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 have been thrown on the table.  No turning back now!

Swedish on the surface looks much easier than Japanese and Pali.  I speak English already, you see, and Swedish has a lot in common with English.   I’m approaching Swedish as a fun project rather than a serious endeavor.  I’ve been learning some Swedish children’s songs for fun and thought it would be worthwhile to learn the meaning of what I was singing.  My study of Swedish may turn more serious in the future, but right now I don’t want to lose focus on Japanese or Pali, especially Japanese (both of which are moving along full steam, btw).

Studying Swedish will help me with Japanese because the textbooks are in Japanese.

So far I haven’t run into anything that has given me trouble.  Occasionally I have to look up a grammar term in my Japanese dictionary, but other than that I can read through it fairly quickly and with clear understanding.  I think I’m going to ignore the katakana pronunciation guides though :)

I hope this will help me on my trip to Sweden next year!

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