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I decided I'm gonna try to go trilingual! :lol:

I'm very Scandanavian -- mostly Swedish with a little bit of Norwegian and Danish thrown in.

I've been doing a lot of ancestry research and making great progress. Through all of this I've been fascinated by the Swedish language.

So, ta-da! Going to attempt to learn it. It likely will take me years. :lol: I'm probably only going to try reading/writing it; I don't think I could actually *speak* the language. English is tough enough! :)

Wish me luck, everybody!
 
I wish you great luck! I am always impressed when I see people who are motivated to learn something just for the sake of learning! Wish I could offer to help, but my knowledge of Swedish is nill!
 
jillio said:
I wish you great luck! I am always impressed when I see people who are motivated to learn something just for the sake of learning! Wish I could offer to help, but my knowledge of Swedish is nill!
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Thank you !! :)

I have a couple of friends that are from Sweden, and so far I have learned:

Ha en bra dag!

(Have a beautiful day!)
 
AlleyCat said:
Thank you !! :)

I have a couple of friends that are from Sweden, and so far I have learned:

Ha en bra dag!

(Have a beautiful day!)
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From another thread...do I pronounce that phoetically, because I have no idea!:P
 
jillio said:
From another thread...do I pronounce that phoetically, because I have no idea!:P
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You and me both. However, those 4 words look fairly simple, so I could almost think it is pronounced just as how it looks.
 
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At least Swedish is standardized.

Mennonite German isn't. :6

Who knew there's seven different way to spell a potato dumpling (pierogy / pierogi in Polish), but are all pronounced the same. I am talking about the word weraniki or veraniki or ... Ah screw it!
 
souggy said:
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At least Swedish is standardized.

Mennonite German isn't. :6

Who knew there's seven different way to spell a potato dumpling (pierogy / pierogi in Polish), but are all pronounced the same. I am talking about the word weraniki or veraniki or ... Ah screw it!
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I feel ya!. German grandparent.
 
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jillio said:
souggy said:
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At least Swedish is standardized.

Mennonite German isn't. :6

Who knew there's seven different way to spell a potato dumpling (pierogy / pierogi in Polish), but are all pronounced the same. I am talking about the word weraniki or veraniki or ... Ah screw it!
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I feel ya!. German grandparent.
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Mom got an old cookbook from 1880s, the only way someone can read it is to do it phonetically because no translation guide or dictionary is going to help.

And from what I am seeing nowadays, not much changed with how Plautdietsch is written in the last hundred year. Yeah, there's dictionaries now, but the grammar haven't been standardized yet like Spanish or German (as in German German.)

I wish you luck Alleycat! Swedish looks neat to learn. Maybe someday we can have lutefisk together?
 
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Mom got an old cookbook from 1880s, the only way someone can read it is to do it phonetically because no translation guide or dictionary is going to help.

And from what I am seeing nowadays, not much changed with how Plautdietsch is written in the last hundred year. Yeah, there's dictionaries now, but the grammar haven't been standardized yet like Spanish or German (as in German German.)

I wish you luck Alleycat! Swedish looks neat to learn. Maybe someday we can have lutefisk together?
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NO !!!!!! I may be Swedish but I'm not crazy !! :lol:
 
AlleyCat said:
NO !!!!!! I may be Swedish but I'm not crazy !! :lol:
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Technically this is NOT the way to eat it, but me being an immature prick... I have to laugh at this:

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German audio with English subtitle.

Technically you're suppose to fillet them, soak them in freshwater, fry them then put them on sandwiches or serve them with potatoes. Doesn't taste so horrid or smell so putrid. :P And yes, I had it before.
 
Good luck!!!! I have a friend who just moved to Norway from PA a year ago and she became fluent in the language there within a year. She writes in their language on FB...not sure what it is. Dutch?
 
shel90 said:
Good luck!!!! I have a friend who just moved to Norway from PA a year ago and she became fluent in the language there within a year. She writes in their language on FB...not sure what it is. Dutch?
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Thanks, Shel! :)

As for your friend, I would assume Norwegian?
 
Don't know Swedish, but am Norwegian (first language) but haven't spoken in years since my mom died. I can still understand the spoken language and I can still read it, and write a little bit.
 
Would love to learn how to write, read and speak in Ukrainian.. but will see what I can do about that.. ahh...

Alleycat, good luck and I always wondered about the Swedish language as well.. hmm
 
Valkommen a Sverige!

i know wee bit of Swedish, but not a lot. It is very close to Norwegian but not exact. It is likened to the language relationship between Spain and Portugal.

I will tell you there are male and female adjective/verb forms that must agree with the noun being used.

For the most part it is spoken phonetically but there are words that are not spoken phonectically such as nej and hej.
 
Thanks, everyone! :)

Dixie, what is Valkommen a Sverige ?

(I have MUCH to learn! :lol:)
 
AlleyCat said:
Thanks, Shel! :)

As for your friend, I would assume Norwegian?
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No, her hubby was born there. She was born here in America and is deaf. As soon as she moved there, she became fluent in their language (written, not oral as she has no speech skills). She speaks in their language on FB and I and others are like "what are you saying???" lol
 
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