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What level is your Swedish? B1-B2?
Oh, C2 for sure. I'm not a native speaker, but I'm fluent. No excuse for not reading in Swedish more often than I do, really!
oh, det är kul! Hur har du kommit till den nivån? Svenska är också ett av mina språk, men jag läser ungefär på slutet av B1. Har du bott i Sverige?
Do you also know Danish or Norwegian by any chance? I'm currently focused on improving my Dutch and Welsh, but want to branch a bit and start one of those soon. A solid foundation in German and Swedish goes a long way, of course, but relying too much on that is skating on thin ice re mistakes and false friends, etc.
Ja, jag har bott i Sverige, och min kandidatexamen var "Skandinaviska studier", vilket inkluderade kurser som undervisades på svenska. Jag har bara varit "ur träning" på sistone eftersom jag har inte använt den så mycket sedan jag flyttade till Chicago-området för några år sedan.
I haven't formally studied Norwegian or Danish, but I can read them without much trouble. Spoken Danish can be a bit rough but I usually get the gist. Spoken Norwegian can be anything from "oh, I didn't even realize that wasn't Swedish!" to almost incomprehensible depending on which dialect. I need to put that to work for me with German. I took an intensive "1 year of university German in a month" course once about 30 years ago - oh man, how time flies! - but remember almost nothing.
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What level is your Swedish? B1-B2?
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Oh, C2 for sure. I'm not a native speaker, but I'm fluent. No excuse for not reading in Swedish more often than I do, really!
oh, det är kul! Hur har du kommit till den nivån? Svenska är också ett av mina språk, men jag läser ungefär på slutet av B1. Har du bott i Sverige?Do you also know Danish or Norwegian by any chance? I'm currently focused on improving my Dutch and Welsh, but want to branch a bit and start one of those soon. A solid foundation in German and Swedish goes a long way, of course, but relying too much on that is skating on thin ice re mistakes and false friends, etc.
Ja, jag har bott i Sverige, och min kandidatexamen var "Skandinaviska studier", vilket inkluderade kurser som undervisades på svenska. Jag har bara varit "ur träning" på sistone eftersom jag har inte använt den så mycket sedan jag flyttade till Chicago-området för några år sedan.I haven't formally studied Norwegian or Danish, but I can read them without much trouble. Spoken Danish can be a bit rough but I usually get the gist. Spoken Norwegian can be anything from "oh, I didn't even realize that wasn't Swedish!" to almost incomprehensible depending on which dialect. I need to put that to work for me with German. I took an intensive "1 year of university German in a month" course once about 30 years ago - oh man, how time flies! - but remember almost nothing.
