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An adult who already commands German still cannot understand the Zurich German spoken around them, and the environment withdraws exposure exactly when it detects they need it: the Swiss switch to Hochdeutsch or English the moment they notice you struggling. The learner is denied the input because they are a learner. That trap is the reason a product is justified at all.
A source of exposure that does not withdraw. Raw exposure is not input, so the job is calibrated exposure at the learner's frontier, measured per learner and continuously — the thing software can do that a podcast cannot. Real recorded speakers, plus a deterministic variety gate, because a learner buying Zurich German cannot audit whether they were handed Bernese forms.
Progress measured by how much of an unfamiliar Zurich speaker the learner understands — not by how much Heidi they have consumed.
- A Zurich lexicon against invented facts
- Have a say through Solon
- The same for French
- The listening lab
- More dialects
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