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Last activity 17 October 2005 by crashlyon

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crashlyon

Hi !

My name is Stéphanie, I'm a 32 years old french woman and we moved in Guthenburg with my husband the 1st of june. We came here because my husband works for a huge swedish company and and it is really great fun for us to discover this new life !

I speak french, english, italian and I try to learn swedish also which will help me (I hope so) to meet more swedish people and learn about everyday's life in Sweden

You can have a look of our life here in my blog :

http://goteborg-nous-voila.over-blog.com.

Unfortunately it is all in french at  the moment but I will try to translate the most of it in english in a newcoming version soon

Julien

Welcome Stéphanie!

Is it complicated to learn swedish? I hope it'll help you to meet a lot of people :)
(I am sure it will!)

à bientôt ;)

Julien

crashlyon

No swedish is not so complicated to "learn" but a little bit more to understand and being understood... 
I mean that grammar is a lot similar to english one (which helps me a lot) but prononciation is far more complicated as they don't pronounce half the letters they write... but in the end...who does....certainly not french people, don't we ?

Julien

Is there a lot of accents in Sweden? (accents don't help)

Well I shared a flat with a swedish couple when I was in London, I tried to learn a few words but it's been very hard for me to remember (I think my memory is very visual) :/

And yes, one (big) cliche: have you ever been to the "ice bar"? ;)

crashlyon

Yes there are a lot of accents completely different from north and south for example (just like in France !) .

And I'm afraid it won't be long for me to "lose my swedish" once back in France. You know if you don't practice a language, you lose the vocabulary very quiclky so don't worry about the words you learnt....  Would you go for a couple of days in Sweden that you would have them back ! But I can still spread over some of them to make you reminding them.... ;)

About the" ice bar", i think we will have to wait for the "deep" winter to arrive . But I only heard about one in the ice hotel in Kiruna (which is not yet built now). Is it the one you are talking about or is there another one I don't know yet... ?

Hej då !!!

Julien

Maybe the ice bar is part of the ice hotel? (I don't remember)

I hope the "deep" winter won't be too difficult for you. How long does the night last during the winter?

crashlyon

It depends I think , it will be our first winter here in Guthenburg but I will let you know.

For the moment it is daylight from 8 until 18 which is ok but very soon we will change time and the ligt reduces everyday so....  "Vi ska se" as the swedish say...

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