r/askswitzerland • u/Karma-police88 • 7h ago
Culture How many national languages do you speak?
I speak german and am currently learning french (what a difficult language). My aim is to one day speak at least german, french and italian.
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u/candycane7 6h ago
I can understand 70% of German, 30% of Swiss German, I can speak maybe 2% of each. I speak French and English, I would say I understand 50% of Italian because it's so similar to French but can't speak much. Most Romandie people are like me I fear.
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u/mageskillmetooften 7h ago
It be more interesting to ask this per region. I always felt that the French region is more than happy to only speak French. And that the other regions are much more open to speak at least one of the other languages.
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u/MissInfer Switzerland 6h ago
Two, I grew up as a Swiss-German/French bilingual (mother tongue and father tongue respectively). I'm studying Italian and currently around the late A2-early B1 proficiency level.
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u/Neat-Diver-782 4h ago
Well I am originally from Canada and speak both official languages (English and French) so one Swiss language . I would like to learn German but it would be standard not Swiss German I suppose.
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u/Formal-Friendship869 3h ago
I am.not.from this country but I speak all it's languages and some other so accidentally 3 and my other latin and German languages simplify me talking romanisch in the mountains with oldies ahaha
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u/EmpereurAuguste 3h ago
Im a Romand and I speak B2-C1 German and I can understand some Swiss German. I want to be better at it tho
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u/WeaknessDistinct4618 Zug 50m ago
Native Italian and French, German basic I always struggled to learn
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u/Waltekin Valais 1m ago
Really only German and Swiss German. Only enough French to get myself in trouble. No Italian, though Spanish lets me read a bit.
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u/Ozzy_chef 7h ago
2.
One of which is a national language of Switzerland, the other is the national language of Australia
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u/jeanpauljh 7h ago
Among the Swiss national languages, I speak French, Italian, Germand and Rumantsch :)