Languages spoken by Swiss residents

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A bit silly, didn’t watch it, but it’s not really valid to take a Germanic language and remove all the Germanic elements from it. If they had not been there then ‘English’ would have simply been a form of French with Latin and Gaelic spattered through.

Latin because British Celtic language had already incorporated a lot from the Romans before the Saxons and co. started coming over, and long before the Normans brought their French, such that a lot of English words that may be similar to French did not come from their, but much erlier, directly from the Latin.

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So back to the exciting topic of languages:

For those who live in CH or neighbouring countries: Grenzgänger and working in CH:

  1. what languages do you speak primarily at work?
  2. what languages do you speak at home?
  3. what languages do you speak fluently: let say level B1 and better?

In my case

  1. English
  2. English, Filipino
  3. English, Spanish, Filipino, Portuguese, German (learning A2), French (Beginner)
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At work: Mainly English, then French once a week or so, Spanish when needed, and since A couple months ago, ver basic German.

At home: Spanish spiked with FR, DE and plenty of anglicisms :sweat_smile: don’t ask me the name of the produce I buy in the farm in Spanish, we just go by names in Swiss languages.

3: mother tongue: Spanish. English and French, I work with them. German, A2? Simple discussions at work and surviving in German speaking CH. Italian, I can survive while traveling :yum: