Learn Swiss German

Learn Swiss German words and phrases and improve your listening and writing skills to better navigate and integrate in Switzerland

Regardless if you are just curious or planning to visit or live in the German speaking parts of Switzerland, Learn Swiss German can help you to build your vocabulary, learn common phrases, and improve your understanding of Swiss German.

This app will help you to learn a range of both words and phrases, covering many themes such as everyday interactions, shopping, traveling, and telling the time. Included is a learning mode and a testing mode. Learning mode will help you to learn at your own pace, repeating words and phrases as needed until you are ready to test yourself. Test mode will let you test your knowledge by providing timed challenges to see how far your have progressed.

About Swiss German and this app

Swiss German, known as "Schweizerdeutsch" or "Schwizerdütsch" in the local dialect, is a fascinating and unique aspect of Swiss culture. It's not a standardized language like High German that is spoken in Germany, but rather an informal collection of dialects spoken across Switzerland, and as it doesn't have a standardized form, there's no one correct way to write it. Instead, it's primarily a spoken language that continues to change and develop.

This app includes words and phrases in English with the Swiss German translation inspired by the Zurich region dialect. The translation is provided both in written and spoken format and is a representation of one way that the words and phrases can be spelled and pronounced, to help you to start to communicate and navigate like a local.