Swiss German is for all intents and purposes a different language -- it's nearly as far away from German as Dutch. It has different grammar. This is confusing

Swiss German is for all intents and purposes a different language -- it's nearly as far away from German as Dutch. It has different grammar. This is confusing at times because the Swiss write Hochdeutsch but that's not the language that they use to communicate in. Comparatively Austrian German is rather paletable. :-)