In this video I investigate the differences between Swiss German dialects (focusing on the Zurich dialect) with Standard German. Check out *German Uncovered*: ▶ https://bit.ly/Uncovered-German ◀ See Uncovered courses for all languages: ▶ https://bit.ly/3fYI1uo ◀ Special thanks to Danilo for his Swiss German samples, and Johannes for his Standard German samples. Support the creation of Langfocus content by becoming a Langfocus patron: https://patreon.com/langfocus. Many thanks to the following Langfocus patrons: AmateurTextualCriticism Auguste Fields Bennett Seacrist Bill Walderman Brian King Bruce C CFitz17 Clark Roth Colin Milner Damaran Kos Irina Bruce Italy Made Easy J Choi Jacob Madsen John Moffat Karl-Erik Wångstedt Kenny Kirk Kirkpatrick Marcelo Loureiro Max Tannchen Bomchil Michael Arbagi Michael Cuomo Mody Neil Sills Nobbi Lampe-Strang Paul Falstad Rosalind Resnick Ruben Sanchez Jr ShadowCrossZero Ulf Hermjakob Victoria Goh Vincent David Walter Moore Wolfgang Egon Schroder Yuko Sunda 19jks94 Abdullah Al-Kazaz Adam Powell Adam Vanderpluym Alan Corley Alana Kalinowski Aleksei Alen Alex McKenzie Alexandre Smirnov Ali Muhammed Alshehri Alvin Quiñones Andrew Woods Anıl Öztürk Anthony Kinread Anthony Peter Swallow Aous Mansouri Arnoud Hoorn Ashley Dierolf Avital Levant Bartosz Czarnotta Ben Benjamin Tipton Brent Warner Brian Begnoche Brian Morton Bruce Stark Carl Chelsea Boudreau chris brown Christian Langreiter Christopher Lowell contumaciousCulimancer Cyrus Shahrivar Daniel Young Darek David Eggleston David LeCount Dean Cary Debbie Diana Fulger Diane Young DickyBoa Dieter Raber digitalmobius Dina Trageser divad Divadrax Don Ross Donald Tilley Drew Gatewood Dulta Tracey Ed B Ed Heard Edward Wilson Elaine Salmon Elizabeth Evans Eren Parla Eric Loewenthal Fabio Martini fatimahl Fawad Quraishi G Bot Grace Wagner Gregory Garecki Guillaume Brodar Harry Kek Helena Henri Saussure Henrik Flyvbjerg Herr K Howard Clark Hugh AULT Ina Mwanda Iurii Lutsenko Jack Jackson James and Amanda Soderling James Lillis JAMES ORR Jay Bernard Jaye Ferrone Jens Aksel Takle Jim McLaughlin JL Bumgarner Joe Dubya John E. McLaughlin John Flanagan John Gavin John Hyaduck John Lloyd Josh Rotenberg Julie Sriken Jón Elíasson Kate MacDonald Kimball Pierce kingvaeonic Kirk Vistain Kit Marcos Konrad Kristian Erickson Krzysztof Dobrzanski KW Kyle James Lance Bedasie Laura Morland Lee Dedmon Leo Barudi Lincoln Hutton Lissette Talledo Louie dela Fuente Luke Jensen m maiku Margaret Langendorf Margrét Mark Mark Bonneaux Mark Judge Mark Kemp Mark Rogers Markzipan Martin Blackwell Matthew Etter Merrick Bobb Merrick Bobb Michael Regal Michael Sisson Mike Frysinger Mohammed A. Abahussain Montassar Ghrairi Mário Pegado Naama and Geoff Shang Nadia B. Nicholas Gentry Nicolas Elsishans Nicole Tovar Niro noxialisrex Oleksandr Ivanov Oto Kohulák Patrick smith Patriot Nurse Paul Flynn Paul Shutler Pauline Pavon Paulla Fetzek Peter Andersson Peter Devlin Peter Nikitin Peter Scollar piero Pudim de Cana Raymond Thomas Renato Paroni de Castro RetroSteamKnight Richard Kelly Robert Brockway Robert Williams Robyn Morales Roger Smith Roland Seuhs Ron McKinnon Ronald Brady Saffo Papantonopoulou Sergio Pascalin Sheila Perryman Sierra Rooney Sigbjørn Nerland Simon Blanchet Simon Jaglom sinastral SJWS Stefan Reichenberger Steven Severance Suzanne Jacobs Tara Pride Theophagous Thomas Chapel Thomas Gijsbers Tim Hopmann tommy dahill Tony DeSantis Ty Ovendale Vinicius Marchezini Vitor Warren McKenzie William MacKenzie William O Beeman Yagub Alserkal yasmine jaafar Yeshar Hadi Yuriy Vrublevskiy Yuval Filmus Zachary Root zhangyimo Éric Martin Вайзефакнот Навальный 洋平 木嶋 The following images are used under Creative Commons Share Alike license: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alemannic_language_location_map_in_1950-de.svg. Author: Pyrokrat. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alemannic_German_location.svg. Author: Willtron. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Swiss_German_location.svg. Author: Willtron. Sources include: Fleischer, J., & Schmid, S. (2006). Zurich German. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 36(2), 243-253. Retrieved April 21, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/44526422 https://www.eldrid.ch/advanced.htm https://www.swiss-german-online.com/swiss-german-grammar-online-perfect.html https://www.swiss-german-online.com/dialogues-with-the-verb-to-go-in-swiss-german.html https://www.zuerich.com/en/visit/practical-information/zuerichdeutsch http://www.nthuleen.com/papers/130paper2.html 00:00 General info about Swiss German 01:38 Differences in vocabulary 03:17 Differences in pronunciation 05:23 Differences in grammar 08:27 Sentence breakdowns 11:03 Closing comments 11:44 The Question of the Day