Learning Swedish
Everyone in China thinks that we speak English in Sweden, we DON'T!!!!! Swedish is very different from English!!!
Check this youtube clip, it's HILARIOUS, I can't stop laughing, I guess it might be funnier for us who understands Swedish, check and judge for yourself.
Check this youtube clip, it's HILARIOUS, I can't stop laughing, I guess it might be funnier for us who understands Swedish, check and judge for yourself.
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posted by Shopgirl at 8:17 PM
11 Comments:
Its not just the Swedish,i find that many people in China think all foreigners speak English.
That's kind of ignorant. Austrians speak German, I guess not all Chinese know that.
That's how long the pronuciation is in Swedish just for one damn word in English? LoL.
So you are actually trilingual huh?
Niiice!
True most people here think foreigners all speak English. Even after you have explained to them that your kids are French/Chinese, don't speak much English, and that their Chinese is even better than their French... What you get is a very confused local, who insists on speaking English to the kids. And two very confused little kids who dont understand why a fellow Chinese would speak a foreign language to them. Now my kids like to speak French to locals... a kind of revenge I guess.
Yes, I guess I'm trilingual, but my chinese is till quite basic even though many don't realize I'm a "foreigner".
Also, here in Sweden when I meet a chinese person they are all so surprised that I speak fluent Swedish, they just can't get it that I grew up here, they still think I'm a Chinese.
I would just like to point out that Swedish is linguistically closer to English than most European languages, except Dutch.
I have met Chinese people who could not understand why a Korean girl who was adopted by a Swedish family when she was still a toddler could not speak... Chinese. Oh well.
hahah underbart... UNDERBART!
Try explain to most people in China that you speak basic Chinese but can not read it, they just won't believe you. I don't know how many times I have to tell people at restaurants that I just can't read the damn menu, then they say but you speak so well.... don't they realize one doesn't neccessarily correlate with the other...i mean there are illiterate people in China too right? So I find myself too timid to goto a restaurant without English menu, but even the English menus, the translation is terrible most of the times. If someone can just improve that, my life would be so much easier.
Anyway Shopgirl you are impressive for being able to read/write Chinese.
I cannot believe the girl is in Shanghai already. Less than 2 hours after landing, she was already seen shopping on Nanjing Rd. Just now (11am) she was spotted getting drunk at a well-known bar. Wow.
Definitively not only Swedish. I met several people in Shanghai who were pretty convinced (before meeting me) that Italians speak english. and they were so surprised to discover that we actually have a language of our own...
Now, when things like this happened when talking to ppl I could assume not having received proper education, I didn't bother...but the thing is that I got the same reaction even from a university student!
But I have also been asked thousands of times by my fellow coutry men such stupid questions as "is japanese language and chinese the same?"
So let's just be honest, their idea of the thing called "Europe" is as blurred as our idea of Asia.
Being a university student doesn't guarantee that much. Would you ask a fine arts student at Goldsmiths to build you a nuclear power plant?
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