Alain de Botton

"There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life."


Which Languages should be learned first in Switzerland?




Learning the language of the country is a great support to integration. New learners are also very well welcomed by society. But which language should be learned in which Canton? 

You will be getting lots of invoices and correspondences each month. Google may not be the right address to translate all when you have the whole document. Translate.com app is really useful if you are in a hurry. You just take the photo and copy paste.

Which Languages are top priority?

Mandarin effect is coming as the second most spoken language in the world. There is still some more time. In Switzerland, English is well spoken in each Canton. In multinational corporations the language is usually English. But how about social life?

In order to socialise in the neighbourhood and daily life here are the list of languages in big Cantons:

Zurich: German, English
Bern: German, French
Basel: German, French, English
Geneva: French, English
Ticino: Italien, English



Source: weforum.org/agenda/2015/11/which-countries-are-best-at-english-as-a-second-language