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VirginiaCavs said:
How come your English is so good and colloquial when you‘re Swiss?
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Thank you, I think most swiss young people these days are good in english. Have to use it everytime we travel outside the country. But talking is not as good since I don't use it everyday

We started learning english at school when I was around 13 years old, now they start a few years earlier

And me personnally watching and reading about US sports has helped a lot. Also I like english better than german. It all started in high school (gymnasium here) when a friend downloaded LOST on CDs for us to watch! Must have been 2006
 
VirginiaCavs said:
I would dare to add that the swissgermans hate Germany in general and not just German lol. I remember getting jeered when I wore my Germany jersey and the people I was staying with, the guy told me it was forbidden to wear a Germany jersey in his place lol. He sometimes would revert to dialect even when I was there and his girlfriend had to tell him to speak hochdeutsch for me, but yes I could tell that some people were very disinclined to speak hochdeutsch, which made communication very difficult for me, like I was bothering them just by speaking lol. I wonder if they would have spited me less if I spoke English lol but hochdeutsch would have been the easiest for everybody. I thought it was interesting that the art museum guide asked (in dialect) if everyone could understand her, I felt bad being the only one to ask her to speak hochdeutsch, but I feel like one guy maybe knew I learned German and respected me a bit for it because he kind of nodded at me. Overall it made me miss Germany where the Swiss tourists would speak the German I know, but even then they sounded so different from the Germans I'm used to hearing lol! I'm glad that I was with Swiss people when I visited Switzerland, as I think I would be too shy to go there alone.
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Yes I think we have a love/hate relationship with our bigger neighbours!

Like when the frenchies play sport, us swiss-frenchs are always rooting against them. But at the same time we watch french tv channels everyday and we like them too a little bit!

Swiss-germans futbol players all dream to play in the Bundesliga. Same for swiss-italians in Italy

And France is so close we can be there in 2 hours. Great places to visit
 
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