Bolze is more than a just a language: it’s a cultural identity and a point of pride in the Basse-Ville of Fribourg. The Sarine River skirts the edge of Basse-Ville (lower town), dividing both the ...

Apertus was released in early September 2025. It is a multilingual model developed by the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Zurich (ETH) and Lausanne (EPFL). The model was pretrained with 60% ...

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As the small Alpine country of 8.8 million people names its new members of both houses of parliament, here are five things to know about Switzerland: Switzerland has four official languages: German, ...

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Multilingualism is to Switzerland what politeness is to the British or style to the Italians: a deep source of national pride. It was one of the shortest train rides I had ever taken: just 10 minutes ...

Born in London, Thomas was a journalist at The Independent before moving to Bern in 2005. He speaks three official Swiss languages and enjoys travelling the country and practising them, above all in ...