& on a different note...

[marshtide]

Mission: Be more active! And I don't mean cycling or whatever, because I do that! Go to talks if there are any. Meet people. Do fun stuff. Don't hide in a corner like a recluse. Possibly manage to speak some Swedish along the way.

Steps taken: tickets for Stockholm Pride - acquired. And I've subscribed to the feed for Hallongrottan (Stockholm's feminist bookshop!), since I hear they sometimes have neat stuff. Poked around På stan and gone, "really? The Millennium Trilogy tour of Stockholm? You have got to be shitting me. Dear world: what the hell." And I stared at a few anime forums but then I remembered that so many anime fans on forums are either 12 years old or believe they're on 4chan or both, and that this sort of carrying on being in Swedish doesn't make it any more bearable. Though presumably there are places to go; my search skills in Swedish are not, it has to be admitted, the best.

I shall now return to trying to explore the internet. In bad Swedish! If anyone knows of websites that might have information on interesting events (in and around Stockholm, for preference, since I don't believe there's much chance of anything at all happening out where I actually live & any other city is going to be too hard to get to) then I'd love to know.

Comments

[eggcrack]

Best of luck to your mission! Getting out of the corner is very hard, but I've heard doing something different from time to time is rewarding. Hopefully it's honestly that.

[marshtide]

Yeah. And my spoken Swedish isn't exactly great, so I'm kind of anxious about the whole thing - but if I start going to events where I can mostly listen first I think it'll get better.

[antisoppist]

I learned most of my spoken Finnish from joining a choir when I lived there but going out there and joining things is scary and I probably wouldn't have done that if someone hadn't answered my tentative enquiry with "yes, there's a choir and my husband runs it and it starts in half an hour, come on."

I translate from Swedish every day but my spoken Swedish conversations tend to be limited to "vad handlar det om?" "hur lång är texten?" and "när behöver ni den?". Last time I went to Stockholm, clients took me out to lunch and I suddenly went blank and forgot the word for spoon, which didn't exactly make me sound competent and professional.

[marshtide]

I experience this a lot! I mean I spend all my time outside of Sfi with people whose native language is Swedish, pretty much, and we talk Swedish quite a bit. Which mostly means they talk Swedish and I go "ja..." a lot and nod. I understand! I know words! But they do hide so. (I'm being a little hard on myself, I manage to speak more than that; but one's ability to talk does lag frustratingly behind one's ability to understand.)