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Swiss Army knife morphs with age

A century and a quarter after a cutler set out to supply Swiss soldiers with a survival tool, the Swiss Army knife adapts to the urban jungle.

Exchanging your foreign driver's licence for a Swiss driver's licence

Read Jessica of Swisstory's adventure in obtaining her Swiss driver's licence, with helpful checklist.

Enfin! A beauty refuge for women of colour

Expatica reader Carolyn Moncel searches for the best salons in Paris and Switzerland serving black women.

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19/10/2009 Undocumented migrants open school

"Sans papiers" challenge Zurich’s asylum policy and run their own German language school.

21/08/2009 Strange Maps: The Swiss political landscape

Pashasha A strange map re-charts Switzerland according to its regional, political and language differences.

01/08/2009 Ten Swiss photos

coins In honour of Swiss National Day our blogger Z shares 10 photos of Swiss things that have affected him.

26/05/2009 Learning German in Switzerland

Language teacher Christine Wälchli of SCW Sprachkurse in Zürich explains how to learn Swiss German and High German.

10/04/2009 Swiss Greetings 101

Gruetzi! Jessica of Swisstory blog explains the complicated world of Swiss greetings.

17/02/2009 Practical French: Chez le coiffeur

Even fluent French speakers sometimes have to ask: Comment dit-on…? Our practical French teacher gives you some vocabulary for getting...

12/09/2008 How to be a polyglot

Almost all the adults I know think that learning a foreign language in adulthood is impossible. “I’m terrible with languages,” they say....

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