[Das Outsider]

And yet I have had German-speakers tell me (in the same room as the others) that they cannot understand Suisse-Deutsch at all.

I don't know Spanish, but have a pretty decent grasp of Latin, and can muddle through the former. Those Germans have no excuse! ;)

[sionnsar]

I dunno. I quickly learned to not use German in Vienna, because I could not understand their responses. (Unlike Stuttgart, or really Schmieden, where I managed to find a place for a Sunday evening dinner only through my limited German.)