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by Gud 400 days ago
It depends.

I live in Zürich and I get by just fine unable to speak German. I can read it just fine because it is similar enough to Swedish, my native language. I doubt I will ever learn Swiss deutsch, it really is a language on its own - with very strong dialects.

But today there are amazing translator apps that can make it so much easier parsing official documents.