(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’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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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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While learning Greek, I have discovered a number of resources along the way. I will list all the free resources here so that you can use them if you are learning Modern Greek. They will help you achieve the task. Here they are.

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I’m over 50 days already in Greece and I have gotten a little bit used to the Greek language. I’m nowhere near good so this might contain errors but I thought I would give you all a small representation of the Greek language and what you would experience if you were around to learn it. I’m going to write mostly in Roman letters so that everybody can read it and keep it simple. Here goes…

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Since I am almost done skimming my Greek grammar books except for a few more (but I don’t think I will do those because they look boring), it is essential I hear more Greek. That’s why I’ll be listening to podcasts in Greek. I excluded all of the podcasts using English automatically since even though I believe that it is beneficial to use English in the beginning of your learning (hence the labs), I have had people in Greece answer me in English enough already. Thus even if I do not understand, I’ll still to the Greek version and soon I will understand (hopefully). I’ll tell you how I will use the podcasts and I’ll also tell you what other ways I still use to learn. Here are the podcasts…

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I am in Greece, learning Greek and I will try to post more often from now on. I want to show you three ways how I have recently (in fact, only this week) started making use of my iPod Touch to help me learn Greek fast. If you try enough, you can apply virtually all of these or at least most of these to any language you are learning.
First, I have started using flashcards‘ software. In other words, I have …

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I was planning to work more during the second half of my Greek challenge. Did I? Well, no. I basically did virtually no learning and then did a quick readup during the last few days. Practically a month and a half wasted (in terms of learning Greek, at least). I did a lot of other things so that kind of explains it but that’s still not an excuse. This happens a lot, though. Not only to me. You know what… …

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