#what the fuck is UND the word I’m looking for is OCH
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I am trying to pick up Swedish again after taking four German classes in Uni…. At this rate I am creating some unholy matrimony of Germanic languages. Who next will be added to the soup
#mind you my German is also shit#put all the little conjunctions and prepositions are now sprinkled into Swedish#I’m trying to think and I just go: UND#what the fuck is UND the word I’m looking for is OCH#I am the epitome of linguist meaning NO I CANNOT SPEAK THESE LANGUAGES BUT I CAN TELL YOU FUN FACTS ABOUT THEM THAT I THINK ARE NEAT#for example I like Swedish noun paradigms#Swedish is what got me into linguistics in the first place so I am trying to reignite that live because I remember how it used to fill me#with so much love hope and purpose#maybe maybe maybe I’ll actually use all those grammar books I have#given that I can ACTUALLY read the IPA transcription#although actually I’d love to get some more textbooks that are… more linguistically inclined#I’ve been using this book: German Phonetics and Phonology; Theory and Practice by O’Brien and Fagan#for a phonetics project and … honestly I need something like that but for Swedish#it pains me how much I used to know about Swedish that I’ve just…… lost#but I’m coming back into it with more knowledge about language#and also more knowledge about Swedish typologically… so that’s useful#Irving rambles#language learning
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