Good evening (yes, it's evening for me!), I'm new to the forum and to the Prius world. I just get a white Prius 3 (july 2009) model Linea Sol Premium (swiss model), with a lot of options like GPS, leather, iPod kit,... I'm happy to discover this mountains of informations in the forum. In advance, I'm sorry for my bad english. Cu, Florent
:welcome: Your written English is better than a lot of native speakers. Your capitalization choices were the only thing that I noticed, and in a casual environment like this, that'll blend right in.
Florent, welcome to the forum and to Prius ownership. Your English is very good. You have nothing to worry out there.
Thanks a lot for all your messages ! Happy to see a friendly community. No, I'm not really in this region ;-). I'm from the mountains, in the center of the Alps. Too bad, I'm from the Swiss Romande (French Wallis) and my German is a bit rusty;-)
So do you speak Romansh? I've won several free drinks by being able to name Switzerland's four national languages but I've never actually met anyone who actually spoke Romansh.
Nope, only french ! I've never met anyone who spoke Romansh ;-) This is a very small part of the Switzerland who speak this language. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Sprachen_CH_2000_fr.png
Tony, I don’t want to rain on your parade but a bit of clarification is needed here: Our new Prius friend speaks French, not Ramuntsch. The four national languages in Switzerland are: § Deutsch (central, northern and part of eastern Switzeerland) § Français (Suisse Romande = S/W & western Switzerland) § Italiano (southern Switzerland) § Ramuntsch (nothing to do with Suisse (Swiss) Romande. A “Swiss Romande†speaks French). They speak Ramuntsch in a small part of south-eastern Switzerland. There are many variations that use the stem “rom†and they all mean entirely different things (e.g. Romand(e), Romas, Roman, etc.).
