I have recently found by serendipity a Swiss influencer… I have learnt more Swiss German with him in 10 minutes, than with my Swiss partner in 10 years 
Schweizerdeutsch und die Relativpronomen:switzerland:
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aber du muss es unbedingt AUF DEUTSCH hoeren!
I was once hiking up a mountain and was tired. But there seemed to be a kind of optical illusion as the top seemed just close by, but each time you got there, it revealed that there was more mountain further up. This happened time and time again.
I’m experiencing something similar with learning German. What I thought was the ‘big hill’ to crest was in fact just a tiny bump on the mountain.
Just one of the things for today: let’s translate this into German. We just need to know the word for ‘by’:
“By Friday, the letter written by Hans by hand by the window, which was sent by post, increased profits by 10% by attracting customers by accident.”
If I may suggest, get the Asterix and Obelix comics, the translations are spot on and they are a really fun read.
Your problem is that you want to do literally translation, where you should always focus of translating the meaning. Quite often literal translation is wrong
But it does make for a good laugh.
Years ago my then-OH and I were staying with a Mexican family and learning a little Spanish. OH had put aside some eggs in the evening for his breakfast next day. He walked into the family kitchen that morning, where everyone was having a meal. The eggs he’d put aside were not to be seen. He asked, “Donde estan mis huevos?” and the entire kitchen full of people busted out laughing.
Hehe. Context is everything.
One only needs a German mother. https://youtu.be/IzbrztZFCFA
It is not so tough
https://learngerman.dw.com/en/learn-german/s-9528
there are also nice YT full length videos if you’d like to play it in background for rehearsal
Thanks for the link. It is strangely addictive watching!
Though casting could be better. His aunt seems to be the same age as him.
Thanks for the link. I only just got to looking at it and it looks quite useful!