Swiss French

Geneva.

Hey, I have heard a couple of French friends that I have make fun of the Swiss French.

So I think there's a thing there.

Okay.

I remember couples who were expecting coming to put their child's name down for a place in case they were having a son.

Dad was an utterly honorable man, the truest educationist I have ever met, so it was completely out of character when he came rushing home to our schoolhouse in Butland Crescent, calling, 'Ninette! Ninette!' My mum was half Greek, half Swiss French, the opposite in character from my dad.

It was highly unusual for Dad to call out, even more unusual for them to go into the kitchen and shut the door.

So down onto the stairs I went as close as I could to try and listen, only to see my mum rushing out, shouting, 'I'll kill him!' Mum had nursed my dad at King's.

Now, when you go to Switzerland, you have one year to learn either French, German, French, German...

I'm sorry, French, German or Swiss French or Swiss German, which are local dialects.

But when you take the driving test, it has to be one year after you move there.

So you could move there for one year and your driver's test is fully okay and your company takes care of it.

It's, it's more based on, on sort of the, the, the, um, the industry of employment or the work that you do or sort of the, the specific niche where you operate.

But in, in Europe, you have so many cultural differences where you can be sort of the, the Swiss German or the Swiss French or the Swiss Italian person for your founder forever, and they wanna keep you on the cap table because they understand you and you understand them, uh, from a cultural perspective.

So that's one thing that we find very interesting.

And sort of the Europe link in US quite simply is that many very, very interesting, like for example, the embassy that I mentioned, many others, uh, prominent managers in Europe have moved on to the States to invest in both markets.