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I used to go to Switzerland regularly. In the francophone regions when I tried to speak French people would either ignore me or reply in English. In the Germanic regions if I tried speaking in German they'd assume I was a lazy French Swiss who had never bothered to learn German and would reply to me in French.
dancing james
Swiss German is as foreign a language to Germans as English.
I tried to improve my German when i lived in Zurich, but if I spoke in German to a Swiss they'd reply in English.