Welcome

Hej and welcome to my new blog One Year Till Swedish. My name is Dustin and I'll be learning Swedish over the next year. The point of this blog is to document my progress.

Why Swedish? Why not? I've been interested in language learning for quite a while. I've also been fascinated with the Swedish language and culture ever since I met some people from that part of the world.

Why one year? That's about how long I have until I get a visit from one of my Swedish friends, and I'd like to able to communicate with him in his own language since he took the time to learn mine. Do I expect to reach fluency in a year? Nope. But I do believe I can become conversational within that time frame.

Why document it? This is not my first time trying to learn the language. The last time, I got discouraged due to lack of resources that worked for me. Also the lack of Swedish resources in general can be disheartening. This time, I hope that making my goals public will help keep me accountable for my goals. I would also like to leave something that might be helpful to other learners.

In the next few posts, I'll give some background about where I'm starting and in which direction I intend to go.
Thanks for stopping by.
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