Hello everyone:
Many of my coachees for German as a foreign language ask me for help in their work, in the integration in Swiss society and bureaucracy, with the differences between Standard German and Swiss German and how to deal with all of this in daily life, so I’m keen on participating here in different topics. I hope it’s OK and feel free to ask me whatever you need to know.
Grüezi to all of you!
Andrés
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Welcome, feel free to participate (just no ads please)
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Thank you. I appreciate your welcome and hint. I already downloaded the app and now configuring the alerts 
Andrés…con acento?
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Hola… alguien que habla Español. ¡Qué alegría! Sí, claro, con tilde, osea acento, es decir Andrés. Pero es que no se puede elegir un nombre de usuario con más que las letras estandar del inglés. Qué le vamos hacer
Anyways… Are we allowed to speak other languages than English in Swissforum? I’m still a baby user of this platform, so I’m just trying to be cautious. The thing is that I haven’t seen anything which is not in English, so I just wonder… anyone knows?
Well, most of the people are English natives… and the forum is hosted in .co.uk… so i guess that’s a givaway 
to the lingua franca …
No me hables de tildes… soy familia del escritor de ‘Mis dictados’ 
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Thanks for responding to my introduction, lssy_the_busy_bee. As I said, I’m a baby member to this forum and I appreciate any hint on how to participate. And yes, my name is Andrés, but the format doesn’t allow me to state it this way in my username. I’m not sure what I should do about it. Maybe I should change it to capital letters, ANDRES, because in Spanish the accent or tilde (´) is optional in capital letters? But again, it would be weird to have a name only with capital letters, right? I don’t even know if I can change my username, so I wait and see 
Hello and welcome.
Yes, mostly English. At least the grammar, because sometimes it makes more sense to use words from the Swiss national language (DE, FR, IT). Think about topics such as bureaucratic procedures 
My first language is also Spanish, but never thought about characters with accents in usernames, ha. Just tried the Discourse (forum software) demo and found that “é” does not work. These are the limits.
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Thank you Axa. I’m beginning to love this forum. Everybody seems so nice, that I don’t care about the é anymore 
And yes, Axa, that makes sense. I’m happy with English, German and French 