[Ubuntu-ch] Swiss German free (as in freedom) resources?

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Salut Trib,

I am subscribing Mario as he is a real specialist for all things
related to school and school books :)


On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:22, Tribaal<tribaal at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I haven't been very active lately since I'm now in the last rush to
> finish my studies :(
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> However, I do have a small question to ask you guys:
> I'm desperately trying to learn German / Swiss German (my girlfriend is
> from Bern), and while I could find many online resources for German, I
> could never find Swiss German material.

There is indeed not much around I fear, the Swiss tend to be very
secretive on such things, even school books are rarely online and one
has to pay for :(

> I know it's not officially a written language, but my girlfriend's
> parents have a paper copy of a (probably outdated) Swiss German
> dictionnary (I think it's even a "Bärndutsch" dictionnary).

Outdated? I don't think so, the dialects tend to not evolve that much,
even far less than the German language and certainly not at the same
speed.
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> Do any of you know of an electronic equivalent to this? Of course, I
> would love to have this in a open format (so I could put it on my
> phone), but I wouldn't mind paying for this...

All I know is the "Chuchichäschtli-Orakel" that is useful if you want
to know where people actually are from by the way they pronounce some
key words. It is accurate up to 0 km, at least for me:

http://dialects.from.ch/

> Similarly, do you know of any Swiss German kids eBooks, lessons etc.. in
> a open format/free license?

This is a question for Mario!


Regards, Myriam.
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