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by eru 4994 days ago
> the Swiss all speak perfect Swiss, English, French and German

What do you mean by perfect Swiss? (To be honest, as a German I am inclined to classify Swiss German as its own language. Especially since we already grant Dutch to be a different language from German.)

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He probably means Romansh. It's one of Switzerland's national languages, although only a small minority of the population speaks it.
Yes. It's always fun to bring that up, because people generally see Switzerland as trilingual only. Haven't met a speaker of that language, yet, though.
I met some. It was fun to see, how they could communicate with spanish people.