TipTopSwiss366: German. Deutschkurs

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

TipTopSwiss 53:366

Today at Deutschkurs we talked about sending and receiving letters and packages at the PostOffice or die Post so I thought we'd have a postbox or ein Briefkasten today. As in Spain, postboxes in Switzerland are yellow.

To post a letter to England you must buy eine Briefmarke (same in Swiss German) or stamp and it will cost you 1.30CHF or 1.40CHF. Our homework was to look at http://www.post.ch/ and work out how much it would cost to send a variety of things to places around the work.

We also learned that a small parcel - ein kleines Paket - is called ein Päckchen or Päckli.

Words that end -chen in German are diminutives ie a little something, and in Swiss German they use -li for the same purpose.
zum Bespiel -
ein Brot bread- ein Brötchen a roll - Büürli/ Weggli

Tuesday, 14 February 2012

TipTopSwiss 45:366

This is the church I discovered on this morning's run to Seen and back. I love the blue of the steeple. It seems to be a very popular colour as the church in Oberwinterthur is the same colour. Think I'd like a dress that shade of blue for my Mum's wedding!

Today I learned a new word - trotzdem. So I'll practice using it here.
Ich bin sehr müde. Trotzdem habe ich meine Hausaufgaben für den Deutschkurs gemacht.

Lisibo's 2012 challenge

This blog is my 2012 challenge - post a photograph of the something Swiss, and share a word or two in one of the languages of Switzerland every day for a year.

This follows on from Window on my world 365 my 2011 challenge to photograph the view of / from a window each day, and Trees365 my 2010 challenge to post a photograph of a tree.

And if you want to follow my family's first steps as we settle in Switzerland, you might like to see SwissMiss-Adventures.

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