"Mom, today I've learn the swedish aeiouäöåy "

Few weeks ago I persuaded myself to study some practical swedish notes, not for strictly study the language but just for take some basics. I think it could be interesting to make more confortable the coexistence with my future swedish neighbors.

Well. Swedish is frustrating.

On one side, I love this SingStar-like melodic paused stunning language. I like its intonations.
On other side, nowadays I am unable to assimile such tons of completely new vocabulary. Then I said to myself:

'Think as you were in the pre-school. How did you do to learn all the earlier points in Spanish language?'

As I use to think like a pre-school's kid I quickly realised what is the first point I should undertake.
My very first lesson would be The Vowels.

"a is like my spanish a. Good. e is like spanish's too. Fantastic. i, o, u are too!
I've learnt all. I have a superb mind."


"Oh, wait. Swedish has more vowels? å, what the hell is å?!
ä, ö, y, Short vowels, Long vowels... I have such a mess mind."

When I spend more than 5 minutes to try to understand its sounds I notice that this bunch of new characters are not as difficult as it seems. I can say now I can read them without problems. Wow! Yeah, I'm awsome.

At the same time I has been searching resources about swedish too. Surfing the web I have found a great source of material about learning languages. Here comes the site, Unilang.org. More specifically, there are good swedish phrasebooks and other material I would like to recommend you. Unfortunately I'm not a good teacher that is why I prefer to underline some joking/funny things instead the correct ones. There is a funny phrasebook that seems to be made for nothing else than be a source of fun Messenger nicknames... here is the link.
Well. As you see, sentences like

"The international soldier shoots an innocent passenger"
"He frequently shows his nak€d body"
"My wife has s€x with me every night"
"My mother always thought I required extra attention"

(translated to the appropriate language, i.e.: Swedish) will do more confortable our stay abroad wherever you go. (At least, some of them could be used in some kind of 'SvenskaPhrase of the Day' section...in a blog...or something. Have you got me?)

After this nonsenses, I have made up my mind to continue the swedish study (at least bit a bit). For those like me who has felt betrayed for the å vowel, I will give you an advice: JOIN THEM!

See you in the next post. Good night, or as they say:

God natt!