Berlitz Total Immersion Swedish Day One

It wont let me post my Berlitz clips…

In short as I am nackered, Berltiz Total Immersion Swedish does what it says on the tin. No English all day!

Great teachers, I have three who come in at different sessions, for some sessions there are two teachers at once. I have to pretend there is a wall between and then sum up for one what the other teacher has said.

I particularly like the way they worked to increase my speaking confidence. Asking me to describe Edinburgh having lived there and subjects like that.

When I rocked up, the first teached opened the conversation and she was assessing me. She scored me a Level 3 intermediate which is described as:

Can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. Can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken. Can produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest. Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

Lunch was nice, no escaping speaking Swedish here either as you go out with the teacher to a local restaurant. It is though more casual.

The day surprisingly went faster than I expected but by the time 4pm came I was feeling it. Drained and struggling to be enthusiastic. Not the teachers fault, we discovered we both had a fear of snakes and heights…told you it was intensive.

I was surprised to move on to the bastard is it hans hund or sin hund…still not sure I totally grasp but a much better understanding than when I left the flat this morning.

I have actually learnt a lot of new words, nothing complicated just words that you need in a normal conversation..annorlunda is a useful one, I had no idea I used the word different so much in a chat…der stämmer