DC>> As the Swiss "native German speaker" was most likely also
 DC>> fluent in Italian and French, I probably would notice a
 DC>> difference.

 DD> The Swiss couple I associate with only appear to speak German (and
 DD> English).

   Judging from my (albeit limited) experience, your Swiss couple is rather
typical for the Swiss. Two thirds of them have German as their native
language and the remaining third is almost equally divided between French
and Italian (and then there's less than one percent of retoromans).

   Most of the Swiss people, that I've come in contact with, actually do
not speak more than one language, however strange that may sound if you are
being told they are supposed to be a trilingo (yeah, yeah, quad then, to
take the minute minority into account) people.

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