Originally posted by LikeASong:The bad thing for you is that, while Spanish is almost up there with French and German in popularity and spread, I don't think that the full number of Swedish speakers exceedes the 15-18 million mark worldwide... I don't even know the basic "hello, thanks, goodbye" thing in Swedish. I know it in a lot of languages including Russian, Japanese, etc etc but in all honestly I never heard them in Swedish
I wish I could learn some Swedish some day!
PS. I know, Google Translate sucks. I laugh a lot when Kirsten translates long sentences from German to Spanish because then the translations remain more or less understandable, but become pretty senseless and funny
hej=hi
tack=thanks
hejdå=goodbye
hur mår du?=how are you doing? (not really correct, since it's a pleasantry in English, and a real question in Swedish)
bra=good
dåligt=bad
Anything else you need to know?
Maybe something for the girls?
... I don't even know the basic "hello, thanks, goodbye" thing in Swedish. I know it in a lot of languages including Russian, Japanese, etc etc but in all honestly I never heard them in Swedish
I wish I could learn some Swedish some day!