Which country are you from?

[marisafm24_368]

Hola, soy de Argentina

[taearmysh]

oii eu sou do Brasil

[glynsig_495]

Hello everyone. I am from the UK.

[jono_huang24_402]

California, United States!

[stockholm_syndrome]

Vad kul - då förstår du svenska också. Men varför studerar man nordiska språk? Planerar du att flytta hit?

[mirjam_465]

Ja, svenska var mitt huvudämne.
Jag tycker att nordiska språk är mycket vacker.

[gaby_heitmann_975]

@mirjam_465

Mal ganz blöd gefragt, aber es schon immer wissen wollte
Euer A mit dem Kreis oben drauf, ist doch extra eingespeichert in der Tastatur? Und spricht man genau dieses a anders aus?

Stupidly asked, but always wanted to know
Your A with the circle on top, is it stored in the keyboard? And do you pronounce exactly this a differently?

[mirjam_465]

It is on the keyboard of the Nordic languages, but not on my Dutch keyboard.
If I set my keyboard to Finnish (which has the same alphabet, as Swedish, even though they don’t use the å), I can type it by pressing [.
And you could of course use an online keyboard like https://www.branah.com/swedish

The pronunciation is either like a long o or like the Korean 어. The name of the letter also sounds like 어.

Haha, I remember in Swedish lectures once my teacher drew the å on the blackboard and told us: “This is not an a with a circle above it!” It’s considered to be a letter on it’s own. In the Swedish alphabet there’s 3 more letters after the z: å, ä and ö. In Norwegian and Danish it’s æ ø å.

O, and in case you’re curious, in Icelandic the ð is pronounced like the th in weather and the þ like the th in clothes.

Btw, do you have the ß on your keyboard? In Dutch it’s called Ringel-S, but I think you have a different name for it.

[gaby_heitmann_975]

Thank you, for your explanation
Interesting Sometimes I wished I could go back in time to be more Inquisitive about languages… I didn’t talk much at the time, that’s no different today, We North Germans have short sentences

Yes this is the sharp s bzw. eszett
Gefährlicher Buchstabe
Ich weiß, es ist weiß

[mirjam_465]

Thank you, for your explanation
Interesting Sometimes I wished I could go back in time to be more Inquisitive about languages… I didn’t talk much at the time, that’s no different today, We North Germans have short sentences

It’s never too late to learn a new language!
I’m also from the north … of The Netherlands in my case. And we’re also known to be relatively quiet.

Yes this is the sharp s bzw. eszett
Gefährlicher Buchstabe

Eszett? That almost sounds like Hungarian, haha! I think Ringel-S sounds more cute, but I guess that’s too misleading for such a dangerous letter!

Ich weiß, es ist weiß

Hahaha.

[gaby_heitmann_975]

In old age, it is unfortunately increasingly difficult to record new Things ones
do you realize i want to talk myself out
Tz Just too lazy, not more

[mirjam_465]

In old age, it is unfortunately increasingly difficult to record new Things ones

Learning also decreases our chance of developing dementia.

do you realize i want to talk myself out

It’s pretty obvious, hahaha!

Tz Just too lazy, not more

I’ve got just the thing for you:

[gaby_heitmann_975]

Wonderful, always leave that in the background…

[mirjam_465]

Who knows, tomorrow you might start talking Dutch to me!

[gaby_heitmann_975]

ik groet u @mirjam_465

[mirjam_465]

Geweldig! Het heeft gewerkt!

[gaby_heitmann_975]

Now it takes time again

[mywishingflower]

I’m from America!

[angel_eyes]

Namaste! From Nepal here.

[soaressm_730]

I’m from Brazil.