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Old September 20th, 2008, 03:39 PM   #58 (permalink)
Celeb
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I didnt like studying swedish, part of because I was so pissed off that we had to study it and part because I didnt like my teachers. Now, in upper-secondary school Ive actually started to like it, or better said tolerate it, because our teacher is great. And its kind of cool to know other languages than just english. I was in Italy for 3 weeks this summer and everyone was like woah when I told I can speak swedish too. And they were saying all the time how good my english was.
So I really appreciate that part in our education system, that we have to start to study english so young and swedish later. Its always nice to hear someone to say my english is good, especially from nativespeaker.

Whats frustrating is, that we study swedish even if all of us dont want to and swedish people dont even know that swedish is finlands other official language and we have to study it. Ive heard in some news or something that not all swedish people even know that finland used to be part of sweden
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