This week in Swedish:
Well this was an interesting week for my language learning because most of it was spent in fall break. I went out of the country with my language partner to visit her brother (my boyfriend) where he is attending graduate school. Their parents also joined us for some of the weekend so I was able to hear and interpret a lot of Swedish being spoken! I was happy to discover that I could follow along with their conversations and pick up on individual words that I had already learned. Their accents are really thick so it made understanding specific words challenging!
The best moment of the trip was when I was able to make a discovery about grammar and colloquialism! The word in Swedish for "a museum" is "ett museum". I noticed, however, that when the Anderssons were saying "the museum" that instead of saying "museumet" (like what it would be if you followed the grammar rule), they said "museet". I was able to talk to them about this phenomenon and we figured out that technically you should say "museumet" but that's such a mouthful that Swedes typically just say "museet".
I am confident after this weekend that my Swedish studies are advancing quickly and I'm excited about adding new words to my vocabulary and expanding the list of things I can talk about in the future.
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