When I over three crossed the line and moved to the Land of the Rising Son, I truly expected to learn to speak Swedish fluently in no time since I would have to use it. Now, the three years later, I have needed Swedish outside school ...hmm... twice. Once at a store when a lady was blocking my way and once at work (I have a vague memory of writing about the incident here some time during last summer). So, since all Finlad's Swedes seem to be more than prone to form their own tight groups everywhere (including the university) in which Finnish-speaking people have no place, I have decided to learn Swedish with kind help from a language course I ordered from AdLibris. After that, once I have a good and firm grip of the basic grammar and have gained a tolerable amount of vocabulary, I will go to some of the advanced Swedish courses provided by the local Swedish-speaking (important that it's the Swedish version so I'll have a native speaker as a teacher) "kansalaisopisto".
The goal is to be able to read a Harry Potter book in Swedish without any help from the dictionary and as little guessing as possible by the end of next year. After that I'll try to read a book in Swedish that I have not read in Finnish or in English. We'll see how this projectish thing gets going.
But not yet; right now I'm somewhere in outer space and listening to t.A.T.u.'s 'Dangerous and moving' album. Yeah, tried to go to sleep and ended up fantasising about Her again. Why I can't let go?
