By jag talar - 07/09/2011 00:01 - Canada

Today, I came home to visit my family after a year at college. Expecting to impress them, I proudly informed them that I now speak fluent Swedish. Imagine my surprise when my mother said, "That's a useless language" and everyone agreed. FML
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azcardinals1307 2

well, it does depend on the location, but that's pretty harsh of them.

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RockstarRN 10

Well unless you are going to use it, they are right. Maybe try another language...like...Spanish?!?!?

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THE_A_TEEN 27

Pppppppppffffffffffttttttttt Spanish is overated and Im a fluent spanish speaker. Unless it's a job requirment.

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badactor009 0

Lol. You have a long way to go. What's your major... 14th century Welsh poetry? Seriously though, education is a great thing. It changed my life, but resist the urge to show off your whole 1 year of college. The fact is you are young and don't know much yet. You don't know what you don't know. Wait until you have earned a graduate degree and have a few years experience in your profession. While Educated people value the arts and languages, consider arming yourself with a marketable skill and a degree that enables you to earn a decent living. Perhaps you will be able to afford to visit Sweden and even Wales. Good luck.

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perdix 29

Maybe now you can drive a Vulva. Also, you can read "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" in the original, which would be awesome, but if you get to the "Hornet's Nest," you'll wish you had taken Tagalog, Xhosa or, even Klingon, instead.

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beklyon 7

Xhosa is awesome. I only know a few words though.

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muchagente 5

tell your mother you might meet alexander skarsgard. yummy!

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perdix 29

How hard could it be? You talk Canadian and throw in some "bork, bork, borks" in the middle of it and voilà, you're speaking Swedish!

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cdninf 4

How does one speak Canadian? Stereotypical asshole.

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badactor009 0

"... that I now speak fluent Swedish" After 1 year of a college language course? I am going to raise the B.S. flag on you. Don't think so. Fluency is beyond the scope or objectives of the first two semesters of any language program. Especially a language where you get very little immersion outside of class. You are fluent in "full of yourself".

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THE_A_TEEN 27

Well it depend's if he/she recieved a lot of help to obtain fluency. Besides, sir, you are the one who is fluent in full of himself, swedish is awesome.

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saksxalmo 20

Some people just learn languages quickly (like me.) Plus Swedish is super easy for English speakers to learn (only 2 genders, no difficult conjugation, lots of cognates, pretty simple word order, no cases... the only difficult part is the definite article.) I think it's a class 5 language on the British System of Something-or-Other. Class 5 is the easiest for English speakers. ^^

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CaptainCats 14

Jag började studerar Svenska i fjöl, men jag tror att jag kan pratar den okej. I started studying Swedish last year, but i think i can speak it okay.

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CaptainCats 14

Tack :) Jag bor i Florida, men jag ska flytta till Sverige.

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morinalexandra 4

Jaha när ska du göra det? Och varför kan du svenska, alltså är dina föräldrar därifrån?

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CaptainCats 14

Haha, jag ska göra det i första November. Mina föräldrar är inte från Sverige, men min pojkvän är, han bor i Mälmo. Han hjälpte mig lära, jag också använder Rosetta Stone.

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Epsilonyx 15

In North America? Let's be realistic. No one here really looks for fluent Swedish speakers for employees. Still impressive, though.

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dansco 24

At least you can work in IKEA when you finish college lol

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mrahhhhh 21

if you ever want to move to one of the best countries on Earth (according to the CIA world factbook), then at least you'll speak it's language.

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