What language is primarily spoken in Switzerland?
About 65% have German as a first language, 20% French and the rest is Italian and Rhaeto-Romanic (and other foreign languages) speaking. In the German cantons we start to learn french in 5th grade. The other language-regions learn at least one other national language as well (mostly german). The people in the french speaking cantons can speak german but most of them don’t do it if its not absolutely necessary, they know that we learn french so they think we can speach french with them, what we try to do 🙂 it’s also common to just speak the native language and get answers in the native language of the other person…
