Total Immersion tomorrow

by Shane on July 12, 2009 · 3 comments

Tomorrow I am starting the Berlitz Swedish total immersion course. I aint looking forward to it and I am if you know what I mean.

I was surfing around for some other experiences and came across a NY Times article titled Total Immersion in Flood of French

Lets hope the teacher is not a Social Democrat eh! ;.-) or an AIK fan

UPDATE just found this report from 1967 in Time, hope they have calmed down since then!

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1 Dave July 12, 2009 at 6:34 pm: A good test of your abilities before and after the course would be how well you deal with the Swedish spoken in Finland.
I found this earlier (its been a boring day at CERN):
http://arenan.yle.fi/video/306091 (news in Swedish from Finland).

I think once the “accent code” is broken its easier to understand than many other Swedish accents.
2 Shane July 12, 2009 at 7:45 pm: Got it working hmm quite used to that accent as quite a few in the office are Swedish speaking Finns.

I think I am scaring myself have a look at this article, ok its from ’67 and from Time Magazine but…http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,839470,00.html
3 Dave July 12, 2009 at 8:29 pm: 1600 words in one week is impressive…