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As a general rule ''usted'' is used for people who are older than you or people with some kind of higher rank or an authority position. In some Latino American countries they often use ''Usted'' a lot, even among young people! Which is super uncommon where I come from, because ''tú'' is the informal version of ''usted'' and is always preferred. They both mean the same, but one is formal and the another one is informal. I personally use ''Usted'' every time I met someone new who is older than me. It's a way to show respect. Wouldn't be nice to use ''tú'' with my grandma.

I must admit I'm not a big fan of french culture, but I really liked a french film named ''La Horde''. I'm a big fan of zombie movies and i must admit I had hadn't watched a scary zombie flick for a while, until I watched this one. It was really scary and I loved it! I loved how it started and ended.

Well, I learn some when I was younger because I really want to improve my chances to find a job in Canada, so learning french was the way to go. I'd say I learn a couple things about french culture, but not that much. I mean, most courses come with cultural notes and such...

Oh guys, don't start me on french people, I had my worst experience ever at a french airport, more than 5 people were extremely rude to me. They expected me to speak french!!! When i was there just because i had no choice, I had missed my flight and had no choice but stop by that place. AWFUL. I'd rather sleep at the airport whole night than going there again. Nope, I like the french language (because of Canada), but not France. French people seem kinda rude! I'd never try to speak french to french people, too scary.

It probably was ''LA FAUTE A VOLTAIRE'', I remember that film almost like it was yesterday, I had a good time watching it, but the ending was so sad. Isn't like I was expecting a happy ending for that kind of situation or anything like that, but woah... it really was a sad incident after another. I guess life is like that for most of us tho, but we don't really see it that way because we are not observing our life from outside, like someone watching a movie.

For me is the spelling, because my mother language is a romance one, so spelling some words the right way in french is kinda hard, because many of them look a lot like some words we have in Spanish. So I had to be careful with that. For some reason pronunciation comes naturally for me, specially the ''r'', but it must be because I speak a romance language already who knows.

Yeah, but would you care to tell us the reason behind wanting to learn Swedish? I mean, isn't a very popular language to learn, mostly because, well... it's only spoken in Sweden and some parts of Finland, so isn't as appealing to some as learning french, Spanish, Chinese or English.

According to my mom the first word was ''mamá'' and ''papá''. Which means mom and dad, my very first one was mom. I think the first phrases we are learn at school is to make and answer simple questions like: how are you?, what's your name? where do you live?, etc. We generally learn that and use it a lot to socialize with others.

I'm not Scandinavian, but I'm familiar with Scandinavian people, specially Norwegian. I have the fondest memories of Norwegian and Swedish people, their country. Great people, I like how Norwegian only mind their own business, but once you become friends you really can get close enough to them and have a meaningful friendship. I truly like this because you can tell the friendship is sincere and wanted by both parties, unlike with people from other countries that start so open and nice since the start and continue that way, so you don't really know where you are standing with them. Not cool.

i don't think it's hard to learn at all, it's a lot like Norwegian, excepting for the different spelling of certain words and the pronunciation, but the pronunciation is way easier to master than the danish one! I think it's rather easy to conjugate verbs in Swedish, maybe easier than learning English was for me. If ih ad more time I'd surely learn Swedish I love it!

Well, I think Swedish is way easier to learn than danish, I mean, danish has a really funny pronunciation and getting the accent right is so darn hard. If I were you I'd focus on Swedish. I think most Danes will understand you, but if you are in Sweden and try to speak danish the swedes might not understand you. But in Denmark if you speak Swedish the Danes will surely understand you. Same in Norway. Danish people sounds so funny when they speak, as if there was a potato stuck in their throats! No offense, just an observation

Just curious guys! I wanted to learn Swedish when I was younger because I really liked everything that had to do with Scandinavia and Norse mythology. I loved everything about it! So I wanted to learn it, as well as Norwegian and Icelandic. Crazy I know. Actually when I was 16 or so my main interest was learning as many languages as possible, then life got in the day and didn't do it. I still have interest in languages, but I don't have the time or desire to learn a new language (other than the one I'm already studying out of need). So... what are your reasons to learn Swedish?

Hey, good topic! I know several ones : adress -- address avokado -- avocado basketboll -- basketball heterosexuell -- heterosexual lokal -- local turist -- tourist Ok, I know they are not spelled the exact way, but pretty close if you ask me! I'd love to learn Swedish, sadly I don't have a good reason to, if I only had more time I'd do it tho, just for fun.

No longer sure I should even go on trying to learn the language I am supposed to learn. I wanted to learn it because I was moving out soon, so I needed to learn it, but right now I am not sure about anything.

Well, we were supposed to have a very important exposition, if done correctly we'd pass. It all started to get weird when the person supposed to do the examination didn't show up and kept postponing it. Then once she finally showed up the "school" was moved to a different building.

I don't think it's a scientific language per she, it's just it's very widely used internationally. I think that's why it's used in scientific works, I think the very same can be done in Spanish, but the latter isn't so widespread.

Haha! Spot on, Sidney! I think this guy is the owner! I mean, he only registered to leave this post and that's it. He didn't even bother to place it in the right sub forum. Spam, no doubt about it.

You can try the polyglot web site, I think there are plenty of Spanish speakers looking for a language exchange. So you could easily meet someone there, a lot people is interested in learning or improving their English. I have made a couple of good friends over there.

Oh yeah, been there! It's awful to be left out! Hearing your friends or your gf/bf's parents saying something and laugh makes you wonder what they just said! Grrrrrr!

Yup, that's why I formulated my question the way I did it, because this is a very subjective topic. Everyone has their own motivator, some do it because they have a bf or a girlfriend who speaks a different language, while others do it because they want to move to other country to get a better job. And so on...

This is my main motivator right now as well. I might be traveling someday soon to the place where the language I'm currently speaking is spoken. So yeah, huge motivator for me! Nothing can motivate you more than knowing you are learning a language you will be using soon.

You are right, that's a great motivator. I used to want to learn as many languages as possible when I was younger. I did think about the benefit learning all those languages would bring into my life, but that wasn't my main motivator. To be honest I'm not even sure what my main motivator was back then.

Swedish is almost as easy as norwegian. Both native speakers can speak and understand each other, but they seem to have some issues when they stumble across a danish speaker. Not sure about German tho.

Similar to norwegian ? Yes! To Finnish? Not at all! Swedish isn't even related to Finnish one bit. Actually I read a while ago that Finnish doesn't really have a lot relatives. Swedish is wonderful, but I prefer Norwegian. Norwegian is a bit easier to write.

Thanks for sharing this! Wish someone did the same in the dutch forum. I tried to learn Finnish when I was younger, but sadly life got in the way and my interest to learn as many languages as possible vanished. I'd still like to learn it, but in the future. We might go on a holiday to that place. Btw, even the numbers in Finnish are so long!