(I have not posted for a while, have I?) This is to answer the questions over my Swedish. I stopped learning Swedish in August 2012, when I left Stockholm. I had been in Stockholm for two and a half months and I had learned a bit of Swedish before then.
To answer your questions, I think my Swedish got pretty okay as for the short time, i.e. I would call myself as having a strong B1/a weak B2 level in most …

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I am learning Swedish even more. I have practically ceased doing anything but reading a book with audio in Swedish. I have read 80 pages total which is not all that much if you consider the time needed to get good in Swedish. I have also found somebody to whom I occasionally text on Skype in Swedish. I find that pretty helpful in terms of learning informal speech, getting my mistakes corrected and my questions answered. I have delayed my …

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I’ve been learning Swedish in April. Here’s what I’ve been doing it.

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So I’m going to be learning Swedish. That is because I am going to Stockholm, Sweden for the summer of 2012 (it’s almost confirmed). Moreover, I was always interested in Scandinavian languages and after having read why Norwegian is the easiest language for English speakers to learn, I knew I wanted to learn one.
In that article, Mithridates states:
[W]hy [learn] Norwegian and not the two other Scandinavian languages?Swedish is spoken by more people for example. Well, if you have some reason …

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Hello everybody!
So, I am back provisionally because I will be having another language learning challenge! I’m (very likely now) going to move to another country for the summer and I’m going to be learning the language of that country. In fact, I have already started learning that language by doing lessons and even attempting to read in it. So far, so good.
I’m going to let you guys try to guess which language it is going to be this time in …

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Alright, so this blog seems dead. I think you do know that. I do kind of feel bad about this because this is only of the few sites that I run online. But oh well, I guess I should have found a better niche. This blog simply ran out of ideas.
The question, though: are there things you would like to hear about? If so, tell in the comments.
Finally:
What does IONA mean?
IONA means Islands of the North Atlantic.

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I’m just going to leave this here so you can see how the alphabet has changed:

Click on the image to see the full and live version.

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Here are somethings that you might not have known about the months of the year and how language can help you decipher it.

The first month used to be March. This can be seen from months like September where sept stands for the Latin seven, October where oct is the root for eight or December where dec is the root for ten (in Portuguese ten is dez).

Since March was the first month, the last one was February. That explains why it …

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I’m bored, that’s why.

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Well, I had a Greek 6 month challenge under my belt: I intended to study three months at home, and then three months in Greece. I also intended to achieve level B2, which would mean I could understand the main ideas of complex texts, interact quite fluently with native speakers and express myself fluently after these six months which seemed quite reasonable at that time. Time’s up and I give you some of my recollections of how this whole challenge …

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