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I passed my Swedish exam!
The scary thing is, according to that pass I'm now good enough at Swedish to be able to serve customers in Swedish if I were to be selected to any office in this country. Our Swedish-speaking minority keeps complaining that they don't get the promised service in their mother tongue and I'm not at all surprised, if even my ( Read more... )
The scary thing is, according to that pass I'm now good enough at Swedish to be able to serve customers in Swedish if I were to be selected to any office in this country. Our Swedish-speaking minority keeps complaining that they don't get the promised service in their mother tongue and I'm not at all surprised, if even my ( Read more... )
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*hugs muchly*
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*squeezes*
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It is interesting with the Swedish minority in Finland, my mother was born Finnish-Swedish and come from a family where no one spoke Finnish. My grandparents didn't speak many words of Finnish, for instance. And the few relatives I have left in Finland and who are older, don't speak Finnish very well either. They find the change that has happened over the last few decades very difficult. But I suppose that is a change that is permanent. When I was a child, I spent all my summers in Finland, and no one ever had to speak any Finnish to get by, not even in Helsingfors (*g*). But I definitely understand the reluctancy to learn Swedish, it makes more sense to learn English, for ex, today. Even if I'm sad that part of my family's culture is slowly disappearing.
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