Swiss understand High German, because it is basically the language they write, but somebody from Hannover will have a hard time trying to understand somebody fr

Swiss understand High German, because it is basically the language they write, but somebody from Hannover will have a hard time trying to understand somebody from Bern. You get used to it after a while and Swiss people will try to meet you halfway and speak a bit less dialect (which then sounds strange to other Swiss people). They have some words that are different but Germans normally get. As with AE and BE, it gets funny when the same words have totally different meanings. On that note: Swiss-German is one form of Alemannic, a dialect also spoken in South-Western Germany, varying from region to region as it does in Switzerland, but do not call it a dialect, they see it as a separate language.