I am a Brit, but after living 58 years in Switzerland, I have naturally adopted the language – Swiss German, I know not all will understand German, but I found this video with an explanation of our Swiss German dialect. It is basically German, but not quite. I am sure many of you here speak your own dialect where you live, British, American, perhaps French or Italian etc. etc. I live in the Kanton of Solothurn in Switzerland and speak generally Solothurh dialect, although understand most of the different dialects in Switzerland. The guy on this video explains. He is speaking Swiss German, but the text is in English – so good luck.
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Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss 
I always find, one of the “secrets” for understanding foreign dialects an languages is to be openminded. Many people feel so unsecure by hearing something else than they are used to, they really seem to freeze instead. There once was a funny story about North Germans strandet somewhere in the Blackwood Forest in Germany and asked for the way in English, because they did not understand the Alemannic-German dialect Swabian, spoken there. 😀
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After living so long now in Europe, I have realised how many dilects we actually speak. Switzerland is a speciality, we are such a small country, but our dialect changes sometimes from kilometr to kilometer. Perhaps an advantage is, if you get the hang of our dialects, that you actually kow the origiin of the people you meet from the way they speak. I found this little film was really perfect for showing our various Swiss dialects and the grammatical differences.
Europe has many dialects and I have met many from all parts of the continent. When I was a working lady, I met quite a few Italians, many from Sicilia. I understand basic Italian, also speak it, but Sicilia is something completely different. However, with the help of a few of my colleagues, I actually began to get the hang of Sicilian. They used to laugh at my efforts to speak their dialect.
And German – I recognise what part of Germany people come from, but there are quite a few dialects. I even got the hang of Baravian. Mr. Swiss and I once went to Vienna on holiday for a week. The first encounter was in the town with a local girl that bgan to explain a local custom that was taking place. I understood abolutely nothing. Mr. Swiss understood more than I did, but he was also at a loss for an explanation.
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