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Crossing the Röstigraben

Breaching the divide between French and German speaking Switzerland.

Switzerland is divided along language lines with the German speakers in the north and the French-speaking minority in the southwest. But when you step over the divide, the so-called Röstigraben, it’s not only the language that changes, as three exchange students from Winterthur discovered. (swissinfo, Julie Hunt 2007)

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