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| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4349 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 57 of 91 06 March 2013 at 8:15am | IP Logged |
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I'm really busy with programming these days but still learning Swedish as well. I hoped
on doing more Swedish but at the moment I don't have time for it. And instead of reading and watching movies in Swedish, I'm mainly just speaking with my gf. I'm making small steps forward with speaking, but my listening increased a lot by the amount of speaking :) I hope to have more time soon so I can make some more regular updates here and start reading all the logs again! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5339 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 58 of 91 15 April 2013 at 3:26pm | IP Logged |
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Hej Kez!
It’s been a while since we’ve last heard from you. I’m sure you’ve been super busy with your trip to Sweden. I hope it was a great experience for you and that you had the chance to practice a lot of Swedish. Would you care to tell your fellow Vikings how it went? Ha det så bra! Emme 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4349 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 59 of 91 12 June 2013 at 10:56am | IP Logged |
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Hey Emme, just seen you post now!
It has indeed been quite a while, I've been very busy with some courses and work. My trip to Sweden was great, we stayed at my gf's parents place and they only spoke Swedish to me (but on a nice slow speed, which was a great help!). I was struggling with quite some words but I could see that they really appreciated that I tried. It was harder sticking to Swedish when we went out with friends because I usually have a few drinks, young people tend to speak fast and use some slang. Just little things like saying 'sen' instead of 'senare' are a bit confusing. I still spoke mainly English with her friends because it's hard to speak in clubs because of the sound, I did try and speak as much Swedish as I could when we were at houseparties though. Right now i'm preparing to move! I'm leaving Holland in 1 month and will be in Skellefteå for a few weeks before moving to Karlstad for atleast 4-5 years. I hope I'm ready for it! The moment I arrive in Skellefteå i'm going to cut off English and only speak Swedish. First thing i'm doing in Karlstad is checking where I can get some SFI courses and lessons (Just so I can 'officialy' put it on my CV). I'm very excited but it is damagin my Swedish learning progress at the moment, but i'm mainly just enjoying my last few weeks here at home. I've started reading the book En ö i havet. It's a great book. It also has a TV serie so I first read it and then watch the serie. Would really recommend it! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4349 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 60 of 91 04 September 2013 at 2:23pm | IP Logged |
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Hey Forum!
It's been a few months since my last post but i've been busy! I have finally move to Sweden (almost 2 months ago). I've already met new Swedish friends and I spend biggest part of my day speaking Swedish (around 90% of the day). So everything is going very well for me. I keep on speaking with random people in stores and everyone I meet. I'm still reading books, watching series and learning on Memrise though. Cheers! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4349 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 61 of 91 03 December 2013 at 1:26pm | IP Logged |
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Hej Vikings,
Not sure how many Vikings still follow the forum but since i've been so inactive it's time for a new update. I almost completely stopped speaking English! My Swedish is not even close to perfect yet but I'm able to speak the language with the people here and they seem to understand me. Still getting better everyday. Only thing that really feels like studying at the moment is Memrise which I still use for learning words. Watching series feels very normal now and I can understand almost everything that is going on without subtitles which feels great. I still watch most things with subtitles but it's mainly for the back up. I've also finished reading the first Harry Potter book which was great. Haven't read any of it before and never seen the movies so it was cool finally diving into that. After spending a few months in Karlstad I'm finally used to all the different accents my friends have. It was hard to understand some of them in the beginning but they slowed down their speed when talking with me. Just sitting at parties while there are lots of people around you speaking the language is also a great learning source. Sometimes I would just sit there quiet and listen. I still make mistakes with speaking and me and my friends have an occasional laugh about the weird mistakes I make but they very much enjoy my creativity with the language when i'm trying to explain something but don't know how. Hardest thing to do was to get them to correct me. Swedish people were almost scared to point out my mistakes, even after I told them that they had to. I'm always searching for new books to read or series/movies to watch so if anyone has any recommendations they're welcome! I'm hesitating to move Swedish to languages I speak on the forum but that would leave the languages i'm studying empty so I'm just going to wait with it :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4699 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 62 of 91 03 December 2013 at 2:55pm | IP Logged |
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Tyska är inte svårt att blända med holländska, men det är också nåt som vi alla gör som
holländare (jag är ingen undantag där). Jag tror också att det inte skulle ha nåt dåligt inflytande på din tyska - det helt förväntas när det gäller holländare, språk liknar varandra så mycket. Att mixa upp språk är mer ett risiko när vi talar om språk där vi har inte än utvecklat kunskaper (dvs. att tala portugisiskan och spanskan på samma tid, där man har inte lärt sig en av de två tillräckligt bra). Det är en fördel att ha holländska som modersmål och svenska på en bra nivå, det gör det lättare att förstå texter nar man får syn på det. Jag tror inte att det finns nåt att vara rädd på här. Kanske om du skulle läsa spanska och italienska med en gång skulle jag ha tvivlat om det var en bra idé men ändå tror jag att man har egen val. Och jag själv är inte rädd för det. Jag blandar bara språk när jag är trött eller när jag begriper mig dåligt på språket som talas om. Edited by tarvos on 03 December 2013 at 2:56pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4349 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 63 of 91 03 December 2013 at 3:02pm | IP Logged |
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Tack så mycket. Jag ska fundera på det :)
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| AlOlaf Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5140 days ago 491 posts - 617 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC2 Studies: Danish | Message 64 of 91 03 December 2013 at 4:49pm | IP Logged |
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Hi Kez,
Thanks for your inspiring log. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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