This post will be in Dutch, look at the bottom for an English translation of the introduction. Swedes can read parts of the Dutch text also. Gisteren is het Nederlandse woordenboek binnengekomen, voor Zweden wel te verstaan; Nederländska fickordbok. Zodat Frida de Nederlandse grammatica achterin in het Zweeds kan leren, wel zo makkelijk. En achterin [...]
In the second-last week we had the presentations of the last course, an open research project. It was quite interesting, what kind of research questions people had came up with, and nice to present my own results. One research was investigating the (Hofstede’s) culture dimensions (like individualism – collectivism, femininity – masculinity, long-term – short-term [...]
There was a concert last Sunday were I went with Frida. It was from 6 girls, Google Translate said they called themselves Firefox and Waster (Eldflugor och Odågor), singing songs, mostly a cappella, some with addition of drums. Most of the songs were in Swedish so I didn’t understand the words, but I could understand [...]
I’ve stopped my Swedish classes. I’ll continue to learn the language myself via exposure so to say, but not very active in these classes anymore. They were not going too fast, maybe even too slow, but it is no priority for me. It was good for me to list again what it was that I [...]
Swedish class starts with 75% Asian students again :)
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! Hej, jag heter Lode The result of my first Swedish class. It is a bit strange to sit in a classroom and repeat [...]
Finally I got some time to visit one of my neighbors. This has the same reason as the dark video I made of the apartment; I haven’t been home a lot during daytime. I live in a very multicultural neighborhood as you can see, good for my study :) Today I went to people from [...]
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 [...]
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