Not good
Response from developer
It appears that the dictionary does not meet your expectations. Therefore we suggest you ask Apple for a refund. Actually we do not see an entry where "be careful" is translated to "Achtung". In fact there is one translation in an example sentence for "to cover" where it is translated as "Pass uuf!" and another in "to be" where "be careful" is translated as "Bis vorsichtig!". Please also note that the number of dictionary entries and the focus on Swiss German as spoken in the Greater Zurich region is clearly indicated in the description in the App Store. As already mentioned before the support for other Swiss German dialects would require the creation of separate dictionary apps due to the considerable differences among the dialects.
Good, but limited vocabulary
The only issue with this app is that the vocabulary is quite limited. I’m not referring to specialized trade-words; even many very common words are missing. For example, words like “duck” (both noun and verb), “assemble” (e.g. what one would do with IKEA furniture), “deer”, “install”, “squint”, “giggle”, “kick”, and many more are missing.
Response from developer
Thank you very much for your kind review. For the selection of expressions, we rely, among others, on a study by R. Jones and E. Tschirner (2006). Among other things, the authors statistically evaluated one million expressions from the spoken language and listed the most frequent expressions in their book. Of the 3,000 most common ones, «Swiss German» covers about 90%. In addition, we have also included expressions that do not exist in High German or are very different from it, such as «tschutte» «sünnele», «bädele», as well as expressions that are placed further down the Tschirner list. But of course we dream of being able to offer an app one day that contains and explains 5'000 or 10'000 expressions in both directions. We wish you continued fun and success with «Swiss German».
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Lifesaver
Love that there’s different spellings and audio
