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

[Mario Fux]

Am Dienstag, 25. August 2009 schrieb Myriam Schweingruber:
> Salut Trib,

Morning

> 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 parents have a paper copy of a (probably outdated) Swiss German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 Outdated?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.
>
> > 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!

No. Sorry. There was a link to a nice webpage about different swiss german and 
other allemanic dialects at the page of tagesschau.sf.tv. Some days or weeks 
ago.

> Regards, Myriam.

Mario