In the spirit of a bit of personal openness, let me present you with a link to this blog, How to learn Swedish in 1000 difficult lessons. The ill-phrased “bit of personal openness” is just an example of what it feels like to live in a foreign country for a long time, like I did my junior year of high school. Your sense of your first language becomes clunky in your own mind. Like this blogger, I was also an expat in Stockholm, and I’m looking forward to adding this blog to my rss feed, because he seems to articulate a similar sense of cultural dysphoria that I felt. Perhaps dysphoria is more negative than I mean to be.
I’ve been having dreams lately of being back there, probably because I never or rarely think about Sweden anymore.
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Just surfing, saw your blogs, didn’t see any posts, thought I would post a compliment. Hi!