By thomas on Mar 12, 2008 in Swedish | 12 Comments
One of my Swedish textbooks has a section at the beginning with useful websites for Swedish learners. A couple of these are Swedish newspapers and radio online. If you are studying Swedish, or know someone who is, you might want to check these out: 8sidor – http://8sidor.lattlast.se/ – 8sidor has daily news in Swedish. But [...]
By thomas on Feb 25, 2008 in Swedish | 2 Comments
So I was at the bookstore the other day and I just couldn’t keep myself away from the foreign language section. In a weakened state of mind I nabbed these: For those of you who don’t read Japanese, those are beginning Swedish textbooks. It looks like I’ve made the commitment to start studying Swedish. Yens [...]
By thomas on Feb 20, 2008 in Swedish | 10 Comments
My grandparents on my father’s side immigrated to America from Sweden in the 1920s. Many Americans are obsessed about their “roots”, being proud of having Irish or Italian or whatever heritage, even if they have no contact or relationship with the land of their ancestors. I don’t know why exactly, but it may be because [...]