I met a new lawyer we hired into our Zurich office, who is doing a couple of weeks in California for orientation. When he found out I lived in Switzerland for four years, he asked if I spoke German, and I said I had forgotten most of it, but then he spoke German for a few minutes, and I understood it all. Turns out that I hadn't forgotten everything, and he has the perfect accent (southern German, which is softer than true high German but more proper than Swiss German) for me to understand.
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