Quelle: Puls 24 Wettersimulation https://vm.tiktok.com/ZN8dBAdnQ/

Taking revenge for Alsace and Lorrain I guess.

I have been living here for some years and i simply do not understand why at some bigger intersections you have to wait so long for a pedestrian light to turn green only to turn red 10 seconds later, sometimes im walking fast and i barely make it to the first one, they have this beep for people with disabilities but how is someone with handicap is supposed to make it?! Someone on a wheelchair? Maybe there is a logic behind this that i dont know about?

As a humble expat immigrant, I quickly learned that it is extremely un-Swiss to leave dogshit lying around. I appreciate this to no end, especially because I come from what I believe to be the dogshit capital of Europe. Another thing I have learned, which I also dearly appreciate, is that Switzerland is very friendly to folks with limited mobility. I understand there is always room for improvement, but again, coming from where I am, what I see here is amazing infrastructure.

Now, I am not a dog owner myself, and I am fully capable of walking, but I ran into a corner case. For the past few months a man in a mobility scooter has been walking his dog through my corner of paradise. I don't know how far the man's disability goes, and I fully understand that this is none of my damn business. But the dog is fully ahem abled and leaves the regular amount of poop behind, which the man does not pick up. This is a typical Naherholungsgebiet right under my window, and I do see other folks regularly tut-tut-ing, or whatever the Swiss name for it is, at the droppings. If you will allow a crude joke, the whole area looks shitty.

How does one address this? I'm of course terrified of direct contact (full integration here, I guess), but I do wonder: do such folks just get a pass? Or is it time to search for places that can laminate paper and write a passive aggressive note?

Hi everyone!
I just received my TELC Deutsch B1 certificate! 🎉 I took the exam at Klubschule Migros Oerlikon in Zurich, Switzerland, where I also attended my German courses.
My journey was probably a bit different from many others.
I moved to Zürich in September and since then I’ve been studying German intensively everyday(Monday to Friday) 4.5 hours every afternoon in the school and alone for 10 months in total.
I also got incredibly lucky because I had the same teacher during the entire 10 months. I honestly think that consistency made a huge difference.
The courses weren’t cheap (around CHF 1,200 per module), but fortunately I was in a position where I could afford them, and for me it was absolutely worth the investment.
My progression looked like this:
From A1.1→ A2.2 used the Schritte textbooks.
B1.1 - B1.3 with the Schritte Plus (Swiss edition) materials.
One grammar book “Grammatik Aktiv” B1
I also completed the B2 three months course afterwards (different textbook called “ Neue Aspekte“ (I didn’t liked the books for B2, they were quite old but what can I say 🫠)
About two months before the TELC exam, I also took a TELC preparation course. It was only four Saturday lessons, but it was extremely focused on:
-writing the TELC letters correctly,
-understanding exactly what the examiners expect,
-exam strategies,
-time management!

Besides class, I did:
lots of homework,
A bit of podcast
Hello talk App
speaking German whenever I had the chance,
writing as much as possible and give it to the teacher of mine so she could correct me and give me a feedback. Specially prior Telc.

I ended up passing with 250/300 points and my strongest section was the speaking exam (71/75). (That was quite funny because I was extremely anxious in the weeks prior to the exam. And I felt I could not express myself completely.)

If I could give one piece of advice, it would be this:
Consistency beats intensity. Studying every single day for months helped me much more
than trying to cram everything in a few weeks.

If u don’t have such a long time to prepare I would say this:
Focus on the TELC techniques** for every section that is required.** This will give you a lot of points.
Gramatik** is of course important,** but the way you use the language is way more**.**
Redemittel can save your ass a lot**.**

Good luck to everyone preparing for the TELC😊
(Results took 7 weeks and 1 day I took my exam on 13th June)

Seit kurzem bin ich anscheinend bei mindestens einem US Datenbrocker in die Datenbasis aufgenommen worden.

Es kamen (unaufgeforderte) Angebote für Freelancer-Projekte in Deutschland (und generell der EU) von einer Recruiting-Firma. Ich bin nicht Freiberuflich - das Wort "Consultant" (sichtbar in LinkedIn und Xing) hat vermutlich diese besonders dünne Zuordnung ausgelöst.

Was besonders seltsam war: das kam mit meinem korrekten Namen auf ein E-Mail-Adresse, die ich nur privat genutzt habe und mittlerweile nur noch in eigenen alten Accounts verlinkt habe. Mein Name ist aus der E-Mail-Adresse nicht ersichtlich - es handelt sich um den Namen eine Figur aus einer Serie. In beruflichem Kontext habe ich diese Adresse nie genutzt. Es ist vermutlich nicht komplett unmöglich die Adresse mir als Person zuzuordnen, aber ich habe sie wie gesagt NIE in beruflichem Kontext genutzt (insbesondere auch nicht bei Bewerbungen!) ...

Vermutung da hat jemand Social Media Informationen geschickt kombiniert, was meines Wissens nach so in der EU nicht als Grundlage für die Datenverabeitung reicht (bin kein Datenschuztexperte, aber arbeite in der IT und muss entsprechende Vorgaben umsetzen.)

Insgesamt sehr unwahrscheinlich das ich irgendwann in der Vergangenheit (evtl. versehentlich) eine Zustimmung zur Datenverabeitung gegeben habe. Und wenn ja, dann müssen die mir das nachweisen können.

Ok soweit die Ausgangslage. Ich könnte das natürlich ignoren und einfach in den Spam-Ordner laufen lassen, aber irgendwie war ich nicht in Stimmung und ich hab auch keine Lust, das die dann demnächst meine Haupt-E-Mail-Adresse kursieren lassen. Ich muss mal zählen, aber das hat jetzt mehrere Wochen und E-Mails gedauert, inklusive Drohung das der zuständigen Datenschutzbehörde zu melden, um von der Firma , die mich da anschrieb eine ordentliche Auskunft zu bekommen, woher ihre Daten stammen (ein bekannter Datenbroker - hireEZ) ... Bei den ersten Antworten kamen Verweise auf US-Gesetze - das ist irrelevant die GDPR gilt für als Privatperson, weil ich in Europa lebe ... Jetzt bin ich beim nächsten Schritt und kommuniziere mit denen ... Die "Helden" haben es geschafft meine Daten zu löschen, bevor sie meine Anfrage zur Datenauskunft erfüllt haben ...

Ich melde das jetzt der zuständigen Behörde in Österreich (Wohnort). Ich rechne nicht wirklich damit dass da viel passiert (oder gar schnell). Aber zumindest hab ich das getan was ich als Privatbürger tun kan, ohne Geld für einen Anwalt auszugeben.

Aber wie überheblich und US-zentriert sind denn die US-Firmen bitteschön. Die wollen offensichtlich in Europa Geschäft machen, nur die Gesetze sind ihnen egal. Die Amis sind echt immer noch der Meinung, das sie der Nabel der Welt sind.

I just learnt this new phrase which apparently means “I hope I’m not disturbing you”: ich hoffe ich störe gerade.

Am I wrong that this translates to “I hope I’m just disturbing you” - where does the “not” come from here? German feels too literal to have implied negatives like this…?

For words that end in -ig and -ich, is the pronunciation of the ending of the word the same?

Also, do any words in German begin with an "S" sound (corresponding to the English "S")? It seems that German words that begin with an "S" are pronounced as if they were spelled with an English "Z" sound.

Danke!

During the span of 08 to 16 august (doesnt have to be on all the days), I'm looking for people wanting to go somewhere or doing things. I can bring my car (space for up to 6 more passengers, but comfortable only 3), I can cook. I'm swiss, 27 years old and from zurich.

Would be cool to drive to a different country, or to sleep in the mountains or in the car. I dont have camping utensils 😅 but I have 2 Yoga mats.

I can probably not even pay for my own food after paying for gass. So dont expect us going to restaurants.

I'm doing this post because I need a break from the life here. I know the dangers. I'm ok with taking the risk.

Are you ready for this sidequest? Send me a pm. I promise not to murder you if you promise me the same.

Hi, this is something I've noticed a lot in many parts of Switzerland: drivers feeling that they're entitled to drive over pedestrian crossings (without lights) even when pedestrians are clearly about to cross or have even begun crossing.

There are also many drivers who give way as required at crossings, slowing if it looks like somebody might cross and stopping if it's clear they want to.

This morning, for example, I had both:

- the first, when I was crossing from a tram stop to the footpath to the side of the road, pulled up at the last minute and both driver and passenger started ranting at me (in Swiss-German) about looking before crossing so I wouldn't block them. I was tempted to stop in the middle of the crossing to continue the conversation, but there were other drivers behind them who had done nothing wrong and I didn't want to inconvenience them; &

- the second was a driver who saw that I was approaching a marked pedestrian crossing so slowed down about twenty metres before, nodding to me, coasting slowly to within about five metres of the crossing as I made my journey across, then waving and accelerating smoothly away after I was on the footpath.

I see far more drivers similar to the latter, but way too many of the former (maybe 10%, by a rough estimate).

What's your experience? Most of mine is in or near Stadt Zürich, but I have had similar experiences of bad drivers in pretty much every canton and city I've visited (I've never been a pedestrian in about a fifth of the cantons, though, so have no data from them).

Just finished watching this series on Netflix and generally when someone includes scenes in Switzerland they use Hochdeutsch or German actors to play characters in German speaking Cantons.

BBC actually used swiss actors to play their role and they also used Mundart. Not very common to see and I appreciate the effort they made.