Swiss German Learning Resources

If you are interested in learning Swiss German (and let's face it, who isn't? 😀) here are some links to help you get started.

• https://schweizerdeutsch-tutor.com/app-theory-page/

  A fairly gentle introduction to Swiss German grammar.

• https://www.swissgerman-foreveryone.ch/

  Rahel Roth's Swiss German for English Speakers. An online course and textbook for absolute beginners. The presentation is excellent and Rahel explains everything clearly and gently in English for those with little or no knowledge of German.

• https://www.youtube.com/@SwissGermanBeginners

  A fun and entertaining series of videos by Andrea Holle. From the blurb: Say goodbye to boring language classes and hello to fluent Swiss German!

• https://www.zuerituetsch.ch/schreiben.html

  Viktor Schobinger's web site has some interesting tidbits.

• https://apps.apple.com/app/grüezi-switzerland/id646392531
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.swiss.gruezi

  Grüezi Switzerland an app which contains a nice Swiss German phrase book made up of useful audio clips for various situations and dialects.

• https://schorn.ch/iosapps.html

  Here you will find some rather nice apps for iPhone and Android including a useful Swiss German dictionary and a fun app which teaches you how to pronounce numbers in Swiss German.

• https://www.schweizerdeutsch.info/

  Swiss German courses by Verena Schorn.

• https://www.helvetikon.org/

  An online dictionary project under construction.

• https://www.weltbild.ch/media/txt/pdf/9783038127963-309.902.326.pdf

  Schwyzerdütsch für Anfänger a book of grammar and vocabulary by Ruth Troxler and Thomas Gsteiger.

• https://www.nzz-libro.ch/heinz-gallmann-zuerichdeutsches-woerterbuch-978-3-03823-907-9

  A comprehensive Zurich German to High German dictionary.

• https://züritüütsch.org/

  Swiss German courses and literature by the Verein Züritüütsch association for the promotion of the Zurich dialect. This may be suitable for the somewhat more advanced student who already has a good knowledge of German.

And if you really want to get serious, here are some academic papers about machine processing of Swiss German:

• https://aclanthology.org/W14-5310.pdf

  Compilation of a Swiss German Dialect Corpus and its Application to PoS Tagging
  by Nora Hollenstein and Noëmi Aepli, University of Zurich.

• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10579-019-09457-5

  Digitising Swiss German: how to process and study a polycentric spoken language
  by Yves Scherrer, Tanja Samardžic, and Elvira Glaser

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