Where I'm At

First, let me tell you a bit about myself.

I'm a starter.

Whew! It feels good to get that off of my chest. What do I mean by starter? It's like the opposite of a quitter. I start things. Lots of things. I started this blog. I might start a youtube channel. Before this, I started a completely different blog. I started playing the ocarina once too.

I started learning Swedish a while back. I've also started learning German, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto, and Russian. I can even hold short conversations in some of them. I never quit any of that stuff, I just started other stuff.

So what does this have to do with learning Swedish by the summer of 2015? Nothing. At least, not directly. This is to document (as is everything I put here) the type of personality I have. It is an explanation of why this blog may go dormant. Of course, my goal is to update weekly as my proficiency increases. That's my goal.

As I mentioned before, this is not the first time I've tried to learn Swedish. I made it through most of the Pimsleur course. I stopped the course right about when it started to get creepy. How can a course begin with an innocent conversation on a train, and hours later the male voice actor is trying to pressure the female actor into a date? And he's always asking where her husband is. What's up with that, Pimsleur people? I don't think I want high pressure dating tactics to be a part of my curriculum.

Aside from the creepy stuff, I feel like I learned some useful phrases. So that should be helpful. I still have very little grasp on grammar. With the other languages, I used Michel Thomas cd's. I really like the foundation I got from those. I felt like I really understood how the language works. Unfortunately, I haven't found anything like that for Swedish.

I do have a small collection of Swedish resources. My next step is to go through those and formulate a plan of attack. I guess, until then, I can dust off the Pimsleur course. Or maybe I'll just listen to Black Ingvars. I have no idea what these guys are saying. But I will. Eventually.