What type of German is spoken in Switzerland?

Hi

I’m German. I understand the Swiss (if they try).

Germany and the German-Speakers in nearby countries have lots and lots of utterly unintellegible regional dialects. But almost all native speakers speak both, their regional dialect as well as - often accented - ‘High’-German Hochdeutsch.

You’ll hardly meet anyone who will not understand Hochdeutsch. And most people will try to speak Hochdeutsch to a foreigner. So you’ll be able to learn something very close to Hochdeutsch in Switzerland and with that, you can speak with everyone in Germany.

If you learn German in Switzerland and then move somewhere else, people will probably notice your English accent first ( I assume that English is your native tongue) and then they might come across some pronounciation or vocab that is unusual in their region. They’ll ask you if you learned to speak German “somewhere in the southern parts”.

Just imagine a German who learned English in Australia and then moves to London. That’s about equal. The Londoner will first of all notice a German accent and then be puzzled about the German who calls a sheep a ‘jumbuck’.

bye the jumbuck