Not much, unfortunately. My mother was very self-conscious of being a foreigner when she moved to this country so she didn't want to speak Swedish to my brother and I. So all I can say are things like 'May I have a kiss?', 'May I have a cookie?', 'I'm tired.', 'I need to pee' and...
'Varje dag, roker jag en cigaret, drikar en ol och pussar manga pojkar.' (I apologize for the misspellings and wrong letters; I always forget how to do special characters on a PC!)
(Argh! If I have messed this up, I'm sorry! I tried replying from my email, got an error, came here, can't see your reply to me so forgive me for breaking out of the thread!)
Hah! When I was at UConn, they actually offered Swedish classes (this was decided on a semester by semester basis, dependent on how many students were interested). I came up with that sentence for the lesson about when to reverse the order of the subject and verb. No one in my class understood what I said but the teacher cracked up and laughed for about five minutes.
Unless it's a question, where you'd lead with the verb (Dricker du öl?), the verb always comes second in a sentence or clause (Igår drack jag mycket öl).
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'Varje dag, roker jag en cigaret, drikar en ol och pussar manga pojkar.' (I apologize for the misspellings and wrong letters; I always forget how to do special characters on a PC!)
(Argh! If I have messed this up, I'm sorry! I tried replying from my email, got an error, came here, can't see your reply to me so forgive me for breaking out of the thread!)
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You only drink one beer and kiss many boys? I think you have your priorities wrong!
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There's a free Swedish tip.
Anyway, now I'm thirsty.
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