Conversations in Italian
I like to travel with my family to Italy twice a year, so I study at least two lessons a...
What’s your problem with “Z?”
I work as a freelance translator from Swedish to English and sometimes companies want me to translate to British English,...
Monsieur T
Ever wonder what the A-Team theme sounds like in French? Wonder no more! https://youtu.be/oGO-33Fmhw8
Will the language mistakes never end?
Once again this weekend I told a kid he was going to die. Actually, the last time, I told a...
Sure, I’ll join your club!
A letter came yesterday from the pharmacy. There was a letter congratulating me on joining the pharmacy club plus 2...
Italian for crazies
I’m trying to learn Italian at home with the Rosetta Stone program. Rosetta Stone is a great program for learning...
Great parenting
Get out there and roll on the grass! That’s what we did when we were kids and we liked it!...
More language mistakes
Why do Swedes have to make the word “to hear” (höra) and “whore” (hora) so similar? This is really bad...
Idiots on a plane
A very loud and annoying Swedish woman was sitting in my aisle on the AIR FRANCE plane back to Stockholm. (Safety...
A magical word
“förnämliga” That is the word I had to translate the other day (I work part-time translating documents from Swedish to...
Please remove this creature
I wrote the doctor here in Sweden to make an appointment to have a mole removed. I may have mis-translated.
Your friend died. Go play some Xbox.
I may be getting better at Swedish, but I still make mistakes. Our kids each had a friend over this...
Scottish Italians
I decided to start listening to an Italian language podcast called “My Daily Phrase.” Why Italian you ask? Because we...
Let’s make party
We are soon staying in an apartment on vacation through AirBnB – a website where people can rent out their...
I’m gonna have to slap her
I’ve been studying important Italian phrases on the Rosetta Stone language program. Today’s lesson irritated me a bit. Let me...
How to speak Italian
My 6 yr old says, “Okey-dokey is Italian for ‘o.k.’ because that’s how Luigi says it.”
Language barriers
I had a woman over to my house the other day who neither spoke good English or Swedish. She got...
Fill in the blank
I’ve realized that speaking a second language (not very well) is often like playing a fill-in-the-blank game. I was talking...
Feet, conditioner and wolves
The reason I’ve never gotten a pedicure is because the one time I tried to book one here, I accidently...
This animal does not talk
I’m currently studying Italian on a computer program. Today’s lesson was about animals and people. The examples they use are:...