This was a tough week for the Swedish learners! This was the first week that we really tackled grammar (outside of our lessons) and it's been rough. I found that learning pronouns was not as easy as I thought it would be and that a lot of them are very similar so I ended up mixing a few of them up on our quiz! An interesting feature of the Swedish language is that rather than just having one word for "mine" or "your", there are actually three different words you could use (for each) depending on the noun they are modifying. For instance you could say "mitt namn" for my name or "min mamma" for my mom or "mina föräldrar" for my parents (plural). Although I found learning the differences of these to be challenging I do appreciate that Swedish is a language of specificity and therefore there is no ambiguity as to how many things you are referring to when you say min/mitt vs. mina.
On a brighter note, we started putting together basic sentences and questions and actually having conversations with one another and I felt as if this was very practical practice! Now that I know the question words, word order in questions, and the most basic tenses of verbs, I can formulate many questions to ask the Swedes I know! I am pleasantly surprised by how quickly we are progressing and am looking forward to the weeks to come.
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