Jag gjörde det!
Nu är jag fardig med C-nivå på den svenska kursen!
Älskling var jätte stolt över mig och vi gick i stan och äta middag tillsammans. Härligt :-)
Showing posts with label Svenska. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Svenska. Show all posts
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Goals for Svenska - unaccomplished
Can't believe that summer break is over.
Now I am back to school with a more exciting schedule. Starting from Wednesday afternoons, and two whole days on Thursday and Friday. At first I was a little disappointed because now this means that I would not be able to have long weekends (you know, the long weekend starts from every Thursday/Friday as most people say). But as we started class, I found out that most of the students in our school actually has to come to school every day, from Monday to Friday. And their classes are only from noon until 4pm. So then I was happy with my timetable.
We have a new teacher. Her name is *Eva, a woman in her sixties, still going on strong and very energetic. I belief that she is going to carry us forward. After two days in her classes, we already began to understand so much more Swedish than before (I'm also counting in the fact that we might have learned more Swedish during summer break). But she's really good, active and a little neurotic.
As a result; so many people were impressed with my ability to conversate in Swedish.
*name has been changed to protect individual's privacy.
Now I am back to school with a more exciting schedule. Starting from Wednesday afternoons, and two whole days on Thursday and Friday. At first I was a little disappointed because now this means that I would not be able to have long weekends (you know, the long weekend starts from every Thursday/Friday as most people say). But as we started class, I found out that most of the students in our school actually has to come to school every day, from Monday to Friday. And their classes are only from noon until 4pm. So then I was happy with my timetable.
We have a new teacher. Her name is *Eva, a woman in her sixties, still going on strong and very energetic. I belief that she is going to carry us forward. After two days in her classes, we already began to understand so much more Swedish than before (I'm also counting in the fact that we might have learned more Swedish during summer break). But she's really good, active and a little neurotic.
As a result; so many people were impressed with my ability to conversate in Swedish.
*name has been changed to protect individual's privacy.
Friday, March 12, 2010
musik
- Swedish entry word
- musik [mus'i:k] musiken noun
- uncountable toner arrangerade melodiskt, rytmiskt och harmoniskt (also used of pieces of such arrangements)
- English translation
- music
- Examples
- gillar du musik?---do you like music?
- klassisk musik---classical music
- musik av J S Bach---music of J. S. Bach
- Idiomatic phrases
- det lät som musik i mina öron ("det jag hörde gjorde mig glad")---it was music to my ears ("what I heard made me happy")
- Compounds
- folkmusik---folk music
- popmusik---pop music
- musik|instrument -et---musical instrument
- musik|lärare -n---music teacher
- For now I could not believe that I have been living in Sweden for close to two months. On March 18th it will be exactly two months, if I really count the date.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
visst
- Swedish entry word
- visst [vis:t] adv.
- säkert, absolut
- English translation
- certainly
- Examples
- visst är det skönt med semester---it certainly is nice to have a holiday
- det har jag visst inte sagt!---I certainly didn't say that!
- ja visst!---yes, of course!
I must give credit to the website that I get all my Swedish words translated, and transfer some parts of the online dictionary to this blog as a reference to my readers; and of course; to myself. I always refer to Lexin - a dictionary for immigrant education. It's very precise and I can find so much Swedish words with complete translation and how to use a particular word. Which I like so much as I find it very convenient.
Lexin does not only have translation between Swedish and English. It also has so many other languages that you could refer to if you are learning Swedish; for example: Arabic, Bosnian, Persian, Finnish, Russian and Spanish, just to name a few.
Se sajten, I am sure you will be happy that I shared this with you! :)
To add a note to today's word; I've always read and heard this word -- visst, but never could remember it everytime I have a dictionary i min hand or to ask my boyfriend about it whenever we are together. But during martini night at Kristina och Håkan's; as we were talking and they sort of wanted to 'test' my Swedish fluency. I learned yet another new Svenska ord.
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i min hand
in my hand
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Svenska ord
Swedish word
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
gullig
Tonight I will introduce to you to the word gullig; which brings the meaning of cute.
Last weekend I was invited to join Håkan and Kristina's martini night. And there I had the chance to meet Håkan's
little sister; Ingrid and Kristina's good friend since secondary school; Louis and her husband, Toni; among few
other people. And Louis brought with her a very cute dog and of the same breed of dog that my boyfriend's parents have at home. Louis' dog is named Anni; a very human name for a dog, don't you think? :)
Anni took an instant liking at me since the moment I stepped into the apartment! Of course I am flattered to think that the animal likes me so much. She was always lingering around the stool where I was sitting, trying to climb on my lap and crying for my attention :)
I said to myself -- if only this is my cat, Kechik; I would have squeezed his cheeks out of his face and carry him around the house in my arms, while shouting praising words of joy to the animal - how I would express my feelings. In Bahasa Malaysia, we call it 'geram' and when I google for it I found "the feeling of annoyance; annoyed" and that is not how I feel.
I wanted to express the feeling that I have to Louis and Kristina; and was recommended this word to go with -- Jag tycker Annie är väldigt söt!
- Swedish entry word
- gullig [²g'ul:ig] gulligt gulliga adj.
- rar, söt
- English translation
- sweet, cute
little sister; Ingrid and Kristina's good friend since secondary school; Louis and her husband, Toni; among few
other people. And Louis brought with her a very cute dog and of the same breed of dog that my boyfriend's parents have at home. Louis' dog is named Anni; a very human name for a dog, don't you think? :)
Anni took an instant liking at me since the moment I stepped into the apartment! Of course I am flattered to think that the animal likes me so much. She was always lingering around the stool where I was sitting, trying to climb on my lap and crying for my attention :)
I said to myself -- if only this is my cat, Kechik; I would have squeezed his cheeks out of his face and carry him around the house in my arms, while shouting praising words of joy to the animal - how I would express my feelings. In Bahasa Malaysia, we call it 'geram' and when I google for it I found "the feeling of annoyance; annoyed" and that is not how I feel.
I wanted to express the feeling that I have to Louis and Kristina; and was recommended this word to go with -- Jag tycker Annie är väldigt söt!
solsken
Solsken plays a big role in everyday life in Sweden; because of it's rarity.
Swedish entry word
After two months of dark, gloomy and cold days, Sweden has finally brought in some sunshine in the days.
A little bit of sunshine really make a lot of difference over here. Suddenly everything that you never thought possible before changed to be the opposite. You can feel that there is hope after all, despite how low you have felt over the past months. You don't feel depressed, but somehow because it was cloudy and dark in the days, you thought that the is not so much good things to look after except for the current weather.
Solsken plays a big role in a person's life. Trust me, I understand what He the Almighty says when he wrote in Al-Quran that He created the sun so that human could go to work in the day, and He created the moon so human could go home and rest after a hard day of work. Which indirectly means that sunshine gives you the energy and boosts you to your optimum level of performance. Either you are working, studying, traveling; everything just looks even better during the day. You have the opportunity to savour His creation and you will appreciate life more and gratitude is what you will feel for having been given such opportunity. And this makes a person happy.
Life seems to be more at peace, when you have this feeling that you belong somewhere, and when you know that you have made a contribution or are making contribution towards life, you become happy yourself.
I am glad to have overcome the days of winter. By far, it is the worst winter of Sweden's history. Snow has never been this thick (I will check the depth when I find out) since the last 25 years. And everyone has made a remark of how unfortunate I am to have arrived here when there is so much snow outside. To this, I have to disagree; for there would never be another chance when I am going to have another chance of experience the same 'bad' weather again in Sweden. If I am 'unfortunate' again, maybe after another 25 years, but will I make it that far in my age?
Swedish entry word
- sol|sken [²s'o:lsje:n] -skenet noun
- solljus utan skymmande moln
- English translation
- sunshine
After two months of dark, gloomy and cold days, Sweden has finally brought in some sunshine in the days.
A little bit of sunshine really make a lot of difference over here. Suddenly everything that you never thought possible before changed to be the opposite. You can feel that there is hope after all, despite how low you have felt over the past months. You don't feel depressed, but somehow because it was cloudy and dark in the days, you thought that the is not so much good things to look after except for the current weather.
Solsken plays a big role in a person's life. Trust me, I understand what He the Almighty says when he wrote in Al-Quran that He created the sun so that human could go to work in the day, and He created the moon so human could go home and rest after a hard day of work. Which indirectly means that sunshine gives you the energy and boosts you to your optimum level of performance. Either you are working, studying, traveling; everything just looks even better during the day. You have the opportunity to savour His creation and you will appreciate life more and gratitude is what you will feel for having been given such opportunity. And this makes a person happy.
Life seems to be more at peace, when you have this feeling that you belong somewhere, and when you know that you have made a contribution or are making contribution towards life, you become happy yourself.
I am glad to have overcome the days of winter. By far, it is the worst winter of Sweden's history. Snow has never been this thick (I will check the depth when I find out) since the last 25 years. And everyone has made a remark of how unfortunate I am to have arrived here when there is so much snow outside. To this, I have to disagree; for there would never be another chance when I am going to have another chance of experience the same 'bad' weather again in Sweden. If I am 'unfortunate' again, maybe after another 25 years, but will I make it that far in my age?
Sunday, March 7, 2010
farmor
My Swedish word today is farmor.
Which direct translation would mean mother of your father, so we know that it means grandmother from your father's side. This is really easy to remember when you are not sure whether you are introduced to a grandmother of someone, because you are able to tell straight away that it is the mother of somebody's father. I really, really find this useful and I like that the idea of the person who came up with this word.
From now on I will try to spend more time with farmor, as when I am with her, I could learn a lot of Swedish word and not resort to speaking in English as when you know the person you speak to knows how to speak English you tend to give up easily in using Swedish in your conversation.
- Swedish entry word
- far|mor el. farmoder [²f'ar:mor:] -modern -mödrar
- noun
- pappas mamma
- English translation
- grandmother
Which direct translation would mean mother of your father, so we know that it means grandmother from your father's side. This is really easy to remember when you are not sure whether you are introduced to a grandmother of someone, because you are able to tell straight away that it is the mother of somebody's father. I really, really find this useful and I like that the idea of the person who came up with this word.
From now on I will try to spend more time with farmor, as when I am with her, I could learn a lot of Swedish word and not resort to speaking in English as when you know the person you speak to knows how to speak English you tend to give up easily in using Swedish in your conversation.
Friday, March 5, 2010
kläder
Today's Swedish would would be kläder.
Yesterday evening was quite a way to end my day exhaustively.
There is a weekly Swedish Language Meetup in Göteborg and since I arrived here I have made mental notes to myself that I should join the meeting to improvise my Svenska and to get to know new people; especially of those who are non-native Swedish speakers.
I came from Stenungsund especially to attend this meeting and yet when the closer the clock was ticking to 6pm, I felt more lazy to move and go out to socialize. And to think that I have to step out in the cold again. Oh, it is not the most comfortable way to be in. Lucklily (or should I say, unfortunately?) I have promised Arshad that we would meet somewhere before walking to the meeting together. And since Arshad has called me and I told him to wait for 20 minutes, I gathered all my strength to get ready as fast as I can and get my legs kicking (on the street, that is).
When we went to the bakery, we saw that nobody else from our group was there! The organizer arrived a short while later and followed by more people. By the end of the meeting we were about 10 of us and that was an achievement! If I am not wrong the meetings before this was not so successful. But I don't know for sure since I was not there? :-P
Everyone started talking i Svenska the moment we said hi to each other, and I was like -- Whoa! I don't speak fluently and everybody else has lived here for, like, six years maximum and five months minimum. It was a little overwhelming and even so, I think I have made my best effort to follow up :)
One of the things that we talked about was; vad var och en av oss gjorde för helgen? Mine was; doing the laundry, submitting my resumes to some companies, applying for a few jobs and planning of how to market a lingerie line in Sweden (or Europe as a whole). We could not find the word for lingerie and one man mentioned underkläder and I said that is underclothes and what I am selling is not "under"clothes, if translated directly would be things like underwear, bra, panties and the likes. I did not agree (I don't know why, I don't even speak Swedish much) :P But we settled on underkläder in the end and at the end of the night after I came back home I checked on the internet, and yes, it IS underkläder. Well, tack så mycket Randall! :)
i Svenska
in Swedish
vad var och en av oss gjorde för helgen?
what each of us did for the weekend?
underkläder
underwear; lingerie
tack så mycket
thank you very much
- Swedish entry word
- kläder [kl'ä:der]
- plural plagg (t ex byxor, kjol) som man har på kroppen
- English translation
- clothes
Yesterday evening was quite a way to end my day exhaustively.
There is a weekly Swedish Language Meetup in Göteborg and since I arrived here I have made mental notes to myself that I should join the meeting to improvise my Svenska and to get to know new people; especially of those who are non-native Swedish speakers.
I came from Stenungsund especially to attend this meeting and yet when the closer the clock was ticking to 6pm, I felt more lazy to move and go out to socialize. And to think that I have to step out in the cold again. Oh, it is not the most comfortable way to be in. Lucklily (or should I say, unfortunately?) I have promised Arshad that we would meet somewhere before walking to the meeting together. And since Arshad has called me and I told him to wait for 20 minutes, I gathered all my strength to get ready as fast as I can and get my legs kicking (on the street, that is).
When we went to the bakery, we saw that nobody else from our group was there! The organizer arrived a short while later and followed by more people. By the end of the meeting we were about 10 of us and that was an achievement! If I am not wrong the meetings before this was not so successful. But I don't know for sure since I was not there? :-P
Everyone started talking i Svenska the moment we said hi to each other, and I was like -- Whoa! I don't speak fluently and everybody else has lived here for, like, six years maximum and five months minimum. It was a little overwhelming and even so, I think I have made my best effort to follow up :)
One of the things that we talked about was; vad var och en av oss gjorde för helgen? Mine was; doing the laundry, submitting my resumes to some companies, applying for a few jobs and planning of how to market a lingerie line in Sweden (or Europe as a whole). We could not find the word for lingerie and one man mentioned underkläder and I said that is underclothes and what I am selling is not "under"clothes, if translated directly would be things like underwear, bra, panties and the likes. I did not agree (I don't know why, I don't even speak Swedish much) :P But we settled on underkläder in the end and at the end of the night after I came back home I checked on the internet, and yes, it IS underkläder. Well, tack så mycket Randall! :)
in Swedish
vad var och en av oss gjorde för helgen?
what each of us did for the weekend?
underkläder
underwear; lingerie
tack så mycket
thank you very much
Thursday, March 4, 2010
fint
My Swedish word for today is fint.
- Swedish entry word
- fin [fi:n] fint fina adj.
- snygg, vacker
- English translation
- smart, fine, elegant
- opp. ugly
- Examples
- en fin bil---a smart car
- en fin kostym---a smart suit
- In this entry I will be referring to the first translation, which you use when you are referring to something nice.
- Today I went to a café in Järntorget with Arshad and met up with Olli and Christophe. The café's name is King's Head and we only paid SEK 32 för en kopp kaffe and then you can eat all you can from a small buffe.
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