deyvion Posted September 24, 2013 Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 I just wanted to post a topic to see if I am the only one here that is Swedish, or Scandinavian, for that matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eruvande Posted October 4, 2013 Report Share Posted October 4, 2013 Hej!I'm also Swedish! But I'm cursed with half of my genes coming from the USA and we were rudely uprooted from Malmö when I was 7 years old and had to grow up in the frozen wasteland of northern MN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deyvion Posted October 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2013 On 10/4/2013 at 1:25 AM, eruvande said: Hej!I'm also Swedish! But I'm cursed with half of my genes coming from the USA and we were rudely uprooted from Malmö when I was 7 years old and had to grow up in the frozen wasteland of northern MN!I would have to say that Sweden is getting frozen now also as we are getting into the winterseason, haha. Are you still speaking Swedish at home? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eruvande Posted October 5, 2013 Report Share Posted October 5, 2013 We actually don't speak Swedish at home anymore:( When we started school in the U.S we didn't really know any English so we started speaking that...Then for some reason my mom didn't realize that suddenly we weren't speaking Swedish anymore. So now I'm really really bad at it, but I understand it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilat Posted January 18, 2014 Report Share Posted January 18, 2014 I'm half Swedish too, and grew up bilingual. I left Sweden after high school but I've managed to keep my Swedish fluent although I don't speak it every day any more. I find that reading in Swedish (or any other language that I'm not getting much practice in) really helps me to keep it active. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deyvion Posted February 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 On 1/18/2014 at 10:37 AM, kilat said: I'm half Swedish too, and grew up bilingual. I left Sweden after high school but I've managed to keep my Swedish fluent although I don't speak it every day any more. I find that reading in Swedish (or any other language that I'm not getting much practice in) really helps me to keep it active.I am half Swedish too, but unfortunatelly, my parents did NOT raise me to be bilingual. They were worried that if my mother spoke Spanish to me and my brother while my father was away on long business trips, we would start speaking Swedish with a Spansih accent. This happened to my uncle's children, so I guess their worries were justified, but in my cousin's case both the parents spoke Spanish and neither of them were very good at Swedish.So, I am jealous of your bilingualism =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trellum Posted September 7, 2014 Report Share Posted September 7, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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