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| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5140 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes  Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 73 of 91 15 December 2013 at 2:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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I’ve started watching the Julkalendern as well. It’s childish, but not as annoyingly so as last year. I find it more childishly charming than plain irritating. Let’s keep watching: I’ve noticed that I learn quite a few new words fairly easily with this kind of programme. So in the end it’s time well spent.
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| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4150 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 74 of 91 16 December 2013 at 3:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah it is way better than it was last year. I've watched the last 4 available episodes
in the past 2 days so i'm going to have to wait every day now. And something fun happened to me today! I went into town to buy some things for Christmas and when I walked inside the shopping mall I got asked by a man if he could ask me some questions about my shopping behavior etc. I did the whole interview (~10 questions) in full Swedish and don't even think the man realized I was foreign, or at least he didn't make a comment about my Swedish. So that was a nice personal victory :D Going to watch a few Solsidan episodes tonight and I haven't gone through all my Memrise words yet, still have around 800 words (There were 2300) to water so it will be a cozy studying evening :). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4314 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 75 of 91 16 December 2013 at 7:26pm | IP Logged | ||
Nicely done. By the way, where in Sweden have you moved to? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4150 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 76 of 91 16 December 2013 at 7:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks! I moved to Karlstad. Quite a nice town which lays at the biggest lake in Sweden.
And it's only 3-4 hours away from Oslo, Göteborg & Stockholm. Perfect location :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4150 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 77 of 91 18 December 2013 at 11:32am | IP Logged | ||
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The past few days have been great for studying! I've watered all my 2000 words on
Memrise, watched all the julkalendern episodes, watched 6 Solsidan episodes and listened alot to podcasts. But TAC2013 is almost ending so I guess it is time for an end post. This has been a crazy year for me. I started learning Swedish around December last year because I was moving to Sweden in the summer. The first half of the year I was very motivated with studying. I read alot of books, I watched lots of series en studied vocabulary on Memrise. I slowly got a hang of language and got used listening to it since I had my Swedish girlfriend living with me. When I moved this summer I felt that I was prepared enough to use Swedish as my language in everyday life. We first were up north with my girlfriends parents for a month before we moved to Karlstad so there I had the chance to improve my speaking a lot. My girlfriends mom is Polish so she understands how it's like to learn a new language so she helps me with it (she speaks slowly to me and is very patient when I speak). When I was there I read around 6 books in a month, watched lots of Swedish TV and spoke as much as possible to completely soak myself in the language. I made quick improvement and felt more and more comfortable to speak the language. I had a bit of a fall back when we finally moved to Karlstad. It was easy for me to speak Swedish with my girlfriend all day but it was harder for me to understand our friends since we live in a student town, so there are a lot of people with different accents. There were some I could completely understand but a few of them were really hard and barely could make out a single word. This is were I switched back to English for a bit but still tried to speak as much Swedish as possible. This was around 4 months ago and I am used to all of their accents now. I'm used to speaking Swedish and sentences really fly out of my mouth. I still have problems finding several words or I build sentences in a wrong way but I can understand people and they understand me. I told all people I know here to criticize my Swedish as much as they can (which is hard for a Swede because that's just not how they are, they'd rather keep silent). But now they point out the mistakes I make and sometimes tell me about better ways to say things instead of the way I did it (had a hard time using 'Kommer att' instead of 'Ska'). Swedish feels like the first language I actually study and I'm proud of what I learned in a year. I just learned English through gaming and never really had to think about actually studying it so I don't count it. My goal was to be able to communicate with people the moment I moved and that was exactly what I was doing but there are still many ways in which I can improve. So that will be my challenge for the TAC2014 which I will be spending in the Scandinavian Team again. I'm pretty much just pushing for fluently this year. I want to wake up Swedish, talk Swedish with my cat and drive to my Swedish job where I talk Swedish with my Swedish colleagues and my Swedish customers before I go home to my Swedish girlfriend in my Swedish apartment. Everything will have to be Swedish, absolutely everything. I can't wait! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6702 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 78 of 91 18 December 2013 at 5:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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Inspiring indeed!
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| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4150 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 79 of 91 23 December 2013 at 2:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm in north of Sweden, enjoying the 4 hours of daylight and the snow. It's going very
well with Swedish. One of my first goals has always been to be able to talk with my girlfriends parents in just Swedish and that's exactly what I've been doing the past few days. I haven't changed back to English a single time. I'm able to join conversations and say what I want to say. I even had a good conversation with her dad for about 30-45 minutes long, it was so nice to finally be able to have a good conversation with him without struggling with languages (Me with Swedish, him with English). Her parents gave me a new book to read as well. They say it's one of the funniest Swedish books, it's called 'En man som heter Ove'. It will be a 16 hour train ride home next week so I'll have enough time to begin reading it. I've also been watching the daily episode of Julkalendern, I haven't had a single problem understanding it. I've been watching the last few episodes without subtitles to test myself and it went great! I've also watched to English movies with Swedish subtitles (for my gf's parents). Won't consider it studying but it still helps me to see the way the sentences are build. That's pretty much all "studying" I've been doing this week. Won't do that much more either since I'm celebrating Christmas here. Just speaking Swedish with the family here will be enough studying, won't need anything else. God jul och gott nytt år! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4150 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 80 of 91 10 January 2014 at 11:50am | IP Logged | ||
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TAC 2014 started off slow for me. Just been laying in bed being sick. Haven't done any
studying. I'm also not sure how much I will be able to update this log this year because I'm not really studying Swedish that much anymore. Since I've moved to Sweden I kinda stopped studying with books/movies/memrise and mainly just focus on speaking with people. It feels like that is the best way to improve my Swedish skills. I would still like to try and set up a Skype conversation with the new Team Asgård. Might give it a go soon and see how many people are up for it. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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