June 11, 2007

Though I found out, no matter how young she looks, she’s not a flicka, that is girl. (It just didn’t seem right to use kvinna, woman, in this context. fruntimmer also sounds odd.) It’s funny, Swedish borrowed pojke (poika, in Finnish), meaning boy, from Finnish and the Finns borrowed flicka, meaning girl.

Anyway, we have a Norweigen student here who is giving me bunches of Norweigen and Swedish practice. Basically, she speaks Norweigen and I’m responding in Swedish. Probably by the end of the week, I’ll be speaking Swedish if not Norweigen.

We also have some French Canadians but they’d sticking mostly to English. So, my French doesn’t get a workout.

Kim, I hope, will be downloading new pictures and I can put some up.