of the country) when the guys from Sion go full hardmode.
The best way to learn it is to come here and listen to people speak it.

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>>17456732 is me

>>17456033
> the resources
no such thing.

> swiss culture
not sure. Switzerland is a very correct and on point country. If the train is late 5 minutes, people get pissed off.
Germans are also very direct compared to us. We recently had a german try to sell something to our local wind band (we got 1000CHF for attending an evening of advertising), and he was very agressive and direct in his salesmanship. Swiss people, at least those in the middle class, don't like that.
And as I said, very correct. Recycling stuff, don't make a fuss, don't bother others. Stuff like that. We have a word for very society conforming people, it's Bünzli. In accordance with that, people worship the culture that makes the stereotypes of traditional switzerland. You know, jodeling, clothes like pic related, alphorn and so on. Middle class adults have a romantizing relationship to that.
Of course this is all very generalizing, but I can't really think of a truly meaningful answer.