Special Reports for "Area Studies > European" At Home Away From Home: The English-Speaking Community in Switzerland * To successfully adjust to life in a new culture, many expatriates form support groups and clubs to help each other overcome the loneliness of the "outsider syndrome." At Home Away From Home: The English-Speaking Community in Switzerland Live in Zurich for a while and you'll start to hear peculiar things. Words that you actually understand will rise out of the din of Swiss German and stop you in your tracks. This isn't because your German lessons are finally paying off; it is indeed English that you're hearing. Quite often, a particular English word becomes more fitting, so to speak. ...