January 14th 2011, I officially left America and moved to Europe. Had a week in France, a layover in Zurich, and a few days in Rome before my final destination of Florence. Now you may be thinking, so why is this American girl who lives in Italy making a blog about some random swiss german dialect eh? Well my second weekend of living in Florence my roommates decided to go to Interlaken, and one of my dreams was to always snowboard the swiss alps so I tagged along. Unforuntately I pinched a nerve in my neck on 8 hour bus ride and was unable to complete my dream... so a few weeks later I proceeded to go back, and go back, and go back...
Since moving to Europe, I have been to Switzerland 5 times already (If you count my layover in Zurich, lol)! My friends joke with me that I spend more time there, than in Florence. The more time I spent in Switzerland, the more it and it's residents stole my heart.
I am currently trying to teach myself the Swiss German dialect from the Berner Oberland Region of Swizterland. There may also be some slight differences from people speaking this dialect in Bern since I am learning this dialect in and around the Interlaken Jungfrau Region. Whether this is stupid or brilliant of me to try and learn some basic words in this dialect without much knowledge of the German language is besides the point. I have yet to see barndutsch to english help out there on the internet so I thought I would start a blog where people can come and try to learn a few basic phrases along with me, as well as come and talk about their adventures through Berner Oberland, and all of CH in general.
I will also now post some links to other great websites with good resources to learning Swiss German/German and general information on Switzerland.
1. http://www.englishforum.ch/
(This is probably the best forum out there for all Swiss related news, info, and help.)
2. http://www.swissworld.org/en/
(General information on Switzerland.)
3. http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~joyce1/dialects/
(Has great links to various pages about all swiss german dialects.)
4. http://www.edimuster.ch/baernduetsch/woerterbuechli.htm#H
(Great german-berndutsch lexicon, you can maybe try to google translate the page to english?)
5. berndeutsch.ch
(Again, another lexicon. Just found this page so am not sure on how to review it...)
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