Svenska and Me: A love/hate relationship
I have a love/hate relationship with the Swedish language. I love some of the words for their practicality and some for their poetic nature. The language is significantly "smaller" than English in terms of the amount of words. Add that to the fact that all of my life I've heard how English is the most difficult language to learn and learning Swedish should be a breeze, right? WRONG!!! This language is a pain in the rumpa! First off, I'm very proud of where I am with my Swedish. I have worked hard to get to where I am. I also like to think that I'm pretty sharp, so that's why I caught on so well. In truth, I was lucky enough to have an awesome grandmother-in-law (Hi Birgitta!) that was willing to spend time teaching me proper (and sometimes outdated) Swedish. She refused to speak English with me from the day we met. Thankfully I had completed Rosetta Stone Level 1 Swedish so I kind of understood her when she told me that...