Wordculture

Wordculture takes the view that language and culture cannot be taught in isolation, so its courses weave Swiss cultural context into the language lessons rather than offering them as a separate add-on. This matters especially for Swiss German, where the spoken dialect and the social codes attached to it are quite distinct from standard textbook German.

The firm works with individuals and corporate clients, and its programmes are common among expats who have been sent to Zurich and need functional German together with an understanding of how Swiss colleagues actually communicate, which tends to be less direct than it first appears and more structured than most people expect.