Hej, jag heter Lode och jag bor i Eskilstuna. Jag studerar svenska på Mälardalens högskola i Västerås. Jag kommer från Nederländerna och jag talar nederländska, engelska, lite tyska och lite svenska. Hejdå!
The result of my first Swedish class. It is a bit strange to sit in a classroom and repeat the alphabet after the teacher.. [...]
This morning I had my first exam here. Well, this morning and day actually. You have 5 hours! to complete your exam here, and I used 4:45 of it :)
I was a bit anxious (a thing we needed to learn for the exam) for this. In the Netherlands I normally have 1 to 2 hours, [...]
For my course I have to read some extra literature next to the required ones, literature I choose myself. After some search in old patterns (education, virtual reality) I got the idea to search for time, how we experience time and how that influences our behavior. We already had some of this in the lectures [...]
Today I had a lecture again where we discussed about stereotypes. Tulips, cheese and drugs-friendly Dutch; family loyal, siesta enjoying and hard-working Mexicans; always on time, environmentally aware and reserved Swedes; and many more.
What I particularly liked was that it came clear that stereotypes are not always negative, in fact stereotypes are mostly positive when [...]
We had this question in a group work for the anatomy of intercultural interactions course.
Courses here are non parallel, so we only have one course at the time. Thats for the next 5 weeks and then comes the next course. Some exceptions, but then you probably won’t have more then 2 courses at the same [...]
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This morning was the first lecture. Actually it was the second – yesterday the whole group got an introduction into ‘the swedes and swedish culture‘ – but this was the first one of my programme of courses.
This first course I’m following is about the anatomy of intercultural interactions.. Yes, this first lecture was an introduction [...]
The Swedish language is not that hard to read for most of the words, it looks a lot like Dutch. What helps is when you know how to pronounce the special Swedish characters.
ä is pronounced as e
å is pronounced as ó (oo)
ö is pronounced as eu
And some more less important for reading:
y is pronounced as [...]
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